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A character of the province of Mary-land ... also a small treatise on the wilde and naked Indians (or Susquehanokes) of Mary-land, their customs, manners, absurdities, & religion : together with a collection of historical letters / by George Alsop.
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Alsop, George, b. 1638.
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Wing A2901; ESTC R6606
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a Bench and strangely he did do Then every week he daily came to see How his new Physick still did work with me And when he did perceive he 'd don the feat Like an unworthy man he made retreat Left me in desolation and where none Compassionated when they heard me groan What could he judge the Parish then would think To see me fair his Brat as black as Ink If they had eyes they 'd swear I were no Nun But got with Child by some black Africk Son And so condemn me for my Fornication To beat them Hemp to stifle half the Nation Well since 't is so I 'le alter this base Fate And lay his Bastard at some Noble's Gate Withdraw my self from Beadles and from such Who would give twelve pence I were in their clutch Then who can tell this Child which I do hide May be in time a Small-beer Col'nel Pride But while I talk my business it is dumb I must lay double-clothes unto thy Bum Then lap thee warm and to the World commit The Bastard Off-spring of a New-born wit Farewel poor Brat thou in a monstrous World In swadling bands thus up and down art hurl'd There to receive what Destiny doth contrive Either to perish or be sav'd alive Good Fate protect thee from a Criticks power For if he comes thou' rt gon in half an hour Stifl'd and blasted 't is their usual way To make that Night which is as bright as Day For if they once but wring and skrew their mouth Cock up their Hats and set the point Duâ— South Armes all a kimbo and with belly strut As if they had Parnassus in their gut These are the Symtomes of the murthering fall Of my poor Infant and his burial Say he should miss thee and some ign'rant Asse Should find thee out as he along doth pass It were all one he 'd look into thy Tayle To see if thou wert Feminine or Male When he 'd half starv'd thee for to satisfie His peeping Ign'rance he 'd then let thee lie And vow by 's wit he ne're could understand The Heathen dresses of another Land Well 't is no matter wherever such as he Knows one grain more then his simplicity Now how the pulses of my Senses beat To think the rigid Fortune thou wilt meet Asses and captious Fools not six in ten Of thy Spectators will be real men To Umpire up the badness of the Cause And screen my weakness from the rav'nous Laws Of those that will undoubted sit to see How they might blast this new born Infancy If they should burn him theyâ—d conclude hereafter 'T were too good death for him to dye a Martyr And if they let him live they think it will Be but a means for to encourage ill And bring in time some strange Antipod'ans A thousand Leagues beyond Philippians To storm our Wits therefore he must not rest But shall be hang'd for all he has been prest Thus they conclude My Genius comforts give In Resurrection he will surely live A Land-skip of the Province of MARY LAND Or the Lord Baltimors Plantation neer Virginia By Geo Alsop Gent To my Friend Mr. George Alsop on his Character of MARY-LAND WHo such odd nookes of Earths great mass describe Prove their descent from old Columbus tribe Some Boding augur did his Name devise Thy Genius too cast in th' same mould and size His Name predicted he would be a Rover And hidden places of this Orb discover He made relation of that World in gross Thou the particulars retail'st to us By this first Peny of thy fancy we Discover what thy greater Coines will be This Embryo thus well polisht doth presage The manly Atchievements of its future age Auspicious winds blow gently on this spark Vntill its flames discover what 's yet dark Mean while this short Abridgement we embrace Expecting that thy busie Soul will trace Some Mines at last which may enrich the World And all that poverty may be in oblivion hurl'd Zoilus is dumb for thou the mark hast hit By interlacing History with Wit Thou hast describ'd its superficial Treasure Anatomiz'd its bowels at thy leasure That MARY-LAND to thee may duty owe Who to the World dost all her Glory shew Then thou shalt make the Prophesie fall true Who fill'st the World like th' Sea with knowledge new William Bogherst To my Friend Mr. George Alsop on his Character of MARY-LAND THis plain yet pithy and concise Description Of Mary-Lands plentious and sedate condition With other things herein by you set forth To shew its Rareness and declare its Worth Compos'd in such a time when most men were Smitten with Sickness or surpriz'd with Fear Argues a Genius good and Courage stout In bringing this Design so well about Such generous Freedom waited on thy brain The Work was done in midst of greatest pain And matters flow'd so swiftly from thy source Nature design'd thee sure for such Discourse Go on then with thy Work so well begun Let it come forth and boldly see the Sun Then shall 't be known to all that from thy Youth Thou heldst it Noble to maintain the Truth ' Gainst all the Rabble-rout that yelping stand To cast aspersions on thy MARY-LAND But this thy Work shall vindicate its Fame And as a Trophy memorize thy Name So if without a Tomb thou buried be This Book 's a lasting Monument for thee H. W. Master of Arts. From my Study Jan. 10 1665. To my Friend Mr. George Alsop on his Character of MARY-LAND COlumbus with Apollo sure did set When he did Court to propigate thy Wit Or else thy Genius with so small a Clew Could not have brought such Intricates in view Discover'd hidden Earth so plain that we View more in this then if we went to see MARY-LAND I with some thousands more Could not imagine where she stood before And hadst thou still been silent with thy Pen We had continu'd still the self-same men Ne're to have known the glory of that Soyle Whose plentious dwellings is four thousand mile The portly Susquehanock in his naked dress Had certain still been Pigmye or much less All had been dark to us and obscure yet Had not thy diligence discover'd it For this we owe thee Praises to the Skie But none but MARY-LAND can gratifie Will. Barber A CHARACTER Of the PROVINCE of MARY-LAND CHAP. I. Of the situation and plenty of the Province of Mary-Land MARY-LAND is a Province situated upon the large extending bowels of America under the Government of the Lord Baltemore adjacent Northwardly upon the Confines of New-England and neighbouring Southwardly upon Virginia dwelling pleasantly upon the Bay of Chaesapike between the Degrees of 36 and 38 in the Zone temperate and by Mathematical computation is eleven hundred and odd Leagues in Longitude from England being within her own imbraces extraordinary pleasant and fertile Pleasant in respect of the multitude of Navigable Rivers and Creeks that conveniently and most profitably lodge within the armes of