into their Countrey So that he earnestly disswaded me from the iourney if I loued my life and welfare at last he concluded his discourse with me by a summe of mony that he threw downe from a window thorow which he looked out into a sheete tied vp by the foure corners and hanging very neere the ground a hundred pieces of siluer each worth two shillings sterling which counteruailed ten pounds of our English mony this businesse I carried so secretly by the helpe of my Persian that neither our English Ambassadour nor any other of my Countrymen sauing one special priuate and intrinsicall friend had the least inkling of it till I had throughly accomplished my designe for I well knew that our Ambassadour would haue stopped and Barracadoed all my proceeding therein if he might haue had any notice thereof as indeed he signified vnto mee after I had effected my proiect alleaging this forsooth for his reason why he would haue hindred me because it would redound somewhat to the dishonour of our Nation that one of our Countrey should present himselfe in that beggerly and poore fashion to the King out of an insinuating humour to craue money of him But I answered our Ambassadour in that stout and resolute manner after I had ended my businesse that hee was contented to cease nibbling at me neuer had I more need of money in all my life then at that time for in truth I had but twenty shillings sterling left in my purse by reason of a mischance I had in one of the Turkes Cities called Emert in the country of Mesopotamia where a miscreant Turke stripped me of almost all my monyes according as I wrote vnto you in a very large letter the last yeere which I sent from the Court of this mighty Monarch by one of my Countrymen that went home by Sea in an English shippe laden with the commodities of this India which letter I hope came to your hands long since After I had beene with the King I went to a certain Noble and generous Christian of the Armenian race two dayes iourney from the Mogols court to the end to obserue certaine remarkeable matters in the same place to whom by meanes of my Persian tongue I was so welcome that hee entertained me with very ciuill courteous complement and at my departure gaue mee very bountifully twenty pieces of such kind of mony as the King had done before counteruayling forty shillings sterling About ten dayes after that I departed from Azmere the court of the Mogoll Prince to the end to begin my Pilgrimage after my long rest of fourteene moneths backe againe into Persia at what time our Ambassadour gaue mee a piece of Gold of this Kings Coyne worth foure and twenty shillings which I will saue if it bee possible till my ariuall in England so that I haue receiued for beneuolences since I came into this countrey twenty markes sterling sauing two shillings eight pence and by the way vpon the confines of Persia a little before I came into this country three and thirty shillings foure pence in Persian money of my Lady Sherly aâ— this present I haue in the City of Agra where-hence I wrote this letter about twelue pounds sterling which according to my manner of liuing vpon the way at two pence sterling a day for with that proportion I can liue pretty well such is the cheapnesse of all eateable things in Asia drinkable things costing nothing for seldome doe I drinke in my pilgrimage any other liquor then pure water will maintaine me very competently three yeeres in my trauell with meat drinke and clothes Of these gratuities which haue beene giuen me willingly would I send you some part as a demonstration of the filiall loue and affection which euery child bred in ciuility and humility ought to performe to his louing and good mother but the distance of space betwixt this place and England the hazard of mens liues in so long a iourney and also the infidelity of many men who though they liue to come home are vnwilling to render an account of the things they haue receiued doe not a little discourage mee to send any precious token vnto you but if I liue to come one day to Constantinople againe for thither I doe resolue to goe once more by the grace of Christ and therehence to take my passage by land into Christendome ouer renouned Greece I will make choice of some substantiall and faithfull Countriman by whom I will send some prety token as an expression of my dutifull and obedient respect vnto you I haue not had the oportunity to see the King of Persia as yet since I came into this country but I haue resolued to goe to him when I come next into his Territories and to search him out wheresoeuer I can find him in his Kingdome for seeing I can discourse with him in his Persian tongue I doubt not but that going vnto him in the forme of a Pilgrime hee will not onely entertaine me with good words but also bestow some worthy reward vpon me beseeming his dignity and person for which cause I am prouided before-hand with an excellent thing written in the Persian-tongue that I meane to present vnto him and thus I hope to get beneuolences of worthy persons to maintaine me in a competent manner in my whole pilgrimage till come into England which I hold to be as laudable and a more secure course then if I did continuall carry store of mony about mee In the letter which I wrote vnto you by an English ship the last yeere I made relation vnto you both of my iourney from the once holy Hierusalem hither and of the state of this Kings Court and the Customes of this Country therefore I hold it superfluous to repeat the same things againe but what the Countryes are that I meane to see betwixt this and Christendome and how long time I will spend in each country I am vnwilling to aduertise you of at this present desiring rather to signifie that vnto you after I haue performed my designe then before howbeit in few words I will tell you of certaine Cities of great renoune in former times but now partly ruined that I resolue by Gods helpe to see in Asia where I now am namely ancient Babylon and Nimrods Tower some few miles from Niniue and in the same the Sepulcher of the Prophet Ionas spacious and goodly Câ—â— in Egypt heretofore Memphis vpon the famous Riuer Nilus where Moses Aaron and the children of Israel liued with K. Pharaoh whose ruined Palace is shewed there till this day and a world of other moueable things as memorable as any City of the whole world yeeldeth sauing onely Ierusalem but in none of these or any other Cities of note doe I determine to linger as I haue done in other places as in Constantinople and Azmere in this Easterne India onely some few daies will I tarry in a principall citie of fame to obserue euery
the next By whom good Hezekiab was perplext But when blasphemous Pagans puft with pride Contemptuously the God of gods deside The Lord of Lorâ—s whom no pow'r can withstand Tooke his owne gracious glorious cause in hand He vs'd no humane Arme or speare or sword But with his All-commanding mighty Word One Angell sent to grisly Plutoes den A hundred eighty and fiue thousand men Then fiftly was Ierusalem subdude In Iudaes blood th' â—â—â—yrians hands imbrude Manasses godlesse Glory did expire All yeeld vnto th' insulting foes desire Vsurping Conquest all did seaze vpon The King in chaines-bound sent to Babylon Till he repenting to his God did call Who heard his cry and freed him out of thrall Then sixtly Pharaob-Necho Egypts King To great distresse all Iudaes Land did bring With fell confusion all the Kingdome fill'd And with a Dart good King Iosias kill'd The Shepheard for his wandring sheep was strook The godly Prince from godlesse people tooke So this iust zealous and religious Prince Whose like scarce euer Raign'd before or since Th' Almighty to himselfe did take agen As knowing him too good for such bad men Nabuchadnezer next made them obey When Zedekiah did the Scepter sway King Kingdome Peeres and people all o'rethrown All topsie-turuy spoyld and tumbled downe The curst Caldeans did the King surprize Then slew his Sons and next pluck'd out his eyes Then vnto Babylon he was conuayde In Chaines in Priso and in Darknesse layde Till death his Corps did from his soule deuide He liu'd a slaue and sadly gladly dyde The Citty and the Temple burnt and spoyld With all pollution euery place was soyld The holy vessels all away were borne The sacred Garments which the Priests had worne All these the Caldees voyde of all remorce Did cary vnto Babylon perforce Which seuenty yeeres in slauery and much woe They kept and would by no meanes let them goe Till Persian Cyrus did Earths glory gaine Who freed the Iewes and sent them home againe He rendred backe their vessels and their store And bad them build their Temple vp once more Which many yeeres in glorious state did stand Till Piolomy the King of Egypts band Surpriz'd the Iewes and made them all obey Assaulting them vpon the Sabbath day Next after that from Rome great Pompey came And Iudaes force by force perforce did tame Then did the Caesars beare the earthly sway The vniuersall world did them obey And after that the Romane pow'r did place The Idumean Herods gracelesse Grace Him they created Tetrarch demy King 'Gainst whom the Iewes did boldly spurne and â—ling For they had sworne that none but Dauids seed In the seat Royall euer should succeed But Sossius and King Herods Armies strength Did ouer-run them all in breadth and length By hostile Armes they did them all prouoke To beare the burthen of their awfull yoke And lastly when the Romanes ouer-run By valiant Titus old Vespasians sonne Then fell they to an vnrecouer'd wane They all in generall were or slaine or tane Then was the extirpation of them all Their iust worst last most fatall finall fall Thus mercy being mock'd pluckd iudgmeÌ„t down Gods fauour being scorn'd prouokes his frowne Aboue all Nations he did them respect Below all Nations he did them deiect Most vnto them his fauour was addicted Most vpon them his fury was inflicted Most neere most deare they were to him in loue And farthest off his wrath did them remoue He blest he curst he gaue and then he tooke As they his Word obeyde or else forsooke How oft Iebouab seem'd his sword to draw To make them feare his precepts and his Law How oft he raisd them when they hedlong fell How oft he pardond when they did rebell How long did Mercy shiue and Iustice winke When their foule crimes before Gods face did stinke How oft Repentance like a pleasing sauour Repurchasd Gods abused gracious fauour When he did blessings vpon blessings heape Then they ingratefull held them meane and cheape Their plenty made them too too much secure They their Creators yoke would not endure They gracelesse fell from goodnesse from grace And kick'd and spurn'd at Heau'ns most glorious face The Prophets and the Seers that were sent To warne them to amendment repent They ston'd they kill'd they scorn'd they heat they bound Their goodnesse to requite their spight did wound The Prophets came with loue and purchas'd hate They offred peace and were return'd debate They came to saue and were vniustly spill'd They brought them life and were vnkindly kill'd No better entertainment they afford Vnto the Legates of their louing Lord. Thus were the Lab'rers in GODS Vineyard vsde Thus was their loue their care their paines abusde Their toyles and trauailes had no more regard Bonds death and tortures was their best reward At last th' Almighty from his glorious seat Perceiu'd his seruants they so ill intreat No more would send a Prophet or a Seer But his owne Sonne which he esteem'd most deare He left his high Tribunall and downe came And for all Glory enterchang'd all shame All mortall miseries he vnderwent To cause his loued-louelesse Iewes repent By Signes by Wonders and by Miracles By Preaching Parables and Oracles He wrought sought their faithlesse faith to cure But euer they obdurate did endure Our blest Redeemer came vnto his owne And 'mongst them neither was receiu'd or knowne He whom of all they should haue welcom'd best They scorn'd and hated more then all the rest The GOD of principalities and pow'rs A Sea of endlesse boundlesse mercy showres Vpon the heads of these vnthankefull men Who pay loue hate and good with ill agen Their murdrous-minded-malice neuer lest Till they the Lord of life of life bereft No tongue or pen can speake or write the story Of the surpassing high immortall glory Which he in pitty and in loue forsooke When he on him our fraile weake nature tooke To saue Mans soule his most esteemed â—era And bring it to the new Ierusalem From Greatest great to least of least he fell For his belouee chosen Israel But they more mad then madnesse in behauiour Laid cursed hands vpon our blessed Sauiour They kill'd th'ternall Sonne and Heirs of Heau'n By whom and from whom all our liues are giu'n For which the great Almighty did refuse Disperse and quite forsake the saithlesse Iewes And in his Iustice great omnipotence He left them to a reprobated sence Thus sundry times these people fell and rose From weale to want from height of ioyes to woâ—â—â— As they their gracious GOD forsooke or tooke His mercy either tooke them or forsooke The swart Egyptians and the Isralites And raging Rezin King of Aramnes Then the Assyrians twice and then againe Th' Egyptians ouer-run them all amaine Then the Caldeans and once more there came Egyptian Ptolomy who them o'recame Then Pompey next King Herod last of all Vespasian was their vniuersall fall As in Assyria Monarchy began They lost it to the
the poorer in spirit though not in purse but if a proud Diues handle it he will esteeme it worse then his Dogges if a proud Courtier reade it hee will teare it to tatters whilst a Generous Affable Gentleman will louingly entertaine it If beauty chance to behold it it will bid it welcome if Pride stand not in the way if a strong man that is not proud of it grow acquainted with the contents of my meaning I thinke it will content him if Parents or children or all or any body that are not poysoned with pride doe but see or heare it distinctly read and vnderstand it with iudgement I am perswaded it will passe and repasse with friendly vsage but if any of the contrary faction come within the Aire of it they will vse it in some sort as bad as the hangman will vse them And So much for To no matter who It is no great matter where this be read for as a good man being banished is neuer out of his Country because all Countries are his so my Booke in Church Court Citty Countrey or Cottage is one and the same it may perhaps alter the place where it comes from worse to better but the place can neuer alter the honest intents of it from better to worse Therefore no great matter where To be read there is matter why because it strikes at the roote of a most deadly sinne which almost as bad as an vniuersall deluge hath ouerflowed the most part of the world and though the Preachers on Earth Gods Trumpets and Ambassadours from Heauen doe diligently and daily strike at this abomination with the eternall Sword of the euerlasting Word yet what they cut downe in the day like Mushromes it growes vp againe thicke and threeâ—old in the night for whilst the husband-man sleepes the enuious man sowes tares Wherefore I hauing a talent of knowledge lent me by which I know that I must render an account one day how I haue imployed it and hauing written neere forty seuerall Pamphlets in former times I purpose henceforward God willing to redeeme the time I haue so mis-spent imploying my Pen in such exercises which though they be not free from a rellish of mirth yet they shall be cleare from profanation scurrillity or obsceannesse I doe know Pride is at such a height that my Mole-hill Muse can neuer by mineing at her foote shake her head for where Diuinity preuailes not Poetry in meddling doth but shew the Suns brightnes with a Candle Yet forasmuch as I know that Pride cast Angels out of Heauen made diuels in hell threw man out of Paradise was a maine causer of the drowning of the first World is a deuourer of this world and shall euer be accursed in the world to come by this knowledge I haue with a mix'd inuectiue mildnesse shewed in this Booke the vanities of all sorts of Pride not that I hope for amendment but to shew my honest intendment I haue seene sixe or seuen fashion hunting Gallants together sit scorning and deriding a better man then themselues onely because either his Hat was of the old Blocke or that his Ruffe was not so richly lac'd his Cloake hath beene too plaine his Beard of the old translation his Bootes and Spurres of the precedent second edition and for such slight occasions a man hath beene slighted ieerd and wonderd at as if he had beene but a Zany to the fashion or a man made for the purpose for them to whet their scorne vpon and therefore to reade this there is a matter why It is not much matter when for be it read on Friday the Turks Holyday on Saturday the Iewes Sabbath on Sunday the Lords Day or on any day or all dayes nights or houres there is Diuinitie with Alaâ—ritie Poetrie with mirth and euery thing so interwouen one with another that if it please not the generality yet I hope in particularitie it will tolerably censur'd by all that hate Pride and loue humility And therefore not much matter when IOHN TAYLOR A FEW LINES TO SMALL PVRPOSE AGAINST THE SCANDALOVS ASPERSIONS that are either maliciously or ignorantly cast vpon the Poets and Poems of these Times THere doth a strange and true opinion runne That Poets write much worse then they haue don And how so poore their daily writings are As though their best inuentions were thread-bare And how no new things from them now do spring But all hath ref'rence from some other thing And that their daily doings doe reueale How they from one another filch and steale As if amongst them 't were a statute made That they may freely vse the theeuing trade And some there are that will not sticke to say That many Poets liuing at this day Who haue the Hebrew Latine Greeke at will And in th' Italian and the French haue skill These are the greatest theeues they say of all That vse the Trade or Art Poeticall For ancient Bards and Poets in strange toungs Compiled haue their verses and their songs And those to whoÌ„ those tongues are rightly known Translating them make others verse their owne As one that steales a Cloake and presently Makes it his owne by alt'ring of the dye So whole bookes and whole sentences haue bin Stolne and the stealers great applause did win And by their filching thought great men of fame By those that knew not the right Authors name For mine owne part my Conscience witnesse is In'er was guilty of such theft as this Vnto such robbery I could neuer reach Because I vnderstand no forreigne speach To prooue that I am from such filching free Latin and French are heathen-Greeke to me The Grecian and the Hebrew Charactars I know as well as I can reach the Stars The sweet Italian and the Chip Chop Dutch I know the man i' th Moone can speake as much Should I from English Authors but purloyne It would be soone found counterseited coyne Then since I cannot steale but some will spy â—le truely vse mine owne let others lye Yet to excuse the writers that now write Because they bring no better things to light 'T is because bounty from the world is fled True liberality is almost dead Reward is lodg'd in darke obliuion deep Bewitch't I thinke into an endlesse sleepe That though a man in study take great paines And empt his veines puluerize his braines To write a Poem well which being writ With all his Iudgement Reason Art and Wit And at his owne charge print and pay for all And giue away most free and liberall Two three or foure or fiue hundred bookes For his reward he shall haue nods and lookes That all the profit a mans paines hath gat Will not suffice one meale to feed a Cat. Yet still Noble Westminster thou still art free And for thy bounty I am bound to thee For hadst not thou and thy Inhabitants From Time to Time relieu'd and help'd my want I had long since bid Poetry adieu And therefore still my thankes shall be
expressed by Saint Paul Romans 9. 3. Where he saith For I would wish myselfe to be separated from Christ for my brethren that are my kinsmen according to the flesh Thus these two blessed Lamps or Beacons which God appointed to illuminate his Church did desire the dreadfull Curse of Gods heauy and eternall wrath to fall vpon them for euer rather then Gods honour should be violated or their brethren befor euer reprobates These two last Curses of Moses and Paul against themselues were so great and good examples of true zeale to God and loue to our neighbours that though it be long since they liued yet I haue not read or heard of any that euer imitated them Moses as a Type of Christ before his Incarnation and Paul as a follower of Christs example after his bitter death and passion did both wish themselues to be accursed to the end that thereby so many of their miserabeb rethren might be blessed so our Sauiour Christ though hee were and is the fountaine of all blessing yet hee was contented to be made a Curse for as many as would lay hold on the promises of God by faith in him Galatians 3 23 14. And thus I conclude my third part of this Treatise of Man Cursing himselfe Fourthly When Man Curseth or Blasphemeth God THis sinne is as it may rightly be called a degree beyond sinne for this is the sword which the Deuill doth put into mad-mens hands wherewith they doe wound themselues mortally for there were neuer yet any that durst to lift vp this Cursed weapon of Blasphemy against God but that the point thereof did alwayes turne into their owne bosomes to their destructions or most grieuous calamities as Pharaoh when hee said Who is the Lord I know not the Lord neither will I leâ—â— Israel goe Exodus 5. 2. and Sennacherib King of Assyria by the mouth of his seruant Rabshakeh blasphemed the Name of the Lord of Hoasts 2. Kings 18. Where he doth impiously extoll the Heathen Idols aboue the God of Israel saying verse 34. and 35. Whence is the God of Hamath and of Arpad Where is the God of Sepharuatm Heua and Iuab How haue they deliuered Samaria out of mine hand The like did Holophernes Iudith 6. 3. when he threatned the Israelites in Bethuliah saying That their God should not deliuer them When he had set vp his golden Image threatning all that would not fall down and worship it with most cruell torments to death he proudly said Who is that God that can deliuer you out of mine hands Nicanor Lieutenant Generall or Captaine of the Host of King Demetrius 2. Machabeus 15. Against Iudas Machabeus and the Host of Israel whom he purposed to inuade vpon the Sabbath day said verse 3. Is there a Lord in Heauen that commandeth the Sabbath day to be kept and verse 4. when they said There is a liuiâ—â— Lord which ruleth in the Heauen who commanded the seuenth day to be kept then he said And I am mighty vpon Earth to command them for to arms themselues and to performe the Kings busines But this Blasphemons miscreant had his hire for he lost 35000. of his men in the battell and himselfe was slaine and his head hand and shoulder brought in triumph to the City of Ierusalem and his accursed tongue cut out and cut in small pieces and giuen to the fowles of the Ayre as the same chapteâ— doth declare The Scribes and Pharises Marke 3. 22. did Blaspheme our Sauiour and said hee had Deuill and that through the power of Beelzebub he did cast out Deuils out of the possessed But as the liues of these and all other Blasphemers were odious and execrable so were their deaths and punishments miserable and remarkable for Pharaoh after the enduring of many most grieuous plagues lost his Kingdome and his life he and all his Army being drowned in the red Sea Exod. 14. 27 28. Sennacherib for his Blasphemy lost in one night 185000. men all of them being slaine by the Angell of the Lord himselfe being forced to flee to saue his life where at his returne to his Kingdome he was slaine by his owne sonnes in the Temple at Nineueh as he was at the vngodly worship of his god Nisroch 2. Kings 19. 37. Holophernes that blasphemous Champion was by Gods iust Iudgement being asleepe in his Tent and drunken although he were in his Camp amidst a great Army of his owne rusty Souldiers yet was his head smote from his shoulders by a woman and carried â—nto the City of Bethulia and there vpon the highest place of the walles set vp in memoriall of Gods vengeance and his peoples victory â—deth 14. 1. Nebuchà dnezzar was for his blasphemy depriued of his manly reason and Kingdome â—nd for seuen yeeres space liued as a beast among the beasts of the field Daniel 4. 30. The Scribes and Pharises who were the onâ—y men in reuerend estimation amongst the â—ewes as being the writers and expounders of the Lawes for their blasphemy were deliuered vp into most miserable captiuity and â—â—erpetuall slauery as is before expressed God is iealous of the honour of his Name that he commanded the blasphemer â—o be stoned to death Leuiticus 24. 14. Which was forthwith executed vpon him in the â—3 verse For which cause when that blessed man Iob was in his greatest afflictions sitting in â—â—shes full of Byles and sores then his wife perswaded him to Curse or blaspheme God and dye Iob 2. 9. She well knowing that the Law was so strict that for euery such â—ffence there was a speedy execution of death and so by that meanes shee would haue perswaded him to haue been quickly dispatched out of his paine and misery Briefly then to conclude this short Treatise Cursing I beseech you brethren by the â—percies of God that you all haue an especiall â—â—are not to blaspheme the holy and glorious Name of our good and gracious Creator Redeemer and Sanctifier that we by our Cursing doe not turne his blessings into a Curse vpon vs and our posterity here and eternally thereafter that wee bee not so much out of â—oue charity and obedience as to Curse our Superiours neighbours or any other persons or lastly that wee bee not so wilfully â—â—ad to Curse ourselues all which Cursed â—â—eanes are the causes to plucke downe vpon our heads the dreadfull Curses of the Almighty as it hath done in all times and ages vpon Blasphemers and Cursers Against Swearing WHen man hath so farre offended God by his disobedience that hee had thereby purchased to himselfe and all his posterity perpetuall damnation not knowing which way to turne himselfe from the Almighties wrath and much lesse knowing how to bee repossest in his fauour when vndeserued vnknowne vnhoped for mans infinite misery was to bee cured by his Creators infinite mercy then at that time if God had giuen man leaue to aske some great gift which he might be redeemed by had he had licence to desire or request what
retired themselues from the City into the Country Whence I noted the peoples Charity and great amendment â—or they had giuen ouer one of the seuen deadly sinnes which was Couetoâ—â—nesse and in many places were so farre out of loue of a Citizens money that they abhor'd and hated either to â—ouch or receiue it entertaining them with bitter worme-wood welcome which hearbe was â—n more request amongst many of them then any of the heauenly Graces or Cardinall Vertues â—et the hearbe of Grace was in much estimation although the name of it was a document that they had occasion to Rue the Time I further perceiued that they were so farre from beleeuing or â—rediting any man that they would or durst not trust their owne noses but were doubtfull that â—hat sence would conspire with the Plague to murther them wherefore like cunning Mariâ—ers or mole-catchers they would craftily in their streetes and high-wayes fetch the wind of â—ny man although they were ouer shooes boots sometimes tumbled into a ditch for their â—abours This was the time when a man with a night-cap at noone would haue frighted a whole Parish out of their wits when to call for Aquae-vitae though it had bin but to make a drench for â— sicke horse was enough to haue his house shut vp When Lord haue mercy vpon vs made many of them tremble more then God Refuse Renounce Confound or Damne When a man trauailing â—n the habit of a Citizen was a meere Bulbegger when for a man to say that hee came from Hell would yeed him better well-come without money then one would giue to his owne father and mother that came from London In this time of mans great miseâ—y and small mercy I tooke my pen in hand and wrote this ensuing discourse I haue as neere as I could suited it sadly according to the nature of the subiect And truly because that the bare and naked truth was so cleare and ample that I need not to stuffe it out with friuolous fables or fantasticall fictions with my soule I thankefully acknowledge Gods great mercy extended towards mee one of the most wretched and wicked in that so many thousands of better life and conuersation haue fallen on my right hand and on my left and round about me yet hath his gracious protection beene my guard for the which in my gratitude to my God and to auoyd the sinne of idlenesse I haue written what those that can may reade THE FEAREFVLL SVMMER OR LONDONS CALAMITIE THe Patience and long suffering of our God Keepes close his Quiuer and restraines his Rod And though our crying Crimes to Heau'n doe cry For vengeance on accurst Mortality Yea though we merit mischiefes manifold Blest Mercy doth the hand of Iustice hold But when that Eye that sees all things most cleare Expects our finits of Faith from yeere to yeere Allowes vs painefull Pastors who bestow Great care and toyle to make vs fruitfull grow And daily doth in those weake Vessels send The dew of Heauen in hope we will amend Yet at the last he doth perceiue and see That we vnfruitfull and most barren be Which makes his indignation frowne And as accursed Fig-trees cut vs downe Thus Mercy mock'd plucks iustice on our heads And griâ—uous Plagues our Kingdome ouerspreads Then let vs to our God make quicke returning With true contrition fasting and with mourning The Word is God and God hath spoke the Word If we repent he will put vp his sword Hee 's grieu'd in panishing Hee 's slow to Ire And HE a sinners death doth not desire If our Compunction our Amendment show Our purple sinues Hee 'll make as white as snow If we lament our God is mercifull Our scarlet crimes hee 'll make as white as wooll Faire London that did late abound in blisse And wast our Kingdomes great Metropolis 'T is thou thar art deieâ—â—â—ed low in state Discâ—â—â—late and almost desolate The hand of Heau'n that onely did protect thee Thou hast prouok'd moil iustly to correct thee And for thy pride of Heart and deeds vniust He layes thy Pompe and Glory in the dust Thou that wast late the Queene of Cities nam'd Throughout the world admir'd renown'd fam'e Thou that hadst all things at command and will To whom all England was a hand-maide still For rayment fewell fish fowle beasts for food For fruits for all our Kingdome counted good Both neere and farre remote all did agree To bring their best of blessings vnto thee Thus in conceite thou seem'dst to rule the Fates Whilst peace and plenty flourish'd in thy Gates Could I relieue thy miseries as well As part I can thy woes and sorrowes tell Then should my Cares be eas'd with thy Reliefe And all my study how to end thy griefe Thou that wer't late rich both in friends wealth Magnificent in state and strong in health As chiefest Mistris of our Country priz'd Now chiefly in the Country art despis'd The name of London now both farre and neere Strikes all the Townes and Villages with scare And to be thought a Londoner is worse Then one that breakes a house or takes a purse He that will filch or steale now is the Time No Iustice dares examine him his crime Let him but say that he from London came So full of Feare and Terrour is that name The Constable his charge will soone forsake And no man dares his Mâ—â—nus to make Thus Citizens plag'd for the Citie sinnes Poore entertainement in the Country winnes Some feare the City and fly thence amaine And those are of the Country fear'd againe Who 'gainst theÌ„ bar their windows their doores More then they would 'gainst Tuâ—ks or Iewes or Moores â—hinke if very Spaniards had come there â—heir well-come had bin better and their cheare Whilst Hay-cock lodging with hard slender fare Welcome like dogs vnto a Church they are â—are makes them with the Anaâ—aptists ioyne For if an Hostesse doe receiue their coyne She in a dish of water or a paile Will now baptize it lest it something aile Thus many a Citizen well flor'd with gold Is giad to lye vpon his mother â—old His bed the map of his mortailty His curtaines clouds aud Heau'n his Canopy The russet Plow-swaine and the Leathren Hinde Through feare is growne vnmannerly vnkinde And in his house to harbour hee 'll prefer An Infidell before a Londoner And thus much friendship Londoners did win The Deuill himselfe had better welcome bin Those that with trauell were tir'd famâ— and dry For want of drinke might slaâ—e choke and dye For why the hob-nau'd Boores inhumane Blocks Vncharitable Hounds hearts hard as Rocks Did sufter people in the field to sinke Rather then giue or sell a draught of drinke Milke-maides Farmers wiues are growne so nice They thinke a Citizen a Cockatrice And Country Dames are wax'd so coy and briske They shun him as they 'll shun a Basiliske For euery one the sight of him would siye All scaring he would kill
should haue a Nation purg'd and pure And as Elizabeth when she went hence Was wayted on as did be seeme a Prince Of all degrees to tend her Maiestie Neere forty thousand in that yeere did dye That as she was belou'd of high and lowe So at her death their deaths their loues did showe Whereby the world did note Elizabeth Was louingly attended after death So mighty Iames the worlds admired mireur True faiths defending friend sterne Foe to Errour When he Great Britains glorious Crown did leaue A Crowne of endlesse glory to receaue Then presently in lesse then eight months space Full eighty thousand follow him a pace And now that Royall Iames intombed lyes And that onr gracious Charles his roome supplies As Heau'n did for his Father formerly A sinfull Nation cleanse and purifie So God for him these things to passe doth bring And mends the Subiects for so good a King Vpon whose Throne may peace and plenty rest And he and his Eternally be blest NOw for a Conclusion in Prose I must haue one touch more at the vncharitablenesse and ingratitude of those beastly barbarous cruell Country Canibals whom neither the entreaty of the healthy or misery of the sicke could moue to any sparke of humanity or Christian compassion their ingratitude being such that although the Citty of London hath continually extended her bounty towards the Countries in generall and particular necessities for repairing their Churches Bridges and high wayes for their wrackes by sea for their losses by fire for their â—inundations by water for many Free-scholes Alme-houses other workes of piety and charity most largely and aboundantly expressed and most apparantly knowne vnto them yet notwithstanding all these and much more then I can recollect these Grunting Girigashites these Hog-rubbing Gadarens suffers the distressed sonnes and daughters of this famous fostering City to languish pine starue and dye in their streetes fields ditches and high-wayes giuing or allowing them no reliefe whilest they liued or burials being dead whose liues in many places might haue beene saued with the harbours and entertainment which the currish Nabals did afford their swine They haue their excuses and by the fault of their hard-heartednesse vpon the strict command from the Iustices and Magistrates alas a staffe is quickely found to beate a dogg for let it be granted that the Iustices and men of Authoritie did command and counsell then to be wary and carefull yet I am sure that neither God or any Christian or good Magistrate did euer command or exhort them to be cruell vnmercifull vnthankefull barbarous inhumane or vncharitable for it there were â—â— are any either Iustice or other of that hellis and hoggish disposition let him or them expect to howle with Diues for being so vncompassionate What haue you beene but murtherers of your Christian brethren and sisters for the rule of charity saith that whosoeuer heeor they be that may relieue or helpe the necessities of others and doth reiect or neglect it by which meanes those that are in want doe perish that they are murtherers and as many of our Country Innes and Ale-houses haue vnchang'd their signes because they will giue no harbour vpon any condition to neither whole or sicke so without Repentance and Gods great mercy some of them must expect to hang in hell for their inhospitable want or pittie What madnesse did possesse you did you thinke that none but Citizens were marked for death that onely a blacke or ciuill fuâ— of apparell with a Ruffe-band was onely the Plagues liuery No you shall find it otherwayes for a Russet Coat or a sheepe-skin couer is no Armour of proofe against Gods Arrowes though you shut vp barracado your dores and windowes as hard as your hearts and heads were Ramd against your distressed brethren yet death will find you and leaue you to iudgement The Booke of God doth yeeld vs many presidents and examples that we are to be carefull to preserue life it is madnesse to stand wilfully vnder a falling house or to sleep whilst the water ouer-flow vs to runne desperatly into the fire or not auoid a shot or a stroke of a sword It is lawfull to auoid famine to shun the Leper the great or small Pox and many other diseases for if Physicke be good to restore health it is wisdome to preserue health to preuent Physicke The skilfull Mariner in a dangerous storme or tempest will make the hest haste he can into a safe hauen or a good harbour I am commanded to loue my neighbour and to bee carefull to helpe him in the preseruation of his life and therefore I must be respectfull of mine owne Our Sauiour Christ although he was God omnipotent whose becke or the least of his commands could haue consumed Herod and crushed him and his Tyraâ—ny to nothing yet did he please not to vse the power and strength of his Godhead but for our instruction and example shewing the weaknesse and imbecillity of his humanity hee fled from Herod into Egypt By this which hath beene written it is apparent that it is lawfull for any man to absent himselfe if his calling will permit the same from manifest and approaching danger oâ— his life Beasts Fowles and Fishes will shunne their destruction Wormes and contemptible vermine as lice and slâ—as will crawle creepe and skip to saue themselues from death therefore man that hath being Life Sence Reason and Hope of immortalitie may lawfully seeke his owne preseruation But if there be any that haue out of a slauish or vnchristian-like feare fled or runne-away from this famous City in this lamentable visitation I meane such as left neither prayer or purse to relieue those that vnderwent the grieuous burthens of sickenesse and calamity such as trusted more in the Country aide then in heauenly prouidence such as imagined that their safety was by their owne care and industry not remembring that their sinnes and transgressions haue helped to pull downe Gods wrath vpon their afflicted brethren and Sisters I say if any such there be that attribute their preseruation to their owne discreet carriage giuing the praise to the meanes not much minding the All-sufficient cause and Giuer of the meanes If any such haue fallen into the vncourteous pawes of the sordid Rusticles or Clownish Coridons let them know that Gods blessings are worth thankes and that they were iuslly plagued for their vnthankefulnesse And some haue beene too swift and fearefull in flying so many haue beene too slow and aduenturous in staying depending too much vpon a common and desperate opinion that their times are fixed that their dayes are numbred that their liues are limited so that till God hath appointed they shall not dye and that it lyes not in them or any power of man to lengthen life All these Assertions are true and I must needs grant vnto them But for as much as God is the Land Lord of life and puts it as his Tenants in our frailc Tenements although
man would lend spend it I could get begge if I had the impudence and steale if I durst aduenture the price of a hanging but my purpose was to house my horse and to suffer him and my apparell to lye in durance or Lauender in stead of Litter till such time as I could meete with some valiant friend that would desperately disburse Walking thus downe the street my body being tyred with trauell and my minde attyred with moody muddy Moore-ditch melancholly my Contemplation did deuoutly pray that I might meete one or other to prey vpon being willing to take any slender acquaintance of any map whatsoeuer viewing and circumviewing euery mans face I met as if I meant to drawe his picture but all my acquaintance was Nonest Inuentus pardon me Reader that Latine is none of mine owne I sweare by Priscians Parteranion an oath which I haue ignorantly broken many times At last I resolu'd that the next Gentleman that I met withall should be acquaintance whether hee would or no and presently fixing mine eyes vpon a Gentleman-like obiect I looked on him as if I would suruay something through him and make him my perspectiue and hee much musing at my gazing and I much gazing at his musing at last he crost the way and made toward me and then I made downe the street from him leauing to encounter with my man who came after me leading my horse whom he thus accosted My friend quoth he doth yonder Gentleman meaning me know me that he lookes so wistly on me Truely Sir said my man I thinke not but my Matter is a stranger come from London and would gladly meete some acquaintance to direct him where he may haue lodging and horse-meate Presently the Gentleman being of a generous disposition ouer-tooke me with vnexpected and vndeserued courtesie brought me to a lodging and caused my horse to bee put into his owne stable whilest we discoursing ouer a pinte of Spanish I related as much English to him as made him lend me tenne shillings his name was Master Iohn Maxwell which money I am sure was the first that I handled after I came from out the walls of London but hauing rested two houres and refreshed my selfe the Gentleman and I walked to see the City and the Castle which as my poore vnable and vnworthy pen can I will truly describe The Castle on a loftie Rocke is so strongly grounded bounded and founded that by force of man it can neuer be confounded the Foundation and Walls are vnpenetrable the Rampiers impregnable the Bulwarkes inuincible no way but one to it is or can be possible to be made passable In a word I haue seene many Straights and Fortresses in Germany the Netherlands Spaipe and England but they must all giue place to this vnconquered Castle both for strength and scituation Amongst the many memorable things which I was shewed there I noted especially a great peece of Ordnance of Iron it is not for batterie but it will serue to defend a breach or to tosse balies of wilde-fire against any that should assaile or assault the Castle it lyes now dismonted And it is so great within that it was told me that a Childe was once gotten there but I to make tryall crept into it lying on my backe and I am sure there was roome enough and spare for a greater then my selfe So leauing the Castle as it is both defensiue against any opposition and magnificke for lodging and receite I descended lower to the City wherein I obserued the fairest and goodliest streete that euer mine eyes beheld for I did neuer see or heare of a street of that length which is halfe an English mile from the Castle to a faire Port which they call the Neather-bow and from that Port the streete which they call the Kemâ—â—â—â—ate is one quarter of a mile more downe to the Kings Palace called Holy-rood-House the buildings on each side of the way being all of squared stone fiue six and seuen stories high and many by-Lanes and Closes on each side of the way wherein are Gentlemens houses much fairer then the buildings in the high-street for in the high-street the Marchants and Tradesmen do dwell but the Gentlemens mansions and goodliest houses are obscurely fonnded in the aforesaid Lanes the Walles are eight or tenne foote thicke exceeding strong not built for a day a weeke or a moneth or a yeere but from Antiquitie to Posteritie for many Ages There I found entertainement beyond my expectation or merit and there is fish flesh bread and fruit in such variety that I thinke I may offencelesse call it super fluity or saciety The worst was that Wine and Ale was so scarce and the people there such Mizers of it that euery night before I went to bed if any man had asked me a ciuill question all the wit in my head could not haue made him a sober answer I was at his Maiesties Palace a stately and Princely seate wherein I saw a sumptuous Chappell most richly adorned with all appurtenances belonging to so sacred a place or so Royall an owner In the inner Court I saw the Kings Armes cunningly carued in stone and fixed ouer a doore aloft on the wall the red Lyon being the Crest ouer which was written this inscription in Latine Nobis hat inuâ—cta miserunt 106. proaui I enquired what the English of it was it was told me as followeth which I thought worthy to be recorded 106. Fore-fathers haue left this to vs vnchnquered This is a worthy and memorable Motto and I thinke few kingdomes or none in the world can truly write the like that notwithstanding so many inroades incursions attemps assaults Ciuill warres and forraigne hostilities bloody battels and mighty foughten fields that maugre the strength and policy of enemies that Royall Crowne and Scepter hath from one hundred and seuen descents kept still vnconquered and by the power of the King of Kings through the grace of the Prince of peace is now left peacefully to our peacefull King whom long in blessed peace the God of peace defend and gouerne But once more a word or two of Eâ—â—â—â—â— rough although I haue scarcely giuent it that due which belongs vnto it for their lofty and stately buildings and for their faire and spacious streete yet my minde perswades me that they in former ages that first founded that Citie did not so well in that they built it in so diâ—â— commodious a place for the Sea and all nauigable riuers being the chiefe meanes for the enriching of Townes and Cities by the reason of Traffique with forraine Nations with exportation transportation and receite of variety of Marchandizing so this Citie had it beene built but one mile lower on the Sea fide I doubt not but it had long before this beene comparable to many a one of our greatest Townes and Cities in Europe both for spaciousnesse of bounds Port state and riches It is said that King Iames the fifth of famous memory did
graciously offer to purchase for them and to bestow vpon them freely certaine low and pleasant grounds a mile from them on the Sea shore with these conditions that they should pull downe their Citie and build it in that more commodious place but the Citizens refused it and so now it is like for me to stand where it doth for I doubt such another profer of remouall will not bee presented to them till two dayes after the Faire Now haue with you for Leeth whereto I no sooner came but I was well entertained by Master Barnard Lindsay one of the Groomes of his Maiesties Bed-chamber hee knew my estate was not guilty because I brought guilt with me more then my sins and they would not passe for current there hee therefore did replenish the vaustity of my empty purse discharged a piece at mec with two bullets of gold each being in value worth eleuen shillings white money and I was credibly informed that within the compasse of one yeere there was shipped away from that onely Port of Leeth foure score thousand Boles of Wheat Oates and Barley into Spaine France and other fortaine parts and euery Bole containes the measure of foure English bushels so that from Leeth onely hath beene transported three hundred and twenty thousand bushels of Corne besides some hath beene shipped away from Saint Andrewes from Dundee Aberdeene Desert Kirkady Kinghorne Burnt-Iland Dunbar and other portable Townes which makes me to wonder that a Kingdome so populous as it is should neuerthelesse sell so much breadâ—orne beyond the Seas and yet to haue more then sufficient for themselues So I hauing viewed the Hauen and Towne of Leeth tooke a passage Boate to see the new â—â—rondrous Well to which many a one that is not well comes farre and neere in hope to be made well indeed I did heare that it had done much good and that it hath a rare operation to expell or kill diuers maladies as to prouoke appetite to helpe much for the auoyding of the grauell in the bladder to cure sore eyes and old vlcers with many other vertues which it hath but I through the mercy of God hauing no need of it did make no great inquisition what it had done but for nouelty I dranke of it and I found the taste to be more pleasant then any other water sweet almost as milke yet as cleare as cristall and I did obserue that though a man did drinke a quart a pottle or as much as his belly could containe yet it neuer offended or lay heauy vpon the stomacke no more then if one had dranke but a pint or a small quantity I went two miles from it to a Towne called Burnt-Iland where I found many of my especiall good friends as Master Robert â—ay one of the Groomes of his Maiesties Bed-chamber Master Dauid Drummend one of his Gentlemen Pentioners Master Iames Acmooty one of the Groomes of the Priuie Chamber Captaine Muray Sir Henry Witherington Knight Captaine Iyrie and diuers others and there Master Hay Master Drummond and the good olde Captaine Murray did very bountifully furnish mee with gold for my expences but I being at dinner with those aforesaid Gentlemen as we were discoursing there befell a strange accident which I thinke worth the relating I know not vpon what occasion they began to talke of being at Sea in former times and I amongst the rest said I was at the taking of â—aâ—es whereto an English Gentleman replyed that hee was the next good voyage after at the Ilands I answered him that I was there also He demanded in what ship I was I tolde him in the Rainebowe of the Queenes why quoth he doe you not know me I was in the same ship and my name is Witherington Sir said I I do remember the name well but by reason that it is neere two and twenty yeers since I saw you I may well forget the knowledge of you Well said he if you were in that ship I pray you tell me some remarkable token that happened in the voyage whereupon I told him two or three tokens which he did know to be true Nay then said I I will tell you another which perhaps you haue not forgotten as our ship and the rest of the fleet did ride at Anchor at the I le of Flores one of the Iles of the Azores there were some foureteene men and boyes of our ship that for nouelty would goe ashore and see what fruit the Iland did beare and what entertainment it would yeeld vs so being landed we went vp and downe and could finde nothing but stones heath and mosse and wee expected Oranges Limonds Figges Muske-millions and Potatoes in the meane space the wind did blow so stiffe and the Sea was so extreme rough that our Ship-boate could not come to the land to fetch vs for feare she should bee beaten in pieces against the rockes this continued fiue dayes so that we were almost famished for want of food but at last I squandring vp and downe by the prouidence of God I hapned into a Caue or poore habitation where I found fifteene loaues of bread each of the quantity of a penny loafe in England I hauing a valiant stomacke of the age of almost of a hundred and twenty houres breeding fell to and ate two loaues and neuer said grace and as I was about to make a Horse-loafe of the third loafe I did put twelue of them into my breeches and my sleeues and so went mumbling out of tâ—e Caue leaning my backe against a Tree when vpon the sudden a Gentleman came to me and said Friend what are you eating Bread quoth I. For Gods sake said he giue me some With that I put my hand into my breech being my best pantrey and I gaue him a Loafe which hee receiued with many thankes and said that if euer hee could requite it he would I had no sooner told this tale but Sir Henry Witherington did acknowledge himselfe to bee the man that I had giuen the Loafe vnto two and twenty yeeres before where I found the Prouerbe true that men haue more priuiledge then mountaines in meeting In what great measure hee did requite so small a courtesie I wiâ— relate in this following discourse in my Returne through Northumberland So leauing my man at the Town of Burnt Iland I tolde him I would but goe to Sterling and see the Castle there and withall to see my honourable friends the Earle of Marr and Sir William Murray Knight Lord of Abercarny and that I would returne within two dayes at the most But it fell out quite contrary for it was fine and thirtie dayes before I could get backe againe out of these Noble mens company The whole progres of my trauell with them and the cause of my stay I'cannot with gratefulnesse omit and thus it was A worthy Gentleman named Master Iohn Fenton did bring me on my way sixe miles to Dumfermling where I was well entertained and lodged at Master
I am loth to belye any man But if you bee addicted to any of these aforesaid vertues I pray let mee finde it in your fauourable Censure and so I leaue you to laugh â—d lie downe Bee fat LAVGH AND BE FAT Now Monsieur Coriat let them laugh that wins For I assure ye now the game begins â— is wondrous strange how your opinions vary â—â—m iudgement senceâ— or reason so contrary â—at with infamous rash timerity â—m raile at me with such seuerity â—be broad-fac'd lefts that other men put on you â—â—take for fauours well bestow'd vpon you â—sport they giue you many a pleasant cuffe â—â— no mans lines but mine you take in snuffe â—hich makes the ancient Prouerbe be in force â—at some may with more safety steale a horse Then others may looke on for still it falls The weakest alwayes must goe to the walls I need no vse this Etymology My plainer meaning to exemplifie Which doth induce me to expresse the cause That my vntutor'd Pen to writing drawes Be it to all men by these presents knowne That lately to the world was pâ—ainely showne In a huge volume Gogmagoticall In Verse and Prose with speech dogmaticall Thy wondrous Trauels from thy natiue home How Odly out thou went'st and Odly â—ome And how as fitted best thy Workes of worth The rarest Wits thy Booke did vsher forth But I alas to make thy fame more fuller Did lately write a Pamphlet Call'd the Sculler In which as vnto others of my friends I sent to theâ— braue Monsieur kind commends Which thou in double dudgeon tak'st from me And vow'st and swor'st thou wilt reuenged be The cause I heare your fury flameth from I said I was no dunce-combe cox-combe Tom What 's that to you good Sir that you should fume Or rage or chase or thinke I durst presume To speake or write that you are such a one I onely said that I my selfe was none Yet Sir I 'l be a Cocks-combe if so please you If you are ouer-laden Sir I 'l ease you Your store of witlesse wisdome in your budget To giue your friend a little neuer grudge it Nor that from Odcombs towne I first began Nor that I greeke or Latine gabble can I am no Odcombe Tom why what of that Nor nothing but baro English can I chat I pray what wrong is this to you good Sur Your indignation why should this incurre Nor that I thought our Land had spent her store That I need visit Venice for a whore Which if I would I could make neerer proofes And not like you so farre to gall my hoofes I said if such a volume I should make The rarest wits would scorne such paines to take At my returne amidst my skarre-crow totters To runne before me like so many trotters I know my merits neuer will be such That they should deigne to honour me so much I further said I enuied not your state For you had nothing worthy of my hate In loue your innocence I truly pitty Your plentious want of wit seemes wondrous wittie Your vertue cannot breed my hatefull lothing For what an asse were I to hate iust nothing Your vice I bare not neither I protest But loue and laugh and like it like the rest Your vice nor vertue manners nor your forme Can breed in me fell enuies hatefull worme I said it was a lodging most vnfit Within an idle braine to house your wit Here I confesse my fault I cannot hide You were not idle nor well occupide Be 't faire or foule be 't early or be 't late Your simple witlies in your humble pate A King sometimes may in a cottage lye And Lyons rest in swines contagious stye So your rare wit that 's euer at the full Lyes in the cane of your rotundious skull Vntill your wisedomes pleasure send it forth From East to West from South vnto the North With squib-crack lightning empty hogshead thundring To maze the world with terror with wondring I boldly bade you foole it at the Court There 's no place else so fit for your resort But though I bid you foole it you may chuse Though I command yet Sir you may refuse For why I thinke it more then foolish pitty So great a iemme as you should grace the citty Whilst I would foole it on the liquid Thames Still praying for the Maiesty of Iames. Good Sir if this you take in such disgrace To giue you satisfaction take my place And foole it on the Thames whilst I at Court Will try if I like you can make some sport Or rather then for fooleship we will brawle You shall be foole in Court on Thames and all Thus what to you I writ loe here 's the totall And you with angry spleen haue deign'd to note â—â—â— And vow from hell to hale sterne Nemesis To whip me from the bounds of Thamesis Yet when I ope your paper murd'ring booke I see what paines the wisest wits haue tooke To giue you titles supernodicall In orders orderlesse methodicall There doe I see how euery one doth striue In spight of Death to make thee still suruiue No garded gowne-man dead nor yet aliue But they make thee their great superlatiue In the beginning Alphabeticall With figures tropes and words patheticall They all successiuely from A to N Describe thee for the onely man of Men. The frontispice of Master Coriats Booke very â—â—â— nedly descanted vpon by Master Laurence Whitakers and Master Beniamin Ionson Thy Shipping and thy Haddocks friendly feeding Thy Carting in thy Trauels great proceeding Thy riding Stirroplesse thy iadish courser Thy Ambling o'r the Alpes and which is worser After the Purgatory of thy Legges Thy Puncke bepelts thy pate with rotten egges When thou braue man assault'st to boord a Pinace As fits thy state she welcomes thee to Venice Thy running from the mis-beleeuing Iew Because thou thought'st the Iew sought more then â—â—â— For why the Iew with superstition blind Would haue thee leaue what most thou lou'st behind How with a rusticke Boore thou mad'st a fray And manfully broughtst all the blowes away The Turkish Emp'rour or the Persian Sophy Can hardly match thy monumentall Trophy Thy ancient Ierkin and thy aged sloppes From whose warme confines thy retainers drops I stand in feare to doe thy greatnesse wrong For 't is suppos'd thou wast a thousand strong Who all deriu'd from thee their happy breeding And from thy bounty had their clothes feeding Thy lasting shooes thy stockings and thy garters To thy great fame are drawn and hangd in quarters Thy Hat most fitly beautifies thy crest Thy wits great couer couers all the rest The letter K doth shew the brauest fight But wherefore K I 'm sure thou art no Knight Why might not L nor M nor N or O As well as knauish K thy picture show But saucie K I see will haue a place When all the Crosse-row shall endure disgrace Who at the letter K doth truly seeke Shall see thee hemm'd with Latine with
With false bewitching verses to entice Fraile creatures from faire vertue to foule vice Whose flattry makes a Whore to seeme a Saint That stinkes like carrion with her Pox and paint Comparing her with false and odious lies To all that 's in or vnderneath the skies Her eyes to Sunnes that doe the Sunne Eclips Her Cheekes are Roses Rubies are her lips Her white and red Carnation mixt with snow Her teeth to orientall pearle a Row Her voice like Musicke of the heau'nly Spheares Her haire like thrice refined golden Wires Her breath more sweet then Arromaticke drugs â—ile Mounts of Alabaster are her dugs Her Bracelets Rings her Scarfe her Fan her Chaine Are subiects to inspire a Poets braine But aboue all her Smock most praise doth win For 't is the Curtaine next vnto her skin Her loose Gowne for her looser body fit Shall be adored with a flash of wit And from the chin-clowt to the lowly Slipper â—â— Hdicorian streames his praise shall dip her Leaue vnnam'd what is affected best â—â— 't is most sit for it maintaines the rest Her thighs her knees her legs her feet and all â—roâ—top to toe are supernaturall Her Iuory hands with saphire veines inlaid Which cannot be by mortall pen displaid Her smile makes cold December Summer like Her frown hot Iune with shiuering â—rost can strike â—ed life and death doth in her lookes abide â—r many Knaues and Fooles that said so lyde â—â— Shapperoones her Perriwigs and Tires â—â—â—â— Reliques which this flatt'ry much admires â—â—â—atoes Maske her Busk and Busk-point too â—â— things to which mad men must homage doe â—â—t Verdingale her Garters Shooes and Roses â—â—et Girdle that her wastfull waste incloses â—â—ot one of these but 's honour'd with a Sonet â—â— the said poet be but set vpon it Another seeks to win his Wenches will With oy lie Oratories smoothing skill As thus MOst inestimable Magazin of beauty rare Master-piece of nature perfections wonder and â—â—â—s Quintessence in whom the port and maiestie â—â— Iuno the feature of Citherea the wisdome of â—ues Braine-bred a Pallas Girle the chastitie of Diana â—d the constancie of Lucretia haue their domeâ—tall habitation who with the Goddesses art â— side with the Graces graced with the Vertues â—â—llifide with the Muses honored and with the â—â—ses admired vouchsase dread Empresse of my â—â—fection to pardon the intrusiue boldnesse of my stun'd tongue which was neuer tipt with the â—â—urtly Glosse of Adulation who being the Amâ—â—sadour of my heart doth prostrate my selfe and â—â— best seruices to be disposed of at your great comâ—ands and as the Refulgent beames of Titan â—he parity of obscurity soone glance or glimpse the translucencie of your eyes sun-dezeling corruscancy will exile all the cloudie vapours of heart-tormenting moody melancholly that like an vsurping Tyrant hath captiuated your humble suppliant thus seruently to implore your Clemency Here 's a sweet deale of scimble scamble stuffe To please my Lady Wagtayle marry muffe Gep with the * Grinkcomes is an Vtopian word which is in English a P. at Paris Grinkcomes but I speake too late This kinde of flatt'ry makes a whore take state Growes pocky pround and in such port doth beare her That such poore scabs as I must not come neere her Thus may shee liue much honour'd for her crimes And haue the Pox some twelue or 13 times And shee may be so bountifull agen To sell those Pox to three or fourescore men And thus the Surgcons may get more by farre By Whores and Peace then by the sword and warre And thus a Whore if men consider of it Is an increasing gainfull piece of profit But of all Whores that I haue nam'd before There 's none so cunning as the Citie Whore Shee hath so many seuerall sorts of Bawds To cloake and couer her deceipts and frauds That sure the Deuill cannot more deuise Then shee to blind her horned husbands eyes One offers Purles to sell and fine Bone-lace And whispers that her Friend 's in such a place A second offers Starch and tels her how Her sweet-heart tarries for her at the Plow A third sels Wafers and a fourth hath Pins And with these tricks these Bawds admittance wine That had her Husband Argos eyes yet he By these deceiuers should deceiued be If all these faile a begger-woman may A sweet loue letter to her hands conuay Or a near Laundresse or a Hearbwife can Carry a sleeuelesse message now and then Or if this faile her teeth may ake for sooth And then the Barbar must come draw a Tooth Or else shee may be sicke vpon condition That such a Doctor may be her Physition He feeles her pulses and applyes his trade With Potions which th' Apothecary made All 's one for that her health shee quickly gaines Her Husband payes the Doctor for his paines But of all Bawds Gold is the Bawd indeed It seldome speakes but it is sure to speed It can blind Watches open bolts and locks Breake walls of stone as hard as Marble rocks Make Iron barres giue way and gates fly ope Giues Lust the reynes to run with boundlesse scope Kils Iealousie appeases Riuals and Doth what the owners will or can command And last of all it stops the biting iawes Of the inst rigorous and seuerest Lawes I therefore say He that hath golden pelfe Hath a good Bawd if so he please himselfe Those that haue gold can want no Bawds or QueaÌ„s Except they vse a meane to guide their meanes To end this point this consequence I le grant Those that haue golden Bawds no whores can want And though the mighty power of gold be such Yet Siluer many times can doe as much Thus euery * A scraping miserable father that cares not how he get Gold to leaue it to a Whoremaker his Son in his sons prouideÌ„t Bawd wealthy Whoremaster may beare His Bawd in 's purse or pocket any where For mine owne part I liue not in such want But that I eate and sleepe though coyne be scant And 'cause I want the Bawd I nam'd before By consequence I needs must want the Whore And wanting of them both I hope to bee From Gowts Pox and extortion euer free But as there 's wondrous difference in mens meat So is the ods of Whores exceeding great Some Rampant some Couchant and some Passant Some Guardant some Dormant some Cressant Some Pendant some a Pox on 't but the best on 't A priuate Whore trades safely there 's the iest on 't Besides as Whores are of a seuerall cut So fitting Titles on them still are put For if a Princes loue to her decline For manners sake shee 's call'd a Coâ—cubine If a great Lord or Knight affect a Whore Shee must be term'd his Honours Paramore The rich Gull Gallant call's her Dear and Loue Ducke Lambe Squall Sweet-heart Cony and his Doue A pretty wench she 's with the Country-man And a Kind Sister with the Puritane She 's a
selfe-loue all our crimes excusing â—â—â— Consciences true euidence accusing â—â—â— fights and teares the Messengers we send â—â— God that all our sorrowes may haue end â—d then through faith and hope we doe beleeue Againe a pardon better than repreeue â—â—â— lastly death doth free the soule from thrall â—â—â— makes a laile delinery vnto all â—â—â— is our flesh the wals our bones the grates â—â—â— eyes the windowes and our mouthes the gates â—â—â— Nose the Chimney Kitchen is the brest â—â—â— a â—r Sâ—â—cke tongue the taster of the worst and best â—â—â— hands the Caruers teeth the Cookes to mince â—â—â— diet of a Pea sane or a Prince â—â—â— hunger is best sawce as I doe thinke â—â— beliâ—es cellers where we lay our drinke â—â—â— in these corps of ours deciphered thus â—â—â— are prisoners vnto all of vs. â—â—â—race guides vs sowe by grace guide them â—â—â— way vnto the new Ierusalem â—â—â—ne rugged winter with frosts stormes and gusts â—â—â—â—â— prisoners yeerely in the b The earth a Prison earth it thrusts â—â—â— roots flowers fruits worms til sun raine â—â—â—h Summers heat doth baile them forth againe â—â—â—of all men aliue I find c A strait suit is aâ—â— Prison a Tailor â—â—â— appeared artificiall Iailor â—â—â— doe commit themselues vnto his charge â—â—â—may but will by no meanes goe at large â—â—â— stene many in the Taylors Iaies â—â—â— labour'd till they sweat with tooth and nailes â—â—â— whilst a man might ride fiue miles at least â—â—â—their clothes together on the brest â—â—â—being then in prison button'd vp â—â—ose that scarcely they could bite or sup I have heard their pride how loud it lide â—â—esting that their clothes were made too wide a â—â—â— men loue bondage more then liberty â—â—â— 't is a gailant kinde of foolery â—â—â— thus amongst themselues they haue a Law â—â—â—ke and dawbe the backe and pinch the Maw â—â—â— thankes their soules should be in mighty trouble â—â—â— they are imprison'd double â—â—orps and Clothes and which is true and plaine â—â—â— seeme to take great pleasure in their paine â—â—â— hoomaker's a kind of Iailor too â—â—â— very strange exploits he dares to doe â—â—â— many times he hath the power and might â—â—â— into his Stoâ—ks a Lord or Knight d A Shoomakers Prison The Madam and the Maid he cares not whether He laies them all fast by the heeles in lether Plaine f Truth and honesly prisoners Honesty and Truth both Prisoners are Although they seldome come vnto the barre Yet are they kept so closely day and night That in an age they scarsely come in sight And but for many of our Countries pillers True Tailers Weauers and cleane finger'd Millers Good Sericants and kind Brokers did releeue them g A hard case I know not who would any comfort giue them No doubt but many a Lasse that faine would wed Is her owne h A maindenhead often times is a Prisoner Iailor to her maindenhead With much vnwillingnesse she keepes it close And with her heart she 'l gladly let it lose But looke to 't wenches if you giue it scope 'T is gone past all recouery past all hope Much like old Time which ceaselesse doth run on But neuer doth returne once being gone The i The Gowt a prisoner of State Gowt's a sawcy Prisoner and will haue His keepers to maintaine him fine and braue His Iailors shall no needy beggers be But men of honour and of high degree And ouer them he beares such great command That many times they can nor gor nor stand And if he would breake Iaile and flie 't is thought He by his keepers neuer should be sought And k Money a close Prisoner money is close Prisoner I thinke sure Where no man can its liberty procure The Diuels Stewards and his Bailifes vow That monies freedome they will not allow Vnlesse vnto a Miser or a Whore But by all meane faâ—â— hold it from the poore I wish l Amen Coine were as painfull as the Gout To those that hoard it and I make no doubt But miserable Iailers would agree To ope their Prisons and let money flee And were it not a lamentable thing That some great Emperour or some mighty King Should be imprison'd by a vastall slaue And lodg'd aliue as t were within his Graue Such is the case of Siluer and of Gold The chiefest of all mettals fast in hold And darknesse lies held in the Misers stocks m Gold and Siluer kept in bondage by Iron In steele and ironbars and bolts and locks Though gold and siluer royall mettals be Yet are they flanes to yron at we see But leauing Gold and Gowt I le turne my pen To what I haue digrest from Iayles and men Let man examine well himselfe and he Shall find himselfe his n Most men are their owne enemies greatest enemie And that his losse of liberty and pelfe He can accuse non for it but himselfe How passions actions and affections cluster And how to ruinate his state they muster His frailty armes his members and his senses To vndertake most dangerous pretences The backe oft tempts him vnto borrowed brauery And all his body suffers for 't in slauery His Belly tempts him to superfluous fare For which his cops lyes in a Iaylors snare His Eyes from beauty to his heart drawes lust For which he 's often into prison thrust His Eares giue credit to a knaue or theese And 's body suffers for his eares beleefe His Tongue much like a Hackney goes all panes In City Country Court and Campe all places It gallops and false gallops trots and ambles One pace or other still it runnes and rambles Of Kings and Princes states it often prattles Of Church and Common-wealth it idly cattles Of passing of it's word and â—uetiships For which at last the Ioyle the carkassenips Mans Hands haue very oft against him warr'd And made him of his liberty debarr'd A stab a blow a dashing of a pen Hath clap'd him closely in the Iaylors deâ— The Feet which on the ground men daily tread The way to their captiuity doe lead Now for the inward faculties I find Some lye in Prison for their haughty mind Some for their folly sone because too wise Are mew'd vp in the Iaylors on bodies Some for much gaming or for recreation Doe make a Iayle their homely habitation And thus it plainly may be proued well Mans greatest foes with in himselfe doe dwell And now two contraries I will compare To shew how like and how vnlike they are A Iayle our birth and death and getting free These foure doe all agree and disagree For all degrees our birth and life we know Is naturall * Wee are all borne in one forme and come into the world of one fashion but wee dye and leaue the world infinite wayes one way for high and low But death hath many thousand wayes and scares To take our liues away all vo 〈…〉 es And therefore of our liues
Coach like a Pagan an Heathen an Insidâ—ll or Atheist obserues neither Sabbath or holiday time or season robustiously breaking through the toyle or net of diuine and humane law order and authority and as it were contemning all Christian conformity like a dogge that lyes on a heape of Hay who will eate none of it himselfe nor suffer any other beast to eate any euen so the Coach is not capable of hearing what a Preacher saith nor will it suffer men or women to heare that would heare for it makes such a hideous rumbling in the streetes by many Church dores that peoples eares are stop'd with the noyse whereby they are debard of their edifying which makes faith so fruitlesse good works so barren and charity as cold at Midsummer as if it were a great Frost and by this meanes soules are rob'd and starued of their heauenly Manna and the kingdome of darkenesse replenished to auoyd which they haue let vp a crosse post in Cheapside on Sundaies neer Woodstreet end which makes the Coaches rattle and rumble on th' other side of the way further froÌ„ the Church from hindring of their hearing The Nagaians Iughonians the vngodly barbarous Tartarians who knew no God or diuell Heauen nor hell and who indeed are Nations that haue neither Townes Cities Villages or houses Their habitations are nothing but Coaches in their Coaches they eate sleepe beget children who are also there borne and from place to place with them The World runnes on Wheeles continually for they are drawne in droues or heards 20 30. or 40000. together to any fruitfull place or Champion plaine where they and their beasts doe stay till they haue deuoured all manner of sustenance that may maintaine life and then they romoue to a fresh place doing the like thus wearing out their accursed liues like the broode of Cain they and their houses beeing perpetuall vagabonds and continuall ruunagates vpon the face of the earth They are so practized and inured in all kinde of Barbarisme that they will milke one Mare and let another blood and the blood and the milke they will Charne together in their Hats or Caps till they haue made fresh cheese and creame which the Diuell will scarce eate from these people our Coaches had first originall and I doe wish with all my heart that the superfluous number of all our hyreling hackney Carryknaues and Hurry-whores with their makers and maintainers were there where they might neuer want continuall imployment For their Antiquity in England I thinke it is in the memory of many men when in the whole Kingdome there was not one and there was another principall vertue as good as themselues came with them for the Prouerbe saith That michiefe or mischances seldome come alone and it is a doubtfull question whether the diuell brought Tobacco into England in a Coach or else brought a Coach in a fogge or mist of Tobacco For in the yeere 1564. one William Boonen a Dutchman brought first the vse of Coaches hither and the said Boonen was Queene Elizabeths Coach-man for indeede a Coach was a strange monster in those dayes and the sight of them put both horse and man into amazement some said it was a great Crab-shell brought out of China and some imagin'd it to be one of the Pagan Temples in which the Canibals adored the diuell but at last those doubts were cleared and Coach-making became a substantiall Trade So that now all the world may see they are as coÌ„mon as whoreâ— may be hired as easie as Knights of the poâ—â—â— The Cart is an open transparant Engine thâ—â— any man may perceiue the plaine honesty â—â—â— it there is no part of it within or without bâ—â— it is in the continuall view of all men On thâ— contrary the Coach is a close hypocrite for iâ—â— hath a couer for any knauery and curtaines tâ—â— vaile or shadow any wickednes besides like â—â—â— perpetuall cheater it weares two Bootes â—â—â— no Spurs somtimes hauing two paire of legâ—â—â— in one boote and oftentimes against nature most preposterously it makes faire Ladiesâ—â— weare the boore and if you note they are carried backe to backe like people surpriz'd bâ—â— Pyrats to be tyed in that miserable manner â—â—â— and throwne ouerboord into the Sea Moreouer it makes people imitate Sea-crabs in being drawne side-wayes as they are when they sit in the boote of the Coach and it is a dangerous kinde of carriage for the common-wealth if it be rightly considered for when a man shall be â— iustice of the peace a Serieant or a Councellor at law who hope is it that all or many of them should vse vpright dealing that haue beene so often in their youth and daily in their maturer or riper age drawne aside continually in a Coach some to the right hand and some to the left for vse makes perfectnesse and often going aside willingly makes men forget to go vpright naturally The order of Knighthood is both of great Antiquity and very honourable yet within these latter times there is a strange mystery crept into it for I haue noted iâ—â—â— that when a Gentleman hath the sword laid vpoÌ„ his shoulder either by his Prince or his deputy or Generall in the field although the blow with the sword be an honour to the man yet by a kind of inspiration it cripples his wife though shee be at that time 300. miles from her husband for if you note her you shall see her lamed for euer so that she can by no means goe without leading vnder the arme or else shee must be carried in a Coach all her life time after forgetting in a manner to goe on her feet so much as to Church though it be but two Quoytes cast for I haue heard of a Gentleman that was lamed in this manner who â—â—â— her man to Smithfield from Charingâ—â—â—â—â—â—to hyre a Coach to carry her to Whiteâ—â—â— another did the like from Ludgate-hill â—he carried to see a Play at the black Fryers â—â—â— in former times when they vsed to walke â—â— foote and recreate themselues they were â—â—â— strong and healthfull now all their exâ—â—cise is priuately to sawe Billets to hang in a â—â—â—nge or to rowle the great rowler in the alâ—â—â— of their garden but to go without leading â—â—â— Riding in a Coach is such an impeachment â—â—d derogation to their Calling which â—â—sh and bloud can by no meanes endure Euery man knowes that were it not for the Cart the Hay would rot in the medowes the Corne perish in the field the markets be emptily furnished at the Courts remoue the King would be vnseru'd and many a Gallant would â—â—â— enforced to be his owne Sumpter-horse to carry his luggage bag and baggage himselfe and finally were it not for the mannerly and â—â—â—rteous seruice of the Cart many a well deseruing ill condition'd braue fellow might goe on foote to the Gallowes A Cart by the iudgement of an honorable and graue Lawyer is elder brother to a
Westminster she buried doth abide And as the fame of this Imperiall Maâ—de Is through the world by the foure winds displaid So shall her memory for euer grace Her famous birth her death and buriall place At Teuxbury Anno 1574. the 24. of February being a hard frost the Riuer of Seuerne was couered with Flâ— and Beetles so that it was thought within the length of a paire of Buâ—â— to be 100. quarters of them the mâ—â—â—â—en stopped with them but from whence they came is unknown 1582. A piece of Land of three Acres in Dorsotshire iâ— the Parish of Armitage was suddenly remooâ—ed 600. fâ—â—t from the place where formerly it stood King Iames. An. Dom. 1601. VVHen as Elizaes wofull death was acted When this lamenting land was halfe distractedâ— WheÌ„ tears each loyall heart with grief had drown'd Then came this King and made our ioyes abound Ordain'd for vs by heauenly power diuine Then from the North this glorious starre did shine The Roall Image of the Prince of Peace The blest Concorder that made warres to cease By Name a STEVVARD and by Nature one Appointed from Iâ—houahs sacred Throne And by th' almighties hand supported euer That Treason or the Diuell should hurt him neâ—â—â— And as his Zeale vnto his God was great Gods blessings on him were each way compleat Rich in his Subiects loue a Kings best treasure Rich in content a Riches aboue measure Rich in his Princely Issue and in them Rich in his hopefull Branches of his stemme Rich in Munition and a Nauy Royall And richer then all Kings in seruants Loyall When Hell and Rome together did conspire To blow him and his kingdome vp with fire Then did the King of Kingâ— preserue our King And all the Traytors to confusion bring And who so reckons vp from first to last The many hel-hatch'd dangers he hath past Through all his daies he will beleeue no doubt That he with heauenly pow'rs was wall'd about All Christian Princes held his friendship deare Was fear'd for loue and not belou'd for feare And Pâ—â—gan Monarchs were in League combin'd With him as farre as is the Easterne Inde â—â—â— like a stâ—â—â— amidst a Riuer fix'd â—â— was his â—â—flicâ— with his mercy mix'd He â—riu'd to imitate his Maker still â—ed clemency preseru'd where Law would kill He hath cur'd England and heal'd Scotlands wounds And made them both great ancieÌ„t Britains bounds â—â—â— bloudy deadly â—eud the caus'd â—â— cease And â—â—â—â—â—'d hate he turn'd to Christian peace The mouth of warre he muzzled mute and dum He fill'd the roaring Cannon and the Drum â—â—ure in peace his people siâ—â— and dine With their owne fig-trees shaded and their vine Whilst in an vprore most of Christendome â—â—e nation doth another ouercome Vnto the King of Kings let 's pratles sing For giuing vs this happy peacefull King â—â—â—one know so well how they should peace prefer â—â—s those that know the miseries of warre â—Tis true though old and must not be forgot The warres are sweet to such as know them not Peace happy peace doth spread tranquillity Through all the bounds of Britaines Monarchy And may we all our actions still addresse For peace with God and warre 'gainst wickednesse Vnto which peace of God this King 's ascended â—o reigne in glory that shall ne'r be ended His mortall part at Westminster enter'd His soule and Fame immortally preser'd God did wonderfully preserue him vpon two seueralâ—â— Tueâ—daies from 2 most dangerous treasons the one at the Towne of Saint Iohnston in Scotland on Tuesday the 5. of August 1600. where the Earle of Gowry attemptea to kill his Maiesty The other was in England in that fearfull treason and deliucrance from the Powder-plot on Tuesday the 5. of November 1606. King CHARLES TWo Williams Henries 8. I. Steuen I. Iohn Sixe Edwards Richards 3. and I. Queene Mary Elizabeth and Iames all dead and gone Our gracious Charles doth now the Scepter carry And may they liue and dye of God accurst Who wish the preiudice of Charles the first â—ust 25. Kings and Queenes of England since the Norman Conquest A BRIEFE REMEMBRANCE OF ALL THE ENGLISH MOnarchs from the Normans Conquest vntill this present TO THE HONOVRABLE AND TRVLY Noble Sir ROBERT CARR Knight one of the Gentlemen of his Maiesties Royall Bed-chamber c. T Is not in expectation of reward That I this booke vnto your hands doe tender But in my humble dutie in regard That I am bound my daily thanks to render And though my stile be harsh my learning slender My Verse defectiue and my Accent rude Yet if your Patronage be my Defender Iam defended'gainst a multitude Thus to auoyd Hell-hatch'd ingratitude My dutious Love my Liues and Life shall be To you deuoted euer to conclude May you and your most vertuous Ladie see Long happie dayes in Honour still encreasing And after death true Glorie neuer ceasing Your Honours in all seruice Iohn Taylor WILLIAM THE FIRST Surnamed the CONQVEROVR KING OF ENGLAND And DVKE OF NORMANDY BY bloody Battels Conquest and by Fate Faire Englands Crown kingdome l surpris'd Itopsie-tutuy turn'd elie Eng'ish State And Lawes and Customes new and strange deuis'd And where â— vanquisht there I tyrannaiz'd Instead of peoples loue inforcing feare Extorting Ioils I daily exercis'd And Tributes greater then the Land could beare Besides the Normans fame the more to reare The English I forbad the English tongue French Schooles of Grammer I ordayned here And gainst this Nation added wrong to wrong At last my Crown Sword scepter CoÌ„quest braue I left I lost scarce found an earthly Graue Anno 1066 October 14 Saturday William Conqueror the sonne of Robert the 6. Duke of Normandy Ianded with a 1000. shippes furnished with men horse all warlike prouision at Hastings in Sussex and after a bloody battell with King Harold with the slaughter of nere 70000. men on both parts Hareld beeing slaine Duke William came in Triumph to London and was crowned at Westminster on Christmas day following by Aldred Archbisbop of Yorke he vsed his victorie and conquest here tyrannically dispossesing most part of the English of their lands giuing them to the Normans for which appressions he was continually molested sometimes with the Danes then with the Welsh with the Scots out of Ireland and at home amongst his owne people besides many miseries did at once afflict this Land as I. an vniuersall feauer amongst people 2 Barrennesse of the ground 3 Dearth and famine 4 Moraine of Cattell and the Church of St Pauls in London burnt and all that was in it The Country extremely ruin'd and spoyled for 60 miles space betwixt York and Durham The king pulled downe 36 Churches Townes and Villages laying the Country waste and open for 30 miles space from the City of Salisbury Southward which is now called Newforrest and was by him made a wildernes or place for beasts for his game of hunting In which place by Gods iust Iudgement his second sonne Richard
obiects to satisfie euery sence is there abundantly so that nature seemed to make that Country her store house or granary for there is nothing wanting except mens gratitude to God for such blessings The first night we lodged there at a pretty towne called Comoda which towne by negligence and occasion of fire had fifty houses burnt two dayes before our comming thither it beeing eleuen Dutch miles from Pragus There we hired a waggon 7 dutch miles to a towne called Slowne from whence we walked on foot along 16. English miles to Prague which long looked for Citty wee could not see vntill we came within an houres trauell of it within halfe a dutch mile is a fearefull place being frequented with inhumaine and barbarous murderrers that assault trauellers first shooting and murdring them after searching their pockets where if they haue mony or not all is one it is but so many slaine for these villains haue a wood and a deepe valley to shelter themselues in that they are hardly taken afterwards but if they chance at any time to be but apprehended they are racked tortured to make them confesse afterwards their executions are very terrible But I thanke God we past that place many other as dangerous as that where some were robbed murdered as report told vs both before vs behind vs and on each side and we saw in our iourny aboue score Gallowses and wheeles where theeues were hanged some fresh and some halfe rotten the carkases of murtherers broken limb after limb on the wheeles and yet it was our happines only to see the dead villaines escape the liuing I came into Prague on Thursday the 7. of September whither if I had come but the Friday before I had seene a most fearfull execution of a notorious offenders the manner how with their faults as it was truely related to me by English Gent. that saw it I think it not much impertinent to relate The one of them being taken apprehended and racked for ripping vp a liue woman with child for taking the infant out of her body did sow a liuing puppy into her belly all w ch he confessed he did to make properties for witch craft and being further tortured he confessed when and where he had commited 35. murthers more the other in respect of him was but a petty offender for he in all his lifetime had murthered but 14. For the which execrable facts their deserued executions were as followeth First they were brought out of the Iayle naked from the girdle vpward and so being bound fast on high in a Cart that the spectators might see them then the Hangman hauing a pan of coales neere him with red hot pincers nip'd off the nipple of one breast then he tooke a knife and giues him a flash or cut downe the backe on one side from the shoulder to the wast and presently gaue him such another flash three inches from the first then on the top he cut the flashes into one and presently taking pincers tooke hold of the crosse cut tore him downe like a Girse below the middle letting it hang downe behind him like a belt after which he tooke his burning pincers pluck'd of the tops of his fingers of one hand then passing to another place of the Towne his other nipple was plucked off the other side of his backe so cut and mangled which they call by the name of rimming if it had beene riming I would neuer haue written but in prose his other fingers nip'd off then passing further all his toes were nip'd off with the burning pincers after which he was enforced to come out of the Cart and goe on foote vp a steepehill to the Gallowes where he was broken with a wheale aliue one bone after another beginning at his legs and ending with his necke and last of all quartered and layd on the wheele on a high post till Crowes Rauens or consuming time consume him This was the manner of both their executions but I speake of the greatest murtherer particularly because it is reported that all these torments neuer made him once to change countenance or to make any signe or action of griefe to call to God for mercy or to intreat the people to pray for him but as if be had beene a sencelesse stocke or stone hee did most scornafully and as it were in disdaine abide it whilst the other villaine did cry rore and make lamentation calling vpon God often the difference was not much in their liues and manner of their deaths but I am perswaded the odds was great in their dying The Citty of Prague is almost circular or round being diuided in the middle by the Riuer of Moldoue ouer which is a faire stone Bridge of 600. paces ouer and at each and a strong gate of stone there is said to be in it of Churches Chappels 150 for there are great numbers of Catholiques who haue many Chappels dedicated to sundry S t s and I was there at 4 senerall sorts of diuine exercises viz. at good Sermons with the Protestants at Masse with the Papists at a Lutherans preaching at the Iewes Synagog 3 of which I saw heard for curiosity the other for edification The Iewes in Prague are in such great numbers that they are thought to be of men women and children betwixt 50. or 60000. who doe all liue by brocage and vsury vpon the Christians and are very rich in mony and Iewels so that a man may see 10. or 12 together of them that are accounted worth 20.30 or 40000 l.a piece and yet the slaues goe so miserably attired that 15. of them are not worth the hanging for their whole ward-ropes The Castle where the King and Queene doe keepe their Court is magnificent and sumpruous in building strongly scituated and fortified â—â—â— by nature and art being founded on a high â—â—â— so that at pleasure it keepes the towne in command and it is much mere spacious in â—â—â—â—â— for receipt in Gardens Orchards then the Towre of London I was in it dayly the space of 20 dayes and saw it royally graced with the presence of a gracious King Queene who were honorably attended by a gallant Courtly traine of Lords and Ladies and Gentles of the High Dutch and Bohemians where was free bounâ—â—â—â—â— entertainment to strangers in aboundance I must euer humbly and thankfully acknowledge the Queenes Maiesties goodnesse towards me whole vndeserued fauours were helpfull vnto me both there and in my tedious iourny homeward Moreouer there I saw had in mine armes the King and Queenes youngest Son Prince Robert who was borne there on the 16 of December last a goodly child as euer I saw of that age whom with the rest I pray God to blesse to his glory and his Parents joy and comfort There for a token I did thinke it meet To take the shooes from off this Prince his feet I doe not say I stole but
commanded to be kept holiday so that no shops were opened no manner of worke was done from morning to night but carying and recarying Wood to make Bonfires ringing filling emptying of pots thaâ—al seemed as if the world was newly preserued from some second Flood as indeed our whole Kingdome was from a flood of griefe to the sale happy hauen of happinesse Moreouer his Highnesse happy and ioyfull comming on that day was a putting off an execution which sixe men and two women condemned male factors were to suffer at Tyburne wherby hee was the most fortunate cause of their reprieues and sauing and a larger time of repentance to amend their iiues The very Vintners burnt their bushes in Fleetstreet and other places and their wine was burnt all ouer London and Westminster into all colours of the Rainebow whole Pints Quarts Pottles and Gallons were made into Bonefires of Sacke and Claret whilst good fellowes like louing Salamanders swallowed those liquid fires most sweetly and affectionately But as concerning this fuell of Bacchus a great many would not stay or could not endure to see it burnt and so deuoured those French and Spanish Billets and Faggots raw which afterwards being warmed with shooting laughing singing and Leaping the heat burst out so hotly that it appeared in many a high coloured face till in the end the fire was quenched in the embers and ashes of sleepe And to the intent all estates should be merry there were diuers Noblemen Gentlemen and other that gaue store of gold to the poore some gaue vessels of wine in the streets Thu was the whole day spent till the darke night came and then began the second part of Englands joy for the nights Loue did as it were scorne to be outstripped with the dayes affection and obedience Amongst the rest the Spanish Ambassadors both at Exeter house in the Strand and at Ely house in Holborne did expresse their Loues by their charges and reioycings Then began a most merry and ioyfull confusion of Billets Faggots Bauins and Logs Baskets buckets and tubs were hotly and merrily consumed Buts Pipes Hogsheads Teirces puncheons Barrels Kilderkins Firkins Ruâ—lets and Dryfats most brauely blazed and suffered Some in Smithfield burnt their old Coaches and I wish they had all beene so well bestowed washing boules and beetles went to wracke old graters and stooles were turn'd to ashes mouse-traps and tinder boxes came tolight and hee or shee that had but foure tokens or as much credit committed their whole estate to fire and faggot insomuch that Chandlers-shops and store-houses were almost willingly emptied But in Paules Churchyard was exceeding benighted tryumphs for on the crosse round about were placed on the batlements and on the top of it as many burning Linkes as the Prince his Hignesse was yeares old and in some good distance from the Crosse were two mighty bone fires besides there was a crosse of wood erected which extended into foure branches and vpon euery branch a pitch barrel was fastned and one in the middest on the top which made a braue shew in the burning â— then were there Crâ—ssit Lights and most excellent fire-workes with squibs cracker rackets which most delightfully flew euery way And it is certaine to be proued that betwixt Paules Churchyard and London bridge in the nearest way that could be gone there were 108. Bonefires told many of them hauing at least one Load of wood in each some lesse I speake not of othe Streets Lanes which are out of that way besides the Strand Westminster and Holborne with hundreds of places which I saw not All these and much more was done here in London Westminster and the adioyning places nor is it to be doubted but that all Cities Townes and Villages will generally and particulary shew their louing obedience and affections Here is set forth the long and tedious Iourney with the seuerall stages or places where men take Post-horse quite through the Spacious Kingdome of France and so throughout into Spaine to the Citty of Madrid being in all 141. seuerall stages or PosteTowns some 8 some 10.12 or 16. miles from each other being in all about 1100. miles London Saint Leu Darford Lufarder Rochester Escouen Sittingbourne Saint Dennis Canterbury PARIS Douer La Burlarayur CALLICE Longuemeaux Le Bison Chator Marquessa Bonur Bulloigne Estampe Newchattell Guillerua Franeaz Angueruille Montruell Shaupillary Newpon Shateâ—gaillad Bernai Artenay Noieane Sercott Abeuille ORLEANCâ— Aillyle hanc dordes Saint Minion Flaircourt Nostra Dama Piguigny de Clara. Amiens Lestroya shemina Hancourt Le Laurena der â—ux Flaire Maide Briteur Mondinaux Rauigny BLOIS Saint Remy Les Montriba Cleremont Lambin Râ—ucellei Mont Richard Vr Leige Lochez Vr voya de Lion Varenur Cusac Liguer Le port de Crussac La bay Le Charbon blanc Perlane Le port de la Ba. Shatibben stil La Tredeuir BOVRDEAVX Chaffener Le petit Burdeaux POICTIERS Rufigni Hauborre Vr porte Aiâ—utete Troia Vinour Pooter Vmenicur Belleene Couer Muret Chour Allispostel Chouffa Le Brouheer Villafoignant Ien Guiller Aiger Laharee Gouruille Les Sperroone St. Seuerdeau x Chastel Villara Maior Chasteauneuf Saint Vincent Nonnauille Le Cabalon Barbefieux Les Anders Raignar Vnposte Aioutee La Grole BAYON Mou Lien Bidarbe Plonte Balc S. Ian de Luz Chauignon Arinanat What Townes are named in this Catalogue since you read Callice are all standing in France Now we come to relate of the passage through Spaine to the City of Madrid And first after your passage from Bayon you come shortly into the Kingdome of Nauarre which is now in the King of Spaines Dominions the first place therein where they take Post-horse is named Yron or Feria Poypela Oyason Miranda Eseruand Maiogur Tollousette Sogure Tolosa Brenica Verafrangij Castil de pione Segaur Quinta Pallâ— Gallarette BVRGOS Andiâ—amer Bisbregur VITORIA Songâ—ide â—â—â—ma â—â—habon â—â—andadeduera â—â—â—ubia Fressenuille Canaâ—uille Chastel St. Augustine St. Mresieur Acauenda Bouteagur MADRID Thus hauing shewed the long and dangerous tract by Land and from London to Madrid wee may herein see is part how much we are all bound to be thankfull to our great good God who hath so healthfully happily and timely preserued and â—â—â—â—ned our gracious Prince so wishedly after so many perils past on his part so many doubts and feares on ours vpon the which I haue for a conclusion written these following verses THe Prince of Princes and the King of Kings Whose Eye of Prauidence foresees all things To whom what euer was or ere shall be Is present still before his Maiesty Who doth dispose of all things as he list And graspeth Time in his eternall fist He sees and knowes for vs what 's bad or good And all things is by him well vnderstood Mens weake coniectures no way can areed What 's in th' immortall Parlament decreed And what the Trinitie concludeth there We must expect it with obedience here Then let not any man presume so farre To search what the Almighties councels are