any They have another saying a French-woman in a dance a Dutch-woman in the kitchin an Italian in a window an English-woman at board and the Spanish a bed When they are maried they have a privilege to wear high shooes and to paint which is generally practised here and the Queen useth it her self They are coy enough but not so froward as our English for if a Lady go along the street and all women going here vaild and their habit so generally like one can hardly distinguish a Countess from a Coblers wife if one should cast out an odd ill sounding word and ask her a favour she will not take it ill but put it off and answer you with some wittie retort After 30 they are commonly past child-â—…earing and I have seen women in England look as youthfull at 50 as some here at 25. Money will do miracles here in purchasing the favor of Ladies or any thing els though this be the Countrey of money for it furnisheth well-near all the world besides yea their very enemies as the Turk and Hollander insomuch that one may say the Coyn of Spain is as Catholic as her King Yet though he be the greatest King of gold and silver Mines in the world I think yet the common currant Coin here is Copper and herein I beleeve the Hollander hath done him more mischief by counterfeiting his Copper Coins than by their armes bringing it in by strange surreptitious waies as in hollow Sows of Tin and Lead hollow Masts in pitcht Buckets under water and other waies But I fear to be injurious to this great King to speak of him in so narrow a compass a great King indeed though the French in a slighting way compare his Monarchy to a Beggars Cloak made up of patches they are patches indeed but such as he hath not the like The East Indies is a patch embroyder'd with Pearl Rubies and Diamonds Peru is a patch embroider'd with massie gold Mexico with silver Naples and Milain are patches of cloth of Tissue and if these patches were in one peece what would become of his cloak embroyderd with flower deluces So desiring your Lopp to pardon this poor imperfect paper considering the high quality of the subject I rest Madrid 1 Feb. 1623. Your Lordships most humble Servitor J. H. XXXI To Mr Walsingham Gresly from Madrid Don Balchasar I Thank you for your Letter in my Lords last packet wherin among other passages you write unto me the circumstances of Marques Spinola's raising his Leaguer by flatting and firing his works before Berghen He is much tax'd here to have attempted it and to have buried so much of the Kings tresure before that town in such costly Trenches A Gentleman came hither lately who was at the siege all the while and he told me one strange passage how Sir Ferdinando Cary a huge corpulent Knight was shot through his body the bullet entring at the Navell and comming out at his back kill'd his man behind him yet he lives still and is like to recover With this miraculous accident he told me also a merry one how a Captain that had a Woodden Leg Booted over had it shatterd to peeces by a Cannon Bullet his Soldiers crying out a Surgeon a Surgeon for the Captain no no said he a Carpenter a Carpenter will serve the tuâ—…n To this pleasant tale I 'le add another that happen'd lately in Alcala hard by of a Dominican Fryer who in a solemn Procession which was held there upon Ascension day last had his stones dangling under his habit cut off insteed of his pocket by a cut-purse Before you return hither which I understand will be speedily I pray bestow a visit on our friends in Bishopsgate-street So I am â—… Feb. 1623. Your faithfull Servitor J. H. XXXIII To Sir Robert Napier Knight at his house in Bishops-gate-street from Madrid SIR THe late breach of the Match hatch broke the neck of all businesses here and mine suffers as much as any I had access lately to Olivares once or twice I had audience also of the King to whom I presented a memoriall that intimated Letters of Mart unless satisfaction were had from his Vice-roy the Conde del Real the King gave me a gracious answer but Olivares a churlish one viz. That when the Spaniards had justice in England we should have justice here So that notwithstanding I have brought it to the highest point and pitch of perfection in Law that could be and procur'd som dispatches the like wherof were never granted in this Court before yet I am in dispair now to do any good I hope to be shortly in England by God grace to give you and the rest of the proprietaries a punctuall account of all things And you may easily conceive how sorry I am that matters succeeded not according to your expectation and my endeavours but I hope you are none of those that measure things by the event The Earl of Bristoll Count Gondamar and my Lord Ambassador Aston did not only do courtesies but they did cooperate with me in it and contributed their utmost endeavours So I rest Madrid 19. Feb. 1623. Yours to serve you J. H. XXXIV To Mr. A. S. in Alicant MUch endeared Sir Fire you know is the common emblem of love But without any disparagement to so noble a passion me thinks it might be also compar'd to tinder and Letters are the proper'st matter wherof to make this tinder Letters again are fittest to kindle and re-accend this tinder they may serve both for flint steel and match This Letter of mine comes therfore of set purpose to strike som sparkles into yours that it may glow and burn and receive ignition and not lie dead as it hath don a great while I make my pen to serve for an instrument to stir the cinders wherewith your old love to me hath bincover'd a long time therfore I pray let no covurez-fâ—…u Bell have power hereafter to rake up and choak with the ashes of oblivion that cleer slame wherwith our affections did use to sparkle so long by correspondence of Letters and other offices of love I think I shall sojourn yet in this Court these three moneths for I will not give over this great busines while ther is the least breath of hope remaining I know you have choice matter of intelligence somtimes from thence therfore I pray impait som unto us and you shall not fail to know how matters pass here weekly So with my bâ—…sa manos to Francisco Imperiall I rest Madrid 3 Mar. 1623. Yours most affectionately to serve you J. H. XXXV To the Honble Sir T. S. at Tower-Hill SIR I Was yesterday at the Escuriall to see the Monastery of Saint Laurence the eight wonder of the World and truly considering the site of the place the state of the thing and the symmetry of the structure with divers other raritles it may be call'd so for what I have seen in Italy and other places are but bables to
be had from Italy and the chief Materials from Spain France and other Forren Countries there is need â—…f an Agent abroad for this use and better then I have offered their service in this kind so that I believe I shall have Employment in all these Countreys before I return Had I continued still Steward of the Glasse-house in Broadstreet where Captain Francis Bacon hath succeeded me I should in a short time have melted away to nothing amongst those hot Venetians finding my self too green for such a Charge therefore it hath pleased God to dispose of me now to a Condition more sutable to my yeers and that will I hope prove more advantagious to my future Fortunes In this my Peregrination if I happen by some accident to be disappointed of that allowance I am to subsist by I must make my addresse to you for I have no other Rendevous to flee unto but it shall not be unlesse in case of great indigence Touching the News of the Time Sir George Villiers the new Favorit tapers up apace and grows strong at Court His Predecessor the Earl of Somerset hath got a Lease of ninety years for his life and so hath his articulate Lady called so for articling against the frigidity and impotence of her former Lord. She was afraid that Coke the Lord chief Justice who had used extraordinary an and industry in discovering all the circumstances of the poisoning of Overbury would have made white Broth of them but that the Prerogative kept them from the Pot Yet the subservient instruments the lesser flyes could not break thorow but lay entangled in the Cobweb amongst others Mistris Turner the first Inventress of yellow-Starch was executed in a Cobweb Lawn Ruff of that color at Tyburn and with her I believe that yellow-Starch which so much disfigured our-Nation and rendered them so ridiculous anâ—… fantastic will receive its Funerall Sir Gervas Elwayes Lieutenanâ—… of the Tower was made a notable Example of Justice and Terrâ—… to all Officers of Trust for being accessory and that in a passiâ—… way only to the murder yet he was hanged on Tower-hill anâ—… the Caveat is very remarkable which he gave upon the Gallowâ—… That people should be very cautious how they make Vows 〈◊〉 heaven for the breach of them seldome passe without a Judgement whereof he was a most ruthfull Example for being in thâ—… Low-Countreys and much given to Gaming he once made a solemn Vow which he brake afterwards that if he played abovâ—… such a sum he might be hanged My Lord William of Pembrook diâ—… a most noble Act like himself for the King having given hiâ—… all Sir Gervas Elway's estate which came to above 1000 pound 〈◊〉 he freely bestowed it on the widow and her children The later end of this week I am to go a Ship-board and first 〈◊〉 the Low-Countreys I humbly pray your Blessing may accompany me in these my Travels by Land and Sea with a conâ—…uance of your prayers which will be as so many good Gales to â—…ow me to safe Port for I have been taught That the Parents Beâ—…udictions contribute very much and have a kind of prophetic vertue â—…o make the childe prosperous In this opinion I shall ever rest Broad-street in London this 1. of March 1618. Your dutifull Son J. H. III. To Dr. Francis Mansell since Principall of Jesus Colledge in Oxford SIR BEing to take leave of England and to lanch out into the world abroad to Breath forren air a while I thought it very â—…andsom and an act well becoming me to take my leave also of â—…ou and of my dearly honoured Mother Oxford Otherwise both â—…f you might have just grounds to exhibite a Bill of Complaint or rather a Protest against me and cry me up you for a forgetfull friend she for an ingratefull Son if not some spurious Issue To â—…revent this I salute you both together you with the best of my â—…ost candid affections her with my most dutifull observance â—…nd thankfulnesse for the milk she pleased to give me in that Exuberance had I taken it in that measure she offered it me while â—… slept in her lap yet that little I have sucked I carry with me â—…ow abroad and hope that this cours of life will help to concoct 〈◊〉 to a greater advantage having opportunity by the nature of â—…y employment to study men as well as Books The small time I â—…upervis'd the Glasse-house I got amongst those Venetians some â—…atterings of the Italian Toung which besides the little I have â—…ou know of School-languages is all the Preparatives I have made â—…or travell I am to go this week down to Gravesend and so â—…mbarque for Holland I have got a Warrant from the Lords of â—…he Councell to travell for three years any where Rome and S. Omer excepted I pray let me retain some room though never so little in your thoughts during the time of this our separation and let our souls meet sometimes by intercours of letters I promise you that yours shall receive the best entertainment I can make them for I love you dearly dearly well and value your friendship at a very high raâ—…e So with apprecation of as much happiness to you at home as I shall desire to accompany me abroad I rest ever Your friend to serve you J. H. London this 〈◊〉 of March 1618. IV. To Sir James Crofts Knight at S. Osith SIR I Could not shake hands with England without kissing your hands also and because in regard of your distance now from London I cannot do it in person I send this paper for my deputy The News that keeps greatest noise here now is the return of Sir Walter Raleigh from his myne of Gold in Guiana the South parts of America which at first was like to be such a hopeful boon Voyage but it seems that that golden myne is proved a meer Chymerâ—… an imaginary aiâ—…y myne and indeed his Majestie had never any other conceipt of it But what will not one in Captivity as Sir Walter was promise to regain his Freedom who would not promise not onely mynes but mountains of Gold for Liberty t is pity such a knowing well-weigh'd Knight had not had a better Fortune for the Destiny I mean that brave Ship which he built himself of that name that carried him thither is like to prove a fatall Destiny to him and to some of the rest of those gallant Adventurers which contributed for the setting forth of thirteen Ships more who were most of them his kinsmen and younger brothers being led into the said Expedition by a generall conceipt the world had of the wisedom of Sir Walter Raleigh and many of these are like to make Shipwrack of their estates by this Voyage Sir Walter landed at Plymouth whence he thought to make an escape and some say he hath tampered with his body by Phisick to make him look sickly that he may be the more pitied and permitted to lie in his own
their days in meditation and in preparing themselves for another world Charles the Emperor shew'd them the way who left the Empire to his brother and all the rest of his Dominions to his son Philip the second and so taking with him his two sisters he retir'd into a Monastery they into a Nunnery this doth not suit well with the genius of an Englishman who loves not to pull off his cloaths till he goes to bed I will conclude with some Verses I saw under a huge Rodomontado picture of the Duke of Lerma wherin he is painted like a Giant bearing up the Monarchy of Spain that of France and the Popedom upon his shoulders with this Stanza Sobre les ombros d'este Atlante Yazen en aquestos dias Estas tres Monarquias Upon the shoulders of this Atlas lies The Popedom and two mighty Monarchies So I most humbly kiss your Lordships hands and rest ever most ready Madrid 3 Febr. 1622. At your Lordships command J. H. XII To my Father SIR ALL affairs went on fairly here specially that of the match when Master Endymion Porter brought lately my Lord of Bâ—…istoll a dispatch from England of a high nature wherin the Earl is commanded to represent unto this King how much his Majesty of great Britain since the beginning of these German wars hath labourd to merit well of this Crown and of the whole House of Austria by a long and lingring patience grounded still upon assurances hence that care should be had of his honor his Daughters joynture and grand-childrens patrimony yet how crosly all things had proceeded in the Treaty at Bruxells manag'd by Sir Richard Weston as also that in the Palatinat by the Lord Chichester how in treating time the Town and Castle of Heidelberg were taken Manbeim besieg'd and all acts of Hostility us'd notwithstanding the fair professions made by this King the Infanta at Bruxells and other his Ministers How meerly out of respect to this King he had neglected all Martiall means which probably might have preserv'd the Palatinat those thin Garrisons which he had sent thither being rather for honors sake to keep a footing untill a generall accommodation than that he relyed any way upon their strength And since that there are no other fruits of all this but reproach and scorn and that those good Offices which he us'd towards the Emperor on the behalf of his Son in law which he was so much encouraged by Letters from hence should take effect have not sorted to any other issue than to a plain affront and a high injuring of both their Majesties though in a different degree The Earl is to tell him that his Majesty of great Britain hopes and desires that out of a true apprehension of these wrongs offerd unto them both he will as his dear and loving brother faithfully promise and undertake upon his honor confirming the same under his hand and seal either that Heidelberg shall be within seventy days rendred into his hands as also that ther shall be within the said term of seventy days a suspension of arms in the Palatinat and that a Treaty shall recommence upon such terms as he propounded in November last which this King held then to be reasonable And in case that this be not yeelded unto by the Emperor that then this King joyn forces with his Majesty of England for the recovery of the Palatinat which upon this trust hath been lost or in case his forces at this time be otherwise employ'd that they cannot give his Majesty that assistance he desires and deserves that at least he will permit a free and friendly passage through his Territories for such Forces as his Mejesty of great Britain shall employ into Germany Of all which if the Earl of Bristoll hath not from the King of Spain a direct assurance under his hand and Seal ten days after his audience that then he take his leave and return to England to his Majesties presence els to proceed in the negotiation of the match according to former instructions This was the main substance of his Majesties late letter yet there was a postill added that in case a rupture happen 'twixt the two Crowns the Earl should not com instantly and abruptly â—…way but that he should send advice first to England and carry the busines so that the world should not presently know of it Notwithstanding all these traverses we are confident here that the match will take otherwise my Cake is Dow. There was a great difference in one of the capitulations 'twixt the two Kings how long the children which should issue of this marriage were to continue sub regimine Matris under the tutele of the Mother This King demanded 14 years at first then twelve but now he is come to nine which is newly condescended unto I receiv'd yours of the first of September in another from Sir Iames Crofts wherin it was no small comfort to me to hear of your health I am to go hence shortly for Sardinia a dangerous voyage by reason of Algier Pirats I humbly desire your prayers may accompany Madrid 23 Febr. 1622. Your dutifull Son J. H. XIII To Sir James Crofts Knight SIR YOurs of the second of October came to safe hand with the inclos'd you write that there came dispatches lately from Rome wherin the Pope seems to endevour to insinuat himself into a direct treaty with England and to negotiat immediatly with our King touching the dispensation which he not only labours to evade but utterly disclaims it being by Article the task of this King to procure all dispatches thence I thank you for sending me this news You shall understand there came lately an express from Rome also to this Court touching the business of the match which gave very good content but the dispatch and new instructions which Mr. Endymion Porter brought my Lord of Bristoll lately from England touching the Prince Palatinat fills us with apprehensions of fear Our Ambassadors here have had audience of this King already about those Propositions and we hope that Master Porter will carry back such things as will satisfie Touching the two points in the Treaty wherin the two Kings differ'd most viz. about the education of the children and the exemption of the Infanta's Ecclesiastic servants from secular jurisdiction both these points are clear'd for the Spaniard is com from fourteen years to ten and for so long time the Infant Princes shall remain under the mothers government And for the other point the Ecclesiasticall Superior shall first take notice of the offence that shall be committed by any spirituall person belonging to the Infanta's family and according to the merit therof either deliver him by degradation to the secular justice or banish him the Kingdom according to the quality of the delict and it is the same that is practis'd in this Kingdom and other parts that adhere to Rome The Conde de Monterrey goes Vice-roy to Naples the Marquis de Montesclaros being
and exterminated yet I beleeve in Portugall there lurks yet good store of them For the soil of Spain the fruitfulnes of their vallies recompences the sterillity of their hills corn is their greatest want and want of rain is the cause of that which makes them have need of their neighbors yet as much as Spain bears is passing good and so is every thing else for the quality nor hath any one a better horse under him a better cloak on his back a better sword by his side better shooes on his feet than the Spaniard nor doth any drink better Wine or eat better fruit than he nor flesh for the quantity Touching the People the Spaniard looks as high though not so big aâ—… a German his excesse is in too much gravity which som who know him not well hold to be a pride he cares not how little he labours for poor Gascons and Morisco slaves do most of his work in field and vineyard he can endure much in the war yet he loves not to fight in the dark but in open day or upon a stage that all the world might be witnesses of his valor so that you shall seldom hear of Spaniards employed in night service nor shall one hear of a Duell here in an age He hath one good quality that he is wonderfully obedient to Government for the proudest Don of Spain when he is prancing upon his Ginet in the streets if an Alguazil a Sargeant shew him his Vare that is a little white staff he carrieth as badge of his Office my Don will down presently off his horse and yeeld himself his prisoner He hath another commendable quality that when he giveth Alms he puls off his Hat and puts it in the beggars hand with a great deal of humility His gravity is much lessned since the late Proclamation came out against ruffs and the King himself shewd the first example they were come to that hight of excess herein that twenty shillings were us'd to be paid for starching of a ruff and som though perhaps he had never a shirt to his back yet would be have a toting huge swelling ruff about his neck He is sparing in his Ordinary diet but when he makes a Feast he is free and bountifull As to Temporall Authority specially Martiall so is be very obedient to the Church and beleeves all with an implicit faith he is a great servant of Ladies nor can he be blam'd for as I said before he coms of a Gotish race yet he never brags of nor blazes abroad his doings that way but is exceedingly carefull of the repute of any woman A civility that we much want in England Hee will speak high words of Don Philippo his King but will not endure a stranger should do so I have heard a Biscayner make a Rodomontado that he was as good a Gentleman as Don Philippo himself for Don Philippo was half a Spaniard half a German half an Italian half a Frenchman half I know not what but he was a pure Biscayner without mixture The Spaniard is not so smooth and oyly in his Complement as the Italian and though hee will make strong protestations yet he will not swear out Complements like the French and English as I heard when my Lord of Carlile was Ambassador in France there came a great Monsieur to see him and having a long time banded and sworn Complements one to another who should go first out at a dore at last my Lord of Carlile said ô Monseigneur ayez pitie de mon ame O my ' Lord have pity upon my soul. The Spaniard is generally given to gaming and that in excesse he will say his prayers before and if he win he will thank God for his good fortune after their common game at cards for they very seldom play at dice is Primera at which the King never shews his game but throws his cards with their faces down on the Table He is Merchant of all the cards and dice through all the Kingdom he hath them made for a penny a pair and he retails them for twelve pence so that 't is thought he hath 30000 l. a year by this trick at cards The Spaniard is very devout in his way for I have seen him kneel in the very dirt when the Ave Mary bell rings and som if they spy two straws or sticks lie cross-wise in the street they will take them up and kisse them and lay them down again He walks as if he marcht and seldom looks on the ground as if he contemnd it I was told of a Spaniard who having got a fall by a stumble and broke his nose rose up and in a disdainfull manner said Voto a tal esto es caminar por la tierra This is to walk upon earth The Labradors and Countrey Swains here are sturdy and rationall men nothing so simple or servile as the French Peasan who is born in chains T is true the Spaniard is not so conversable as other Nations unlesse hee hath travel'd els hee is like Mars among the Planets impatient of Conjunction nor is he so free in his gifts and rewards as the last Summer it hapned that Count Gondamar with Sir Francis Cotington went to see a curious house of the Constable of Castiles which had been newly built here the keeper of the house was very officious to shew him every room with the garden grotha's and aqueducts and presented him with some fruit Gondamar having been a long time in the house comming out put many Complements of thanks upon the man and so was going away Sir Francis whisper'd him in the ear and askd him whether he would give the man any thing that took such pains Oh quoth Gondamar well remembred Don Francisco have you ever a double Pistoll about you If you have you may give it him and then you pay him after the English manner I have paid him already after the Spanish The Spaniard is much improv'd in policy since hee took footing in Italy and there is no Nation agrees with him better I will conclude this Character with a saying that he hath No ay bombre debaxo d'el sol Como el Italiano y el Español Wherunto a Frenchman answerd Dizes la verdad y tienes razon El uno es puto el otro ladron Englished thus Beneath the Sun ther 's no such man As is is the Spaniard and Italian The Frenchman answers Thou tell'st the truth and reason hast The first 's a Theef a Buggerer the last Touching their women nature hath made a more visible distinction twixt the two sexes here than else where for the men for the most part are swarthy and rough but the women are made of a far finer mould they are commonly little and wheras there is a saying that to make a compleat woman let her be English to the neck French to the wast and Dutch below I may add for hands and feet let her be Spanish for they have the least of
1500 that very week and two out of White-Hall it self Ther is high clashing again 'twixt my Lord Duke and the Earl of Bristoll they recriminat one another of divers things the Earl accuseth him amongst other matters of certain Letters from Rome of putting His Majesty upon that hazardous jorney of Spain and of som miscarriages at his being in that Court Ther be Articles also against the Lord Conway which I send your Lordship here inclosed I am for Oxford the next week and thence for Wales to fetch my good old Fathers blessing at my return if it shall please God to reprieve me in these dangerous times of Contagion I shall continue my wonted service to your Lordship if it may be done with safety So I rest Lond. 15 of Mar. 1626. Your Lordships most humble Servitor J. H. XXI To the honble the Lord Viscount C. My Lord SIr Iohn North delivered me one lately from your Lordship and I send my humble thanks for the Venison you intend me I acquainted your Lordship as opportunity serv'd with the nimble pace the French Match went on by the successfull negotiation of the Earls of Carlile and Holland who outwent the Monsieurs themselves in Courtship how in less than nine Moons this great busines was propos'd pursued and perfected wheras the Sun had leasure enough to finish his annuall progres from one end of the Zodiac to the other so many years before that of Spain could com to any shape of perfection This may serve to shew the difference 'twixt the two Nations the Leaden-heeld pace of the one and the Quick-silver'd motions of the other It shews also how the French is more generous in his proceedings and not so full of scruples reservations and jealousies as the Spaniard but deales more frankly and with a greater confidence and gallantry The Lord Duke of Buckingham is now in Paris accompanied with the Earl of Montgomerie and hee went in a very splendid equipage The Venetian and Hollander with other States that are no friends to Spain did som good offices to advance this Alliance and the new Pope propounded much towards it But Richelieu the new Favorit of France was the Cardinall instrument in it This Pope Urban grows very active not onely in things present but ripping up of old matters for which ther is a select Committee appointed to examin accounts and errors pass'd not only in the time of his immediat Predecessor but others And one told me of a merry Pasquill lately in Rome that wheras ther are two great Statues one of Peter the other of Paul opposit one to the other upon a Bridge one had clapt a pair of Spurs upon Saint Peters Heels and Saint Paul asking him whither hee was bound he answered I apprehend som danger to staie now in Rome because of this new Commission for I fear they will question me for denying my Master Truly brother Peter I shall not staie long after you for I have as much cause to doubt that they will question me for persecuting the Christians before I was converted So I take my leave and rest London 3 May. 1626. Your Lordships most humble Servitor J. H. XXII To my Brother Master Hugh Penry SIR I Thank you for your late Letter and the severall good tydings you sent me from Wales In requitall I can send you gallant news for we have now a most Noble new Queen of England who in true beuty is beyond the Long-Woo'd Infanta for she was of a fading Flaxen-Hair Big Lipp'd and somwhat heavy Ey'd but this Daughter of France this youngest Branch of Bourbon being but in her cradle when the great Henry her Father was put out of the World is of a more lovely and lasting complexion a dark brown shee hath eyes that sparkle like Stars and for her Physiognomy she may be said to be a mirror of perfection She had a rough passage in her transfretation to Dover Castle and in Canterbury the King Bedded first with her ther were a goodly train of choice Ladies attended her coming upon the Bowling-green on Barram-Down upon the way who divided themselves into two rows and they appear'd like so many Constellations but me thought that the Countrey Ladies out-shin'd the Courtiers She brought over with her two hundred thousand Crowns in Gold and Silver as halt her portion and the other Moitie is to be payed at the yeers end Her first suit of servants by Article are to be French and as they die English are to succeed shee is also allowed twenty eight Ecclesiastics of any Order except Iesuits a Bishop for her Almoner and to have privat exercise of her Religion for her and her servants I pray convey the inclosed to my Father by the next conveniency and present my dear love to my Sister I hope to see you at Dyvinnock about Michaâ—…mas for I intend to wait upon my Father and will take my Mother in the way I mean Oxford in the interim I rest London 16 May 1626. Your most affectionat Brother J H. XXIII To my Unkle Sir Sackvill Trever from Oxford SIR â—… Am sorry I must write unto you the sad tydings of the dissolution of the Parliament here which was don suddenly Sir Iohn Eâ—…liot was in the heat of a high speech against the Duke of Buchingâ—…m when the Usher of the Black-Rod knock'd at the door and signified the Kings pleasure which strook a kind of consternation in all the House My Lord Keeper Williams hath parted with the Broad-Seal because as som say he went about to cut down the Scale by which he rose for som it seems did ill offices 'twixt the Duke and him Sir Thomas Coventry hath it now I pray God he be tender of the Kings conscience wherof he is Keeper rather than of the Seal I am bound to morrow upon a journey towards the Mountains to see som Friends in Wales and to bring back my Fathers blessing for better assurance of Lodging wher I pass in regard of the Plague I have a Post Warrant as far as Saint Davids which is far enough you 'l say for the King hath no ground further on this Island If the sicknes rage in such extremity at London the Term will be held at Reding All your friends here are well but many look blank because of this sudden rupture of the Parliament God Almighty turn all to the best and stay the fury of this contagion and preserve us from â—…urther judgements so I rest Oxford 6 Aug. 1626. Your most affectionate Nephew J. H. XXIV To my Father from London SIR I Was now the fourth time at a dead stand in the cours of my fortunes for though I was recommended to the Duke and receiv'd many Noble respects from him yet I was told by som who are neerest him that som body hath don me ill offices by whispering in his ear that I was two much Digbified and so they told me positively that I must never expect any imployment about him of any
those of Spain one of the prime sort of white wines is that of Beaume and of Clarets that of Orleans though it be interdicted to wine the Kings Cellar with it in regard of the corrosivenes it carries with it As in France so in all other wine Countries the white is called the female and the Claret or red wine is called the male because commonly it hath more sulpher body and heat in 't The wines that our Merchants bring over upon the River of Garond near Bourdeaux in Gascogny which is the greatest Mart for wines in all France The Scot because he hath alwaies bin an usefull confederate to France against England hath among other privileges right of preemption or first choice of wines in Bourdeaux he is also permitted to carry his Ordnance to the very walls of the Town wheras the English are forc'd to leave them at Blay a good way distant down the river Ther is a hard green wine that grows about Rochâ—…ll and the Islands therabouts which the cunning Hollander somtime used to fetch and he hath a trick to put a bag of herbs or som other infusions into it as he doth bâ—…imstone in Rhenish to give it a whiter tincture and more sweetnes then they reimbark it â—…or England where it passeth for good Bâ—…hrag and this is called stooming of wines In Normandy there 's little or no wine at all grows therfore the common drink of that Countrey is cyder specially in low Normandy Ther are also many beer houses in Paris and elsewhere but though their barley and water be better then ours or that of Germany and though they have English and Dutch brewers amongst them yet they cannot make beer in that perfection The prime wines of Germany grow about the Rhine specially in the Pfalts or lower Palatinat about Backrag which hath its Etimologie from Bacchi aâ—…a for in ancient times ther was an Altar erected there to the honour of Bacchus in regard of the richnes of the wines Here and all France over 't is held a great part of incivility for maidens to drink wine untill they are married as it is in Spain for them to wear high shooes or to paint till than The Germain mothers to make their sons fall into hatred of wine do use when they are little to put som owles eggs into a cup of Rhenish and somtimes a little living eel which twingling in the wine while the child is drinking so scares him that many com to abhor and have an antipathy to wine all their lives after From Backrag the fiâ—…st stocks of vines which grow now in the grand Canary Island were brought which with the heat of the Sun and the Soyle is grown now to that height of perfection that the wine which they afford are accounted the richest the most firm the best bodied and lastingst wine and the most defecated from all earthly grossenes of any other whatsoever it hath little or no sulphur at all in 't and leaves less dreggs behind though one drink it to exces French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomack but this is the wine that disgests and doth not only breed good bloud but it nutrifieth also being a glutinous substantiall liquour of this wine if of any other may be verified that merry induction That good wine makes good bloud good bloud causeth good humors good humors cause good thoughts good thoughts bring forth good works good works carry a man to heaven ergo good wine carrieth a man to heaven if this be true surely more English go to heaven this way then any other for I think ther 's more Canary brought into England then to all the world besides I think also ther is a hundred times more drunk under the name of Canary wine then ther is brought in for Sherries and Malagas well mingled pass for Canaries in most Taverns more often then Canary it self els I do not see how 't were possible for the Vintner to save by it or to live by his calling unless he were permitted somtimes to be a Brewer When Sacks and Canaries were brought in first among us they were us'd to be drunk in Aquavita measures and 't was held fit only for those to drink of them who us'd to carry their leggs in their hands their eyes upon their noses and an Almanack in their bones but now they go down every ones throat both young and old like milk The Countries that are freest from exces of drinking are Spain and Italy If a Woman can prove her Husband to have been thrice drunk by the the ancient laws of Spain she may plead for a divorce from him Nor indeed can the Spaniard being hot brainâ—… bear much drink yet I have heard that Gondamar was once too hard for the King of Denmark when he was here in England But the Spanish Souldiers that have bin in the Wars of Flanders will take their cups freely and the Italians also when I liv'd to ' 〈◊〉 side the Alpes a Gentleman told me a merry tale of a Liguriaâ—… Souldier who had got drunk in Genoa and Prince Doria going horseback to walk the round one night the Souldier took his horse by the bridle and ask'd what the price of him was for he wanted horse the Prince seeing in what humor he was caus'd him 〈◊〉 be taken into a house and put to sleep In the morning he 〈◊〉 for him and askd him what he would give for his horse Sir 〈◊〉 the recovered Souldier the Merchant that would have bought 〈◊〉 yyesternight of your Highnesse went away betimes in the morning The boonest compagnions for drinking are the Greeks and Germains But the Greek is the merrier of the two for he will sing and dance and kiss his next compagnion but the other will drink as deep as he if the Greek will drink as many glasses as ther be letters in his Mistresses name the other will drink the number of his yeers and though he be not apt to break out into singing being not of so airy a constitution yet he will drink often musically a health to every one of these 6. notes Ut Re Mi â—…a Sol La which with his reason are all comprehended in this Exameter Ut Relevet Miserum Fatum Solitosque Labores The fewest draughts he drinks are three the first to quench the thirst pass'd the second to quench the present thirst the third to prevent the future I heard of a company of low Dutchmen that had drunk so deep that beginning to stagger and their heads turning round they thought verily they were at Sea and that the upper chamber wher they were was a ship insomuch that it being soul windy weather they fel to throw the stools and other things out of the window to lighten the vessell for fear of suffering shipwrack Thus have I sent your Lordship a dry discourse upon a fluent subiect yet I hope your Lordship will please to take all in good part because it proceeds
vaâ—…t bounds throughout An Academe of note I found not out But now I hope in a successfull proâ—…e The Fates have fix'd me on sweet Englands shore And by these various wandrings 〈◊〉 I found Earth is our comâ—…n Mother every ground Maâ—… be one's Countrey for by birth each man Is 〈◊〉 this world a Cosmopolitan A free-born Buâ—…gess and receives therby Hâ—… 〈◊〉 frâ—…m Nativety Nor is this lower world but a huge Inne And men the rambling pâ—…ssengers wherin Sâ—…m do warm lodgings find and that as soon As out of natures â—…lossets they see noon Anâ—… find the Table ready laid but som Must for their commons trot and trudg for room With easie pace som climb Promotions Hill Som in the Dale do what they can stick still Som through false glasses Fortune smiling spy Who still keeps off though she appears hard by Som like the Ostrich with their wings do flutter But cannot fly or soar above the gutter Som quickly fetch and double Good-Hopes Cape Som ne'r can do 't though the same cours they shape So that poor mortalls are so many balls Toss'd som o'r line som under fortun 's walls And it is Heavens high pleasure Man should ly Obnoxious to this partiality That by industrious ways he should contend Nature's short pittance to improve and menâ—… Now Industry ne'r fail'd at last t' advance Her patient sons above the reach of Chance Poet. But whither rov'st thou thus Well since I see thou art so strongly bent And of a gracious look so confident Go and throw down thy self at Caesars fâ—…et And in thy best attire thy Soveraign greet Go an auspicious and most blissefully yeer Wâ—…sh Him as e'r sh n'd o'r this Hemisphear Good may the Entrance better the middle be And the Conclusion best of all the three Of joy ungrudg'd may each day be a debter And evry morn still usher in a better May the soft gliding Nones and every Ide With all the Calends still som good betide May Cynthia with kind looks and 〈◊〉 rays One clear his nights the other gild his days Free limbs unpâ—…ysic'd health due appetite Which no sauce else but Hunger may excite Sound sleeps green dreams be his which represent Symptomes of health and the next days content Chearfull and vacant thoughts not always bound To counsell or in deep Idea's drown'd Though such late traverses and tumults might Turn to a lump of care the airiest wight And since while fragile flesh doth us array The humors stil are combating for sway Which wer they free of this reluctancie And counterpois'd Man would immortall be May sanguin o'r the rest predominate In Him and their malignant fiux abate May his great Queen in whose Imperious ey Reigns such a world of winning Majesty Like the rich Olive or Falernian Vine Swell with more gems of Cians masculine And as her fruit sprung from the Rose and Luce The best of stems Earth yet did e'r produce Is tied already by a Sanguin lace To all the Kings of Europe's high-born race So may they shoot their youthfull branches o'r The surging seas and graff with every Shore May home-commerce and trade encrease from far That both the Indies meet within his bars And bring in Mounts of Coin His Mints to feed And Banquers trafics chief suporters breed Which may enrich his Kingdoms Court and Town And ballast still the coffers of the Crown For Kingdoms are as ships the Prince his chests The ballast which if empty when distres't With storms their holds are lightly trimm'd the keel Can run no steedy cours but toss and reel May his Imperiall chamber always ply To his desires her wealth to multiply That she may prize his Royall favour more Than all the wares fetch'd from the great Mogor May the Grand Senate with the Subjects right Put in the Counter-scale the Regall might The flowrs o' th' Crown that they may prop each other And like the Grecians twin live love together For the chief glory of a people is The power of their King as theirs is His May He be still within himself at home That no just passion make the reason rome Yet passions have their turns to rouse the Soul And stir her slumbring spirits not controul For as the Ocean besides ebb and flood Which Nature 's greatest Clerk ne'r understood â—…s not for sail if an impregning wind Fill not the flagging canvas so a mind Too calm is not for Action if desire Heats not it self at passion's quickning fire For Nature is allow'd somtimes to muster Her passions so they only blow not bluster May Iustice still in her true scales appear And honour fix'd in no unworthy sphear Unto whose palace all access should have Through virtues Temple not through Plutos Cave May his tru subjects hearts be his chief Fort Their purse his tresure and their Love his Port Their prayers as sweet Incense to draw down Myriads of blessings on his Queen and Crown And now that his glad presence did asswage That fearfull tempest in the North did rage May those frog vapours in the Irish skie Be scatter'd by the beams of Majesty That the Hybernian lyre give such a sound May on our coasts with joyfull Ecchoes bound And when this fatall planet leaves to lowr Which too too long on Monarchies doth powr His direfull influence may Peace once more Descend from Heaven on our tottering shore And ride in triumph both on land and main And with her milk white steeds draw Charles his wain That so for those Saturnian times of old An Age of Pearl may com in lieu of Gold Virtu still guide his cours and if ther be A thing as Fortune Him accompanie May no ill genius haunt him but by 's side The best protecting Angell ever bide May He go on to vindicate the right Of holy things and make the Temple bright To keep that Faith that sacred Truth entire Which he receiv'd from Salomon his Sire And since we all must hence by th' Iron Decree Stamp'd in the black Records of Destinie Late may his life his Glory ne'r wear out Till the great year of Plato wheel about So Prayeth The worst of Poets to The best of Princes yet The most loyall of His Votaries and Vassalls JAMES HOVVILL FINIS Additionall LETTERS Of a fresher Date Never Publish'd before And Composed By the same AUTHOR Vt clavis portam sic pandit Epistola pectus LONDON Printed by W. H. for Humphrey Moseley and are to be sold at his Shop at the Princes Arms in St Pauls Church-yard 1650. To the Right Honorable EDVVARD Earl of DORSET c. My Lord THe two preceding Dedications being the one to a King the other to a Prince I hope this Third consisting all of new Matter will be the more excusable that I make to your Lpp who if ther were a generall Muster of Mankind and due regard had to Gallantry and worth would appear like a King among Princes and a Prince among Peers I humbly
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