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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

rich Persia enioy thy presence and reckon thée in the number of her Citizens bee proud in the possession of a man so worthy Let England glorie that shee alone is happy in thy Birth and that she beares the honor of giuing thée thy name But howsoeuer O thou the Dignitie and Luster of two renowned Kingdomes Goe thou on in thine intended ambassage and performe these Heasts which the great Persian thy Lord hath imposed vpon thy Integrity A short Speech vttered as it were by the whole body of the Polish Court to ROBERT SHERLEY Ambassadour from the inuincible King of the Persians IT is not thy rich garments Embroydered so thicke with gold and wouen by Grecian workemen that drawes our eyes into admiration by beholding thee It is not thy sparkling Jewels nor those costly pretious stones that adorne thy Kobe which dazle our sight It is not thy comely ryding nor skilfull managing of that Thracian courser vpon whose back thou sictest whilst the proud beast it selfe Champs on the glistering bit in disdaine to bee so curbed that makes vs to looke after thee It is not that victorious Semyter of thine wherewith thou hast made the earth drunke so often with so much bloud of those that are enemies to the Persians that causeth vs to stand gazing at thy presence No it is the beauty of thy minde wherewith our eyes are inchanted It is the excellent musicke of thy tongue that so ties our eares to thy charmes Thou being able to speake and to answere se many seuerall nations in their owne proper languages Englands Complaint to Persia for her SHERLEY O Persia thou glorious kingdome thou chiefe of Empires the Palace sometimes where Wisedome onely kept her Court the Land that was gouerned by none but by wisemen Yet must I tell thee and with griefe dost thou inforce me to tell thee that against all Law of Nations thou robbest me of my subiect Why should the right of another bée thine It is Justice for euery one to kéepe their owne But thou makest vp thy gaine by my losse Is this Equitie Is this tollerable Cease to doe it and send home O Persia That sonne of mine to me that am his mother for to me onely is he due But aye me the honors of his owne Country and the palaces of my Kingdome are by him belike neglected and seeme not worth the looking on And though to the eye of the world I may perhaps appeare beautifull and great yet in his eye I shew no bigger then a small corner of the worlde I doe enuy thée therefore O Persia onely for him yet sithence I cannot enioy him Fare thou well O thou my darling and with that farewell beare along with thée the Praises which I giue thee I rob Persia Persia robs not me My losse is to mée more honour for the Persian Empire borrowes her brightnes from the beames of one of the Sonnes of England SHERLEY to his natiue Countrey O Thou my Country if I should pay back into thy hands so much as by bond is due vnto thee from me I should then lay downe my life at thy feete But my thoughts ayme at greater matters It is not Breath I would pay thée but Fame Take thou from me so much Honor as may make mée liue for euer Liberty is the Gole to which I run but such a liberty it is as may frée me from the common basenesse of the multitude and make me worthy to be respected by the eye of a King Seruus hero I am a seruant to that greate Maister to whose feete all the Persians bow and doe reuerence I am his seruant that I may bee his messenger and beare the Treatyes of such a King to other Kings in Christendome I am destin'de out to deliuer his minde in their owne languages to Forrain Princes and to the Monarches of the earth Let them therefore come together and quicklie shall the Turkish fury bee calmed and beeing weakened in her owne strengths shall bee glad to knéele to the power and mercy of others And thou O my Natiue Country if thou wouldest bee pleased to knit thy forces in this iust and vniuersall Warre to what Dignities mayst thou aduance thy selfe Whatsoeuer is dishonourable hath a base descention and sincks beneath Hell But Whatsoeuer is good and honest lifts vp the vnblemished brow on high and makes it Leuell with the front of heauen The Authors wish and request to vertue that shee would giue vnto SHERLEY such a fruitfull haruest of his Labours that hauing Conquered the hardnesse of them his Name may aspire to the full height of his desert OUertue the noblest and boldest guide thou that giuest to men the due Crowne of Praises prosper thou the honoured enterprises of Sherley But touching those paths which must leade him to titles of fame and honour make them euen and certaine before him He hath no desire to haue his name eaten out by the rust of idlenesse no hee will neuer vnworthily sink beneath his owne proposed fortune Another of the same Author touching Sir Robert Sherley being called as it were by Fate to manage the affaires of Foraine Princes WHat is the cause that Sherley hath not all this while liued in the same Country that first lent him breath This is the reason a spirit so greate was not to bee contained within so small a circle as his Country Besides He is the child of Fate and highly sings Of kingly Embassies to none but Kings Crownde with these prayses as you heare in Poland and leauing the same of his memorable actions behind him bending his coarte to other Princes of Christendome with the same Royall Embassage of honorable and Christian confederacie against Mahomet his Adherents it shal not bee amisse here to speake of the Kingdome of Persia where Sir Robert receiued such honourable entertainment sutable to his noble Actions and the vertues of his minde as also the maners fashions rites and customes that are and haue beene obserued by the Persians and first for their Religion which they haue obserued of old doing worship and reuerence in their vpright zeale to the Sunne Moone Uenus Fire Earth Water and Winds erecting neyther Altars nor Statues but in open Fields offring their sacrifices which Sacrifices were superstitious and full of idle Ceremonies too tedious to be here rehersed For their Kings the golden line of them is drawn out of one family that custome amongst the Persians neuer as yet suffred change or alteration and so seuere their lawes are in effect to the punishing of all rebellious treasonable and disobedient people that whosoeuer bee bee that is found repugnant in the least demeanor to the will and affection of the King hee is presently ceazde vpon by the Tormentors his head and armes chopt off and with his detested body throwne into some common field without eyther graue or couering And for their palaces royall mansions this hath euer beene the continued custome amongst them that euery King

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