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The Gaelic Maundeville (Author: John Maundeville)

paragraph 214

In his country one man has a hundred wives, and one man has twenty wives, one man has more, and another has


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less, and they do not avoid any wife save their mother or their sister. And of the three wives that the emperor hath, the daughter of the king of India is the most honoured: if she have a son, he is the emperor's heir.