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A19864 A briefe discourse of the Spanish state vvith a dialogue annexed intituled Philobasilis. Daunce, Edward. 1590 (1590) STC 6291; ESTC S109300 31,421 60

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man or horse their fields being extremely parcht with the Sunne till the returne of the Equinoctial Who therefore mindeth to inuade Spaine hauing no acquaintance with that ayre it behoueth him to take the field in March or at the least in Aprill so councelled Iohn the king of Portingale his father in law the Duke of Lancaster who hauing in few weekes conquered Galitia after contended only with the aire scarsitie of the fields the Spaniards hauing brought their corne hay and other prouisions into their walled townes by meane whereof he lost twelue Barons foure score knights and two hundred Esquires besides the common souldiers and horse of seruice Yet are not these discommodities of aire or countrie or losse of so many great personnages and resolute men to deterre vs hereafter we being not to measure at any time our attempts by the euents but by what reason they were enterprized which being of late to diuert a capitall and stubburne enemie are necessitie commanding oportunely to be renued nothing being impossible to a prudēt deliberation accōpanied with true fortitude Say then noble countrimen with resolute Cato speaking to his souldiers in the deserts of Libya These are my mates in armes vvhom dangers onely leade But what heare I Great is the Hesperian god Plutus Spain not onely abounding with fruitfull fields and rich mines but with such men as haue bene parentes of all good customes It suffiseth but let this be tried by Lazarillo di Tormes he being lesse partiall then Hieronimo Ruscello Rodirigo di Toledo or Taraphe and by the trauellers in Spaine who find nothing in their hosteries but a mat to lye vpon and a candle to bring them to bed It is no good consequent there be birds because there is a nest or he is a gentleman for that he neuer leaueth riding But graunt the South of Spaine may be compared with the fruitfull parts of Italie and that some of them were of like seede as Pallas yet it maketh no more for the fertilitie of the rest and good breeding of that people then the teeth of an Aethiopian for the whitenesse of his bodie Neither doth the varietie of their mines proue the fatnesse of the soyle but the contrarie for all mettals being ingendred by influence of the Planets of which they haue their properties and apt temperature of the earth inclined to the disposition of those Planets of which she is impressed do shew the nature of their cause by their effects which being in the third and fourth degree of drought prooueth their ground more barren vnlesse in some part then any region about them Moreouer their mines which by men skilfull in minerals are likened to trees hauing rootes trunkes boughes branches blossomes or floures they haue bene wasted by sundry nations in all ages as the mines of seacole and kannel which haue their bounds are subiect to an end First the Phoenecians had for things of small price great store of their mettall by the helpe whereof they erected diuerse colonies in Sicilia Sardinia Libya and Spaine it selfe Secondly the Carthagenians did trafficke their brasse with the Tyrians inlarged thereby their commodities in other mettall their Empire against the Libyans Sicilians and Romaines Lastly the Romaines mined many furlongs with great vaults in sundrie parts of Spaine an argument of scarsitie in their time and that the birds were then flowen which is now a cause also the king of Spaine preuaileth little for the lower countries treasure as some hold being the sinewes of warre As for this opinion that other nations should take light frō their courtly port martiall behauiour it is vaine argueth a yearely pention Antonio di Gueuarra affirming that to giue perfection to the Spaniards it behoueth to draw him that is bred in the mountaines to be trained in Castill which I gesse is for no other cause then that the Montanese is by nature rough and the Castillian efeminat but what state this man will beare let them report who haue either seene beggers set on horsebacke or haue beheld a mans head placed on a horses necke c. This my self can say that I haue knowē fifteene hūdred Biscaies which people Florus nameth the chiualrie of Spaine at their first landing in Antvvarpe to be men contemptible of person filthy in apparell and rude in behauiour and within one moneth after they had tasted the pay of that towne and relished the cates of that contrey to be terrible of countenance magnificall in gesture and seeming of so hautie conceit as though all things were vile which they esteemed not and therefore dare auowe that who so was entertained with their customes prospered as a tree embrased with iuie This barbarous naturall of the Spaniard was better knowen to Hanibal then to men of our time for he after his discomfiture at Cilla hauing some Spanish horsemen remaining and fearing in respect of their vertuous training their readines to chaffer the state of their friends fled with on horseman in two dayes two nights to Adrumetum distant frō the battail three thousand furlongs which commeth to three hundred seuentie fiue of our miles an argument he loued and trusted them well from whom he fled in such hast It is a ground that a compound is lesse perfit more daungerous for nature then a simple if therefore those Spaniards which descended only of Tubal haue in respect of their parent or soile but the image of perfect men what shall we thinke of the Spaniards of these dayes which are confected of the pilferers of the wold truely that there is no vice in which they haue not a surplussage aboue anie other nation of the earth I meane the South of Spain now containing Catalonia Aragona Castilia nueua Valenza Granado and Andaluzia to which only the Romans before Polybius time gaue the name of Spaine As for Galitia and Portingale the one taking name of those French men that in the time of Charles the great entred Spaine against the Mores the other of those French and Normans that in the yeare 700. past against the Sarasins as also the Biscais descended of those Gauls which were called Celtae and of those Spaniards named Iberi as Diodorus in his sixt booke of antiquities and Lucan in his fourth hooke make mention I number them a part as being ech way more honorable then the rest But to returne to the South of Spaine the rest not being knowen to the learned antiquitie the Goths and Alani being of those Scythians that dwelt neere the riuer Danubius who in the time of Honorius came vnder the leading of Gensericus into Spaine inhabited that part which is now called Catalonia a word compounded of both their names and was at the first named Gottalania Of these Scythes who haue their name as vacantes scyphis are descended those that inhabit Castilia nueua and Arragon named at the first Terracona Next to these is the prouince of Valenza