‘The travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, a noble Roman, into East-India and Arabia Deserta. In which, the several countries, together with the customs, manners, traffique, and rites both religious and civil, of those Oriental princes and nations, are faithfully described: In familiar letters to his friend Signior Mario Schipano. Whereunto is added a relation of Sir Thomas Roe’s voyage into the East-Indies’ [‎345] (366/508)

A Voyage to EAST-INDIA, <&€. 5^5
he had not long before buried. And I lived with that moft
Noble Gentleman at that Court more than two years ? after which
I returned home to E»g/W with him.. During which (pace of
my abode there, I had very good advantage to take notice of
very m^ny $laccs> and perfons, and things, travelling with the
Embaffadour much in Progrefs with that Ring up and down his
very large Territories. . ~
And now , Reader , I would have thee to fuppofe me let
ting my foot upon the Eajt-tndian ftiore 3 at SvpaUy before-named.
On the banks whereof amongft many more Englifti that lie there
interred j laid up the body of M r Thomas Cory at, a man in
his time Notus nimis omnibus, very fufficiently known. He lived
there and there died,while I was in thofe parts, and was for fome
Months then with niy Lord Embaffadour, during which timej, he
was either my Chamber-fellow or Tent-mate :) which gave me
a full acquaintance of hirra That Greekrtravelling-rhomas (they
which ktiow his ftory know why I call him fo) formerly wrote
a Book entituled Cory at s Crudities, Printed in the beginning of
the ye^r 1611. and then ulhered into the World by very many
Copies of excellent Verfes made by the Wits of thofe Times,
which did very much advantage and improve, if not enforce the
fale thereof (doing themfelves much more honour than him
whom they ) undertook to commend in their feveral Encomi*
aftickj?) And if he had lived 3 he would have written his laft Tra
vels toj and in 3 and out of, Eafi-India % for he refolved (if God
had fpared him life) to have rambled up and down the world
world (as fometimes Vlyjjes did) and though not fo long as he,
vet ten fu41 years at leaftbefore his return home, in which time
he purpoied to fee tartaria in the vaft parts thereof, with as
touch as he could of China, and thofe other large Places and
Provinces interpofed betwixt Eafl^Indta and China, whofe true
Names we might have had from him 3 but yet have., not* He^bad
a purpofe after this to have vifited the Court of Pre&er John rn
JEthiopia^ who is there called by his own people. Ho Biot, the
lC/>?e ^ aiid after this 5 it was in his thoughts to have caft his eyes
upon many other places > which if he had done, and lived to
write t-hofe Relations, feeing, as4ie did, or (hould, fuch variety
of Countries, Cities, Nations, Things, and been as particular in
them as he was in his Venetial Journal, they muft needs have
fwoln into fo many huge Volums s as would\ have prevented
the periihing of Paper. But undoubtedly, if he had been con
tinued in life to have written them , there might.have been made
very good life of his Obfervations i for, as he was a very Parti"
cular, fo was he without quefHon a very Faithful Relator of
things he faw $ he ever difclaiming that bold liberty which divers
Travelled have, anddotake, by fpea^ng and wrttzngany thing
they pleafe of remote parts, when they cannot eafily be contra-
diffed, taking a Pride in their feigned Relations, to over-fpeak
things j being refolved in this cafe^ ^ ^
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