The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul 19.6.4

19.6.4

wanting no Courtship : That he was a poore man, slaue to the king : That hee desiered I should receiue some content, and that therfore hee had drawen mee to a slight banquett, to eate bread and salte togeither to seale a frendshipp, which hee desiered mee to accept : that ther were many great men able to showe mee more Curtesye, but they were proud and falce : wishing mee to trust to none, for that if I had businesess to the king of any weight, eyther concerning the Portugalls or any other, they would never deliuer truth who were my enterpreters, but only what eyther pleased them selues or would Content in the relation : That therfore I should neuer be rightly vnderstood, nor effect my busines without abuse, nor neuer clearly know my estate, vntill I had an Englishman that could speake Persian, and that might deliuer my mynd without passing the toong of another, which the king would grant mee if I could fynd any, for that hee had conceiued a good opinion of mee, and the last night at the Gusselchan, having brought before him the Iewells of Sheck Ferid, Gouernor of Lahor, lately dead, hee remembred me of him selfe, and seeing a Pickture of his owne that pleased him he deliuered it to Asaph chan, commanding him to send it mee to weare for his sake, with many woordes of fauour towardes mee, which would make all the great men respect mee. In this tyme came in dinner ;