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A19384	Thomas Coriate traueller for the English vvits: greeting From the court of the Great Mogul, resident at the towne of Asmere, in easterne India.	Coryate, Thomas, ca. 1577-1617.	1616 (1616)	STC 5811; ESTC S108719	14,255	51

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

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 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 Tadee Then crosse to Arab 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.