lawfully triumph But admit that it was knowne to Salomon and his nauigators doth it follow therefore that it was discouered to the whole world besides and such as had no commerce at all with the Iewes or might not the memory of it bee vtterly extinct before the later times of the Romaines Which if it were your opinion and Senecaes presage are both ouerthrowne Nay nay quoth Beroaldus I am not so easily disheartened with shadowes of reason This sit doubt of yours giues mee the stronger foote-hold History is not silent in this discouery but preserues the memory of it euen vnto the last posterities of the Romans For you know that from Salomon to the building of Carthage was little lesse then 150. yeares But the Carthaginians as Aristotle witnesseth nor can I beleeue that they did this in their Citties infancie after a tedious nauigation did finde an Island beyond the Gades which can bee none but this situate in the Atlantike sea wherevpon they made a law which is a true signe that neither did they people it nor the rest of the world as then commonly knew it that none should euer saile thether againe fearing least the wealthy and pleasant soile should allure the Citizens to leaue Carthage and go dwell there Now the Grecians hauing this knowledge of it from Carthage how should it bee euer kept from Rome But sirs kicke against the truth as long as you list or yeeld to it as I doe I am most firmely perswaded that Senecaes large continent is yet vndiscouered and staies to yeeld vs this glorie if we dare venter on it For my selfe I am comming my world after so many vowes and delaies now I come at last all fraight with hope and confidence either to vnmaske thee to Europe or to lay my bones in thee And you my friends and fellowes if there bee any true vertue or loue of glory in your breasts goe and share with mee in my fortunes in this great enterprise Shame goe with those frozen bosomes that affect nothing but security and in glorious estate that like no sepulcher but of the nations earth where they first breathed We shall thirst we shall be sicke wee shall perish O base hearing vnseemely for a Philosopher once to think vpō And shaming the thoughts of trauellers of such as seeke out a new world and scorne this olde one There wanteth nothing but a good will If yee bee men take that will vnto yee arme your selues against weake opinatiuenesse and let vs undertake that iourney which may be perhaps delightfull and cannot but proue glorious vnto vs howsoeuer it may seeme laborious If not lusk at home with vigour without honor I will finde some that shall beare mee company in this famous enterprise whose after renowne you may perhaps enuy too late Here he stopt his speech and beheld vs with an eye somewhat disturbed His pithy speech whereof I cannot rehearse the tenth part mooued vs much and so did our desires of nouelty and glorie briefely wee assented and resolued all to assay this great discouerie and embarked our selues in a ship called The Fancie taking our leaues of all our friends and acquaintance After three daies wee arriued on the Belgique shores and at the weekes end in Aquitane but Drogius staied behinde at Delfe and Beroaldus left mee here and departed vnto Monutauban against both their wills exposing mee to the derision of all mine acquaintance after their great expectation of this our discouerie vnlesse I would proceede and aduenture vpon all those vnknowne perills alone Yet this vnexpected departure of theirs did not ouer-come my resolution but I would needes forwards and hauing after two yeares passed the Canaries the coasts of Affrica and Monomotapa At last I arriued at that promontory of Tenter-belly which is called Il Cabo Negro The discouery of the land of Tenter-belly a part of the South Indies bordering vpon Terra del fuego THE FIRST BOOKE Of the situation thereof THe land of Tenter-belly is a region farre extending both in longitude and latitude bounding on the North vpon the Ethiopian Ocean on the East vpon Letcheritania Shee-landt on the South vpon Fooliana the fatte and on the West vpon Filtching-fennes It lieth in that vndiscouered Continent where that huge and monstrous Birde called RVC snatcheth vp now and then a whole Elephant at a stoope and swappes him vp at a bit This is not incredible for what I auerre most of our Geographers in their moderne discoueries doe confirme Touching the soyle the fertilitie is most worthily admirable the ayre most delicately temperate ô how I haue pittied that so bad husbandmen should possesse so happy an habitation In latitude it lieth full sixtie degrees and in longitude seuenty foure frō Cabo de bona speranza and is situate almost directly opposite vnto the Southerne frontiers of Affrica Such Cosmographers as write hereof diuide it generally into two Prouinces Eat-allia called otherwise in the naturall idiome of the inhabitants Gluttonia and Drink-allia or in the same language Quaffonia the former situate in the same longitude and latitude God saue the sample with our England and the later with the two Germanies Both haue one Prince both one lawe and a little reformation would make them concurre both in Prince lawe habite and manners Eat-allia or Gluttonia CHAP. 1. EAt-allia is in forme triangulare like the Greeke letter Delta which beareth this forme Δ It is as broad as long and resembleth the figure of the old Aegypt being full of high skie towring hills and yet so fertile that the very Birds that flock thether from all places to feed if they stay but one three moneths at the mangery this soile affords them are so ladened with the luggage of their owne fatned bodies that they cannot possibly get wing so high as to ouer-toppe one of the meaner mountaines but become sworne inhabitants of this fatte countrie all their liues after Fatte why your Italian Ortolano or Beccafico is but carrion to them No. they are rarely fedde This may seeme a fiction but hee that hath seene the workes of nature in Scotland where the leaues that fall from certaine trees lying but a while to rotte become a goodly kinde of fowle called Barnacles which are a kinde of wild-geese or in Scythia where as an honorable embassador of ours hath giuen an approued testimonie there are certaine creatures grow out of the earth in the shapes of Lambes which being fast ioyned vnto the stalke they grow vpon do notwithstanding eate vp all the grasse about them he I say that hath assurance of these rare effects cannot but assent vnto mine assertions as most authenticall But to leaue digressions and to returne to our purpose The fishes of the Eat-allian shores and fish they haue in great aboundance are naturally so rauenous and greedy that whether they pertake of the nature of the nation or like Nero's Turbut presage their honorable Sepultures you can no sooner
Denis wherein the soules of such as either liued too soberly or killed themselues desperately are purified by fire and there they burne vntill some of their liuing friends go in Pilgrimage to Chappell Ardent for a bottle of St. Borachios water powring that vpon their tombe they are freed I smiled at this and thought now surely I haue found the originall of Purgatorie let Abbat Odilo and his Monkes of Corunna tell mee neuer so many tales of mount Aetna and many good morrows 't is here or 't is no where Well at length we came a shore and found it a pretty sweete towne in truth to giue it the due marry it was both paued with bottles and roofed with letherne bougets I doe not remember I saw any attificer in all the towne but letherne Iack-makers and taylors for Bottle-cases so that now I saw what vtterance the Eat-alls had for their hides The reason is the men of this towne and country vse no pure wine as the other Drink-alls doe but certaine distilled waters mixt with the strongest grape they can get which are so forcibly hott that the brittle glasse cannot hold them and therefore they are driuen to fortifie their bottles with letherne Ierkins riuerted together with pitch and rosen The citizens are fiery of face and cholericke of condition enuious suspicious paralitique and of a staggering manner of pace in their going but that which is most terrible of all they drinke and they breath nothing but meere flames As much cold water or scarr-gut as one of vs will drinke so much fire will one of them take that a man would verily imagine when hee saw them that they were so many fire-drakes or Saint Georges dragons I was in danger of water before but now I feared nothing but that I should be stifled with fire So that I left my companion in his orisons vnto Bacchus I loued him well but I loued my selfe better the very next morning I got me out of this Vulcans shop for so it was and a very Cyclops forge rather then a Citie of Bacchus Now being vpon my way I began to resolue with my selfe to passe by the verges of Lecheritania back againe and so to see some-what of the fashions of the Hop-sackers the third countie of Drink-allia but iust as I was plodding on with this thought in my head rushes mee forth an Ambush of armed Sheelandresses you heard of Shee-landt before besette mee tooke mee and carryed mee prisoner the more vnfortunate I a long and toylesome iourney euen to the chiefe cittie of the land called Gossipingoa I would not haue the reader take any vnkindnesse at my hands for omitting the rest of Drink-allia for as my Pilgrim told me it is the basest part of the land this countie of Hop-sack and but that it is more beast-like different in nothing from the others which you heard described before Finis lib. 1. The second Booke The description of Shee-landt or Womandeçoia Of the situation and the parts thereof CHAP. 1. THE new discouered Womandeçoia which some mistaking both name and nation call Wingandecoia make it a part of Virginia otherwise called Shee-landt lieth in that part of the Southerne continent which our Geographers of Europe called Psytacorum Regio the land of Parrots On the North side it boundeth vpon Letcheritania a nation that is a great enemy to it on the South vpon Thriuingois on the East vpon the two Fooliana's the Fickle and the Fatte The soile thereof is very fruitfull but badly husbanded It is diuided into many Prouinces both large and ritch yet all of seuerall conditions habites and languages The principall of them are these Tattlingen Scoldonna Blubberick Gigglot-angir the high and the lowe Cockatrixia Shrewes-bourg and Blackswanstack otherwise called Modestiana Not farre from these is also an Iland called I le Hermaphrodite or more properly Double-sex Many of these Prouinces did I passe through sore against my will I le bee sworne But to speake the truth Tattlingen is the best country of all the rest hath many faire cities in it as Pratlingople Tales-borne Lyps-wagg through the last of which there runneth a great riuer called Slauer which some-times will ouer-flow the bankes and drowne all the lower part of the country which they call Chinn-dale but the countrimen haue now deuised very strong rampires of bones and bend lether to keepe it from breaking out any more but when they list to let it out a little now then for scouring of the channell But of all the citties of Tattlingen or of all Shee-landt Gossipingoa is the principall Thether was I brought and deteined a great deale longer then stood with my good liking I will for passing away a little time vntill the Capon bee enough we haue nothing else to do discourse the whole progresse of their dealing with mee here and then I le goe on with the conditions of this new nation How the Gossipingoesses vsed the Author of this discouerie CHAP. 2. AS soone as these cruell conqueresses had taken mee vpon the borders of Lecheritania they brought mee away to their chiefe city so to the court told a bell and presently all the inhabitants came flocking thether in a trice began to prie more narrowly vpon mee who stood bound sure enough god wot for offering them any false measure At length one of the rout their Captainesse it seemed shee was gaue a signe to the rest to be silent as she had need and then bespake the company thus What or of whence this fellow is I doe not know onely wee tooke him in the confines of yonder damned country Letcheritania and seeing they haue offered vs so much iniury I hold it very fitte now if it bee not too late to begin to take reuenge of them and first with this prisoner Now she hauing made an end I got leaue with much a doe for noise to speake so declared my nation and the cause of my wandring as well as I could and told her Womanship that for my part I had not any acquaintance at all in Letcheritania I was one that wished her Madam-hood and all hir sex all the good I could and that it would derogate much from her nature clemencie and from the honor of her iust gouernment to condemne an Innocent pilgrim and one that had not offended without hearing of his cause Well these good words I can tel yee wrought so prettily well that the poore yong wenshes began many of them to weepe yet the old countesses were not so much ouer-swaied by mine oration but that I must to prison to a great house in the market place called Cold and comfortlesse vntill my country and cause of trauell were truely manifested vnto the Shee-counsell Well to warde I went and but that my countries name the true Paradice of women pleaded for mee I had neuer come home aliue for all the Lecheritanians that they take they either faire hange vp or
and others as graue as hee their exorbitances now and then as vnguirt as others But that these weakenesses for so I confesse they are in mee should be made as staines to the reputation of another of one whose learning life and workes now extant may serue as purging fires whereat all those that hence haue taken occasion to wrong him thus might long agoe haue lighted their ignorance were it neuer so immense that my lightnesses should bee reputed as births of his worthines Oh that my pen whereby since I have ignorantly iniur'd him I doe thus willingly and freely cleare him could but make them see what an vniust construction they haue made of an ignorant and I protest vtterly vnwilling offence But since mine owne vnwarinesse gaue first occasion of those vnkinde and more then foolish callumniations which ignorance draweth from mine error to staine his goodnesse with all the satisfaction I can giue him is to shew my selfe willing to make a faire way againe for his deserts in the bosomes of such as hence take their occasiō of dislike by proclaiming this truth to all that shall read it that this present Discouery of the South-Indies is none of his but had this forme giuen it without his knowledge by one who will euer acknowledge his worth grauity to haue beene vtterly ignorant of any vnfit phrase whatsoeuer included in the whole booke Hee whom my contrition and this satisfaction COLLATERALLY cannot content is without mercy and I assure my selfe will dye without merit if hee bee not quickly shipt away for this new Continent with letters of commendation to all our friends in Cockscombaya As for you gentlemen and frinds whose iudgements haue giuen gracious acceptance to this our Imaginary world I will euer endeuor to further your contentments with the best inuentions that the labours of a yong scholler can produce You right Iouiall spirits and none but you are they to whom I consecrate these my trauels since none but you can discerne the sence which they include Onely in one thing I must intreate your fauorable Censures and that is in my allusions here and there vnto the names of some cities of fame and respect both of our owne and others assuring you as your true examination of the particulars may assure you better that I had no intent to intimate any collation or reference of the state or maners of those I describe vnto theirs to which I allude Let this protestation therefore cleare me from sinister imputations and you from all vntrue suppositions And know all you that haue not yet seene these Lands but intend to take a view of thē hereafter that you must first of al take one of that French Doctors pills Despouillez vous de tout affection and this will enable you fully to endure the alteration of all ayres in this clime Secondly you must neuer trauell single but two or three in a company for one you know may apprehend more then another can and those before that haue miscaried in this voiage as you haue heard incurred their misfortunes onely by neglecting this direction and by too much conuersing with those of the Foolianders nation Thirdly you must go ouer the country thrice ere you shal be able to make any exact platforme of it Once for Strabo once for Socrates and once for Merlin Cocaius The first for the Geography the second for the Morality and the third for the Language and Etymology No more at this time but aboord when you please and a good gale of wit go along with you His that is his IOHN HEALEY A Table of the chapters The first Booke THE discouery of the land of Tenter-belly part of the South Indies bordering vpon Tierra del fuego and the situation thereof liber 1. chapter 1. Eat-allia and Drink-allia chap. 2. Dressem-bourg the first Canton of Eat-allia cap. 3. Banquetois the second Canton of Eat-allia cap. 4. Pewter-platteria the third Canton of Eat-allia cap. 5 The metropolitaine Citty of Eat-allia and the peoples conditions cap. 6. The warres of the Eat-allians cap. 7. Of Idle-bergh an Imperiall free towne cap. 8. The lawes of the land cap. 9. Their religion cap. 10. The election of the great Duke cap. 11. Of Starue-ling Iland or Hungerland cap. 12. Drinke-allia the second Prouince of Tenter-belly and the conditions of the Inhabitants Chap. 1. THE shires of their countrie cap. 2. The discription of Carousi-kanikin the chiefe citty of Drink-allia as also of the fashions and conditions of the Drink-alls cap. 3. Of the Knights of the goulden Tunne and of the lawes of the Cittie cap. 4. The artes and millitary discipline of the Drink-alls cap. 5. The funeralls of one of the cheefe Quagmyrists and the sacrifices of Bacchus cap. 6. Of Hot-watria or Lycor-Ardent and of the Pilgrimage to Saint Borachio cap. 7. And last of the first booke The second Booke THE description of Shee-landt or Womandecoia and of the situtation thereof cap. 1. How the Gossipingo-esses vsed the author of this descouery cap. 2. Their formes of gouernment and elections of persons of State cap. 3. The originall of the Shee-landresses cap. 4. Of Gigglot-tangir cap. 5. Of Double-sex I le otherwise called Skrat or Hermophrcodite Iland cap. 6. Of Srews-bourg cap. 7. And last of the second booke The third Booke or the descouery of Fooliana and the Situation and populousnesse thereof Chap. 1. THE parts of Fooliana and the peoples conditions in general cap. 2. Of Fooliana the fickle cap. 3. Of the peoples conditions and attires sect 1. Of the Duke and Inhabitants of Solitaria the sad sect 2. 3. 4. Of Cholericoy the other Dutchie of Fooliana the craggy cap. 5. Fooliana the fond cap. 6. Of Ass-sex sect 2. Of the Citties of Cocks-combria and Ass-sex and of Blocks-foord the metropolitane sea sect 3. Of the Bourgue-maisters of Blocks-foord sect 4. Of the Marquisate of Spendal-ezza sect 5. and 6. Of Fooliana the fatte cap. 7. The quality and condition of the people sect 2. The paradise of Fooliana the fatte sect 3. Of Fooliana the deuout cap. 8. Sectorioua the second Prouince of Fooliana the deuout sect 2. The State politique of Fooliana in generall cap. 9. And last of the third booke The fourth Booke or the descouery of Thee-uingen and the description thereof Chap. 1. THE conditions of the Robbers-walders cap. 2. The pirats and Sea-borderers of Robbers-walder cap. 3. How the author got into this country of the Harpies cap. 4. Of Lyers-buy plaines The natures of the Leger-demanians of Free-purlogne and Bags-death cap. 5. Of Lurtch-thrift a Country in Legerdemaine cap. 6. Of Still-moore cap. 7. And last of the forth booke FINIS ⧠The occasion of this trauell and the pre-instruction for it MINE acquaintance with trauellers of all sorts is both well knowne to our Vniuersitie men and recorded by the curteous correspondence that haue beene euer held betweene strangers and me whether this of Homer mooued mee to this humour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
5. NOw I come againe to Lyers-burie plaine which lieth vpon the Easterne verges of Robberswaldt and Legerdumayne beeing a free march vnto them both there is a riuer runs thorow the midst of it called memento which parts the whole plaine into two and on this riuer are diuers of the Liegerdumaynians townes of garrisons seated I am far mistaken if I saw not her some olde monuments of Pliny and Herodotus in this very dale Mercurius Gallobelgicus has built himselfe a delicate house in the country and there is a certaine Cardinall an Historian that hath layd the foundations of a mighty and spacious castle in these quarters For euer since Spaine got the conquest of those Indies that ioyne vpon this land the Liegerdumanians haue giuen leaue to the Iesuites those busy-bauds that must scald their lips in the whole worlds pottage to visite and to inhabite this land which the Robberswalders irruptions had otherwise vtterly dispeopled Here are many Astrology schooles whose professors are more in fauour with the Liegerdumanians then any other artists whatsoeuer excepting poets lawiers In this very place did I better confesse here then in a worse place set vp a schoole my selfe and read the lecture of spying maruells in the heauens vrinall as methodically as any Star-gazer a◠thē all I had my Ptolomy my Guido Bonatus my Bencorat my Zahel my Messahalach my Albohali my Hali Aben Razehell al at an inch and by their prescriptions wrote an infallible prognostication of these present times These Liegerdumaynians are far more sociable at least more circumspect secret in their villanies then the Robberswalders for that which these doe in publike the Leigerdumaynians doe very closely liuing vnder a law a Prince also called as I heard by the name of Tiberiodi Goldē-gripi who keepeth state in Free-purloine a delicate citty in the very inmost edge of Lyers-burie plaine they neuer stir abroad on the day time but effect all their businesse in the night they hate the sunne and loue the moone both with the extreamest of affection The trees of this soile are naturally so viscous y◠no bird can light in them but she is presently taken The greatest town of trafike in al this tract is Bagges-death otherwise called Bolseco wherein there are two streetes Tongue-street and Pawns-brooke which two in my iudgment exceed all the streetes of any one citty in the world for largenesse for buildings Tonguestreete is the Rendeuous of all the lawiers and Cause-mongers Pawnes-brooke of the vsurers brokers and taylers And surely there is no nation vnder heauen so stored with lawiers as this is who as Plautus saith of one if they wante meanes of contention play the seed-men and sow them themselues Our Westminster lay all the Innes of Court and Chancery to it is but a very Katherines hall to the vtter Temple of this streete and yet though their number do daily increase it is held notwithstanding by the best politicians of the land that they cannot continue For when they haue lickt vp all the whole country as they haue almost done already they must needs lacke clyents and so for want of emploiment goe to law one with another by that meanes disperse their euill gotten goods amongst the cōmunalty againe to leaue their posterity the means of more gainefull trading The lawiers men are all suted in party coloured liueries to signifie that their maisters are ready to take fees on either side Now as for their emploiment the vsurers doe make them the most of it togither with the violent riuer Fraude which running amongst the Quirkney Iles eateth one peece away here and casteth it vp there and afterward washeth it from thence and laies it in a third place changing his course now and then and taking away one mans whole inheritance to giue it vnto another this it is that makes worke for the lawiers The Inhabitants are most of them as the High-land men of the Alpes are troubled with Chowles vnder their chins called the Mony-chokes a malady so ordinary amongst them that they neither care for curing it nor couering it But here is a strange worke of nature their skinnes doe naturally attract gold and siluer with as powrefull a strength as the loadestone draweth steele and holds it as fast a thing that was neuer seene elsewhere and therefore the worthier of record Pawnes-brooke is peopled with all sorts of artificers Yet they open no shops but euery one attends the passengers at his owne dore with what lack yee Gentlemen then if he get a chapman hee leads him in and shewes him his wares in priuate One will shew yee a chaine crusted offer with thin plates of gold and sweare that India nor Arabia did euer afford purer mettall Another cheares yee with a counterfeite Musk-cod a third with pearles so rarelie adulterate both for weight fashion clearenesse smoothnesse and biggenesse that you cannot discerne them from true ones and then hee will shew yee the shells wherein they grew And here yee shall haue your Lapidaries with gemmes of all sortes able to delude any eye in the world the Cyprian Dyamond the Corynthian Hephestiles the Sicilian Agat the Aegiptian Galactites the Arabian Asbest the Macedonian Paeanites the Asian Alabandine the Indian Berill the English Ieat the Persian Eagle-stone the African Chalcedon the Scithian Smaragde the Germaine Corneil the Aethiopian Chrysolite the Lybian Carbuncle here they are all al singularly forged Apothecaries there are also here in great abundance and these do nothing but sophisticate receites with their Succedanea their quid pro quo It would aske a great volum to make a perticular discouery of their deceites But one thing I am amazed at grieue at their successe herein they are neuer takē in their falsifications be they neuer so grosse nor do they feare any trial of their forgeries but only that of the fire When they are tript they are punished with al seuerity but they haue this preuention for that they can change their shapes voices trades habits vpō an instant so cunningly that he doth but wash an Ethiop that seeketh for him to day that couzend him yesterday There is a famous schoole in the suburbes where art Spagirike pardon me you Alchymists or blame your selues that haue giuen falshood so good a name is read vnto the youth of the city And here they haue a booke which they hold as holy as the Turkes do their Alcaron it is called The History of Mercury a booke vnknowne to vs wherein is related how he in his infancy stole Neptunes mace Mars his sword Phaebus his bow and shafts Vulcans tongues and Venus her girdle and how hee proloind Ioues thunder being as then so young as it seemed hee had learnt the art of filtching in his mothers belly It conteyned furthermore all the documents of deceite and cousenage whatsoeuer Teaching the student of it how to picke lockes how to
draw latches how to treade without noise how to angle in a lockt chest with a twined thred how to him the pence and neuer touch the purse how to forsweare an ill deede without blushing a thousand such secrets that I might haue learned but that I cared not for their art Caballist But of all of them the Inkeepers are the knaues Rampant so faithlesse that the traueller dares neither trust his purse vnder his pillow nor in any Iron casket whatsoeuer but must bee faine as the Iewes did beeing besieged to engorge his gold for all the night and seeke it in his close-stoole the next morning it would bee gone else euery Quart d'escu The villages are inhabited with none but Millers and Taylers and vnlesse you happe here and there to finde some stragling Gypsies Of Lurtch-wit a County in Legerdumaine CHAP. 6. LVrtch-witte a large County lieth on the west of this Leigerdumaine wherein is the cittie Rigattiera new repaired nere vnto which is mount Scapula a very high hill A Poet that is a Critique may here finde many ancient monuments One stone I saw here whereon were engrauen certain Greeke verses stolne by Homere from Orpheus and Musaeus From Orpheus these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And from Musaeus this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I found also many of Virgils vpon another stone which the inhabitants said he had hought of by the knees out of Homer and Hesiod Here were also some of Petrarchs nimd from another Tuscane Poet and many other such like monuments On the South part lieth Rapineux a plaine all full of rubbish and ruines which shew that there hath beene many cities there but they were all pulled down long ago to build those two magnificent piles Penny-patron and Chaffer-kirke so that you shall see in this country many old Churches turned into stables streetes into pastures and steeples into priuies Besides this the riuer Fraude doth continually teare away one peece or other from this part of the country and laieth it either on the marshes of Lurtch-wit or Stille-more Of Still-more CHAP. 7. THis Prouince is in the hands of a monstrous kinde of men such as you see pictured in Munster and Maundeuill with heads like hogges They go alwaies vpon their hands and knees least they should otherwise misse any thing as they passe along the streetes that were worth the taking vp Their voice is a kinde of grunting nor haue they other speach None may dwell amongst them but old folkes Their youth they doe spend in Booty-forrest if they be valiant or else in Bags-death Schooles the inhabitants are all husbandmen marchants and mettall-mongers They do eat earth as the Wolfe doth when hee is to go to fight almost continually yet some there are that eate nothing at all but liue vpon the sight onely of gold and siluer They neuer sleepe but with their eyes open herein onely resembling the Lyon They serue a God whom they call Quadagno with al superstitious reuereÌ„ce they neuer goe to their rest but when they haue seene him nor doe they eate but in his presence Touching the citties of this Prouince there is Swine-borow a filthy towne a very stincking heape but then is there Gatherington Hoord-sterdam and Lockadolid all handsomly built things marry I could not come to view them within by reason that euery particular citizen in all these places hath a priuate key for the gates to lock at his going in out so that by this meanes they preuent all strangers accesse The residue of this nation liue more like swine then men in the Ilands of Hoggs-bourg and the Scrapiglias These men townes and manners did I behold admire and laugh at and after 30. yeares trauell growing weary of wandring I returned into my natiue country FINIS THE CAMBRIDGE PILGRIME Seneca in Mcdea a For Gluttony is the induction vnto lecherie b A fat belly makes a leane braine c This birds picture is to be seene in the largest maps of the vvorld with an Elephant in his pounces And for his insatiate greedinesse is held to be the Regions Genius d And so are most of you Belly gods the inhabitants thereof f Hector Boetius Hollingshead c. g The Dukes of Muscouie haue the skins of these creatures kept for their ovvne vses they grovv in Horda zauolh a plaine in Scythia and are called the skins of Samarchand Of this lambe you may read in Scaliger Excercit 59. cardan Baro Heberstin Libau tract de agno vegetab h Iunenal Satyr 4. i Whose name vvhen I vvas there vvas Sir Spatious Mouth k Shropshire Worcestershire l Onely Fooliana lyeth betvveene Tenter-belly and Thriuingois for if men vvere not fooles they vvould follovv thrift and flie luxurie a For meate must first be dressed and then eate b Of him here-after chap. 11. c Othervvise called vvarming-pan d Three villages vvhere spits kettles and spounes vvere first inuented e In English Moisture f In Darbyshire a Galen knew it not b Plin. lib. 12 chap. 8. c That is alwaies in the Greeke Calends neuer but then a Built in the same fashion that Cambalu is if you were euer there b From this riuer only the Eat-alls haue all their water wherewith they do dresse their meate Volaterr Autropol l. 13. c Like vnto Cartaegena in Spaine but far better seated d Two ports where our Hollanders haue much traffique e Two ports where our Hollanders haue much traffique a And reason good the land is called Eat-allia b Cambridge and Oxford c This was Py-nople the plaine but Oyster pynople and Potato-py-nople are Cities in Letcheritania that flourish vntill this day beeing both founded by Hercules vpon his copulation with 50. women vpon one night Georg Cap. currant de punct Aretinens lib. 27. d Spencer in his ruines of time c If a pasty haue no grauy in it it is not worth a doiteâ— f Strabo Geog. lib. 5 g Satyra 3. h Contro lib. 3. i A diminutiue of shops you shall find the word in Antony Mundaies discourse of â—he refâ—rmation of Redfaces k In Ethic. his name was Philoxenus l Which was whilom to be seene in Beuer castle m Where Lipsius pretendeth that Langius and he had that discourse De Constantia Martiall Epig lib. 3. chap. 47. n Iles in the Atlantike sea like our Orades where they that haue the fewest teeth are held in highest respect and hee that hath none is made a Clarissimo of Suppington the chiefe citty of the whole teritorie o His hang bits p Like him whose Epitaph this was Here lyes sir Iohn of Redcrosse streete he was beard to th' belly and belly toth ' fecie q For some such bookes he wrote witnesse Suidas r We haue some Vniuer side men that are too well read in these authors yet verily some study them so sore that they bring
Sigeberg a This the Caâ—thusians obserue very duly and deuoutly b So did one Pisander in a melancholy fit Cael Rhodig lib. 9. chap. 26. c The inuentor of the Macaronicall tongue hee wrote of the gests of Balâ—us Cyngar Fracasso Vinâ—azzo Seraffus c. all in Strambottologicall verse a Lycanthropi they are men or women that by sorcery can put on the shapes of wolues yet reserue the reason of man b By a Meâ—tathesis otherwise called Melancholy c All melancholie is Asse-like or Lion-like The naturall token of choller Mercurial vaâ— lection Georg. Agric. lib. de Subterean a As much to say Fiery-front Rouge in French is red in English b Iohn Fisticankots Aiax his sonne and heyre according to the pedigree drawne by Peter de qui in his Catalogus Dunsor Ioannens lib. 2. Cap. 17. c Built iust after the forme of Tangir in Africa d Eps ware Things and Welsh Dauie were whiâ—om of his gard as I was credibly enformed by such as knew e Sueton in Vitelio f Diod. Sicul g Ortel or 〈◊〉 della Taâ—a Bellonius â—â—ch the Itaâ—â—ans itâ—ar â—ar Bianco 〈◊〉 Scythia it is 〈◊〉 Caâ—paâ—â—â— as Tzetz◠〈◊〉 a Had not our first parents 〈◊〉 fooles in 〈◊〉 not beene 〈◊〉 but now it is a Assex in Fooliana is larger then our three sexes in England here Essex Middlesex Suffix b The two winged brethren sonnes vnto Boreas they ridd Phineus of the Harpyes c Libauius sets downe this rime of Alchimy Alchymia est ars sine arte Cuius scire est parscum parâ—e medium est strenue mentiri Finis 〈◊〉 dicatum 〈◊〉 Ariost Orland Furios The Author had this description from an experienced Geographer or Fooliander Spell the meaning a So doth Theuet call Caucasus b Hangmen and other executioners c This is a mataphor that needes no glosse d A Iakes farmers burden in the night is called a Bride as I haue heard e Tamen obijcienda memento f Muro bianco carto di matto A white wall is a fooles booke a Actaeon was eaten vp by dogs that is he spent his estate vpon them b Dogs Dice and Haâ—kes the three obiects of prodigaliâ—y a Or flatter itanâ—a b â—n one hood c To sooth and to backbite d In English it is Praiseâ—all c Bashfull modestie is a foe to flattery a Like Madril in Spaine a Quasi senza lode vnworthy of praise b Mangeguadagnos so the Italians cal their seruants c As he did who demanding lodging at a meane Inne and being asked what hee was Our name quoth he is Hernando Gonzales Riâ—adeneira de Toledo By my troth sir quoth the Hostesse wee haue not beds enow for so many a Fortuna fauet fatuis is not so old as true b The Italians crie so vnuailing of the picture of our Lady of Loreâ—to a A fellow in Homer 〈◊〉 had a voice alowd as fiftie mens Sannazer b The Miâ—on of the Moone he slept 40. years together ere euer hee awaked c 'T is time poore king for thou hast eaten no meate this three daies d Heu quò decidimus a Thus was hee borne that wrote the Hospitall of incurable foolâ—s a This was the Saturnians opinâ—on b The Basilidians held that there were 265. heauens according to the number of the letters contained in the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c They were called Gnostikes that is muddy for the falthinesse of the misteries and so were the Carpocratians called Iren. l. 1. c. 24. d Iren. in ep ad Eusâ—b These held thâ—t they might deny their faith in persecution Hieron f They had a nevv maner of redeeming their dead with oyle balsame water g They held that Christ was that serpent that deceiued Euah and kept a snake vvhich came forth at Priests incantations licken of the offring then returned to his hold h These would drinke no wine but held it to bee brought forth by Satan and the earth August de Heres i They held marriage to bee as bad as fornication therefore vsed little beds and lesse tables for they eate no flesh Aug. ibid. k They pricked little infants vvith kniues and of the bloud and meale they made themselues communion cakes Aug. ib. l They held it good seruice vnto God to geld both themselues and strangers m They affirmed that all plants had sence and therefore they would neuer cut vp any thornes or briers c. n These did very continually it was incredible saith August to heare them they were also called Euchites o Those held that the deuill ereated the flesh and therefore they did so hate it that many of them killed themselues p Who called themselues new vessells filled with new wine and bare a barrell about in their Bacchanalles q So called of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they stopt their mouthes noles with their fingers and so professed silence Aug. calleth them Dacâ—ylorenchites r They offred water in the sacrament insteed of wine Å¿ This fellow held that all heresies were true doctrine Philaster t They neuer vsed their wiues carnally and yet would not liue without them so that they made wâ—â—ing choise of their neighbours children to inherite their estates Aug. ibi u The two founders of Anabaptisme or the Family of loue x Certaine English Brownists exiled into Virginia a The chamber where the pope is elected a A word compounded of Theue in English and Ingenium in Latine b As the Spaniard called one of their great Caricks which siâ— Francis Drake tooke Her name quoth he was Caca fuego shite-fire before but now she may be called Caca plata that is shite-siluer c As there are two species of this trade the euery and cousinage a Of this language there is an excellent exact discouerie made in Thomas Deckers Bellman but in his Lanthorne and Candle-light he hath out-stript all the world for variety of knowledge in Canting b Tiborne was built for him as some say c De bello Galiico lib. 6. d As the Welch man stole Rushes onely to keep his hand in vre a Not Dun kirke b No more then the Egiptian Pyrates had in Heliodorus lib. 1. a Aristot lib. de mirabi lib. b So doe the Turkes cal the from Cayro to Ormus and the other poâ—ts of their traffique a As the way by the crosse was in Camden I am free Marchant as passengers may ken to Scots to Brittaines and to Englishmen b For a lier must haue a good memory c If he doe meane Baroniuâ— hee is not farre amisse many suppose d Right for this is but a discouery of Mundus altered et idem e Of Boâ—sa vvhich is in Spanish a purse and Seco in Latine to cut Hâ—erâ—nimus Bâ—â—secus that same rare raskall that wrote the liues of Caluine and Beza was the founder of this city f In Paenulo g As the vniuersity shew makers do vsually sute their parasites h Otherwise called thâ— Strophades of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to wrest or turne those Quirkneyes are somewhat like our orkeneyes for situation but not not for condition i Demosthenes his disease It raignes here in England at some seasons of the yeare very powerfully God knowes and to the wrack of many an vpright cause Meliora Deus k Clauius Chrysopaeiae lib. 1. c. l The fiue true trialls of the goodnesse of pearles Plin. m Lucian n Iosep de Bello Iudaico o The two Emblemes of the euerie a Scapula stole his Greek Lexicon from Steuens and yet durst avow this Hoc ego contendo Lexiconesse vovum b Iustin Marter in Protreptico ad Gentes and Canter var. Lect. P. 1. c. 3. c Hom. Iliad p. d Dâ—nte or messier Câ—no or Senâ—ccio or some of those times e It is inhabited with none but Pursuiuants and Benefice-barâ—erers f Otherwise called Neuer-enough a Couetice is called the old mans euill b Gesner de Quadruped c Idem ibid. d Ritcher then Amsterdam for all that it is called the Low-countries store-house