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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56890	Fortune in her wits, or, The hour of all men written in Spanish by the most ingenious Don Francisco de Quivedo Villegas ... ; translated into English by Capt. John Stevens.; Fortuna con seso. English	Quevedo, Francisco de, 1580-1645.; Stevens, John, d. 1726.	1697 (1697)	Wing Q188; ESTC R5377	77,088	150

hide under your Specious Offers By this Artifice you pry into the Elements and thrust your selves into Sovereignty You as you say live dry below the Water and wrest your Land wrongfully from the Sea We shall not be such Fools to take those for our Friends who could not be good Subjects nor shall we trust them with our Habitations who have stolen theirs from the Fishes You were Subjects of the Kings of Spain and having usurped his Dominion value your selves upon being Rebels and would have us through a fond credulity become a Prey to your Treachery Neither is it true that we resemble you for in maintaining that Native Country which Nature gave us we only defend what is our own we preserve our Liberty but do not steal it You offer to assist us against the King of Spain yet confess at the same time you have taken Brazil from him which was his if you take the Indies from him who took them from us how much more reason have we to be afraid of you than of him You must observe that America is a rich Beautiful Harlot and since she was false to her Husbands she will never be true to her Bullies Christians say Heaven punished the Indies because they adored Idols and we Indians say Heaven will punish the Christians because they adore the Indies You think you carry Gold and Silver and you only carry well coloured Envy and precious Misery You take from us that you may have for others to take from you That which makes you our Enemies makes you Enemies to one another Be gone then within two hours out of this Port and let us know if you want for any thing If you have a mind to gain our good will since you are so good at Invention invent an Instrument to remove what is by us at a great distance for we promise you we will never look upon your Country nor Spain with this that attracts things ●hat are far off Carry away this Glass Spy this Discoverer of the Firmament for we have no need of it being able with the help of our Eyes only to discover more in you than we like and let me tell you the Sun is beholding to it for shewing you the black spot in his Circle or else for the colour sake you would have endeavoured to cut out and stamp him into Money The Blacks consult how to deliver themselves from Slavery The Blacks assembled in mighty numbers to consult about obtaining their Liberty a thing they have often earnestly sollicited The numerous Concourse being seated and silent one of the chiefest among them who in that swarthy Audience appeared blacker than the rest and had proposed this Affair in the Court of Rome spoke to this purpose There is no cause for our slavery but our colour and colour is an accident not a crime Yet certain it is those who Lord it over us have no colour for their Tyranny but our colour which is produced by the presence and nearness of the greatest Beauty to wit the Sun Flocky Heads and clotted Hair squab N●ses and Blubber Lips are no better grounds for our Captivity Many Whites might be Slaves if th●se three things carried is and it were more reasonable they should be so who are hideous with their mighty N●ses like Rudders in their Faces and snivle through Elephants Trunks than we who have nothing to loose by the Pox and are the very Opposites to the Snouts Why do not the Whites consider that if we look like Blots among them one of them looks like a Stain among its Did they make Slaves of the Mulattoes it were more excusable for they are a Rabble without a King a Compound betwixt Light and Darkness Wainscot Paces compared with White Men Foils to the Brown the next degree to the Blacks and the very Picture of Soot In all Ages there have been Men of our Complexion Famous for Martial Exploits Learning Virtue and Sanctity it is needless for me to repeat a Catalogue of them for they are sufficiently known Nor can it be denied that we are preferable to the Whites for not endeavouring to disguise the colour Nature gave to our Skins Among them the Women that are swarthy or brown plaster themselves like Walls to become White and they that are White never satisfied with Whiteness wash to encrease it Only our Women contenting themselves with their Natural Complexion are beautiful in the dark and the whiteness of their Teeth shining the brighter through their blackness when they smile they sparkle like the Stars in the night Neither do we bely our Age dye our Hair or wear false Locks Why then are we contemned and chastised This is it I offer to your Consideration that you may consult what Means may be us●d for obtaining our due liberty and rest The Hour prevailed and a Black whose Head through Age was become grey contrary to the received Opinion that Black takes no colour rose up and said Let Ambassadors be immediately sent to all the Kingdoms in Europe with Two Proposals The first That if Colour be the cause of Slavery they will take notice of the Red Beards for the sake of Judas and pass by the Blacks on account of one of the three Kings that came to Bethlem And since Cats and Dogs of that colour ar● hateful it will be but reasonable there be no Men nor Women of it and let him in our Name propose means for the speedy destruction of all Fox heads with their Appurtenances The second Proposal is that they mix their Breed with ours and blending their Brightness with our Sootiness produce a mungril Race that so Swarthiness may become Fashionable being sufficiently warned by the clearness of the Garmans and Flemmings who have Embroiled and Distracted the World stained so many Fields with Blood and filled so many Nations with Rebellions and Heresies but particularly let them remember the Frenchmens yellow Beards It is a custom in Spain to Sneeze at the Blacks by way of contempt England in the year 1640. This was spoke in the Person of K. Ch. the I. in whose time it was writ As for our Ambassadors let them take this Advice along with them that if the * People Sneeze at them they may take Snuff for their comfort and shall answer God Bless us bestowing the Prayer upon themselves The mighty Monarch of England whose Island is the most Beautiful Mole upon the face of the Ocean having Assembled his Parliament spoke to them as follows My Dominions are encompassed by the raging Sea hemmed in and defended by the Waves my Kingdomes as to the Publick Worship are of the Reform'd Religion but in their hearts they are Catholicks I have engrafted the Papal power upon the Regal wear at once the Crown and Miter and have two Heads the Spiritual and the Temporal I suspect tho it is not visible as Spiritual Schism among my Subjects and that the City which holds St. Peter's Keys influences the private