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A13508	Taylor his trauels: from the citty of London in England, to the citty of Prague in Bohemia The manner of his abode there three weekes, his obseruations there, and his returne from thence: how he past 600 miles downe the riuer of Elue, through Bohemia, Saxony, Anhalt, the bishoprick of Madeberge, Brandenberge, Hamburgh, and so to England. With many relations worthy of note. By Iohn Taylor.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1620 (1620)	STC 23802; ESTC S118294	16,091	34

Taylor his Trauels From the Citty of London in England to the Citty of Prague in Bohemia The manner of his abode there three weekes his obseruations there and his returne from thence How he past 600 miles downe the riuer of Elue through Bohemia Saxony Anhalt the Bishoprick of Madeberge Brandenberge Hamburgh and so to England With many relations worthy of note By Iohn Taylor LONDON Printed by Nicholas Okes for Henry Gosson and are to bee sold by Edward Wright 1620. The Right Hon. ble Algernon Capell Earl of Essex Viscount Maldon Baron Capell of Hadham 1701 Reader take this in your way A Pamphlet Reader from the presse is hurld That hath not many fellowes in the world The maner's cōmon though the matter 's shallow And 't is all true which makes it want a fellow And because I would not haue you either guld of your mony or deceiued in expectation I pray you take notice of my plaine dealing for I haue not giuen my booke aswelling bumbasted title of a promising inside of newes therefore if you looke for any such matter from hence take this warning hold fast your mony and lay the booke downe yet if you do buy it I dare presume you shall find somewhat in it worth part of your mony the troth is that I did chiefely write it because I am of much acquaintance and cannot passe the streets but I am continually stayed by one or other to know what newes so that sometimes I am foure houres before I can go the length of too paire of butts where such non-sence or sencelesse questions are propounded to me that calles many seeming wise mens wisedoms in question drawing aside the curtaines of their vnderstandiug and laying their ignorance wide open First Iohn Easie takes me and holds mee fast by the fist halfe an houre and will needes torture some newes out of me from Spinola whom I was neuer neere by 500 miles for hee is in the Pallatinate country and I was in Bohemia I am no sooner eased of him but Gregory Gandergoose an Alderman of Gotham catches me by the goll demaunding if Bohemia bee a great towne and whether there be any meare in it and whether the last fleet of shipps be ariued there his mouth being stop'd a third examines mee boldly what newes from Vienna where the Emperours army is what the Duke of Bauaria doth what is become of Count Buquoy how fares all the Englishmen Where lies the King of Bohemiaes forces what Bethlem Gabor doth what tydings of Dampeier and such a tempest of inquisition that it almost shakes my patience in pieces To ease my selfe of all which I was inforced to set pen to paper let this poore pamphlet my harrald or nuntius trauell talke whilst I take my ease with silence Thus much I dare affirme that whosoeuer hee or they bee that do scatter any scandalous speeches against the plenty in Bohemia of all manner of needfull things for the sustenance of man and beasts of the which there is more aboundance then euer I saw in any place else or whatsoeuer they bee that report any ill successe on the Kings party this little booke and I the Author doth proclaime and proue them false lyers and they are to be suspected for coyning such falshoods as no well-willers to the Bohemian prosperity One thing I must entreate the Readers patience in reading one hundred lines wherein I haue kept a filthy stirre about a beastly fellow who was at my going from England a piece of a Graues-end Constable at which time hee did mee such wrong as might haue drawne my life in question for hee falsly sayd that I would haue fired their Towne I did promise him a ierke or two of my penne at my returne which now I haue performed not out of any mallice but because I would bee as good as my word with him Thus crauing you to reade if you like and like as you list I leaue you a booke much like a pratling Gossip full of many words to small purpose Yours as you are mine Iohn Taylor TAYLORS TRAVELS FROM THE CITTY of London in England to the Citty of Prague in Bohemia I Come from Bohem yet no newes I bring Of busines 'twixt the Keysar and the king My Muse dares not ascend the lofty staires Of state or write of Princes great affaires And as for newes of battells or of War Were England from Bohemia thrice as far Yet we do know or seeme to know more heere Then was is or will euer be knowne there At Ordinaries and at Barbers shopps There tydings vented are as thick as hopps How many thousands such a day were slaine What men of note were in the battell ta'ne When where and how the bloody fight begun And how such sconces and such townes were won How so and so the armies brauely met And which side glorious victory did get The month the weeke the day the very houre And time they did oppose each others powre These things in England prating fooles do chatter When all Bohemia knowes of no such matter For all this summer that is gone and past Vntill the first day of October last The armies neuer did together meete Nor scarce their eie sight did each other greet The fault is neither in the foote or horse Of the right valiant braue Bohemian force From place to place they daily seeke the foe They march and remarch watch ward ride run goe And grieuing so to waste the time away Thirst for the hazard of a glorious day But still the enemy doth play bopeepe And thinkes it best in a whole skin to sleepe For neither martiall pollicy or might Or any meanes can draw the foe to fight And now and then they conquer spoile and pillage Some few thatcht houses or some pelting village And to their trenches run away againe Where they like foxes in their holes remaine Thinking by lingring out the warres in length To weaken and decay the Beamish strength This is the newes which now I meane to booke He that will needes haue more must needes go looke Thus leauing warres and matters of high state To those that dare and knowes how to relate I 'le onely write how I past heere and there And what I haue obserued euery where I 'le truely write what I haue heard and eyed And those that will not so be satisfied I as I meete them will some tales deuise And fill their cares by word of mouth with lies THe month that beares a mighty Emp'rours name Augustus hight I passed downe the streame Friday the fourth Iust sixteene hundred twenty Full moone the signe in Piscis that time went I The next day being saturday a day Which all greate Brittaine well remember may When all with thankes do annually combine Vnto th' Almighty maiesty diuine Because that day in a most happy season Our Soueragne was preseru'd from Gouries treason Therefore to Churches people do repaire And offer sacrifice of praise and praire