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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08070	Nevves of the Netherlands Relating the whole state of those countries at this present.; Description of the prosperitie, strength, and wise government of the United Provinces of the Netherlands.		1615 (1615)	STC 18437.5; ESTC S113184	16,068	30

saileth before the winde But the Souldier likes not of this sleepie calme weather hee rather desires to bee rustling in the field to shew himselfe a gallant But the other three are very rich and haue great meanes to helpe me I could not know it so well but that they by their superfluitie makes it manifest to all men for which cause I and my houshold are bound to haue a great care for them and the Common wealth for that they without me and I without them would bee a meanes to ouerthrow both me and my house and also the commonaltie and euery one of them in their perticular states would come to nothing For if the band of vnitie should breake or by contention become loose it would bee their destruction and my ouerthrow out of my Throne Friend I would faine see the pales of your gardens and the manner of building about your house or else of you heare the discourse of the whole situation thereof while you are now in a free state Batauia My Holland garden is bordered about with a willow hedge or hurdle called Fidelity at the entry whereof there is a stile ouer the which my watchfull many eyed Lion with his two forefeet stands looking there to hold sharpe watch Then within before the stile and beninde the Lion standeth a high Orange tree with a young sprig or branch at the foot thereof both comming out of an old root of a tree that hath been cut downe round about this tree there is a root planted called Gods blessing In the middle of the garden there standeth an old high strong Piramides called Priuiledge closed about with a medicinable graft called Gods grace This garden is made of and filled vp with good Holland earth out of the which the Spanish vnfruitfull power is wholly rooted vp and therefore in and round about it there groweth Good will Good courage Heart hearbe Care seede Ladie marke also Golden flowers Siluer hearbes Lance hearbes Knights spurres Horse-mens herbe Gun hearbe and much Honour and Commendation Friend Is not your garden somtimes weeded and cleansed of weeds and hurtfull plants Batauia Yea sor we were wont in times past to bee much troubled with great quantities of weedes as with Force hearbe Death hearbe Catching roote Feare hearbe Pine apples Blood herbe Fier hearbe Blacke hearbe and Bitter gall nuts But necessitie and my houshold seruants appointed two officers to looke vnto it which were Reason and Power each of them as their turnes came to weede it for if it were not for these weeders sometimes there would some weeds grow vp in a nights space before the Sun riseth as Romish thistle False lilies Fox hearbe Strife flowers and After-hurt For not many yeers since there grew a filthie hearb in my garden called the Diuels Nay-thrid and a hearbe called Diuels-beet which stanke all ouer the garden being of such a nature that whosoeuer eate it it made him enuious and contentious for it is of the kind of the seed of the apple whereof Eua and Adam ate in Paradise which then presently caused great contention betweene God and them and so it did now also for whosoeuer did eate thereof thought that they were as wise as God and knew all things and for that cause thinking themselues to be wise in their own conceits they fell at strife with their neighbours but reason weeded out as much thereof as hee could and in stead thereof planted a root called Part strife which in time will grow to be a great hearbe but the diuels Nay-thrid ran almost cleane through the whole garden and hath made the Orange tree for certaine yeers to stand stil at a bay and not to blossome which maketh many heere amongst vs to long for some of his fruit if it were to be had but the earth of my garden is so rich and fruitful that if once a hot Spanish sun-shine should fall theron after the which a Batauian stroke-raine vseth to follow we should presently see the blossomes and fruit of the Orange tree shew forth thēselues Neuertheles we haue Oranges for a pleasant sawce and a good sauour daily in my kitchin and also for a refreshing we haue the faire Orange lilie and the Roselike thistle flower which is placed properly in seuerall beds in my garden Friend Now I haue heard the manner of the situation of your garden let me I pray you heare from you what kind of building you haue in your house Batauia The foundation of my house is named Vnity the principals thereof are made of great straight timber lined and daubed with good vnited Netherlandish stones the Hall thereof called the Batauian gouernment is beautified with eight faire cleere windowes and in the middle of them all standeth one specially as a principall shield beautifying the same The roofe of the house is couered ouer with faire shining shels which couer is called Hardinesse The entrie or gate thereof is named Victory the posts and top of it are couered ouer with greene hearbes in the middle whereof my seate standeth called Freedome made of firme ground wood and aboue all the rest the signe of my house is Emanuel Now my friend you haue heard and vnderstood the manner and forme of my house and garden wherein at this present I haue and hold my free habitation which of almost a desperate lost inheritance I haue made free againe more by honest meanes and true and lawfull right then by forcible craftinesse although my ill willers behind my backe report and say that I decke my selfe with strange feathers when as they notwithstanding lurke and hide themselues vnder my wings neuerthelesse I haue striuen as much for their freedomes as I haue done for mine owne naturall and good peoples liberty Friend Gentletwoman Doe you perceiue that which I see there which is a strange show it seemeth to bee a twin or a body of two kindes whereof the one halfe before seemeth to laugh friendly vpon you with a sweet womanlike face and the other halfe behinde is armed with a cruell souldiers looke and hath a monstrous great beast by him wherein I take no pleasure Batauia This partie hath been heere some few yeeres since and brought that beast with him into our Batauian house but what shall I doe seeing he lookes so smilingly vpon me whether it be in outward shew or in action I will not as yet quarrell with him and mistrust him before he leaues laughing and then I will see and also aske him what hee meaneth to doe that he commeth here into my garden with such a hinder part and so faire and pleasant a forepart Friend Doe you not thinke that he can soone turne that laughing countenance behind him from you and place the bitter looke before It was wont to be the Italian manner and the Spanish custome see you not that hee hath turned the hinder part of his face towards a troupe of souldiers and the forepart towards you the while that he with outward flearing

face lookes on you with the hinder part hee doth expect your ouerthrow therefore it is fit that the Lion should take good heed vnto him Batauia But my friend doe you know what manner of man this is and doe you know the beast well I haue long time cast mine eyes thereon let me heare what your iudgement is of him seeing you shew your selfe to bee so carefull for me Friend The happinesse of your state makes mee so carefull for you but in my iudgment this man is one of the foure sorts or kinds of Hermaphrodites which are both men and women which is one of the worst kind of creatures that are liuing vpon the earth if they may without restraint vse and shew forth their nature For they can suffer themselues to be dealt withall in nature of weake and effeminate women with faire shewes and sweet words to deceiue withall and as a woman by nature is milde they can bring their subtill practises and deceitfull charmes to passe which if they effect not in two or three yeeres they doe it in 6. or 8. and somtimes in 10. or twelue Againe these Hermophrodites when they list can bee like cruell and sturdie men and can as well by force as by craft bring many things to passe for they are without all measure wicked and hollow hearted Which for you being a maide is very dangerous for thinking to see a womanlike face and to heare an effeminate voyce you should with the turning of an hand fall into a snare and be deflowred whereby your most noble and great fame should be ouerthrowne and your praise-worthie name cleane defaced Batauia this is my iudgement and a forewarning for you concerning this person and where you thinke this great sweet shining nosegay to be a Palme branch it is not so for it is a branch of a hearbe called Munkes hood a venomous hearbe which heretofore was rooted out of your garden which hee hath taken vp again therewith to bring you at length into a sound sleepe Batauia What thinke you of that monstrous beast what beast and of what kinde and nature is it Friend That may well and easily be seene and iudged by the speckled skin that it hath which is like a Nay-ed or patcht Monkes gowne and therefore I thinke that it is naturally a Leopard which is a greedie blood sucking beast begotten of a Lionesse by a Panther and therefore it is called by a double signifying name a Leopard This beast although it is brought forth by a shee Lion yet it is most greedie and eruelly bent to seeke the destruction of the male Lion but as it is bloodily minded so it is subtill and craftie specially to intrap his greatest enemy the Lion therby to fall vpon him and to destroy him to the which end he is skilfull how to make double holes one aboue the other which run both into one being wide aboue and narrow or straite in the middle whereinto he runneth to get the Lion following him betweene them both and so to entangle himselfe therein in the meane time the Leopard leapes out at the other hole and falleth vpon the backe of the Lion for by that meanes the Lion cannot vse his strength against him and so he sheweth his deceitfull nature and condition which by subtiltie he practiseth and bringeth to passe And yet at other times he hath shewed other Leopards tricks vpon the African Apes and West-Indian Monkeyes for vpon a time when hee spied many of them together hee made as though he had been dead or asleepe in the meane time the Apes and Monkeyes came without feare out of their holes thinking to be free out of doubt and were very ioyful and played many apish toyes one with the other not doubting any thing nor once so much as dreaming of the rising vp againe of their slumbring enemie who like a Leopard lay lurking and seeing time fit and conuenient when those beasts were vnarmed and without feare he rose vp out of his counterfeit slumber and falling vpon them deuoured and tare in sunder the most part of them This Gentlewoman serueth also for a warning to you for not long since I heard you say that you yet haue many old geese for prouision for your kitchin whose cages you are to looke well to lest this Leopard with craftie baytes and force comes not suddenly and deuoureth them as he hath already deuoured many Lions and Monkeys and the same would hee doe vnto your owne person also if hee had the meanes according to his will I meane this leering suiter who with a craftie dissembling manner of suite though not openly seeking to get as neere vnto you as he can as you may perceiue by his entry into Gulicke and Cleaueland and from thence to Marke and meaneth not to leaue so vntill he hath gotten something that may further his pretence for the warre not by skirmishes thereby to set forth your honour the more which hee thinketh before this time to haue sufficiently tried but by long and continuall policie in the end to lay hold vpon you by force For he accounts you already to bee his owne although neuerthelesse of meere necessity hee did acknowledge you to be a free State But as he knoweth the nature of diuers slaues whom he hath vnder his subiection and perceiues well that hee must not vse them one like another to keepe them in bondage and to get more he hath therein a speciall watch vpon you for the Angolish Sentomish and Guineian Moores were with great cruelty made his slaues and with seueritie held in bondage Whereas the Brasilian Nation were by deceit and policy bereaued of their freedome and made his and by compulsion holden slaues Now marke well Gentlewoman at the first hee sought to you now he begins to worke otherwise in time past he began it by cruel Alua whereby he put you into so great a feare that hee was forced to call backe his executioner for your people were so wilde that they from himselfe as the author of the execution got a discharge of him so that thereupon came a great Commander with a pardon for your obstinacie towards him who ministred such Spanish figs called pardons that thereby you were almost choaked in the mier and many of you died After him came Don Iohn de Austria to pacifie you who at first seemed somewhat to encline to a peace but in short time after he made an vproare amongst you againe For that cause there was a strange present sent but yet for more furtherance to his intent which was an Italian Parmasan but perceiuing that it was too sweet for your taste and not liked of he let the Parmasan rot and began to come vpon you with a hastie Duch-Earust but because your Batauians are milde of nature and can see farre hee tooke no pleasure in such Erust proceeding then hee sent a red shining Spirituall man that should make Albright and cleare thinking to ouercome your person and