2. These FIGURES all which moving seem alive As fierce and warlike as they show for here By the bright fame that doth of them survive In truth and Fact more fierce and warlike were They stand far off in time Through perspective Of cleer WITS yet they â—…oom boâ—…h great and neer This thou now seest is LUSUS from whom Fame Gives to our Kingdom LUSITANIA'S name 3. He was that THEBAN'S Son or else Camrade Who in so many Lands did Lawrels gaine Following the Wars which he did make his Trade This LUSUS built at length a Nest in SPAINE With those delicious Fields so well apaid Th' Elysian once 'twixt DWERE and GUADIANâ—… That there he set up his long Rest. He gave A Name to Those and Those to Him a Grave 4 The leavy staffe he bears for his Device The Thyrsus is That BACCHUS self did beare Which is to Us a letter of Advice And this was his own Son or Friend as deare Seest Thou Another who long Seas did slice With wand ring Keele and Lands by TAGUS there Where he a Fane to PALLAS sacred calls And is the Author of eternal Walls 5. It is Ulysses who that Temple founded For Her with Eloquence his Tongue that guilded If he in ASIA here fair TROY confounded In EUROPE there great LISBâ—…N hath he builded Who may this other be which dead and wounded That sows the â—…ield his sword with both hands weilded Death and Destruâ—…ion on great Hoasts that flings Where painted Eagles flye with true ones wings 6. Thus said the Pagan Thus replyes DE GAME This thou now seest a keeper was of Ewes And know that VIRIATUS was his name But better then a Hook a Sword could use With this he did affront the Roman Fame Invincible nor Fame once got did loose No ROME had ne re with Him nor shall that 's more That luck with PYRRHUS which she had before 7. By Valour not but creeping trechery They rob'd him of his life Why doest thou wonder In desp'rate Cases MAGNANIMITY It self doth teare it's proper laws in sunder Behold Another for Indignity Receiv d with Us that did his Countrey thunder To gain immortal Honour he chose well With whom to do it if he must rebell 8. With Us behold He likewise puts to flight Those Birds that are the Favourites of JOVE So long ago Nations of greatest might Knew how to yield when against ours they strove See with what wyle and artificial Slight Our People he to fight his Quarrel drove Th' inspiring Hind that helpt him with Advice He is SERTORIUS she is his DEVICâ—… 9. Behold that other Flag There painted see Of our first Kings the great Progenitor We make him an HUNGARIAN but there bee That do affirm he was a LORRAIGNOR After that overcome the MOORS had he GALLEGOS and the LEON-WARRIOR Went holy HENRY to the Holy War To sanctifie the Trunk whence our Kings aâ—…e 10. Surpriz'd with wonder who is this demands Tell me who this is cryes the CATUALL That doth so many â—…roops so many Bands Destroy and scatter with a Force so small So many Battailes strikes with his own hands With whose fierce Râ—…ms so many strong Tow'rs fall That fights in blood up to the Saddle-bow Whilst Flags and CROWNS fall at his feet like snow 11. 'T is first ALPHONSO doth DE GAME return Who from the MOOR all PORTUGALL did take FAME by the waters of black STYX hath sworn Ne re more to sing of ROMAN for his sake He lov'd of Heav'n with love of Heav'n did burn Whom GOD the scourge of MOORS his Foes did make Their Throne and Walls broke down to let CHRIST in And nothing left there for his Heyrs to win 12. Had CAESAR fought had ALEXANDER GREAT With such thin Troops so slender and so short Against such num'rous Armies as were beat By this brave King of every kind and sort Believe t nor He nor He with JOVE had eat Nor their proud Fames made such a lowd report But leave his Acts too glorious to unfold His Vassails deeds are worthy to be told 13. This whom thou seest upon his pupil broke All patience lost casting an angry Face Bidding him rally up his scatt'red Folke And turn again to justifie the place Turns the young man turns the old man That spoke And turns with them the day in a small space EGAS the name which the brave old man hath Tutor of MARS myrrour of Subjects faith 14. There how he marcheth with his children look Barefoot and Ropes about their Necks t' his end Because the young man as he undertook To pay CASTEEL low Homage could not bend He rays'd the Seige with Craft and Oaths he took When vain were Arms the Rampire to defend He pays the forfeit with his Babes and Wife And to preserve his Master gives his life 15 Less did that CONSULL who through folly was Caught at the CAUDINE GALLOWS in a Trap When Him insulting Samnites forc't to pass Under that shameful yoak they there did clap He brave and constant did himself disgrace To save his Army in so sad mishap This gives to shame and death himself his deer Chilâ—…ren and guiltless Spouse the last goes neer 16. Seest thou this man who from an Ambuscade Beats up a King besieging a strong Town The Leaguer's rays'd the King his pris'ner made A deed great MARS could wish had been his own See him again now Head of an Armade Massacring MOORS upon the watry Down Boarding their Galleys carrying cleer away PORTUGAL'S mayden Victory at Sea 17. It is DON FUAS ROUPINIO on the Land And on the Ocean gaining equal Fame Which from the fired Galleys neer the Strand Of AVILA shines glorious in their flame See how content he faâ—…ls by the same Hand The Fortune alter'd but the Cause the same Like Palme deprest in vain through shafts of MORâ—… His happy Soule to Heav'n triumphant soares 18. Seest thou not landing there in strange Attire From a great Navy Troops Aâ—…xiliar Not without which our first King did acquire LISBON their Prologue to the holy-Holy-War Of these did HENRY famous Knight expire Behold Palms sprouting from his Tomb They are CHRIST'S supernatural Badge for Him to weare Who born a GERMAN dyed a Martyr there 19. See a Priest brandish not in vain his Blade Against ARRONCHEZ with revenge sharp whet To quit for LEYRIA which They taken had Who couch the Speare in Rest for MAHOMET 'T is PRIOR TEUTON But a Seige is laid To SANTAREN Look how Secure and Great That FIGURE plants upon her scaled wall The ever-winning Cinques of PORTUGAâ—…L 20. Behold once more where SANCHO overthrows In a fierce war the ANDALUSIAN MOORE He kills th' Alferez charging through the Foes And makes SEVILIA'S Standard mat the floore MEM MONIZ 't is How like his Sire he shows The Phenix of his Ashes worthy sure The Royal Flag and This who his did put Up with his Hand the Foe 's feld at his foot 21. See Him that by his
63. Lo now that noble City certain Seat Of the brave Rebell in old time SERTORIUS Where still his far-fetcht Water pure and neat To serve the place b'an act so meritorious Through Arches on Two hundred Pillars set Doth pass with Royall restauration glorious Ev'n Her the bold GERARDO'S prowess brings To own and serve the LUSITANIAN KINGS 64. Against the City now of BEYA To take revenge for spoyl'd TRANCOSO'S Town ALPHONSO goes who cannot rest a Day For ymping a short life with long Renown Before this City long he doth not stay And storming it b'a part that 's beaten down Enraged enters where of all that breathes His hungry Steel he in the Bowels â—…heathes 65. Jointly with these PALMELA doth he win Fishy CIZIMBRA too nor wins alone But his good star assisting him therein A potent Army there hath overthrowne The Town saw his intent so did her King Nor was he backward to relieve the Towne Careless he marcht along the Mountain-side Little imagining what did betide 66. 'T was He of BADACHOZ a haughty MORE Four thousand furious Spirits were his HORSE Of INFANTRY innumerable store With gilded Arms Gallants and Warriors But as in May a jealous Bull before He is perceiv'd rushes with all his force Upon a Travailer and runs him over Twice mad both as a Beast and as a Lover 67. Just so ALPHONSO from an Ambush close Assaults the people that securely past Strikes overturns and kills The Field he mows The MOORISH KING flyes for his life in hast Struck vvith a Pannick fear the Remnant throvvs Avvay their Arms and follovvs him as fast They That made all this Havock being a Force Good God! consisting but of sixty Horse 68. The Victory vvithout delay the great And indefatigable KING pursues Causing his Drums through all the Realm to beat Conqu'ring of LANDS he as his Trade doth use Besiegeth BADACHOZ and soon doth get The end of his desire For there he shevvs So much of Souldier and a Soul so high That keep It must the others company 69. But the great GOD vvho keeps his Rods in store For such as merit them till his ovvn time Whether for Sinners to amend before They fall or CAUSES Man can not divine If he till now the valiant KING forbore And through all dangers leading gave him line Yet now he vvill no longer let him be From his imprison'd MOTHER'S curses free 70. For lying in this City weakly man'd The LEON-MEN besiege th'ill-guarded Walls 'Cause he that Conquest took out of their Hand Being of LEON and not PORTUGAL'S Here dear did Him his Pertinacy stand As in the World out oftentimes it falls For in a furious Sally his leg burst Against an IRON he to yield was forc't 71. O famous POMPEY Be not Thou in pain To see thy Glories's sad Catastrophie Or that just NEMESIS should pre-ordain Thy Father-in-Law to triumph over Thee Though frozen PHASIS and BOOTES'S Wayn The Land under the BURNING AXLE-TREE And strange SYENE where no oblique Sun A Shadow casts and all the day is Noon 72. And ENIâ—…CHIANS fierce and ARABS rich And COLCHOS famous for the Golden Sheep And CAPPADOCEANS and JUDEANS which Abolisht Rites so obstinately keep And soft SOPHENA scruft with pleasures Itch And with SILICIAN-ROBBERS on the DEEP ARMENIA That two Rivers boasts which came From PARADISE All trembled at thy name 73. And though in fine from the ATLANTICK-SEA To SCYTHIAN-TAURUS with erected Crown Victorious Wonder not that thou shouldst be In the PHARSALIAN BATTAIL overthrown For high and great ALPHONSO thou shalt see Bear All before him and at last bourn down By a Cross-match of FATE were Both undon Thou by a FATHER-IN-LAW He by a SON 74. The noble KING thus scourg'd by HEAV'N at length Restor'd was to his PORTUGAL again There after he had been by a vast strength Of MOORS in SANTAREN besieg'd in vain And after that the Corps of St. VINCENTH The Martyr from that Head of Land in SPAIN Which by his name to all the world is known Translated was to th'ULYSSEAN TOWN 75. To carry on the Work by Him begun The old man weary doth his Son command With men and warlike preparation To march into the ALENTEIAN-LAND SANCHO to prove himself his Fathers Son Like a strong stream let loose passes beyand And makes the River of GUADALQUIVEER Run Moorish blood That wont to run so cleer 76. Flesht with his winnings the young Gamester grows Now Covetous and cannot rest before He in a second Battail overthrows In sight of BEIA the beleagu'ring MORE Nor long with this design in labour goes E're he the â—…ays by Him desired Wore The MOOR on both sides justled to the Wall Resolves at once to be reveng'd for all 77. Now from the Mountain which MEDUSA star'd Out of that Body which the HEAV'N sustayn'd From AMPELUSA'S Promontory hard They march from TANGER where ANTEUS raign'd Of AVILA the dwellers are not spar'd Doth likewise march well arm'd and choicely train'd At the harsh Mauritanian Trumpet 's sound Of noble JUBA all the Kingdom round 78. With this huge mass of men his inroad made The great MIRAMOLIN in PORTUGAL Twelve Moorish Kings he carryed in his Ayd 'Mongst whom He wears the Crown Imperial These having in their march by Parties prey'd And where they could destroy'd the Countrey all In SANTAREN Don SANCHO close impound But a sad Seige it will for them be found 79. Furious assaults th' incensed MOOR doth make A thousand Stratagems in practice puts In vain huge Stones from horrid Engins brake In vain the Mine is hid and the Ram buts ALPHONSO'S Son is everywhere awake Here his Care Sheilds and there his courage cuts So what with these and what with martial Art Stopt is each Meuse and guarded in each part 80. But the old man whose burthen'd Lims and Head With years and Cares oblig'd him to repose Retir'd into that City whose fair Mead To sweet MONDEGO'S streams its verdure ows Hearing his Son is close beleaguered In SANTAREN by blind and barb'rous Foes Flyes from that City to his Ayd For Age Cramps not his wonted speed nor cools his rage 81 He with his Troops inur'd to warlike Feats Thund ring the Reare and his Son salying out The PORTINGAL who now of custom beats In a short space the MOORS doth wholly rout With Terbants Cassacks Faulchions Coverlets Cloaks with wrought Capes the Field is strew'd about Horses and their Caparisons rich Prey And by the Horses their dead Masters lay 82. The Lusitanian Bounds the rest forego Put to a hasty and disordred flight The great MIRAMOLIN he flyes not though For before he could flye he fled the light To HIM who did this Victory bestow Are rendred thanks and Praises infinite For in so great and so apparent odds The part man acts is the dumb shew to GOD'S 83. This was the great ALPHONSO'S latest wreath Of Victory a Prince of vast Renown When He who forg'd it with his Sword his breath Deserting him exchang'd his
spoke when cleft with lightning sheen Trembles a cloud and darts squeez'd fire between The King of Shades into earth's bosome sunk And from his Brother's thunder frighted shrunk Forthwith the fates of men and ills to come Heaven shows by signes for the deformed Sun Veils with a mist his blushing face as far From giving count'nance to a civil war The Moon at full to leave them groaping pops Her light out too The palsey'd Mountain-tops Supported with weak necks come thund ring down Nor wand'ring Rivers run in channels known To dye a natural death Armies appeare In th' Ayre and Trumpets even in his own spheare Alarum Mars Now hotter Aetna burns And thunderbolts for thunderbolts returns Lo 'Mongst the Tombs and disinterred bones The Gastly shadows send up baleful groans A blazing-Star draws an unusual train And a new Jove descends in bloody rain Heav'n soon these signes expounds for Caesar drove With his own speed and sweet revenges love Threw down the Gallick Civil Arms took up On cloudy Alps where winding to the top The rocks made passable by Graecian hands A Temple sacred to Alcides stands 'T is thatch'd with crusted Snow and blends its gray Head to the Stars how like the milky way It thaws not with the Sun's Meridian rayes Nor with the Spring 's warm breath but pav'd with lays Of Ice and feathered Rain the Heaven it beares For it both threatens and supports the spheares When He the Soldier glad these cliffs did tread And touch'd his wishes from the Mountains head Stretching his voice the Latian fields survey'd And both his hands to Heav'n thus Caesar said All powerful Jove and thou Saturnian Land Triumphant oft safe always by my hand Witness I come unwilling to this warre Unwilling Clash but such my proud wrongs are Expuls'd my Country whilst I paint with blood The Rhine whilst I the Galls the Alps exclude Threat'ning again the Capitoll Exil'd Farther by conquering more the Germanes foyl'd And sixty triumphs are my crime But who Denounce this war Blind with our beams a crew Of trading Soules step-children to my Rome But they I think shall know too upon whom Nor shall mechanick hands bind these with cords Go mine Go victors plead the Cause with Swords We all are in one fault one shame threats all You câ—…nquer'd too If punishment must fall On them that beat if this our triumph be Let the Dye fall and Fortune judge for me Take up the war they throw you try your force If overcome my case can be no worse But arm'd and with such men that ne're can hap This said the Delphick bird her wings did clap An Omen good and in a wood beside A Bay-tree crackling in strange fire was ' spy'd APOLLO'S self shone brighter then he us'd And had a golden glory circumfus'd Stronger then Omens Caesar did advance And with unwonted pace first snatch'd a Lance. First bound with ice and candyed with the driffe The earth was quiet with dull horror stiffe But when the Troops the clouds gives off did take And trembling horses the waves fetters brake The heat snows melted streight new rivers burst Out of the hills these also streight were forc't To make a stand whilst lo new ice appeares And liquid late make work for Pioneers Then first deceiv'd the feet the slipp'ry ground And tript them up Men Arms and wohle Ranks round In heaps deplor'd big clouds with tempest's stroke Their burthens threw Nor blasts with whirle-winds broke Were wanting there or vollyes of gross haile The concrete raine fell ratling on the Mayle Like showres of Arrows from a Parthian bow The Earth was overcome with a deep snow The Lamps of heaven o'recome with Christal bit The Rivers overcome Caesar not yet But leaning on his speare that would not yield With secure steps he brake the horrid field As when Alcmena's son marched apace Down Caucasus or with an angry face When Jove descended the Olympian hill With Giants blood Phlegrean plains to fill ' Mean while swift Fame is born with frighted wings And perching on the Capitol sad things Tells the affrighted Romans that the Maine Is swarm'd with ships The Alps of a light flame With Troops yet reeking with Sicambrian gore Arms Blood Death Fire and War is drawn before Their eyes from head to foot which makes them erre And see their danger double through their feare This flyes by land this by and that to Sea So for no land his native changes he He 's safest now the Chance of war that tryes And follows fates instinct He farthest flyes Whose feare is longest winged A grief to say The people led by wild amazement stray They know not whither Rome delights in flight And scar'd Quirites their sad mansions quite At the bare rumour of approaching Arms Those clasp with trembling hand their tender barnes These in their bosomes hold their Houshould-Gods And hurry from their desolate aboads And in their prayers kill the absent Foe There are that to their wives sad bosomes grow And bedrid parents youths impatient heat Takes onely her on whom his soul is set Some all and to the war unwisely sweep The prey for which 't is made As when the deep Is plough'd up by Northwinds and her roul'd hills Are knock'd together And the Seamen's skills Avail not now one binds the splitting mast Another to the quiet shore doth hast A third to Sea and Fortune trusts with all What talk I of small things the Generall With both the Consuls The great Pompey He Terror of dire Hydaspes and the Sea The Pyrates rock whom thrice triumphing late Jove trembled at lest he should shake his state Whom Pontus having crush'd it 's watry braves And Bosphorus ador'd with crouching waves Oh shame deserting the State 's rudder fled That fickle Fortune might t' have seen be sed Ev'n Pompey's back A flight authoriz'd so Involv'd the Gods and Heaven his back did show See a mild troop of Gods loathing the rage That regins in mortals take a pilgrimage From a damn'd crew of Earthlings And first Peace Beating her snowy Arms her vanquish'd face Hides with a cask and flying from the light Seeks the husht mansions of eternal Night With Her pure FAITH and JUSTICE her sword brâ—…ke And CONCORD in a rent and mourning Cloak On th' other side where Hell 's wide jaws respire Grim Pluto's train springs rife Erinnys dire And fierce Bellona and flame-girt Megeare And Death and Fraud and multiplying Feare Amongst whom Rage like Bacchus his reines broke Runs headlong and with bloody helm doth Cloake A thousand ugly faces digg'd with wounds With heavy shafts a Martial Target sounds Worn with his left and from his right hand hurl'd A blazing fire-brand terrifies the world The stars are pos'd light-headed Atlas reels Wond'ring to miss the weight that poys'd heaven's wheels The factious Gods come down on earth to side And Venus first her Caesar justify'de Pallas with her and Mars that shakes a wholâ—… Oak for a spearâ—… and with his
bought Illustrious Starlet colour of content Brancht Coral fine for Nobles greatly sought Of double nature under water soft And velvet-horn'd hard-pen'd when 't is aloft 78 Sends more one dext'rous in th' Arabick-Tongue To treat a firm League with the ROYAL MORE Excusing him he did not leave his strong And lofty Ships to kiss his hand on shore Unto the noble KING led through a Throng Presents himself the fit Ambassadore And with these words which PALLAS herself dips In her own Nectar disunites his lips 79. Most high and mighty King to whom the pure And incorrupted JUSTICE from Above Gave to restrain the rough and haughty MOOR Nor more to force his Feare then win his love As to the strongest Port and most secure Of all the EAST Hither we flye to prove What FAME reports and find in It and Thee A certain Port in our necessitie 80. We are not Men who spying a weak Town Or careless as we pass along the shore Murther the Folks and burn the Houses down To make a booty of their thirsted store But by a KING we have of high renown Sent from fair EUROPE never to give ore Our compassing the World till we have found The wealthy INDIA thither are we bound 81. How stony yet some Race of People was What barb'rous guize what stile of a Man-Hater To bar not their Ports onely let that pass But the cold Hospitalitie of Water To whom have we done wrong wherein alas Have we discover d such a savage nature To make so many of so few afraid That Traps and Pitfals should for us be made 82. But Thou O gracious KING from whom to have True dealing we are sure and hope we may That certain help too which ALCINOUS gave Unto the wandring Prince of ITHACA To Thee secure we come as boldly crave Of Thee conducted by the Son of MAY For since JOVES Harbinger was ours 't is cleare Thy Heart is large is humane is sincere 83. Nor think O KING out noble Chiefe declin'd Coming to see and serve thee persnally For any thing he scrupled of unkind Or hollow dealing possible in Thee But the true reason why he stayd behind Was that in all he might obedient be Unto his KING who gave him this command In Port or Roade never to go on Land 84. And because subjects are the self-same Thing With Members governed by the Head or Crown Thou bearing here the Office of a KING Wouldst not that Any disobey'd his own But he doth promise an acknowledging Of thy great Grace and favours now bestown With all That can by Him and His be done So long as Rivers to the Sea shall run 85. Thus He harangu'd And with one Voice the whole Presence comparing notes there where they stand The matchless courage of the men extol Who traverse so much Sea and so much Land But the wise KING revolving in his Soul The PORTINGALLS'S obedience to command In Scales of wonder and of rev'rence weigh'd A KING who so far off could be obeyd 86. Then answers gracious with a Brow serene Th Ambassadour to whom inclin'd he seem'd Wipe all suspition from your Bosoms cleane Let no cold Fear be harbour d there or teem'd For such your worths are and your deeds have been To make you over all the world esteem'd And They who injur'd you We will be bold Know not what price Vertue and Houor hold 87. That all your People do not come on shore Observing the respect due to our Port Though in our own regard it grieve us sore Yet our esteem of them is greater for 't For if your Rules permit it not no more Shall we permit that onely to comport With our desires such loyal excellence Should lose it self or suffer Violence 88. But when to morrows light shall come to greet And shew the WORLD with our own Barges Wee Shall go in person to the warlike Fleet Which we so many days have long'd to see And if it need any convenience meet Through shatt'ring storms and keeping long at Sea A Pilot it may have and Victnals here â—…nd Ammunition with intention cleere 89. This was his language And LATONA'S Boy Into the Ocean div'd The Messenger Returning with this Embassie of joy To the Armada rows with merry cheer Out of all Breasts is bauisht black Annoy Seeing the proper remedie is here To find the Land whereof they sayl in quest So all that night they keep a double Feast 90. There wants not there the artificial star Like trembling Comet nor less cause of wonder The Gunners do their Part making the Ayre Water and Earth resound with Mortalls's Thunder The CYCLOPPS practising for t'other War On JOVE with Bullets rend the Clowds in sunder Others on lofty Cornets singing playd And These with Musick did the SPHEARES invade 91. They answer from the shore at the same time With Squibs that crack amongst the Rout In gyres The whizzing Vapours up to HEAVEN climbe Th' imprison'd Powder with a bounce expires Heaven's brazen Vault ecchoes the Voyces's chyme The Sea 's cleer Glass reflects the joyful fires The Earth is not behind them In this sort Both sport in earnest and Both fight in sport 92. But now the restless Heav'n wheeling about To their day-labours mortals doth incite And MEMNON'S mother fair APPOLLO'S scout Sets bounds to sleep by her arriving light With her approach dull shadows Put to rout In a cold sweat upon the Flowers light When the MELINDIAN KING embarqued plide To see the Ships That in his Harbour ride 93 The shores are crown'd with people of a fire To be Spectators onely of the show The Scarlet Coates flame with the dye of TYRE The glossie Silks with all May's flow'rs do blow Instead of Arrows part of Warr's Attire And of the horn'd Moon-imitating Bow Palm in their hands in sign of Peace they bear Which on their Heads victorious HEROES wear 94. In a Canóe which was both long and broad And glissend in the Sun with Cov'rings made Of mixed Silks MELINDE'S KING is row'd Wayted by Princes 'mongst their own obay'd In rich Attire according to the mode And custom of that Land he comes arayd Upon his Head he weares a Terbant roll'd Of silk and Cotton with a CROWN of gold 95. A Roabe of Scarlet-damask high-extold By Them and worth the wearing of a KING About his Neck a Collar of pure gold The work worth twice the substance of the Thing A Velvet sheath a dagger keen did hold With Diamond-hilt hang'd by a golden string Sandals of Velvet on his Feet he wore With gold and pearl imbroydred richly o're 96. O're Him a round Silk Canopy he had Advanc't aloft upon a gilded Pole With which a Boy behind to burn forbad Or trouble the Great KING the beams of SOL. Musick ith'Prow â—…o merry that 't was mad Grating the Eare with a harsh noise The whole Consort is onely crooked Horns wreath'd round Which keep no time but make a dismal â—…ound 97. No less adorn'd the LUSITANIAN
Visage thus said He. Thou doest command me to unfold O KING My noble NATION' 's genealogie Thou bid'st me not to tell a forraign story But of my Own thou bid'st me tell the glory 4. Upon Another's Prayses to dilate Is usual and that which Friends doth raise But of One's Own the Prayses to relate Will prove I fear me a suspected praise Besides to praise ours to the worth the date Would first expire of six the longest days But to serve Thee a double fault I 'l do I 'l praise my own and crop their praises too 5. Yet what in fine doth animate me is I 'm sure of Lying I shall run no danger For of such deeds say what I can I wis I shall leave more to th'utterance of a stranger But to pursue that method in all this Thy self prescrib d nor seem in all a Ranger First of the Territory large I 'l tell Then of the bloody Battailes that befell 6 Between the Zone where Cancer bends his clutch To the bright Sun a Bound Septentrionall And that which for the Cold is shun'd as much As for the Heate the middle Zone of all Prowd EUROPE lyes whose North and parts which touch Upon the Occident have for their Wall The OCEAN and with unreturning Waves Her South the SEA-MEDITERRANEAN laves 7. Upon the East she neighbours ASIA But that cold River with the doubling stream Which from Riphean Mountains plough his way To the Meotick Lake divideth Them So doth that furious and that horrid Sea Which with their Fleet th incensed GREEKS did steme From whence the Sayler now with his mind's eye Sees the name onely of once glorious TROY 8. Where she is most beneath the Artick Pole The Hyperborean Mountains she doth see And those where EOL raigns without controle Owing to blustring their Nobility The Sun That spreads his lustre through the Whole His rays have here such imbecility That a deep snow is still upon the Mountains The Sea still frozen frozen still the Fountains 9. Here SCYTHS and TARTARS in great numbers live Who were ingag'd in a sharp war of old About their Pedigrees prerogative With those who then th'EGYPTIAN-LANâ—… did hold But where the justice of the Cause to give Being hard by erring Mortals to be told To get more certain information look In the Clay-Office from which Man was took 10. In that far Nook to name of many some Are the cold LAPLAND NORWAY comfortless SCANDIA that triumpht o're triumphant ROME Which her proud ruines to this day confess Here whilst the waters are not stiffe and numb With Winters Ice glazing the BALTICK-SEAS That Arm of the SARMATICK OCEANE Sayles the brave Swede the Prussian and the Dane 11. Betwixt this Sea and TANAIS live strange Nations RUTHENI frozen MUSCOVITES LIVONIANS That were in former Ages the SARMATIANS And in th'HERCINIAN FOREST the POLONIANS Held of the GERMAN EMPIRE are ALSATIANS SAXONS BOHEMIANS HUNGARS or PANNONIANS With divers other whom the RHINE'S cold waves The ELIVE the MOZELL and the DANOW laves 12. 'Twixt wandring ISTER and that NARROW-SEA Where with her life fair HELLE left her name The warlike THRACIANS dwell who lay a plea To MARS his Sword as from whose loyns they came Here HAEMUS and ORPHEAN RHODOPE Obey the OTTOMAN and to the shame Of Christendom BYSANTIUM'S noble Seat A proud affront to CONSTANTINE THE GREAT 13. The next in order MACEDONIA stands Bath'd with the Actian now LEPANTO'S Sea And likewise you O admirable LANDS Where Wit and Manners were in high degree Which bred those solid Heads and valiant Hands Those streams of Eloquence and Poetrie With which Thou famous GREECE unto the skies As well by Letters as by Arms didst rise 14. DALMATIANS follow Them and in that Bay ANTENOR chose for his new City's Syte VENICE like VENUS rises from the Sea From low beginnings swoln to that proud hight That Sea an Arm of Land doth over lay Which the whole WORLD subjected by its might That Arm no less then GREECâ—… to HEAVEN soar'd With the two wings of LEARNING and THE SWORD 15. 'T is wall'd by nature part where it doth joyn Unto the ALPS thick shoulders NEPTUNE barrs The rest with his salt waves The APPENINE Cuts ith'middle where your LYBIAN MARS Wan him such Fame But now since the divine Porter hath got it impotent in Wars 'T is stript of the vast pow'r it had before So much is GOD delighted with the pore 16. Pass we from thence to FRANCE so much of old With CAESAR'S triumphs through the World renownd 'T is water'd with the ROYAL SEYN the cold GAROON the pleasant LOYRE the RHINE profound Now those high Mountains in the clowds behold Which still the lost PYRENE'S name resound From which being fir'd as ancient Books have told Rivers ran down of Silver and of Gold 17. Loe here displays it self illustrious SPAIN As Head there of all EUROPE In whose strange Successes of their Wars and ways of raign FATE' 's wheel gave many a turn wrought many a change But never Force or Fraud shall fix a stain Through Fortune's humor always giv'n to range But SPAIN will finde a time to wipe it out And make her blasted honors freshly sprout 18. She faces TINGâ—…TANIA and There As if to make the Mid-land Sea an Isle The well-known STREIGHTS to close their jaws appeare Innobled with the THEBAN'S latest Toyle With diff rent Nations she her head doth reare Sea-girt three sides the fourth with Hilly Pyle Of such Nobility and Valour All That each pretends to be the principal 19. She has the ARRAGONIAN so renown'd For conqu'ring twice stubborn PARTHENOPE Those of NAVAR ASTURIANS who did bound The MOORS broke in upon us like a Sea She has the shrewd GALLEGO many-crownd CASTILIAN whom his Star reserv'd to be SPAIN'S great Restorer and her Lord SEVILIA GRANADA LEON MURCIA with CASTILIA 20. The LUSITANIAN KINGDOM here survay Plac't as the Crown upon fair EUROPE's Head Where the Land finishing begins the Sea And whence the Sun steps to his watry Bed This first in Arms by gracious HEAV'N'S decree Against the filthy MAURITANIAN sped Throwing him out of Her to his old Nest In burning AFFRICK nor there let him rest 21. That That the loved EARTH where I was born To which if kinder HEAV'N do so dispose That I this Task perform'd alive return With It my dying Eyes there let me close From LYSUS which the Latines LUSUS turn Old BACCHUS'S Camrade or as some suppose His Son was LUSITANIA'S name deriv'd When in that Countrey his Plantation thriv'd 22. Here was that Shepherd born who in his Name As well as in his Actions did write MAN Whom none must hope to equal in his Fame Since that of ROME he to eclipse began This Spot through shuffling of light Fortune's Game TIME who devours his children saw Anan On the WORLD'S Theater a great Part play Rays'd to a Kingdom and it was this way 23. There was in SPAIN a King ALPHONSO hight Who made so
Second IOHN who made of KINGS fifteen Hee to attain to Glory 's utmost hight Began a Taske exceeding strength terrene Whose weight is now by my weake shoulders born To seek the Cradle of the purple MORN 61. He sends fit Messengers from his owne Court Through SPAINE FRANCE celebrated ITALY There to imbarque in that illustrious Port Where was interr'd of old PARTHE NOPE NAPLES which Fortune made her Tennis-Court By severall NATIONS held successively To place it glorious no more change to feel In sov'raign SPANIARDS who can fix her wheel 62. Away they sayle through the CALAERIAN DEUP Passe by the RODIAN ISLAND' 's sandy Bay Along the Coast of ALEXANDRIA keep For POMPEY'S death infamous to this day They travayle MEMPHIS and those Lands which steep Themselves in NYLE To ETHIOPIA They mount which EGYPTS upper part doth lock Where CHRIST hath feeding an out-lying Flock 63. The ERYTHREAN SEA they likewise crost Which dry-foot past the seed of ISRAEL The NABATHEAN MOUNTAYN'S sight they lost So named from the Son of ISHMAEL The oderiferous SABEAN-COAST Inricht with Teares which from the Mother fell Of fayre ADONE and BLEST ARABIA trac't Throughout the STONY balking and the WAST 64. The PERSIAN GULPH they enter To This neer Great BABEL'S Ruines are yet visible Swift TIGRIS mingles with EUFRATES heer Brothers That with their Fountain's glory swell Hence they proceed in quest of INDUS cleer From which great things Posteritie shall tell Of Troops that through long Seas shall passe thereto Which even by Land nigh TRAIAN durst not doe 65. Of INDIA TARFE and CARMANIAN HILLS The strange and uncoth Nations they beheld Noating the sev'rall Customes sev'rall Skills Which sev'rall Regions doe produce and yeild But from such Distant parts joynd to the Ills Of so rough journeys Men return but seld In fine there did These dye they stuck fast there For back they come not to their Country deare 66. Seems gracious HEAV'N reserv'd for Thee alone EMANUEL and for thy great desart So hard a worke For Thee with thoughts high-flown Inspir'd and cut out fit to act this part MANUEL succeeding IOHN both in the Throne And in the haughty purpose of his Heart When first he took on Him the Kingdoms Charge The Conquest undertook o th' OCEAN large 67. Hee as a person whom the noble thought Of th' obligation he inherited From his Fore Fathers who intirely sought The Realm's advancement hourly combated When PHEBUS quitting the supernal Vault Vnto the low ANTIPODES was fled And setting starrs which in his place arose With twinckling eyes invited to repose 68. Extended now upon his golden Nest Such are the Beds where thoughts tumultuous brood And there revolving in his silent Brest The obligation of his place and blood Slumber possest his Eyes nor dispossest His Heart of Cares which made that station good For his tyr'd Lidds whilst sleep resisted shutts MORPHEUS a thousand shapes before him putts 69. So high above ground seems he lifted heer That his proud Crown the Firmament doth peirce From whence new worlds before his eyes appeer Nations of num'rous people strange and fierce And yonder to the springing MORNING neer As through the Ayre his visual Raies disperse Hee sees farr off from high and antient Mountains Melt down a payre of deep and crystall Fountains 70. With Birds of monstrous Forms wild-beasts and Flocks One of those Mountains was inhabited Where thousand savage Trees with leavie Locks The intercourse of people hindered The shaggie Forrest and the craggie Rocks's Inextricable Knots demonstrated That to those days of ours from ADAM'S sin No humane Foot had ever trod therein 71. Out of these Waters as to Him appeares Addressing towards him their hasty pace Two Fathers rise both wondrous struck in yeares With Rustick both yet venerable Face Their Snowy Curles distill in silver Teares Which bathe their Bodyes down in every place Taun'd were their Skins and rusty Their Beards kept Rough and unshorn with which the ground they swept 72. The Temples of their heads were trimly bound With health-restoring Druggs and Fruits unknown The one lookt weather-beaten and halfe-drownd As if a longer voyage Hee had gone And fierce ev'n at his Fountain underground Seem'd to have stoln from a remoter one As from Arcadian plains ALPHEO sly TO ARETHUSA'S bed in SICILY 72. This as the more authoriz'd of the Twain Spake thus farr off unto the King O Thoâ—… For whose high Crown and Empire soveraign Much World is kept that 's hâ—…d from the world now Wee through the Earth so fam'd whose Necks in vain Strave others wholly to their yoaks to bow Are come to wish thee send some Men That may Receive large tributes we to Thee must pay 74. I am illustrious GANGES born and nurst In PARADICE where is my mother-spring My Mate That from the Cliffes thou seest doth burst Nor other Cradle knows is INDUS KING Yet a severe Warr shall we cost thee first But Thou persisting in the end shalt bring By Victories prodigious to the Bitt All these viewd Nations humbly to submit 35. The Holy and illustrious River sed No more But in a moment vanisht Both. EMANUELL wakes surpriz'd with a strange dread And earthquake in his Bosome PHEBUS goeth In the meane time his glittring Cloke to spred Over the WORLD buried in downe and sloath AURORA came who when she forth doth rush Strikes Lilies pale and makes the Roses blush 36. The KING in hast to councell calls his Lords To them the figures of the Vision shows To them repeates the Holy Elder 's Words Whence in them all great admiration grow's A NAVY is resolv'd on by the BOARD'S Vnanimous Voate In which magnanimous Those Whom hee shall find to plough the OCEAN blew Must seek new Nations out and Clymates new 37. I who despayr'd to see put in effect What had so long been tumbling in my mind For my presaging Soule could nere be checkt From prompting great things to mee of this kind Comprize not for what cause for what respect Or for what merit he in mee could find But the good King was pleas'd to pick out mee To be this weightie enterprize's Key 38. And with Intreaties and with sugard phraise Which are the pow'rfullest commands of KINGS He sayd to me Through deep and rugged ways VERTUE attains the best and noblest things A Life well lost or hazarded to Bays Of everlasting Honour persons brings For if to sordid Feare it never bends The shorter 't is the Farther it extends 39. You have I chose and all the rest set by To a Taske fit for you to undergoe A Taske Heroick difficult and high Which for my sake you will think light I know I could not suffer more but thus reply O my dread LEIGE through swords through firâ—… through snow For Thee to venture only is Annoy When I consider life is such a Toy 90. One following Cryes O Son the only gage The prop the stay the comfort and the joy Of this my weake unprofitable Age
sit ye still for what do ye delay 32. Nor think O Gods that for your sole concern And for the great Affront which put I see On you I have forsook the COURT SUPERN But for That likewise which is offer'd me For all those Honours which my sword did earn When as the World and you can witness be INDIA I quell d and quell'd the ORIENT I by this People see trod down and rent 33. For the HIGH RULER and his Fates who deale The under-world as pleases best their mood Have markt these men for Glory Pow'r and Weale Greater then ever in the Ocean-Flood And Gods from you I must not now conceale That they teach sorrow ev'n to Gods 'T is good We too are slaves to their prepostrous Will Which gives Ills to the Good Goods to the Ill. 34. Now therefore from OLYMPUS am I tost To seek some Cure some Balsome for my wound To see if that esteem I there have lost May happily within your Seas be found More would have said But Tears the passage crost Which trickling down his Cheek in Ropes that bound His words with suddain fury did inspire And set the watry Deities on fire 35. So rough the billows of their Anger went So swiftly and so high their rage did mount That no mature advice it did consent Permit no pawse no weighing no discount Orders from NEPTUNE are already sent To mighty EOLUS that without Count He slipt the strugling Winds from their strong Caves And let no Vessel live upon the waves 36. PROTHEUS rose twice to speak and went about His judgement in the matter to propound Nor Any who were present made a doubt But that it was some Prophecy profound But still a rising tumult put him out And in their sence the Gods did so abound That THETYS stuck not to exclaime Will you Be teaching NEPTUNE what he hath to do 37. Then doth the proud HIPPOTADES enlarge From their close prison the enraged Winds And them with animating words discharge Against the Men of never-daunted minds For a thick clowd hides Heav'n as with a Targe And ARGUS'S hundred Eyes that guild it blinds The swelling blasts have in a trice o'rethrown Tow'rs Mountains Houses But of that Anon. 38. Whilst in the DEEP was held this Parlament The wearied Fleet yet free from sad dismay Before a gentle Wind pursuing went Thorough the tranquil Ocean their long way That Time it was when from the ORIENT Removed is the Lamp that rules the Day Those of the first did lay them down to sleep And others come the second Watch to keep 39. Conquer'd they come with sleep and ill awake Repose their nodding heads against a saile Their Cloathes thin thin but weak resistance make To the Night's Ayre which blows a nipping Gale Yawning they stretch their Limbs themselves they shake With their Seal'd Eyes to ope can scarce prevaile Cures against sleep they practise they devise Tell thousand Tales tell thousand Histories 40. What better spur said one to post away Or pastime to deceive the hours that creep Then by some pleasant Tale wherewith we may Knock off the leaden shackles of dull sleep Quoth LEONARDO then who whilst a day He hath to live will faith to CUPID keep A pleasant Tale then what can do so well As one of Love and That my self will tell 41. Reply'de VELOSO 't is not fit not just To treat soft subjects in so hard extreams For a Sea-life replenisht with disgust Permits not love permits not melting Theames Our Story be of WAR bloody Robust For we the Wefts and Pilgrims of the streames Are onely born to horror and distress Our future dangers whisper me no less 42. To This they All agreed and pray'd VELOSE What he commended that himself would doe I shall quoth He then listen to my Prose I promise you an old Tale and a true And to incite with apt examples Those That hear me great Beginnings to pursue Of our own Countrey-men shall treat my story And let it be the Twelve of ENGLAND'S glory 43. When JOHN the son of PEDRO rul'd our Land Temp'ring his People's mouths with a soft Bit After he had with a victorious Hand From potent neighbour's jaws deliver'd it In merry ENGLAND which from Cliffs that stand Like Hills of snow once ALBION'S name did git ERYNNIS dire rank seeds of strife did sow Whence Lusitanian Lawrels chanc't to grow 44. 'Twixt the fair damsels of the ENGLISH COURT And Barons bold That did attend the same A hot dispute beginning but in sport To end at last in down-right-earnest came The Courtiers though the Courtship is but short That gives reproachful terms to any Dame Said They would prove that such and such of Them Had been too lavish of their Honor's gem 45. And if with Lance in Rest or Blade in Fist To take their parts they had or Knights or Lords That They in open Field or closed List Would do them dye with Spears or else with Swords The weaker Sex unable to resist With deeds and less to swallow such base words Condemning Nature That deny'de them force Unto their Kin and servants had recourse 46. But their Accusers mark you being great And potent in the Kingdom neither Kin Nor humble servant durst their Cause abet As their Fame's Champions which they should have bin With beauteous Tears which from their blissful seat Might all the Gods to their assistance win Distilling down each Alablaster Cheek Unto the DUKE OF LANCASTER they seek 47. This puissant Branch of ENGLAND'S royal Tree Had warr'd against CASTEEL with PORTUGALL Where his Camrades's great Hearts he try'de did see And their good stars which bare them out in All Like proof of their respect to Dames had He When to that Land his daughter he did call With whose bright Beautie s beams our Monarch strook The vertuous Princess for his Consort took 48. He loath to give them ayd with his own Hand Lest so he should foment a civil flame Says when I past to the IBERIAN LAND To the CASTILIAN CROWN to lay my clayme Such heavenly parts in PORTINGALLS I scand Such Courtship Courage such high thirst of Fame That they alone unless I much mistake With fire and sword your just defence can make 49. To them then injur'd Ladies if you please Ambassadors from me for you shall go Who with meet Letters and smooth Sentences The wrong which you sustain to them may show Let Letters likewise from your selves your Seas Of â—…ears indeare and from your Pens let flow Nectar of Words to charm them to your Ayd For there 's your Tow'r There all your hopes are laid 50. Th'experienc't Duke the Dames this counsell gave And streight to them Twelve valiant Knights did name And that each Dame may know her Champion brave Bids them cast Lots their number being the same And by this way of Lottry when they have Descry'de which Knight belongs unto which Dame To her own Knight in varied phrase each writes The King to All
Lance descending slid With the two Centenells's two heads by night To where he hath his men in ambush hid With whom he gains the Town by force and slight That takes for Arms the Knight who take that did And the cold Heads in one hand of the Knight He That atchiev'd this unexampled deed His name is GERRARD Surname without dreed 22. Doest thou not see a wrong'd CASTILIAN By their ninth King ALPHONSO for old gall To those of LARA to the MOORS That ran Making himself a Foe to PORTUGALL ABRANTES with those Infidels he wan With whom into our Countrey he did fall But a bold PORTINGALL with a small Force Here takes him pris'ner routed Foot and Horse 23. DON MARTIN LOPEZ is the man that crops The Lawrels he was grasping But behold An Apostollick Warriour That chops For Lance of Steel his Crosiers staffe of gold See how erect the stagg'ring minds he props How hot to fight the MOOR his men grown cold Behold his Vision in auspicious skyes With which the few he has he fortifies 24. Then SEVILL'S King and He of CORDOUA With other two Loe routed Nor alone Routed but slain The strength that got this Day Was not of Man GOD claim'd it as his owne See now ALCACER hath no more to say Though lin'd with steel her Battlements of stone To MATTHEW LISBON'S Bishop she submits Who Sprigs of Palme into his Miter knits 29. Behold a Master poud'ring from CASTEEL A PORTINGALL by Birth ALGARVES Land How he does conquer his devouâ—…ing Steel Incount'ring none that can the same withstand Strong Towns by broad day scal'd see what they â—…eel Such his good star so certain is his Hand Big with Revenge Loe TAVILA he takes And makes it smart for the SEV'N HUNTERS'S sakeâ—… 30. See how of SYLVES Master he became By Stratagem the MOOR paid dearer for 't CORREA DON PELAYO is his name In whom to envy Wit and Force consort But the PAYR-ROYAL thou o reseest of FAME That did such Fears in French and Spanish Court. By Justs and Tournaments and Duels there Immortal Lawrels they did win and weare 31. Loe by the name of KNIGHTS ADVENTURERâ—… Into the Kingdom of CASTEEL they come Where in BELLONAS sports not one but beares The prize away they prove true jests to some See dead the prow'd Castilian Cavaleers That challeng'd one of them by sound of drum RIVERS GONZAGUE was He. Propt with his Sword His Gyant-Fame did LETHE'S River ford 32. Mark well that Knight by FAME so lov'd and sung That her old Theames are scorn'd are out of date Of his dear Countrey by one thrid that hung On his strong shoulders he sustayn'd the weight See where with Anger dide a peale he rung To a cowd People and degenerate That they a stranger's yoake might from them fliâ—…g And take the sweet one of their native King 33. See through this Counsel and his prowesâ—… too Guided by GOD and his good star alone What was impâ—…ssible in humane view The vast Castilian Army overthrown See through his Valour fâ—…rce and care a new Cleer Victory inferiour unto none Over a People fierce as num'rous Here 'Twixt GUADOANA and 〈◊〉 30. Seest thou not There how almost routed is The Lusitanian Hoast through the retreat Of this Religious Leader whom they miss Th' assistance of the Lord of Hoasts t' intreat See with pale haste he 's now found out by his Who tell him there 's no dealing with so great A Pow'r that he himself would look thereto And with his presence cheer his fainting Crew 31. But see with what a holy carelesness He answers them 'T is yet too soon to goe As who by Faith already did possess The Victory which GOD will streight bestow POMPILIUS thus his Kingdom in distress By suddain inroad of a potent Foe To Them That bring him the ill News replyes And I ye see am off'ring sacrifice 32. What his name is thou long'st to know I see That with such boldness on his GOD did seize The LUSITANIAN SCIPIO it should bee Were not a greater NUNIO ALVAREZ O Countrey blest in such a Son as He Indeed thy Father whilst SOL compasses This Globe of NEPTUNE and of CERES yellow To mourn again thou ne're shalt own his fellow 33. Victorious see in the same war and Cause Another Captain of a Squadron small He routs Commendum'd Knights and lays his paws On the great Prey they marcht away withal See where his reeking Blade again he draws Rescuing his Friend from Foes That lead him Thrall His Friend a martyr for his loyalty PEDRO RODRIGUEZ LANDROAL was Hee 34. See yon Faith-breaker paying an old score And the base pelfe he up at int'rest took GIL-FERNAND-ELVAS plays his Auditore And with the Debtor's death crosses the Book Here drowns in their Castilian Owners gore The SHERREZ Fields their sacks they may go look But see PEREYRA who like Lightning thrown Upon the Foe 's Armada shields his own 35. Behold how poor sev'nteen of PORTUGALL Upon a Mountain brave resistance make Against four hundred of CASTEEL That wall Them in on ev'ry side to sweep the Stake But to their cost these find a crew so small More then Defendants in that bloody Wake A deed deserving everlasting Rimes Match it elsewhere in old or modern Times 36. Of Ours I grant three hundred did ingage And rout a thousand ROMANS in that Time When VIRIATUS came upon the Stage Aud his Fame lightned through each wond'ring Clime Whence Those who follow'd him in that brave Age Left to their Race this Legacie sublime Never to fear a Foe for multitude Which that we do not pretty well w'have shew'd 37. Two Princes here PEDRO and HENRY see Generous Progenie of our first JOHN The one sorc'd FAME into HIGH GERMANIâ—… To lacquay him defrauding death of one T'other to trumpet Him through the wide Sâ—…A For it's discov'rer and his Pen by thrown Makes enter'd CEUTA see on t'other side His Lance can prick the bladder of her Pride 38. Behold the Earle DON PEDRO holding out Two Seiges 'gainst the pow'r of BARBARIE Behold another Earle as strong as stout As MARS himself and famâ—…d for Chevalrie Who not content with Foes claspt round about ALCACER to defend most gallantly Of his KING too the pretious life defends And as his Bulwark there his own expends 39. Many a FIGURE in these Flags that wants The PAINTER truly â—…id to add intend But Pencils he doth lack lacks Oyle and Paints Meed Honour Favour are Arts's Life Nurse Frend. The fault in our degenerating Plants From those high Trunks of which they do descend Of Vanitie we see sufficient Flow'rs But where 's the good Fruit of their Ancestours 40. Those truly noble Ancestors of theirs From whom this swelling greatness had it's Rise For VERTUE' 's love digested bitter Cares And of their Houses to inhance the Price Blind to intaile with wealth sloath on their Heirs VERTUE supplying fewel unto Vice Disfig'ring them to boot For in this case The
wast And if thou fly thereby to flye my touch I can assure thee fair one stay thou may'st And yet I ne're the neer my star is such Stay if thou please and see but if thou stay'st The slight of hand the which my Fate so much In vain deplor'd will finde at last to reare A Wall between the Sickle and the Eare. 79. O flye me not So may Time never flye Thy Beauty out of sight For do but turn Dasht with the beams of thy Majestick Eye No sawcy fire in me will dare to burn What KING could break the force of destiny What ARMY conquer it and mine hath sworn To thwart me still Yet stay I 'm happy than And thou shalt do what KINGS nor ARMIâ—… can 80. With my malignant star doest Thou take part To help the stranger is not nobly done Carriest Thou with thee my Grief-loaden heart Send it me back and thou wilt faster run That Soul of mine grown heavy with long smart Hang'd in those Tresses which out-shine the Sun Does it not clog them Or since it came there Hath it chang'd mood and weighs but for one Here 81. With this hope onely thy white feet I trace That either Thou her weight will not indure Or she by being in that heav'nly place Will change her luck and better stars procure And if that change flye never such a pace LOVE can hit flying I am very sure And if he hit Thou't stay and on this score If thou do stay of Heav'n I ask no more 82. The fair Nymph now fled not so much to sell The Jewel dear for which the Lad pursu'd her As the sweet Tunes to hear that from him fell And amorous laments with which he woo'd her Her Eyes now bath'd in smiles and tractabell Turn'd upon Him who with his charms subdu'd her All melted in pure love languidly sweet She lets her self fall at the Victor's feet 83 O what devouring Kisses multiply'd What pretty whimp'rings did the Grove repeat What flatt'ring Force What Anger which did chide Itself and laught when it began to threat What more then this the blushing MORNING spy'd And VENUS adding Her 's to the NOON'S heat Is better try'd then guess'd I must confess But Those who cannot try it let them guess 84. For first with all the Rites of wedlock joyn'd Were the lov'd Sea-men to th'AQUATICK POW'RS What gentle Tongue and what white Hand could bind The Nymphs had added in those sacred Bow'rs And now their Lovers heads they crowned kind With gold and Lawrel and abounding Flow'rs Promise to keep them company for ever Whom life or death with honor shall not sever 85. The Chief of them whom all the rest went after And did obey in all things her behest Of URANUS and Holy VESTA Daughter As by her Face was easie to be guest Filling with wonderment both Earth and Water Th' illustrious Captain worthy of the Best With grave and Royal Ceremonies took Shewing her Greatness in her Pompe and Look 86. HIM whom she first acquainted with her name Then in a kind exordium mixt with state Gave him to understand she Thither came By the immutable decree of Fate To Him of the promiscuous Globe and Frame Of the vast EARTH and OCEAN to relate Parts undiscover'd by Prophetick Spirit Which He alone and his brave SPANIARDS merit 87. Taking up with her by the hand she led Unto a Mountain's top high and divine Where a rich Pyle erected the prowd head Of crystal all with massive gold and fine Here all the live-long day they rioted In full delight and sports to sports that joyn Within the Palace she injoys her love The others theirs within the flow'ry Grove 88 Thus the fair Bevy thus the Valiant Crew Divide the How'rs by innocent by chast Delights and such as Mortals never knew In recompence of so long labours past And thus the meed to such high Actions due Of noble Prowess ev'n the World at last Pays in despight of Envy with the sound Of a great Name which Time nor Place shall bound 89. For these fair Daughters of the OCEAN THETYS and the Angellick pensil'd ISLE Are nothing but sweet Honour which These wan With whatsoever makes a life not vile The priviledges of the MARTIAL MAN The Palm the Lawrell'd Triumph the rich spoile The Admiration purchac't by his sword These are the joys this Island doth afford 90. So those false Godships which ANTIQUITIE To all illustrious Men a zealous Frend In Starry Heav'ns created to which shee Made them on towring wings of Fame t' ascend For honorable Acts they did for free And noble Suff'rings VERTUE' 's path the end Whereof is smooth and pleasant like our Isle Though it self craggie steep and full of toile 91. What meant they but an Immortality Giv'n by the World for Actions Soveraign To such as ARTS or ARMS advanc'd t' a high And heav'nly pitch being born of humane strain For JOVE APOLLO MARS and MERCURY AENEAS ROMULUS the THEBANS TWAIN JUNO DIANA CERES PALLAS All Dwell as you doe in brittle Earthen Wall 92. But FAME the Trumpet of deeds great and good Gave them new Names and Titles on the Earth GODS of the whole and GODS of the half-blood GODS by Adoption and GODS by Birth If ye love Fame then if make These ye wou'd As Men your patterns though as Gods your Mirth Fly Sloath by which the SOULE which Heaven gave To be the BODY'S Queen becomes its Slave 93. Curbe with a Bit of Iron AVARICE AMBITION curb to which y' are too too prone And curb the black and detestable Vice Of TYRANNY and base OPPRESSION For these vain Honours this false Gold give price Unless he have it in himself to none Better deserve them and to goe without Then have them undeserved without doubt 94. Either in peace promote impartiall Laws That so great Fish devour not the small Fry Or armed tear out of the Great TURKS jaws The Christians prey on which he stretcht doth lye The Kingdom 's greatness by this means ye'll cause Nor lessen but augment your own thereby In Riches merited ye will abound And with true Honor have your Temples crown'd 95. And to your KING ye so pretend to prize Ye shall bring honour now with Councels grave Now with your Swords which will immortalize You as they have done your Fore-Fathers brave I ask you not Impossibilities He That will always can Then each shall have A HERO'S place or if that more may move Be Denizen'd into this ISLE OF LOVE End of the ninth Canto Tenth Canto STANZA 1. BUt now the Larissean Lasses Frend Who for a wealthier Lover did foregoe The God of Verse his setting Steeds did bend O're the great Lake of silver MEXICO SOL'S burning Rays FAVONIUS did suspend With that cool breath which makes where it doth blow Becalmed Jesamines erect their heads And naked Lillies sit up in their Beds 2. When the fair Nymphs and Lovers two abreast Now Frends and well contented hand in hand
easie yoake and honorable They learn with all their fierceness to put on Forc't by the Conquerours to pay to Them Rich Tribute of their Pearles of BAHEREM 42. What glorious Palms do I see weaving There With which his forehead VICTORY will crown When without shadow or least touch of fear He shall win GOA'S Isle of bright renown But then the Storm obeying will not bear So great a Sayle and takes that Bonet down To reattempt the thing in fitter season FORTUNE and MARS fear Valour joyn'd with Reason 43. And see he does it charges undismay'd Through walls through Pykes through Bullets and through fire Opens the quilted Squadroâ—…s with his Blade Of MOORS and PAGANS knit in Leagues intire His gallant Soldiers in more blood shall wade Then Lyons pin'd Bulls prickt with love and Ire Upon the Feast as pat as by designe Of EGYPT'S Virgin Martyr KATHERINâ—… 44. Nor Him shalt Thou though potent scape and flye Though sheltred in the Bosome of the Morn MALACCA and the Apple of her Eye Prowd of thy wealthy Dow'r as her first-born Thy poyson'd Arrows those Auxiliary CRYSES I see thy Pay That do not scorn MALACCANS amorous valiant JAVANS Shall all obey the LUSITANIANS 45. More Stanza's had the SIREN in the praise Of the illustrious ALBULQUERQUE sung But she remembers one harsh Act which weighs Him down though through the world his Fame be rung A great Commander whom to crop bright Bays On precipitious Cliffs his Fate hath hung Should to his Men a Camrade rather be Then a Judge made up of Severitie 46. But in a time of Famine and hard Toyle Of Sickness Arrows and of thund'ring Ball Of Season sad of discommodious soyle And the poor Soldier patient under All It seems to me of Savage Breasts the style Of an in humane and insulting Gall To make a Man for such a fault to dye As Love and humane frailty qualifie 47. Incest's detested Brand it shall not be Nor boyst'rous Rape upon a Virgin pure Nor blot injurious of Adulterie But with a Slave lascivious and obscure Then whether fir'd with Zeale or jealousie Or else to keep his bloody hands in Ure Against his own he give his rage the reins With a black Action his white Fame he stains 48. With his CAMPASPE ALEXANDER spy'd 〈◊〉 took and upon Him bestows Her cheerfully being not his Soldier try'd Nor serving at a Sâ—…ge of desp'rate Foes That sowr ARASPAS in the Rays is fride Of his fair Charge PANTHâ—…A CYRUS knows Having profest to be her Gâ—…rdian true And that no ill desire should Him subdue 49. But the illustrious PERSIAN seeing love Is in the fault 'gainst whom there 's no defence Acquits him streight and onely dotâ—… remove Where he may serve him well in recompence The Iron BALDWIN much his Rank above By stealth Espouses JUDITH yet th' offence Her great Sire pardons needing such a man And gives them FLANDERS whence those Earls began 50. But her long Song the Nymph continuing Of SUAREZ who his Standard doth display On the red coast of ARABIE did sing ABASIAS hindmost shore and BARâ—…ORA Neighb'ring ZEYLA'S Emporium fear the Thing She feels nor less then Mecha and GIDDA Filthy MEDINA quakes where MAHOMâ—…T In his Steel-Hamac lies in a cold swet 51. Also the noble Isle of TAPOBRANE For by that name it was as fam'd of yore As by another now 't is Soveraign Of the hot fragrant Barke of which 't has store Of which she to the STANDART LUSIANE Shall pay sweet Tribute when percht prowdly o're COLUMBO'S highest steeple that shall be More fear'd by Her then by her Neighbours she 52. Through the Red-Sea SEQUEYRA a new way To Thee vast Land of PRESTER JOHN shall show CANDACE'S Nest and Her 's who to survay The Wisdome of great SOLOMON did go From Cisterns water'd He shall see MACUA Shall see her neighb'ring Port of ARCHICE And cause new Isles to be discover'd which With Modern wonders shall the World inrich 53. MENESES comes the next whose sword shall serve In AFFRICK for the wreaths he here shall weare He prowd ORMOOZ That from her faith will swerve A double Tribute shall constrain to beare Thou GAMA too who wilt it well deserve Which two exiles the third time thou com'st there An Earl Vice-Roy and Admiral the Land Which thou hast now discover'd shalt command 54. But then that rude Necessitie which none Can scape who from a humane womb doth spring Arrests thee in thy Robes and painted Throne Where thou shalt out the person of thy King Streight will another MENNES old alone In wisdome have the Sov'raign managing Of tâ—…e Affairs And Happy HENRY shall Behiâ—…d him leave a name perpetual 55. For he shall quell not onely MALABARS Razing PANANE and COULET'S walls Incountring Cannon clapping on Petars And hurling wild-fire in sulphureous Balls But arm'd with Vertues past the Sphere of MARS Quell the SOULE' 's Enemie's sev'n Generals Quell Avarice quell foul Incontinence In a young man the sum of excellence 56. His Stars now calling Him to tread on Them Thou valiant MASKARENIAS shouldst succeed But if usurpt on know a Diadem It self thy brighter honor will not need Thy courage Admiration and Esteem Although not love ev'n in thy Foes shall breed If unjust FORTUNE shall deny the might VERTUE will give the merit LAW the Right 57. Great Actions in the Kingdom of BINTAN Thou shalt perform MALACCA'S Foe her score Of Ills in one day paying which That ran Into for many a hundred year before With patient courage more then of a man Dangers and Toyles sharp Spikes Hills always hoare Spears Arrows Trenches Bulwarks Fire and Sword That thou shalt break and quell I pass my word 58. Meane while Ambition Avarice to boot In INDIA setting up with open face Against GOD and his justice are a Root Of discontent to thee but not disgrace To trample on weak Right with a prowd Foot Presuming on the pow'r and upper place No Conquest is He conquers with Renown Who dares be just ev'n though it lose a CROWN 59. Yet I deny not but SAMPAYO shall Be of rare Valour for all this on Seas Shewing himself a thund'ring GENERALL Which he shall people with Foes Carcasses In BACANORE begins he to appall The MALABAR that he may after tease Prepar'd with that rough Prologue to submit Bold CUTIâ—…LE and his num'rous Fleet 40 Ev'n that of DIO so resolv'd and great That his at CHOUL will give it self for lost By HECTOR OF SILVEYRA shall he beate And to peccavi turn their furious boast The LUSITANIAN HECTOR who shall get Upon the always-arm'd Cambayck Coast A name that He doth GUZARATS annoy No less then GREEKS the HECTOR did of TROY 41. CUNIA is fierce SAMPOYO'S successour The Ship of State he long doth wisely steer Of CHALE he erects the lofty Tow r Whilst famous DIO quakes to be so neer The strong BAZAIN shall render to his pow'r But with much blood MELIQUE groaning here To see a way o're
ye are allow'd Your Nation 's future Actions to survay Which through the Sea by you left ope her prowd And never wearied Ensigns shall display Now then since ye have found not to be bow'd Under Herculean labours is the way To please your Angell-Spouses bright and fair That knit immortall Garlands for your Hair 143. Ye may embarque for Wind and Weather fit And the Sea courts you for your Countrey dear Thus said shee to them and they forthwith quâ—…t The Isle of Love the Harbour of good chear Noble Provisions they take out of It Take their desir'd desirous 〈◊〉 to bear Them company Whom nothing shall divorce Whilst in the Heav'ns the Sun shall run his course 144. Thus went They ploughing the appeâ—…sed MAIN With always prosp'rous Gale and always fair Till sight long wishâ—… much long'd for they obtain Of that dear Earth where first they suck't the Aâ—…r Sweet TAGUS'S Mouth they enter once again Where to their King and Master whom they fear And love for having sent them the Renown They give and add new titles to his CROWN 145. No more my MUSE no more my Harp's ill strung Heavy and out of tune and my Voyce hoarse And not with singing but to see I 've sung To a deaf people and without remorse Favor that wont t' inspire the POET'S tâ—…ngue Our Countrey yeilds it not she minds the Purse Too much exaling from her gilded Mud Nothing but gross and melancholy blood 146. Nor know I by what fate or duller Chance Men have not now that life and gen'rall gust Which made them with a cheerfull countenance Themselves into perpetuall Action thrust You then O KING whom Heav'n reserv'd t' advance At this time to the Throne to scoure our Rust Behold mark else what other Nations doe The Best of Subjects doe belong to You 147. Behold how cheerfully a thousand ways Like fearlesse Lions and wilde Bulls they run Expos'd to watch whole Nights to fast whole days To fire and sword the Arrow and the Gun To torrid Regions and to frozen Bays To MOORS and People that adore the Sun To unknown perils a new World to find To Whales to shipwracks to tempestuous Wind 148. To doe and suffer All for You prepar'd And to obey in the remotest Land Though ne'r so bitter and though ne'r so hard Without Reply or stop what You command With You they 'll charge the Devill and his Guard Ev'n to the Gates of Hell did You but stand A meer Spectator by and never feare But they will make you too Victorious there 149. Then warm and glad them with your present Rayes Sweetly majestick and severely kind Their shoulders of their heavie Taxes ease Thus thus the path to Honour you shall find Men of Experience to your Councell raise If with Experience they have goodness joyn'd For such have a more certain Rule to tell The How the When the Where to do things well 150. In their respective PLACES count'nance All But choose Men rightly qualifi'd thereto Let REV'REND CHURCHMEN to their Prayers fall That GOD would bless the Government in you And for the NATION' 's sins in generall To Disciplines and Fastings for the true CHURCHMEN exempted from Ambition's heat Seeks neither to be Rich nor to be Great 151. Your NOBLES and your GENTRY highly prize For they their boyling blood undaunted spend Thereby not only Christianitie's But ev'n your Empire 's limits to extend And He who to a Clyme so distant flyes Your Royall Service duely to attend O'recomes two Enemies the Living first Excessive Toile the second and the worst 152. Great Sir let never the astonisht GALL The ENGLISH GERMAN and ITALIAN Have cause to say the fainting PORTUGALL Could not advance the GREAT WORK he began Let your ADVISERS be experienc'd All Such as have seen the World and studied man For though in SCIENCE much contained bee In speciall Cases PRACTICE more doth see 153 PHORMIAN an elegant Philosophar You may have read how HANNIBALL did foole When in his presence of the ART OF WAR He made a long Discourse by Square and Rule No no the brave PROFESSION MILITAR Is not learnt SIR by Fancy in the Schoole Dreaming contemplating to spelling held But seeing sweating fighting in the FEILD 154 But I who speak in rude and humble Rymâ—… Not known nor dreamt of by my 〈◊〉 at all Know yet from mouths of little ones sometime The praise of GREAT ONES doth compleatly fal I want not honest studies from my Prime Nor long Experience since to mix withal I want not Wit such as in this you see Three things which rarely in Conjunction be 155. An Arm to serve you trayn'd in War have I A â—…oul to sing you to the Muses bent Onely I want acceptance in your Bye Who owe to VERTUâ—… fair encouragement If HEAV'N afford me This and you some high And brave EXPLOYT worthy a Monument Of Verse aâ—… my prophetick Thoughts presage By what I see now in your tender Age 156. Making MOUNT-ATLAS tremble at your sight More then at that of dire MEDUSA'S Head Or putting in AMPLEUSIAN FIELDS to flight The MOORS in FEZ and black MOROCCO bred I 'l gage my MUSE then in esteem and plight You in such manner through the WORLD shall spred That ALEXANDER shall in you respire Without envying the MEONIAN LYRE FINIS