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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07509	Sir Robert Sherley, sent ambassadour in the name of the King of Persia, to Sigismond the Third, King of Poland and Swecia, and to other princes of Europe his royall entertainement into Cracovia, the chiefe citie of Poland, with his pretended comming into England : also, the honourable praises of the same Sir Robert Sherley, giuen vnto him in that kingdome, are here likewise inserted.	Middleton, Thomas, d. 1627.	1609 (1609)	STC 17894.5; ESTC S4785	8,537	24

SIR ROBERT SHERLEY SENT AMBASSADOVR IN THE NAME OF THE KING OF PERSIA TO SIGISMOND THE third King of POLAND and SVVECIA and to other Princes of EVROPE His Royall entertainement into CRACOVIA the chiefe Citie of POLAND with his pretended Comming into ENGLAND Also The Honourable praises of the same Sir Robert Sherley giuen vnto him in that Kingdome are here likewise inserted LONDON Printed by I. WINDET for Iohn Budge and are to bee sold at his Shop at the Great South doore of Pauls 1609. TO THE WORTHIE and well experienst Gentleman Sir THOMAS SHERLEY Sonne to that happy Father Sir Thomas Sherley and Brother to that Noble Gentleman Sir Robert Worthie Sir THe selfe same office of loue and due prayses which the world put it selfe into at your long desired ariuall in England fals happily vpon me to performe the like duetie toward your worthy Brother nor can I recite more Encomiums of his Actions then those of your owne hath rightly and properly challenged to themselues I le speake thus much of you both and the world shal iudge it free from flattery you well may bee owne Brothers in birth that are so neere kinne to one another in Actions of Fame and Honour so commending you both to eternizing memory of your owne Vertues and Fortunes I remaine an vnworthy obseruer of them both Your Worships in his most selected studies THOMAS MIDLETON To the Reader READER This Persian Robe so richly wouen with the prayses onely of Sir ROBERT SHERLEY thy Conntriman comes to thee at a lowe price though it cost him deere that weares it to purchase so much fame as hath made it so excellent It is now his foreuer Thine so long as it is his for euery good man as I hope thou art doth participate in the Renowne of those that are good and vertuous He hath bene a traueller a long time giue him now a welcome home the Armes of his owne Country embracing him will bee more ioyfull to him then all those of so many forraine Kingdomes with which he hath so often beene honoured If a man that hath ventured through the world may deserue thy loue thou canst not chose but bestow as much of it vpon him as vpon any Looke vpon him truely and thou shalt find a large generall Chronicle of time writ in a little Volume Hee comes laden with the Trophyes of Warre and the honors of Peace The Turke hath felt the sharpnesse of his sword and against the Turke is hee now whetting the swords of Christian PRINCES Much more could I speake of him but that I should doe wrong to the common Lawes of ciuilitie by taking away that Reuerence from Strangers whome from Countryes afarre off you shall presently heare giuing ample testimonies of his Noblenesse Vale Newes from PERSIA and POLAND touching Sir Robert Sherley being sent Ambassadour to diuers Princes of EVROPE fam'd aswell for his Wisedome and experience as for his knowledge and vnderstanging of many Tongues ALbeit that man can receiue his Birth but from one place yet is hee Borne a Fréeman of all the Cities of the world The whole earth is his Country and he that dwelleth fardest off is by the lawes of nature as neer to him in loue as his kindred acquaintance This General Charter being giuen by the King of this Uniuersall Crowne to all Nations hath caused men from time to time by the vertue of that Priuiledge to forsake the places of their first being and to trauell into other Countries The benefits that kingdomes haue gotten by this meanes cannot in so small a volume as this in hand bée comprehended Trauell is the golden Mine that inricheth the poorest Country and filleth the barrennest with abundant plenty It is the chaine that at first tyed Kingdomes together and the Musicall string that still maintaines them in Concord in Leagues and in Unity The Portugalls haue hereby Crowned themselues and there Posterity with garlands of neuer dying honour The Spaniards haue their names for this so deepely ingrauen in the Chronicles of Fame that they can neuer bee forgotten The French likewise and the Dutch haue raised their glories to a nobler height onely by these Aduentures In imitation of all whose labors or rather in Emulation of all their Fames our Englishmen haue not onely Stept as farre as any of them Al but gone beyond the most and the best of them And not to reckon those men of worth in this kinde of our owne Nation whose voyages and trauells by sea and land to set down were able to fil whole volumes I will onely at this time not with a loud and shrill trumpet as they deserue but as it were vppon an instrument tuned and directed by another giue onely a soft touch at the Praises of this worthy Gentleman Sir ROBERT SHERLEY of whose aduentures dangers various fortunes both good and bad to draw a true picture in the right liuely colors would as easily feed mens eies with gazing admiration as the large pictured tables of others haue filled them with wonder Being therefore contented at this time to swim but in a shallow streame of his Fame sithence greater sayles are likely héereafter and that very shortly to swell with the true report of his actions You shall vnderstand that Sir ROBERT SHERLEY after a long a chargeable and a dangerous progresse through most if not all the Kingdomes in Europe receiuing entertainment from the Princes of those Dominions sitting to such a ghuest desire of glorie still more and more burning within him At the length he left Europe and trauelled into Asia receiuing noble entertainment at the hands of the King of Persia In whose Court he so well and so wisely bore himselfe in all his Actions that the Persian with much of his loue of which hee tasted most plenteously heaped on his head many honorable fauours That common enemy of Christ and Christians the Turke lifting vp his sword continually for the most part not onely against the Polack the Hungarian Bohemian and other Princes of Christendome but also thirsting after the rich Empire of Persia and shewing a mortall hatred to that Kingdome by being euer vp in Armes against it It was thought fit that the Persian himselfe confessing and worshipping Christ Ayde should bee required at the hands of Christian Princes in the Persians behalfe against so barbarous so ambitious and so generall an enemy Heerupon the honor of such an Embassy was conferred by the King of Persia vpon Sir Robert Sherley as a man worthy and apt to treate with Christian princes in so weighty a businesse hee himselfe being a Christian born and a gentleman that had Trauelled and by experience knew the conditions State and pollicies of most of their Kingdomes First therefore was he imployed into Poland where by Sigismund the King of Poland and of Suecia hee was receiued with great magnificence and applause both of the Polack himselfe and of his people And because it is not fit that euery Common