l of Venice, who vsually are arayed in gownes of crimsen Satten, or
crimsen Damaske, when they sit in Counsell.

In the citie of Venice, no man may weare a weapon, except he be a souldier
for the Seigniorie, or a scholler of Padua, or a gentleman of great
countenance, and yet he may not do that without licence.

As for the women of Venice, they be rather monsters then women. Euery
Shoomakers or Taylors wife will haue a gowne of silke, and one to carie vp
her traine, wearing their shooes very neere halfe a yarde high from the
ground: if a stranger meete one of them, he will surely thinke by the state
that she goeth with, that he meeteth a Lady.

I departed from this citie of Venice, vpon Midsommer day, being
the foure and twentieth of Iune, and thinking that the ship would
the next day depart, I stayed, and lay a shippeboord all night, and
we were made beleeue from time to time, that we should this day,
and that day depart, but we taried still, till the fourteenth of July,
and then with scant winde we set sayle, and sayled that day and
that night, not aboue fiftie Italian miles: and vpon the sixteene
day at night the winde turned flat contrary, so that the Master
knewe not what to doe: and about the fift houre of the night,
which we reckon to be about one of the clocke after midnight, the
Pilot descried a saile, and at last perceiued it to be a Gallie of the
Turkes, whereupon we were in great feare.

The Master being a wise fellowe, and a good sayler, beganne to deuise howe
to escape the danger, and to loose litle of our way: and while both he, and
all of vs were in our dumps, God sent vs a merry gale of winde, that we
ranne threescore and tenne leagues before it was twelue a clocke the next
day, and in sixe dayes after we were seuen leagues past Zante. And vpon
Munday morning, being the three and twentie of the same moneth, we came in
the sight of Candia which day the winde came contrary, with great blasts
and stormes, vntill the eight and twentie of the same moneth: in which
time, the Mariners cried out vpon me, because I was an English man, and
sayd, I was no good Christian, and wished that I were in the middest of the
Sea, saying, that they, and the shippe, were the worse for me. I answered,
truely it may well be, for I thinke my selfe the worst creature in the
worlde, and consider you your selues also, as I doe my selfe, and then vse
your discretion. The Frier preached, and the sermon being done, I was
demaunded