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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03875	The mirrour of mindes, or, Barclay's Icon animorum, Englished by T.M.; Satyricon. Part 4. English	Barclay, John, 1582-1621.; May, Thomas, 1595-1650.	1631 (1631)	STC 1399; ESTC S100801	121,640	564

thou mayest better disarme their fiercenesse they must be base and low entreaties which must asswage the fury of their first assault For this torrent if it bee opposed by noe resistance will languish in a moment and become quiet This warinesse and timorous wisedome is onely to be vsed in Townes or publike fields where a concourse of people to side with them th●● did first abuse thee is eyther● gathered already or presently to be expected But in priu●●● places and where thy 〈◊〉 would not prooue too 〈◊〉 vnequall then bee sure to expresse at least in shew a bo●d spirit not brooking iniuries by which meanes thou wilt terrifie them which doe not insult out of true valour but are as ready to receiue as to offer wrong The Magistrates and Iudges are fauourable to the complaints of strangers and forward to punish the people which doe them wrong vnlesse it bee a multitude that doe offend whom it is easie to blame but hard and for the most part too much cruelty to punish And soe wondrously hospitable are the sea●es of Iustice in that Nation that if a stranger offend hee shall finde them fauourable or if it happen that a stranger and an Englishmen be both guilty of one fact which deserueth eyther the whip or the gallowes the stranger many times is no further punished but onely commanded to depart the Kingdome The gentlemen are naturally enclined to a kinde entertainment of all strangers and are worthily ambitious in such curtesies Soe that no man vnlesse of a froward and ba●barous disposition and altogether vnworthy of Noble company can repent himselfe of trauelling into Engla●d Among those Noblemen whose carriage is graue and their speech and gesture fit●ed to their dignity you m●st comply with an answerable grauity and aemulation as it were of m●iesty least they perchance should vnder●alue you from their owne grauity and your speech which must not bee to them in a soothing manner like the Italian and French humility you will otherwise carry a lower estimation among those men who accustome not themselues vnto affected humanity and lying complement To the Northern parts of England Scotland adioyneth gouerned by a scepter of incredible antiquity compared with other Kingdomes for the crowne of Scotland aboue twenty ages hath endured in the possession of one Family An hundred and twenty Kings haue successiuely reigned from Ferg●●●● the First to Iames that now 〈◊〉 who to soe anciancient a pedigree adding the Royalty of England is the first that combined the Kingdomes and reigneth entirely ouer all Brittaine The Scots are of dispositions fitted for society of behauiour and gestures of the body excelling other Nations and like vnto the French in all things but the riches of their country For the country Northward 〈◊〉 in many places not fit for 〈◊〉 and full of barren mountaines neyther are those mountaines clothed with woods vnlesse some which are raysed into a sharper climate and giue a woody and barbarous name to the inhabitants Yet Nature hath bestowed vpon it those hardy people abundance of v●●tuall in fowle and 〈…〉 besides their flocks and heards of cattell It is sight vsuall to see three hundred red Deere or more in one heard But the inhabitants can rowze farre greater heards when the Noblemen are pleased to hunt there Neither doe they want comodities in their country fit to exchange for forreyne merchandises which are transported thither of necessary vse But the scarcity of money by no art or industry can be redr●ssed foe that they which in their owne country doe liue in plenty and with great attendance are not able in ●orreine parts to maintaine their port But noe people are more mindefull of their pedigrees then they that they had rather sometimes disgrace their Family by their pouerty then conceale the vnseasonable expressing of their titles or not mention their kindred For it is necessary in a country more populous then fruitfull that some of Noble blood should bee borne to extreme pouerty Soe that the Scots dispersed into many countries to get their liuing and none are more faithfull and industrious then they being still eager in publishing their Nobility are often laughed at by the hearers then beleeued or pitted But the people couragious also against themselues are diuided by many and fierce enmities and cruell to each other beyond an lawes of humanity or hatred For being diuided by Families and Names they hold those as Princes of their factions which possesse the most ancient inheritance of the Family To those men they are wonderously obseruant with a loue as great ●●most as to their country it selfe to them when they are wronged they 〈◊〉 for succour vsing the patronage and strength of their owne Family By this meanes it has heppened that small quarrells betwixt men of obscu●e condition haue beene the causes of great and horrible commotions For they that haue quarrelled complayning on both sides to the Princes of their Kindred haue turned their 〈◊〉 wrongs into the in●●●es of whole families Nor are these differences decided with little blood for sometimes gathered into troopes and almost into iust armu●● they fight it out and these 〈◊〉 continue to their heires after them They thinke i● glorious to reu●●ge ●urder with thunder and firewith fire Nor doe they alwayes deale by 〈◊〉 force but by s●●res and treacheries Nothing can bee 〈◊〉 or ignoble to them 〈…〉 cure their eyes onely by the miseries of their enemies And this mischiefe has often beene the ouerthrow of Noblemen who haue eyther beene slaine in fight or else vndone in their estates by keeping such multitudes of seruants and tenants about them for soe it was necessary for feare of suddaine assaules from their enemies whilest their Lands 〈◊〉 lyen●ntilled and wast And some heue thought 〈…〉 of wood in the country has beene caused by these enmities whilest these cruell people on both sides haue burnt vp their enemies woods and 〈◊〉 their priuate iniuries with the deuastation of their country But these things 〈◊〉 were more to 〈…〉 when they were 〈◊〉 where ri●● now since wee see it other wise wee may cherish hereafter better hopes For although heretofore it lay not in the power of the Kings to remedy soe great a mischiefe when the Nobles by the faithfulnesse number of their clients were more fierce and strong yet the now reigning King Iames of Brittaine has at last bestowed this benefit vpon this country 〈…〉 haue encouraged others to the same audacity especially least they should seeme to haue borne a fearefull and degenerate anger Hee therefore thought it best at once and for euer to compound these deadly 〈◊〉 The King therefore tooke a diligent account of those whose Familyes were engaged in such quarrells and partly in his owne person partly by the me 〈…〉 any more named among them a great and admirable worke of a most wise and industrious King yet not performed without much time and wonderfull felicity Two yeares after hee had thus appealed Scotland hee

was called to the succession of the crowne of England a great happynesse for the strengthening of this amity among the Scots who now with a fitting 〈…〉 inconsiderate bounty and loue the fame more then the possession of riches or else deceiued by the quality of their owne country when they haue attained to such a summe of money as would make them rich for euer in Scotland they grow too secure of future pouerty and doe not vnderstand 〈◊〉 in euery Land the expences and prices of things are answerable to the plenty of gold and siluer soe that a great quantity of money can hardly bee 〈◊〉 in any place but such as is vsed to great expences What studies soeuer they encline to they prosper in them with wonderfull successe None are m●re 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 duties 〈◊〉 none more vallant in fight then they nor 〈◊〉 the Muses euer appeare more beautifull then when they inspire the bre●sts of Scots They are capable also of city-businesse and can fit their industry to any kinde eyther of life or fortune But those that trauell or 〈…〉 and rely vpon no other meanes then going to the houses of their countrymen which are growne rich in other Lands and demand as it were the tribute of their country are most intollerable in their proud begger● Ireland by the ancient Latines called Ierna and now Hybernia is an Island not far from Brittaine and subiect to the crowne of England a great and 〈◊〉 Island commodious for shipping by reason of many hauens nor is it to bee censured by the barbarisme and sordid liuing of many of the habitants for the fruitfullinsse of it inuiteth many 〈…〉 of England and Scotland to 〈…〉 mortall to any venomous creatures Newets and Toades if they bee brought thither will not liue The wood transported from thence noe age nor neglect will make worme-eaten no●●hung with spiders 〈◊〉 although the Irish haue their spiders but harmelesse and free from venome The beames rafters and boordings of Westminster hall where the Courts of Iustice sit are made of that wood and there a wonderfull thing● the walls round about are filled with spiders but none of those sordid nets are spread vpon 〈◊〉 wood The Irish which liue not in Townes or ciuill places are wonderfull hardy in enduring any ayre or diet by reason of long and accustomed pouerty They can satisfie their hunger with any victuals gotten on the sudaine as venison or beefe halfe-raw They temper their meate with milke They build brittle and weake houses about the height of a man where themselues and their cattell liue together But this in those people is a thing to be wondred at the four of 〈◊〉 and ease doth soften the courages of other Nations but maketh the Ir●● valfant in warre For by reason of their sloth though their fields are fertile yet tilling and sowing are things almost vnknowne to them They are content with that grafte which the ground yeeldeth of her owne accord for pasture for their cattell They exercise noe 〈◊〉 dycrafts for feare of disparaging that Nobility which they soe highly boast of Soe in a sordid and filthy idlenesse they lead their liues and had rather cure by patience then industry the discommodities which are daily companions of their barbarous liuing and soe farre are they from knowing delight as they feele not want and misery In one single garment they endure both wet and cold by often hunting they grow wonderfull swift in running equalling almost the wildbeasts when they are weary or benighted the ground serues them for a lodging and couered with snow or wet with showres yet they are sooner raised by satiety of sleeping 〈◊〉 by the 〈◊〉 of the weather excellent rudimeats of warre and valour if they did not proceede from such filthy sloth This beastlynesse in time of peace also n●yther the fellowship of the English nor the ●mulation of the Spanish fashions can make them to shake off but they loue this life soe full of sordid discommodities as free from cares assured by a wicked shadow of liberty which in different kindes has fouly deceiued diuerse 〈◊〉 They are obstinate in their 〈◊〉 viees haters of labour and foe of all profit but very industrious in theeuing and 〈◊〉 or any 〈◊〉 which is like to hunting And these are the slothfull miseries of the common people The Noblemen are many of them very faithfull of braue mindes nu●tured in 〈◊〉 vertues that befit their dignities Those alsoe that liue in Citties or the pleasantest parts of the Kingdome are adorned with great humanity and declare by this that those wilde Irish are barbarous by their owne willfullnesse and not borne to that vice by the fare of the Island The Fift Chapter GERMANY THe Riuer Rhene arising from the foote of the Alpe● and flowing along the borders of the Low-countries doth there fall into the Ocean It was once the bound of Germany but now by the changes of 〈◊〉 and Empires the limits of Germany being encreased it may bee sayd to run through it Germany is a spacious country reaching from the Alpe● and France as farre as Sarma●● and Pannonia diuided into many principalities and com●●●●ealths It was once full of ●oods and wild inhabitants but now beautified euery where with faire Townes the woods which were once great and orespread the country are now reduced to vse and Ornament It nourisheth vines in that part where it bordereth vpon Italy and where it declineth towards Pannonia as likewise vpon those hils which ouershadow the Rhene and some few places besides where the ground by fauour of some hils and warmth of the riuers is fitted for that purpose The cold grounds in their mountaines 〈◊〉 with firre trees and other woods Ister the Prince of riuers in Europe doth cut almost through the midst of Germany and rises in a sea-like channell to the yearely ruine of bridges there whose bankes are beautiful with famous cities but to● few for the greatnesse of fo● noble a riuer Rhene Alb● and many riuers famous in old times doe flow through all the breadth of Germany The country is full of good ●●nes on the side where the Alpes bound it and all along the course of Ister in those places 〈◊〉 where Rhene runnes and M●nis with the Maz● encre●● of soe great a riuer but the side of the country which ly● toward the Ocean and the ●●ner Land remooued from the famous and publike rodes fo● nasty Innes and sordid 〈◊〉 of liuing in generall 〈◊〉 much of that Ge●●●us which Ancient Writers haue ascribed to it Yet there are cities not vnworthy of some the market-places and streets especially craftly handsome the houses of lofty and euen structure the frailer parts of the building couered with printings The inner parts of their houses are not with like skill fitted for vse their beds are placed in the remote and for the most part obscure places of the house They doe not vse lightly any chimneyes at all They had rather vse certaine little