Of writing letters from one country to another. Men of most remote countries will speak to one another and answer one another. Of the hemispheres, which are infinite and are divided by infinite lines, so that each man always has one of these lines between one foot and the other. Men will speak and touch and embrace one another, standing each in the other's hemisphere, and will understand each other's languages. Of priests who say mass. There will be many who, to practise their art, will dress most richly, and this will seem to be done after the manner of aprons. Of friars who hear confession. Plenty there will be who wish to know what women do in their lusts with themselves and with other men, and the wretched women must reveal all their hidden shameful deeds and reward the listeners for their miseries and wicked infamies. The unfortunate women of their own will go to reveal to men all their lusts and shameful and most secret deeds. Of the churches and dwellings of friars. Many will abandon their exercises and labours and poverty of life and goods and go to dwell in riches and triumphant buildings, showing this to be the means of making themselves a friend to God. Of selling paradise. An infinite multitude will publicly sell a thing of the greatest value, which was never theirs nor in their power — an infinite multitude will sell publicly and peaceably things of the greatest price without licence of their owner, things that were never theirs nor in their power. And human justice will not provide against this. Of the dead carried to burial. The simple peoples will carry a great quantity of lights to make light on the journey for all those who have entirely lost the power of sight. O human foolishness, O living madness! (These two epithets go at the beginning of the proposition.) Of the dowries of maidens. And whereas before, the female youth could not be defended from the lust and rapine of males, neither by guards of kin nor by strength of walls, there will come a time when it will be necessary for fathers and kin of these maidens to pay great prices to whoever wishes to sleep with them, though they be rich, noble and most beautiful. Certainly it seems here that nature wishes to extinguish the human species as a thing useless to the world and a spoiler of all created things. Of the cruelty of man. Animals will be seen upon the earth who will always fight among themselves, with the greatest harm and often death on each side. These will have no limit in their malignity; by the fierce limbs of these a great part of the trees of the great forests of the universe will come to the ground; and once they are fed, the nourishment of their desires will be to give death and affliction and labour and fear and flight to whatever thing is animate. And these, through their measureless pride, will wish to rise toward the sky, but the excessive weight of their limbs will hold them below. Nothing will remain on the earth or under the earth or the water that is not pursued, removed or spoiled; and that of one country removed to another; and the body of these will be made a sepulchre and passage of all the animate bodies they have killed. O world, how do you not open and hurl them into the deep fissures of your great chasms and caverns, and no longer show to the sky so cruel and pitiless a monster!

Chasm, that is, caverns, that is, receptacles of precipitous waters. Of navigation. One will see the trees of the great forests of Taurus and Sinai, the Apennines and Atlas run through the air from east to west, from north to south, and carry through the air a great multitude of men. O how many vows, O how many dead, O how much separation of friends and kin! O how many there will be who will never again see their provinces nor their homelands, and who will die without burial, with their bones scattered in diverse sites of the world! Of clearing out on All Saints' Day. Many will abandon their own dwellings and carry with them all their valuables and go to dwell in other countries. Of the Day of the Dead. And how many there will be who will weep for their ancient dead, carrying lights to them! Of the friars who, spending words, receive great riches and give paradise. One will see a very great throng who will acquire the greatest riches at the price of invisible coins. The invisible coins will make many spenders of them triumph. Of bows made with the horns of oxen. Many there will be who, by cause of bovine horns, will die a doleful death.