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A39724	A relation of ten years in Europe, Asia, Affrique, and America all by way of letters occasionally written to divers noble personages, from place to place, and continued to this present year / by Richard Fleckno.	Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678?	1656 (1656)	Wing F1232; ESTC R24329	76,341	184

Governor o● the Cittadel his Lady the Baron Re●●urt her noble Brother the Blangelvals the M●rquiss of Libourg● with divers others of the Nobility extremely curteous and obliging as most commonly they are all when out of Court and Competency with others amongst these I am daily Conversant there is no Feast nor party without me In all their sports and Exercises I must make one for their Games they teach them me and make me win or if I chance to lose they are as much concern'd as for their own losses and more than I am for mine It were too great a vanity to tell you this if it were not a greater Ingratitude to conceal it and you know Sir I can so little conceal the honour my Frends do me as I publish every wher the honour you do me in being one of them as that I have in being Sir Your c. II. To the Lord from Gant An. 41. With the Character and Epitaph of the Earl of STRAFFORD My Lo●d YOu would not believe me when I told you which way things tended and see what comes of it One of you is brought unto the block already for whom I have made this following Epitaph To see such Heads off on the Scaffold lie Only to keep on th' Head of Majestie What is 't but Admonition to his Peers S●ch Heads once off 't is time to look to theirs As for this following Character because I know my Lord amongst your many other commendable qualities you have this not to Envy others commendations I send it you withall The Character of the Earl of Strafford He was the fullest Man of all the Eminent parts and qualities of a Great Minister of State as England ever bred and both in Cabinet and abroad exprest it as fully too his unhappinesse 't was or rather ours that he liv'd not in happier Times might have rather Admir'd than Envyed those parts of his so as that Epitaph of Adrian the 6th might well be applyed to him Proh dolor quantum refert in que Tempora vel optimi cujusque virtus incidat Many Envyed him because few understood him and 't is almost to be wisht that his Prince had not don 't so well since 't was his overthrow so much more it imports the People than the Prince be Good they being many and he but one He was a Iewel sit for the Crown of any Prince to wear and that his Prince well knew and therefore wore him him there but being matcht and overmatcht too with counterfeit ones they fearing his splendor should dim and offuscat them snacht him thence and cast him into the obscurity of a Prison from whence he might have escap'd had he preferr'd his Life before his Fame but he had higher Thoughts and look't only after Eternitie and the perpetuating his Memory so while 't was irreparable losse unto the Crown 't was his gain to die with the glorious title and high reputation of his Princes Martyr Nor wanted there as great prodigies at his death as ever fore-run any Heroes yet all the Laws of the Land being first subverted the King losing his Authority and Kingdom chang'd into Democra●ie Er ' he could die so as his noble House was more honour'd and illustrated by his fall than ever 't could have been even in his greatest rise And now my Lord comfort your self if you chance to be the next that you shall not want one to make your Epitaph and Cha●acter at least but I rather wish and hope 't may be your Elogium in celebration of your Glorious Actions For if things look towards a Warr as I 'm affraid they do 't will be as well the Glory of your Judgement to chuse the better side as of your Valour to defend it bravely for Valour is either Virtue or Vice as 't is well or ill imployed and 't is hard to determine which is the greater Crime to defend an Ill Cause well or a good one ill You then being of Brutus disposition Quicquid vult valde vult that is vehement in all you undertake I cannot end this Letter with a better Prayer than God blesse a good Cause from having you for Enemy and God blesse you from being Frend unto an Ill which is the prayer of My Lord Your c. III. To Mr. Henry Petre from Gant Anno 42. Of his Resolution ●o leave GANT Noble Sir I Have liv'd to see the day when having lost all 〈◊〉 sinc● I may thank God for having nothin● now nor did I ever know how great a happinesse ' twa● till I saw their unhappines●e w●● are bemir'd and hog●'d in their own L●●● and bound to the●r Countries by the ●ie● of ●●fe and Children For what avails it such to ●●ve their Bodies free abroad whilst their Souls are imprisoned at home or to flie the miseries of the●r Country whilst they have lef● Pledges with Fortune there to be miserabl● still I speak this in regard of many Engli●● here retir'd as they imagine from the Noyse and Tumult in England whil●● their ea● are as much beaten with it here and thei● minds as much sollicited and perplex'd as they were present there They receiving wee●ly Intelligence from their Wives Frends and Servants there This that his house is plundered that that his Tenants refuse to pay their Rent a third that his Estate is sequestred c. when I must make sad faces with them ●or company or they cry out I care not how things go I answer If my care could remedy it I should And for their Losses I protest they touch me as neerly and ●'m as sorry for them as I should be for my own and if that suffice not I am sorry Nature made me not of another Temper and Disposition for their sakes Neither was this any Sto●cal Indolency in me who could suffer nay die for a Friend but yet without trouble and vexation In ●ine I 'm so wearied out with this sad sport as not to be made miserable at second hand I 'm resolv'd to quit this place and retire me to Antwerp or Bruxelles for I 'm indifferent for either you laugh now at my Indifferency but may I die or lose your Frendship which is more if I find it not an Immense happi●esse to say with Bias Omnia mea mecum porto and while others by heaping up wealth on wealth make themselves at last so cumbersom a load of it they cannot stir for it I by reducing all to the narrow compasse of one Portmanteau travel lightly up and down injoying that Liberty Fortune has bestow'd on me and Nature inclines me to wanting nor wishing for nothing more Sir than your Company being as I am Sir Your c. IV. To the Lady Audley from Bruxelles Anno 42. Of his Arival there Madam I Am at last arived at Bruxelles where for some Time I intend to stay having by rowling up and down like a Snow-ball contracted so many Acquaintances as I am now incompast with them

all and of a Family as unble misht and untainted for my Qualities I am sincere and tell others there faults without fl●ttery and that so far from humour of finding fault as I tell them as well their vertues and perfections too I am strangely fantastique I must confesse wearing my cloaths within as others do without and ●o awkward as where others use their right hand I use my left For the rest to confesse my weaknesse I am most frail and subject to fall if I be'nt look'd well unto and am so weak of constitution as 't is a hundred to one afterwards if ever I recover it In fine I am somwhat of the nature of a Cameleon changing colour often by reflexion nay what is yet more strange I often change Complexion and Sexes too being now fair now fowl now a Woman now a Man though I 'm oblig'd out of Gratitude to love more the Feminine Sex and can assure your Highnesse on my faith I am never fairer than when you look on me XLIV To Madamoiselle de Beauvais in Raillerie On his being King on Twelf-ni●ht Anno 51. Madamoiselle PYthagoras or I imagin would never have been such an Enemy to Beans had he received such favours from them as I have done who by the Suffrage of one am chosen King to night Think me not now one of those who change their natural Condition with the condition of Fortune and wax proud with their honours No more I am in capacity of doing good more good I mean to do and I promise you on my Royal word my Subjects here shall all● have cause to rejoice whilst I reign over them my raign shall be nothing but one continued Feast which they shall celebrate with joyful acclamation nothing shall be consum'd but in the Kitchen and nothing be exhausted but the Cellar I will do Grace to all and no Justice shall be done but in drinking healths amongst the rest Madamoiselle yours shall not be forgot and think but what Grace I may do you and account it done Il Rey. The Answer A sa Majeste Flecknotique SA Majesté scaura que je me rejouie Insin●ment de son heureux avenement a sa coronne et je le cr●is d'autant plus facilement pour●● que l' on a tousieurs este d' opinion du temps passé que le ● Royaumes seroient heureux quand les Rois ●eront philosophes ou les philosophes Royes Pesper e que vostre Regne en sera extremement et que vostre grandeur n' empeschera pas qu' elle ne se souviene de mapetittesse The same in English To his Flecknotique Majesty YOur Majesty may please to know that I rejoyce exceedingly for his happy accession to the Crown which I easily believe will be the more happy since Antiquity has alwayes been of opinion that then Kingdoms would be happiest when Philosophers were Kings or Kings Philosophers according to this I esteem your Kingdom very happy and hope your Greatnesse will not hinder you from remembring one so little as I Your c. To Madamoiselle de Beauvais An. 51. On his leaving BREEN Madamoiselle I Am lookt on here as an Ingrosser of her Highness favours which having no Intrest I have no Arts at all to conserve but only my sincere honouring her for the rest I have so little complacency I profess as I imagin 't were too much spending on the main stock to be complacent to all and every one thinking they deserve it imagine they are injur'd if they have it not this makes those Enemies whom I care not to make my Frends Since then those who live in Court are like those who Embarque on Sea The Prince is the Sea your open Enemies the Winds and secret ones the Rocks and Shelves Yon who are not only my Cynosura or Pole-star by whom I direct my course but my Pilot who are also to direct me knowing better than I the nature of those Seas will be carefull I hope to preserve me from these rocks and shelves and for greater storms I will take care my self who am of the nature of your Holland Yauges or Barks of pleasure which when any storm arise put to land presently and secure themselves and just as in those Boats when the Sea is calm and the Skie fair and serene you shall hear nothing but laughing and meriment but when storms arise and the clowds gather together once● they are all husht and there 's an End of their Joviality so I lose my good humour straight when I perceive any clowdy countenances as I imagin I doe here now You 'll say perhaps 't is but my Imagination It may be so however I 'll retire a while so shann't I break with my Frends but avoid breaking with them it being not my manner who love not to be treated with Indifference much lesse neglect to importune any with my Company longer then they may take delight in it so shall they return to 't with appetite again which else as meats they are once cloyd with they alwayes look afterwards on with loathing nautious●es Besides I find it no ways conducing to my health to remain longer here this Winter which as a hole in the wall is no part of the building is so deep sunk in a bottom as it seems no part of the world there being a hole in Ireland they call Purgatory and another in the Isle of Lipary they call Hell but if ever there were any place that deserves the name of both in my conceit 't is this You see how Satyrical discontent makes a man and in the humour I am in will excuse I 'm sure my leaving Breen only with intension when they and I am am in better humour to return again Mean time Madamoiselle I beseech you conserve me not only in your good graces but also in theirs to whom I am and ever shall be as I am to you Madamoiselle Your c. XLVII To the Lady Tenham An. 54 In sending her a Song or Ballad Madam I Send you here a Song made upon this occasion The other night almost all the Ladies of the Time were in the Garden with none to wait on them but my self when if a Handkerchief but fell I must strait reach it up and with a couple of reverences and kissing my hand deliver it them again If a Fan dropt I was to do the like and if a Glove were lost like a good Water Spaniel I must go hunt it out and fetch it them again In fine 't was impossible Sir Toby Matthews himself amongst so many Ladies could have been busier than I was nor more officious with which notwithstanding I was so wearyed at last as returning to my Chamber I made this following Song In revenge of those who left me all alone under so great yet honourable a burthen SONG I NOw into what Times Are we faln for our Crimes Or what ever the matter of 't may be It does not afford So