widenesse of the saide boxe, and hauing cut it full of small holes lay it within the same vpon the egges, and vpon that againe some fewe mulberrie leaves, to which the wormes, as they are hatched, will continually come. These leaues, with the wormes vpon them, you must still remooue into other boxes, laying fresh leaues as well on those that are remooued, as on the paper where the egges are; and this is the course, which must be duly kept and obserued, vntill such times as all the wormes be come forth of their shells, still keeping their boxes warme as aforesaid, but no longer about you, but vntill the wormes begin to come forth; out of which boxes, you may safely take them, when once they haue, past their second sicknesse, and feede them vpon shelues of two feete in breadth, and eighteene inches one aboue the other.

The said shelues are not to be placed in any ground roome, nor yet next vnto the tyles, but in some middle roome of your house, which openeth vpon the North and South, that you may the more conueniently giue them either heate or aire, according as the time and season shall require. Besides you must not make them close vnto the walles, but so as you must passe about them, the better to looke vnto the wormes, and keep them from rats and mice, which otherwise might deuoure them. You must obserue the times of their comming foorth, and keepe euerye one or two daies hatching by themselues, that you may the better vnderstand their seuerall sicknesses or sleepings, which are foure in the time of their feeding. The first commonly some twelue daies after they are hatched, and from that time at the end of euery eight daies, according to the weather, and their good or ill vsage: during which time of euery sickenesse, which lasteth two or three daies, you must feede them but verie little, as onely to releeue such of them, as shall haue past their sicknesse before the rest, and those that shall not fall into their sicknesse so soone.

The whole time, that the wormes doe feede, is about nine weekes, whereof, vntill they come vnto their first sickenes, giue them young mulberrie leaues twice euery day, but fewe at a time; from thence vntill their second sicknesse, twice euery day in greater quantitie: and so from their second to their third sickenesse, increasing the quantitie of the leaues, according as you perceive the wormes to grow in strength, and cleare of sickenesse: From the third vntill their fourth sickenesse, you may give them leaues thrice euery day, and, the fourth beeing past, you may let them haue so many as they will eate, alwaics hauing a care that you giue them none, but such as are drie, and well ayred vpon a table or cloath before they be laid vpon them, and withall gathered so neere as may be, at such times as either the sunne or wind hath cleared them of the deawe that falleth vpon them.

For the feeding of wormes you neede observe no other order than this, Lay the mulberrie leaves vpon them, and euery two or three dayes remooue them, and make clean their boxes, or shelues, unlesse in times of their sicknesse, for then they are not to be touched: The leaves which you take from them, when you give them fresh to feede vpon, you must lay in some conuenient place, and vpon them, a fewe newe leaues, to which the wormes, that lay hidden in the olde, will come,

and then you may passe them with the said new leaues to the rest of the wormes: And now, least any thing should be omitted, which serues to perfect the discouerie of so excellent a benefit, I will aduise you to be very diligent in keeping cleane their boxes, or shelues, as beeing a speciall meanes whereby to preserue them; wherefore, when you intend to doe it, you shall remooue them together with the vppermoste leaues whereon they lie, vnto other boxes or shelues, for with your hands you may not touch them, till they haue thoroughly vndergone their third sicknesse, and then you may passe them gently with cleane hands, without doing them any harme: Prouided that the partie that commeth neere them smell not of garlick, onyons, or the like, The first fiue weckes of their age, you must be very carefull to keepe them warme, and, in time of raine or cold weather, to set, in the roome where they remaine, a pan with coales, burning in it now and then some iuniper, Benjamin, and such like, that yeeldeth sweete smells. But afterwards, vnlesse in time of extraordinarie cold, giue them ayre, and take heede of keeping them too hot, being alwaies mindefull to store the roome with hearbes and flowers which are delightfull and pleasing to the smell. As the wormes increase in bignesse, you shall disperse them abroad vpon more boards, or shelves, and not suffer them to lie too thicke together; and if you finde any of them broken, or of a yellowe glistering colour inclining to sicknesse, cast them away, least they infect the rest, and sort such as are not sicke, the greatest and strongest by themselues, for so the lesser will prosper the better.

When, and how to make fit Roomes for the Wormes to worke their Bottomes of Silke in, and in what sort the said Bottomes are to be vsed.

AS soone as, by the cleare amber-coloured bodies of your wormes, you shall perceiue them ready to giue their silk, you must (with heath made uery cleane, or with the branches of rosemarie, the stalkes of lauender, or such like) make arches betweene the foresaid shelues.

Vpon the branches and sprigs whereof the wormes will fasten themselues, and make their bottomes, which, in foureteene daies after the worme beginneth to worke them, you may take away; and those, which you are minded to vse for the best silke, you must either presently winde, or kill the wormes which are within them, by laying the said bottomes two or three dayes in the sunne, or in some ouen after the bread baked therein is taken out, and the fiercenesse of the heat is alaide. The other bottomes, which you intend to keep for seede, you must lay in some conuenient warme place, vntill the wormes come forth, which is commonly some sixteene or twenty daies, from the beginning of their worke: And, as they doe come forth, you must put them together vpon some peece of old sey, grogeran, the backside of old veluet, or the like, made fast against some wall or hangings in your house.

vpon

There they will ingender, and the male, hauing spent himselfe, falleth downe, and in short time after dieth, as also doth the female, when she hath laide her egges; which egges, when you perceiue them the sey, or grogeran, &c. to be of a graish colour, you may take them off gently, with a knife, and hauing put them in a peece of sey, or such-like, keepe them in a couered box, amongst your woollen cloathes, or the like, till the yeare following: But not in any moist roome, for it is hurtfull for them, neither where there is too much. heate, least the wormes should be hatched before you can haue any foode for them.

SIR ROBERT SHERLEY,

SENT AMBASSADOUR,

IN THE NAME OF THE KING OF PERSIA,
TO SIGISMOND THE THIRD,

KING OF POLAND AND SWECIA,

And to other Princes of Europe.

His Royall Entertainement into Cracovia, the chiefe Citic of Poland

With his pretended Comming into England.

Also, the honorable praises of the same Sir Robert Sherley, giuen vnto him in that Kingdom, are here likewise inserted.

London: Printed by I. Windet, for Iohn Budge, and are to be sold at his shop, at the great South Doore of Pauls, 1609. (In Black Letter.) Quarto, containing twenty-two Pages.

To the Worthie and Noble affected Gentleman, Sir Thomas Sherley, Father to that Illustrious Sparke of Honor and Vertue, Sir Robert Sherley.

SIR,

NOT long since it was my happinesse to meete with a little poem in Latine, as full fraighted with the prayses of your worthie renowned sonne, as is his brest with vertues; which no sooner mine eie had visited, but the generall fame of his noblenesse inuited me to make his

prayses as generall, and, because it had beene a great iniurie to his worthinesse, that but one tongue should sound forth his encomiums, who in so many tongues hath purchased glory, thought it a part of humanitie, and the office of a native countriman, since his honors were so spatious and generall, to make his prayses speake more tongues then one; and, amongst all, especially, I chose the voice of his owne countrey, as the fittest trumpet of his fame, for whose honor he hath chiefly aduentured his life and fortunes: To you therefore, the happie father of so worthy a son, I dedicate both my loue and labour, knowing the vniversall taste of his noblenesse cannot come to the deere thirst of his countrey more pleasing, then to your soule ioyfull.

TO THE READER.

READER,

THIS Persian robe, so richly wouen with the prayses onely of Sir Robert Sherley, thy countriman, comes to thee at a lowe price, though it cost him deere that weares it, to purchase so much fame, as hath made it so excellent. It is now his for euer; thine so long as it is his; for every good man, as I hope thou art, doth participate in the renowne of those that are good and vertuous.

He hath beene a traueller a long time, giue him now a welcome home; the armes of his owne country embracing him, will bee more ioyfull to him, then all those of so many forraine kingdomes, with which he hath so often beene honored.

If a man, that hath ventured through the world, may deserue thy loue, thou canst not chose, but bestow as much of it vpon him, as vpon any. Looke vpon him truely, and thou shalt find a large generall chronicle of time writ in a little volume.

He comes laden with the trophyes of warre, and the honors of peace. The Turke hath felt the sharpenesse of his sword, and against the Turke is he now whetting the swords of Christian princes. Much more could I speake of him, but that I should doe wrong to the common lawes of ciuilitie, by taking away that reuerence from strangers, whome, from countryes afarre of, you shall presently hcare giuing ample testimonies of his noblenesse.

Vale.

LBEIT that man can receive is birth but from one place, yet is he

A borne a freeman of all the cities of the world. The whole earth s his country, and he that dwelleth fardest off is, by the lawes of nature, as neer to him in loue, as his kindred and acquaintance. This general charter being giuen by the King of this uniuersall crowne, to all nations, hath caused men, from time to time, by the vertue of that priuiledge, to forsake the places of their first being, and to trauell into other countries. The benefits, that kingdomes haue gotten by this

meanes, cannot, in so small a volume, as this in hand, be compre hended. Trauell is the golden mine that inricheth the poorest country, and filleth the barrenest with abundant plenty. It is the chaine that at first tyed kingdomes together, and the musicall string that still maintaines them in concord, in leagues, and in unity. The Portugalls haue hereby crowned themselues, and there posterity, with garlands of neuer dying honor. The Spaniards haue their names, for this, so deepely ingrauen in the chronicles of fame, that they can neuer be forgotten. The French likewise, and the Dutch, haue raised their glories to a nobler height, onely by these aduentures. In imitation of all whose labors, or rather, in emulation of all their fames, our Englishmen have not onely stept as farre as any of them all, but gone beyond the most, and the best of them. And not to reckon those men of worth, in this kinde, of our owne nation, whose voyages and trauells, by sea and land, to set down, were able to fil whole volumes : I will onely, at this time (not with a loud and shrill trumpet, as they deserue, but, as it were, uppon an instrument, tuned and directed by another) give onely a soft touch at the praises of this worthy gentleman, Sir Robert Sherley, of whose aduentures, dangers, and various fortunes, both good and bad, to draw a true picture in the right and liuely colors, would as easily feed mens eies with gazing admiration, as the large pictured tables of others haue filled them with wonder.

Being therefore contented, at this time, to swim but in a shallow streame, of his fame, sithence greater sayles are likely heereafter, and that very shortly, to swell with the true report of his actions: You shall vnderstand, that Sir Robert Sherley, after a long, a chargeable, and a dangerous progresse through most, if not all, the kingdomes in Europe, receiuing entertainment from the princes of those dominions, fitting to such a ghuest, desire of glorie still more and more burning within him; at the length, he left Europe, and trauelled into Asia, receiuing noble entertainment at the hands of the King of Persia, in whose court he so well and so wisely bore himselfe in all his actions, that the Persian, with much of his loue, of which he tasted most plenteously, heaped on his head many honorable fauours.

That common enemy of Christ and Christians, the Turke, lifting vp his sword continually, for the most part, not onely against the Polack, the Hungarian, Bohemian, and other princes of Christendome, but also thirsting after the rich empire of Persia, and, shewing a mortall hatred to that kingdome by being euer vp in armes against it; it was thought fit, that (the Persian himselfe confessing and worshipping Christ) ayde should be required at the hands of Christian princes in the Persians behalfe, against so barbarous, so ambitious, and so generall an enemy. Hereupon the honour of such an ambassy was conferred, by the King of Persia, vpon Sir Robert Sherley, as a man worthy and apt to treat with Christian princes, in so weighty a businesse; he himselfe being a christian born, and a gentleman that had trauelled, and, by experience, knew the conditions, state, and pollicies of most of their kingdomes.

First therefore was he imployed into Poland, where, by Sigismond, the King of Poland and of Suecia, he was receiued with great mag