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A17026	The introduction to the true understanding of the whole arte of expedition in teaching to write Intermixed with rare discourses of other matters, to shew the possibilitie of skill in teaching, and probabilitie of successe in learning, to write in 6. hours. Which tending all to one end, doe serve for two uses. 1. If authors doe excell others in their owne artes, why may not this author excell others in his arte. 2. For removing a vulgare opinion against his native countrey of Scotland, he sheweth that it hath moe excellent prerogatives than any other Kingdome. Whereby it will rather follow, that a Scotishman is so much the more able to prosecute whatsoever hee undertaketh, and therefore so much the more to bee respected, by how so much he is more ingenuous than one of another nation.	Browne, David, fl. 1622-1638.	1638 (1638)	STC 3904; ESTC S117068	26,810	42

or daleground for corn● yea and doubtlesse there be some speciall parts also of it as good as the best parts of other kingdomes the value of the commodities which those parts doe afford being accounted according to the valuation of the places where they come to be in greatest request like as other kingdomes doe with the commodities which they yeeld 3. The worthy people of that ancient kingdome doe live with such plenty of all sorts of things at home amongst themselves as they need not yeeld nor give place to any people or nation for any thing more then they need to doe unto them and therefore although mutuall traffique or exchange of commodities be no disparagement I hope but rather a great credit as well as an advancement to any people of whatsoever kingdome yet they could as well at least subsist without the same if there were cause as I hope there shall never be yea and live both as contentedly and modestly with their owne as any people in the world If at any time especially in the yeeres of famine when it pleaseth God most justly to afflict them as he doth their neighbour countries either then or at other times they be forced to buy such things as they need from other nations as Gods people of old did of Egypt they pay them as well for what they receive as other nations doe when they buy such things as they need of them upon the like occasions either of necessitie or extremitie And if none be able to prove any thing to the contrary of those things then why doe not all acknowledge them to be true Whereby in the meane time as it hath beene alwaies it is most evident although there were no more to be said that that kingdome is a most compleate kingdome and both as plentifull and able to serve the owne turne as any other kingdome is to serve it selfe And therefore no question ought to be made by any whosoever neither of the plentie nor abilitie thereof more then of any other kingdome neither in sport to maintaine table discourse nor yet in earnest purpose for curiositie at other times or occasions Those who doe enjoy a better land are bound to be so much the more thankfull to him who is the true owner of the whole earth and all that therein is to dispose unto what people soever he will which dutie if they doe not carefully discharge they will be so much the more inexcusable in the day of retribution when they are called to account for violent possession thereof and wee are taught taught both by his word and daily experience as w●ll as by histories how often the Monarchies and Kingdomes of the world are translated from one people unto another and all through ingratitude and impenitencie And whereas it may be thought that some other kingdomes being more fruitfull are therefore more able to supply the necessities of that kingdome then it is to helpe them yet if the varietie extent and worth of all things which it sendeth yeerely to other kingdomes above what any king some sendeth it be well weighed esteemed and considered none of them can surmatch it yea scarcely compare with it in any degree howsoever many doe surpasse the greater part of it But how this defect thereof in respect of other kingdomes and yet the compleatnesse or equalitie of it with the best of them can agree in the generall since onely but some parts thereof can match the best parts of them and yet neverthelesse hath as great plenty in the generall both to serve it selfe within and to furnish others without as any of them those two effects doe proceed of these two causes or suppliments two manner of waies the one principall and the other secondarie 1 The first or principall doth proceed of the blessing of God which in the midst of outward povertie maketh riches to increase as the land of Canaan though of it selfe farre inferiour to other lands both in quantitie and fertility yet so long as his people had their residence there it did flow with milke and h●ney and sustained at one time eighteene hundred thousand fighting men both besides the tribe of Levi and what it spared also to send abroad to other nations yea and all the mightie Kings and Iudges thereof in more sumptuous manner many times then any Monarches ever were before or after them 2 The second of the vertuous industrie of the people of that kingdome which may bee well compared with the industrie of the most excellent people of whatsoever kingdome although they have both greater matter whereof and a better subject whereon to worke The first world had almost all things without labour which fertile kingdomes doe yet imitate that they may have the more time to vice as they had but the commendable people of the famous kingdome of Scotland doe surpasse all fertile kingdomes in labour and industrie both early and late yea and sweating of all the body as well as the forehead according to the ordinance of God pronounced upon the disobedience of our first Parents In citie labour or artificer worke yea or cosening by trade they delight not to be so expert as some people of other kingdomes are neither to maintaine unnecessarie trades or such as any wise tend or be more inclinable to vice then vertue nor to sell slight or counterfeit wares under colour of good and upright nor yet are they any wise so bold either to praise their owne wares at home nor abroad nor to invite farre lesse take hold of customers as they passe the streets upon other businesses to come in and buy their wares but as for the most part they are every way both more conscionable and modest so many of them likewise have all needfull things both as curious and farre more substantious to sell unto such onely as doe offer to buy then any others elsewhere Their obedience to the true God and Christ whom hee hath sent and to their superiours with their commendable industrie and conscionable carriage yea and their discreet spending on food and apparrell according to their degree with other respects which may be gathered from other particulars following are the causes doubtlesse that it hath pleased God to keepe that worthy native people together as the true of spring of the first planters of that land though alwaies sending multitudes upon all occasions to helpe other nations even unto this day when almost all the world hath turned upside downe So the matchlesse industrie srugalitie care and labour of that most vertuous people is the secondarie cause of their equalitie of maintenance with the people of other kingdomes both to spend and send or the suppliment of any defect of fruitfulnesse in that kingdome Which consists rather in carefull diligent and timely manuring the ground both before and after the sowing of the seed attending their bestiall and in making all kinde of cloth as well linnen as woollen which according to the commen●able practise both

of inferiour qualitie although perchance discended of a worthy and ancient house nor yet any title conferred on them but onely the generall that they bee Scottish men are preferred both by getting place and preferment to many others of other nations who either have lands or other titles besides the denomination of their country yea and sometimes both which is a great cause encouragement for Scottish men to travell as they doe farre more then others But this one thing yet remaineth to be declared before we proceed to other matter it is needfull also for the better understanding and so in some measure making up a compleat sense both of what hath beene said and is to be spoken to the commendation of the kingdome of Scotland even to shew in what respects it can but compare with the kingdome of England let be with other kingdomes although these so joyne together as that they both make but one continent yea and doe almost lye under one climat and Horizon which one example shall suffice to shew how Scotland may compare with other kingdomes esteeming England in this comparative respect and many others of other nature to be as worthy a kingdome for the quantity as any in the world Therefore I will use my best endeavours to make a short d●scription of both these kingdomes that the chiefe cause may both be so much the better and easier perceived for apparently they will be rather found to appeare in the different use of them according to the severall dispositions opinions or practises of the inhabitants of either then in any correspondencie or equalitie betweene them other wise which comparison is very worthy observation especially by those who would either learn to be good husbands any where or yet would conferre or examine their owne private skill opinion or practise with the ancient publike and approved skill opinion and practise of those who have beene both better and longer exercised in all the severall sorts and degrees of good husbandry The kingdome of England is a most excellent pleasant and fruitfull land fairely planted rarely built and both well inriched and garnished with all sorts of commodities and objects of pleasure almost like unto France which is thought to be the garden of the world It pleaseth God that England yeeldeth abundance of increase in all things needfull for this mortall life but especially those things most intended or best liked by the inhabitants thereof which are indeed for the most part as civill modest and loving a people both among themselves and almost to all strangers at home abroad yea and as faithfull true and obedient subjects to our and their dread Soveraigne as either wee or any other his Majesties Subjects or yet the subjects of any other King ever were or can be to any King Monarch or Emperour in all the world This fertile kingdome of England bringeth forth as great plenty of all sorts of graine and of all kinde of fruits and hearbs with milke and honey and all variety and diversitie of other things both for profit and pleasure that mans heart can desire for the maintenance and refreshment of naturall life I thinke as any kingdome whatsoever of the bignesse thereof and so farre as it is sowne and laboured for the inhabitants of England almost ev●r since the dayes of Engist of whom both the land and they doe take the name have thought it farre more easie and no l●sse profitable to reserve many of the best and most fruitfull places of the land rather for the entertainment of all sorts of bestiall which they delight more and more yet to have multiplied than for the bearing or increasing of Wheate Barlie Pease or Beanes and therefore the common people belike having greater plenty of all kinde of fleshes than of all sorts of bread doe choose or take occasion to attribute the generall name meate to flesh rather than to bread or any other kinde of victuals whether they doe it because they have it most or love it best or both is somewhat questionable but notwithstanding all their industry and plenty one thing is without all question it remaineth as deare as other things which is somewhat mitigated both in their higher valuation of money and greater plenty thereof than Scotland hath at this time because the Court lyeth there I need not to be very prolixe in this description because I know wherein I am either briefe or deficient will be well supplied by the natives themselves upon all occasions who know their own land better than I or any other stranger but now wee are all one The kingdome of Scotland beause it doth consist as much in hils as valleyes and therefore neither altogether so fruitfull as England nor yet lyeth so hot towards the Sunne It is the most healthfull or well ayred land to live in of any whatsoever for it hath many high and great montains faire and open fields fresh and fierce running wate●s both cleare and wholesome with innumerable springs and brookes mingled throughout the whole land And that I may be the more brief in describing thereof if the native forme fertilitie of a whole Kingdome may bee understood by the like properties of a Province in another kingdome then the kingdome of Scotland is most like to the County of Kent of any part in England that in diverse respects for though they differ far in quantity yet not verie much in quality because they aggree in these three Some parts of the realme of Scotland doe yeeld great profite but litle pleasure safe only the pleasure which doth accompany profite and these be all the valleys or valey ground for the most part through the whole kingdome which in diverse respects is esteemed either to be better of it selfe or els far better laboured than any of whatsoever kingdome Other parts againe doe yeeld great pleasure but litle profite and these bee most of all the hills banks moores and marrishes for some of these be most convenient for haulking others for hunting because there be greatest store of wild fowle and venison in these places And some parts are mixed both with all the meanes and kinds of profite and objects of pleasure and these bee these which doe consist partly of hill and partly of dale ground and are situated betweene the sides of all the rivers springs brooks or armes of the seas and the tops of all the hills or banks next adj●cent or adjoying thereunto These vertuous inhabitants of that worthy nation doe sow and labour all the parts of the land that may be conveniently sowne and laboured and do yeeld sufficiency of increase and leave all other parts for grasse hay woods and parks so that by the bl●ssi●g of GOD upon their labours they have both plenty of bread and sufficiency of milk and honey when as people of other countries which are both hotter better yea and might be easier laboured for want of labouring have scarcitie This commeth to passe most