'Some years travels into divers parts of Africa, and Asia the great. Describing more particularly the empires of Persia and Industan: interwoven with such remarkable occurrences as hapned in those parts during these later times. As also, many other rich and famous kingdoms in the oriental India, with the isles adjacent. Severally relating their religion, language, customs and habit: as also proper observations concerning them.' [‎212] (233/448)

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at length he came in perfon and told the Ambaffador, That the King had look'd upon it,
denied it to be his, andin paflionburntit *, and thatSir Robert Sherley had liberty tode-
,part. Now albeit our Ambafladour very well knew this undue practice, yet it was in
vain to challenge the Pragmatick Pagan; nor knew he any recourfe by Juftice to eafe
himfelf, fuch wastheconftitutionof that time and place : and by the enquiry then made,
it was very well underftood, how that he never fhewed it the King, nor had made
further fcrutiny concerning it. The truth is, he was brib'd, but by whom is not necef-
fary to be mentioned: for Abbas by this got the worft, feeing in this tranfadion he was
difhonoured 9 otherwiie his juftice and prudence would have appeal ed more to Sir Robert's
Vindication: Befides, the difcontent he expreiled againft Nogdibreg (as noted) and
Ebrahim-chan his Son, who durft not appear at Court whiles Sir Robert Sherley was there,
nor many months after till SynaUhan had mediated his peace (albeit not he but his Fa
ther had offended) made it as apparent as the Sun, that there was jugling. The truth
is, the wicked pradice of thefe parts is fuck x that when any are fuper-annuated, ac
cording to the Proverb, feeing they can do no more Work they are to exped no more
Wages; and accordingly Sir Robert Sherley through old-age being difabled to fervethe
Perfians, that made them both fleight his perfon, and retrench hispenfion, even then
when he moft expeded fubfiftence and merited their beft acknowledgments. But this
bad requital ofgoodfervice is no new thing in' Perfia : witnefs that which Plutarch in
vita Artaxerx. relates concerning Antalcidas a noble Spartan ; who whiles that State
was paramount, no man in the Per pan Court was more regarded : but fuffering an eclipfe
at the battel of Leuttra (attributed to the good condud of Bpamimndai) the Spartans di-
fpatched Antalcidas to the PerfianKing for fupplies, whofe reception was then as fleight
as formerly it was honourable. And hence came thofe difcontents, nay that Arrow of
Death that arrefted him: for upon the thirteenth ot July (in lefs than a fortnight
after ourentring Cashyn) He gave this tranfitory world an ultimum vale in his great cli-
maderick. AFamily of fo good antiquity, that the naming ferves to illuftrate it with
out any Hyperbole. This Gentleman made good the old Proverb, That'tis better to
die honourably than to live with obloquy. And ( wanting a fitter place for burial) we
laid him under the threihold of his door without much noifeor other ceremony. He
was Brother to two gallant Gentlemen Sir Anthony and Sir Thomas Sherley ^ defervedly
ranked amongft the greateft Travellers of their times, and (by their great experience)
qualified for moft eminent fervicesboth Civil and Martial. So as in the due Encomium of
fuch, give me leave to apply what learned Cafaubon has obferved upon Strabo, Etenim
Poetfriidentiffimos Hcroiim pronmciant eoSy qui multis peregrinationibm up funt & varialoca
pervagati, Multorumvidijfe Homimm cummoribm Vrbes. Together with that of Ecclefi-
afiicui 34. 9. where (in the old Tranflation) 'tis faid, A man that hath travelled under-
ftandeth muchand he that hath good experience talketh efwifdom : but he that hath no experi
ence knoweth little. When J travelled to and fro. If aw many things, and my under Banding was
greater than I was able to exprefs; oft-times was I in danger of death, but by thofe things I
had deliverance. In fome meafure verified in thefe Brethren *, who in palling through
ftrange Countreys efcaped many dangers, wherein neverthelefs they reaped much ho
nour, and in which variety this Gentleman had his lhare •, and no lefs tafted of fiindry
Princes favours: For, by Rodolyh the fecond he was created a Palatine of the Empire,
by Pope Paul. 3. an Earl of the Sacred Palace of Later an from whence he was impowred
to legitimate the Indian Baftards •, and from the Perpan Monarch he received feve-
ral honourable Commands, and for whom he performed fome memorable fervi-
ces: but when he moft expeded thanks, found leaft, in his old-age, even when
he beft deferved. Yet in that not unlike Bellifarias. Which I fpeak not by report-
And therefore feeing he wants gilded Trophies to adorn his Sepulchre (albeit his Ver-
tuecan out-brave thofe bubbles of vanity) till fome will do it better, accept this Vltim
Moris exprejfio from him whofo long travelled in his company, and fo much honour
ed him.
En ego qui varios Terraeq, Maiisq> 5 labores
Suftinui, feffum jam tenet Urna Senetn.
Me Comitem'Imperii dixit Germania j Roma
Jus dedit ut facerem barbara rura Gives.
Bella, Viros> Habitus, diverlas nomine Gentes
Contemplans, placuit fic novitatis amor.'
Ad Perfas tandem per amoenaq; regna Sabjeum
Fungar utofficiis, forte vocante. feror.
Lo here, the limits to whofe re flic ft brain
No Travels fet, this Vrn doth now contain.
A German Count I was; the Papal State
ImpoweSd me ttf Indians to legitimate.
Men, Manners, Countreys to obferve and fee
Was my Ambition and Felicitie.
The Perfians lafi I viewed, with full depre
To purge my Fame, blurred by a PaganV ire:
Which