The Travels of Marco Polo 38 – Yule · Verses Across
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The Travels of Marco Polo 38Book 1 · How the One-Eyed Cobler Was Desired to Pray for the Christians
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Literature · Adventure
The Travels of Marco Polo 38
Book 1 · How the One-Eyed Cobler Was Desired to Pray for the Christians
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Now when this vision had visited the Bishop several times, he related the whole matter to the Christians, and they agreed with one consent to call the Cobler before them. And when he had come they told him it was their wish that he should pray, and that God had promised to accomplish the matter by his means. On hearing their request he made many excuses, declaring that he was not at all so good a man as they represented. But they persisted in their request with so much sweetness, that at last he said he would not tarry, but do what they desired.
