‘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’ [‎474] (495/508)

A Voyage ^ E A S T-I N DI A, &c.
fragrant Bowers, whofe Beauty and Odour isftill increafine ; fo
be affured, my Love (hall ftill grow and increafe with yours.
The Letters which you fent me in the behalf of your Mer
chants I have received, whereby I reft fatisfied of your tender
Love towards me, defiring you not to take it ill, that I have not
wrote to you heretofore: This prefent Letter I fend to you to re
new our Loves, and herewith do certifieyou, that I have fent
forth my throughout all my Countries to thiseffeft
That if any Engliih Ships or Merchants (hall arrive in any of my
Ports, my People (hall permit and fuffer them to do what they
pleafe, freely in their Merchandizing-Caufes, aiding and affifting
ihem in all occafion of injuries that ftall be offered them,that the
leafi: caufe of difcourtefie be not done unto them 5 that they may
be as free, or freer then my own People.
And as now, and formerly, I have received from vou divers
Tokens of your Love, fo I (hall ftill defire your n^dfubefs
of me by fome Novelties from your Countries, as an argument of
friendftiip betwixt us, for fuch is the cuftom of Princes here.
And for your Merchants,! have given exprefs Order through all
my Dominions, to fuffer them to buy, fell, tranfport, and carry
away at their pkafure, without thelett or hinderance of any
perfon whatfocver,al I fuch Goods and Merchandizes as they (hall
defire to buy 5 and let this my Letter as fully fttisfie youinde-
hred Peace and Love, as if my own Son had been Meflenger to ra-
tifie the fame. * ,
And if any in my Countries,not fearing God,nor obeying their
King, or any other Void of Religion, (hould endeavour to bean
initrument to break this League of Friendfhip, I would fend my
oon Sultan Caroom, a Souldier approved in the Wars, to cut him
oil, that no obftacle may hinder the continuance, and increafe of
ourAfFe&ions. t ;
Here are It kg wife the Complements of two other Letters of later
date,fent home by Sir Thomas Ko\w^hereof thefirfi doth thus begin:
WHen your Majefty (hall open this Letter, let your Royal
Heart be as frefh as a fmall Garden, let all People make
Reverence at your Gate, Let your Throne be advanced higher.
Amongft the greatnefs of the Rings of the Prophet jfe/*/, let your
Majeliy be the greateft 5 and all Monarchs derive their Wifdom,
and Coi^nfel f rom your Breaft, as from a Fountain, that the Law
e 0 ^3 e f us m ay receive,and flourifti under your pro-
The Letters of Love and Friendfhip which you (ent me, the
prdent T okens of your good Affedion towards me, I have recei
ved by the Hands of your Ambafl'adour, S\x Thomas Row, who
Well deferveth to be your trufty Servant, delivered to me in an
acceptableand happy hour 5 upon which mine Eyes were fo fix-
cd, that I could not eafily remove them unto any other Obiefts,
and have accepted them with great joy and delight, &c.
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