THE LOSS OF FAMAGUSTA 



A.D. 

 I57I. 



knowing already the same. But whosoever they be, that 

 in all their life time have an especiall care by all meanes 

 to profit as many as they be able, and hurt none, do not 

 onely a laudable act, but leade a perfect and very godly 

 life. Whereupon Strabo affirmeth this most truely to 

 be spoken of them : Mortales tum demum Deum imitari, 

 cum benefici fuerint. That is, Mortall men then specially 

 to follow the nature of God, when they are beneficiall 

 and bountifull to others. Great commendation un- 

 doubtedly it bringeth to any noble personage, that as 

 the Moone, that light and brightnesse which she receiveth 

 of the Sun, is wont presently to spread abroad upon the 

 face of the earth, to the refreshing and comforting of all 

 inferiour and naturall things bearing life : so for him, 

 to bestow all that favour and credit, which he hath gotten 

 at the princes handes, to the helpe and reliefe of the 

 woorthy and needy. Great is the force (my right 

 honourable lord) of true vertue, which causeth men, as 

 Tully writeth in his booke De Amicitia, to be loved & 

 honored oft of those persons, which never saw them. 

 Whereof I never had better proofe (I take God & mine 

 one conscience to witnesse, the which I declared also to 

 certaine of my friends assoone as I returned) then at 

 my last being at Constantinople, in the yere of our Lord Master 

 1564, whereas I oft resorting (as occasion served) to the 

 right honorable Christian ambassadors, while I made my 

 abode there (namely unto Monsieur Antonio Petrimol, 

 lieger there for the French king, Sig. M. Victor Braga- 

 dino, for the segniory of Venice, Sig. Lorenzo Giustiniano, 

 for the state of Scio, or Chios, and Sig. Albertacio delli 

 Alberti, for the duke of Florence) heard them often 

 report and speake very honorably of your lordship, partly 

 for your other good inclinations of nature, but especially 

 for your liberality, & courteous intreating of divers of 

 their friends & countrymen, which upon sundry occasions 

 had bene here in this our realme. So that to conclude, 

 all men justly favour your honourable dealings and 

 deserts : and I for my part have reverenced and honoured 



Mal'tm at 



Constantinople 



1564. 



