“I give you my word that the king has at least 500 wives or concubines. For I assure you the moment he lays eyes on a beautiful woman or girl he wants her for himself. On one occasion this led him into the shameful behaviour I will describe to you. Let me tell you that the king caught sight of a very beautiful woman who happened to be his brother’s wife. And he took her from him and kept her for himself. His brother, who was a wise man, patiently bore his wrong and did not quarrel with him; and this was why. Despite his forbearance he was repeatedly on the brink of making war with him, but their mother would show them her breasts, saying, ‘ If you fight with each other I will cut off these breasts that suckled you.’ And so the trouble was averted.”
Marco Polo (1254-1324), “Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls”
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