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See also: English traveller and writer, was See also: born at Odcombe, See also: Somersetshire, where his See also: father, the Rev
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See also: George Coryate, prebendary of See also: York See also: Cathedral, wasrector
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Educated at See also: Westminster school and at See also: Oxford, he became a kind of See also: court fool, eventually entering the See also: household of See also: Prince See also: Henry, the eldest son of
See also: James I
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In 1611 he published a curious account of a prolonged walking tour undertaken in 16o8, under the title of Coryate's Crudities hastily gobbled up in Five Months Travels in
See also: France, See also: Italy, &c
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At the command of Prince Henry, verses in See also: mock praise of the author, and in-tended originally to persuade some bookseller to undertake the publication of the Crudities, were added to the See also: volume
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These commendatory verses, written in a number of See also: languages, and some in a mixture of languages, by See also: Ben See also: Jonson, See also: Donne, See also: Chapman, See also: Drayton and others, were afterwards published (1611) by them-selves as the Odcombian Banquet
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The See also: book contains a clear and interesting account of Coryate's travels, and, being the first of its kind, was extremely popular
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It is now very rare, and the copy in the Chetham library is said to be the only perfect one
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In the same See also: year was published a second volume of a similar kind, Coryats Crambe, or his Coleworte twice Sodden
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In 1612 he set out on another journey, which also was mostly performed on See also: foot
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He visited See also: Greece, the See also: Holy See also: Land, See also: Persia and See also: India; from See also: Agra and See also: Ajmere he sent home an account of his adventures
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Some of his letters were published in 1616 under the title of Letters from Asmere, the Court of the See also: Great See also: Mogul, to several Persons of Quality in See also: England, and some fragments of his writings were included in See also: Purchas his Pilgrimes in 1625
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Coryate was a curious and observant traveller; he gives accounts of inscriptions he had copied, of the antiquities of the towns he passed through, and ofSee also: manners and customs, from the See also: Italian pronunciation of Latin to the new-fangled use of forks
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He acquired a knowledge of See also: Turkish, Persian and Hindustani in the course of his travels, and on being presented by the English ambassador, See also: Sir See also: Thomas Roe, to the Great Mogul, he delivered a speech in Persian
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His journeys were performed at small expense, for he says that he spent only three pounds between
See also: Aleppo and Agra, and often lived " competently " for a See also: penny a See also: day
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Coryate died at See also: Surat in 1617
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Coryate's Crudities, with his letters from India, was reprinted from the edition of 1611 in 1776, and at the See also: Glasgow University See also: Press (2 vols., 1905)
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The Odcombian Banquet was ridiculed by See also: John
See also: Taylor, the
See also: Water Poet, in his Laugh and be Fat, or a Commentary on the Odcombian See also: Banket (1613) and two other satires
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