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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10279	Visions, or Hels kingdome, and the worlds follies and abuses, strangely displaied by R.C. of the Inner Temple Gent. Being the first fruits of a reformed life; Sueños. English	Quevedo, Francisco de, 1580-1645.; Croshawe, Richard.	1640 (1640)	STC 20561; ESTC S101544	51,980	226

This said hee beganne his first worke and I departed very pensive apprehending in my selfe that that man must needs have heavy crimes upon his Conscience But the Divell seeing mee sad whispered in mine eare that it was an Atheist who neither beleeved in God nor the Divell O that an understanding man is really accursed replied I when he cannot tell how to make profit of that Talent which God hath given him Not farre off I saw abundance of People drawing a fiery Cheriot through a burning Lake with rings thrust through their tongues to which the harnesse was fastened and a Divell going before them with this Proclamation This is the punishment of swearers slanderers and lyers In the Waggon were easie beleevers and in a roome whose prospect looked upon them were beautifull Women tormented in quality of Witches at which mine heart melted but a Divell came to comfort mee saying Doe you not remember the evill they have done you Have you not often found by experience that they use a certaine kinde of Magicke that destroyes therefore their paine is agreeable to it I followed my devillish Conductour and saw Judas accompanied with false Stewards T●●tours and such O●ficers as himselfe some whereof had no ●●●●heads and others no face ● seemed to bee well pleased with them who related the exploits they had done in his imitation Going nearer I saw that their torment was like that of Titius on whose entrals a Vultur still gnawed for their Consciences were their greatest Tormentours I could not suppresse the desire I had to speake perjured disloyall traitour villaine above all example said I how durst thou bee so vile as to sell thy Master thy Lord and thy God Why answered Judas doe you complaine of that You should rather commend than condemne mee since you receive so great a benefit thereby T is for mee to bewaile that am excluded from the possession of so great a good as I have put into your hands But thinke not that I am Iudas alone Know that since the Lords Death there have beene and are worse than I more wicked and more unthankfull witnesse Heretickes and Schismatickes For if I did once sell my Master I was in part cause of the Redemption of Mankinde but they in selling him you and themselves have lost all the World And others who are not content to sell him onely but they scourge and crucifie him more ignominiously than the Jewes in their wicked lives And though I know that repentance now availes mee not yet I would have you on earth to looke into yourselves before you censure me since I was the first Steward condemned for sale and not for bargaine as is the use and practice of all my fellowes I would heare no more but making way saw a great bulke of building which seemed like some inchanted Castle in which were many Venereous Divels tossing Whores and Thieves from scalding oyle into frozen ice to heate and coole their appetite One of the Females stepping to the threshold where I and my Guide stood Gentlemen said shee I pray you tell us whether this bee justice to condemne People both for giving and taking A Thiefe is condemned because hee takes from another and an Whore because shee gives For my part I maintaine that there is no injustice in us for if it be justice for every one to give of his owne and that we doe no other wherefore are we damned Wee found her question too difficult to bee derided and therefore sent her to Lawyers and Counsellours who were not farre from her but remembring that I had heard her speake of Thieves I asked where Seriveners were because as I came I overtook none by the way I beleeve said my Divell that you met not any Why Are they then allsaved No said he but they come neither on foot nor horsebacke but flying on wings a million in a flocke in respect of which lightnesse they are tormented in an upper Chamber I past by and not farre from thence went unto a place in which many Soules were shut up some whereof were very silent and others clamorous One told me it was the empalement of Lovers at which I was something grieved seeing that Death doth not kill the sighes with the body Some talked of their passions and endured a torment of loving distrust and others attributed their losse to their desires and imaginations wherof the force of the one and the colours of the other did present pictures to bee a thousand times fairer than persons and substances The most part-of them were disquieted and molested with a torture called I thought as a Divell ●old me and asking what that was Hee smiling replied 't is a torment agreeable to their offence for when Lovers see themselves deceived in their hopes either in the pursuit or possession of their Mistresses they say alwayes I thought that shee did love mee I thought shee would have beene the raising of my fortune I thought that shee would have been faithfull to me so that the cause of their 〈◊〉 proceeds not from any other thing but I thought Next to Lovers were Poets who endured the same punishment because their passions were not much different These men are of very jeasting humours said the Divell for whilest that others mourne and bewaile their sins they sing theirs and publish them every where For if they have but once laine with a Cloris Phillis Silviae or Melita by the meanes of one song they will walke her through a kingdome dockt like a Chimisticall Goddesse They will give her golden haire a Chrystall forehead eyes of Emralds or Diamonds teeth of Pearle lippes of Purple and Rubies with words of Muske and Amber and yet for all these riches of which they are so prodigall they cannot get credit for a meane sute among Brokers a course shirt among Sempsters nor a crackt beaver at the second hand Fearing too long a stay I went on to see the devout Impertinents who make prayers and requests to God full of absurd extravagancies O that they gave testimony of much griefe Their tongues were chained in everlasting silence and their bodies made crooked and bending to the Earth condemned to heare for ever the fearfull cries of a wheazing Divell who thus reproved them You brazen-fac't abusers of Prayer and the long sufferance of GOD presumptuous who dare treat with the Divine Majesty with lesse respect than you would doe with a Merchant with whom you traffique how many times have you made these execrable petitions Lord take my Father out of this World that I may enjoy his goods Let my Brother die within few dayes that I may succeed him in dignity Grant that I may finde a Mine of Gold at my feet That I may bee fortunate in play That my Sonne and Daughter may be richly married That the King may cast his favour upon me And adde unto these rash demands Doe this Lord and I promise to give money towards the marriage of Orphants to build Almes-houses and

thus discoursing another that walked very gravely came to mee and with a commanding eye said Looke this way What is your Ladiship said I you that speake so imperiously and presume to bee respected in a place where all are equall I am said she Queene Richard whom if thou knowest not yet thou hast often heard of for you that live are so devillish that the dead cannot bee excepted from your malice If you see an old wall an old hat a thread-bare cloake ragged coate or a woman that hath a treasury of years upon her you say instantly that they are as old as Queene Richard But you are mad my time was better than yours and to justifie what I say heare but your selves talke Now if a Mother thinkes to instruct her Daughter in modesty and say Daughter it is fitting that a Virgin that will conserve her honour should alwayes keepe herselfe within the bounds of shamefastnesse and looke downeward her Daughter will arrogantly answer Mother that was a custome in Queene Richards time 'T is for men to looke upon the Earth as upon the matter from which they were formed and for women to looke upon men as being extracted from them If a Father say to his Sonne Sonne feare God keepe his Commandements pray unto him when you rise and when you goe to bed eate not without blessing and rise not without giving thankes play not sweare not hee will alleage the same author Father that was the fashion in Queene Richards dayes So that hee is derided that rules himselfe according to holy instructions and men are sooner knowne by their oathes than beards But leaving this that you may understand the dead are not all so lockt up in eternall quiet but that their desires have freedome of enquiry Is there any newes stirring How stands the state of Europe The Spanish Fleets goe well enough said I but of late yeares the Hollanders beginne to take rude tribute from them And the Genoes have by way of bancke encroached so farre on his Principalities that like Leeches they not onely stop the veines but draw the mines dry Sonne said shee as long as the King of Spaine shall have the Hollanders for Enemies the way to the Indies will never be free And as for the Genoes they are likely to become a stately Senate like their City If the Canker enter not their magazin of store and immoderate lust convert all in Bordello But how goes the credit of the world There is much to bee said thereupon said I you have touched a string that makes a noise indeed every man hath his credit in himselfe every one is esteemed and every one doth all things in point of honour There is credit in all estates yet shee shifts places every day and is by this time seven stages under ground Those that steale say it is to maintaine their credit and that they had rather rob than begge Those that begge say it is to keepe their credit and that they had rather begge than steale Those that beare false witnesse and those that murder say the same thing And all men call credit that which tends most to their profit and presuming on their owne worth and estimation undervalew and defame the rest All is now perverted Lying is counted vertue wiles and fetches are the chiefest qualities of a Cavalier and insolency and impudency are the badges of gentility Heretofore the Ilanders were men of credit and kept themselves in a moderation of all things but now there are ill tongues abroad that say Savages may instruct them and that their abstinence is more for covetousnesse than sobriety Counsellours and Lawyers How doe they thrive As nests of Ants that from one breed a million Justice that in ancient dayes went naked as representing sincerity is now so swadled with paper as if she were a nest of Spices And whereas heretofore we had but one booke of Lawes there are now a thousand the cause of so many squablings divisions being every ones private exposition If you goe to some Lawyers let your cause bee what it will they will assure you good proceeding and tell you 't is a faire quaere and wants nothing but study but that at that instant they are something busie about a case betweene Iohn Ash and Iohn Okes so that they cannot minde it Yet if you will call some other time they will revise it better And after you have well paid them for money is the spirit of the worke and the true light of their understanding you shall reap nothing but protraction and may without difficulty instruct your selfe the event Happy are we said the Queene that are free from such disturbances but I beleeve there are many good and honest men amongst them that may bee Antipodes to those thou describest Doth Venice stand yet How Stand Yes said I it stands with a vengeance for that is a Common-wealth that maintaines it selfe beyond all conscience But if they should restore what they unjustly detaine from others none need to suspect their povertie I must needs say it is a pleasant State a Citie founded in the Water a Treasurie and Freedome in the Aire and a Dukedome whom many dread But 't is withall the channell and sinke of Monarchies by which they purge the filth of Peace and Warre The Turke suffers them to molest Christians and Christians permit them to injure the Turke and they tolerate one another to mischiefe both the one and the other so that by others dissention they maintaine their owne vastnesse which will swell them up till their great ambition burst them But methinkes thou speakest not of England said the Interrogatresse Canst thou bee unmindfull of thine owne Soyle T is not for want of duty replied I but because it is too full of splendour for me to comment on without admiration Pietie in the Prince Justice in the Magistrate Religion in the Minister and Obedience in the Subject having so absolute glory that not onely her bordering Nations congratulate her Peace but all the World stands gazing at her opulency who is the sparkling Diamond in the universall Ring I am glad answered Queene Richard that goodnesse and fidelity have so strong a Tower and hope Justice will hereafter restraine those calumnies are undeservedly throwne upon mee This said shee withdrew The next that appeared was a gray-haird man with a large beard hanging downe to his girdle whom I tooke to bee one of those wilde ones that wee see in the kingdome of painting And hee seeing mee stare said My art tels mee that you are desirous of my knowledge it is Erra-pater that speakes to you Is it possible said I that that Gallimaufry of Prophesies which runne up and downe under your name should be your worke Bold-face answered hee Darest thou so rashly offend the secrets of the gods and the Fates interpreter Inhumane Worldlings who despise that learning that is above your reach Finde you any Gallimaufries in my Predictions Can you bee so