But yet hath he
not used to force every whole country at once to forsake their
faith. For of some countries hath he been content only to take a
tribute yearly and let them then live as they will. Out of some he
taketh the whole people away, dispersing them for slaves among many
sundry countries of his, very far from their own, without any
sufferance of regress. In some countries, so great and populous
that they cannot well be carried and conveyed thence, he destroyeth
the gentlefolk and giveth the lands partly to such as he bringeth
and partly to such as willingly will deny their faith, and keepeth
the others in such misery that they might as well (in a manner) be
dead at once. In rest he suffereth else no Christian man almost,
but those that resort as merchants or those that offer themselves
to serve him in his war.
But as for those Christian countries that he useth not only for
tributaries, as he doth Chios, Cyprus, or Crete, but reckoneth for
clear conquest and utterly taketh for his own, as Morea, Greece,
and Macedonia, and such others--and as I verily think he will
Hungary, if he get it--in all those he useth Christian people after
sundry fashions. He letteth them dwell there, indeed, because they
would be too many to carry all away, and too many to kill them all,
too, unless he should either leave the land dispeopled and desolate
or else, from some other countries of his own, should convey the
people thither (which would not be well done) to people that land
with.
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