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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

Dancers or Ladies of the Court being strong but of men weak unlesse some noblemen of Brussels or Englis● Gentlemen come over to us as ordinarily they doe After Supper we either play at Cards or at the sports of wit and laughter and all sorts of Petits Ieus which ended the Dutchesse and Princesse retire to their several Appartements and each one to theirs we having one main advantage here to be free from the tyranny of Clocks which tells you peremptorily what hours you must rise eat and go to bed at whom you must punctually obey forsooth as Sheep go to Pasture or Hens to roost whether you have mind or appetite to 't or no or y'ar disorderly and irregular An Order and Regularity fitter for Monkes and Friers than Seculars for Slaves than Freemen and for Knitting women than Ladies If you like this life Madamoiselle do but come over to us and you shall have your part of it and find the Dutchesse ready to welcome you and me most ready to wait upon you who am Madamoiselle Your c. XXXVII To Madamoiselle de Beauvais The Vices of evil Tongues Arraign'd Mad●moiselle I Know not how you got the secret but I 'm sure you have it to charm ill Tongues and so stop the mouth of Mesdisance as whilst every one almost speaks ill of others every one speaks well of you Is it because you speak ill of none and give none occasion to speak ill of you but they can doe it without occasion and when you give them none can take it of themselves or is your high Vertue above the reach of evil Tongues but nothing in this Age is above their reach who are so curious of finding fault as where their eyes fail them they invent new Prospectives to find spots our even in the Sun it self or is it lastly a certain Majesty in your person that daunts and aws them to Reverence What ever it be I must admire and congratulate your felicity and professe my self as glad of 't being to speak against the Vices of Evil Tongues as one would be in a strange Country to find out one that understood his own Language Purposing then to arraign those Vices I have chosen you for judge the only Impartial one I know of that is not complice with the Criminel First Vice then I intend to call unto the barr shall be Mocking Ieering and Derision rather Abuses than Crimes and next the more Criminous ones of Calumnie and Detraction Of Mocking Ieering and Derision Mocking Ieering and Derision may be defin'd a malicious publishing of others Imperfections with intent to render them ridiculous for if it be their Vices 't is Reproach and Contumely and done on purpose to render them odious and 't is lawfull in no case but only when Imperfections are affected to laugh them out of them whence 't is good when us'd for Physick but when only for poison 't is detestable However it becomes none but Buffoons and under pain of becoming Ridiculous ones self none is to endeavour to make others so It tends to Enmitie if it proceeds not thence for the faults of those we love we seek to hide and never seek to find fault with any but those we care not for Mean time whilst they imagin they shew their wits they but shew their folly by 't and want of wit none more foolishly purchasing Enemies than they it being as great a folly for a Iest to lose a Frend as to sell ones Horse to buy him Provender 'T is a dangerous Vice too being commonly the occasion of quarrel whilst it touches men where th' are most sensible and therefore none but Women may safely use it which is the cause perhaps why now adayes more women ar tainted with this vice than men And if you mark it their Mocking and Jeering at others is principally for not being fine Gentlemen and a la mode forsooth they learning by looking on their Glasses to looke on nothing but superficial things having more regard to the discomposure of ones Garments than of their manners and the disorder of their hair than of their mind and for such as these your blunt man marrs their mirth his not being put out of Countenance by 't putting them out of countenance themselves Such an one was our Countrymen Sir Roger Williams an excellent Souldier but a blunt Courtier who coming to Court after the losse of Sluce in Flandres and being jeer'd for it by the Ladies with Is this he that deliver'd up Sluce Pray let 's see him a doughty souldier no doubt he is Answered them brusquely Yes Ladies I am he and on so good conditions there is none of you but would have deliver'd up your Sluces too Nor did he spare Queen Elizabeth her self when waiting long at Court to deliver a certain Petition for arrears of pay and the Queen not willing to see him he one day Encountring her where was no avoyding him she to put him out of countenance feign'd to smell some evil savour in the Room crying nicely out Fogh What a stink 's here Williams I think it be your Boots said she that smell so No by said he 't is my Petition Madam I have kept it so long e'r I could get it deliver'd But to return to our subject There are divers sorts of Derisions and Mockery Some by whisper others more openly some before ones face others behind ones back some finaly by laughing out-right and others Ironically and by dissembled scorn Of which that of whisper is commonly the most offensive which whilst it takes away all place from Reply leaves place to imagine the Injury greater than it is whence whilst the Affront perhaps regards but one the Offence of it extends it self to all Your publique way of Jeering is most dangerous and your secret more base and cowardly above all your Ironicall one does the least harm to those they mock and the most to those who use it it marring their Natures quite and teaching them falshood and dissembling And generally those who are so diligent in marking others faults and Imperfections must needs be full of Faults and Imperfections themselves Since whilst their minds are still abroad to observe others faults they can never be at home to mark and amend their own In fine however light they make of it they are to know that no Generous spirit but can easilier brook Injury than Scorn and the reparation of it too is easier made and that they but render themselves by it odious unto all it being natural for men to love those who esteem them as t is to hate all those who disesteem them as those who mock and jeer them manifestly declare they do To conclude I could with them only to observe this rule Never to say any thing of others but what they would say before their faces or what they would others should say of them behind their backs Of Slander Calumnie and Detraction But Mocking Ieering and Derision are nothing to Slander Calumnie

much as a Lord To wait upon a Lady But now all alone A walking they come With none to wait upon them Your Gallants are grown Such tarriers at home A Murren and Shame light on them 2 Is 't boldnesse they lack They are grown so slack Or each turn'd Woman hater Or money they want Of which store God grant Or what the Devil 's the matter But yet we behold Them dayly more bold And their Lands to Coin they distil ye And then with the Money You see how they run ye To lose it at Pickadilly 3 Your Country Squire I far more admire Whose Father that 's dead God pardon He knows 't is the fashion To give them Colla●ion Who go to the Park and the Garden Whilst he of the Town Is grown such a Clown Yo wait on them he is unwilling But away he does run When the Ladies do come And all for to save his Ten shilling 4 But Ladies you 'll see Be ruled by me And this geer will soon be amended Upon them but frown When you have them at some And all this quarrel is ended Sharp Hawks we are sure Will come to the Lure Then of Favours in private but starve them And strait you will see In publike they 'l be More ready and glad to deserve them XLVIII To Cloris Anno 54 On her going out of Town SEE fair Cloris how you deal with us you left us in the Spring to deprive us of Flowers and you leave us now in Summer to deprive us of the fruit of them but you know what you doe two Suns at a Time would be too much now in the Town and therefore to prevent plagues and Calentures you go out of it but now our better Sun is gon into the Country what should we do here where that we have only serves to scorch and burn not to comfort us It being more safe and comfortable then to follow you into the Country than longer to remain in Town here If now we suffer by your absence we may thank our selves and none would pitty our complaining of it when we might enjoy your presence with but only going after you Expect me then next week with you fairest Cloris and if you find not yet in my Heart the Reasons for it look but in your Glasse at least and you 'll find it in your Face the Sun never attracting more flowers than that does hearts to follow it and amongst the rest if not above the rest that Aimablest Cloris of Your c. XLIX To the Lord Rich. My Lord I Have considered since I saw you last wha● vain boast 't was in those who threatned on I know not what particular picque and quarrel of their own to deprive me of all my friends for besides few are so indigent of Enemies now a day as they need to take them up on others scores If another can deprive me of them they are no friends of mine and to imagine others should be angry with them when they are angry is as great a folly as to imagine others should be sick with them when they are sick besides I should be very greedy of the store should I not content my self with those for friends should they deprive me of all the rest whom they have for Enemies but all this proceeds from their not considering the differences between Acquaintances and Friends which are so hard indeed to distinguish but on such occasions as pray tell them when you see them they shall much pleasure me to do it for me when with all their blustring they shall do me no more harm by it than the wind does to the Trees by blowing off their old wither'd eaves ro make place for new flourishing ones Mean time I assure my self My Lord you are none of those who think those that cry loudest have the greatest wrong when 't is rather their weaknesse than any just provocation of mine unlesse they take it for an injury and affront that I 'd receive none from them For me though I should not be so good a friend unlesse I knew how to be as bad an Enemy yet I professe I had rather contend with them in any quarrel than in such an one where 't is a greater shame to overcome than to be overcome so tell them if you please My Lord assure your self from him who knows not to dissemble nor to be other than Your Lordships most c. L. To the Lady Of the Temple of Frendship a Tragi-comedy he was writing with the character of the Persons FRendship being our second Religion and so main a part of our first I have design'd to present it so beautiful to the Eye as all should be ravisht with its Love and Admiration To this end I have ●personated it in the loveliest sex and that betwixt persons of the same sex too for avoiding all suspect Frendship being nothing but Love stript of suspition of Harm For representing it by Ladies after the like example of the Queen and her Ladies here formerly of the greatest Ladies P●incesses in Spain France Flandres and else where I thought none reasonably could take exceptions nor think me too ambitious in'● especially I having been long Time train'd up conversant in the Courts of the greatest Queens and Princesses in Europe and consequently not altogether ignorant of personating and presenting them according to their dignity and quality First then for Blondinia and Lindiana I make them vindicating to their Fair Sex all the Noblenesse Generosity as ever was in man and to their Friendship all the dearnesse and tendernesse as ever was in Love For the two Princesses ●artiana and Philothea I make them of equal perfection though of different disposition like Pamela and Philoclea in the Arcadia high minded magnanimous excelling in all the Vertues of great Princes and not to make them more than Princes subject too to their noble Vices of Anger Ambition c To shew in fine that they are not vertuous by chance but by choice and Election since they may be otherwise For Bellara she is a person whose divine Conversation would even make you doubt whe'r she were humain or no Her wisdom is so great as there is no Labyrinth in this world she would not help you out of by conecting a Thrid of first and second causes together She has charge both of the Altar and Oracle yet is her breast the purest Altar and mouth the truest Oracle so as in following her opinion you are sure of Truth for guide and in following her Example you are sure of Heaven for Frend For Euphemia so young yet as she is but a Neophi●e and under Bellaras tuition she is of so pure a brest as like white paper she is apted for receiving all the others divine Precepts and Impressions so as you may well guesse at what she will be hereafter by what the other is at present For Compase lastly and the rest we may well say of them that as