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36 stood up and followed there where the candles were going a1
ahead. No one knew how strange this deception and ocular
delusion seemed to him. He saw that there was another
39 hall farther in from that large hall which he had sat in. In
that direction the candles went before him. There he counted
five hundred beds and all well adorned. He spoke then:
42 “Even though I get into any of these beds, then I will not
keep it long, if they come here who own it, because I do not
have the strength against five hundred men.”
45 When he had said that, then the candles moved farther in
along the hall, and he came then into another hall. It was
all hung with good material (pell). He counted there three
much, nevertheless, at these delusions A3. 43-44 own—men]
sleep here A3. 45-46 farther—then] from there and he after
[them] A3. 47-48 three hundred] two hundred and fifty A2.
was now very bright throughout the hall. This seemed to b1
him very strange—everything together—this ocular delusion
which was made for him in many ways. It seemed to him
now most advisable to go there where the candles were
going ahead. He stood up now and followed there where
the lights were going ahead until he came into another hall,
and it far surpassed the former. It was now all hung with
gold striped silk tapestries. “That I think,” he said, “even
though I get into some one of these beds, that I may not
well hold on to it, if they come who here have authority.
Now if I could find some bed or other where there would
be a less overwhelming force to deal with, then I would
now like to go there. But if I get no softer one, then I shall
in truth have some one of those other beds, and after that
there will come of my situation that which God wills.”
CHAPTER III.
About Partalopi’s Going to Bed and
What Then Happened.
When Partalopi had spoken thus, the candles moved
ahead from this hall and into another. That one was all
hung with costly material. There he counted two hundred
and fifty beds, and it well befitted powerful men to lie