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A14292	The golden fleece diuided into three parts, vnder which are discouered the errours of religion, the vices and decayes of the kingdome, and lastly the wayes to get wealth, and to restore trading so much complayned of. Transported from Cambrioll Colchos, out of the southermost part of the iland, commonly called the Newfoundland, by Orpheus Iunior, for the generall and perpetuall good of Great Britaine.	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.; Mason, John, 1586-1635.	1626 (1626)	STC 24609; ESTC S119039	176,979	382

the example of Saint Paul who ministred milke only vnto Babes and not meat of too solid and hard digestion The Bible comprehends pleasing Relations aswell as profound mysteries gellies for the Sicke and venison for the strong where likewise a Lamb may wade and an Elephant swimme To this end doe wee vse Oliues Capers Oranges and Limonds for sauceto tender stomackes when as men of abler Constitutions can feede on meat without such prouocations Excellent in this Art of Cookerie were those Spaniards which wrot the life of Guzman the Rogue and the Aduentures of Don Quixot de la Mancha the former seruing to withdraw a licentious young man from Prodigalitie Whoredome and Deceit and the latter to reclaime a riotous running wit from taking delight in those prodigious idle and time-wasting Bookes called the Mirrour of Knighthood the Knights of the Round Table Palmerin de Oliua and the like rabblement deuised no doubt by the Deuill to confirme soules in the knowledge of euill Honest Mirth I like but if it bee accompanied with Scurrilitie Baudrie notorious lyes or with prophane and too friuolous fopperies I vtterly dislike all such pretended recreations As the former is necessarie for the prolonging of health and life so likewise it is for the sale and approbation of a Booke wherein triuiall toyes and tales shall bee intermixt among matters of importance that they may breede a longing desire in the Hearers to haue such nouelties repeated againe and againe Foras Marsilius Ficinus writes concerning a Heauenly body heere on earth What Old man soeuer will renue his age and reduce his bodie to a youthfull temper hee must lay aside his grauitie and be a child in mind Oportet prius vt repuerascat animo This Discourse of Master Elueston did highly satisfie Sir William Alexander and confirme him in his resolution of applauding Bookes of this stampe and miscellaneous humour so that conuerting his speech to me who attentiuely listned to their communication he said Noble Friend by our caueats you may obserue what course you must take to winne the good will of our Ilanders for except you season your Anisoes with some light passages with wits fits fancies like ballads bables to refresh the capacities of your Auditours as Aesop the Phrygian vnder Fables couched and shadowed Policies of great moment they will hardly yeeld due attention to your Counsels be they neuer so important and consequently neuer assist vs for the getting of the Golden Fleece so requisite for the supplies of this Monarchie that in all likelihood it cannot long subsist without this maine and speciall Trade which rightly may be termed the Nurcerie of Mariners the propagation of shipping Great Brittaines Indies Corn●copia Amalthea You shall doe a worke of Charitie yea and of Liberalitie for this free-hearted vertue consists in distributing good Counsell aswell as of money to animate our carelesse Countrymen The Planets delight in motion and by so much the neerer doe our Spirits approach to these superiour bodies when with a resolution vndaunted wee vndertake noble enterprises tending to the publick good as to our owne particular Goe on then deare Friend hauing vertue for thy Guide What will it auaile a Scholler to reserue his knowledge to himselfe to hide his Candle vnder a bushell or to vaunt Wee write to our selues and to the Sonnes of Art Who will take notice of such a Mystery Scire tuum nihil est nisi te scire hoc seiat alter After these and the like Discourses were ended we departed they to the Court and I to my studie where I began to rouze vp my thoughts and thorowly to ruminate on some Plot which might inuite our Worldlings for their present and future Good to embrace those fortunes which with open armes this Sister-land offers vnto vs. For the accomplishing whereof vnder a Poeticall stile not too much degenerating from the Euangelicall grauitie I haue resolued to vse the name of the great Apollo not Heathenish but Christian after the example of Traiane Boccalini who vnder that Title brought forth most plausible Raggualioes and by mee now of late communicated to our English Readers or rather ●imitation of the ancient Romish Church which beautified their Temples with painted Bables as baits in worldly policie to allure the barbarous Gothes and the wauering-minded Romanes of thosetimes to repaire thither from their more Superstitious Idols lest otherwise the Religion which they had planted might haue falne to contempt like the Sanctum Sanct●rum of the Iewes Temple which when the Romanes vnder Titus at the destruction of Ierusalem had obserued to bee bare without any grauen Images or other outward garnishing they despised the same as a Monument of no value and at length consumed it with fire For the like cause Apothecaries doe sometimes gild ouer their vgly and bitter Pills to please the Sicke mans view which to other Patients for want of such deceitfull daubing haue beene so fastidious and lothsome that euen at the very sight of the Pils their Imaginations preuayling so powerfully ouer their bodies their stomackes wambled and they haue fal●e into as violent a Purge as if they had alreadie swallowed them downe So nice and tender is many a mans nature whereof wee cannot ascribe any other reason then the depraued Phantasie and the sundrie mixtures of the Spirits partaking of the Elementall Qualities corrupted which cause vs to delight in faire outward shewes and varieties but commonly of the daintiest taste of the newest Cooking To which I adde this one Accident more as a speciall motiue to my Apologie for inserting vulgar Toyes among matters of Consequence Interpone tuis interdum gaudia curis As A●sonius writes in his Catoes Morals Since the Conference I had with those iudicious Gentlemen aforespecified it was my chance to be present at a Booksellers shop where I saw the Writings of the learned Bullinger one of the chiefe Pillars of our Reformed Religion and the Workes of that curious Schooleman whom the Romists terme the Angelicall Doctor sold for wast Paper euen for two pence a quire Which when I beheld to my great wonder I thus expostulated with my selfe what then shall become of my Bookes which I haue alreadie published to the World with so many houres paines and vigilant cares Or of those which hereafter vpon vrgent occasions I may wrest from my indulgent Minerua seeing that Bookes of a higher Genius of a more sublime nature proue thus vnfortunate and vilified Shall I write or betake my Muse to Melancholy On the one side the Iniquitie of the times terrifies me from further writing On the otherside the care of my Countries welfare sollicits nay exacteth my present helpe at the least some lenitiue Medicines towards her recouerie which now pants with a difficult breathing whether the Infirmitie proceeds ex angustia praecordiorum from some straightnesse in the midriffes or of a bastard Plurisie which requires bloud-letting or of some abstruse and secret cause in the lungs or

needy and supply Nauigations and Plantations abroad As soone as Periander had done Thales the Milesian tooke his turne and spake Many small pieces of meat put into the Pot make fat pottage and as the other Prouerbe implieth many a small makes a great and mountaines were made of small motes or atomes which I alleadge in my defence at this present for though I cannot promise Golden Mountaines to augment the State of Great Britaine yet I dare auow that I shall reueale one Proiect which shall spare them sixty thousand pounds a yeare now of meere necessity transported into France and Spaine for Salt Why may not they erect good store of Salt-houses in England neere those places where Coales are digged about New-Castle in Lancashire and in Wales where lately an Alderman of London had one which supplied Bristow and those Westerne parts with very fine Salt I know not what makes men so backward now adaies vnlesse they are made to beleeue by the Spirit of Errour that a bare naked Faith will iustifie them with doing any deedes of Charity For besides their yearely gaine they may doe very meritorious deedes equall to Almes giuing which as S. Iames writes will couer a multitude of sinnes in setting the poore at worke If they think it much to erect so many Salt houses as will serue all the Ilanders by reason of the deare rate of Coales to be conuerted for other vses let them set vp some in Newfound land some in New England and others in New Scotland where they may haue plenty of woods And it is knowne that Wood fire without conuerting Wood into Charcoale wil serue to boile Salt as wel as Coal There Salt being at hand to be had for the Fishermens vse it will saue at the least twenty thousand pound vnto the English which now with the tunnage and the Salt they are forced to be at charge Captain Whithorne in his book of the Cōmodities of that Country among other exceeding good notes by him there deliuered writes that one Panne will make aboue 20. bushels of good Salt in euery 24. houres onely with mans labour and the Salt water and not as some doe vse to make Salt vpon Salt which so there made shall not stand in three pence the bushell to those that prouide in that manner Wheras Salt now stands them in twenty pence at the least euery bushell And as the said Captaine Whitborne further affirmeth that Salt thus orderly boyled doth much better preserue Fish whether it be Ling Codde or Herring and keepe it sweeter then if the same were seasoned with any other kind of Salt Yea and Fish preserued with this white fine Salt will sell dearer in Spaine or Italy then if it were salted with the other muddy Salt After Thales Chilon began his relation in this wise I thinke there is money enough in the Land if people would bring it forth to take the Aire that Aire which God made common for the poore as the rich What a deale of Plate is there in London and in rich mens houses which some had rather goe directly into Hell then to sell it for the common good It were fit that such creatures had Tutors or as the Ciuilians say Curators to mannage their Estates for them seeing they haue not the benefit of reason to distinguish what is conuenient for mortall men which must suddenly returne to the dust of the earth and then whose shall these Goods be which these Fooles haue prepared with curses disquietnes of mind If Commissioners and Presenters were vpon their oathes to sound search into euery mans ability Subsidies might be trebled on some and the needier sort eased But in vaine doe I speake of Tutors Commissioners and Iuries if Merchants bee not lookt vnto that they transport not Money Plate or Bullion as the Statutes of Edward the 3. Richard the 2. Henry the 4. Henry the 6. Henry the 7. and Edward the 6. doe all strictly prohibite Erasmus in King Henry the 8. daies was like to feele the seuerity of those Lawes if that Magnificent King had not highly fauoured him For when this famous Scholler thought to take shipping to goe into the Low Countries at Grauesend the Kings Officers con●iscated 300. pound which hee had gotten in London by the liberality of the King Sir Thomas Moore and other fauourers of Learning in those daies so that poore Erasmus like another Pauper Henricus was constrained to returne backe to London where after that hee had bewailed his mishap to Sir Thomas Moore and other friends of his hee was aduised by them to repaire to the Chamber of Presence when this noble King sate at dinner The King wondred to see Erasmus who had taken his leaue of him aboue a fortnight before And thereupon merily askt him what winde draue him backe againe to his Court whom hee imagined to haue beene at Rotterdam Erasmus shewed the Case how his Maiesties Officers vsed him The King vnderstanding the matter bestowed on him 60. pound towards his stay and wrote to the Searchers commending their dutifull care that they should repay Erasmus all his money Many Noblemen also being present incouraged by the Kings liberality presented Erasmus with good gifts which with the Kings amounted to 300. pound more so that hee returned home into his Country with twise so much more money then he brought with him into England And from thence forth in all Companies applauded the iustice and liberality of the English Nation If Officers would watch to doe their indeauours for the seizing of Coine which may be transported yearely in●o Forraigne parts doubtlesse money would become more plentifull within the Land Here Chilon ended And Cleobulus framed his speech in this manner So great is some mens Couetousnesse at this time that they had rather hazard their soules to hell rather then to imploy their money for the honour and weale of their Country They will rather keepe it by them then lend part to releeue their dearest friends And I know not how to compell these wretches to bring it abroad vnlesse the Common-wealth would order Tutors ouer them as my Brother Chilon aduised grounding the equity of this Order vpon the antient writ de Lunatico inquirendo For surely a spirit possesseth them worse then that which madded Saul There is no other way to draw money out of misers hands but by hope of profit Since the Statute enacted in King Iames time for 8. in the 100. money is farre more scarce And therefore in my iudgement if that Act were repealed there might insue a twofold benefit First money would become more plentifull And then if an Act were made that Vsurers might be tolerated to take 9. pound in the 100. pound for one yeares vse that the party which borrowes should pay 20. shillings more to make it vp 10. pound as in former time and this last to be conuerted towards some meritorious work mony would waxe more abundant and no man would grudge to

pay 20. shillings for a vertuous purpose And perhaps the same would lessen the exaction of the rest in the mercie of God To this furtherance of money I would haue those Brokers and extorting Iackes receiue corporall punishment who shall by indirect tricks and monthly bills exact vpon pawnes more interest then euer the Iew of Malta tooke of his deadly enemies After him the Lawmaker Solon discoursed as followeth I haue heard this day sundry pretty proiects pronounced by my Colleagues for the enriching of Great Britaine But if all these fall out happily and the Deuill still continue to sow his seeds of dissention in mens hearts to goe to Law one with another for a Goats haire by the procurement of Makebates and the aduice of some couetous Lawiers to what end shall his Maiestie spend his time to succour and supply them with money and they presently after to bestow the same on others for the molesting of Innocents This were to make our great Appollo accessary and priuie to iniurious dealings First let my good Ilanders weed out or at least wise restraine the insolencies deceits and equiuocations of Lawiers and then seeke for remedies to heale their indispositions Shall the mild Comforter of humane soules minister an occasion of scandall to reprobates and fewell to their iniquities If they get wealth men as I see haue not the wit to keepe it Therefore I thinke fit and it is a treasure inualuable to tame the Lawiers before any more riches be giuen as swords in mad mens hands to offend the seruants of God What intolerable knaueries haue beene exercised of late yeares by fellowes of this ranke against honest men yea against whole Countries whose blood like that of Abell doth cry for vengeance I know one poore Lordship in Wales which was persecuted by them and forced for foure thousand pounds to compound for their natiue freehold which by Records found in the Tower their Ancestors had enioyed 300. yeares and all vpon that farre fetcht maxime Nullum tempus occurrit Regi that no prescription of time might barre the Prince of his Right And if the wise King Iames of blessed memory had not set a period to their insinuations by limiting 60 yeares to his titulary demand God knowes to what euent their dangerous positions would haue issued vnto It is an easie thing for a man to find a staffe to beat a dog and for a cunning Lawier with the crochet of his braine to circumuent harmelesse people How many thousand pounds are yearely spent in Wales alone to maintaine suites at Law which might be well spared if the fountaine were dam'd vp Let the King of Great Britaine shut vp the spring which enuenomes multitudes of his poore subiects who grone vnder their burthen worse then the Israelies vnder the bondage of Egypt and Wales alone shall saue aboue 40. thousand pounds a yeare which row they consume besides their dear time not to be redeemed in vnnecessary suits at Law CHAP. 11. Apollo not throughly contented with the proiects of the seuen wise men of Greece commands others viz. Cornelius Tacitus Cōminaeus the Lord Cromwell Sir Thomas Chaloner Secretary Walsingham Sir Thomas Smith and William Lord Burleigh who were knowne to be farre more Politicke Statesmen to deliuer their opinions how Great Britaine might be inriched APollo liked reasonable well of the inuentions demonstrated by the Seuen wise men of Greece But for all that some of them hee deemed to be more theoricall then really practick and therefore He caused some of his vertuous Attendants which had been famous for their Actiue diligence in managing matters of State to discouer more proiects whereby Great Britaine might attaine to a present fruition of Treasure For as his Imperiall Maiestie said Philosophers being Clinickes and retired to close chambers delighting more to be as Persius notes of them Esse quod Arcesilas arumnosique Solones Obstipo capite figentes lumine terram Like to Arcesilas or Solons found With down bent heads eies vpō the ground then personally to bestirre themselues as men of motion ought in bringing their purposes and plots to execution they could not proue so necessary members to act what he intended as those which had by their industry got the start of them in actuall businesse The euent his Maiestie saw in Cicero and Caesar which moued our most prudent Apollo to referre these Pragmaticke affaires of Great Britaine to the experienced Cornelius Tacitus to Philip Comm●naus to the Lord Cromwell which flourished in King Henrie the 8. daies to Sir Thomas Chaloner sometimes Ambassadour in Spain author of those admirable books de repub Anglorum instaur to Sir Francis Walsingham to Sir Thomas Smith which wrote the Common-wealth of England and to William Lord Burleigh Treasurer of England Cornelius Tacitus as the most ancient was elected first to certifie his censure who with a free Romane candour framed this discourse There is asmuch difference betwixt the face and state of Great Britane at this day and the fashion as it stood in Domitian time when I liued there with my victorious father in law Iulius Agricola as we see betwixt it and the Countrey of the Crime Tartare Then there was elbow roome for the Inhabitants sufficient without multiplicities of Law-suites subtle shifts conycatching or contagious thronging and hudling together But now Sunt homines alij natura Britannica differt In Britanes Isle both men and Land are chang'd We Romanes by our Legionary Cities wonne them to ciuility which they according to their quicke capacities speedily apprehending embraced the Christian Faith paid tribute to Caesar and continued in loyall obedience vnder his Lieutenants vntill our Monarchy became translated to Constantinople that so the fulnesse of time might inuest Antichrist in old Rome the Babylon of the West Since which time as the Children of Israel were sometimes aloft sometimes cast downe this Iland indured sundry changes But in my iudgement next vnto suits at Law which the wise Solon obserued to begger both Towne and Country the populousnesse of some chiefe Cities and specially of London doth impouerish the Royall Chamber of that Empire insomuch that it is in a manner impossible to inrich them before the Drones and yong hungry Bees bee remoued to some forraigne Places by an Act of Parliament and so prest by transcendent authority The people which I would haue thus prest are the Inmates the Cottagers the needy and needlesse numbers An honest Minister assured me that in his Parish at London there were many which perished of want being ashamed to begge and that he knew tenne persons hauing but a roome of twelue foot square to containe them but one bed for them all Many of the like calamity might bee found in that City two or three housholds crept into one house that I haue diuers times wondred that they are not euery second year visited with the Plague or Purples considering the multitudes of Channels Iakes and other vnpleasing places which