So I (Right Worshipfull Following This Persian President)
Hauing Taking Vpon Me This Simple Translation Out Of The Portingale
Tongue, Into Our English Language, Am Bold To Present & Dedicate The
Same Vnto You As A Signification Of My Entire Good Will.
The history
conteineth the discouerie and conquest of the East Indias, made by
sundry worthy captaines of the Portengales,
In the time of King Don
Manuel, & of the King Don John, the second of that name, with the
description, not onely of the country, but also of every harbour
apperteining to every place whervnto they came, & of the great
resistance they found in the same, by reson wherof there was sundry
great battles many times fought, and likewise of the commodities &
riches that euery of these places doth yeeld. And for that I know your
worship, with great peril and daunger haue past these monstrous and
bottomlesse sees, am therfore the more encouraged to desire & pray
your worships patronage & defence therof, requesting you with all to
pardon those imperfections, which I acknowledge to be very many, & so
much the more, by reason of my long & many years continuance in
foreine countries. Howbeit, I hope to have truly observed the literal
sence & full effect of the history, as the author setteth it forth,
which if it may please you to peruse & accept in good part, I shall be
greatly emboldened to proceede & publish also the second & third booke,
which I am assured will neither be vnpleasant nor vnprofitable to the
readers.
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