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heerewith, is very much : and therefore, if thereof you 

 can save any thing, I pray you doe it, as I doubt not 

 but you will. They are to give you there also another 

 Janizarie according as the French hath ; whose outward 

 proceedings you are to imitate and follow, in such sort 

 as you bee not his inferiour, according as those of our 

 Nation heeretofore with him resident can informe you. 

 Touching your demeanour after your placing, you are 

 wisely to proceede considering both French and Venetian 

 will have an envious eye on you : whome if they per- 

 ceive wise and well advised, they will feare to offer you 

 any injurie. But if they shall perceive any insufficiencie 

 in you, they will not omitte any occasion to harme you. 

 They are subtile, malicious, and dissembling people, 

 wherefore you must alwayes have their doings for sus- 

 pected, and warily walke in all your actions : wherein if 

 [II. i. 173.] you call for Gods divine assistance, as doth become 

 every faithfull good Christian, the same shall in such sort 

 direct you as he shall be glorified, your selfe preserved, 

 your doings blessed, and your enemies confounded. 

 Which if contrarywise you omit and forget, your enemies 

 malice shalbe satisfied with your confusion, which God 

 defend, and for his mercies sake keepe you. Touching 

 any outlopers of our nation, which may happen to come 

 thither to trafiike, you are not to suffer, but to imprison 

 the chiefe officers, and suffer the rest not to traffike at 

 any time, and together enter in such bonds as you thinke 

 meete, that both they shall not deale in the Grand 

 Signiors dominions, and also not harme, during their 

 voyage, any his subjects shippes, vessels, or whatsoever 

 other, but quietly depart out of the same country without 

 any harme doing. And touching those there for the 

 company, you are to defend them according to your 

 priviledge & such commandements as you have had 

 hence, in the best order you may. In all and every your 

 actions, at any hand, beware of rashnesse and anger, after 

 both which repentance followeth. Touching your dealings 

 in their affaires of marchandise, you are not to deale 



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