Dialogues in the English and Malaiane languages: or, Certaine common formes of speech, first written in Latin, Malaian, and Madagascar tongues, by the diligence and painfull endeuour of Master Gotardus Arthusius, a Dantisker, and now faithfully translated into the English tongue by Augustine Spalding Merchant, for their sakes, who happily shall hereafter vndertake a voyage to the East-Indies

THE FIFTH DIA∣logue, for buyers and sellers.

Luke, Iohn, Moses.

L.

GOd blesse you Iohn.

I.

And you also Luke.

L.

What doe you here so ear∣ly in the cold? haue you bin long here?

I.

Almost an whole houre.

L.

Haue you sold many wares to day?

I.

What should I sell, I haue not yet begun, or taken any mo∣ney.

L.

Nor I.

I.

Be of good comfort, it is scarce day, God will send chap∣men enow.

L.

I thinke some man now commeth: Sir, what wil you buy? will you please to buy nothing. See whether I haue any thing that may serue your turne. Come into the shop: I haue red scarlet cloathes, and also blacke, yellow, greene, purple, and briefly of all colours, that any man may desire. I haue also linnen cloath of a small thrid, and silken cloathes, as the best veluet, branched veluet

of all sorts, Damaske, Taffetie, Grogriane, small Corall beades, Corall rings, saire looking-glas∣ses, pots of glasse of all sorts, pa∣per, spectacles, for men of diuers ages. If you desire a gunne, or a good sword, behold they are here, aske for what you please, I will shew you whatsoeuer you will, and that freely.

M.

For how much is an yard of this cloath sold?

L.

One ell is sold for Taiela.

M.

It is more costly then is sit for me. For how much is an yard of Chamlet sold?

L.

You shall pay me if you please, sixe Maesas for enery ell.

M.

It is too much, for it is but of a course thrid.

L.

By your leaue, behold it better, it is of a faire thrid, and of a goodly glosse.

M.

Doth it not leese the co∣lour?

L.

If it keepe not the colour, I will restore you your money.

M.

Goe too therefore, tell me how much I must giue?

L.

I said, sixe Macsas.

M.

I will not giue so much for it.

L.

What will you therefore giue, will you lay downe no∣thing?

M.

VVhatsoeuer I will lay downe, you haue demanded too much.

L.

I demaunded, but not In that sense, as if I could not abate any thing, and sell cheaper. Say, what you will giue for it?

M.

I will pay three Maesas, and three Coupangas.

L.

I cannot sell it for so cheape a price, for otherwise I should lose my good fortune. I haue surely of another sort, which I can sell for that price, but it is not of that goodnesse. I will let you see that, which I can sell cheaper, but you cannot doe bet∣ter then if you buy the best. If we were brethren, I could shew you none of a better marke.

M.

Will you take my money?

L.

I cannot vpon that condi∣tion.

M.

I will yet adde one Mae∣sa, and one Coupang.

L.

I cannot, I should loose somewhat of mine owne.

M.

I will pay no more.

L.

Goe too, on Gods name, goe see somewhere else, whether you can buy cheaper, surely you shall haue none any where for a lesse price, for I can sell for so much as any other in the city, but yet it is needful that I gaine som∣what, I sit not heere to leese any thing of mine. You know all things are at a great price, one thing therefore must follow ano∣ther: vnlesse you will pay fiue

Maesas, I cannot help you, for you are too hard.

M.

So I am.

L.

Surely no man shall gaine any thing by you. If all men were of that niggardly disposition, I should certainly be compelled to shut vp my shop, for I should not gaine my maintenance.

M.

So surely you say.

L.

Truly it is so, as I say.

M.

Yet heare one word.

L.

Speake, I will heare.

M.

I will pay fiue Maesas, a∣bating one Coupang.

L.

It is little, I cannot so sell it.

M.

What then, shall I' not haue it?

L.

Not for that price.

M.

Goe too then, God keepe you.

L.

Goe, God bee with you. Ho, returne and take it. I cannot let you goe, and see, that you re∣turne another time, & buy againe of me: but yet it is too low a price.

M.

Surely in your iudgement, but I say it is too great a price, and that I am deceiued by you.

L.

I discharge you of the buy∣ing, if you repent you thereof.

M.

It were a dishonest part if I should doe this; take your mo∣ney. How much doe I owe?

L.

I haue cast it into one summe, and found that eleuen Taielas,

eight Maesas, and three Cou∣panges are due to me.

M.

Is the account rightlie made?

L.

Yea, it is truly made.

M.

Well then, receiue and tell your money.

L.

This money is not good.

M.

Wherefore is it not good?

L.

Because many peeces of money are cracked, and broken in it.

M.

Goe too, chuse out those broken and faultie peeces of mo∣ney, and restore them vnto me.

L.

I will doe so.

M.

Restore me one Coupang, which remaineth vnto me.

L.

I haue not yet receiued any Cassias to day.

M.

That therefore wee may pay, I will take these little pots for a Coupang.

L.

Take them, but another time you shall pay somewhat more.

M.

I will doe it, God willing.

L.

Will you, that any one car∣rie your wares? I will commit them to my seruant to be carried.

M.

It is not needfull I my selfe will carrie them, God preserue you.

L.

I heartily thanke you sir, when you will haue any thing else, returne vnto me, & you shall haue it at a reasonable price.

M.

It is well, I will returne.

L.

God be with you Sir.

Let the Reader know that Taielas, Maesas, Coupang as, and Cassias, whereof mention is here made, are the money of Atche. But the Taie∣la of Sum••tra is of the value of sixteene Maesas, and a Maesa amoun∣teth to the value of foure Coupang as, and one Maesa conteineth foure thousand fiue hundred Cassias.