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aultrui. Ainchois convenoit que chascun qui du feu
voloit avoir le alast querir ou les premiers le a
voient pris. Et ainsi se venga il de celle qui le
desplaisir lui avoit fait. Et fist ung pont sur u
ne eaue le plus grant que oncques fust au mon
de ne say de quelle matere ou de pierre ou de boiz
mais nul ouvrier tant fust soubtil ne machon
ne charpentier ne aussi engigneurs ou aultres
ne sceurent tant enserchier ne enquerre dedens
terre. ne dedens eaue quils peussent ne sceussent la
maniere trouver comment celui pont estoit illec
pose et assiz ne comment il se soustenoit en nul en
droit ne aux boutz ne au milieu et passoit on fran
chement tout parmy oultre. Il fist aussi ung jar
din tout alenviron encloz de lair sans quelque
aultre chosture tout aussi espez comme une nuee
Et estoit celui jardin moult hault de terre. Il fist
ancores deux chierges tous ardans et une lampe
alumez de feu si que tousjours ardoient sans
estaindre et si ne appetichoient de riens. Ches
trois choses encloist il dedens terre tellement que

anyone else. Therefore, everyone who wanted
fire necessarily had to go ask her for it, from whom the first ones had
gotten it. And so he had his revenge on the one who had
displeased him. And he built a bridge over a
river, the largest that had ever been built in the
world - I don't know out of what material, whether stone
or wood - but no worker was more subtle, not mason
nor carpenter, nor indeed did engineers or any others
know how to search or investigate in the earth
nor in the water, in order to be able to find out and know
the way in which this bridge was placed and set,
nor how it was held up without any support either
at the ends nor in the middle, yet one was easily able to
cross over it to the other side. He also made a garden
entirely enclosed with air, without any other enclosure,
just like a cloud, and this garden was very high over
the earth. Then he made two burning candles and a
lamp lit with fire that would constantly burn without
going out and never became any smaller.
These three things he enclosed within the earth in such a way that

aultrui. Ainchois convenoit que chascun qui du feu
voloit avoir le alast querir ou les premiers le a
voient pris. Et ainsi se venga il de celle qui le
desplaisir lui avoit fait. Et fist ung pont sur u
ne eaue le plus grant que oncques fust au mon
de ne say de quelle matere ou de pierre ou de boiz
mais nul ouvrier tant fust soubtil ne machon
ne charpentier ne aussi engigneurs ou aultres
ne sceurent tant enserchier ne enquerre dedens
terre. ne dedens eaue quils peussent ne sceussent la
maniere trouver comment celui pont estoit illec
pose et assiz ne comment il se soustenoit en nul en
droit ne aux boutz ne au milieu et passoit on fran
chement tout parmy oultre. Il fist aussi ung jar
din tout alenviron encloz de lair sans quelque
aultre chosture tout aussi espez comme une nuee
Et estoit celui jardin moult hault de terre. Il fist
ancores deux chierges tous ardans et une lampe
alumez de feu si que tousjours ardoient sans
estaindre et si ne appetichoient de riens. Ches
trois choses encloist il dedens terre tellement que

anywhere else. Therefore, everyone who wanted
fire necessarily had to go ask her for it, from whom the first ones had
gotten it. And so he had his revenge on the one who had
displeased him. And he built a bridge over a
river, the largest that had ever been built in the
world - I don't know out of what material, whether stone
or wood - but no worker was more subtle, not mason
nor carpenter, nor indeed did engineers or any others
know how to search or investigate in the earth
nor in the water, in order to be able to find out and know
the way in which this bridge was placed and set,
nor how it was held up without any support either
at the ends nor in the middle, yet one was easily able to
cross over it to the other side. He also made a garden
entirely enclosed with air, without any other enclosure,
just like a cloud, and this garden was very high over
the earth. Then he made two burning candles and a
lamp lit with fire that would constantly burn without
going out and never became any smaller.
These three things he enclosed within the earth in such a way that