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A true description of His Majesties royall ship, built this yeare 1637. at Wooll-witch in Kent To the great glory of our English nation, and not paraleld in the whole Christian world. Published by authoritie.
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Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.
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A True Description of His Majesties Royall Ship Built this Yeare 1637. at Wooll-witch in KENT To the great glory of our English Nation and not paraleld in the whole Christian World Quae freta jam Circum Cingunt regalia Regna Deberi Sceptris Carole scito tuis Auspicijs macte ergo bonis invicte Monarcha Parcere subiectis perge Domare feros Published by Authoritie LONDON Printed by Iohn Okes for Iohn Aston and are to bee sold at his shop in Cat-eaten-streete at the signe of the Buls-head Anno 1637. TO THE HIGH AND Mighty Monarch CHARLES The first of that NAME KING of Great BRITTAINE FRANCE AND IRELAND Defender of the Faith c. Consecrateth these his humble endevours Thomas Heywood To my much respected Friend Master Thomas Heywood and of his Booke of his Maiesties Great Ship NOw for an Homer whose immortall Verse In well lim'd lines and raptures might rehearse The bravery of this Vessell he 'd have found A way fit to expresse her and have crownd Her stately Fabricke with invention As large and stately as her selfe Not one Calliope but the whole Muses Quire Had bin invoak'd his fancy to inspire He would have told how Iove in Counsell sate And all the gods determin'd of Her fate The Grecian Argo that now shines in glory A Constellation had bin lost in Story This only had bin stellified and made The Subiect of an intyre Iliade He would have told how well she had bin wrought And all the Argive Heroes were her fraught Such wonders of her frame and all but truth Would have so fir'd the Macedonian Youth And his proud thoughts into such passions hurl'd He would have priz'd her 'bove another World Her Neptune at first sight embrac'd and gave Her power to insult upon each swelling Wave Then layd his Trident on her Decke and swore To fill her wombe with the rich Indian Ore This Homer would have told and for tuition The Deities stood all in Competition The Winds too should have struggled in their iayles And brâ—ake out to salute her pregnant Sayles Scylla with her fierce Dogs had barkt no more Nor should the Sea-man heard Charibdis roare This Ship alone had torne their stony iawes And with her Bullets surfeited their mawes This Homer would have told but in what state And strength of verse no Muse can arbitrate Achilles brâ—zen Launce had not beene nam'd To shake downe Towers nor that great Machine fram'd By Pallas Art wherein were Captive led A thousand Conquerâ—rs that ruin'd Priams 〈◊〉 â—lion and did levill lay With the base ground the pride of Asia Had this brave Ship rod there no need had been Of Ajax Nestor or of Idâ—men Nor of Achilles Mirmidons each stone Had owed its ruine to her strength alone Then after the long siege and ten yeares stir Vlysses wandrings had beene put in Her Thus the true Prince of Poets Homer would Have in Fames lastingâ—Booke Her name in rol'd And they that shall of such a Subject sing Their lines deserve accâ—â—tance from a King But tell me Muse though I must ever keepe Close to the shore not launch into the Deepe Yet deigne to tell by a Propheticke way What neighbour Nations censure what they say The Spaniard with his politicke shrug cryes out There 's some designe in hand and without doubt 'Gainst our late fleete is there no way to take her Or build the like could not our Jesuites make her Turne Romist and then they discourse the fight Of old Lepanto and of eighty eight The neighbour French looke onely by meere shew And outside gawdinesse that thinke we owe Much for intelligence 'cause they impose Their fancies on us how to cut our clothes And cringe and congee yet the jâ—st report Of this Ships Architectâ—re does extort This truth from their beliefe she was no vaine Invention nor kick shâ—we of â—heir braine They never could aspire to iâ— 't is knowne And I am glad this fashion is our owne The numerous Dutch stil thriving in their purse That World-like do enjoy the happy curâ—e To wander through the seas that labour more Than Bees and sucke the honey from each shore In all their travels sware they never saw One so much water so much honour draw What else should be supply'd I â—ust bâ—queath To thee friend Haywood who hast Royall leave To publish it unto the worlds broad eyes And art well skild in all her properties Shackerley Mâ—rmion Imprimatur Tho. Weekes With permission likewise by Peter Pett Master builder 7. of Septemb. 1637. A True Description of His Majesties Royall Ship built this Yeare 1637. at Wolwitch in KENT c. NAvigation is as ancient as the first great Deluge and the Arke which God Almighty commaunded to be made the first Vessell that was ever lifted upon the Waters For as before the Earth was unplowed so were the Seas unfurrowed One Ship at once contained all the living people of the VVorld but now what a multitude of Ships doth the World containe The first had neyther Mast Saile nor Oare for what need was of these or any of them when He who made the â—eas and the Winds was both Pilot and Steares-man Noah the first Navigator entred the Arke in the yeare from the Creation 1656. in the second Month and the seventeenth day thereof when he himselfe was six hundred yeares in age His voyage was a full sâ—lary yeare which containeth twelve Lunary Moneths to which are added ten dayes called Epactae For so long he floated upon the Waters ere he set footing upon the Earth The Arke after the Flood was somewhat abated according to the testimony of Moyses first rested upon the Mountaines of Ararat which the best Cosmographers held to â—e Montes Gordaei the Gordaean Mountaines which have their scituation in Armenia Haitonus Armenus in his Book de Tartarijs Cap. 7. Writeth that in Armenia there is a Mountain which is held to be one of the highest upon Earth vulgarly called Arat on which the Arke first touched and though by reason of the abundance of Snow which cloathed it Winter and Summer it be altogether unpassable yet in the very Apex and top thereof there is still to be discerned a blacke shadow resembling a Darke Cloud which by the Natives of that Country hath successively bin held to be the still remaining carkasse of the Arke of Noah Him all the Ethnicke and Gentile Writers call Ianus because he first planted the Vine for the Hebrews call Vinum Iajin from whence he received the Denomination of Ianus Vinitor who after arriving in Italy and there seating himselfe from him that Countrey was called Ianicula and the City Ianua by corruption of time since called Genua was thought to have bin by him Erected My observation concerning the premises is That he who was preserved in the Waters was the first that taught the use of VVine In which it may be supposed more soules have since bin Ship-wrackt then perisht in the first Vniversall Cataclisme Quintus