The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul 19.9.4

19.9.4

Hee desiered mee not to doe soe, for the king loued mee and had giuen order for yt: that the preparation of this feast had hindered him, but that now hee would send it mee, and doe mee all seruice. September 3. — I went to the Prince and deliuered the Conditions demanded on my part, and withall a breefe of what I required in his firmaen ; to all which hee agreed. I gaue him for a Present a siluer watch very small, which he tooke kyndly ; but tould mee the Pictures I showed his father the night before, If I had giuen him, hee would haue better accepted then any thing ; demanding if I had no more. I answered they were toyes, only valewable in my fancy, which I neuer purposed to giue, nor esteemed them woorthy presents for Princes : but that, showeing them for the arts sake to the Paynter, hee had enformed the king and so his Maiestie had Commanded them : that I had but only that which his Maiestie had returned, which should bee at his seruice. At night I sent to his secretary for the firmaen ; who promised in two dayes to finish yt.