Mr Thomas Coriat to his friends in England sendeth greeting from Agra the capitall city of the dominion of the great Mogoll in the Easterne India, the last of October, 1616. Thy trauels and thy glory to ennamell, with fame we mount thee on the lofty cammell; ... .
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- Mr Thomas Coriat to his friends in England sendeth greeting from Agra the capitall city of the dominion of the great Mogoll in the Easterne India, the last of October, 1616. Thy trauels and thy glory to ennamell, with fame we mount thee on the lofty cammell; ... .
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- Coryate, Thomas, ca. 1577-1617.
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IN PRAISE OF THE Author Maister Thomas Coriat.
THou that the world with pleasures full hast pleasur'd,
And out of measure many kingdomes measur'd.
Whil'st men (like swine) doe in their vices wallow,
And not one dares for's eares thy steps to follow:
Not one within the Compasse of the Cope,
Like thee that dar'st suruay the Horoscope:
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For who is he that dares call it a lye,
That thou hast trotted into Italie;
By th'edge of France, and skirts of Spaine th'hast rambled,
Through Belgia and through Germany th'ast ambled.
And, Denmarke, Sweden, Norway, Austria,
Pruce, Poland, Hungarie, Muscouia,
With Thracia, and the land of merry Greekes,
All these and more applaud thee, that who seekes
Vpon the top of Mount Olimpus front,
Perhaps may see thy name insculp'd vpon't,
And he that durst detract thy worthin Europe,
I wish he may be hang'd vp in a new rope.
It were a world of businesse to repeat
Thy walkes through both the Asiaes, lesse and great,
Whereas (no doubt) but thou hast tane suruay
Of China and the kingdome of Catay.
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Th' East Indies, Persia, Parthia, Media,
Armenia, and the great Ass-iria,
Caldea, Iurie, (if we not mistake vs)
Thou hast or'e look'd the Sea call'd Mortuus Lacus.
And I durst venter somewhat for a wager
Thou hast seene Ionia, Lidia, Misia Maior,
Old Iliums Ruins, and the wracks of Priam,
But of Inuention I (alas) so dry am,
I beate my braines, and with outragious thumping,
My lines fall from my pen with extreame pumping.
Auaunt dull Morpheus, with thy Leaden spirit,
Can matter want of him that wants no merit?
As he through Syria and Arabia's coasting,
My lines from Asia into Africke poasting,
I'le follow him alongst the Riuer Nilus,
In Egypt, where false Crocodiles beguile vs.
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Through Mauritania to the Towne of Dido,
That slew her selfe by power of god Cupido.
The Kingdomes vnsuruai'd hee'le not leaue one
From Zona•• oride, to the Frozen Zone.
With Prester Iohn in Aethiopia
And th'ayrie Empire of Eutopia.