308 ROE'S AUDIENCE WITH THE GREAT MOGUL
is noe busines done with him Concerning the state,
gouerment, disposition of warr or peace, but at one
of these two last Places, wher it is publiquely pro-
pounded, and resolued, and soe registred, which if it
were woorth the Curiositye might bee seene for two
shillings, but the Common
basse people knew as much
as the Councell, and the
Newes euery day is the
kings new resolutions
tossed and censured by
euery rascall. This Course
is vnchangeable, except
sicknes or drinck preuent
yt; which must be known,
for as all his Subjects are
slaues, so is he in a kynd
of reciprocall bondage, for
he is tyed to obserue these
howres and Customes so
BIB THOMAS ROE, AMBASSADOR TO THE
GREAT MOGUL. precisely that if hee were
vnseene one day and noe sufficient reason rendred the
people would mutinie ; two dayes noe reason can excuse,
but that he must consent to open his doores and bee
seene by some to satisfye others. 6n Tuesday at the
Jarruco he sitts in Judgment, neuer refusing the poor-
est mans Complaynt, where hee heares with Patience
both parts: and some tymes sees with too much delight
in blood the execution done by his Eliphants. Illi
meruere; sed quid tu vt adesses?
