A relation of ten years in Europe, Asia, Affrique, and America all by way of letters occasionally written to divers noble personages, from place to place, and continued to this present year / by Richard Fleckno.

XLII. Per speculum in Enigmate. Or a Mirour in Enigma presented to the Princess of LOREIN.

Spoken by the Mirour.

Madam,

AS 'tis the fashion of all those who present their services to any one, to declare their Countries, Birth, and Quality, your Highness may please to know that I am Venetian by Nation, of as Illustrious Extraction as any Magnifico of them all, and of a Family as un∣ble misht and untainted; for my Qualities, I am sincere, and tell others there faults with∣out fl••ttery, and that so far from humour of finding fault, as I tell them as well their ver∣tues and perfections too. I am strangely fan∣tastique (I must confesse) wearing my cloaths within, as others do without, and ••o awkward, as where others use their right hand, I use my left; For the rest, (to confesse my weaknesse) I am most frail, and subject to fall, if I be'nt look'd well unto, and am so weak of constitu∣tion, as 'tis a hundred to one afterwards, if ever I recover it. In fine, I am somwhat of the nature of a Cameleon, changing colour of∣ten by reflexion; nay, what is yet more strange,

I often change Complexion and Sexes too, be∣ing now fair, now fowl, now a Woman, now a Man, though I'm oblig'd out of Gratitude to love more the Feminine Sex, and can assure your Highnesse on my faith, I am never fairer than when you look on me.