The voyages and adventures of Fernand Mendez Pinto, a Portugal, during his travels for the space of one and twenty years in the Kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchinchina, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, Japan, and a great part of the East-Indiaes with a relation and description of most of the places thereof, their religion, laws, riches, customs, and government in time of peace and war : where he five times suffered shipwrack, was sixteen times sold, and thirteen times made a slave / written originally by himself in the Portugal tongue and dedicated to the Majesty of Philip King of Spain ; done into English by H.C. Gent.

CHAP. LVIII. The Magnificent Reception of the King of Bramaa his Ambassadour, at the City of Timplam; and that which passed betwixt the Calaminham, and him. (Book 58)

* 1.1NIne dayes after the King of Bramaa his Ambassadour had reposed himself there by way of ceremony, according to the fashion of the Co••try, for the more honour of his Am∣bassage, one of the Governours of the City, called Quampanogrem, came to fetch him, ac∣companied with fourscore Seroos and Laulees, very well eqipped, and full of lu••ty able men: Throughout this Fleet they played on so many barbarous and ill accorded instruments, as Bel••, Cymbals, Drums, and Sea-corners, that the din thereof coming to joyn with the noise, which the Rowers made, terrified all those that heard it; and indeed one would have thought it at first to be some inchantment, or to say better, a musick of hell, if there be any there. Amidst this stir we drew near to the City, where we arrived about noon; Being come to the first Key, that was named Campalarraia, we saw a great many men, both Horse and Foot, all richly accoutred, as also a number of fighting Elephants, very well harnessed, having their chairs and for••-head pieces garnished with silver, and their warlike Panores fastened to their teeth, which rendred them very terrible. The Ambassadour was no sooner come on shore, but the Campanogrem took him by the hand, and falling on his knees, presented him to ano∣ther great man that attended for him at the Key in great pomp; This same was called Pa∣tedacan, one of the chiefest of the Kingdom, as we were told; After he had with a new complement of courtesie received the Ambassadour, he offered him an Elephant furnished with a Chair and harness of gold, but whatsoever the Mandarin could do to make the Am∣bassadour accept of it, he could by no means draw him thereunto, whereupon he caused ano∣ther almost as well furnished to be brought, and gave it to him. As for us nine Portugals, and fifty or threescore Bramaas they provided Horses, on which we mounted: In this manner we departed from that place, having his Chariots before us full of men, that amidst the acclamations of the people played upon divers kinds of instruments; namely on silver Cymbals, Bells, and Drums; Thus we were conducted through many long Streets, whereof nine were invironed with Ballisters of Lattin, and at the entrance into them, there were Ar∣ches very richly wrought, as also many Chapters of pillars guilt, and great Bells, which like unto clocks struck the hours, nay the quarters of the hour of the day, whereby the people were ordinarily directed. After that with much ado, by reason of the great press of people that was in the streets, we were come to the outward Court of the Calaminham's Pallace, which was as long, or little less, as a Faulcons shot, and broad proportionable thereunto, we saw in it above six thousand Horses, all trapped with silver and silk, and those that were moun∣ted on them were armed with Co••slets of Lattin and Copper, head-pieces of silver, carrying Ensigns in their hands of divers Colours, and Targets at their Saddle-bow••. The C••m∣mander of th••se Troops was the Quietor of Justice, who is as the Super-intendent over all the other Civil and Criminal Ministers, which is a Jurisdiction ••epe••ate by it self, from whence there is no appeal. The Ambassadour being come near unto him, who was also advanced to receive him, and the two Governours, they all prostra••e•• themselves on the ground three times, which is amongst them a new kind of Compliment, whereupon the Queitor spake not a word to the Ambassadour, but onely laid his hand on his head, and then gave him a rich Scymitar that he wore by his side, which the Ambassadour accepted of very thankfully, and kissed it thrice; That done the Quieor set the Ambassadour on his right hand, and lea∣ving the two Mandarins a little behind, they past along through two ranks of Elephants▪ which made a kind of Street of the length of the outward Court, they being fifteen hundred in number, all furnished with Castles, and rich Chairs of divers inventions, as also with a great many of silk Banners, and gorgeous Coverings; round abou•• were a great Company of Halberdiers, and many other shews of Greatness and Majesty, which made us believe that this Prince was one of the mightiest of the Country. When we were come to a great Gate, that stood between two high Towers, two hundred men which guarded it no sooner saw the Quietor, but they all fell down on their knees. Through this Gate, we entred into another very long outward Court, where the Kings second Guard was, composed of a thousand men,

who were all in guilt Arms, their Swords by their sides, and on their heads Helmets wrought with gold and silver, wherein stuck gallant plums of several colours. After we had past through the middle of all this Guard we arrived at a great Hall, where there was a Manda∣rim, Uncle to the King, called the Monvagaruu, a man of above seventy years of age, ac∣companied with a great number of Nobity, as also with many Captains and Officers of the Kingdom; About him were twelve little boyes richly clad, with great Chains of gold three or four times double about their necks, and each of them a silver Mace upon his shoulder: As soon as the Ambassadour was come near him, he touched him on the head with a Ventiloo that he held in his hand, and beholding him, May thy entrance, said he, into this Palace of the Lord of the world, be as agreeable to his eyes, as the rain is to our fields of Rice, for so shall he grant thee all that thy King demands of him. From thence we went up an high pair of stairs, and entred into a very long room, wherein there were many great Lords, who seeing the Monvagaruu stood up on their feet, as acknowledging him for their Superiour; Out of this room we entred into another, where there were four Altars, very well accommodated with Idols of silver; upon one of these Altars we saw the Statue of a woman as big as a Gi∣ant, being eighteen spans high, and with her arms all abroad looking up to Heaven: This Idol was of silver, and her hair of gold, which was very long, and spread over her shoulders; There also we saw a great Throne, incompassed round about with thirty Giants of brass, who had guilded Clubs upon their shoulders, and faces as deformed as those they paint for the Divel. From this room we past into a manner of a Gallery, adorned from the top to the bottom with a number of little Tables of Ebony, inlayed with Ivory, and full of mens heads, under every one of the which the name of him to whom it belonged was written in letters of gold; At the end of this Gallery there were a dozen of iron Rods guilt, whereon hung a great many sil∣ver Candlesticks of great value, and a number of persuming Pans, from whence breathed forth a most excellent odour of Amber, and Calambuco, or Lignum Aloes, but such as we have none in Christendom. There on an Altar invironed all about with three rows of Ballisters of silver, we saw thirteen Kings vissages of the same mettal, with golden Mitars upon their heads, and under each of them a dead mans head, and below many Candlesticks of silver, with great white wax lights in them, which were stuffed ever and anon by little boys, who accorded their voyces to those of the Grepos that sung in form of a Letany, answering one another. The Grepos told us that those thirteen dead mens heads which were under the vissages were the skulls of thirteen Calaminhams, which in times past gained this Empire from certain strangers, cal∣led Roparons, who by Arms had usurped the same upon them of the Country: As for the other dead mens heads which we saw there, they were the sk••ls of such Commanders, as by their Heroick deeds had honourably ended their dayes in helping to recover this Empire, in re∣gard whereof it was most reasonable, that though death had deprived them of the recompence which they had merited by their action, yet their memory should not be abolished out of the world. When we were gone out of this Gallery, we proceeded on upon a great Bridg, that was in the form of a Street, rayled on either side with Ballisters of Lattin, and beautified with a many of Arches curiously wrought, upon which were Scutchions of Arms, charged with several devices in gold, and the Cr••••ts over them were silver Globes, five spans in cir∣cumferences, all very stately and majestical to behold. At the end of this bridge was another building, the doors whereof we found shut, whereupon we knocked four times, they within not deigning to answer us, which is a ceremony observed by them in such occasions; At the length after we had rung a bell four times more as it were in haste, out comes a woman of about fifty years of age, accompanied with six little girls, richly attired, and Scymitars upon their shoul∣ders garnished with ••lowers wrought in gold: This anci••nt woman having demanded of the Monvagaruu why he had rung the bell, and what he would have, he answered her with a great deal of respect, That he had there an Ambassadour from the King of Bramaa, the Lord of Tanguu, who was come thither to treat at the feet of the Calaminham about certain mat∣ters much importing his service. By reason of the great authority which this woman was in she seemed little to regard this answer, whereat we wondred much, because he that spake to her was one of the chiefest Lords of the Kingdom, and Uncle to the Calaminham, as it was said; Nevertheless one of the six girls that accompanied her, spake thus in her behalf to the Monvagaruu, My Lord, may it please your Greatness to have a little patience till we may know whether, the time be fit for the kissing of the foot of the Throne of this Lord of the World, and advertising him of the coming of this stranger, and so according to the

grace which our Lord will shew him therein, his heart may rejoyce, and we with him. That said, the door was shut again for the space of three or four Credoes, and then the six Girls came and opened it, but the anciant woman that at first came along with them, we saw no more, howbeit in stead of her there came a Boy of about nine years of age, richly apparelled, and having on his head an hurfangua of Gold, which is a kind of Myter, but that it is somewhat more closed all about, and without any overture, he had also a Mace of Gold, much like a Scepter, which he carryed upon his shoulder: this same, without making much reckoning of the Monvagaruu, or of any of the other Lords there present, took the Embassador by the hand, and said unto him, The news of thy arrival is come unto the feet of Binaigaa the Calaminhan, and Scepter of the Kings that govern the Earth, and is so agree∣able to his ears, that with a smiling look he now sends for thee to give thee audience concerning that which is desired of him by thy King, whom he newly receives into the number of his bre∣thren, with a love of the son of his entrals, that so he may remain powerful and victorious over his Enemies: Thereupon he caused him, together with the Kings Uncle, and the other Governors that accompanyed him, to come in, l••aving all the rest without; the Embassa∣dor then seeing none of his Train follow him, looked three or four times back, seeming by his countenance to be somewhat discontented, which the Monvagaruu perceiving, spake to the Queitor, who was a little behind, that he should cause the strangers to be let in, and none else; the doors being then opened again, we Portugals began to go in with the Bra∣maas, but such a number of others came thrusting in amongst us, as the Gentlemen Ushers, who were above twenty, had much ado to keep the doors, striking many with Battouns which they had in their hands, and of those some that were persons of quality, and yet could they not therewith, neither with their cries, nor menaces, stop them all from enter∣ing: Thus being come in, we past along through the midst of a great garden, made with such art, and where appeared so many goodly things, so divers, and so pleasing to the eye, as words are not able to express them: For there were there many Alleys environed with Ballisters of Silver, and many Arbors of extraordinary scent, which we were told had so much sympathy with the Moons of the year, that in all seasons whatsoever they bare flowers and fruits; withall there was such abundance and variety of Roses and other flowers, as almost passeth belief. In the midst of this Garden we saw a great many young women, very fair, and well clad, whereof some past away their time in dancing, and others in playing on sundry sorts of Instruments much after our manner, which they per∣formed with so much harmony, as we were not a little delighted therewith: some also be∣stowed themselves in making of curious Needle-works and Gold-strings, some in other things, whilest their companions gathered fruit to eat; and all this was done so quietly, and with such order and good behavior, as made us admire it. At our going out of this Garden, where the Monvagaruu would needs have the Embassador to stay awhile, that he might there observe something worthy to entertain his King with at his return to Pegu, we went into a very great Antichamber, where many Commanders and Lords were sitting, as also some great Princes, who received the Embassador with new ceremonies, and com∣plements, and yet not one of them stirred from his place; Through this Antichamber we came to a door, where there were six Gentlemen Ushers with Silver Maces, by which we entered into another room very richly furnished: in this was the Calaminhan seated on a most majestical Throne, encompassed with three rows of Ballisters of Silver; At the foot of the degrees of his Throne sat twelve women that were exceeding beautiful, and most richly apparelled, playing on divers sorts of Instruments, whereunto they accorded their voyces; On the top of the Throne, and not far from his person, were twelve young Dam∣sels about nine or ten years old, all of them on their knees round about him, and carrying Maces of Gold in the fashion of Scepters; amongst them there was also another that stood on her feet, and fanned him. Below, all along the whole length of the room, were a great many of old men, wearing Myters of Gold on their heads, and long Robes of Sattin and Damask, curiously embroidered, every one having Silver Maces on their shoul∣ders, and ranked in order on either side against the walls: Over all the rest of the room were sitting, upon rich Persian Carpets, about two hundred young Ladies, as we could guess, that were wonderful fair, and exceeding well favored. Thus did this room, both for the marvelous structure of it, and for the excellent order that was observed therein, re∣present so great and extraordinary a Majesty, as we heard the Embassador say afterwards

talking of it, that if God would grant him the grace to return to Pegu, he would never speak of it to the King, as well for fear of grieving him, as of being taken for a man that reports things which seem altogether incredible.

As soon as the Embassador was ent••red into the room where the Calaminhan was,* 1.2 ac∣companyed with the four Princes that conducted him, he prostrated himself five times on the ground, without so much as daring to behold the Calaminhan, in sign of the great re∣spect he carryed towards him, which the Monvagaruu perceiving, willed him to advance forward, so that being arrived neer to the first degree of his Throne, with his face still bending downward, he said to the Calaminhan, with so loud a voyce as every one might hear him; The Clouds of the Ayr, which recreate the fruits whereof we eat, have published over the whole Monarchy of the World the great Majesty of thy Power, which hath caused my King, desiring to be honored with thy amity, as with a rich pearl, to send me for that pur∣pose, and to tell thee from him, that thou shalt much oblige him, if thou pleasest to accept of him for thy true Brother, with the honorable obedience which he will always render to thee, as to him that is the elder, as thou art: And for that end it is, that he sends thee this Letter, which is the jewel of all his treasure that he prizes most, and wherein his eyes take m••re pleasure, for the honor and contentment they receive by it, then in being Lord of the Kings of Avaa, and of all the precious stone of the mountain of Falent, of Jatir, and Pontau. Hereunto the Calaminhan made him this answer following, and that with a grave and severe counte∣nance; For my part I accept of this new amity, thereby to give full satisfaction to thy King, as to a son newly born of my intrals. Then began the women to play on Instruments of Musick, and six of them danced with little children for the space of three or four credo••s; After that, other six little girls danced with six of the oldest men that were in the room, which seemed to us a very pretty fantasticalness. This dance ended, there was a very fine Comedy represented by twelve Ladies, exceeding beautiful, and gorgeously attired, where∣in appeared on the Stage a great Sea-monster, holding in his mouth the daughter of a King, whom the fish swallowed up before them all, which the twelve Ladies seeing, went in all haste weeping to an Hermitage, that was at the foot of a Mountain, from whence they re∣turned with an Hermit, who made earnest supplications to Quiay Patureu, God of the Sea, that he would bring this Monster to the shore, so as they might come to bury the Damsel according to her quality; The Hermit was answered by Quiay Patureu, That the twelve Ladies should change their lamentations and complaints into so many consorts of musick, that were agreeable to his ears, and he would then command the Sea to cast the fish upon the strand to be done withall as they thought good; whereupon comes on the Stage six little Boys with wings and crowns of Gold upon their heads, in the same manner as we use to paint Angels, and naked all over, who falling on their knees before the Ladies, pre∣sented them with three Harps and three Viols, saying, that Quiay Patureu s••nt them these Instruments from the Heaven of the Moon, therewith to cast the Monster of the Sea into a sleep, that so they might have their desire on him, whereupon the twelve Ladies took them out of the hands of the little Boys, and began to play upon them, tuning them unto their voyces with so lamentable and sad a tone, and such abundance of tears, that it drew some from the eyes of divers Lords that were in the room; Having continued their musick about half a quarter of an hour, they saw the Monster coming out of the Sea, and by little and little as it were astonished, making to the shore where these fair Musicians were; all which was performed so properly, and to the li••e, that the Assistants could hardly imagine it to be a Fable, and a matter devised for pleasure, but a very truth, besides the Scean was set forth with a world of state and riches. Then one of the twelve Ladies drawing out a Poig∣nard, all set with precious stones, which she wore by her side, ripped up the fish, and out of the belly of it drew the Infanta alive, which presently went and danced to the tune of their Instruments, and so went and kissed the Calaminhans hand, who received her very graciously, and made her sit down by him; It was said, that this young Lady was his Niepce, the Daughter of a Brother of his; as for the other twelve, they were all the Daugh∣ters of Princes, and of the greatest Lords of the Country, whose Fathers and Brothers were there present. There were also three or four Comedies more like this, acted by other young Ladies of great quality, and set forth with so much pomp and magnificence, as more could not be desired. About evening the Calaminhan retired into another room, accom∣panyed with women onely, for all the rest they went along with the Monvagaruu, who

took the Embassador by the hand, and led him back to the outermost room of all, where with many complements after their manner, he took his leave of him, and so committed him to the Queitor, who straightway ca••ryed him to his House, where he lodged all the while that he was there, being two and thirty days, during which time he was feasted by the principal Lords of the Court in a splendid and sumptuous manner, and continually enter∣tained with several sports of fishing, hunting, hawking, and other such like recreations; As for us Portugals, we took a singular content in observing, over all the City and about it, the excellent structure of very sumptuous and magnificent edifices, of stat••ly Pagodes or Temples, and of houses adorned with goodly workmanship, and of inestimable value. Now amongst all these Buildings there was not in the wh••le City a more majestical one then that which was dedicated to Quiay Pimpocau, who is The God of the Sick: In it serve continually a number of Priests, apparelled in grey Gowns, who being of greater knowledg then all the rest of the four and twenty Sects of this Empire, do distinguish themselves from the others by certain yellow strings, which serve them for girdles; they are also by the vulgar people in a soveraign degree of honor called ordinarily, Perfect men. The Embassador himself went five times to their Temple, as well to see very marvelous things, as to hear the doctrine of those▪ that preached there, of which, and of all that con∣cerns the extravagancies of their Religion, he brought a great volume to the King of Bra∣maa, which was so pleasing to him, as he afterward commanded the said Doctrine to be preached in all the Temples of that Kingdom, which is to this day exactly observed in all his states. Of this Book I brought a Translation into the Kingdom of Portugal, which a Florentine borrowed of me, and when I asked him for it again, he told me that it was lost, but I found afterward that he had carryed it to Florence, and presented it to the Duke of Tuscany, who commanded it to be printed under this Title, The new Belief of the Pa∣gans of the other end of the World. Upon a day as the Embassador was talking in this Pa∣gode with one of the Grepos, who professed much kindness unto him, for indeed they are all of a good nature, easie of access, and communicating themselves to strangers freely enough, he demanded of him, how long it was since the Creation of the World, or whether those things had a beginning which God doth shew so clearly to our eyes, such as the Night, the Day, the Sun, the Moon, the Stars, and other Creatures that have neither Father nor Mother, and of whom no reason can be rendered in Nature how they began: The Grep•• relying more on his own knowledg, then on the others that were about him made this an∣swer to his Question; Nature, said he, had no other Creation but that which proceeded from the Will of the Creator, who in a certain time, determined in his divine Counsel, manifested it to the Inhabitants of Heaven, created before by his soveraign power, and according to that which is written thereof, it was fourscore and two thousand Moons, since the Earth was dis∣covered from under the Waters, when as God created therein a very fair Garden, where he placed the first man, whom he named Adaa, together with his wife Bazagon, them he expresly commanded, for to reduce th••m under the yoke of obedience, that they should not touch a cer∣tain fruit of a tree, called Hil••for••n, for that he reserved the same for himself; and in case they came to eat thereof, they should for a chastisement of their fault prove the rigor of his Iustice, whereof they and their descendants should feel the dire effects: This being known to the great Lupantoo, who is the gluttonous Serpent of the profound House of Smoke, and per∣ceiving how by this commandment, God would for mans obedience on Earth give him Hea∣ven for a reward, he went to Adaas wife and bid her eat of that fruit, and that she should also make her Husband eat thereof, for he assured her that in so doing they should both of them be more excellent in knowledg then all other creatures, and free from that heavy nature wher••••f he had composed them, so that in a moment their bodies should mount to Heaven. Then Baza∣gon, hearing what Lupantoo had said unto her, was so taken with a desire of enjoying that excellent prerogative of knowledg which he promised her, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to attain thereunto she eat of the fruit, and made her Husband likewise to eat of it, whence it insued, that they were both of them by that unhappy morsel subjected to the pains of death of sorrow, and of poverty. For God seeing the disobedience of these two first creatures, made them feel the ••igor of his Iustice, by chasing them out of the Garden where he had placed them, and confirming the punishments upon them wherewith he had threatened them before; Wherefore Ada••, fearing lest the divine Iustice should proceed further against him, gave himself up for a long time to continual tears; whereupon God sent him word, that if he continued in his repentance he would forgive him

his sin. Whilest the Grepo was speaking thus, the Embassador wondering at his discourse, which was a great novelty to him, Certainly, said he unto him, I am well assured that the King my Master hath never heard the like of this from the Priests of our Temples, for they in recompence of our works propound no other thing unto us but the possession of riches in this life; for, as they say, there is no guerdon after death, and that we must finish our lives a•• all the beasts of the field do, except the Cows, which for a reward of the milk they have given us, are converted into other Sea-cows, of the apples of whose eyes are pearls ingendred. At these words the Grepo, puffed up with vanity for that which he had said to the Embassador; Think not, answered he unto him, that there is any one in all this Country can let thee under∣stand so much as I have done, unless it be one Grepo, who is as learned as my self: With this ••ume of presumption he chanced to cast his eye on us Portugal••, that were behind the Em∣bassador, and as the Minister of the Devil, believing that we esteemed him as much as he did himself, Verily, said he unto us, I should be glad, that you, who as strangers have no know∣ledg of this truth, would come more often to hear me, for to understand how God hath cre∣ated all these things, and how much we are bound to him for the benefit of this Creation: Then one of our company, named Gaspar de Meyrelez, shewing himself therein more curious then the rest, after he had thanked the Grepo in the name of us all, he prayed him to give him leave to ask him something which he desired to know of him; Whereunto the Grepo made answer, that he was very well contented; For, added he, it is as well the property of a wise and curious man to enquire for to learn, as of an ignorant to hear, and not be able to answer: whereupon Gaspar de Meyrelez demanded of him, whether God, after he had created all these things whereof he spake, had not done some heroical works upon Earth, either by his Justice, or by his Mercy. To this the Grepo replyed, that he had, it being evi∣dent, that as long as man lived in this flesh, he could not chuse but commit sins which would render him punishable, nor God be without a great desire to pardon him; and he added fur∣ther, That the sins of men coming to be multiplyed on Earth, God had overwhelmed the whole World, by commanding the Clouds of Heaven to rain upon it, and to drown all living things, except one just man with his Family, which God put into a great House of wood, from whom issued afterwards all the Inhabitants of the Earth. The Portugal again en∣quired, whether God after this chastisement had not sent some other. God did not, an∣swered he, send any, which taken in general, was like unto that; but it is true, that in particular he chastiseth Kingdoms and People with Wars, and other scourges which he send∣eth them, as we see that he punisheth men with infinite afflictions, labors, diseases, and above all with extream poverty, which is the last and extreamest of all evils. The Portugal con∣tinuing in his demands, desired him to tell him, whether he had any hope that God would one day be appeased, so as men might have entrance into Heaven; Whereunto the Grepo replyed, That he knew nothing thereof, but that it was an evident thing, and to be be∣lieved as an Article of Faith, that even as God was an infinite good, so he would have regard to the good which men did upon Earth for his sake. Hereupon he demanded of him, whe∣ther he had not heard it said, or found written, That after all those things, whereof he spake, a man was come into the World, who dying on the Cross, had satisfied God for all men; or whether there was not among them some knowledg thereof: Whereunto the Grepo answered, None can make satisfaction to God but God himself, although there be in the World holy and vertuous men, which satisfie for themselves, and for some of their friends, such as are the Gods of our Temples, as the Grepos do assure us; But to say, that one alone hath satisfied for all, is a thing which we have never heard of till now, besides, on Earth, which is so base of it self, a Ruby of so high a price cannot be ingendred: It is true never∣theless, that in times past so much was certified to the Inhabitants of this Country by a man, named John, who came into this City, and was held for an holy man, having been the Dis∣ciple of another, called Tomé Modeliar, the Servant of God, whom those of the Country put to death, because he went publiquely preaching, That God was made man, and that he had suffered death for mankind; which at first wrought such a Division amongst the people of this Nation, as many believed it for a very truth, and others opposed it, and formed a con∣trary party against it, incited thereunto by the Grepoes of the Law of Quiay Figrau, God of the Atomes of the Sun; so that they reproved all that this stranger said, by reason whereof He was banished from this City to the Kingdom of Brama••, and from thence for the

same cause to the Town of Digan, where he was put to death for preaching publiquely, as I said before, That God became man, and was crucified for men. Upon these speeches Gas∣par de Meyrelez and we, said, that this man had preached nothing in this Country which was not most true; wherewith the Grepo was so taken, that he fell down on his knees be∣fore all that were present, and lifting up his hands and eyes to Heaven, he said with tears in his eyes, Lord, of whose beauty and goodness the Heavens and the Stars do give testimony, I with all my heart do beseech thee to permit, that in our times the hour may come, wherein the People of the other end of the World may give thee thanks for so great a Grace. After that these matters were past in this manner, and many others besides, which well deserved to be related, if my gross wit were able to describe them, the Embassador took his leave of the Grepo with many complements and words of courtesie, whereof they are nothing sparing, as being much accustomed to practise them one with another.

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