The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul 7.13

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the Prince gouerned by him; the King was my only refuge, from whom I was sure of Justice if I Complaynd, but I feard I should drawe vpon me the hate of Normall the beloued queene, Ante to Sultan corrons wife, sister of Asaph Chan, whose daughter the Prince married, and all that Powerfull faction, against whom, though I might once preuayle, yet the aduantage of tyme, language, and oportunitye, the Power of a wife, a Sonne, and a fauorite, would produce reuenge. Soe that I resolued to temporize, and to see if I could remoue Asaph Chan from his opinion, and then all would follow; if not, to take a desperate remedy, when I saw all other wayes were desperat.