"Upon the third day from Salonica, we arrived in the Roade of Tenedos, which is an Iland in the Sea Pontus, or Propontis: It hath a City called Tenedos, built by Tenes, which is a gallant place, having a Castle, and a faire Haven for all sorts of vessells: It produceth good store of wines, and the best supposed to be in all the South east parts of Europe, or yet in Asia. The Iland is not bigge, but exceeding fertile, lying three miles from the place where Troy stood, as Virgil reported, Æneid. 2.Est in conspectu Tenedos, notissima fama insula,In sight of Troy, a stately Ile I fand Shut up with Pontus, from the Trojane land; Whose beauteous bounds, made me wish there to stay, Or that I might transport the same away; Else like Tritonean rude Proponticke charmes, T’ imbrace sweet Tenes, alwaies in mine armes.And againe:Insula dives opum, Priami dum regna manebant.An Ile most rich, in Silkes, delicious Wine, When Priams Kingdome did in glory shine. Where Ceres now, and Bachus love to dwell And Flora too, in Berecinthiaes Cell."
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William Lithgow, Painefull Peregrinations (1640), III, 121–122
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