[46] That lak is passynge depe. I assayde it not, but men seyn that it hath wel mo than a
200 fadmes; and in the myd place ther of stont an awtere of stone. Seeynge it on a sodeyne, thou woldest trowen that it fleyted and rode upon the water, and manye men wenen thus; but I suppose that a gret piler pight undernethe bereth up the awtere. And it is ever more dressed with gerlondes and hath encens brennynge, and manye swymmen overthwart to it eech day for a vowe that thei han, and bryngen gerlondes.
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De Syria dea. Lucian of Samosata. Austin Morris Harmon (Translator). United States. Perseus 5.0.
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