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A12119	Sir Antony Sherley his relation of his trauels into Persia The dangers, and distresses, which befell him in his passage, both by sea and land, and his strange and vnexpected deliuerances. His magnificent entertainement in Persia, his honourable imployment there-hence, as embassadour to the princes of Christendome, the cause of his disapointment therein, with his aduice to his brother, Sir Robert Sherley, also, a true relation of the great magnificence, valour, prudence, iustice, temperance, and other manifold vertues of Abas, now King of Persia, with his great conquests, whereby he hath inlarged his dominions. Penned by Sr. Antony Sherley, and recommended to his brother, Sr. Robert Sherley, being now in prosecution of the like honourable imployment.	Sherley, Anthony, Sir, 1565-1635?	1613 (1613)	STC 22424; ESTC S117262	94,560	148

Iudges Aduocates and his Maiesties Councell appointed for the good of the Prouince hauing euer taken those direct waies which were fit for his Maiesty and benefite of the Prouince if the Gouernour in his particular acts had taken counsels with his particular appetites and executed them according to the same neither he nor any of the Councel were blameable neuer hauing heard a voice onely to that effect which those men also who were a great number falling downe vpon their faces confessed to the King and that their long silence had giuen the Gouernour the more boldnesse to vse the vtermost of extortion and tyrannous exaction vpon them The Gouernour denied some maintained other to bee done vpon iust causes but all so confusedly and with so vnstable a fashion of proceeding as hee bewrayed his owne guiltinesse notwithstanding the king stayed his iudgement either of him or the causes vntill another day of hearing In the meane time hee appoynted Marganobeague Bastan-Aga and one Maxausebeague which is as it were Treasurer of his house to take some secret wayes to finde the true carriage of the Gouernour during the whole time of his function Which they did with great vprightnesse and dexterity And hauing related what they had approuedly found there were so many and so great causes brought against him I meane of wresting of Money bribery monopolizing and such things as more could not bee imagined which had beene small matters in a Princes state whose fauours and graces are priuiledged aboue the common good of the people and who change by their owne conniuence their Royall estate to a tyranny of fauourites and a few Counsellors who concurring in the spoyle of the people concurre also in so cruell a suppression of their iust cryes that their lifting vp their voyces for Iustice is as great a sinne as almost a perfect Rebellion and the same Iustice which should protect them against inique oppression inflicteth seuere chastisement onely for presuming to palesate such oppressions A miserable calamitie for the poore flocke where the Sheepheards heareth the wooll and the Brambles rent the flesh But this King whom wee call barbarous though from his example wee may learne many great and good things knowing that the true care of a Prince must bee euer the publique good and the capablenesse of his ruling would bee iudged by his true Iustice and election of his Ministers and distribution of his fauour vpon the worthiest which also should make a worthy vse of it The next day that hee sate in iudgement hee called the Gouernour then hauing told him that hee which had liued with him in the time of his greatest calamity must needes bee so well acquainted with the inwardnesse of his disposition that all the world would imagine as Princes euer are examples of good or euill to their subiects so they are most to those which are neereliest conuersant with them And according to that opinion hee had giuen him his authority for the great fauour and confidence hee reposed in him that hee knew well the errour which they had both committed the one not making a true iudgement of the others disposition That the transgression of Lawes and Orders in any State was the first naturall corruption which grew in it to prouide for which good Princes did both watchfully industriate themselues and dispersed part of the care which grew too great for themselues to the trust they had in the vertue of their Ministers who should euer as the very greatest and truest causes beware of those courses of Iustice which should bee of least terrour and procure themselues and their Princes most hatred which was to pill the subiects goods a thing of no example but to euill and of infinite odiousnesse especially when there was no iust cause why any sort of punishment should bee inflicted And because these acts of so great a Minister as hee was both for the place hee held of authority and fauour with him might giue the world cause to suspect his owne inclination the which since no former example could make him knowe hee would now shew the world and teach him that the wickednesse of Princes and great Men are worse in the example th●n in the fault since by the euill custome of the world to follow them they generate great corruptions by the imitation of others And because in a man of his place there could bee no more wicked acts then hee had committed nor in a Prince nothing more proportionable with his place nor fitter for his security then the chastisement of such wicked acts And if hee should pardon so great extortions and scelerate wronges as hee had inflicted vpon the poore people committed to his charge besides that hee should verifie the worst suspicions men might haue of him he should by so ill a president trouble the mindes of his whole state cast many good men and their goods into ruine multiply the like or worse scandals oppressing the causes of Iustice and so draw into the world without shame or feare all sort of excesses this should bee his iudgement That all his Goods and Lands should bee sold for the satisfaction of those men whom hee had spoyled And if any thing wanted since the King by giuing him that Authority was partly the cause of those excesses hee condemned himselfe to pay the residue out of his Treasury That if any thing aduanced it should be giuen to his Children with a grieuous Edict that no succour should bee ministred vnto himselfe For that since Death was a concluder of his offence shame and the memory of it hee should not dye but goe during his life with a great yoke like a Hoggesyoke about his necke haue his Nose and Eares cut off and haue no charitable releefe from any but what hee gained with his owne hands that he might feele in himselfe the misery which poore men haue to get and what a sinne it is to rent from them by violent extortion the birth of their sweat and labour This Iudgement strooke a mighty amazement into all the great men present and gaue an infinite ioy and comfort to the people The Turkes Embassadour which was there after he had stood silent a great while as a man halfe distracted sware publikely that hee saw before his eyes his maisters ruine being impossible that such fortune and vertue as the king was accompanied with could receiue any obstacle That night hee made Marganobeagus Gouernour of Casbin beeing well admonished by that great example of his duty Constantino a braue yong Gentleman being a Christian of Georgia hee called Mirza and gaue him the gouernement of Hisphaan and mee also hee called Mirza telling mee that hee would prouide condignely for mee And because hee had an vrgent occasion to goe post to Cassan I should receiue his pleasure by Marganobeague who brought mee the next morning a thousand Tomanas which is sixteene thousand Duckets of our Money fortie horses all furnished two with exceeding rich

fauour or benefite Therefore since being too secure doth but giue way to danger and the knowledge of the worst is the best meanes to preuent all that may be ill let not your desires of promouing this great and good businesse blind you from foreseeing all sorts of preoccupations which we both haue ta●ed of and you alone may perchance find greater but not beholding too fixed and stedfastly what the King in equitie and the truth of the cause should doe penetrate into the soule of the actiō the stability or mutablenesse of his nature his ordinarie or forced inclinations Finally into his present humours or ●uture likely pretences and then present him with those reasons which your best iudgement shall haue prouided for him in fit time and with a wel vnderstanding dexteritie The factiōs of the Court you must make your selfe learned in and beare your selfe wisely and vprightly betweene both you hauing no strēgth to adde power to any of both but any of those hauing power to subuert you so that by shewing to vnderstād those that are against you you shall but make them your more apparant enemies and by depending absolutely vpō the other procure no assured strength to our selfe but a demonstration without effect whensoeuer they shal ioyn together for their owne interesses which often happeneth betweene factions in Courts you shal be left a pray to those which hate you whose reuenge shal be certaine the others faith nothing The corruptions of all Courts giuing a licence to great men to serue their turnes vpon lesser in all thinges and more then for that to regard them in nothing Besides the ordinarie dispositions of such is to winke at our priuate friends mischiefe and as you must not declare your selfe soly for the one nor wholy against the other so you must not couertly beare them both in hand that you are theirs such artifice being of the poorest and weakest condition nothing being able to be hid from the spying eyes in Court and such an illusion once perceiued is so farre without remedie as euery man will hate you and no man trust you You must then beare your selfe equally to all keeping all friends and making no enemies depending vpon no man but your owne vertue and worthinesse and his affection which in the perfection of his owne royall minde is onely to be preserued by honest wayes In cases of your businesse you shall need vse no such diligence as frame partialities factions being alreadie made and animated and armed watching with the verie strength of their desires to aduance their Honours by the good or ill successe of it You must bee constant against rumors and beware to bee noted a willing bearer of such reports as may either touch any in Honour or otherwise to be taken for an offence and may giue your selfe cause of suspition for any of those bring extrinsicke danger or intrinsicke errours from both which you must liue free and vnattained You shall heare many speake sometimes through their owne imperfections sometime to proue yours and sometimes to please as they thinke the companie but you must know that all hearts are not of one complexion and you shall hazard euer to Card ill that play to please one by displeasing another since benefits euer bee more easily forgotten then iniures and though the respect of common friendship and almost societiere quire otherwise yet such wrongs are without meanes of reuenge and good turnes are without memorie of recompence You must auoide inconstancie and the very appearance of lightnesse as a dangerous downefall for where it is there is neither vnderstanding or iudgment to discerne the actions of others nor grauitie to measure that which properly belongeth to your selfe besides the world by taking notice of your infirmitie will alwayes feare volubilitie in all your actions Finally though I am most assured vertue hath so great power in your minde and your owne vnderstanding so full of all good thinges that you may be an example to my precepts Yet I will say this not as needing but in the necessitie of my loue which desireth more then it doubteth of Giue your selfe deare Brother to learne of the best fashion your selfe to the most worthie examples which you haue seene aspire to nothing for vanitie or ostentation neglect no good thing for feare and mingle equally awfulnesse to offend and diligence to proceed worthily in all your actions And you shall haue fauour from the King loue from the best hatred from none securitie from all honour from the effects which will proceed from your doings and God will blesse you with his mercie directing your wayes to his glorie to good ends and so to good example among these misbeleeuers with whō for a time it is your fortune to liue and to raise from this place a long lasting glorie and reputation to your selfe and name for euer And this was all my exceeding sorrow could force it selfe to vtter and the King returning also whom my Brother must follow interrupted the course of any longer discourse of mine or his answer But when I came to Casbin though I knew his mind both by nature and learning as plentifully furnished as a Gentleman might be who had hopefull conditions in himselfe and all the additions which the tender care of friendes and his owne diligently well-spent time could giue him Yet vnderstanding well in how dangerous a sea his young years were to nauigate and that no addition of prouidence could be superfluous firmely to support his owne securitie and the maine end of our great businesse hauing compiled as well as the shortnesse of the time of my abiding in that place would suffer me and as much as I could bring to any sort of fashiō out of so imperfect a mould as that of my little vnderstanding these remnants of the chiefe properties of a●l estates to giue him the better light how clearly to see into that wherin he was and to helpe the way of his businesse according to the motiues which it was like he might receiue by the commaundement of some of our Princes from hence desiring him with all to remember that Court carriages were riddles which though seene could not bee resolued without exceeding patience and well iudging experience And that by no meanes hee should flie from his owne vertue to make his foundation vpon the Kings fauor Princes euer hauing this imperfection almost inseparable to their greatnesse to be infinite voluble and as their minds are large so they easily ouerlooke their first fauours which they purposed and can as hardly loue truly as acknowledge a benefite their disposition being to be easily glutted with the present and hope better of the future especially hauing no other necessity in the constāt carrying of their affections then their owne satisfactions And these other trifles which I lent him I did wish him to ouerlooke as grounds only for his spirit to discourse more largely vpon desiring by them to point vnto him that exercise which the cause that wee were entred in made not onely fittest for his minde to vse but most necessarie our fortune hauing then giuen into our management the good or ill of diuers states according to the successe of our employment And since there is a certaine iudgement of the euent of things according to the perfect or imperfect disposition of the body by which those things are to be effected his iudgement would bee the better to discourse and discerne what the proceeding of this businesse was like to be by vnderstanding the principal elements by which the body of all estates are compacted and then by dilating with himselfe the good or defectiue mixture in euery particular state which hee knew by his owne experience and others relation Those Elements which giue both matter and being to those huge bodies were Counsell Force and Reputation The Forme were the Lawes which Aristotle calleth Mens sine appetitu The Organ by which this worke and the whole body moueth to his end is the Prince and his Ministers But because the time I had was so short as I could but briefly speake of all these I did conclude them in the Discourse which I gaue him of these three maine foundations Counsell Force and Reputation FINIS A 〈…〉 ●he course of 〈◊〉 s Turkes ●ouernment happy d●lirance from ●ger A hard distresse ●●●ard di●esse ●●strange pre●●ence ●●strange and ●●traordinary ●●ndnesse of a ●●orentine The means which K. Ab● setled the qu● et of Persia. ●he kings gra●●us speech Ferrat The Kings Triumphant entry into Cabin after his victory ●ir Anthony herleis first ●utation and ●eech to the ●ing The Kings an●were Sir Anthony Sher●●is present to the King of Per● A memo● punishm● extortio● The King of Persiacs iudgement vpon a● Extortioner Sir Anthony ●●ade a Mirza The rich present sent him by the King ●ir Ant●ony ●her●●es per●wasiue to the 〈◊〉 to ●●ke warre ●gainst the 〈◊〉 The Vscive● di●swa●ue 〈◊〉 position 〈◊〉 Persian ●●nerall his ●●swere to the 〈…〉 s disswa●e The great Chamberlai● speech The Kings censure conciu● on o●●he comultation Th● Kings 〈…〉 the c●nsulta● tion The Persian V●●c●●rs complement with Sir Anthony S●e●●●y The proud message deliuered by the Turks Embassador to the King of Pe●si● The King of 〈◊〉 his answer to the Turk● Emba●●ador The King of Persia agreeth to the perswasion of Sir Anthony Sherley Sir Anthony She●ly c●●firmeth the King in hi● purpos● of sending to the P●in●es of Christ●n●●m ● King of 〈◊〉 Re●●●on to em●y Sir A●●●●ny S●●l●y as Embassa●●r S●r A 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the ●n 〈◊〉 〈…〉 ●he Persian ●agnifi●ence their so●mne feasts Two great fortunes which befell the king during his feast 1. The submission of the Tartars to his Crowne 2. The rich present with the all●●n●e of the great Mog●r off●●ed to the P●●s●●● The comming of two Friers to insinuate with Sir Anthon Sherl●y The enterprise of ●ur A●ti●●● Sl●●●● o●ert●●o vne by his owne Inst●●ment The cause● for whi●● the K●ng of ●●●s●a deta●ned Sir Robert S●●rley The ab●se wi●h the t●ue and ●roper v●e o● studies S●r Anton Sherleys com●●ndation of his brothe Sir Robert S●erley Sir Robert S●erleys answere to the King of Persia. Sir Anthonie She●ley● instructions and aduice to his brother Sir Robert She●ley when he left him in Persia. The bond of Nature and ●●oud Negotiation with Princes Factions of the Court. Factions Rumors Speeches Inconstancie

perswaded he returned with all expedition to the king who assuring himselfe the more by the denial of the former related accusations instantly commanded his guard of twelue thousand Courtchies to be in a readinesse with which and a thousand of the Xa-Hammagaes he vsed such celerity that he preuented the newes of his comming and was sooner arriued at Ferrats house then he had almost opinion that his messenger had beene returned yet although amazed with his owne guiltinesse and the kings sudden comming he made shift to make great shew of the indisposition which hee had so long counterfeited The king as soone as he came vnto him said that hee had taken a great iourney to visit him in his sicknesse and to bring him the cure thereof and hauing commanded all out of the Chamber but themselues onely alone as the king himselfe told me he vsed such like speeches vnto him Father I do acknowledge that first from God then from you these fortunes which now I haue haue receiued their being And I know that as a man I may both erre in my merit to God and in my well deseruing of your seruice But my intention I can assure you is most perfect in both the time of my establishment in my estate hath beene so small that I could scarce vse it sufficiently to performe my generall duty towards my people ouer whom by Gods permission I am appoynted much lesse to prouide for euery particular satisfaction as I mind and will doe which you principally as a Father to me both in your yeares and my election should haue borne withal But since some ill spirit hath had power to mis-leade your wisedome so far as to make you forget your great vertue you shall once receiue wholesome counsell from me as I haue done often from you And because that all counsels as well in publicke as priuate deliberations require a reposed spirit free and pure from wrath feare all perturbation or perticular interest for a troubled mind is more apt to erre then to aduse iustly and hath more need of proper medicines for it selfe then it hath properly in it selfe to apply any comfort to others and is fitter to receiue then to giue counsell from which as from a great and violent current are caried all those errours and disorders which are brought vpon rash deliberations the which haue euer long repentances and disasters as the perpetuall memories of their hauing bene and are most of all detestably blameable when such an imprudency is accompanied with that infinite damage as to thinke of alteration in a state which cannot proceede without in-iustice seeleratenesse bloud and a thousand mischiefes an act in it selfe wonderfull difficult wonderfull wicked and proceeding from an incomparable vile quality But hee that can restraine himselfe from being transported by vntemperate apetites and can dominate his passions and giue a iust rule to himselfe to his cupidities and desires doth euer giue the best time to all deliberations by mittigating heat and fury and so altereth all counsell from that nature which it receiueth from an vnquiet and troubled mind Which if you had done you would not haue entred into a thought onely of so dangerous an action against your selfe nor so dishonourable as to haue machinated the ruine and trouble of your owne King Friend Country which though it be palesated it is but to my selfe only who rather desire to chastice you as a friend with good admonition then by rigour Therfore though it be euer incident to all men to haue this great defect to feare chiefely nearest dangers and to esteeme much lesse then they ought of the future Yet bee you most assured that the perill which you might feare from my person is much lesse then that which you had throwne your selfe into if you had or should prosecute your enterprizes From my person you shall neuer except by great constraint from your selfe looke for any thing of other condition then a true Princely loue and a Royall regard of your seruices In the other course you called against my will vpon your selfe the rigor of Iustice and fury of the sword which in the warre consumeth all alike And because in that aduersity which a mans minde bringeth vpon himselfe the feares and terrours are euer greater then the euils which concurre with them be you of good comfort without the feeling onely of any such conditioned thing and call strength from your minde to your body that you may endure to go with me to Hisphaan where you shall haue cause to digest all these melancholies Ferrat neither excused nor confessed but indifferently answered the king as sory to haue giuen cause of offence and infinitely reioycing as hee seemed that the king had so royally pacified himselfe with him and not daring to refuse to go with the king desired him to vse some few daies in the visiting of the Countrey in which time hee hoped that God and the comfort of his presence would raise him from his infirmity The king certainly as I before said was by all necessity in the world either forced to execute him or to recōcile him perfectly vnto him for any midle course had but made him desperate and aggrauated all sort of perill which he might haue feared from him his seruices already done his valour and vertue were of great moment to perswade the king to the easier way being ioyned to his owne excellent mind which I haue seene the rarest proofes of that may bee brought forth by Prince or man liuing But Ferrat Can who knew that true iustice neuer weigheth offences and deserts but seuerally and without intermingling them together rewardeth the one and chasticeth the other and that benefites are more easier forgotten then iniuries feeling the weight of his offence and measuring the kings heart by his owne gaue the wickednesse of his minde power ouer his vertue And though hee seemed altered to all good intentions yet his heart was still swollen with that poyson which shortly brought him to destruction The king hauing staid some eight or ten dayes in the Countrey was sooner hastened thence then hee thought by the newes of the Queenes death who was deceased by a sudden and violent sicknesse after his departure so that with great speede taking Ferrat with him and leauing Lieu-tenant in the Countrey for Ferrat Mahomet Shefia he returned to Hisphaan where after some dayes spent in sorrow for his great losse hee sent to Alexander the other Can of the Georgians to demand his daughter by that meanes to binde againe that league which might haue beene dissolued by the death of the other Queene In that Embassage went Xa-Tamas Coolibeague who returned with the Lady within few moneths In the meane time the brother to that king of Corasan who had so royally and carefully brought vp the king of Persia when he fled from the wrath of his father rebelled against his brother slue him and all his children but onely one whose tutors fled with

dangerous are the ●aies of Princes and all men so foolish to striue to runne ● them The Kings entrance into Hisphaan was there of the same fashion that it was at Cassan differing onely in this that for some two English miles the waies were couered all with Veluet Sattin and cloth of Gold where his ●orse should passe After hee had bene setled there foure●eene daies remembring what Oliuer Di-Can had said vnto me I determined to loose no more time but to try the vttermost of my fortune in bringing to a resolution that enterprise the imagination of which had cost mee so much time and so much danger and was the chiefe moving-mouing-cause at the first and now the onely mouing cause of comming thither And I was the more encouraged to do it by the fresh memory of God his mighty prouidence ouer me past and by the exceeding great fauour of the King which I knew to be his great worke who moueth the hearts of Princes to make them instruments of his iudgements which by all apparant demonstrations I conceiued determined against the Turke Therefore taking the opportunity of the Kings being alone with me and my brother in a Garden with my Interpreter onely and Xa-Tamas-Coolibeague I spake vnto him to this effect That my affection growne onely vpon the fame of his Maiesty had guided me from a farre Countrey into his presence by which I found his royall vertues so far exceeding the relation which I had heard that as I did admire them so I had a kind of forceable mouing in my nature to desire condigne fortunes to accompany them Besides my particular obligation to his Maiesty was so great that I was bound not onely to say what I thought fit for his seruice but to do as much as my life might accomplish for the same More-ouer being emboldned by his royall gracious answer vnto me vpon the way which I did take for a kind of commandement I would presume to say some-thing more largely then I did then of that which I tooke to concerne his Maiesty as much as any thing else could Neither would I speake any thing of other condition then such as he in his great iudgement should find so well grounded that nothing could bee added either to the iust cause honour vtility or facility of the enterprise which I would propose And because I would cleare all clouds which might hang about it my selfe which propounded it was such that I was onely a shadow which by the vrging of my owne nature and delight should follow the body of his victories rather then haue or hope for any other perticular interest in them my selfe For the first points There could no deliberation bee grounded vpon a greater foundation of equity then that which had his end onely directed to the recouery of that which was by force and violence vsurped from his State nor nothing more honourable for a Prince then to bee able without hazard not onely to reuenge priuate and publicke wrongs but to recouer their members againe to his seates by his wisedome and vertue which haue bene separate either by the defect or fortune of his Predecessors All this both publicke and priuate profite followed so great an encrease of State increasing in all points the force of his State and his poore Subiects which were throwne out of their possessions either through their true deuotion to his Maiesty which could giue them no peace vnder another gouernement or through the extreme tyranny of the Turke should be recouered againe to their owne with his infinite glory and vtility The facility shewed it selfe diuers waies principally in his owne fortune wisedome and vertue against which there was no likely resistance especially when there was no equall obstacle then the reputation of his late victories ioyned with the other would find or make a way through all difficulties then his Militia which was fresh and vncorrupted then the incapacity of the Turke his corruptions of gouernment want of obedience sundry rebellions and distractions from any possibility of being able to make any potent resistance against his Maiesties proceedings by his warres in Hungary which his Maiesty might assure the continuance of if it pleased him to inuite the Princes Christian to his amity which hee should offer vpon that condition by which also hee should receiue one other worthy benefite fit for such excelling parts as hee was most richly aboundant in not to conclude the true knowledge of them in that one corner of the world but with making these great Princes knowne vnto himselfe hee should make his owne worthinesse like-wise knowne vnto them Neither as I said at the first to his Maiesty though these were great points to moue so high a spirit intending to glory and great things as his was that they were so important as other were For these might either be deferred or not at all acted being bound vnto them by no greater necessity then his owne will counselled by good reason But his case was such that hee must resolue both for the security of his estate and person to make or endure a warre As I was proceeding Haldenbeague the Viseire Bastan-Aga and Oliuer Di-Can came in the King presently called them and told them what I was propounding vnto him vpon which the Viseire swelling against me answered instantly Your Maiesty may now perceiue that true which some of your seruants haue beene bold to tell you at the first comming of these Christians and many times since that they were sent to disquiet your Maiesties tranquility of your state and to embarke you in dangerous enterprises for others interresses For what likely-hood was there that a Gentleman of quality without some great disaster fallen him should take such a voyage so full of dangers and expences vpon a fame of a Prince spread by ordinary Merchants Since I know hee could neuer haue spoken with men of better quality in those parts which could haue knowne your Maiesty And if it were true that such a motion onely had brought him why should hee not giue time to the growing of his better fortunes by your Maiesties Munificencies and fauours without drawing himselfe into the danger to bee a perswader of a perrilous enterprise then which hee cannot bee so ignorant as to vnderstand no way to bee so precipitious for himselfe But because it is inioyned him hee must do it without regard to your Maiesty to whom hee is onely newly bound for present benefites which hee careth but to enioy vntill he hath intangled you in his designes and then will hee relye vpon those to whom hee oweth greater obedience for more permanent benefits and greater through so great a merite God keepe your Maiestly from giuing care to his perswasions which carry nothing with them but extreme peril The Turke hauing bene a heauy neighbour to your Maiesties state when it was found through a long peace and when your Predecessours were aboundant in money which is the heart of the warres

inhumane in their natures and adicted to get by all meanes iust and vniust But I will leaue my selfe a little in that great straight and speake of Babylon not to the intent to tell stories either of the huge ruines of the first Towne or the splendor of this second but because nothing doth impresse any thing in mans nature more then example to shew the truth of Gods word whose vengeance threatned by his Prophets are truely succeeded in all those parts which were once so swolne with the pride of the greatnesse of their state which they possessed with their felicity their magnificencie and their riches that as they were the heads of the world by their power and by their excellency so were they by that opinion in themselues blowne vp to a conceipt of eternity As though any earthly foundation let it be grounded neuer so firmely vpon councell vpon force and reputation could possibly be perpetuall Niniuy that which God himselfe calleth that great Citty hath not one stone standing which may giue the memory of the being of a Towne one English mile from it is a place called Mosul a small thing rather to bee a witnesse of the others mightinesse and Gods iudgement then of any fashion of Magnificency in it selfe All the ground on which Babylon was spred is left now desolate nothing standing in that Peninsula betweene the Euphrates and the Tigris but onely part and that a small part of the great Tower which God hath suffred to stand if man may speake so confidently of his great impenetrable Counsels for an eternall testimony of his great worke in the confusion of mans pride and that Arke of Nebuchadnezar for as perpetuall a memory of his great idolatry and condigne punishment nothing else shewing the figure of any thing which hath bene either of ornament or of greatnesse or of place inhabited So truely doth God iudge the huge sinnes of the world and maintaineth so iustly the credit of his Messengers that though they speak great things they neuer speake vaine things The Towne which is now called Bagdat and is on the other side of Tigris towards Persia onely a small suburbe in the Peninsula but remoued from any stirpe of the first to which men passe ordinarily by a bridge of Boates which euery night is dissolued for feare either of the Arabs or some storme vpon the Riuer which might carry away the Boates when there were no helpe ready The buildings are after the Morisco fashion low without stories and the Castle where the Bassa is resident is a great vaste place without beauty or strength either by Art or Nature the people some-what more abstinent from offending Christians then in other parts through the necessity of the trade of Ormus vpon which standeth both the perticular and publique wealth of that State Victuals are most aboundant and excellent good of all sorts and very cheape which was a mighty blessing for Mee which had nothing but a generall wardrope of cloaths not in our Coffers but vpon our backes which wee were forced to make mony of by peece-meale according to the falling of the lot and our necessity and with that liued and if feeding-well had bene all which wee had cause to care for we also liued well But after one month was past and time fastned euery mans eies more firmely vpon vs One day a Florentine Merchant whom I had onely knowne in the way betweene Aleppo and Babylon by a riding acquaintance came vnto mee and after a little other discourse told me that there was a great muttering amongst diuers great men there what I was and what my designes might bee that hee found me to bee dangerously spied after and wished me to haue regard if not to my selfe yet to so many which he did imagine were impawned in that misfortune by my meanes And though it were true that hee came vpon the motion of an honest pious and charitable heart yet I was so fearefull of an Italian Merchant that I did rather imagine him to be the spy then lightly to haue bene an instrument of his preuention Therefore agreeing with him in the complement onely I answered determinately in the rest that I knew no iust cause of perill therefore I feared none and if there were any curious eies vpon me because of the number of my company the Carauan comming they should see good vse made of them all and vntill that time I would haue patience with their looking and speaking Him I thanked for his kindnesse and offered my selfe largely vnto him as though I had least suspected him though in truth I did most and most vniustly For two daies after hee returned to me againe and as a man moued in his very soule with anguish told mee that within ten daies the Carauan of Aleppo would arriue in the meane time beseeched mee not to couer my selfe longer from him who did truely wish me well not so much for my person which hee could know little but because his conceipt was that I would not haue hazarded my selfe in such a iourney but for some great end which he did beleeue well of and besides in charity to a Christian and so many Christians with me saying that there was a Carauan of Persian Pilgrimes arriued two daies since from Mecca without the Towne who were forced to take that way though the longest by reason of the Plague which raigned very exceedingly in those places by which they should haue passed He was not ignorant of my wants for which hee also had prouided and taking me by the hand beseeched me againe to beleeue him and to go presently with him to the carrauan which I did not being able to answere through admiration of so generous a part in him and an amazement with a thousand diuers thoughts spred vpon me When I came there he brought me to a Vittorin of whom he had already hired Horses Camels and Moiles for me and I found a Tent pitched by his seruants and then opening his gowne hee deliuered me a bag of Chakins with these very words The God of heauen blesse you and your whole company and your enterprise which I will no further desire to know then in my hope which perswadeth mee that it is good My selfe am going to China whence if I returne I shall little need the repayment of this courtesy which I haue done you with a most free heart if I die by the way I shall lesse neede it But if it please God so to direct both our safeties with good prouidence that we may meete againe I assure my selfe that you will remember mee to bee your friend which is enough for all that I can say to a man of your sort And almost without giuing me leasure to yeeld him condigne thanks if any thankes could be condigne for so great and so noble a benefite he departed from me And as I heard afterward from him by letters from Ormus hee receiued much trouble after my departure

would also moue him to the like now And the more hauing greater hopes of meanes for a gratefull acknowledgement from him which hee which had the management so long of his disposition could not doubt of and if he had begun to perswade him with other reasons hee did it rather in the duty of a true friend to lay before him his owne interest then in any diffidence of his free inclination to his good Whereupon the king of Corasan though pre-occupied by the Turke yet desirous to bee his friend a farre off and also doubting the successe of Abas neither hauing yeares nor experience nor friends In fine beeing destitute of all reasonable hope not to moue the Turks displeasure vpon such a disaduantagious condition was notwithstanding contented to see whether something might be moued by such a helpe as should not appeare to giuen by him but rather voluntary followers of Abas his fortune hee gaue him three thousand horse onely to put him in possession of that state which by his vertue and fortune is growne now so great that it hath deuoured all the states of the Tartars extended it selfe so farre as Cabull to the East the Arabian gulfe downe to Ballsarack on the South within three dayes iourney of Babylon on the West and to Tauris on the North embracing the whole circumference of the Caspian sea vnto Astracan which is the vttermost of the Moscouites Dominion and Seruane of the Turkes which lyeth vpon that sea an Empire so great so populous so aboundant that as it may compare with most of the greatest that euer were so is it terrible to the Turkes which is the greatest that now is though I doe thinke verily That in Asia the Persian hath as great an extent of Territories as the Turke and better inhabited better gouerned and in better obedience and affection I am sure he hath With this small troope the King of Persia guided by his infinite Royall courage entred Persia. But as those which are wicked are euer so well instructed in the Art of their profession that they neuer want instruments in themselues to deuise and in others to act those counsels which must euer bee waking to maintaine what they haue gotten by their sceleratenesse So their Spyes hastened with such diligence to giue those Rebels notice of their Kings beeing on foote that the next of them to him had time to arme great forces and incountred him in a Prouince called Sistane and though his inuincible spirit without any sparke of feare made him aduenture to fight vpon so vn-equall termes as was three thousand against twenty thousand hee found by his experience that Maiesty and right is nothing without power to beare them vp and that no exquisite vigour of the minde can resist the violence of sinister fortune nor oppression of many hands Yet did fortune so much care for so great vertue that shee gaue him way to escape to to the Mountaines all the rest of the small troupe being cut in peeces This victory assured the Rebels as they thought from all further danger supposing that these small forces were all which then their King could or hereafter should bee able to lead against them Imagining that the King of Corrasan if hee would haue succored him indeed that hee would neuer haue cast a way those few to increase the strength of their foundation and to diminish the others reputation which is so effectuall in a not well confirmed Princes first actions especially in a Prince who must come to his right by his vertue and fortune But the King of Persia whose owne minde euer comforted him with a stedfast assurance of his greatnesse to which hee is now growne hauing recouered the Mountaines liued amongst the Heardes-men for three months vnknowne changing continually from place to place without any certaine abode accompanied onely with ten or twelue followers which were of his first Gouernours and other yong Gentlemen brought vp with him from his child-hood But being now no longer able to temporize with his great desire resoluing to proue the last and the vttermost of his fortune and remembring how much loue and affection those of Yasd had shewed towards him in the time of his gouerning them and how much he had truely deserued of them determined to shew himselfe in that Prouince and proue what effect the Maiesty of his person the iustice of his cause and former obligation would worke in them which though it were a foundation proued euer false almost by all experiences The peoples affections euer raising mens hopes and ruining their persons Yet it proued otherwise with this King who was no sooner certaine knowne in those parts but numbers of people came flocking to him armed and appointed for the wars in such sort that before any prouision could bee made against him this being an accident so farre remoued from all sort of suspition he had a power together too strong to be easily suppressed which was no sooner heard by Ferrat Can a great Prince and discontented with the alteration of the gouernement to whose share none of that partition had falne his fortune being such that at the time of the other Kings death he had none of the Prouinces to administer and they were parted onely betweene them which held them he I say with his brother and a company of some ten thousand came and ioyned themselues to the forces of the King Neither were the men so welcome as that Ferrat Can being a wise Prince and a great Souldier grew a party and such as the King also stood in need of Neither did the King loose any sort of opportunity but hearing of the Assembly which certaine of the Princes were making in the neerest Prouinces vnto him with all speed fell vpon them and ouer-throwing them followed them as farre as Casbin In the meane time those of Shyras Asphaan Cassan assisted by the Kings of Gheylan and Mazandran gather mighty forces the Turkes armed at Tauris and the Prince of Hamadan hauing called in a strength of the Courdiues to his assistance was marching also towards Casbin So that the King was likely to be so inclosed with all these Armies that his first victory would rather haue proued a snare to his intrapment then important as he hoped to the some of his affaires Whence he resolued to helpe with Art that which he was much too weake to accomplish by strength Wherefore he leaueth Ferrat Can in Casbin with some fiue thousand men accompanied with Zulpher his brother and himselfe with the rest of his power marched towards the Can of Hamadane Ferrat Can according to the deliberation taken betweene the King and him thewed himselfe altered from the Kings part writeth to the Rebels which were all in a grosse aduanced as farre as the mid-way betweene Cassan and Casbin and offereth not onely to ioyne that strength which hee had with them but to mutine the Kings army which was lodged in the Mountaines towards Hammadane in a shew

in a reposed state from so many tempests which had contrarily moued it as well as to make due and confident prouisions for his intended warres First then he called vnto him to Casbin all gouernors all administrators of Iustice whosoeuer had occupyed those functions during the vsurped rule of the Cans through all his prouinces with the kinsmen friends and children of the said Cans besides that all men of power as Mirzaes Cans Sultans and Beagues which are principall Titles of Dukes Princes and Lords should repaire thither without excuse of age sicknesse or any other pretence whatsoeuer which being done he appointed new Gouernors and Officers of all sorts he cleared all his prouinces for three yeares from paying any tribute-custome or any other ordinary or extraordinary exaction whatsoeuer His chiefe Viseire he made one Haldenbeague a wise man excellently seene in all affaires of great experience but such a one as was onely his creature without friends or power him hee commanded to passe through all his prouinces accompanied with the Xa-Hammadaga who is as it were Knight Marshall to cleare them from vagabonds robbers and seditious persons Ologonlie which had followed him in all his aduersity a man of great worthinesse he made bearer of his great Seale which is an office there liker the Lord priuy Seale then Chancellor The place of the Viseire comprehending in it the office of Chancellor and high Treasurer him he also aduanced to the dignity of a Can. Bastana an ancient approued man both for fidelity and other worthinesse he made principall Aga of his house which is as great Chamberlaine Curtchibasschie Captaine of his Guard which is a general-ship of twelue thousand shot who attend at the Port by turnes two hundred and fifty euery quarter except when the King goeth to the warres that they are all bound to be present Ferrat Can hee made his Generall Thus hauing wisely and prouidently placed through all his estates those who must be most assured to him their fortunes depending onely vpon him hauing no more strength nor authority in themselues then they receiued from him and hauing all the great ones in his Army with him or such of them as could not bee able to follow him either by their few or many yeares or sickenesse so securely left at Casbin that they could not by themselues or any other moue any innouation And moreouer hauing dispatched all those and keeping their persons with him which had any obligation to the former Cans secured by that meanes as much as the counsell of any man could secure him from perill at home hauing called Oliuer di Can from Hamadan and appoynted him a successor for that Gouernement with ten thousand new men hee set himselfe forward to his enterprize with his old Troopes and great part of his rebelled Army with no greater courage and counsell then fortune for those men which were remitted by him to Gheylan and Mazandran as those which had beene somewhat exercised in the warres hauing with some more adioined vnto them the guard of the straights from which the maine Army of the Kings was some foure leagues remoued remembring the benefite of the King better then their faith to their Princes at the very sight of the first Troopes retired themselues from the places left to their confidence in charge which aduantage being followed by Ferrat with the Alarum giuen fell so iustly vpon that Army that what with the vnexpected terror of the straights abandoning and their being surprised in disorder the Army was facily broken with the death of two of the Kings and an infinite slaughter of people which had beene much greater if the woods had not couered them from the fury of their enemies The greatest of those kings hauing escaped with much difficulty accompanied euer with the terror of the perill from which he had escaped neuer ended his flight vntill hee came into Seruane and from thence went to Constantinople to desire succour from the Turke where he yet liueth The other which remained being but one without any great difficulty or alteration of fortune was suppressed The Countrey being first spoiled and ransomed at a great rate which they might well beare by reason of their great riches which they had gathered together through a long peace and the Kings Army excellently well satisfied he dispatched instantly Embassadours to the Turke the Georgians and his old friend the King of Corassan to giue them an account of this new victory not doubting but as it would bee exceeding pleasant to some so it would bee as bitter to others and leauing Ferrat Can to gouerne the Countrey and Oliuer Dibeague as his assistant but to bee commanded by him hee returned himselfe full of glory and great victory into Persia disposing himselfe to reduce his state to that excellent forme of gouernment which now it hath First then after his arriuall in Casbin hauing heard by his Viseire the relation of Xa-Hammadaga of some who had not onely spoyled the Subiects in their substances but the country of all orders iust forme of gouernement which now it hath and giuen them by that meanes more matter of dis-vnion then vnion insomuch that they were ful of theeues of vagabonds of factions such like insolencies he iudged it fit to reduce it the more peaceable and obedient to giue it in those cases a good condition of gouernment Whereupon he presently dispatched that Xa-hammadaga a terrible and resolute person with full power and authority for the reformation of those disorders who in short time though with most terrible examples reduced all the Prouinces to a vnite tranquility with mighty reputation Whilst hee was busied in that administration the King to shew that it was necessity that counselled to giue him that excessiue authority and to preserue it from being odious to himselfe appointed in the chiefe city of euery Prouince a Gouernour elected of those of most valour to him he ioyned two Iudges of criminall and ciuill causes a Treasurer two Secretaries with an excellent president and two Aduocates generall for the causes both particular and generall of the whole Prouince Besides the particular Aduocate of euery Citty which should be resident in that Metropolis These determined all causes within themselues of those Prouinces in which they had the administration and because they should neither be burthensome to the Prouinces nor corrupted in paritializing the King paid them their stipend enioyning them vpon paine of life to take no other sort of reward And because such things and causes might fall out as by reason of the importance of them or appellations of the parties might be brought before himselfe because hee would euer know what he did and be continually informed not onely of the generall state of the Prouinces but of their particular administration hee ordained Posts once euery weeks from all parts to bring all sort of relations to the Court for which cause also hee willed that one of the two generall

we among thē This Tarras looked vpon the place where after we had ben a litle beheld some of the Court exercising thēselues at giuoco-di-canna that great troupe was suddenly vanished so without all sort of rumor that it bred infinite wonder in me cōsidering how much tumulte we made in these parts in the disposing of a far lesse cōpany Whilst we sate there the King called me againe vnto him when I had confirmed in more words the very same I had before said vnto him Thē said he you must haue the proofe of time to shew you either the errors or the truth of these rumours since you can make no iudgement of what you haue yet seene which is but the person of a man and this eminēce which God hath giuen me for any thing you know may be more through my fortune thē my vertue But since your pains trauel hath had no other aspect but to know me we must haue a more intrinsicke acquaintance to perfect that knowledge how you wil indure the fashions of my coūtry you can iudge best your selfe which are maister of your owne humor This I will assure you of you shal want no respect frō my people nor honor from my selfe therwith bid me fare-wel for that present comitting me my cōpany to Bastan-Aga to be conducted to my lodging Next morning I sent the King a present of sixe paire of Pendants of exceeding faire Emerauldes and meruailous artificially cut and two other Iewels of Topasses excellent well cut also one cup of three peeces set together with gold inameled the other a Salte and a very faire Ewer of Christall couered with a kind of cutworke of siluer and gilt the shape of a Dragon all which I had of that Noble Florentine which his Maiesty accepted very graciously and that night I was with my brother inuited by him to a banquet where there was onely Byraicke Myrza and Sultan Alye with Xa-Tamas-Coolibeague his cheife Minion there he had diuers discourses with mee not of our apparell building beauty of our woemen or such vanities but of our proceeding in our warres of our vsuall Armes of the commodity and discommodity of Fortresses of the vse of Artillary and of the orders of our gouernement in which though my vnskilfulnesse were such that I knew my errours were greater then my iudgement yet I had that felicity of a good time that I gaue him good satisfaction as it seemed For in my discourse hauing mentioned the hauing of certaine Models of Fortification in some bookes at my lodging which were onely left me in the spoile which was made of me at Babylon Next day after dinner he came thither with all the principallest of the Court where hee spent at least three howers in perusing them and not vnproperly speaking of the reasons of those things himselfe Next night hee sent for mee againe into a place which they call Bazar like our Burze the shops and the roofe of which were so full of lights that it seemed all of a fire There was a litle Scaffold made where he sate and as euery man presented him with diuers sorts of friuts so hee parted them some to one some to another and there hee continued some foure howers in which time hee tooke mee aside with my Interpreter and asked mee very sadly whether I would content my selfe to stay with him not for euer for that were too a great wrong to my friends who should loose mee from their comfort being diuided so farre from them for my owne fortune hee would not speake of but onely thus much since I had told him I was a subiect to a Prince he knew that then my fortune also must depend vpon the will and fauour of that Prince and hee assured himselfe that he was as able and more desirous to do me good then any therefore if I would resolue to giue him that litle satisfaction he should perswade himselfe the more confidently that the cause of my comming was such as I told him the loue of his person and nothing else I answered him I could say no more ●o his Maiesty then I had already done that a report onely of his excellent vertues had brought mee thither that a better experience had bound me so fast to him and them that as he was Maister of my minde so hee should bee of my person and time which were both subiect to his command For those things of fortune they were the least things that I regarded as his Maiesty well saw by my great expence thither onely to satisfie my sight but as I knew my selfe infinitely honoured by his Maiestie vouchsafing to serue himselfe of mee so that was to me aboue all other fortunes and satisfactions His Maiesty seemed wonderfully well content with my answere and that night began to shew me extra-ordinary publicke fauour and so continued all the time of his being in Casbin daily increasing by some or other great demonstration Sixe weekes hee stayed there giuing his accustomed audience to the people In which time I saw the notablest example of true vnpartiall royall iustice that I thinke any Prince in the world could produce The Gouerner of Casbin was appointed to that administration in the maine seruice of the Kings state when the Rebels were first suppressed A man exceedingly and perticularly fauored of the King he taking the adantage of the time which being troubled gaue him liuely colour to make great profite vpon the people and confident in the Kings fauour abused both the one and the other by extreme extortions thinking because of his owne greatnesse and the Countries offence against the King the memory of which euery man would feare to receiue that what he did by violence and force should by as great power of terrour remaine vnknowne but some to whō he had offered so much that they thought no extremity could happen them of a worse conditiō made desperate through that hazard to put vp lamentable supplications to the King who hauing read them as his fashion is commanded the parties to-speake freely with this caution that they should beware that they charged nothing falsely for as he would not that any minister of his shold abuse his authority by any vniust burthen vpon the worst of the people so hee would also prouide by seuere example that none should presume to impose false accusations vpon any whom he had thought worthy to carry authority vnder him Notwithstanding those poore men did not onely mainetaine their accusations but brought forth diuers witnesses and others perceiuing so iust a course held by his Maiesty emboldned by it laid before him also in their humble sort their owne oppressions suffered by the like violence Vpon which hee commanded Marganobeague to be sent for who was the Maister of his house in Casbin demanding of him whether he had heard of those things he answered no being priuate acts of the Gouernour publicke causes which were brought before the President

your wisedome and the execution to his great prouidence and your Maiesties infinite vertue And laughing vpon me sonne said he haue I not said true of your mind When he had ended I beseeched his Maiestie to vouchsafe to heare me once more which he said was needlesse the day fa●e spent therefore since euery man had already spoken their opinion he would also say somewhat of his owne and referre the farther deliberation of things vntill an other time The proposition which Mirz● Antonio saith he made vnto me is quest●onlesse in i●selfe such an one as I must not only thanke him for propounding it by which it hath receiued life but I must also prouide for the execution of it that the life which it ha●h may be vsed to good purpose The force of the Turke consisteth in cauallerie infantery gallies artillery munitions money And the cause why they proceeded not in their warre against this state in my fathers time was not eyther the death of Osman Bassa nor their diuersion into Hungary but that ancient art by the which they euer carried their warres which hath beene alwaies to offend and preuent an enemie to vse exceeding celeri●ie in all their enterprises to haue their forces in perpetuall readinesse not to attempt two enterprises at one time and if it were possible not to be troubled with thē at one time not to spend the benefit of time and their men treasure vpon matters of small importance and not to continue a wa●re long with any to auoid by such a meanes the informing by practise any Prince or his people in the exercise of armes Which if it haue otherwise hapned in Hungary it proceedeth rather from the obstination of the Princes Christian then from any part of his owne desire I said the king want footmen artillery and money which I must make readie the Turks neuer hauing aduantage vpō my people through th●ir vaiour but onely by that defect Gallies I haue none therefore since they must be necessary for some purpose of which the warres may bring forth the occasion and perhaps also of necessitie and I can only hope for them of the Portugeses it will be an ill counsell to offend them in any point and then afterward vpon a new treatie to relie vpon them in so great a case and in which my necessitie may also concurre For the Turks present state and the iudgement of his future it is a thing facile to make and hard to erre in since by the ordinarie course of the working causes of mutations of states when a gouernment doth proceed from suffering the first abuses to confirme them in the most part of the state a few intelligent instruments are not sufficient to beare the weight of the disorders and to correct them being the nature of men when they flie from one extreeme to runn head●ong without any mediocritie into another by which the Turks extreeme obedience is become a direct despisablenesse of his person and authority And this Princes incapacity must be in this point the ruine of their state diffusing the like infection into the members for such as is the Prince such are his greater ministers such are his people Then whether I giue my selfe time or no time for what belongeth vnto him that may perhaps be all one since his being as he is or worse sheweth facilitie enough for the well proceeding of any enterprise fundamentally designed against him Yet many times generall rules faile in particular subiects and a new Prince may can reforme those disorders but the time in truth which my owne wants force me to take and not these arguments which are no other then arguments shall shew that I am not defectiue in those points in which he is But that which I begin shal haue the extract of it from sound counsell and the ending from as perfect vertue if I or my people haue it For the flame of our warre once breaking forth beleeue it will not be so facily extinguished both because great Princes difficilly speak of peace while they feele themselues able to make warres and the diuersity of our religion will striue with a more mortall rancor then contraries Therefore I must strengthen my selfe by all possible waies to beare the furie of it which must be done by the inabling and augmentation of my forces changing the orders of my owne militia to such as are properest for the enemy which I propound to my selfe establishing the gouernment of my countrie in such a sort that the generall abundance may without the feeling of a heauie exaction replenish my treasures cause plentifull prouisions of artillerie armes and munitions and adde to these internal powers of my owne those of the Princes eyther by protection or league of which the first sort I meane I haue alreadie the Georgians being all vnder my protection but it is a weake helpe I being bound by that condition to defend them vpon my charge and they vnable to assist me except vpon the same also And though it be true that they bring me a fashion of reputation yet is it such a reputation as hath no essentiall point of foundation but onely serueth me by ignorance of the quality in which they are vnto me rather then in the substance and strength Leagues are vsually of more appearance then effect and of more splendor in the beginning then of profit or durablenesse in the end so many accidents causing disunion suspition or some other ill quality amongst confederates yet when a league is made for preseruation against the common perill rising from a potent enemie and when diuers bodies are moued to one end and with one consent and not one bodie with diuers consents and euerie one of these hauing particular respect to a diuers end and when if there be any thing acquisited the distribution of the members of that bodie is such vpon whom the acqueit is to be made that there is no possible pretendence from one to the others getting I doe not see but that such a league must bring substantiall reputation and generall commoditie that wil not be subiected to any common accident of dissolution For the Tartars which I haue as subiected if I were Oliuer Di-Chan Ha●denheagu● ●r Bas●an-Ag● I could thinke of few better meanes to assure my selfe of their rebellions then those which they haue propoūd●d except one addition of suffering them to enioy their ancient order lawes and their particular course of iustice But as I am borne with a mind● of another constitution I can secure them better by giuing them to their owne naturall Prince and him to them For to whose father I was ●o much bound that through the royalty of his disposition I hold my life had the beginning of what I am I can do little for the son no gratefull act at all for the memory of the father if I cannot giue him a kingdom which is the least part of what I am To conclude as