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Al-Man-Sir, or, Rhodomontados of the most horrible terrible and invincible Captain Sr. Fredrick Fight-all English and French.
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Gaultier, Jacques.
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1672
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Wing G381; ESTC R37393
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to tremble the Heavens were astonisht the Wind ceast the Sea became calm Women big with child miscarried Men in general every where fled before me and the most valiant and couragious seeing me cryed out one and all Libera me Domine II. I Swear Villain if I come there I will give thee such a blow with this battoon it shall drive thee six foot within the Earth so that there shall nothing remain of thee above it but thy right hand to put off thy Hat when thou shalt see me pass that way III. CErtainly when I consider how many graces Fortune hath endued me with I have not time sufficient for so many considerations For in the first place she hath heaped on me force and overwhelmed me with strength she hath quallified me with courage to the least punctilio and hath form'd and fashion'd me out of the greatest vallour So that I am as a Colomn in France a Bastion in Spain a Fortress in Italy a Castle in England a Cittadel in Germany a Tower in Poland a Rock in Armenia a Wall in Denmark To be short I am generally better quallified then all the men in the world being a refined mettal taken out of the bowels of the fat of the Earth and conceived by generosity IV. I Swear by the bones of the Sun it is as impossible for my right hand to strike any with my Battoon and not to kill as for the Sun to cease from running his dayly course through the Heaven V. TRuly and witout swearing by the beard of my great Grandfather I do not believe there is any thing in the whole world which can equal the horrible dreadful and furious terribility of my courage And what is there think you in the whole world which will not honour and obey me if so that I can make the earth tremble the Heavens afraid the Stars to disappear the savage beasts of lofty Mountains and craggy Rocks to hide themselves therein And moreover the birds which people the Airy Region the Fish whose Kingdom is the sea and men the most valiant and couragious with one sole angry glance of my eye I reduce them to the Chaos of their first principles VI. GO to my Cook and tell him it is my command that he spit me immedately a dozen and half of Demicannon larded with Piâ—es Muskets and Halberds which I have taken from my enemies in pitcht Battles and let there be the Bandeleers of a Foot-company to hang about instead of Sassages having done this let him put over the Grid-Iron and broil me three or four dozen of Carbines with a score or two of pocket Pistols fryed with Brimstone and Salt-peeter sauce and then come and sup with me for this is the Food which I am accustomed to feed on VII I Am King of Paladins the terrour of the World the flower of the Nobility of Rhodomontado's Furioso's Superboso's Rolands and Olivers beautified with infinite Graces fait as an Angel the heart and courage of Lucifer a Servant to the mighty Queens of the Earth a Friend to distressed Ladies and the Soveraign Prince of the Anthropophagi or Man-Eaters VIII ONe day in battle I found out the Queen of the Amazons she seeing me resolved that I should fall by no other hand than that of so great and mighty a Queen and thereupon raiz'd her hand with her Sword therein but I not willing to loose any time struck her at which she fell to the Earth then taking her by the hair of the head I threw her with such fury and force that she flew to the fifth Heaven and fell upon Mars as he was sporting with Venus the fall of whom broke his head Venus being greatly afraid cryed out for help at whose cry the Gods came running to her aid but were much astonisht when they saw Mars stretcht out upon the place Hereupon Jupiter thrust his head through the casement and saw me distributing wounds among my enemies with so much anger and fierceness that the fire which flew from every blow resembled another Mont-Gibel or Aetna Therefore Jupiter said to all his Brother Gods that none of them should stir or make any further noise of what was done since it might be supposed that he which had killed Mars the God of War was every whit as able to kill the rest of the Gods which yet remained living IX HAve a care Sits stand back there at a distance till I have put on my Cloak for the very wind that comes from the bare Cape thereof is sufficient to fan yee five hundred leagues distant from the Pyrenean Mountains X. JF my Sword could express what wonders it hath done yet wâ—uld it want time to discover all What is it if not that which hath peopled all the Church-yards in the Universe What is it if not my Toledo which hath inricht the Chyrurgeons of this Terrestial Globe What is it that hath sent so many continually to the Sword-cutlers What is that which hath cut in peices the best coat of Mail What is that which so derides the Bucklers of Barcelona which hews the cabaces of Calatayud if not my Sword For it did cut the Head-peece vizors of Almazen with as much ease as if they had been made of a Melon or Cucumber XI THese twenty years my Sword hath provided for me by which I am feard of men and beloved of Women XII ONe told me that the Grand Seignor had committed lately great slaughters among the Christians depriving them in a barbarous manner of their Legs and Arms but if I come there I shall soon cool his courage for I know by the living bones of my Father he will no sooner see mâ— but he will lay on his own life violent hands to avoid falling into mine XIII WHen I speak my voice penetrates the depths of Hell where ever I appear the World offers me a free subjection from East to West It is well known that where ever I am my Bedstead is made of the ribs of Giants the ticking of my bed is filled with the Moustacho's of the Masters of the Camp to the Grand Turk my Bolster with the Brains which I boxt out of the heads of his Captains my cloaths are made of the Hair of Amazons my coverlids are composed of Switzers-beards my curtains of the hair of the eye-brows and eye-lids of Hungarians and Germans and the wall of my lodging is built not only with the pieces of Head-peeces but the entire heads of the standard bearers to the Queen of England which I lopt off with my dreadful and formidable Sword the floor of my house instead of Brick is paved with Janazaries Teeth my tapistry are the skins of Arabians and Sorcerers whom I unbarkt with the point of my Dagger the tiles which cover my house are the nails of Monarchs and Kings whose bodies long since in despight of them and those miserable carcasses they indeavoured to defend with a kick of my Foot I tumbled into their sepultures XIV SCorning