From a print dated 1687; reproduced in Les Anciennes Bibliothèques de Paris, par Alf.
Footnote 4: ‘The text of Monstrelet is Pâques Communiaux.
The outline of a huge lion of St Mark is to be seen on the outside of the Palazzo della Ragione, which shared the same fate as the one of the column in the Piazza delle Erbe at the moment of "Les Pâques Véronaises.
We will eat a great supper together this Pâques night.
They have always waited until Pâques week heretofore," she remembered.
Immediately below is a great scala, or landing-place, which is constantly crowded with caïques of all shapes and sizes, and forms an animated scene of bustle and activity.
They possess fleets of caïques of a larger size than ordinary, which keep up a daily communication with the capital in conveying goods and passengers.
A traveller who was induced to witness it, even before the church was rebuilt, passed with a whole fleet of caïques from Pera and Constantinople, to the nearest landing-place on the Sea of Marmora.
The latter extends along one side of it, having a level quay in front, and generally exhibits a scene of busy population, with its caïques and fishery.
There is one period, however, in which it is the thronged resort of every person seeking amusement; and the Golden Horn is covered with caïques from all parts of Pera and Constantinople.
Caïques are the only ferry-boats to cross from shore to shore, and various wooden platforms, called iskelli, project from the beach for their accommodation.
Dicen ques mui buen christiano i hombre de buena vida i clerigo, i dicen que viene a estas partes con buena intencion i no quiso salario ninguno del Rey sino venir para poner paz en estos reynos con sus cristiandades.
There must have been many hundred caïques wedged together in front of her terrace, and not less than fifty of them contained musicians.
The swift caïques dart like water-fowl past the Maiden’s Tower, and few within them waste a thought upon the anguish which it conceals!
One of the Palace caïques rowed to the door of the harem; and the freed slave, accompanied by an aged companion, stepped in, and was rapidly conveyed to Stamboul.
The Greeks are esteemed the best boatmen on the Bosphorus: but all the private caïques travel with a speed that it fatigues the eye to follow.
After which the caïques dart onward, each upon its own errand; the one gay with the subdued mirth of the tormentors, and the other freighted with new and unnecessary bitterness.
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