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The Lord therefore being prouoked to indignation, by reason of this and other sinnes committed among vs Christians, is become, as it were, a destroying enemie, and a dreadful auenger. This I may iustly affirme to be true, because an huge nation, and a barbarous and inhumane people, whose law is lawlesse, whose wrath is furious, euen the rod of Gods anger, ouerrunneth, and vtterly wasteth infinite countreyes, cruelly abolishing all things where they come, with fire and sword.

"上帝震怒, 使鞑靼这一无法无天、暴怒成性的民族成了他愤怒的杖"——Vincentius 一开篇就把鞑靼写成天罚的工具, 而不是一般编年里的'蛮族', 这段奠定了编年体的神学基调, 也是 Hakluyt 收录它的理由; 但全书无单一 plot, plot 评 45。

First therefore he reported of himselfe, that presently after the time of his banishment, namely about the 30. yere of his age, hauing lost all that he had in the citie of Acon at Dice, euen in the midst of Winter, being compelled by ignominious hunger, wearing nothing about him but a shirt of sacke, a paire of shooes, and a haire cappe onely, being shauen like a foole, and vttering an vncoth noise as if he had bene dumbe, he tooke his iourney, and and so traueiling many countreyes, and finding in diuers places friendly entertainment, he prolonged his life in this maner for a season, albeit

这位 30 岁流亡英格兰人是个绝好的叙事装置——在 Acon 赌输了一切, 寒冬中只穿麻布衬衣与草鞋、被剃成傻子装哑巴, 辗转学多语、被鞑靼拖入营中, 一个 Hieronymus 式"罪人得用" 的形象; 配角多是史料人名(Vincentius、Carpini、Cuyne Khan), 性格粗笔, cast 评 70。

were by manifolde cruelties, all of them destroyed with whose carkeises, the Tartarian chieftains, and their brutish and sauage followers, glutting themselues, as with delicious cates, left nothing for vultures but the bare bones. And a strange thing it is to consider, that the greedie and rauenous vultures disdeined to praye vpon any of the reliques, which remained. Olde, and deformed women they gaue, as it were for dayly sustenance, vnto their Canibals; the beautifull deuoured they not, but smothered them lamenting and scritching, with forced and vnnaturall rauishments.

"尸陈郊野, 鞑靼酋长与暴徒们以之为美食, 连贪食之秃鹫都嫌弃; 老丑之妇喂其同类, 美貌者闷死奸污, 处子被斩乳头献鞑靼官"——这一连串动词堆栈骤紧, 是 Yuo 全信最强烈的一段; 但其他章节多为编年铺陈, 整体节奏无法持续紧绷, pace 评 55。

There was also a tent erected vpon pillars, which were couered with plates of golde, and were ioyned vnto other timber with golden nailes. [Sidenote: Wollen cloth.] It was couered aboue with Baldakin cloth, but there was other cloth spread ouer that, next vnto the ayre. Wee abode there vnto the feast of Saint Bartholomew, what time there was assembled an huge multitude standing with their faces towards the South. And a certaine number of them beeing a stones cast distant from the residue, making continuall prayers, and kneeling vpon their knees, proceeded farther and farther towards the South.

"大帐建于金箔覆柱, 以金钉与木相合, 上覆 Baldakin 锦缎, 外层再盖羊毛毡; 众人面南而立, 候至圣巴多罗买节"——这一段串物清晰、视感强, Hakluyt 编辑团队把 Carpini 拉丁转译成 Goldsmiths 式近代英语很见功力; 但全书整体仍以史料转写为主, 不雕琢, prose 评 76。

This Emperour, when hee was exalted vnto his gouernment, seemed to bee about the age of fourty or fourty fiue yeeres. He was of a meane stature, very wise and politike, and passing serious and graue in all his demeanour. A rare thing it was, for a man to see him laugh or behaue himself lightly, as those Christians report, which abode continually with him.

"Cuyne Khan 40-45 岁, 中等身材, 严肃庄重, 罕见露笑; 主帐前有希腊礼基督徒小教堂按时唱诗敲钟"——把一个欧亚内陆帝国的宫廷肖像、礼俗、基督徒的存在感, 都具象到一句一句里, 这是 Hakluyt 全书的卖点, world 评 92。

Howbeit, their spials in the meane time discrying from the top of an highe mountaine the Duke of Austria, the king of Bohemia, the Patriarch of Aquileia, the Duke of Carinthia, and (as some report) the Earle of Baden, with a mightie power, and in battell aray, approching towards them, that accursed crew immediately vanished, and all those Tartarian vagabonds retired themselues into the distressed and vanquished land of Hungarie

"其斥候从高山顶上瞥见奥地利大公、波希米亚王、Aquileia 大主教、Carinthia 公爵(以及据说巴登伯爵)统大军而来, 这一伙诅咒之徒当即消散, 全数退入已成废墟的匈牙利"——编年一开篇就把战场悬停留给读者, 抓力强; 但全书汇编钩子分布不匀, hook 评 68。

The printed edition from which this e-text has been produced retains the spelling and abreviations of Hakluyt's 16th-century original. In this version, the spelling has been retained, but the following manuscript abbreviations have been silently expanded.

元音加 macron 静默展开为 +n/m、q; 静默展开为 -que、y[e]/y[t]/w[t] 静默展开为 the/that/with——这套 16 世纪手稿简写的转写约定, 在 2005 年的 PG 转录中仍然严格执行, 是技术层面的'忠实'而不是文学创新; 但 Hakluyt 1589/1598-1600 三卷本自身的编纂是英帝国海洋史叙事的奠基性工程, 本卷因是新教时代后期出版, 对'英格兰性'的强调反不及第二卷美洲部分, innov 评 62。

Hoc autem nouerint vniuersi, quia nobis tunc existentibus in solenni curia, iam ex pluribus annis indicia, idem Cuyne Imperator, de nouo electus, cum omnibus suis Principibus erexit vexillum contra Ecclesiam Dei, ac Romanum Imperium, et contra omnia regna Christianorum et populos Occidentis, nisi fortasse, quod absit, facerent ea, quæ mandabat Domino Papæ, atque potentibus, et omnibus Christianorum populis, videlicet vt ipsi subdantur eis.

"凡我等所在庄严朝会之众人, 近年已有诸征兆: 新立之 Cuyne 大汗与其诸亲王已举起旌旗, 对上帝教会、对罗马帝国、对一切基督教王国与西方诸族, 若不如其所命之事(使臣与万民皆降)便战"——既是一个使节记的'我离开时', 也是欧洲人第一次被告知'草原风暴即将西向', 卷次于此戛然而止, 是史料的悬而未决, ending 评 58。