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The doue: or Passages of cosmography. By Richard Zouche ciuillian, of New Colledge in Oxford
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Zouch, Richard, 1590-1661.
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Seigneuries which here erewhile No great Superiours free controulement brookt Are by the lofty Turrets of Castile Vpon t'Herculian Pillars rais'd ore-lookt Her mounted Ordinance commanding all Betwixt Nauar and farthest Portugall The Western Ocean doth confine the shore Of wealthy Portugall where Tagus sands Mixt with abundance of Gold-yeelding ore Was sifted by some Guilt-approuing hands Wohse Mettall-minded hard affection would Turne with refining all they touch't to gold Now on poore Protestants such Art they vse Whom they with all pursuite do first enquire And hauing found doe sift and sifted bruise At last their soundnes they explore with fire And though they neuer will their stamp admit To passe with Angels they doe make them sit Faire Andaluzia which had once repute For giuing weary Phoebus welcome rest Feedes her Siuilians with Gold-seeming fruite Oh! would they were with vs indeed so blest Who farre more truely entertaine the Light Repelling errours wrong-protecting Night There Boetis which doth fall neere Cadis bay Seing the English ensignes faire displayd Stopping her troubled course beganne to stay And feeling her vaste body much dismayd Vp â—oward Corduba where first she bred Her bloud contracting back retir'd and fled The winged Charriots which out-sayld the wind Led by great Essex with much ease did passe Beyond Plus vltra and haue left behinde Trophees aboue the Monuments of Brasse Of which may yet these peacefull times relate Louing our own though theirs we leaue to hate Thence as that Nauy where the flowre of Greece Return'd from Colchos whilest they come from Spaine Brauely enriched with the Golden Fleece And ride triumphing ore the Sea-greene-plaine Great Brittaine Glories Capitoll dilates The close-bard entrance of her Crystall gates GReat BRITTAINE shadow of the starry Sphears Selfe-viewing Beauties true presented Grace In Thetis Myrrhour on this Orbe appeares In Worth excelling as extoll'd in Place Like the rich Croisade on th' Imperiall Ball As much adorning as surmounting all Bounded within the watry Firmament Whose euer-mouing streames about it role She measures forth her length in faire extent Towards the Southern from the Northern Pole Betwixt her Riuers Zone-diuiding Lines Each Citie like a Constellation shines Auon and Twede her Tropicks Zodiack-wise Passe Trent and Seuern to the springing Morne Trent goes declining Seuerne bending lyes Downe by the Western freez-cloath'd Capricorne Thames as th'Equator doth more eeuen runne Proud with the Mansions of her biding Sunne Maiesticke SVNNE long may thy kinde aspect Shed downe sweet influence vpon this Clime Beyond all Enuy as without Defect Ruling but neuer altering our Time Till passing from our teare-bedewed eyes Thy Glory in another Heau'n shall rise Tâ—â—â— soone our IVLIAN-STARRE late Prince of Light The sparkling lustre of whose vertuous ray To Brittaine hearts content with shortest Night Promis'd the comfort of eternall day Too soone expir'd ô worthy long to proue The worlds great Wonder his Countries Loue. And faire ELISA midst the glistering Crew Which as our glorious Cynthia seemes renew'd Lately remouing from our fainting view Her presence with all graces bright endew'd For Latmus shade doth spend her precious houres On Rhenus Banks amidst the Myrtle Bowres Yet like those glistring Emblems neare the Pole Still aboue Earths Horizon elâ—uate May our Heroicke Princes name controule The Starry Orders of this well-rul'd State And Brittaines Chariot as the Northern VVayne With great Arcturus ioyne her CHARLEMAIGNE A stately Burs built in the VVestern Strand Renowned Exeter farre off doth seeme But London Exchange-Royall of the Land Is obiect of the Peoples best esteeme So whilst the glorious Day-star shines more bright Cleare Hesperus obscur'd doth giue no light Sweet-seated Sals-bry VVilshyres ornament Neighb'red with Plaines graced with goodly Vallies Like some delightfull Garden of Content Watring with siluer streames her well-squar'd allies But that it doth more firme and surely stand Doth seeme another Venice in our Land Bathe fairely-built throughout the World is knowne For her most wholesome strength-repayring Springs But she which hath so strange effects oft showne VVith ill successe did lend her Founder wings Poore worme-like creeping men she might restore Ne'er make them borne to goe like Birds to soare Bristow the Marchants Magazin enclos'd With Rocky Hils by Auons streame imbrac't Faire by industrious workemanship compos'd As by great Natures wisedome firmely plac't Viewing her verdant Marsh may well disdaine Romes somtimes-glory Mars his Champian plaine Old Winchester the auncient seate of Kings For vertue and for valour much renowned So subiect vnto change are earthly things In stead of Diadem with Bayes is crowned Where worthy Wicchams children now mainetaine The fame once known by great king Arthurs traine Oxford by Isis Crystall streames confin'd And well-discerning Cambridge Learnings Payre Excell those Lamps which once on Ida shin'd Bright Iuno shew'd cleare Pallas Venus faire But eyther of these thrice illustrious eyes Doth Brightnes Clearnesse Fairnesse all comprise As that true Ensigne of th' Almighties Loue Liuely displayed in the Cloudy Skye The gazers eye astonished doth moue To wonder at such strange varietie Rain-bow-resembling London Englands Blisse The Heau'ns great Mercy and Earths Maruell is To the Reader READER IF thy Patience be not too much discouraged aduenture on the little Common-weale of my poore thoughts I euer rather admired then professed Poetry the necessitie of my Studies to which a higher direction then mine owne choyse hath appointed mee forbidding the one and that delight which beyond ordinary content receiued in all sorts of Learning hath beene presented to me in this occasioning the other yet haue I as my leasure gaue me leaue taken to my selfe in this idlenesse that reliefe which in other varietie most doe thinke they may iustly vse I know some whose credit hath challenged respect exceeding strong in preiudice against the composing and reading such trifles yet the excellency of diuers in this kinde commended by others whom I haue no warrant to distrust makes my small experience thinke that some Muses like Silke-wormes spinne a fine threed for necessary vse as many like Spiders curious webs for vnprofitable admiration His censure who affirmed the reading of Amadis du Gaule as dangerous to youth as of Macciauel pernitious to old men was as the Author truly generous yet I presume it extends not to all which without proclaiming title to wisdome and iudgement seeme rais'd or fashioned by imagination There is who hath vndertaken to illustrate by places of the Arcadia all the points of the Art of speaking I will adde which is as much as Achilles his Father desired Chiron should teach his Sonne hee is rude that cannot discerne or exceeding austere that scornes to obserue therein worthy behauiour and carriage both in priuate and common businesse And one as vnderstanding in the Pollicie of Letters and Peace as La Noue was experienced in the Discipline of Armes and a troubled State by exquisite vnfolding of some fabulous Stories makes it plaine that the Cesternes of these times deriue the fulnes of their wisdome by no other conueyance then such narrations from the purer springs of all antiquitie To whom he had yeelded his assent who imploying his faithfull labours in teaching to beleeue I know had care he might not be disprou'd and farther graceth Poetry with the choise appellation of the Soules vvoing-Suite in which diuers their excellencie carrying them higher haue shewed their thoughts not vnfit for solemne yea Sabaoth deuotions And truely they who will be pleas'd to credit our owne tongue and age may finde our present and later Poets capable of that commendation which was giuen the antienst among the Greekes That if their writings were preserued no part of Learning should wholy perish Spencer hauing as well deliuered Morall and Heroicall matter for vse and action as Du Bartas now ours Naturall and Diuine for study and meditation I would not diminish the worthy reputation of other Volumnes for mine owne part it being knowne to some I haue spent time in them I should be loth to be thought ignorant of that which I am perswaded all that know doe well allow But as the plaine way affecteth most the neerest many so I am sure there are some who had they beene shewed that which was pleasing would haue prooued successefull when they haue returned exceeding empty from Systems and Commentaries What I haue attempted in this subiect was long since excellently performed by Dionysius in Greeke and diuers in Latin whose example hath giuen me some incouragement but no more direction then Magellan to Syr Francis Drake shewing the Straights might be past not instructing how Some places may seem obscure but I intend it to those who vnderstand or desire to know something in this Argument I haue not touched all because I would be short and haue vsed shortnes as vnwilling to sweat and make a labour of my sport as any fastidious lookers on are quickly apt to distast satietie As it is Reader I indifferently leaue it to thy discretion what esteeme thou wilt be pleased to put on it is in thy power how I may valew thy esteeme remaines in mine FINIS * William and Allan Zouche a Henry and Francis Zouche
THE DOVE OR PASSAGES OF Cosmography BY RICHARD ZOVCHE Ciuillian of New Colledge in OXFORD Sicut Columbae LONDON Printed for George Norton and are to besould at his shop vnder the blacke Bell neere Temple-barre 1613. TO THE TRVELY Noble and worthily Honoured Edward Lord Zouche St. Maur and Cantelupe of his Maiesties Priuie-Councell Right Honorable MY resolued assurance that the mouths of Infants may reueale a truth makes me who haue not attain'd that perfection of speech which is reputed worthie to be openly heard yet hopefully ambitious to be beleeu'd And truely I desire no more but that this simple Intelligencer who hath brought in a relation of the WORLD to me may report me againe to the world one who wish the good of all who are studiously affected and Honour of those who haue put life into my poore indeauours How much I am bound both in my selfe and those whom I esteeme as neare to your Lordships fauours I should blush in this idle manner to make profession did I not thinke that those noble ends which haue giuen beginning to all your actions haue enabled you to entertaine with constancie the slender acknowledgements of great deseruings But what your Honour did neuer expect in the great vnthankfull and cannot meet in this little imperfect world of mine may you finde eternally remembred in that more glorious and incorruptible to come Your Lordships kinsman obliged in duty RICHARD ZOVCHE Ad Autorem ISte tripartitae liber est Descriptio terrae Et simul ingenij Mappa typusque tui Consimili versu pingatur America su tu Ipse Columba velut Musa Columbus eris THO. LAKE TAm paucis tot tanta quis O si deforet orbis Non velit in Libro Zouche habitare tuo IOAN HARRIS N.C. To my dearely affectionate friend Mr. RICHARD ZOVCHE THy worke hath tongue for vs t' admire thy worth Silence the voyce of an admiring minde Should then best fit my pen but Loue breaks forth And will needs speake what in thy booke I finde And wrestingly out of my wonted lynes It makes me shuffle in these hobling rymes Though t' were not thine it 's good but hauing birth From thee it 's excellent who in an houre Flyest o're the forrest of the spatious earth And of each Eden dost cull out some flowres And leau'st out nothing this is admirable Which to a setled eye can be remarkeable And in so narrow lines could be discouer'd Of so much World but thy penne hath vtterr'd And for this Truth which men best-bred do know Didst but into the Muses garden goe Who fearing danger dares not crosse the Sea And of the Earth desires to know the frame Let him but read thy worke and he shall see The worlds faire Symstry by distinguisht names And by thy Art his ignorance may know For which most men by Land and Sea doe row And let him blesse thy wit and prayses sing that thus with ease dost him such knowledg bring Ingenious ZOVCHE liue thy Verses long Fly faire and far thy Doue with her smooth song Of thy all-Noble name for Armes long knowne These Lettred times haue thee design'd their owne Your Louer and friend Richard Yong. To the Author BEhold a miracle a singing Doue Which sweetly sings yet sings not sweets of Loue. Each studie be her Doue-house and each breast Which harbours studious thoughts her gentle neast Nic. Stoughton Int. Temp. ASpice non veneri est deuota Columba mouetur Illius auspicijs penna Minerua tuis Ergo Deae noctis studiosae Noctua cedat Dum tu gaudentem luce tueris auém Car. Herbert N.C. The Doue TAke wing my Muse and like that siluer DOVE Which o'er the world new-bath'd did hou'tâ—â— fly The low-coucht Seas and high-plac't Land aboue Discerne with faithfull though with fearefull eye That what both Land and Sea resounding ring Wee may to this All-makers prayses sing He who directs the Sparrowes tender flight And sees him safely reach the hurtlesse ground Guide thee in all thy PASSAGES aright And grant thy Course be sure they Restinâ— found From Mount of Oliues as from Hill of â—â—yes Blest with the Branch of Peace though not of Praise And you whose Care our Floating house yet saues From sinking in the Deluge of Despayre Whil'st with poore feather'd oares she passe the waues Of this all-vulgar-breath'd storme-threatning Ayre Deare LORD vouchsafe with patient looke t' attend Her flights both trembling rise and humble end The World TO our small Isle of Man some well compare The WORLD that greater Continents huge frame Nor much vnlike eythers Perfections are Their Matter and their Mixture both the same Whence Mâ—ns Affection it so much allures Sith greatest Likenesse greatest Loue procures But if their outward Formes we looke vpon Wee shall their Figures diuers plainely see For mans erected tall Proportion To his heau'n-hoping Soule doth best agree VVhereas the World each way being framed round The aptest forme for turning Change hath found Like Natures rarest workemanship the Eye The well contriued instrument of seeing VVhich by exact and apt Rotunditie Performes his duty and preserues his beeing Of many curious circling Spheares composed And Orbs within the Orbs without enclosed The Earth IN midst of which by rarer Engeny Then Mars and Venus hang in Lemnian net The Land and Sea imbracing louingly Making one perfect Globe in th' ayre were set VVhose interveyning qualities agree To breede and beare what moue or resting be Thrice happy Vnion when these Greater things Accord in perfect Loue and Amitie VVhose peace an vniuersall blessing brings Causing in lesser states sweet harmonie And euer blessed be his powerfull hand By whom this Order doth supported stand Now Rose-cheek't Morning kindest Friend of Arts Learnings best Mistresse my presuming Muse Of all the Earths diffused sundry parts Thy Neighbour confine Kingdomes first doth chuse That when her faultie boldnesse shee doth see If blush she doe not she may learne of thee Asia THe worlds true Mother-Land mans Nurcery Great ASIA obiect of diuiner view Saluted first by Heau'ns all-seeing eye Soonest by it departing bid t'adiew The West yet wrapt in Darknesse shin'd in Light That since inlightened lyes inwrapt in Night CHINA her farthest Region in the East By Portugals to vs discouered late Is with much Pleasure and rich Plentie blest With People and with Princes fortunate Yet most procuring wonder doe excell The Cities where her Prince and People dwell The skill of Printing and Artillery Rarest inuentions which these dayes haue seene If we beleeue the Fame which thence doth flye Here in the ancient'st times haue practis'd beene And sure that People is or should be wise Which say We see with one They with both eyes Bord'ring on China Northward lies CATHAY Rul'd by her Emperour the mighty Cham To whom great TARTARIE doth tribute pay Great Tartary whose farre distended name Twixt auncient India and the Icy Sea Possesseth all to Westerne Muscouy The Nation sprung from Sires of Scythian race Not satisfi'ed