‘The travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, a noble Roman, into East-India and Arabia Deserta. In which, the several countries, together with the customs, manners, traffique, and rites both religious and civil, of those Oriental princes and nations, are faithfully described: In familiar letters to his friend Signior Mario Schipano. Whereunto is added a relation of Sir Thomas Roe’s voyage into the East-Indies’ [‎352] (373/508)

A Voyage fa E A S T-IN D1 A, <&€.
enquired after him;, and when he had certified the King of his
meeting him on the way 3 the King replyed. Is that Fool yet li*
ving ? which when our Pilgrim heard, it feemed to trouble
him very much., becaufe the King fpake no more nor no better of
him., faying, that Kings would fpeak of poor men what they
plealed.
At another time when he was ready to depart from us 5 my
Lord Emhaffador gave him a Letter., and in that a Bill to receive
ten pounds at Aleffo when he (hould return thither: The Letter
was directed unto M r Libbaus Chafmtn 5 there Confnl at that
time, in which that which concerned our Traveller was thus:
M T Chapman, when you (hall hand thefe Letters, I defireyouto
receive the Beare r of them, Mafter Thomas Cory at with Courte-
iie,for you (hall find him a very honeft poor Wretch j and further,
I muft entreat you tofurnifh him with ten pounds, which (hall
be repayed, 8cc. Our F/Z^r/^ lik'd the gift well, but the
gnage by which he (hould have received it, did not at all content
him, telling me. That My Lord had even fyoyled his Courtefie in
the carriage thereof $ fo that if he ha d been a very Fool indeed, he
could'have faid very little lefs of him than he did, Honeji poor
IVretch ! And to fay no more of him, was to (ay as much as no-
thing» And furthermore he then told me, that when he was for
merly undertaking his journey to Venice, a Perfon of Honour
wrote thus in his behalf unto Sir Henry Wotton^ then and there
Embajfador : My Lord, Good Wine needs no Bufti, neither a wor
thy man Letters Commendatory , becau(e whith^rfoever he
comes he is his own Epiftle, 8cc. There ((aid he) was fome Lan
guage on my behalf 5 but now for my Lord to write nothing of me by
way of Commendation, but Honefl poor Wretch^ is rather to trouble
me than to pleafe me with his favour. And therefore afterwards
his Letter was phras'd up tOihismind, but he never liv'd to re
ceive the money. By which his old acquaintance may fee how
tender this poor man was to be touched in any thing that might
in the leaft meafure dijparage him. O what pains this poor man
took to make himfelf a Subject for preitnt and after Diicourfe !
being troubled at nothing for the prefent, unlefs with the fear
of not living to reap that fruit he was To ambitious of in all his un
dertakings. And certainly he was furprized with fome fuch
thoughts and fears (for fo he told us afterwards) when upon a
time he being at Mandoa with us, and there ftanding in a room
againft a ftone fiUar, where theEmbaflador was, andmyfelf
prefent with them, upon a fudden he fell iutofucha Jaww, that
we had very much ado to recover him out of it 5 but at laft,
comn to himfelf, he told us that fome fad thoughts had immedi
ately before prefented themfelves to his Fancy^ which as he con
ceived put him into that dijiemper 5 like Fannius in Martial
Ne m or tare mori, to prevent death by dying : For he told us that
there was great Expectations in England o£ the large Accounts
* he (hould give of his Travels after his return home j and that he
was