'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.' [‎213] (234/448)

SirKo. Sherley'x Epitaph,andhisL^fs z 13
Whkh done. Death flop my fajfage. Thm the Mind Sed greffum Mors dira vetat ■ fub limine condor
V/hich reach the Poles, ts hy this Porch confined. Viventi nullus cui mcdo Limes erat
Reader ! Uve hafty fttll in home contents, ' Ledor abi, talem nec te quaefiveris extra
Smce OHtmrd hopes are hut rich hanijhments. Summa ( fcias) parya gaudia fede frui!
After Land-fweats and many a florm hy Sea, Poft extant latos Terr^q-, Man% labcres,
This Jrlilloc\jtged^ Sherleys refl mnfl he. Parvula Sherieyum nunc tenet urna fenein.
He well had viewed Arms, Men, and fajhions ft range Arma, Viros, Habitus, diverfas nomine Gentes
Jn divers Lands. Defire fa make m range. Contemplans, placuit fie novitatis amor.
Butmmngcmrfa vhilfl ^ Perfian Tyrant he, Deinde retro relegens curfum mandata Tyranno
With welUiJpatched charge, hofdglad would he ) Undiq j Perfarum, dum placitura refert "
See Fortunes fcorn! Vnder this Door he lies, Ludibrium fati! tegitur fub limine tedi, *
Who Imngy had no place to refl hs eyes. yiventi nullus cui modo limes erat.
mthwhatfadthoughtsMansmwdlongho^ QuamdeplorandisIpeslongas inchoataufis
Learn hy mothers lof, hnt not hy thne. Menshominumj exempto fed fine difceluoj
Let it not feem impertinent if I add fomewRat to the deferving memory of his Wife
that thrice worthy and heroick Lady, Terefia. The Countrey fhe firft drew breath in
was Cyrcajhia, that which Pomponirn Mela calls Sargacta, near Palw Mtotl*, adjovnins
Georgia, and 'twixt the Northerly parts of the Black and Cajpian Seas. She was of CW
fiian Parentage, and honourable defcent. Her firft relation to the Court was by beins
fent up to attend the Sultana, and by that means became fequeftred to the Bar am - where
are many hundred Virgins admitted whom the King feidom or never fees • and for ought
I could hear, to the King fhe was no otherwife related: He neverthelefs'has power to
difpofe of fuch of them as he pleafes to his Officers, who efteem it no fmall honour to
receive a Wife from his Royal Hands. According to which cuftom the Emperour of
Perfia prefented her to Sir Robert S her ley as a teftimony of his refped : which Lady was
a conftant Companion to him in all his fortunes until death.
Such time as her beloved Lord lay dead, and Ihe half dead through a long dyfentery
to add to her afflidion one John a Dutchman (rather a Jew) a Painter, regarding neither
her Sex, Profeffion nor difconfolate condition, complots with Mamet-Ally-hev her Huf-
bands enemy to mine her pretending an engagement her Husband was in to one Crole
a Flemming and knowing he was dead, referred himfelf t8 the teilimony of the defund
to Witn^s it,having no other evidence it feems to prove the debt. She might have
paid them by like Sophiftry, That if the dead Man would affirm it fhe would fatisfie it.
But the pretended Creditors hafte to the Cawfee for a Warrant to attach her goods!
Howbeit, a faithful honeft Gentleman of our Campany Mr. Robert Hedges by name, hap
pily having notice, haftens to her Houfe and advifes her to make quick conveyance of
her goods, which the poor Lady readily hearkens to, and forthwith tears the Satten-
quilt fhe .lay upon, fhewing that vertue a ftronger could not have bettered •, and taking
thence a Cabinet which contained lome Jewels of value, being indeed the all was left her
intreats that worthy Gentleman to fafeguard them till the danger was over. He readily
obeys: and was no fooner departed, when John the Boor enters with his Catchpoles *
who (without any Apology for their rudenefs, or pity to her diftrefs) broke-ope her
Chefts, and plun^cred her of what was valuable : for fome rich Veils, coftly Turbants
and a Dagger of great price they took away, but finding no Jewels (fuch they had feen
him wear, and the rich Oft rich-feather alfo, which they had wooried in their Oftrich-
appetite) they were madded at that difappointment, and made her Horfes, Camels and
Afles, (being all the perfonal Eftate they could then come by) bear them company, not
caring if the Lady ftarved. The Gentleman fo loon as the ftorm was paft returnedjand %
befides words of comfort gladded her heart in delivering her her Jewels again; of
double value by that efcape: without which I am perfwaded her other fortune reached
not to fifty pounds. A fmall provifion for fo noble a Lady ^ elpecially feeing Money
is fo ufeful in thofe uncharitable Regions. But God provided better for her and beyond
expedation: having as I hear fince placed her in Rome, where of late Years fhe lived
with more freedom and outward happinefs.
Omnia qua de Terra funt in Terr am convertentur, we learn from Eccluf.4.0. 11. And in or
der thereto, like difcontents, long Coniiid with adverfe difpofitions, and fourteen days
confuming of a flux 3 ( occafioned as I thought .by eating too much fruit or fucking in too
much chill air upon Taurus ) brought that Religious Gentleman Sir Dodmore Cotton our
AmbafTadour to an immortal home: the 23 of July (eleven days after Sir Robert Sher ley's
death) he bade this World Adieu. Our duty commanding us to fee him buried in the beft
fort