Jarding his short speech with fome other pieces of flattery, which the Mogul liked well, concluded: And when he had done, the Mogul gave him one hundred roopees, which amounts to the value of twelve pounds and ten fhillings of our English money; looking upon him as a Dervife, or votary, or pilgrim, (for fo he called him) and fuch as bear that name in that country seem not much to care for money; and that was the reafon (I conceive) that he gave him not a more plentiful reward.

After this, he having got a great mastery likewife in the Indoftan, or vulgar language, there was a woman, a laundress, belonging to my Lord Ambassador's house, who had fuch a freedom and liberty of speech, that she would fometimes fcold, brawl, and rail, from the fun-rifing to fun-fet; one day he undertook her in her own language, and by eight of the clock in the morning fo filenced her, that she had not one word more to speak.

I fhall have occafion to fay more of this man in fome paffages of this following discourse, and therefore fhall not wrap all I have to speak of him in this, although it be a very long digreffion: Yet becaufe I must now fhortly bring you to his journies end, I shall take the freedom to enlarge myself a little fur ther concerning him here in this place, before I leave him for the prefent; and to give thee, reader, a piece of his character, it fpeaks thus: That he was a man of a very coveting eye, that could never be fatisfied with feeing, as F 2 Solo

Solomon speaks, Ecclef. 1. 8. though he had feen very much; and I am perfuaded that he took as much content in feeing, as many others in the enjoying of great and rare things. He was a man that had got the mastery of many hard languages (as before I obferved) to the Latin and Greek he brought forth of England with him; in which if he had obtained wifdom to husband and manage them, as he had fkill to speak them, he had deferved more fame in his generation. But his knowledge and high attainments in feveral languages made him not a little ignorant of himself, he being fo covetous, fo ambitious of praise, that he would hear and endure more of it than he could in any measure deserve; being like a fhip that hath too much fail, and too little ballast: Yet if he had not fall'n into the smart hands of the wits of those times, he might have paffed better. That itch of fame which engaged this man to the undertakings of those very hard, and long, and dangerous travels, hath put thousands more (and therefore he was not alone in this) into ftrange attempts only to be talked of.

One long ago built a Temple to Diana, in hope of Glory, intending it for one of the. great wonders of the world; another after, in hope of Fame, burnt it. Whither will not the thirst of fame carry men! It hath made fome feek to climb up to Heaven,: though by a wrong way: Thus the builders

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of Babel fay one to another, Let us build us a city, and a tower, whofe top may reach up to Heaven, and let us make us a Name, Gen. It 4 And it hath made others, who are penurious of their honour, and prodigal of their rules not fear to run down headlong into 11. 'Twas fame, without doubt, that ftirred up this man unto these voluntary, but hard un dertakings, and the hope of that glory which he should reap after he had finished his long travels, made him not at all to take notice of the hardship he found in them. That hope of name and repute for the time to come did even feed and feaft him for the time prefent, And therefore, any thing that did in any mea fure eclipfe him in thofe high conceivings of his own worth, did too much trouble him, which you may collect from these following inftances.

Upon a time one Mr. Richard Steel, a merchant, and fervant to the Eaft-India company, came unto us from Surat to Mandoa, the place then of the Mogul's refidence, at which time Mr. Coryate was there with us: This merchant had not long before travelled over land from Eaft-India through Perfia, and fo to Conftantinople, and fo for England; who in his travel homeward had met with Tom. Coryate, as he was journeying towards Eat-India; Mr. Steel then told him, that when he was in England, King James (then living) enquired after him, and when he had certified

the King of his meeting him on the way, the King replied, Is that fool yet living? which, when our Pilgrim heard, it seemed to trouble him very much, because the King spake no more nor no better of him; faying, that Kings would fpeak of poor men what they pleased.

At another time, when he was ready to depart from us, my Lord Ambaffador gave him a letter, and in that a bill to receive ten pounds at Aleppo, when he fhould return thither: The letter was directed unto Mr. Libbeus Chapman, there Conful at that time; in which that which concerned our traveller was thus: "Mr. Chapman, when you shall hand theie letters, I defire you to receive the bearer of them, Mr. Thomas Coryate, with courtesy, for you fhall find him a very honeft poor wretch; and further I must intreat you to furnish him with ten pounds, which shall be repaid, &c." (ur Pilgrim lik'd the gift well, but the language by which he should have receiv'd it, did not at all content him; telling me, that my Lord had even spoiled his courtesy in the carriage thereof; so that if hẹ had been a very fool indeed, he could have faid very little lefs of him than he did, boneft poor wretch! and to fay no more of him was to fay as much as nothing. And furthermore he then told me, that when he was formerly undertaking his journey to Venice, a perfon of honour wrote thus in his behalf unto Sir Henry Wotton, then and there Ambaffador;

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My Lord, good wine needs no bush, neither a worthy man letters commendatory; because whitherfoever he comes he is his own epiftle, &c." "There (faid he) was fome language on my behalf; but now for my Lord to write nothing of me by way of commendation, but boneft poor wretch, is rather to trouble me than to please me with his favour." And therefore afterwards his letter was phras'd up to his mind, but he never liv'd to receive 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 least measure difcourage him. O what pains this poor man took to make himself a subject for present and after discourse! being troubled at nothing for the present, unless with the fear of not living to reap that fruit he was fo ambitious of in all his undertakings. And certainly he was furprized with some such thoughts and fears (for fo he told us afterwards) when upon a time he being at Mandoa with us, and there standing in a room against a stone pillar, where the Ambaffador was, and myself prefent with them, upon a fudden he fell into fuch a fwoon, that we had very much ado to recover him out of it; but at last, when come to himself, he told us that fome fad thoughts had immediately before prefented themfelves to his fancy, which as he conceived put him into that dif temper; like Fannius in Martial-ne moriare mori, to prevent death by dying, for he told us

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