Dungannon where was good service at the Isle of Muck wherein going on was drowned Sir Samuel Bagnall his Ancient which made many prognosticate worse successe then fell out also at Kinsale where was a lamentable sore Leager and a long but a happy for us in the end 14 For when my hopes in learning it was lost I then took arms as holding it the best Since Fortune had my towardnesse so crost I thought I could not be no better blest Then for my Queen honor'd country fight For to maintain their true and lawfull right 15 Though I but one yet one must needs begin A number that is number numberlesse Then a souldier needly must come in To make the number be it more or lesse For why I play'd a souldiers faithfull part I did my best both with my hand and heart 16 But after that a hard time I had been A souldier there my Queen being dead gone I got reward a shot may yet be seen And that was all and then away did come Home into England to my Friends again Who did disdain my service love and pain 16 At the Queenes death I came into England with a sore shot not whole yet as welcome to my friends as the poore Mariner makes water into his ship especially my stepmother 17 And bad me go once more another Voyage And see if that I could finde any worse For my own Father dear swore in his rage The day that I was born that he would curse And rather wish me in untimely grave Then I one houre a future life should have 18 When I poor soul had done nothing at all But what was just and honorable both And for defending the State generall The best I could my minde being very loth To do that thing might not me well beseem In the defence of Country and my Queen 19 Which when I saw my Friends obdurity And that my entertainment it was such And saw nothing but present misery And that for love my Friends hate me so much A wish'd that ere I might here live in scorn That I might die where I was never born 20 Then did I crave a Souldier prest to be Which was well liked by the better sort And did commend my love and duty free And to this day I have their good report That I would go unto the wars again To venture life ere live with Friends disdain 20 After this new supplyes went for Ireland I was prest to go again not much unwillingly seeing the refractory harsh dealing of my dearest friēds for as the old saying is In prosperity a friend is easily found but in adversity not one of a thousand so hath it been with mee for ever when I came into England with a full purse the dearest and neerest Friends I had would helpe me to spend it and make it empty but when I came home poor I was not for their company 21 Which I did do and then did much endure A second time in Ireland again And further means I never could procure Saue that I got my labour for my pain For when Sir Cary Dougherthy was dead I came to England forc'd to beg my bread 21 I served in Ireland untill the last Rebellion in Loughfoyle beginning at the Diry by Sir Cary Dougherthy in which time I served under the command of Sir Oliver Saint Iohn after Lord Deputy also Sir Edward York Sir Richard Hansard Captain George Malary Sir George Flower 22 Where that I found such simple courtesie As caused me again to leave the land And then I travaild into Italy When noble Payton did our Force command Vnder the Signior and Venetian State Where I bought wit at such an extream rate 22 After my second time comming from Ireland I found such poor respect of my friends that I travelled into Italy and served under the English Regiment at Venice Sir Henry Payton being Generall my Captain was Billingsley 23 As that I did beside my losse of bloud Indure the hard and cruell slavery Even of the Turks where I found nothing good But all I got was stripes and misery But God in mercy after a time was pleas'd I from the Turkish slavery was eas'd 23 But going an unfortunate Voyage to Sea for desire of gain I got instead a world of pain being taken prisoner by the Turks where I remayned a slave a long time but by Gods providence beyond expectation of any humane reason I was by the help of the Christians released to wit a man of Florence who brought mee to Ligorne a dainty Haven Town seated to the Sea upon the foot of the River Arno which runs up from thence to the rare and goodly City Florence but rather I may say the River Arno runs from Florence to Ligorne being about fifty miles 24 And did return to Florence Citie fair Where now again I came to Italie And was ore-joy'd to see that City rare In my conceit the prime of Lombardie Tho many praise some other Cities more Yet do I think they are mistaken sore 24 The saying is that Italie is the ganden of the World and that Lombardy is the garden of Italie and Florence the garden of Lombardy which indeed it is for it is curious for building delicatly seated and very bravely peopled and full of plenty it hath in it a very stately Grand Dome or Church all of pure checker work white and black Marble corner wise set there is a great and massie ball of beaten gold on the top of the high Steeple 25 Tho Venice it be rich and Genoa proud Padua be learn'd and Belogna brave And mighty Rome for spaciousnesse abow'd Dainby Verona yet none of these you have So Dainby fair a curious seat to see As Florence is within all Italie 25 After I left Florence I was at divers curious Cities of marvellous beauty of which I have named some especially Genoa where the Marquesse Spinola had a curious house Genoa exceeds for high building any place that ever I saw Padua is a dainty Academy especially for Physick and so is Mantua Verona a very fine City as also Bellogna Brussia Bargamore and many others Rome me thought was but a ragged great thing and not very beautifull the chiefest things of note is the Bridge of Tyber and Saint Angeloes the Pyramides the Popes Pallace and his gilded gate with the great and Metropolitan Church of Saint Peter as also I must remember their Panthaon which was the Temple of the old Roman gods which is a mighty thing built round either for fear their gods should fall by the eares for prerogative Royall as indeed it was or else for feare they should run out at the West end of the Church like stout gods and turn cowards 26 But leaving Italie thus after I Had bin from England almost twice five years I past the Alps those mighty Mountains high Where I did weep more drops of brinish tears Then I got water for to drink that time Saving cold
let us fight that night so in the morning the enemy was fled and got his trenches and so we lost all 56 Our forlorn hopes were ready all drawn forth And Doctor Burgesse gave brave encouragement To all our souldiers who was of that worth That all was ready and to battail bent But Marquesse Baden all our hopes then bard And all our pastime for that day was mard 57 For after that our Canon mounted was Fair for to play against the enemy Also our horse faln on like hearts of brasse To shew their valour and fidelity And we were ready both with hart hand To fight our parts as long as we could stand 58 But present tydings came we should not fight But every man his quarter fair should keep Because it grew even some what to ward night Which made the heart of many a souldier weep To see how basely that same day was lost Which did indeed the Palsgraves Countrey cost 59 For that same night our fo their trenches got Which was more safe then any Castle strong Not caring then what we could do a jot And in the same they did remain so long Till that they had even so increas'd their force That they were able to give us the worse 60 For winter comming and our force grew weak Our fare being hard and eke our payment bad Our Captains then with us did all betake To severall towns and of the same were glad And there we did in Garrison remain Till we were forc'd to yield them up again 61 But not with ease this dare I tell you plain Nor with the losse of small or little bloud But with hard war they did the Country gain With wofull spoil and but with little good Town after town when they were very poor For untill then we would not give them ore 62 For there we kept unto Commission came From Englands King unto our Generall And Chichester that Lord brought him the same With Frankindale we should deliver all Then we with honour marched quite away For in the country there we might not stay 62 After that most nay indeed all the Palatinate was lost both higher and lower yet my Lord kept Frankindale till my Lord of Chichester brought Commission from King Iames to deliver it up by way of composition 63 Then every man had leave for to depart Vnto his Country or where lik'd him best Being glad to march with poor and heavy heart To finde some place where hee might take his rest But many a man this can I truly say Did lose his life in comming thence away 64 But God above did then preserve me so That I got down along the noble Rhine And did me keep even from the mortall Fo That not one hurt I got in that same time But safely came to Utrich where indeed I did get means for to relieve my need 64 I got down the Rhine and came to Vtrich in the Netherlands where I served Sir Ferdinando Knightley untill I came for England to goe over with the foure Regiments 65 And here I stay'd under the States a while Being under pay of noble Knightley he Thinking the best and time so to beguile Till he thought good his Passe to give to me Then did I come to Englands shore again But here I staid not long for to be plain 66 For that four noble Peers were ready bent In forraigne parts their valour for to try And each of them a warlike Regiment Being men of courage and of spirits high Oxford and Essex and Southampton three The fourth of these was noble Willoughby 66 These foure Peers had each a Regiment that went over at the first time Breda was beleagred and wonne by the Enemy and where more was the pitie the Lord Henry Earle of Oxford with over-heating himself at Treheyes Sconce got such a vehement surfet that at the Hage in short time after he died as also did the Earle of Southampton and the yong and noble Lord Wriothesley his sonne to the great grief of all the whole Regiments At this Voyage I got a shot in my head and then I came for England 67 These Nobles had Captains of high degree To follow them being men of high renown And each of them a worthy company Of souldiers stout of brave courage known But yet indeed this Voyage was not the best Two of the Earles did die besides the rest 68 That in this great exploit did hope for gains And went with these same Lords their worths to try But had no more but death even for their pains As it did prove and with them then went I But yet I came a Fool as I did go With one shot mo that I got from the Fo. 69 Then presently a presse was new prepar'd For noble Mansfield dainty Voyage was that As ever was in any age yet heard For hunger and extreams I le tell you what Yet can I scarcely now the same rehearse For why I shame to put it in my verse 69 This Voyage of Mansfields was the poorest that ever souldiers made for if they had lost their lives in service and fair fight it had redownded to their honour but dying so basely as they did being starved was such a poor proceeding as hath not bin hard of 70 It was so poor and bad and base withall That he declar'd I cannot well tell how For noble Mansfield so I will him call Was in no fault this dare I swear and vow He did his best his souldiers to maintain And honour to himself and them to gain 71 For many went in this disastrous Voiage Brave noble harts and valour truly tri'd As noble Cromwell Dutton wise and sage That honor'd Ramsey and gallant Rich beside And Sir Ralph Hopton that same noble Knight Whose worth is more then I can write of right 72 For when some others left their souldiers poor Those that were his and left to hungervild He did not leave them nor did give them ore But like a faithfull Captain meek and milde Did them relieve and left them safe sound Though that it cost him many a hundred pound 73 Now doe I think I heare the vulgar cry That at this Voyage some fault for sure there was Else with vild hunger why did so many die Vpon shipboard and not to land did passe The souldiers fault that was so bad at home The States would not let them on their land come 73 Now by the censure of the common and vulgar sort Count Mansfield was much blamed but altogether unjustly and unworthily for he was a very noble Gentleman and of a high spirit stout and very couragious wise and gentle and expert in the wars he was ever loving to an honest souldier but hated a sharke he had too many in this Presse more was the pitie for it kild his noble heart when hee was cut off from landing them for indeed the fault was neither his nor any of the Commanders then appointed for that service for they
to spectators view Arch upon Arch by perfect art and sleight He that nere saw it scant will think it true That such a worke within the World were wrought By mortall man since man was made of nought 39 Here did I see brought in by Burgers two A man they said was call'd the wandring Iew But I with him had nought at all to do So that for me he may be false or true For what he was as then I did not care My mind was more my supper not to spare 39 Here I saw this old Pilgrime who Master Middleton told mee was noted to be the wandring Iew but for my part I did take no great regard of him more then I have writ 40 A black tall man of stature that he was With visage stern his colour pale and wan And Pilgrime he both up and down did passe Within the town where I did see him than Grones sighes sobs I hard him often give But what of him they said I scarce believe 41 This town environ'd with the noble Rhine Govern'd by States within themselves all free And guarded strong by souldiers brave and fine Stout men of body as a man shall see Courteous and kinde to strangers that they be This can I say for they were so to me 41 This town of Strasburgh is a free State of it selfe environed by the River Rhine a very strong thing and a braue Garrison of souldiers in it well maintained when I was there they wore red velvet Cassocks with the Flower Deluce in blue cloth and edged with silver very comely 42 So now to Savrine that I take my way And through a desart and a mighty Wood Vnto Panspoyce but there I could not stay For there I found not any thing was good But harbour cold and courtefie so much I do not care how seldome I have such 42 I came by many other places I cannot name also it is needlesse 43 Then did I come to the Duke of Lorains land And to the dainty City of Nancie Dainty it is and sweetly it doth stand For aire most sweet and good commodity For Corn and Cattle Wood and water fair It hath enough and can to others spare 43 If this Citie of Nancie be not of late ruinated it is as fine a little sweet thing as ever a man can see on earth for all outward blessings naturall for mans content a little before I came to it I was at a great Monastery where was many English Iesuites and other Priests called Saint Nicholai 44 So now by Tow and Fow Tholas and Bar I passe my way with cold and hunger both And tho indeed I come my Country war To help my need there 's few or none that doth Vnlesse poor man I got a bit of bread Which few would give for to relieve my need 45 So on I came unto the Champion Plain Where fourteen days I travailed with wo For nothing had I all within the same But what the Cloysters help me then unto Some meat and drink and harbour poore I had Tho it was poor yet of it I was glad 45 This Champion Countrey is a very scant Countrey for fire but very rich of Corn especially also there is prety good store of hard wine to keepe out the cold 46 For winter it was cold and I was poor My clothing thin and bare-foot then I was And all my limbes was numb'd grown so sore That ten miles on a day I could not passe Yet in the end I came to Paris Citie Where I did finde some comfort love and pitie 46 I will speak nothing of these parts of France being all in Picardy and Normandy which every one almost knows they are so neer hand 47 So then to Roane where Merchants kind I found And then to Deep a daintie Haven town Where I got shipping for our English ground And came to Dover poor and eke unknown But yet I had the Gest-house courtesie Iohn Bangor then was in the Majoraltie 47 Iohn Bangor was Major when I landed at Dover 48 From him a Passe to London that I had Being both poor lame and in misery Where when I came my heart indeed was glad For there I got good clothes even presently For that some monies fell unto my lot That former sorrows they were all forâ—ot 49 Then news was come of the Bohemian wars For which my minde was presently so bent That I would see how there would go the jars And did indeed for thither that I went With noble Gray and many worthy men Who did not come again not one of ten 49 I went into Bohemia with Sir Andrew Gray being Generall we were not there long before all was lost yet for the time there was some sharpe doings and much losse 50 For tho indeed the service it was short Because at first the hopes was very poor Yet Pilsen it can tel there was brave sport When all the ground with bloud was turned gore And Prague can say and other parts indeed That in these warres many a brave heart did bleed 51 Thus when I saw the hopes was poor and bare No staying then at all there was for me For nothing saw I fall unto my share But service hard with want and misery Away I came to the Palatinate And for my welcome there a shot I got 52 There was in service to defend the land Of Englishmen so brave a Regiment Whom noble Vere as Generall did command The like I never saw where ere I went For of a hundred scarce you could find ten But by their birth or worth were Gentlemen 53 Oxford and Essex noble Earles were there And many Gallants under their command Brave Rich and Wentworth and Burlassie were With Colours flying fair in field did stand That noble Burroughs brave Herbert too Fairfax and Wilmot all their best to do 53 Never went a more noble company of voluntary souldiers out of England then went to this Voyage of the Palatinate and had worse successe 54 Knowls and kind Thornix they were not behinde With many Gallants here to try their luck And many mo who was of noble minde Even as Bonithon and brave Captain Buck Who came to looke for honour in the field For to the fo that they would never yield 55 Once here we had hope of a noble day And was prepared with the Fo to fight When noble Oxford led our Vangard way Having the Fo before us in our sight Thinking none other but without all doubt To end that war by then to fight it out 55 This was the day that the Palatinate was lost for if wee had gone on we had such vantage every way especially in horse as also our souldiers very able and as forward to go upon service wee had good store of Canon and all mounted our horse had given fire to the enemy wee had all things just in readinesse for the Battail then Marquesse Baden being Generall of the Field betrayed the Countrey and would not