The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul 26.3.7

26.3.7

for the Complayntes hee wished mee to stay vntill the Presents arriued, and at their deliuerie to the king to aske leaue to goe to Brampoore to visitt the Prinnce, and, without mentioning particular offences, craue his lettre in generall tearmes to Command his Sonne to receiue mee, to heare mee in what soeuer I desired, and to doe Justice to our Nation, suffering none to doe them force, and to grant what farther Priuiledges I should fittly propound; which lettre hee would procure, and such a Course would signifie my respect to the Prince, to whom I should, with some fitt present, deliuer a breefe of all Complaynts; and having procured such Justice as I desired and settled my busines with him, I might returne to Court in double grace, and hee would write with mee to procure me Content. This Councell was such as I had taken before in myne owne Purpose with little difference, and such as necessitye showed mee to bee the right way; for I had experience by a Portugall what issue of Complayntes against the Prince would follow, formall remedy but full reuenge; and seeing it was necessarie that I must visitt him, I was loath to exasperat him against my well-come, and I found that if my occasions would haue permitted mee to giue all my attendance and respect to him, delinire ambitiosum, I should easiely Compasse him; so that I resolued to spare him as much as I could, and by myne owne trauell ouercum that I could not doe by opposition, and thus sett forward my purpose;