of the Imperiall Counsellors were hurld out at the windows you heard also I doubt not how they offer'd the Crown to the Dâ—…ke of Saxony and he waving it they sent Ambassadors to the 〈◊〉 whom they thought might prove par negotio and to be able to go through-stitch with the work in regard of his powerfull alliance the King of great Britain being his Father in Law the King of Denmark the Prince of Oâ—…nge the Marq. of Brandenburg the Duke of Boâ—…illon his Uncles the States of Holland his Confederates the French King his friend and the Duke of Bavaria his near allye The Prince Palsgrave made some difficulty at first and most of his Counsellors opposed it others incited him to it and amongst other hortatives they told him That if he had the courage to venture upon a King of Englands sole Daughter he might very well venture upon a Soveraign Crown when it was tendered him Add hereunto that the States of Holland did mainly advance the worke and ther was good reason in policy for it for their twelve years Truce being then upon point of expiring with Spain and finding our King so wedded to Peace that nothing could divorce him from it they lighted upon this design to make him draw his Sword and engage hiâ—… against the House of Austria for the defence of his sole Daughter and his Gran-Children What his Majesty will do hereafter I will not presume to foretell but hitherto he hath given liâ—…tle countenance to the busines nay he utterly misliked it at first for wheras Doctor Hall gave the Prince Palsgrave the Title of King of Bohemia in his Pulpit Prayer he had a check for his pains for I heard his Majesty should say that ther is an implicit tie amongst Kings which obligeth them though ther be no other interest or particular engagement to stick unto and right one another upon insurrection of Subjects Therfore he had more reason to be against the Bohemians than to adhere to them in the deposition of their Soveraign Prince The King of Denmark sings the same note nor will he also allow him the appellation of King But the fearfull news I told you of at the beginning of this Letter is that ther are fresh tidings brought how the Prince Palsgrave had a well appointed Army of about 25000 horse and foot near Prague but the Duke of Bavaria came with scarce half the number and notwithstanding his long march gave them a sudden Battell and utterly routed them Insomnch that the new King of Bohemia hahaving not worn the Crown a whole twelvemonth was forced to flie with his Quâ—…n and children and after many difficulties they write that they are come to the Castle of Castrein the Duke of Brandenburghs Countrey his Uncle Tâ—…is news affects both Court and City here with much heavines I send you my humble thanks for the noble correspondence you pleased to hold with me abroad and I desire to know by the nexâ—… when you come to London that I may have the comfort of the sight of you after so long an absence Maâ—…ch the 1. 1619. Yourâ—… true Servitor J. H. V. To Dr. Fra Manâ—…ell at All Soules in Oxford I Am returned safe from my forain employment from my three years travell I did my best to make what advantage I could of the time though not so much as I should for I find that Peregrination wel us'd is a very profitable school it is a running Academy and nothing conduceth more to the building up and perfecting of a man Your honorable Uncle Sir Râ—…rt Mansell who is now in the Medâ—…erranean hath been very noble to me and I shall ever acknowledg a good part of my education from him He hath melted vast sums of money in the glass busines a busines indeed more proper for a Merchant than a Courtier I heard the King should say that he wondred Robin Mansell being a Sea-man wherby he hath got so much honour should fall from Water to tamper with Fire which are two contrary Elements My Father fears that this glass-employment will be too brittle a foundation for me to build a Fortune upon and Sir Robert being now at my comming back so far at Sea and his return uncertain my Father hath advised me to hearken after some other condition I attempted to goe Secretary to Sir Iohn Ayres to Constantinople but I came too late You have got your self a great deale of good repute by the voluntary resignation you made of the Principality of Iesus College to Sir Eubule Theloall in hope that he will be a considerable Benefactor to it I pray God he perform what he promiseth and that he be not over-partiall to North-wales men Now that I give you the first summon I pray you make me happy with your correspondence by Letters ther is no excuse or impediment at all left now for you are sure where to find me wheras I was a Landloper as the Dutch-man saith a wanderer and subject to incertain removes and short sojourns in divers places before So with apprecation of all happines to you here and hereafter I rest March 5. 1618. At your friendly dispose J. H. VI. To Sir Eubule Theloall Knight and Principall of Jesus Coll. in Oxford SIR I send you most due and humble thanks that notwithstanding I have played the Truant and been absent so long from Oxford you have been pleas'd lately to make choice of me to be Fellow of your new Foundation in Iesus College wherof I was once a Member As the quality of my Fortunes and cours of life run now I cannot make present use of this your great favour or promotion rather yet I do highly value it and humbly accept of it and intend by your permission to reserve and lay it by as a good warm garment against rough weather if any fall on me With this my expression of thankfulnes I do congratulate the great honour you have purchas'd both by your own beneficence and by your painfull endeavor besides to perfect that Nationall College which hereafter is like to be a Monument of your Fame as well as a Seminarie of Learning and will perpetuat your memory to all Posterity God Almighty prosper and perfect your undertakings and provide for you in Heaven those rewards which such publick works of Piety use to be crown'd withall it is the apprecation of Your truly devoted Servitor J. H. London idibus Mar. 1621. VII To my Father SIR according to the advice you sent me in your last while I sought after a new cours of employment a new employment hath lately sought after me My Lord Savage hath two young Gentlemen to his sonâ—…es and I am to goe travell with them Sit Iames Croftes who so much respects you was the main Agent in this busines and I am to goe shortly to Longmâ—…ford in Suffolk and â—…hence to Saint Osith in Essex to the Lord Darcy Queen Anne is lately dead of a Dropsie in Denmark house which is held to
I part with this famous City of Lions I will relate unto you a wonderfull strange accident that happen'd here not many yeers ago Ther is an Officer call'd Le Chevalier du Guet which is a kind of Night-guard here as well as in Paris and his Lieutenant call'd Iaquette having supp'd one night in a rich Marchants house as he was passing the round afterwards he said I wonder what I have eaten and drunk at the Marchants house for I find my self so hot that if I met with the Divels Dam to night I should not forbear using of her hereupon a little after he overtook a young Gentlewoman mask'd whom he would needs usher to her lodging but discharg'd all his Watch except two she brought him to his thinking to a little low lodging hard by the City Wall wher ther were only two Rooms and after he had enjoyed her he desir'd that according to the custom of French Gentlemen his two Camerads might partake also of the same pleasure so she admitted them one after the other And when all this was don as they sat together she told them if they knew well who she was none of them would have ventur'd upon her thereupon she whissel'd three times and all vanish'd The next morning the two souldiers that had gon with Lieutenant Jaquette were found dead under the City Wall amongst the ordure and excrements and Iaquette himself a little way off half dead who was taken up and coming to himself confess'd all this but died presently after The next week I am to go down the Loire towards Paris and thence as soon as I can for England wher amongst the rest of my frends whom I so much long to see after this Trienniall separation you are like to be one of my first objects In the mean time I wish the same happinesse may attend you at home as I desire to attend me hom-ward for I am Truly yours I. H. Lions 5. Decemb. 1621. Familiar Letters SECTION II. I. To my Father SIR IT hath pleased God after almost three yearâ—… peregrination by Land and Sea to bring me back safely to London but although I am com safely I am com sickly for when I landed in Venice after so long a Sea-voyage from Spain I was afraid the same defluxion of salt rheum which fell from my Temples into my throat in Oxford and distilling upon the uvula impeached my utterance a little to this day had found the same chanâ—…ell again which caused me to have an Issue made in my left â—…rm for the diversion of the humour I was well ever after till I came to Rouen and there I fell sick of a pain in the head which with the Issue I have carried with me to England Doctor Harvy who is my Physitian tells mee that it may turn to a Consumption therfore he hath stopped the Issue telling me there is no danger at all in it in regard I have not worn it a full twelvemonth My Brother I thank him hath been very carefull of me in this my sicknes and hath come often to visit me I thank God I have pass'd â—…he brunt of it and am recovering and picking up my crums â—…pace Ther is a flaunting French Ambassador com over lately and I believe his errand is nought else but Complement for the King of France being lately at Calais and so in sight of England â—…e sent his Ambassador Monsieur Cadenet expresly to visit our King â—…e had audience two dayes since where he with his Train of ruffling long-haird Monsieurs carried himself in such a light garb that after the audience the King askd my Lord Keeper Bacon what he thought of the French Ambassador he answer'd that he was a tall proper man I his Majesty replied but what think you oâ—… his head-peece is he a proper man for the Office of an Ambassador Sir said Bacon Tall men are like high Houses of four or five Stories wherin commonly the uppermost room is worst furnished So desiring my brothers and sisters with the rest of my 〈◊〉 and friends in the Countrey may be acquainted with my safe return to England and that you would please to let me hear from you by the next conveniency I rest Lond. 2 Febr. 1621. Your dutifull Son J. H. II. To Rich. Altham Esqr. at Norberry SAlve pars animae dimidiata meâ—…ae Hail half my soul mâ—… dear Dick c. I was no sooner returned to the sweet bosom of England and had breath'd the smoak of this Town but my memory ran suddenly on you the Idea of you hath almost ever since so fill'd up and ingroft my imagination that I can think on nothing els the Iove of you swells both in my breast and brain with such a pregnancy that nothing can deliver me of this violent high passion but the sight of you Let me despair if I lye ther was never 〈◊〉 long'd more after any thing by reason of her growing 〈◊〉 than I do for your presence Therfore I pray you make 〈◊〉 to save my longing and Tantalize me no longer t is but three hours riding for the sight of you will be more precious to me than any one Object I have seen and I have seen many rare ones in all my three yearâ—… T â—…vell and if you take this for a Complemenâ—… because I am newly com from France you are much mistâ—…ken in London 1 〈◊〉 1621. Your J. H. III. To D. Caldwall Esqr. at Battersay MY dear Dan. I am com at last to London but not without som danger and through divers difficulties for I fell sick in France and came so over to Kent And my journey from the Sea side hither was more tedious to me than from Rome to Rouen where I grew first indisposed and in good faith I cannot remember any thing to this hour how I came from Gravesend hither I was so stupified and had lost the knowledg of all things But I am com to myself indifferently well since I thank God for it and you cannot imagin how much the sight of you much more your society would revive me your presence would be a Cordiall unto me more restorative than exalted Gold more precious than the powder of Pearl wheras your absence if it continue long will prove unto me like the dust of Diamonds which is incurable poyson I pray be not accessary to my death but hasten to comfort your so long weather beaten friend Lond. Febr. 1. 1621. J. H. IV. To Sir James Crofts at the L. Darcy's in St. Osith SIR I am got again safely this side of the Sea and though I was in a very sickly case when I first arriv'd yet thanks be to God I am upon point of perfect recovery wherunto the sucking in of English air and the sight of som friends conduc'd not a little Ther is fearfull news com from Germany you 〈◊〉 how the Bohemians shook off the Emperors yoak and how the great Counsell of Prague fell to such a hurly bâ—…rly that som
the Spaniards 54 Of the old Duke of Larma 54 Materiall thinks of the Match 55 The witty Speech of the Marquis of Montesclares 57 Of Count Mansfields notable retreat to Breda his chiefest exploit 58 Of our Prince his arrival at the Court of Spain his usage there and som passages of Gondamars 60 Of his comportment in courting the Lady Infanta c. 64 A witty saying of a Spanish woman 63 Of their baiting of Bulls with men 64 Verses upon the Prince his wooing 66 The monstrous manner of Osman the great Turks death with som Observations theron 70 Of his ominoâ—…s dream and the grand Visiers Prediction to Sir Tho. Roe 73 A Discours 'twixt our Prince and the King of Spain 74 Of our Prince his departure thence 76 How matters stood after his departure 77 Preparations made for the wedding day 79 The Earl of Bristolls Audience upon his receiving a new Commission 80 Probabilities that the Spaniard intended a Match with England 79 My Lo. Pagetts witty Speech in Parlement 80 Of the Bishop of Halverstadt 81 The notable Plot the two Spanish Ambassadors invented to demolish the Duke of Buck. 82 The high proffers that wer made the Earl of Bristoll if he would stay in Spain 97 Of the manner of the proceedings of the Spanish Match by way of comparison 83 The breach of the Spanish Match by a Philosophical comparison 83 An Abstract of the Spanish Monarchy of its growth of the soyl and the humor of the Inhabitants from 87 to 93 Of things happen'd at the siege of Bergen op Zooma A pleasant Tale of a lame Captain 94 Of the vertu of Familiar Letters 96 Of that stupendous Monument the Escurial 96 Of the late famous Duke of Ossuna divers passages 98 Of writing by Cypher 99 A memorable Passage of the Jesuits 98 A facetious Tale of a Soldier 100 This third Section contains divers intrinsecall Passages more of the Treaties both of Match and Palatinat The fourth Section OF the Jewels that were left in the Court of Spain to be presented at the Betrothing day 101 Of the fruitfulnes of frendship 103 Of Count Mansfelt 104 An exact Relation of his late Majesties death by an eye-witnes 106 Of my Lo Verulam after his fall 108 Cautions for Marriage 109 The disasterous death of young Prince Frederic 110 Of the Treaty of a Match with France and of Cardinal Richelieu 111 How lively Letters represent the inward man 112 The Capitulation of the Match with France 114 Of Monsieurs marriage 115 The rare perfections of the late Marchioness of Winchester 116 Of Grave Maurice's death of the taking of Breda 117 The sorry success of our Fleet to Cales under the Lord Wimbledon 119 Som advertisements to the Duke of Buckingham before the Parlement 121 The tru nature of love 12â—… Of Count Mansfelt 124 Cardinall Richelieu's first rise 111 A facetious saying of the Queen of France touching Co Mansfelt 124 A clashing 'twixt Buckingham and Bristoll 124 A Comparison 'twixt the Infanta and the Daughter of France 126 A facetious Pasquil in Rome 125 The speedy conclusion of the French Match and a facetious tale of the Pope 125 Her Majesties arrivall in England 126 The dissolution of the Parlement at Oxon and of the Lord Keeper Williams 127 Of the Renvoy of her Majesties French servants c. 130 The reasons alleaged for Lone-monies 131 A memorable example in the person of a Spanish Captain how strangely a sudden conceit may work within us 132 The fifth Section A Northern Letter 135 Our breach with France and our ill success at the Isle of Rets 139 The Lord Denbighs sorry return from before Rochell 140 Of the Wars in Italy about the Dutchy of Mantoua 137 A circumstantiall relation of the D. of Buck death by an eye-witness 141 The Lord of Lindseys return from before Rochel the taking and dismantling of her by the French King 143 Colonell Grayes quick device to save his life out of a saltpit 139 A methodicall Incitement for an Oxford Student 144 Of the taking the great Royall Ship the Holy Spirit of the French by Sir Sackvil Trever 145 A dehortatory letter from swearing with examples of all sorts 147 A Hymn therupon 149 The properties of a Foot-man 151 Of Ben Iohnsons Genius 154 Of tardy Courtesies 156 Som amorous Sonnets of black eyes c. 158 A check against habit of drinking 162 A Poem upon the British language 164 A witty reply to Sir Ed Coke by a Country man 155 A character of Sir Posthumus Hobby 156 The first rise of the Lord Strafford 156 The King of Swedens first rushing into Germany 165 The King of Denmarks ill success against Tilly and the favourable peace he obtained 165 Of a ragged illegible hand 166 The proud inscription the French King left upon a triumphant Pillar on one of the Alpian hills 167 Of Sir Ken Digbies Exploits against the Venetian Galleasses c. 168 A geere put upon Sir Tho. Edmonds being Ambassadour in France 169 Another geere of the French Ambassadour 169 Of Sir Tho. Wentworth's violent rising up 170 Of the King of Swedens monstrous Progres his clashing with the English and French Ambassadors 173 A Letter of thanks 172 A discription of an Ollapodrida 174 Of the Spanish Inquisition 178 The death of the Queen Dowager of Denmark His Majesties Grandmother the richest Princess of Christendom c. 175 The sixth Section AN exact relation of the Erl of Leicesters Embassie to the King of Denmark and other Princes 188 Som remarkable passages in the Danish Court 183 Of Hamburgh and the Hans Towns their beginning and the famous quarrell they had with Queen Eliza. 184 The marvelous resemblance of Holsteyn men with the English c. 187 The King of Swedens related by an eye-witnes his aversion to the English c. 193 The Palsgraves death 193 The late Pope's compliance with him 191 A strange apparition happened in the West about a dying Gentleman 194 Of Noy the Atturney and of ship-money 196 Of the Lord Westons Embassie to Italy and a clashing 'twixt my Lord of Holland and him 196 The Queen Mothers and Monsieurs retirement to Flanders 195 A Christmas Hymn 197 Of the condition of the Jewes squanderd up and down the World how they came to be so cunning and hatefull from whence they expect their Messias c. 202 〈…〉 The sudden comfort of Letters 203 Of a strange Pattent given a Scotchman 203 Of Atturney Noy's death and the od wilâ—… he made c. 204 The arrivall of the Prince Elector and of Prince Rupert to England their designes 205 Monsieur steales from Brussells 206 A Herald of Armes sent from France to denounce War against Spaine 206 Of Mountmorencys death 206 A memorable example of the force of affection in the person of a French Lady 207 Of Peter van Heyns mighty Plaâ—…e prize c. 210 Of judgements fallen upon disobedient children 211 The Earl of Arondels return from the German
to pass all the degrees and effects of fire as distillation sublimation mortification calcination solution descension dealbation rubification and fixation for I have bin fastned to the walls of this prison any time these fifty five moneths I have bin heer long enough if I wer matter capable therof to be made the Philosophers stone to be converted from water to powder which is the whole Magistery I have been besides so long upon the anvill that me thinks I am grown malleable and hammer proof I am so habituated to hardship But indeed you that are made of a choicer mold are fitter to be turned into the Elixer than I who have so much dross and corruption in me that it will require more paines and much more expence to be purg'd and defecated God send us both patience to bear the brunt of this fiery tryall and grace to turn these decoctions into aquam vitae to make soveraign treacle of this viper The Trojan Prince was forced to pass over Phlegeton and pay Charon his freight before he could get into the Elyzian fields you know the morall that we must pass through hell to heaven and why not as well through a prison to Paradise such may the Towre prove to you and the Fleet to me who am From the prison of the Fleet 23 Feb. 1645. Your humble and hearty Servitor J. H. XLIV To the right honble the Lord R. My Lord SUre ther is som angry planet hath lowred long upon the Catholic King and though one of his titles to Pagan Princes be that he wears the sun for his helmet because it never sets upon all his dominions in regard som part of them he on the to'ther side of the Hemisphere among the Antipodes yet me thinks that neither that great star or any of the rest are now propitious unto him they cast it seems more benign influxes upon the flower de luâ—… which thrives wonderfully but how long these favourable aspects will last I will not presume to judge This among divers others of late hath bin a fatall yeer to the said King for Westward he hath lost Dunkirk Dunkirk which was the terror of this part of the world the scourge of the occidentall seas whose name was grown to be a bugbear for so many yeers hath now changed her master and thrown away the ragged staffe doubtles a great exploit it was to take this town But whether this be advantagious to Holland as I am sure it is not to England time will shew It is more than probable that it may make him careless at sea and in the building and arming of his ships having no enemy now near him besides I believe it cannot much benefit Hans to have the French 〈◊〉 contiguous to him the old saying was Ayezle Francois pour ton 〈◊〉 non pas pour ton Voison Have the Frenchman for thy frend not 〈◊〉 â—…hy neighbour Touching England I believe these distractions of ours have biâ—… one of the greatest advantages that could befall France and they happened in the most favourable conjuncture of time that mighâ—… be els I beleeve he would never have as much as attempted Dunkirk for England in true reason of State had reason to prevent nothing more in regard no one place could have added more to the navall power of France this will make his sâ—…iles swell bigger and I â—…car make him claim in time as much regality in these narrow seaâ—… as England her self In Italy the Spaniard hath also had ill successes at Piombino and Porto longone Besides they write that he hath lost I l prete il medico the Priest and the Physician to wit the Pope and the Duke of Florence the House of Medici who appear rather for the French than for him Ad to all these disasters that he hath lost within the revolution of the same yeer the Prince of Spain his unic Son in the very flower of his age being but seventeen yeers old These with the falling off of Catalonia and Portugall with the death of his Queen not above forty are heavy losses to the Catholick King and must needs much enfeeble the great bulk of his Monarchy falling out in so short a compas of time one upon the neck of another and we are not to enter into the secret Counsells of God Almighty for a reason I have read 't was the sensuality of the flesh that drave the Kings out of Rome the French out of Sicily and brought the Moores into Spain where they kept firm footing above seven hundred yeers I could tell you how not long before her death the late Queen of Spain took off one of her chapines and clowted Olivares about the noddle with it because he had accompanied the King to a Lady of pleasure telling him that he should know she was Sister to a King of France as well as wife to a King of Spain For my part France and Spain is all one to me in point of affection I am one of those indifferent men that would have the scales of power in Europe kept even I am also a Philerenus a lover of peace and I could wish the French were more inclinable to it now that the common enemy hath invaded the territories of Saint Marâ—… Nor can I but admire that at the same time the French should assaile Italy at one side when the Turke was doing it on the other But had that great navall power of Christians which wer this summer upon the coasts of Toscany gon against the Mahometan Fleet which was the same time setting upon Candie they might in all likelihood have achieved a glorious exploit and driven the Turke into the Hellespont Nor is poor Christendom torn thus in peeces by the German Spaniard French and Sweds but our three Kingdoms have also most pittifully scratch'd her face wasted her spirits and let out som of her illustrious bloud by our late horrid distractions Wherby it may be infer'd that the Musti and the Pope seem to thrive in their devotion one way a chief part of the prayers of the one being that discord should still continue 'twixt Christian Princes of the other that division should still increase between the Protestants This poor Island is a wofull example thâ—…of I hear the peace 'twixt Spain and Holland is absolutely concluded by the plenipotentiary Ministers at Munster who have beat their heads so many yeers about it but they write that the French and Swed do mainly endeavour and set all the wheels of policy a going to puzzle and prevent it If it take effect as I do not see how the Hollander in common honesty can evade it I hope it will conduce much to an universall peace which God grant for Waâ—… is a fire struck in the Devills tinder box No more now but that I am My Lord Your most humble Servitor J. H. Fleet 1 Decem. 1643. XLV To Mr. E. O. Counsellour at Grayes Inne SIR THe sad tidings of my dear frend Doctor Prichards death sunk
of the King of England with other Kings 102 A Letter of respects to a Lady 104 A caution not to neglect the Latine for any vulgar Language 105 Of Praises to God and how they are the best Oblations 106 A facetious Tale of Henry the Fourth of France 107 America only free from Mahometisme 18 The Alchoran brought in by the Alfange 19 Arabic the sole Language of the Alchoran 17 Of the black Bean in Mahomets heart 3 Of vanity of beauties 2 The Mendicant Friers make a kind of amends for the excesses of the Cardinalls and Bishops 6 Of borrowing and buying of Books 34 Canary the best of Wine 74 Christianity more subject to variety of opinions than any other Religion and the cause therof 12 Advice from attempting a busines 27 Reputation like a Venice glass 26 A Fable of Fire Water and Fame 26 Advice to a young Soldier 26 A facetious Tale of a Soldier 27 Two famous sayings of Secretary Walsingham and Cecill 29 Of delay in busines 29 Of dispatch 29 The Mulberry an Embleme of Wisdom 30 The famous saying of Charles the fift 30 Of matches 'twixt England and Spain 30 Of the falling off of Catalonia and Portugall from the King of Spain and a judgment upon it 31 The vertu of money 31 A famous saying of Cap. Talbot 31 Of a hard intricat busines 32 Of the vertu of Letters 33 A Letter of reprehension for careles writing 34 Som amorous Stanza's 35 A Letter of gratitude 36 An Apology for Women 37 Of good and bad Women 37 Of free courtesies 38 A courtesie may be marr'd in the Mode 38 An Apology for silence 39 A Tale of a Nâ—…apolitan Confessor 39 A new Island discover'd hard by the Terreras 39 Of the Hill Vesuvius 39 Som rarities of Venice 40 Of the Genoways 40 Of our Indian Mariners 40 Grunnius Sophista's last VVill. 42 The Authors last Testament 43 Of Melancholy 44 A facetious tale of a Porter 45 A modest reply of a Letter of praise 46 A Letter of Patience 47 Of Chymistry 47 Of the Diseases of the time 47 A Letter of Recommendation 48 Of superfluâ—…us Servants 48 An advice to Travell 49 Of reading of Books 40 Of partiality of News 50 The History of Conanus and the 11000 Virgins mistaken 51 Of Prisoners 52 The Authors Epitaph 52 Advice to a Cambridg Scholar 53 A Letter of comfort 54 The effects of imprisonment 55 Of Chymistry 55 Of Dunkirk 56 A Letter of State 56 A Tale of the late Queen of Spain 57 The Turks Prayer 58 Of Nature Fate and Time 58 A Consolatory Letter 58 A modest reply to a Letter Encomiastic 59 A Letter of reprehension for not writing 60 Of Q. Eliz. pro con 61 How the Spaniards charge her 61 Of futilous Writers 62 Of speeding Letters 63 A Letter of Meditation 64 The advantage of Marriage 66 A Letter of Complement to a Lady 66 A Hymn to the Blessed Trinity 67 St. Austins wish in a Hymn 69 Of fearing and loving of God 68 A large Discourse of all sorts of Beverages that are us'd on earth 70 Of all sorts of Wines 71 The Riddle of the Vineyard man 70 Of German and Greek Drinkers 70 Of Sir Walter Rawleigh 95 Of the pittifull condition of England 99 A congratulatory Letter from Travell 105 Of Prayer and Praise 106 Of the Excise 107 A Tale of Monsieur de la Chatre 107 The power of Letters 109 Som Spanish Epitaphs 110 Of French Lawyers 113 A Letter Congratulatory for mariage 110 A Lettee Consolatory to a sick body 113 Stanzas of Mortality 114 Of the Passion Week 115 A Caution for imparting secrets 117 A Letter of Intelligence 118 Of Autology 120 A Letter of Consolation 121 A large Poem 122 Self-travell one of the ways that lead us to Heaven 122 Ut clavis portam sic pandit Epistola pectus Clauditur Haec cerâ clauditur Illa serâ As Keys do open chests So Letters open brests AN Index to the last Parcell of EPISTLES OF the use of Passions 1 Passions like Muscovia VVives expect to bee check'd 1 The conquest of ones self the greatest point of valour 1 Of the wars of Venice 2 The fearfull commotions of Naples 2 The horrid commotions in Ethiopia 2 Strange Revolutions in China 2 The monstrous Insurrections in Moscovia 2 A Prophecie of Holland 3 A Letter of correspondence 3 Letters compared to Ecchoes 4 Of Heaven 4 Endearments of love 4 Of the Presbyter and his first rise 5 Of Calvin his prophane appplications 5 Of Geneva 5 King Iames calld Presbytery a Sect. 6 Redemption the blessing paramount 6 The Eucharist the prime act of devotion 6 A Hymn upon the Holy Sacrament 7 A Rapture 8 The happiest condition of life 9 Opinion the great Lady that rules the world 9 Conceit the chiefest thing that makes one happy 9 Of the strange monster in Scotland 9 The incertain state of a Merchant Adventurer 9 A Mariner scarce to be ranked among the living 9 A rich City like a fatt Cheese subject to Maggots 10 Congratulations to a marryed couple 10 Of Tobacco and the virtu of it 11 A strange cure wrought upon my Lord Scroop by a Pipe of Tobacco 11 The way to know how much smoak ther is in a pound of Tobacco 22 Of Doctor Thorius Paetologie 12 The differing Modes of taking Tobacco 12 A Distic of Tobacco 12 Of Learning in generall 13 Handi-crafts men may well be term'd learned men 13 A wholsom peece of policy of the Chineses 13 A Tale of Bishop Grosthead 14 A meer Scholar a useless thing 14 A facetious Tale of Thomas Aquinas and Bonadventure 14 A Speech of Alexander Hales 14 The generall itching after Book-learning hurtfull to England 15 Gunpowder and Printing about a time and both hurtfull 15 The true learned men 16 A jeer upon the common Lawyer 16 Of the Physician 16 Pope Adrian's speech 16 Of the lunary world 17 Antiquity cannot priviledg an error 17 Novelty cannot prejudice truth 17 Of the Antipodes 17 The method how God powres down his blessings 18 The following day wiser than the formost 18 The Cadet older than his elder brother 18 Of experience 18 The prime Philosophers held ther was a world in the Moon 19 A notable comparison 19 VVhat kind of creatures are thought to be in the body of the Sun 19 Of Galileo's glasse 20 The Turks opinion of the Sun 20 The earth the basest of creatures 21 Of Trismegistus 21 The prerogatives of man 21 A letter of complement to a Lady 22 Of frendship 22 Of Fortunes wheel 23 The power of God 23 What use France hath made of Scotland 24 An Italian saying appliable to England 24 The old plot of the Jesuit now don in England 24 A letter of congratulation from forren travell 25 What a traveller must carry home with him besides language 25 'T is probable the Spaniard will be to hard for the French 25 A Letter complaining of the hard condition of England