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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07509	Sir Robert Sherley, sent ambassadour in the name of the King of Persia, to Sigismond the Third, King of Poland and Swecia, and to other princes of Europe his royall entertainement into Cracovia, the chiefe citie of Poland, with his pretended comming into England : also, the honourable praises of the same Sir Robert Sherley, giuen vnto him in that kingdome, are here likewise inserted.	Middleton, Thomas, d. 1627.	1609 (1609)	STC 17894.5; ESTC S4785	8,537	24

SIR ROBERT SHERLEY SENT AMBASSADOVR IN THE NAME OF THE KING OF PERSIA TO SIGISMOND THE third King of POLAND and SVVECIA and to other Princes of EVROPE His Royall entertainement into CRACOVIA the chiefe Citie of POLAND with his pretended Comming into ENGLAND Also The Honourable praises of the same Sir Robert Sherley giuen vnto him in that Kingdome are here likewise inserted LONDON Printed by I. WINDET for Iohn Budge and are to bee sold at his Shop at the Great South doore of Pauls 1609. TO THE WORTHIE and well experienst Gentleman Sir THOMAS SHERLEY Sonne to that happy Father Sir Thomas Sherley and Brother to that Noble Gentleman Sir Robert Worthie Sir THe selfe same office of loue and due prayses which the world put it selfe into at your long desired ariuall in England fals happily vpon me to performe the like duetie toward your worthy Brother nor can I recite more Encomiums of his Actions then those of your owne hath rightly and properly challenged to themselues I le speake thus much of you both and the world shal iudge it free from flattery you well may bee owne Brothers in birth that are so neere kinne to one another in Actions of Fame and Honour so commending you both to eternizing memory of your owne Vertues and Fortunes I remaine an vnworthy obseruer of them both Your Worships in his most selected studies THOMAS MIDLETON To the Reader READER This Persian Robe so richly wouen with the prayses onely of Sir ROBERT SHERLEY thy Conntriman comes to thee at a lowe price though it cost him deere that weares it to purchase so much fame as hath made it so excellent It is now his foreuer Thine so long as it is his for euery good man as I hope thou art doth participate in the Renowne of those that are good and vertuous He hath bene a traueller a long time giue him now a welcome home the Armes of his owne Country embracing him will bee more ioyfull to him then all those of so many forraine Kingdomes with which he hath so often beene honoured If a man that hath ventured through the world may deserue thy loue thou canst not chose but bestow as much of it vpon him as vpon any Looke vpon him truely and thou shalt find a large generall Chronicle of time writ in a little Volume Hee comes laden with the Trophyes of Warre and the honors of Peace The Turke hath felt the sharpnesse of his sword and against the Turke is hee now whetting the swords of Christian PRINCES Much more could I speake of him but that I should doe wrong to the common Lawes of ciuilitie by taking away that Reuerence from Strangers whome from Countryes afarre off you shall presently heare giuing ample testimonies of his Noblenesse Vale Newes from PERSIA and POLAND touching Sir Robert Sherley being sent Ambassadour to diuers Princes of EVROPE fam'd aswell for his Wisedome and experience as for his knowledge and vnderstanging of many Tongues ALbeit that man can receiue his Birth but from one place yet is hee Borne a Fréeman of all the Cities of the world The whole earth is his Country and he that dwelleth fardest off is by the lawes of nature as neer to him in loue as his kindred acquaintance This General Charter being giuen by the King of this Uniuersall Crowne to all Nations hath caused men from time to time by the vertue of that Priuiledge to forsake the places of their first being and to trauell into other Countries The benefits that kingdomes haue gotten by this meanes cannot in so small a volume as this in hand bée comprehended Trauell is the golden Mine that inricheth the poorest Country and filleth the barrennest with abundant plenty It is the chaine that at first tyed Kingdomes together and the Musicall string that still maintaines them in Concord in Leagues and in Unity The Portugalls haue hereby Crowned themselues and there Posterity with garlands of neuer dying honour The Spaniards haue their names for this so deepely ingrauen in the Chronicles of Fame that they can neuer bee forgotten The French likewise and the Dutch haue raised their glories to a nobler height onely by these Aduentures In imitation of all whose labors or rather in Emulation of all their Fames our Englishmen haue not onely Stept as farre as any of them Al but gone beyond the most and the best of them And not to reckon those men of worth in this kinde of our owne Nation whose voyages and trauells by sea and land to set down were able to fil whole volumes I will onely at this time not with a loud and shrill trumpet as they deserue but as it were vppon an instrument tuned and directed by another giue onely a soft touch at the Praises of this worthy Gentleman Sir ROBERT SHERLEY of whose aduentures dangers various fortunes both good and bad to draw a true picture in the right liuely colors would as easily feed mens eies with gazing admiration as the large pictured tables of others haue filled them with wonder Being therefore contented at this time to swim but in a shallow streame of his Fame sithence greater sayles are likely héereafter and that very shortly to swell with the true report of his actions You shall vnderstand that Sir ROBERT SHERLEY after a long a chargeable and a dangerous progresse through most if not all the Kingdomes in Europe receiuing entertainment from the Princes of those Dominions sitting to such a ghuest desire of glorie still more and more burning within him At the length he left Europe and trauelled into Asia receiuing noble entertainment at the hands of the King of Persia In whose Court he so well and so wisely bore himselfe in all his Actions that the Persian with much of his loue of which hee tasted most plenteously heaped on his head many honorable fauours That common enemy of Christ and Christians the Turke lifting vp his sword continually for the most part not onely against the Polack the Hungarian Bohemian and other Princes of Christendome but also thirsting after the rich Empire of Persia and shewing a mortall hatred to that Kingdome by being euer vp in Armes against it It was thought fit that the Persian himselfe confessing and worshipping Christ Ayde should bee required at the hands of Christian Princes in the Persians behalfe against so barbarous so ambitious and so generall an enemy Heerupon the honor of such an Embassy was conferred by the King of Persia vpon Sir Robert Sherley as a man worthy and apt to treate with Christian princes in so weighty a businesse hee himselfe being a Christian born and a gentleman that had Trauelled and by experience knew the conditions State and pollicies of most of their Kingdomes First therefore was he imployed into Poland where by Sigismund the King of Poland and of Suecia hee was receiued with great magnificence and applause both of the Polack himselfe and of his people And because it is not fit that euery Common

and popular eare should stand listning to the priuate businesse of Princes in a Deseignement that concernes the Uniuersall state of Christendome wee will not therefore at this time bée interpreters of the Persians Embassy but rather waite his expected comming who hath in charge to deliuer it by word of mouth himselfe In the meane time not withstanding forbearing to reckon vp the rich presents giuen by the Poland King to Sir Robert the honors done to him by the Polish Lords and the fauors throwne vpon him by the Common people You shall bée witnesses onely to those not vnworthy prayses of Him by which his Fame amongst Schollers by those of the better sort was lifted vp at the time of his staying in Poland A fourefold Anagram vpon Sir Robert Sherleys Name ROBERTVS SHERLAEIVS 1 Heus Labor Tueris Res. 2 Seruus ast Hero Liber 3 Libertas ero Seruus 4 Virtus Labores sere Encomions or Praises as well vpon the Name as the negotiation of Sir ROBERT SHERLEY an English Knight sent Ambassadour from the King of the Persians to the Princes of Europe MErcurius seeing the Embassadour ready to take his iourney resigneth vnto him his office as being messenger or Herald to the Gods according to the fiction of Poets and with that office bestoweth the gift of eloquence vpon him because he may haue power to perswade the princes to whom he is sent and withal addes a wish that those Christian Kings whom he is to sollicite may not be cold in ioyning their forces together but that they may enter into an honorable a piou● and inuiolable league against that common enemy the Turke Mercuries speech THou O Sherley beeing borne an Englishman art sent from the Persian Empire to the Kingdomes that lye in Europe thy place is full of honour thy message of waight discharge thou therefore boldly those thinges which the greate Lord of Persia commands thée to doe It is not chance that throwes this high office vpon thee but a full Synode or Parliament of all the Gods doe appoint thée to bée their Messenger to the great Kings of the earth For this cause I that am Heauens winged Messenger seeing thee ready to depart present my selfe thus before thée and vttering onely so much as in the letters of thy name lyes mystically hidden and that is this Heus Labor tu Res hoc ore Tueris Persarum O exceeding Labor yet thou art the man that must defend the state of the Persians euen by the force of my eloquence Go on therfore be thou Mercurius in the Courts of Kinges I giue thee my place I giue it to thée that art more worthy of it then my selfe O that the princes of Europe would knit an indissoluble league together with thy Master the Persian Monarch and tye all their Sinewes to one Arme that a noble Warre may be begotten Let Bellona the goddesse of battailes breath courage into the breasts of souldiers and let no Country bee dishonoured by bearing men that haue no hearts to come into the fielde O let not that couetous Dragon which once watched the golden firmament sleepe in the bosomes of Kings and with his poison infect them with that couetous disease of hoording vp gold Cast off O you Princes your sensuall pleasures and let it bee your Ambition to weare Garlands of Oake which are the Crownes of Conquerors Prefer immortall Fame before all those Dangers ouer which you must of necessity passe be they neuer so inuincible in the shew of vndertaking and aspire onely to that life which shall remaine when your bodyes lye dead Heauen in your doing so shall smile vpon your enterprises Hell shall bée conquered and that hel-hownde broode of Mahomet bée vtterly confounded Uniuersall peace shall Crown the world and the Barbarous Turks feele the Sinewes and puissant Arms of Europe To the Nations vnto whome the Ambassadour is sent on great and serious affaires as rightly may be coniectured A desire wish is made that all Kings in Christendome may entertaine this holy Warre with the same courage constancie and zeale that the Persian doeth HHearken O you Polanders Italians French you Germaines Enrich your Chronicles with an Act of a wonder neuer heard of in the world before For beholde a Brittaine is sent on a royall message from the King of the Persians A Brittaine is sent but who is it Such a one hee is as by his name beeing before Anagramatizde hée may apparantly be deciphered Ast Liber Seruus Hero Free-borne and a seruant onely vnto his Soueraigne Hee euen hee is sent to you O you Nations of Europe from the confines of the Persians bringing along with him the name of his Lord and with that name the sound of an Approaching warre The destinies begin to promise some great matter The God of Battailes heereupon speakes chéerefullly God himselfe prepares the Armour muster your selues together therefore O you Kings and with a religious defence draw your swords against the Turkes A gratulatorie compendious Speech to Sir ROBERT SHERLEY commending both his Vertue and present Fortune O Sherley thou that art an honour to the Persians aswell as to the Britaines within whose head dwelleth experience and wisdome and vpon whose tongue eloquence writeth her charmes whatsoeuer hee was that at first durst say that Fortune was Blind and that shee bestowed extraordinary benefits vpon vndeseruing men let him know that all this while hee hath bin in an error for Fortune had more eyes then Argus when shee Crowned this Englishman with so many Persian honors and offices That Monarch O thou Renowned Britaine whose sword is dreadfull to the Thracian Tyrant makes thee a partner in the cares and burdens of his empyre for he hath seene yea he hath euer seene and found thee constant in execution of all his iust and Royall commandes The Empire of the Persian is here commended The Kings and Princes of Europe being called to giue witnesse how much glory the dexteritie of Sir ROBERT SHERLEY hath added to the Persian Monarchie Vpon which he appeares to the Persians a Gentleman of such merit as that England may very iustly accuse Persia of wrong for detaining him from her THe same of the Persian Empire doth not grow vp only in a meane Souldier for their Cities are full of renowmed and worthy Captains from the Ancient discipline and Stratagems of warre are the glories of the Persians sprung vp and continue famous But O thou honoured Englishman shee deriued her first principles from thy practise and knowledge Farre be my words from the base seruitude of flattery for within a short time Kings shall rise vp as witnesses of what I speake Let thine owne Country enuy the kingdome of Persia for enioying this honor which by thee is giuen her yea let her challenge thée to be deliuered backe againe as her owne yet let her clayme be made in such maner that England and Persia may not grow into quarrell about thée But rather thus let them both share thée Let