The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul 28.2.3

28.2.3

— I went to the King, and carried a New-yeares gift, a paire of very faire Kniues of my owne, and sixe Glasses of yours. The excuse I made was well receiued, and the King vsed mee with all grace ; this onely was my comfort. He said whatsoeuer came from my hands was present sufficient : he accepted my loue, and it was his part now to giue me. I found a gainer by him, who had so farre performed his promise that I perceiued the King instructed in my desire, and gaue present order to an Officer to send for Master Bidolph to pay him to his content for such things as he claymed, and all the others were acknowledged to be receiued by name ; and that when I went to the Prince, the King would write ; but was loth to part with any thing, of which the best sweetbagge lay before him. I replyed : I was as loth to goe emptie-handed ; so it rested. The King commanded I should come vp and stand within, on the degrees of his Throne by him, where I found on one side the Persian Ambassadour, on the other the old King [of] Candahar, with whom I ranked, and he presently fell to begge a Knife, which next day I sent. The King called for the Persian to come downe, to whom he gaue a Iewell and a young Elephant, for which he kneeled and saluted the ground with his head. The Throne was the same vsed the last yeare, and all the other furniture.