MOSCOW. 
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Randolph, who went as ambassador from Queen c **£ p * 
Elizabeth, was a person of the name of George 
Tubervile, and wrote “ Certaine Letters inVerse," Letter 
to Dancie, Spenser, and Parker , “ describing the 
maners of the countrey and people. He ap- 
pears to have been a young man of fashion at 
that time. We have selected some of the most 
striking passages in these Letters, for a note - . 
They are very little known, and worth the 
Reader’s attention; not merely because they 
(2) “ 1 left my native soile, full like a retehlesse man, 
And unacquainted of the coast, among the Russes ran : 
A people passing rude, to vices vile inclinde, 
Folke (it to be of Bacchus train, so quaffing is their kinde. 
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“ Such lieour as they have, and as the eountrey gives, 
But chiefly two, one called Kitas, whereby the Mrnsihe lives. 
Small ware and waterlike, but somewhat tart in taste, 
The rest is Mead of hunic made, wherewith their lips they baste. 
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« Their Idoles have their hearts, on God they never call, 
Unlesse it be ( Nichola Baugh ) that hangs against the wall. 
Tile house that hath no god, or painted saint, within. 
Is uot to be resorted to, that roofe is full of shine.” ‘ 
Hakluyt's Voyages, pp. 384—5. 
He then proceeds to mention the dissolute lives of the women, and 
their manner of painting their cheeks : and, at the close of his Letter 
to Spenser, he says, 
“ The people beastly bee. 
I write not all 1 know, I touch but here and there ; 
For if I should, my penne would pinch, and eke offend I feare. 
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“ They say the lion’s paw gives judgement of the beast : 
And so you may deeme of the great, by reading of the least. 
Hid. p. 387. 
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