RICHARD WRAG 



A.D. 

 1597 



To the Worshipfull and his very loving Uncle 

 M. Rowland Hewish Esquier, at Sand in 

 Devonshire. 



Ir, considering the goodnesse of your 

 Nature which is woont kindely to accept 

 from a friend, even of meane things 

 being given with a good heart, I have 

 presumed to trouble you with the read- 

 ing of this rude discourse of my travailes 

 into Turkie, and of the deliverie of the 

 present with such other occurrents as there happened 

 woorthie the observation : of all which proceedings I 

 was an eie-witnesse, it pleasing the Ambassadour to 

 take mee in with him to the Grand Signior. If for 

 lacke of time to put it in order I have not performed 

 it so well as it ought, I crave pardon, assuring you that 

 to my knowledge 1 have not missed in the trueth of any 

 thing. If you aske mee what in my travels I have 

 learned, I answere as a noble man of France did to the 

 like demaund, Hoc unum didici, mundi contemptum : 

 and so concluding with the wise man in the booke of 

 the Preacher, that all is vanitie, and one thing onely is 

 necessarie, I take my leave and commit you to the 

 Almightie. From London the 16. March 1597. 



Your loving Nephew 



Richard Wrag. 



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