Chapter 30: XXVIII

XXVIII This wandering race, severed from other men, Boast yet their intercourse with human arts; The seas, the woods, the deserts, which they haunt, Find them acquainted with their secret treasures: And unregarded herbs, and flowers, and blossoms, Display undreamt-of powers when gather’d by them. The Jew Our history must needs retrograde for the space of a few pages, to inform the reader of certain passages material to his understanding the rest of thi…