AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1571. 



the same evermore both here at home, and elswhere 

 abroad, wishing often to have had some just occasion to 

 pay part of that in good will, which my slender abilitie 

 will never suffer me fully to discharge. For unto whom 

 should I sooner present any thing any way, especially 

 concerning matters done abroad, then unto your lordship, 

 by whom I was much cherished abroad in my travell, 

 and mainteined since my returne here at home ? For 

 the which cause I have enterprised (hoping greatly of 

 your lordships favour herein) to clothe and set forth a 

 few Italian newes in our English attire, being first mooved 



[II. i. 119.] thereunto by the right worshipfull M. D. Wilson Master 

 of her Majesties Requests, your honours assured trusty 

 friend, a great & painfull furtherer of learning, whom I, 

 and many other for divers respects ought to reverence : 

 who remembring that I had bene at Cyprus, was willing 

 that my pen should travell about the Christian and 

 Turkish affaires, which there lately have happened : per- 

 swading himselfe, that somewhat thereby I might benefit 

 this our native countrey. Against whose reasonable 

 motion I could not greatly wrestle, hazzarding rather my 

 slender skill in attempting and performing this his re- 

 quested taske, then he through my refusall should seeme 

 to want any jot of my good will. In offering up the 

 which newes, although I shall present no new thing to 

 your honour, because you are so well acquainted with 

 the Italian copy, as I know : yet I trust your lordship 

 will not mislike, that the same which is both pleasant 

 to reade, and so necessary to be knowen for divers of our 

 captaines and other our countreymen, which are ignorant 

 in the Italian tongue, may thus now shew it selfe abroad, 

 covered under the wing of your lordships protection. 

 Certeinly it mooveth me much to remember the losse 

 of those three notable Hands, to the great discomfort of 

 all Christendome, to those hellish Turkes, horseleeches 



Rhodes lost, of Christian blood : namely Rhodes besieged on S. John 

 Baptists day, and taken on Johns day the Evangelist, 



Scio lost. being the 27 of December 1522. Scio or Chios being 



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