CAP. XVII.
Fro Bethlehem.
FROM Ebron men go to Bethlehem in halfe a daye, for it is but five myle, and it is a fayre waye & thorow1woddes full pleasaunt. Bethlem is but a little citie long and narowe, and well walled, and enclosed with a great diche and it was wont to be called Effrata as holy wryte saythEcce audivimus eum in Effrata&c., That is to saye, Lo we herde him in Effrata. And toward the ende of the citie toward the East, is a ryght fayre churche and a gracious and it hath many toures, pinacles and kirnelles2full strongly made & within that Church is xliiii great pyllers of marble & betwene this church the field3florished, as ye shall here.
1:Through woods.2:Battlements.3:The flowered field.
1:Through woods.
2:Battlements.
3:The flowered field.