THOMAS
CORIATE
Traueller
for
the
English
VVits
:
Greeting
.
From
the
Court
of
the
Great
MOGVL
,
Resident
at
the
Towne
of
ASMERE
,
in
Easterne
INDIA
.
Printed
by
W.
Iaggard
,
and
Henry
Fetherston
.
To
the
Reader
.
THree
years
(
poore
Countrimē
that
haue
not
trauaild
)
And
some
odde
daies
;
in
Odde-combs
grace
&
yours
,
I
haue
enricht
my
feete
(
though
something
grauaild
)
VVith
measuring
millicents
of
Townes
and
Towres
.
And
yet
I
sweare
,
my
head
is
nothing
full
,
But
rather
empty
of
such
things
as
fit
One
that
makes
nothing
of
the
Great
Mogul
,
But
farre
beyond
,
or
wide
,
as
farre
as
it
Is
from
my
Od-combe
.
Meane
to
trauaile
still
,
Till
I
haue
equald
in
some
seauen
yeares
more
The
Wise
Vlysses
;
for
of
him
,
my
will
VVants
nought
in
wit
,
but
seauen
yeares
and
some
score
Of
foolish
dayes
;
of
which
,
I
hope
to
spend
Ten
millions
more
:
For
all
my
life
shall
be
Endeard
to
that
most
lou'd
;
most
fortunate
end
,
And
to
bring
honor
,
to
my
Land
and
Ye
.
But
do
not
long
for
me
too
soone
;
or
doubt
,
As
doth
my
mother
;
who
doth
wish
,
I
heare
,
To
haue
me
there
,
though
in
a
shitten
clout
;
Though
I
not
tred
out
my
Vlyssian
yeares
.
For
who
can
purchase
wisedome
?
Ten
yeares
?
No.
Before
I
get
it
,
I
will
go
,
and
go
.
His
Parallel
with
Erasmus
.
Erasmus
did
in
praise
of
folly
write
;
And
Coryate
doth
,
in
his
selfe-praise
endite
.
Loe
heere
the
wooden
Image
of
our
wits
;
Borne
,
in
first
trauaile
,
on
the
backs
of
Nits
;
But
now
on
Elephants
,
&c
:
O
,
what
will
he
ride
,
when
his
yeares
expire
?
The
world
must
ride
him
;
or
he
all
will
tire
.
To
THE
RIGHT
Honourable
,
Sir
Edward
Phillips
,
Knight
,
and
Maister
of
the
Rolles
,
at
his
house
in
Chancery-Lane
,
or
VVanstead
.
From
the
Court
of
the
most
mighty
Monarch
,
the
Great
Mogul
,
resident
in
the
Towne
of
Asmere
,
in
the
Easterne
India
,
Anno
1615.
Right
Honourable
,
I
Am
perswaded
,
that
if
euer
any
accident
worthy
of
admiration
euer
happened
vnto
your
honor
in
al
your
life
time
,
it
will
be
the
receiuing
of
this
present
Letter
,
from
me
out
of
the
Easterne
India
:
yet
perhaps
it
will
seeme
vnto
you
so
wondrous
,
that
I
beleeue
you
will
doubt
whether
this
bee
the
true
hand-writing
of
your
once
Odcombiam
Neighbor
,
Thomas
Coryate
.
But
your
Honour
may
soone
very
infallibly
and
apparantly
perceiue
it
to
be
true
;
partly
by
the
forme
of
the
style
,
which
is
iust
answerable
to
that
manner
of
speech
that
you
haue
heard
and
obserued
in
me
,
sometimes
in
my
Linsie-woolsie
Orations
;
and
somtimes
in
my
extrauagant
discourses
:
and
partly
by
the
testimony
of
the
bearer
heereof
,
M.
Peter
Rogers
,
Minister
at
the
time
of
his
being
in
India
,
to
the
English
Merchants
resident
at
the
Court
of
the
most
puissant
Monarch
the
great
Mogul
,
at
a
town
called
Asmere
;
whose
comfortable
and
sweet
company
I
enioyed
at
the
same
Court
,
about
the
space
of
foure
Moneths
.
Now
,
though
there
hath
itched
a
very
burning
desire
in
mee
,
within
these
few
yeares
,
to
suruay
and
contemplate
some
of
the
chiefest
parts
of
this
goodly
Fabricke
of
the
VVorld
,
besides
mine
owne
natiue
Country
:
yet
neuer
did
I
thinke
it
would
haue
broken
out
to
such
an
ambitious
vent
,
as
to
trauell
all
on
foote
from
Ierusalem
,
so
farre
as
the
place
where
I
wrote
this
Letter
.
Howbeit
since
Fortune
,
or
rather
(
to
speake
more
properly
,
in
vsing
a
Christian
word
)
the
prouidence
of
the
Almighty
,
(
for
Fatuus
est
,
S.
Augustine
saith
,
qui
faro
credit
)
hath
so
ordained
,
that
I
should
securely
passe
so
far
into
the
Orientall
world
,
with
al
humilitie
vpō
the
bended
knees
of
my
hart
,
I
thank
my
Creator
&
merciful
redeemer
,
Iesus
Christ
;
(
whose
Sacrosanct
Sepulcher
I
haue
visited
&
kissed
,
terque
quaterque
in
Ierusalem
)
&
do
very
much
congratulate
mine
owne
happines
,
that
he
hath
hitherto
endued
mee
with
health
,
(
for
in
all
my
trauels
since
I
came
out
of
England
,
I
haue
enioyed
as
sound
a
constitutiō
of
body
,
&
firme
health
,
as
euer
I
did
since
I
first
drew
this
vitall
ayre
)
libertie
,
strength
of
limbs
,
agilitie
of
foot-manship
,
&c.
Neither
do
I
doubt
,
but
that
your
Honour
it selfe
will
likewise
congratulate
the
felicitie
of
our
Sommersetshire
,
that
in
breeding
me
,
hath
produced
such
a
traueller
,
as
dooth
for
the
diuersitie
of
the
Countries
he
hath
seene
,
and
the
multiplicitie
of
his
obseruations
,
farre
(
I
beleeue
)
out-strippe
anie
other
whatsoeuer
,
that
hath
beene
bred
therein
since
the
blessed
Incarnation
of
our
Sauior
.
Yea
,
I
hope
my
generall
countrie
of
England
,
shall
one
day
say
,
that
Odde-combe
,
for
one
part
of
the
word
,
may
truelie
be
so
called
:
(
for
Odde-combe
consisteth
of
two
words
,
odde
,
&
combe
,
which
latter
word
in
the
olde
Saxon
tongue
signifieth
besides
the
vertical
point
of
a
cocks
head
,
the
side
of
a
Hill
,
because
the
east
side
of
the
hill
wheron
Od-combe
standeth
,
is
very
conspicuous
,
and
seene
afar
off
in
the
Country
Eastward
)
for
breeding
an
odde
man
,
one
that
hath
not
his
peere
in
the
whole
kingdome
to
match
him
.
Three
yeares
and
some
few
odde
dayes
I
haue
spent
already
,
in
this
second
peregrination
,
and
I
hope
with
as
much
profite
(
vnpartially
will
I
speake
it
of
my selfe
,
without
any
ouer-weening
opiniō
,
to
which
most
men
are
subiect
)
both
for
learning
foure
Languages
more
,
then
I
had
when
I
left
my
Country
:
viz.
Italian
,
Arabian
,
Turkish
,
and
Persian
;
and
exact
viewing
of
diuers
of
the
most
remarkeable
matters
of
the
Vniuerse
;
together
with
the
accurate
description
thereof
,
as
most
of
my
Countri-men
that
are
now
abroad
.
Yet
such
is
my
insatiable
greedinesse
of
seeing
strange
countries
:
which
exercise
is
indeede
the
very
Queene
of
all
the
pleasures
in
the
world
,
that
I
haue
determined
(
if
God
shall
say
Amen
)
to
spend
full
seauen
yeares
more
,
to
the
ende
to
make
my
voyage
answerable
for
the
time
to
the
trauels
of
Vlysses
;
&
then
with
vnspeakable
ioy
to
reuisite
my
Country
;
which
I
will
euer
entitle
(
notwith-standing
all
the
goodly
Regions
that
I
haue
seene
in
my
two
perambulations
)
with
the
stile
of
the
true
Canaan
of
the
world
,
that
flowes
with
Milke
and
Hony.
Onely
wish
me
good
successe
,
I
beseech
your
Honour
,
as
I
will
from
my
heart
,
to
you
and
all
your
familie
;
hoping
to
salute
you
after
the
finall
catastrophe
of
my
exoticke
wanderings
;
when
you
shall
bee
in
the
great
climacterical
year
of
your
age
;
you
being
about
fifty
three
,
if
my
coniecture
doth
not
faile
mee
,
when
I
tooke
my
leaue
of
you
:
a
thing
verie
likely
by
the
mercifull
goodnesse
of
God.
For
your
Father
,
that
was
my
god-father
,
who
imposed
vpon
me
the
name
of
Thomas
,
liued
more
then
eightie
yeares
.
Honourable
Sir
,
take
it
not
,
I
beseech
you
,
for
a
discourtesie
,
in
that
I
write
nothing
in
this
Letter
of
my
past
trauels
.
I
am
certaine
,
that
a
Letter
which
I
haue
written
to
M.
VVhitaker
,
your
learned
and
elegant
Secretary
,
wherein
I
haue
compendiouslie
discoursed
of
some
of
my
obseruations
in
Asia
,
will
quicklie
come
to
your
hands
,
at
least
if
hee
remaineth
still
in
your
seruice
:
therfore
it
would
be
superfluous
to
haue
repeated
the
same
things
.
Dutie
ioyned
with
the
recordation
of
the
manifold
benefits
,
and
singular
fauours
I
haue
receiued
from
you
,
hath
inioyned
mee
to
send
this
Letter
to
your
Honour
,
from
this
glorious
Court
of
the
Mogul
;
wherein
seeing
I
relate
not
the
singularities
I
haue
seene
in
those
Orientall
Regions
,
I
will
desist
to
be
farther
tedious
;
humbly
recommending
your
Honour
,
and
vertuous
Lady
,
your
well-beloued
Sonne
&
Heire-apparant
,
Sir
Robert
,
(
to
whom
I
haue
written
a
few
times
also
)
&
his
sweet
Lady
;
M.
Martin
also
,
M.
Christopher
Brooke
,
whom
I
thanke
still
for
his
no
lesse
elegant
then
serious
verses
:
M.
Equinoctiall
Pasticrust
of
the
middle
Temple
,
M.
VVilliam
Hackwell
,
and
the
rest
of
the
worthy
gentlemen
frequenting
your
Honourable
table
,
that
fauour
vertue
,
and
the
sacred
Muses
,
to
the
most
Heauenly
Clientele
of
the
eternall
Iehouah
.
Your
Honors
most
obsequious
Beadsman
,
Thomas
Coryate
.
From
the
Court
of
the
great
Mogul
,
resident
in
the
Towne
of
Asmere
in
the
Easterne
India
,
on
Michaelmas
day
,
Anno
1615.
I
beseech
your
Honour
,
to
speake
courteously
to
this
kind
Minister
M.
Rogers
for
my
sake
:
for
he
euer
shewed
himselfe
very
louing
vnto
me
.
Most
deare
and
beloued
Friend
,
Maister
L.
W.
animae
dimidium
meae
.
From
the
Court
of
the
most
Mighty
Monarch
,
called
the
Great
Mogul
,
resident
in
the
Towne
of
Asmere
,
in
the
Orientall
India
.
Anno
1615.
COrdiall
salutations
in
the
Author
of
Saluation
,
Iesus
Christ
:
where
I
writ
vnto
you
last
,
I
remember
wel
;
euen
from
Zobah
,
as
the
Prophet
Samuel
calleth
it
(
2
Booke
8.
chap.
ver
.
3
)
that
is
,
Aleppo
,
the
principall
Emporium
of
all
Syria
,
or
rather
of
the
Orient
world
;
but
when
,
in
trueth
I
haue
forgotten
,
for
I
keepe
not
coppies
of
my
Letters
,
as
I
see
most
of
my
Countrey-men
doe
,
in
whatsoeuer
place
of
the
worlde
I
finde
them
:
Howbeit
,
if
my
coniecture
doe
not
much
faile
me
,
I
may
affirme
that
it
was
about
xv
.
moneths
since
,
about
a
month
after
I
returned
vnto
Aleppo
from
Ierusalem
,
after
which
time
,
I
remained
there
three
months
longer
,
and
then
departed
there-hence
in
a
Carauan
into
Persia
,
passing
the
noble
riuer
Euphrates
(
the
cheefest
of
all
that
irrigated
Paradise
,
wherehence
,
as
frō
their
original
,
the
three
other
riuers
were
deriued
)
about
foure
dayes
iourney
beyond
Aleppo
:
on
the
farther
side
of
which
,
I
entered
Mesapotamia
,
alias
Chaldea
,
for
the
Euphrates
in
that
place
disterminateth
Syria
&
Mesopotamia
.
Therehence
I
had
two
dayes
iourney
to
Vr
of
the
Chaldeans
,
where
Abraham
was
born
,
a
very
delicate
and
pleasant
Cittie
.
There
I
remained
foure
dayes
,
but
I
I
could
see
no
part
of
the
ruines
of
the
house
,
wher
that
faithful
seruant
of
God
was
borne
,
though
I
much
desired
it
.
from
thence
,
I
had
foure
dayes
iourney
to
the
Riuer
Tigris
,
which
I
passed
also
;
but
in
the
same
place
where
I
crossed
it
,
I
found
it
so
shallow
,
that
it
reached
no
higher
then
the
calfe
of
my
legge
:
for
I
waded
ouer
it
afoot
.
Now
I
wel
perceiue
by
mine
occular
experience
,
that
Chaldea
is
named
Mesopotamia
,
for
that
it
is
inclosed
with
the
foresaid
riuers
.
Traiecto
Tigride
,
I
entred
Armenia
the
greater
:
After
that
,
Media
the
lower
,
&
resided
six
dayes
in
the
Metropolis
therof
,
heretofore
called
Ecbarana
,
the
sommer
seate
of
Cyrus
his
Court
,
a
City
eftsoone
mentioned
in
the
Scripture
,
now
called
Tauris
,
more
wofull
ruines
of
a
City
(
sauing
that
of
Troy
&
Cyzicū
in
Natolia
)
neuer
did
mine
eies
beholde
:
whē
I
seriously
contemplated
those
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
the
doleful
testimonies
of
the
Turkish
deuastations
,
I
called
to
minde
Ouids
verse
.
Ludis
in
humanis
diuina
potentia
rebus
.
Now
I
am
at
the
Moguls
Court
,
I
think
you
would
be
glad
to
receiue
some
narration
thereof
from
mee
,
though
succinctly
handled
:
for
I
meane
to
be
very
compendious
,
lest
I
shold
otherwise
preoccupate
that
pleasure
which
you
may
here
after
this
reape
by
my
personall
relation
thereof
.
This
present
Prince
is
a
verie
worthy
person
,
by
name
Selim
,
of
which
name
I
neuer
read
or
heard
of
any
more
then
one
Mahometan
King
,
which
was
Suliam
Selim
of
Constantinople
,
that
liued
about
80.
years
since
;
the
same
that
conquered
Ierusalem
,
Damascus
,
Aleppo
,
Caico
,
&c
:
adding
the
same
to
the
Turkish
Empire
.
He
is
53.
yeares
of
age
,
his
natiuitie
daie
hauing
beene
celebrated
with
wonderfull
pompe
since
my
arriuall
here
:
for
that
daie
he
weighed
himselffe
in
a
paire
of
golden
Scales
,
which
by
great
chance
I
saw
the
same
day
(
a
custome
that
he
obserueth
most
inuioablie
euery
year
)
laying
so
much
golde
in
the
other
scale
as
coūteruaileth
the
weight
of
his
body
,
and
the
same
he
afterward
distributed
to
the
poore
.
Hee
is
of
complection
neither
white
nor
blacke
,
but
of
a
middle
betwixt
thē
:
I
know
not
how
to
expresse
it
with
a
more
expressiue
&
significant
epitheton
then
Oliue
:
an
Oliue
colour
his
face
presenteth
:
hee
is
of
a
seemelie
composition
of
bodie
,
of
a
stature
little
vnequall
(
as
I
guesse
not
without
grounds
of
probabilitie
)
to
mine
,
but
much
more
corpulent
then
my selfe
.
The
extent
of
his
Dominion
is
verie
spacious
,
beeing
in
circuite
,
little
lesse
then
4000.
English
miles
,
which
verie
neere
answereth
the
compas
of
the
Turks
territories
:
or
if
any
thing
be
wanting
in
geometricall
dimension
of
ground
,
it
is
with
a
great
pleonasme
supplied
by
the
fertility
of
his
soyle
:
and
in
these
two
thinges
hee
exceedeth
the
Turks
,
in
the
fatnesse
(
as
I
haue
said
)
of
his
Land
,
no
part
of
the
world
yeelding
a
more
fruitfull
veine
of
ground
,
then
all
that
which
lieth
in
his
Empire
,
sauing
that
part
of
Babylonia
,
where
the
terrestriall
Paradise
once
stoode
:
whereas
a
great
part
of
the
Turkes
Land
is
extreme
barren
and
sterill
,
as
I
haue
obserued
in
my
peregrination
thereof
,
especially
in
Syria
,
Mesopotamia
and
Armenia
;
many
large
portions
thereof
beeing
so
wonderfull
fruitelesse
,
that
it
beareth
no
good
thing
at
all
,
or
if
any
thing
,
there
Infelix
lolium
et
steriles
dominantur
auenae
.
Secondly
,
in
the
coniunction
and
vnion
of
all
his
Territories
,
together
in
one
&
the
same
goodly
continent
of
India
,
no
Prince
hauing
a
foote
of
land
within
him
.
But
many
parcels
of
the
Turkes
Countries
are
by
a
large
distance
of
seas
&
otherwise
diuided
asunder
.
Again
,
in
his
Reuenue
he
exceedeth
the
Turk
&
the
Persian
his
Neighbour
by
iust
halfe
:
for
his
Reuenues
are
40.
millions
of
Crownes
of
sixe
shillings
value
,
by
the
yeare
:
but
the
Turkes
are
no
more
then
fifteene
millions
,
as
I
was
certainly
informed
in
Constantinople
;
and
the
Persians
fiue
millions
plus
minus
,
as
I
heard
in
Spahan
.
It
is
saide
that
he
is
vncircumcised
,
wherein
he
differeth
from
all
the
Mahometan
Princes
that
euer
were
in
the
world
.
Your
assured
louing
Friend
till
death
,
Tho
:
Coryate
.
From
the
Court
of
the
Great
Mogul
,
resident
at
the
Towne
of
Asmere
in
the
Eastern
India
,
on
Michaelmas
day
.
Anno
1615.
I
Do
enioy
at
this
time
as
pancraticall
and
athleticall
a
health
as
euer
I
did
in
my
life
:
&
so
haue
done
euer
since
I
came
out
of
England
,
sauing
for
three
dayes
in
Constantinople
,
where
I
had
an
Ague
,
which
with
a
little
letting
blood
was
clean
banished
,
the
Lord
be
humbly
thanked
for
his
gracious
blessing
of
health
that
hee
hath
giuen
vnto
mee
.
I
was
robbed
of
my
money
both
golde
and
siluer
(
but
not
all
,
by
reason
of
certaine
clandestine
corners
where
it
was
placed
)
in
a
Cittie
called
Diarbeck
in
Mesopotamia
,
the
Turks
countrey
,
by
a
Spaheê
as
they
call
him
,
that
is
,
one
of
the
horsemen
of
the
great
Turke
;
but
the
occasion
and
circumstance
of
that
misfortune
,
would
be
too
tedious
to
relate
.
Notwithstanding
that
losse
,
I
am
not
destitute
of
money
I
thanke
God.
Since
my
arriuall
heere
,
there
was
sent
vnto
this
King
one
of
the
richest
presents
that
I
haue
heard
to
be
sent
to
any
Prince
in
al
my
life
time
:
it
consisted
of
diuers
parcels
;
one
beeing
Elephants
,
whereof
there
were
31.
and
of
those
,
two
so
gloriously
adorned
,
as
I
neuer
sawe
the
like
,
nor
shal
see
the
like
again
while
I
liue
.
For
they
wore
foure
chaines
about
their
bodies
all
of
beaten
gold
:
two
chains
about
their
legges
of
the
same
;
furniture
for
their
buttocks
of
pure
gold
:
twoe
Lyons
vpon
their
heads
of
the
like
gold
:
the
ornaments
of
each
,
amounting
to
the
value
of
almost
eight
thousand
pound
sterling
:
and
the
whole
Present
was
worth
ten
of
their
Leakes
,
as
they
call
them
;
a
Leak
being
ten
thousand
pound
sterling
:
the
whole
,
a
hundred
thousand
pounds
sterling
.
Pray
commend
me
to
M.
Protoplast
,
and
all
the
Sireniacall
gentlemen
,
to
whom
I
wrote
one
Letter
from
Aleppo
,
after
my
being
at
Ierusalem
;
and
another
I
intend
to
write
before
my
going
out
of
Asia
.
Their
most
elegant
and
incomparable
safe-conduct
that
they
haue
graciously
bestowed
vpon
me
,
I
haue
left
at
Aleppo
,
not
hauing
made
any
vse
of
it
as
yet
,
neither
shall
I
in
all
my
peregrination
of
Asia
:
but
when
I
shall
one
day
arriue
in
Christendome
,
it
will
be
very
auaileable
to
me
.
I
haue
heere
sent
vnto
you
the
coppy
of
certaine
facetious
verses
,
that
were
lately
sent
to
me
to
this
Court
,
from
one
of
my
Countrimen
,
one
M.
Iohn
Browne
,
a
Londoner
borne
,
now
resident
with
diuers
other
English
Merchants
,
at
a
Citie
in
India
,
fiue
hundred
miles
from
the
place
where
I
abide
,
called
Amadauers
,
about
sixe
dayes
iourney
from
the
Sea
:
who
vnderstanding
of
my
arriuall
at
this
Court
,
and
of
my
tedious
pedestriall
peregrination
all
the
way
from
Ierusalem
hither
;
vnderstanding
it
I
say
,
by
Latine
and
Italian
Epistles
,
that
vpon
a
certaine
occasion
I
wrote
to
some
of
that
company
,
made
these
pretty
verses
,
and
sent
them
me
.
You
may
reade
them
to
your
friends
if
you
thinke
fit
,
and
especially
to
the
Sireniacall
gentlemen
;
for
they
are
alegant
and
delectable
.
The
superscription
of
his
Letter
was
this
:
to
the
painefull
gentleman
,
M.
Thomas
Coryate
:
The
title
within
prefixed
before
the
verses
,
this
;
To
the
Odeombian
wonder
,
our
laborious
Countriman
,
the
generous
Coryate
.
The
Verses
.
What
though
thy
Cruder
trauels
were
attended
With
bastinadoes
,
lice
,
and
vile
disgraces
?
Haue
not
thy
glorious
acts
thereby
ascended
Great
Brittaines
stage
,
euen
to
Princes
places
,
Led
on
in
triumph
by
the
noblest
spirits
That
euer
deignd
to
write
of
anies
merits
?
If
then
for
that
they
did
aduance
thy
fame
,
How
will
they
striue
to
adde
vnto
thy
glory
,
When
thou
to
them
so
wondrously
shalt
name
Thy
weary
foot-steps
and
thy
Asian
story
?
No
doubt
more
ripe
(
as
neerer
to
the
Sunne
)
Then
was
that
first
that
in
the
cold
begun
.
Then
rest
a
while
,
and
to
thy
taske
againe
,
Till
thou
hast
throughly
trod
this
Asian
round
,
Which
yet
so
many
Kingdomes
doth
containe
As
Dackon
,
where
the
Diamond
is
found
;
And
Bisnagar
,
Narsinga
:
and
if
you
be
Not
weary
yet
,
in
Zeilan
seeke
the
Rubie
.
Then
could
I
wish
you
saw
the
China
Nation
,
Whose
policie
and
art
doth
farre
exceed
Our
Northern
climes
:
and
here
your
obseruation
VVould
Nouelists
and
curious
Artists
feede
With
admiration
.
Oh
,
had
I
now
my
wishes
,
Sure
you
shold
learn
to
make
their
China
dishes
But
by
the
way
forget
not
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Gugurat
,
The
Lady
of
this
mighty
Kings
Dominion
:
Visite
Baroch
,
Cambaia
,
and
Surat
,
And
Amdauar
;
all
which
in
my
opinion
Yeeld
much
content
:
&
then
more
to
glad
yee
,
Wee
le
haue
a
health
to
al
our
friends
in
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Then
crosse
to
Arab
,
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happiest
in
diuision
;
But
haue
a
care
(
at
Mecca
is
some
danger
)
Leste
you
incurre
the
paine
of
circumcision
,
Or
Peter-like
,
to
Christ
do
seeme
a
stranger
.
From
thence
to
Egypt
,
where
the
famous
Nile
And
Memphis
will
detaine
your
eyes
a
while
.
This
done
,
at
Alexandria
seeke
your
passage
For
Englands
happy
shores
,
wher
How
&
Mundy
Will
striue
to
make
your
trauels
out-last
age
,
So
long
as
stand
their
Annals
of
our
Country
.
For
Mandeuill
wil
come
of
thee
farre
short
,
Either
of
trauell
,
or
a
large
report
.
YEt
one
Post-script
more
by
way
of
a
Corollary
,
and
so
with
the
same
,
beeing
the
fourth
and
the
last
,
I
will
adde
the
final
vmbilicke
to
this
tedious
English-Indian
Epistle
.
I
haue
written
out
two
seuerall
coppies
of
these
verses
,
and
included
them
within
the
Letters
,
which
I
haue
intreated
you
to
distribute
for
me
,
but
so
that
the
Letters
are
not
sealed
vpon
them
;
onely
they
lie
loose
within
the
Letters
,
therefore
they
are
subiect
to
losing
,
except
you
haue
an
extraordinary
care
of
them
.
Wherefore
I
intreate
you
to
deliuer
that
to
mine
Vnkle
with
your
owne
hands
,
if
he
be
in
London
,
or
to
conueigh
it
to
him
by
such
a
one
as
will
not
lose
that
loose
paper
of
verses
.
The
like
care
I
desire
you
to
haue
of
that
to
my
mother
,
and
to
send
it
vnto
her
by
some
other
man
then
a
Carrier
,
if
you
can
iet
with
such
an
opportunity
:
for
in
truth
I
am
afraide
the
carrier
wil
lose
the
inclosed
paper
.
Pray
take
aduice
of
some
of
the
M.
of
the
Rolles
his
people
that
are
to
ride
to
Euill
.
Pray
remember
my
commendations
with
all
respect
to
M.
Williams
the
goldsmith
and
his
wife
;
and
to
Beniamin
Iohnson
,
and
to
reade
this
letter
to
them
both
:
likewise
to
mistris
Elizabeth
Balch
,
if
shee
continueth
with
your
Lady
.
One
appendix
more
and
so
an
end
.
There
happened
betwixt
the
day
of
the
writing
of
this
Letter
,
and
the
day
of
the
sealing
of
it
vp
,
a
memorable
occurrent
not
to
bee
omitted
.
VVee
receiued
newes
at
this
Court
the
ninth
day
after
the
writing
of
this
Letter
(
for
nine
daies
it
was
vnsealed
)
being
the
eight
of
October
,
of
the
arriuall
of
foure
goodly
English
ships
,
at
the
hauen
of
Su●at
in
India
,
and
in
the
same
,
of
a
very
generous
and
worthy
English
Knight
,
a
deare
friend
of
mine
,
Sir
Thomas
Rowe
,
to
come
to
the
Court
with
some
mature
expedition
,
as
an
Ambassadour
from
the
right
worshipfull
company
of
London
Merchants
that
trade
for
India
:
he
cometh
with
Letters
from
our
King
,
and
certaine
selected
presents
of
good
worth
from
the
company
,
amongst
the
rest
,
a
gallant
Caroch
,
of
150.
pounds
price
.
Also
there
came
with
him
15.
seruants
,
al
Englishmen
.
Forty
daies
hence
at
the
farthest
we
expect
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
his
arriual
at
this
Court.
This
newes
doth
refocillate
(
I
will
vse
my
olde
phrase
so
well
knowne
to
you
)
my
spirits
:
for
I
hope
he
will
vse
me
graciously
,
for
old
acquaintance
sake
.
TO
THE
HIGH
Seneschall
of
the
right
Worshipfull
Fraternitie
of
Sireniacal
Gentlemen
,
that
meet
the
first
Fridaie
of
euery
Moneth
,
at
the
signe
of
the
Mere-Maide
in
Bread
streete
in
London
,
giue
these
:
From
the
Court
of
the
great
Mogul
resident
at
the
Towne
of
Asmere
,
in
the
Easterne
India
.
RIght
Generous
,
Iouiall
,
and
Mercuriall
Sirenaicks
;
I
haue
often
read
this
greeke
Prouerb
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
that
is
,
one
hand
washeth
another
,
&
in
Latine
,
Mulus
mulum
scabi●
,
one
Mule
scratcheth
another
;
by
which
the
Ancients
signified
,
that
courtesies
done
vnto
friends
,
ought
to
bee
requited
with
reciprocall
offices
of
friendship
.
The
serious
consideration
heereof
,
dooth
make
me
to
call
to
mind
that
incomparable
elegant
safe-conduct
,
which
a
little
before
my
departure
from
England
,
your
Fraternity
with
a
general
suffrage
gaue
me
for
the
security
of
my
future
peregrination
,
concinnated
by
the
pleasant
wit
of
that
inimitable
artizan
of
sweet
elegancy
,
the
moytie
of
my
heart
,
and
the
quondam
Seneschall
of
the
noblest
society
,
M.
L.VV.
Therefore
since
it
is
requsite
that
I
should
repay
some-what
for
the
same
,
according
to
the
lawes
of
humanity
:
Such
a
poore
retribution
as
I
sent
vnto
you
from
Aleppo
,
the
Metropolitan
City
of
Syria
,
by
one
M.
Henry
Allare
of
Kent
,
my
fellow-pilgrime
therehence
to
Ierusalem
;
I
meane
a
plaine
Epistle
,
which
I
hope
,
long
since
came
vnto
your
hands
.
I
haue
sent
vnto
you
by
a
man
no
lesse
deare
vnto
mee
then
the
former
,
one
M.
Peter
Rogers
,
a
Kentish
man
also
,
from
the
most
famigerated
Region
of
all
the
East
,
the
ample
and
large
India
:
assuring
my selfe
,
that
because
I
am
not
able
to
requite
your
loue
with
any
essentiall
gratulations
,
other
then
verball
and
scriptall
,
you
wil
as
louingly
entertaine
my
poore
Letters
,
beeing
the
certaine
manifestation
of
an
ingenious
minde
,
as
if
J
should
send
vnto
you
the
minerall
riches
or
drugges
of
the
noble
Country
.
Thinke
it
no
wonder
I
pray
you
,
that
I
haue
made
no
vse
in
all
this
space
since
I
left
my
natiue
Country
,
of
the
superexcellent
Commeate
;
for
I
haue
spent
all
my
time
hitherto
in
the
Mahometan
Countries
,
and
am
like
to
spend
three
yeares
more
in
these
Musselman
(
as
they
call
them
)
Regions
of
Asia
,
after
of
Europe
,
before
J
shal
ariue
in
Christendome
.
For
this
cause
I
left
it
in
Aleppo
,
with
my
Countrimen
,
there
to
receiue
it
from
them
againe
,
after
that
I
shall
haue
ended
my
Indian
and
Persian
perambulation
:
and
therehence
to
carrie
it
once
more
to
Constantinople
,
and
that
by
the
way
at
Iconium
,
Nicaea
,
Nicomedia
,
&
in
the
countrie
of
Natolia
,
a
iournie
of
forty
daies
.
From
that
finally
through
the
heart
of
Greece
,
by
the
Cities
of
Athens
,
Thebes
,
Corinth
,
Lacedemon
,
Thessalonica
,
and
to
the
Citie
of
Ragouze
,
heretofore
Epidaurus
,
so
sacred
for
the
image
of
Aesculapius
in
the
countrie
of
Sclauonia
,
once
called
Illyricum
;
from
thence
J
haue
three
daies
iourney
to
the
inestimable
Diamond
set
in
the
Ring
of
the
Adriatique
gulfe
,
(
as
once
I
said
in
the
first
harangue
that
euer
I
made
to
Prince
Henry
of
blessed
memory
,
translated
since
my
departure
from
London
,
from
the
terrestiall
Tabarnacles
,
to
the
coelestial
habitations
)
venereous
Venice
,
the
soueraign
Queen
of
the
Mare
superum
:
if
the
great
Iehouah
shall
be
so
propitious
vnto
mee
,
as
to
grant
mee
a
prosperous
arriuall
in
that
noble
Cittie
,
I
will
there
beginne
to
shew
your
safe
conduct
,
and
to
decantate
,
yea
and
blazon
your
praises
for
the
same
:
and
after
in
euery
other
place
of
note
,
vntill
I
shall
arriue
in
glorious
London
,
communicate
it
to
the
most
polite
,
with
that
the
Cities
will
yeeld
,
thorough
which
my
laborious
feete
shall
carry
mee
,
it
would
be
superuacaneous
to
commemorate
vnto
you
the
almost
incredible
extent
of
Land
I
trauersed
from
Ierusalem
to
the
Court
of
the
great
Mogul
in
India
,
where
I
now
reside
;
with
the
variable
Regions
and
Prouinces
interiacent
betwixt
them
,
and
the
manifold
occurrences
and
obseruations
of
speciall
worke
in
this
vaste
tract
:
for
it
wold
be
such
a
fastidious
discourse
,
that
it
could
not
be
wel
comprehended
in
a
large
sheete
of
paper
:
but
M.
VV.
I
hope
will
not
faile
to
import
vnto
you
in
a
few
compendious
Relations
,
which
I
haue
acquainted
him
with
,
in
a
particular
Letter
to
himselfe
:
of
which
,
if
I
should
haue
written
againe
to
you
,
it
would
haue
proued
Crambe
his
Cocta
.
The
Gentleman
that
bringeth
this
Letter
vnto
you
,
was
preacher
to
the
English
Merchants
conuersant
at
the
Court
of
the
aforesaide
mighty
Monarch
in
the
Towne
of
Asmere
in
this
Easterne
India
:
and
in
diuers
louing
offices
hath
bene
so
kind
vnto
me
,
that
I
intreat
your
generosities
to
entertaine
him
friendly
for
my
sake
,
to
exhilarate
him
with
the
purest
quintessence
of
the
Spanish
,
French
and
Rhenish
Grape
,
which
the
Mermaid
yeeldeth
;
&
either
one
in
the
name
of
you
all
,
or
else
the
totall
vniuersalitie
of
the
one
after
another
,
to
thanke
him
heartily
,
according
to
the
quality
of
his
merits
.
Farewell
noble
Sirenaicks
.
Your
generosities
most
obliged
Countreyman
,
euer
to
be
commanded
by
you
,
the
Hierosolymitan-Syrian-Mesopotamian-Armenian-Median-Parthian-Persian-Indian
Legge-stretcher
of
Odcomb
in
Somerset
,
THOMAS
CORYATE
.
PRay
remember
the
recommendations
of
my
dutifull
respect
to
al
those
whose
names
I
haue
here
expressed
,
being
the
louers
of
vertue
,
and
literature
;
and
so
consequently
the
well-willers
(
I
hope
)
of
a
prosperous
issue
of
my
designements
,
in
my
laborious
pedestriall
perambulations
of
Asia
,
Africa
,
and
Europe
.
VVritten
with
mine
owne
hand
,
at
the
Court
of
the
Great
Mogul
Shaugh
Selim
,
resident
in
the
towne
of
Asmere
,
in
the
vmbilicke
of
the
orientall
India
,
the
eight
day
of
Nouember
,
being
wednesdaie
.
Anno
Dom.
1615.
IMprimis
,
to
the
two
Ladies
Varney
,
the
Mother
&
the
Daughter
,
at
Boswell
house
without
Temple
Barre
.
2.
Item
,
to
that
famous
Antiquarie
,
Sir
Robert
Cotten
,
at
his
house
in
the
Blacke
Friers
.
Pray
tell
him
that
I
haue
a
very
curious
white
marble
head
of
an
ancient
Heros
or
Gyant-like
Champion
,
found
out
very
casually
by
my
diligent
peruestigatiō
amongst
the
ruines
of
the
once
renowned
City
of
Cyzicum
,
mentioned
by
Cicero
in
his
second
Oration
(
if
my
memory
doth
not
faile
me
)
against
Verres
,
situate
in
a
peninsula
of
Bythinia
,
in
the
goodly
country
of
Natolia
,
neere
the
Sea
Propontis
:
to
this
head
wil
his
best
antiquities
whatsoeuer
veyle
bonnet
.
3.
Item
,
to
that
courteous
,
sweet
,
and
elegant-natured
and
nurtured
gentleman
.
M.
William
Forde
,
Preacher
to
our
Nation
at
Constantinople
,
if
you
happen
to
meete
him
in
any
part
of
England
;
one
that
deserueth
better
of
me
then
any
man
in
all
this
Catalogue
:
for
of
him
I
haue
learned
whatsoeuer
superficiall
skill
I
haue
gotten
in
the
Italian
tongue
:
pray
reduplicate
my
commendations
vnto
him
.
4.
Item
to
M.
George
Speake
my
generous
&
ingenuous
countriman
,
the
Sonne
and
heyre
apparant
of
Sir
George
Speake
in
Sommersetshire
:
him
you
are
like
to
finde
in
any
Terme
,
eyther
at
the
middle
Temple
,
or
in
some
Barbers
house
neere
to
the
temple
.
5.
Item
,
to
M.
Iohn
Donne
,
the
author
of
two
most
elegant
Latine
Bookes
,
Pseudo
martyr
,
and
Ignatij
Conclaue
:
of
his
abode
either
in
the
Strād
,
or
elsewhere
in
London
:
I
thinke
you
shall
bee
easily
informed
by
the
meanes
of
my
friend
,
M.
L.
W.
6.
Item
,
to
M.
Richard
Martin
,
Counsellor
,
at
his
chamber
in
the
middle
Temple
,
but
in
the
Terme
time
,
scarce
else
.
7.
Item
,
to
M.
Christopher
Brooke
of
the
city
of
Yorke
,
Councellor
,
at
his
chamber
in
Lincolnes
Inne
,
or
neere
it
.
8.
Item
,
to
M.
Iohn
Hoskins
,
alias
Acquinoctial
Pastitrust
,
of
the
citie
of
Hereford
,
Councellor
,
at
his
chamber
in
the
middle
Temple
.
9.
Item
,
to
M.
George
Garrat
;
of
whose
beeing
you
shal
vnderstand
by
Master
Donne
aforesaide
.
10
Item
,
to
M.
VVilliam
Hackwell
,
at
his
chamber
in
Lincolnes
Inne
.
11
Item
,
to
Master
Beniamin
Iohnson
the
Poet
,
at
his
chamber
at
the
Blacke
Friars
.
12.
Item
to
Maist.
Iohn
Bond
my
countreyman
,
chiefe
Secretarie
vnto
my
Lorde
Chancellour
.
13
Item
,
to
M.
Doctor
Mocket
,
resident
perhappes
in
my
Lord
of
Canterburies
house
at
Lambeth
,
where
I
left
him
.
14
Item
,
to
M.
Samuel
Purkas
,
the
great
collector
of
the
Lucubrations
of
sundry
classical
authors
,
for
the
description
of
Asia
,
Africa
,
and
America
.
Pray
commend
mee
vnto
him
and
his
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
Maister
Cooke
,
by
the
same
token
,
that
he
gaue
me
a
description
of
Constantinople
,
and
the
Thracius
Bosphorus
,
written
in
Latine
by
a
Frenchman
called
Petrus
Gillius
:
which
Booke
,
when
I
carried
once
in
an
afternoone
vnder
mine
arme
,
in
walking
betwixt
our
English
Ambassadors
house
in
Pera
,
on
the
opposite
side
to
Constantinople
,
and
the
Flemish
Ambassadors
house
,
I
lost
it
very
vnfortunately
to
my
great
griefe
,
&
neuer
found
it
againe
.
15
Item
,
to
M.
Inigo
Iones
,
there
where
Maister
Martin
shall
direct
you
.
16
Item
,
to
M.
Iohn
Williams
the
Kings
Goldat
his
house
in
Cheapside
.
17
Item
to
M.
Hugh
Holland
,
at
his
lodging
,
where
M.
Martin
shall
direct
you
.
18
Item
,
to
M.
Robert
Bing
at
Yongs
ordinarie
,
neere
the
Exchange
.
19
Item
,
to
M.
William
Stansby
,
the
Printer
of
my
Crudities
and
Crambe
,
at
his
house
in
Thames
street
:
also
to
his
childlesse
wife
.
20
Item
,
to
all
the
Stationers
in
Paules
Church-yard
;
but
especially
those
by
name
,
Mast.
Norton
,
Mast.
Waterson
,
M.
Mathew
Lownes
,
M.
Edward
Blount
,
and
M.
Barrat
,
&c.
God
bless
thēall
,
&
me
too
,
that
I
may
one
day
after
the
finall
consummation
of
my
fastidious
peregrinations
in
the
world
,
see
and
salute
them
all
in
health
and
welfare
.
Per
me
Thomam
Coryatum
Odcombiensem
.
PRay
remember
my
verie
humble
dutie
to
my
Lord
Byshop
of
Bathe
and
Welles
,
generous
M.
Doctor
Montacute
;
and
tell
his
Lordship
,
that
before
I
returne
towards
the
Persian
court
out
of
this
Orientall
India
,
I
resolue
(
by
Gods
permission
)
to
write
such
a
Letter
vnto
him
(
after
I
haue
throughly
surueighed
so
much
of
this
country
as
I
meane
to
do
)
as
shall
not
bee
vnworthy
to
bee
read
to
the
Kings
most
excellent
Maiesty
.
You
are
like
to
heare
newes
of
his
Lordships
abode
in
Kings
street
,
neere
VVestminster
.
A
Distich
to
the
Traueller
.
All
our
choice
wits
,
all
,
see
,
thou
hast
engrost
:
The
doubt
yet
rests
,
if
they
or
thou
haue
most
.
FINIS
.
To
his
Louing
Mother
.
BY
this
present
Letter
,
I
am
like
to
minister
vnto
you
the
occasion
of
two
contrary
matters
;
the
one
of
comfort
,
the
other
of
discomfort
:
of
comfort
,
because
I
haue
by
the
propitious
assistance
of
the
omnipotent
Iehouah
,
performed
such
a
notable
voyage
of
Asia
the
greater
,
with
purchase
of
great
riches
of
experience
,
as
I
doubt
whether
any
English
man
this
hundred
yeares
haue
done
the
like
;
hauing
seene
and
very
particularly
obserued
all
the
cheefest
things
in
the
Holy-land
,
called
in
times
past
Palaestina
;
as
Ierusalem
,
Samaria
,
Nazareth
,
Bethlehem
,
Iericho
,
Emaus
,
Bethania
,
the
Dead
Sea
,
called
by
the
Ancients
Lacus
Asphaltities
,
where
Sodome
and
Gomorrha
once
stood
;
since
that
,
many
famous
and
renowned
Cities
and
countries
;
Mesopotamia
,
in
the
which
I
entred
by
the
passage
of
the
riuer
Euphrates
,
that
watered
Paradise
;
in
which
the
Citty
of
Vr
where
Abraham
was
borne
;
both
the
Mediaes
,
the
higher
and
the
lower
.
Parthia
,
Armenia
,
Persia
,
through
al
which
I
haue
trauailed
into
the
Eastern
India
,
being
now
at
the
Court
of
the
great
Mogull
,
at
a
Towne
called
Asmere
,
the
which
from
Ierusalem
is
the
distance
of
two
thousand
and
seauen
hundred
miles
;
and
haue
traced
all
this
tedious
way
afoote
,
with
no
small
toile
of
bodye
and
discomfort
,
because
that
beeing
so
exceeding
farre
from
my
sweet
and
most
delicious
Natiue
soyle
of
England
,
you
will
doubt
perhaps
,
how
it
is
possible
for
me
to
returne
home
againe
:
but
I
hope
I
shall
quickly
remoue
from
you
that
opinion
of
discomfort
,
(
if
at
the
least
you
shall
conceiue
any
such
)
because
I
would
haue
you
know
,
that
I
alwayes
go
safely
in
the
company
of
Carauans
from
place
to
place
.
A
Carauan
is
a
word
much
vsed
in
all
Asia
:
by
which
is
vnderstood
a
great
multitude
of
people
trauelling
together
vpon
the
way
with
Camels
,
Horses
,
Mules
,
Asses
,
&c.
on
which
they
carry
Merchandizes
from
one
country
to
another
,
and
Tents
and
Pauillions
;
vnder
which
instead
of
houses
they
shelter
themselues
in
open
fields
,
being
furnished
also
with
all
necessary
prouision
,
and
conuenient
implements
to
dresse
the
same
:
in
which
Carauans
I
haue
euer
most
securely
passed
betwixt
Ierusalem
and
this
Towne
,
a
iourney
of
fifteene
months
and
odde
dayes
:
whereof
foure
wanting
a
VVeeke
,
spent
in
Aleppo
,
and
two
and
fiue
&
od
dayes
spent
in
Spahan
the
Metropolitan
Citty
of
Persia
,
where
the
Persian
King
most
commonly
keepeth
his
Court
:
&
the
occasion
of
my
spending
of
sixe
moneths
of
the
foresaide
fifteene
,
in
those
two
Citties
,
was
to
waite
for
an
opportunity
of
Carauans
to
Trauaile
withall
;
which
a
traueller
is
not
sure
to
finde
presently
,
when
he
is
ready
to
take
his
iourney
,
but
must
with
patience
expect
a
conuenient
time
;
and
the
Carauan
in
which
I
trauelled
betwixt
Spahan
and
India
,
contained
2000.
Camels
,
1500.
horses
,
1000.
and
odde
Mules
,
800.
Asses
,
and
sixe
thousand
people
.
Let
this
therefore
(
deer
Mother
)
minister
vnto
you
a
strong
hope
of
my
happy
returne
into
England
.
Notwithstand
all
these
lines
for
prouision
for
your
Funerall
,
I
hope
for
to
see
you
aliue
and
sound
in
body
&
minde
,
about
foure
yeares
hence
;
&
to
kneele
before
you
with
effusion
of
teares
,
for
ioy
.
Sweet
mother
,
pray
let
not
this
wound
your
heart
,
that
I
say
four
yeares
hence
,
&
not
before
;
I
humbly
beseech
you
euen
vpon
the
knees
of
my
heart
,
with
all
submissiue
,
supplications
to
pardon
me
for
my
long
absence
;
for
verily
,
I
haue
resolued
by
the
fauour
of
the
supernal
powers
,
to
spend
4.
entire
yeares
more
before
my
returne
,
and
so
to
make
it
a
Pilgrimage
of
7.
yeares
,
to
the
end
I
may
very
effectually
and
profitably
contemplate
a
great
part
of
this
worldly
fabricke
,
determining
by
Gods
special
help
,
to
go
from
India
into
the
countrey
of
Scythia
,
now
called
Tartaria
,
to
the
Cittie
Samarcanda
,
to
see
the
Sepulcher
of
the
greatest
Conqueror
that
euer
was
in
the
worlde
.
Tamberlaine
the
Great
:
thither
it
is
a
iourney
of
two
months
from
the
place
I
now
remaine
:
from
that
I
meane
to
return
into
Persia
;
and
therehence
by
the
way
of
Babylon
&
Niniuy
,
and
the
Mountaine
Ararat
,
where
Noahs
Arke
rested
,
to
Aleppo
,
to
my
Countrymen
.
From
that
,
by
the
way
of
Damascus
,
and
once
againe
to
Gaza
in
the
Land
of
the
Philistims
vnto
Cairo
in
Egypt
:
From
that
downe
the
Nilus
to
Alexandria
:
and
therehence
finally
,
I
hope
to
be
imbarked
for
some
part
of
Christendome
,
as
either
Venice
,
or
&c.
After
mine
arriuall
in
Christendome
,
I
shall
desire
to
trauell
two
yeares
in
Italy
,
and
both
high
&
low
Germany
,
and
then
with
all
expedition
into
England
,
and
to
see
you
(
I
hope
)
with
as
great
ioy
as
euer
did
any
Trauailer
his
Father
or
Mother
,
going
in
that
manner
as
I
do
like
a
poore
Pilgrim
.
I
am
like
to
passe
with
vndoubted
securitie
,
and
very
small
charge
:
for
in
my
tenne
months
trauailes
betwixt
Aleppo
and
this
Moguls
Court
,
I
spent
but
three
pounds
sterling
,
and
yet
had
sustenance
enough
to
maintaine
nature
,
liuing
reasonably
well
,
oftentimes
a
whole
day
,
for
so
much
of
their
money
,
as
doeth
counteruaile
two
pence
sterling
.
But
least
I
be
ouer
tedious
vnto
you
,
I
will
heere
make
an
end
.
&c.
I
will
now
commend
you
to
the
most
blessed
protection
of
our
Sauiour
Iesus
Christ
;
before
whose
holy
Sepulcher
at
Ierusalem
,
I
haue
poured
foorth
mine
ardent
Orisons
for
you
,
to
the
most
sacrosanct
Trinity
,
beseeching
it
with
all
humilitie
of
heart
,
to
blesse
and
preserue
you
in
a
solid
health
,
&c.
Your
louing
Sonne
,
Tho
:
Coryate
.
To
his
louing
Friend
,
Thomas
Coryate
.
TOm
Coryates
Shooes
hang
by
the
Bels
At
Odcomb
,
where
that
Bel-Dam
dwels
who
first
produc't
that
monster
:
Monster
of
men
I
may
him
call
,
In
that
he
is
admir'd
of
all
,
else
mought
he
me
misconster
.
His
head
doth
run
the
wilde-goose
chace
,
Swifter
then
horse
of
hunting
race
,
or
Hare
that
Hound
runs
after
:
He
pickes
vp
wit
,
as
Pigeons
pease
,
And
vtters
it
when
God
doth
please
:
O
who
can
hold
from
Laughter
?
To
see
him
in
a
Morning
Sunne
,
In
his
rough
Lambeskin
and
bare
gowne
the
Scuttle
hole
ascending
:
Would
make
a
horse
his
halter
breake
,
To
heare
him
vomit
forth
his
Greeke
,
with
all
the
Ship
contending
.
On
Christmas
day
he
drunke
in
iest
,
Coniur'd
a
storme
out
of
the
East
,
in
clambring
vp
the
cradle
:
Before
,
the
winde
was
wondrous
faire
,
Now
forc't
to
ride
in
Gebraltar
,
withouten
horse
or
saddle
.
But
Asses
there
a
hideous
band
,
Thom-as
discouered
from
the
Land
,
His
Booke
is
not
without
them
:
At
Toms
returne
there
will
be
sport
,
In
Countrey
,
City
,
Towne
,
and
Court
,
Those
Asses
round
about
them
.
Who
liues
his
Leaues
for
to
vnfold
,
At
his
returne
,
I
dare
be
bold
,
will
wonders
finde
farre
stranger
,
Then
was
his
conflict
with
the
Iewes
,
Or
entertainment
at
the
Stewes
;
or
lying
in
the
Manger
Amongst
the
horse
at
Bergamo
,
Or
begging
of
the
poore
,
I
tro
;
these
were
but
toyes
and
bables
:
Of
Drums
,
Guns
,
Trumpets
,
he
will
tell
,
Of
haling
Ships
,
of
Pyrats
fell
;
of
Tacklings
,
Masts
,
and
Cables
.
VVith
Starboord
,
Larboorde
,
Helme
Alee
,
Full
,
Come
no
neere
:
't
is
done
quoth
he
,
who
at
the
Helme
doth
stand
.
War-no-more
,
cries
an
angry
Mate
;
Oh
Odcombe
,
these
be
termes
of
state
,
Not
vsuall
on
the
Land.
Oh
learne
this
Tongue
I
thee
beseech
,
For
it
is
not
beyond
the
reach
of
[*](A19384-e5260-b)
Leaden
pated
fooles
:
A
Marine
Language
made
,
I
say
,
Among
ourselues
,
which
till
this
day
was
neuer
taught
in
schooles
.
Confront
your
Academies
all
,
Of
Brazen-nose
and
Penbrooke
Hall
,
of
learned
not
the
least
:
Challenge
the
chiefe
in
our
behoofe
,
And
make
the
proudest
spring
his
loofe
,
or
send
him
South
South-east
.
There
let
vs
leaue
them
for
a
time
:
Now
to
the
subiect
of
my
rime
,
Tom
Tel-troth
simply
witty
:
Neither
Tom
Dingell
,
nor
Tom
Drum
,
Tom
Foole
,
Tom
Piper
,
nor
Tom
Thum
,
the
scorne
of
Towne
and
Citie
.
But
Tom
of
Toms
,
admired
most
;
More
then
a
Goblin
,
or
a
Ghost
,
A
Phairy
,
or
an
Elfe
;
VVhilst
he
amongst
his
Friends
abides
,
Your
Gizards
at
your
Whitsontides
,
no
merrier
then
the
himselfe
.
Fryer
Tucke
,
Maide
Marian
,
and
the
rest
,
You
Bag-pipes
loud
that
loodle
best
,
making
the
valleyes
ring
:
You
and
all
countrey
clownes
giue
place
,
To
Odcomb
of
esteemed
grace
,
euen
vice-toy
to
a
King.
Who
for
his
mirth
and
merry
glee
,
Is
rais'd
to
higher
dignity
,
then
ere
was
English
wight
;
So
honor'd
since
his
comming
out
,
He
must
no
more
be
earm'd
a
Lout
,
but
styl'd
a
Troian
knight
.
Where
he
hath
writ
of
Toombs
,
of
Stones
Of
Marble
Pillars
,
dead
mens
bones
,
with
Pallaces
of
pleasure
:
Of
Gates
,
of
Turrets
,
Churches
,
Towres
,
Of
Princes
,
Pesants
,
Knaues
,
and
VVhores
;
alas
for
time
and
leasure
.
For
to
repeate
what
he
hath
writ
,
VVhilst
I
am
in
this
riming
fit
,
plaine
,
simple
,
vnrefinde
:
Of
this
no
longer
must
I
stay
,
Be
merry
Mates
,
and
le
ts
away
,
whilst
weather
serues
,
and
winde
.
FINIS
.
Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
Notes for div A19384-e1050
Gen.
2
,
10.
Gen.
11.28
.
Notes for div A19384-e1650
*
A
goodly
Prouince
in
India
,
three
hundred
miles
from
hence
*
A
kinde
of
wine
vsed
in
that
part
of
India
.
*
He
meaneth
Arabia
foelix
.
Notes for div A19384-e4560
*
Because
my
Brother
C●●riate
called
the
Sailers
Leaden
pated
Fellowes
.
I
say
,
it
is
not
beyond
their
reach
to
learne
this
Language
:
not
that
I
call
him
Leaden
pated
,
for
the
world
knowes
he
is
capeable
of
farre
worth
or
Languages
:
beeing
now
adding
Italian
,
to
his
excellent
Greeke
and
Latine
.
Gizard
is
in
Scotch
a
merry
Mummer
.
Termed
a
Lout
,
hauing
a
reference
vnto
the
Princes
verses
,
who
held
all
men
guts
&
Louts
that
were
not
Trauellers
.