A.D. 

 I57I. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



The true report of the siege and taking of Fama- 

 gusta, of the antique writers called Tamassus, 

 a city in Cyprus 1571. In the which the 

 whole order of all the skirmishes, batteries, 

 mines, and assaults given to the sayd fortresse, 

 may plainly appeare. Englished out of Italian 

 by William Malim. 



To the right honourable and his singular good 

 Lord, and onely Patron the Earle of Leicester, 

 Baron of Denbigh, Knight of the honourable 

 order of the Garter, one of the Queenes 

 Majesties most honourable privy Councell &c. 

 William Malim wisheth long health with in- 

 crease of honour. 



T hath bene a naturall instinct (right 

 honourable and mine especiall good 

 lord) ingraffed in noble personages 

 hearts, much approved and confirmed 

 also by custome, for them to seeke from 

 time to time, by some meanes in their 

 life, by the which they after their death 



might deliver over their name to their posteritie : least 

 otherwise with their body, their fame also altogether 

 might perchance be buried. Upon the which considera- 

 tion we reade many notable and famous things to have 

 bene erected in time past of noble personages (having 

 had wealth at will) in such sort, that not onely certaine 

 ruines of the same sumptuous works builded so many 

 hundred yeres past, do still remaine, but also the most 

 part of those princes, the authours of them, do continually 

 by them dwell in our memories. As the Pyramides made 

 at Memphis, or neere the famous river of Nilus, by the 

 great expenses of the kings of Egypt : the tower called 

 Pharia, made in the Hand of Pharos by king Ptolomee : 

 the walles of Babylon, made or at the least reedified by 



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