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A02836	Quodlibets lately come ouer from New Britaniola, old Newfound-land Epigrams and other small parcels, both morall and diuine. The first foure bookes being the authors owne: the rest translated out of that excellent epigrammatist, Mr. Iohn Owen, and other rare authors: with two epistles of that excellently wittie doctor, Francis Rablais: translated out of his French at large. All of them composed and done at Harbor-Grace in Britaniola, anciently called Newfound-Land. / By R.H. sometimes Gouernour of the plantation there.	Hayman, Robert, 1578 or 9-1631?.; Owen, John, 1560?-1622. Epigrammata. Book 1-4. English. Selections.; Rabelais, François, ca. 1490-1553?; Habert, Francois, ca. 1508-ca. 1561.	1628 (1628)	STC 12974; ESTC S106081	67,153	134

Companion With one I 'd giue you your deserued due And with the other serue and follow you 97. To the right Honourable Sir George Caluert Knight Baron of Baltamore and Lord of Aualon in Britaniola who came ouer to see his Land there 1627. Great Shebae's wise Queene traueld farre to see Whether the truth did with report agree You by report perswaded laid out much Then wisely came to see if it were such You came and saw admir'd what you had seene With like successe as the wise Sheba Queene If euery Sharer heere would take like paine This Land would soone be peopled to their gaine 98. To the same right wise and right worthy Noble-man This shall be said whil'st that the world doth stand Your Honor 't was first honoured this Land 99. To the right worshipfull Planters of Bristoll-Hope in the new Kingdome of Britaniola When I to you your Bristoll-Hope commend Reck'ning your gaine if you would thither send What you can spare You little credit me The mischiefe is you 'le not come here and see Here you would quickly see more then my selfe Then would you style it Bristols-Hope of wealth 100. To the right worshipfull William Robinson of Tinwell in Rutland shire Esquire come ouer to see Newfound-Land with my Lord of Baltamore 1627. Strange not to see stones here aboue the ground Large vntrencht bottomes vnder water drown'd Hills and Plaines full of trees both small and great And dryer bottomes deepe of Turfe and Peace When England was vs'd for a Fishing place By Coasters only 't was in the same case And so vnlouely't had continued still Had not our Ancestors vs'd paines and skill How much bad ground with mattock and with spade Since we were borne hath there beene good ground made You and I rooted haue Trees Brakes and stone Both for succeeding good and for our owne 101. To the first Planters of Newfound-land What ayme you at in your Plantation Sought you the Honour of our Nation Or did you hope to raise your owne renowne Or else to adde a Kingdome to a Crowne Or Christs true Doctrine for to propagate Or drawe Saluages to a blessed state Or our o're peopled Kingdome to relieue Or shew poore men where they may richly liue Or poore mens children godly to maintaine Or amy'd you at your owne sweete priuate gaine All these you had atchiu'd before this day And all these you haue balk't by your delay 102. To my Reuerend kind friend Master Erasmus Sturton Preacher of the Word of God and Parson of Ferry Land in the Prouince of Avalon in Newfound-Land No man should be more welcome to this place Then such as you Angels of Peace and Grace As you were sent here by the Lords command Be you the blest Apostle of this Land To Infidels doe you Euangelize Making chose that are rude sober and wise I pray that Lord that did you hither send You may our cursings swearing iouring mend 103. To my very louing and discreet Friend Master Peter Miller of Bristoll You askt me once What here was our chiefe dish In Winter Fowle in Summer choyce of Fish But wee should need good Stomackes you may thinke To eate such kind of things which with you stinke As Rauens Crowes Kytes Otters Poxes Beares Dogs Cats and Soyles Eaglets Hawks Hounds Hares Yet we haue Partriges and store of Deare And that I thinke with you is pretty cheere Yet let me tell you Sir what I loue best It s a Poore-Iohn that 's cleane and neatly drest There 's not a meat found in the Land or Seas Can Stomacks better please or lesse displease It is a fish of profit and of pleasure I le write more of it when I haue more leisure There and much more are here the ancient store Since we came hither we haue added more 104. To some discreet people who thinke any body good enough for a Plantation When you doe see an idle lewd young man You say hee 's fit for our Plantation Knowing your selfe to be rich sober wise You set your owne worth at an higher price I say such men as you are were more fit And most conuenient for first peopling it Such men as you would quickly profit here Lewd lazy Lubbers want wit grace and care 105. To the famous wise and learned Sisters the two Vniuersities of England Oxford and Cambridge The ancient Iewes did take a world of paine And traueld farre some Proselites to gaine The busie pated Iesuites in our dayes To make some theirs doe compasse Land and Seas The Mahumetan Heathen moderne Iew Doe daily striue to make some of their crue Yet to our shame we idly doe stand still And suffer God his number vp to fill Yee worthy Sisters raze this imputation Send forth your Sonnes vnto our New Plantation Yet send such as are Holy wise and able That may build Christs Church as these doe build Babel If you exceed not these in Righteousnes I need not tell your Wisedomes the successe 106. To answer a Friend who asked me Why I did not compose some Encomiasticks in praise of Noble men and Great Courtiers As my friend Iohn Owen hath done I knew the Court well in the old Queenes dayes I then knew Worthies worthy of great praise But now I am there such a stranger growne That none doe know me there there I know none Those few I here obserue with commendation Are Famous Starres in our New Constellation The end of the second Booke THE THIRD BOOKE OF QVODLIBETS Iustice Epigram KIngs doe correct those that Rebellious are And their good Subiects worthily preferre Iust Epigrams reproue those that offend And those that vertuous are she doth commend 2. To my delicate Readers When I doe read others neate dainty lines I almost doe despaire of my rude times Yet I haue fetch 't them farre they cost me deare Deare and farre fetcht they say is Ladies cheere 1. To my zealous and honest friend Master W. B. of Bristoll If thou canst not to thy preferrement come To be Christs red Rose in best martyrdome With Patience Faith Hope Loue and Constancie A pure blest white Rose in Christs Garden dye 4. Gods Loue The Deuils Malice He that made man only desires mans heart He that mard man tempts man in euery part 5. God rewards thankefull men What part of the Moon 's body doth reflect Her borrowed beames yeeldeth a faire prospect But that part of her that doth not doe so Spotty or darke or not at all doth show So what wee doe reflect on God the giuer With thankefulnes those Graces shine for euer But if his gifts thou challeng'st to be thine They 'll neuer doe thee Grace nor make thee shine 6. To a dissembling sober slye Protestor 'T is so or so as I 'me an honest man Is thy assuring Protestation When it 's as true as thou art such a one 7. Dissemblers coozen themselues Whilst in this life Dissemblers coozen some Themselues they coozen of the

the next Heire Our feares so sodainly to ioyes did passe We cannot well tell in what yeere it was This yeere our iust victorious Warre did cease And we enioy'd a sought-for proff'red Peace Assoone as our wise Debora was gont God sent this Land a Peacefull Salomon Our warlike Pallas hauing rul'd her dayes Apollo came adorn'd with learned Bayes Lastly herein our Chronogram doth hold This yeere we chang'd our Siluer into Gold Siluer a female is Gold masculine Good God lengthen strengthen this golden Lyne If any wise man iudge it otherwise I may well iudge that Wiseman ouerwise 7. Of the Great and Famous euer to bee honoured Knight Sir Francis Drake and of my little-little selfe The Dragon that our Seas did raise his Crest And brought back heapes of gold vnto his nest Vnto his Foes more terrible then Thunder Glory of his age After-ages wonder Excelling all those that excell'd before It 's fear'd we shall haue none such any more Effecting all he sole did vndertake Valiant iust wise milde honest godly Drake This man when I was little I did meete As he was walking vp Totnes long Street He ask'd me whose I was I answer'd him He ask'd me if his good friend were within A faire red Orange in his hand he had He gaue it me whereof I was right glad Takes and kist me and prayes God blesse my boy Which I record with comfort to this day Could he on me haue breathed with his breath His gifts Elias-like after his death Then had I beene enabled for to doe Many braue things I haue a heart vnto I haue as great desire as e're had hee To ioy annoy friends foes but 't will not be 8. To the right Reuerend Father in God Ioseph Hall by Gods especiall prouidence Lord Bishop of Exceter Borne in a Christian new Plantation These kneele to you for Confirmation To you they come that you might them adorne Their Father in your Diocesse was borne 9. To the Reuerend and diuinely witty Iohn Dun Doctor in Diuinity Deane of Saint Pauls London As my Iohn Owen Seneca did praise So might I for you a like piller raise His Epigrams did nothing want but verse You can yours if you list that way rehearse His were neat fine diuine morality But yours pure faithfull true Diuinity 10. Aristotles ten Predicaments to be reduced into questions is an excellent rule for examining any busines for matter of iustice To the hopefull and right worthy young Gentleman Thomas Smith of Long Ashton in the County of Sommerset Esq. The thing how much conditions of the men For what cause what was done who suffer'd then Where when their postures how clad foule or cleane 11. Their vse Who hath power of examinations If he desire to finde out guilty ones Let him reduce these into questions So if to finde out truth be his intent Before that all these questions be spent The guilty's brought in a Predicament 12. The cause of Dedication Strange not that I these Lines to you haue sent I know your worth will make you eminent Grace Wisedome Learning Vertue you haue store Were you not modest I could say much more 13. To the Reuerend Learned and Iudicious Thomas Worall Doctor in Diuinity and Chapaline to the right Reue. Father in God George L. Bishop of London Of my reprehending Epigrams It is for one of your gifts and your place To looke bold-staring-black sinne in the face To wound and launce with the two-edged blade To clense and heale those wounds that you haue made Yet suffer me with my sharp-merry pinne To prick the blisters of some itching sinne And though Diuines iustly loose Rymes condemne My tart smart chiding Lines doe not contemne 14. To the Reuerend my worthy ingenious friend Mr. Abel Louering one of the Preachers of the Word of God at Bristoll Of my commending Epigrams Those I commend you would commend them too If you did know them truely as I doe Preachers like you may praise men at their ends Laymen like me may praise wise-liuing friends 15. To a Reuerend and witty friend Since few yeeres studying hath improu'd your wit That for the place you hold you are held fit When you preach you preach sweetly and compleat And other things you doe smooth witty neate What place in Church would you not fitly hallow If you your study soberly would follow 16. Of Epigrams Short Epigrams rellish both sweet and sowre Like Fritters of sowre Apples and sweet flowre 17. To the wise and Learned Sir Iohn Stradling Knight Baronet the Author of diuers Diuine Heroicall printed Poems Robert Fitz-Heman drew your Ancestor To Wales to be his fellow Conqueror And Robert Hayman would draw all your worth If he true knowledge had to lymme it forth Wise Sir I know you not but by relation Sauing in this which spreads your reputation Your high diuine sweet straines Poeticall Which crownes adornes your noble vertues all Therein to dight a full Feast you are able Whilst I fit Fritters for Apollo's Table 18. To Master Beniamin Iohnson Witty Epigrammatist and most excellent Poet. My Epigrams come after yours in time So doe they in conceipt in forme in Ryme My wit 's in fault the fault is none of mine For if my will could haue inspir'd my wit There neuer had beene better Verses writ As good as yours could I haue ruled it 19. To one of my neate Readers Thou say'st my Verses are rude ragged rough Not like some others Rymes smooth dainty stuffe Epigrams are like Satyres rough without Like Chessnuts sweet take thou the kernell out Satyres 20. To the acute Satyrist Master George Wither The efficient cause of Satyres are things bad Their matter sharpe reproofes instructions sad Their forme sowre short seuere sharp roughly clad Their end is that amendment may be had 21. To the same Mr. George Wither of his owne Satyres What cause you had this veine too high to straine I know not but I know it caus'd your paine Which causeth others wisely to refraine Yet let some good cause draw you on againe You strip and whip th' ill manners of the times So hansomely that all delight your Rymes 22. To my right worthy friend Mr. Michael Drayton whose vnwearied old Muse still produceth new dainties When I was young I did delight your lines I haue admyr'd them since my iudging times Your younger muse plai'd many a dainty fit And your old muse doth hold out stoutly yet Though my old muse durst passe through frost and snow In warres your old muse dares her Colours shew 23. To my worthy and learned good friend Mr. Iohn Vicars who hath translated part of Mr. Owens Epigrams Who hath good words and a warme brooding pate Shall easier hatch neate new things then translate He that translates must walke as others please Writing our owne we wander may at ease 24. To my good friend Mr. T. B. Vintner at the signe of the Sunne in

Thanks me thinks at least was due Heere I found such fragrant flowers As best drest Vranias Bowers Yelding Sents and Sights admired Meet the Muses Browes t' haue tyred As They then are thus grac'd by Thee Neuer may They Grace deny Thee Ad eundem Per eundem IF Newfound-Land yeeld such commodities I 'd thither trade for so rare Marchandize Yours Iohn Vicars Vpon this Anagram of my name and the deuice of the West-Indian Guane Harm I bare not IF some should meete this Beast vpon the way Would not their hearts-blood thrill for great affray Yet the West-Indian that best knowes his nature Says there is not any more harmelesse Creature So though my lines haue much deformity Their end mine Anagram shall verifie AA THE FIRST BOOKE OF QVODLIBETS DONE AND COMPOSED BY THE AVTHOR himselfe 1. Of mine owne Quodlibets THough my best lines no dainty things affords My worst haue in them some thing else then words 2. To my Readers I kept these closely by me some few yeeres Restrained by my knowledge and my feares I feare they are too shallow for the Schooles I know they are too deepe for shallow fooles Yet there are many of a middle breeding May thinke them good nay richly worth the reading 3. To the perpetuall renowne of our learned King IAMES King of Great Britaine c. of famous memorie Wales England Scotland long did disagree Yet like a threefoldcord accord in Thee Such a cord hardly breakes being wisely twist These three combind may the whole world resist 4. Old Lelius to his wise friend Scipio Let vs sit downe and by the fiers light Let our discourse be without saucy spight Wee 'll tell old tooth-lesse tales which cannot bite Whilst yong Fooles to talke Treason take delight 5. Why God giues some Fooles riches and some wise men none To a discreet friend Why fretst thou so and art so sullen growne Thy neighbour Foole gets wealth and thou getst none Wise mercifull and iust is God in it For he hath giuen him riches and thee wit Alas poore Foole if that he had no wealth He hath not wit to comfort his sad selfe 6. An old Apothecary made a new Doctor Hee kill'd by others warrant formerly Hee kils now by his owne authority 7. God doth all in all It 's held The Stars gouerne the works of Men It 's likewise held Wisemen may gouerne them I hold God ouer-rules Wise Wayes and Stars It 's He that humbleth and it s He preferres 8. A worldly Man will haue it by hooke or by crooke If wealth I cannot catch with Vertues hooke I 'le haule it to me by my crafty Crooke 9. Thrifty Charity to a namelesse Friend On this Text thou dost seaze with griping hold Who giues the Poore he shall receiue fourefold This Text thou dost some pretty roome afford Who giues the Poore doth lend vnto the Lord But this hard Text doth goe against thy graine Giue cheerefully looking for nought againe 10. Borrowing on Time is worse then Bird-lime As Fowlers vse to take their Fowle with Lime So Vsurers take borrowing Fooles with Time Great danger'tis for Birds Bird-lime to touch Not to keepe Touch with Vsurers it 's as much 11. To a kinde Foole. Oft into Bonds for others thou hast runne But by those Bonds thy selfe thou hast vndone No luggler euer show'd vs such a cast To be vndone by being bound so fast So Drunkards doe with a like Iugling tricke By gulping others healths themselues make sicke 12. Trauelling in England The trauelling fashion of our Nation To pay without examination What our hard-rented Oasts may get thereby Is Noble Loose Braue Prodigality 13. A perswasion to Humilitie As when the Moone after the Sunne doth goe She daily doth fairer and fuller growe But when that She doth goe before the Sunne Her light growes lesse and lesse till she haue none So whilst wee follow God in humble feare His Grace in vs will beauteously appeare But if we goe before God in presumption His Grace in vs will soone haue a consumption 14. Why there are so few Hospitals built It us hath Will but wants good Meanes to doe it Croesus hath Meanes but wants a Will vnto it 15. Lawyers profitable pastime Lawyers doe call Plaintifes Defence their Plea It rather might be called Lawyers Play 16. The Polycie of the Whore of Babylon As common Queanes haue seuerall quaint deuices To hooke all kind of men by their intices So the spirituall Whore of Babylon Hath seuerall ginnes to intrap euery one For Villaines Wantons easie Indulgences For Zealous Wise Angelicall pretences For High-mindes Spenders honor she dispences For Women Fooles fine shewes to please their sences 17. To Bald-pate Though I want yeeres yet hoare I am through cares But Whores haue made thy head white without haires 18. Worse then naught Thou art not worthy of a Satyres quill An Epigram's too short to shew thine ill 19. Two filthy fashions Of all fond fashions that were worne by Men These two I hope will ne'r be worne againe Great Codpist Doublets and great Codpist britch At seuerall times worne both by meane and rich These two had beene had they beene worne together Like two Fooles pointing mocking each the other 20. Fooles are more masters of their wiues then wise men Scarce a Paradoxe Wise men for shame mildly away will goe Fooles will stand stifly to 't and haue it so Wise men for quietnesse will sometimes yeeld Though Fooles be beaten they 'll not quit the field 22. To a Pardon-Buyer The Pope giues thee a sweeping Indulgence But thou must giue him good store of thy pence So my Lord Mayor giues spoones all guilded o're Receiues for each foure or fiue pounds therefore 22. Worse then a Whore Our common Whores turne Roman Catholicks By that meanes they get Pardons for tricks These wandring Stars of common occupation Are rightly sphear'd in this large Constellation I enuy not that Church that vs so spites For fingring such notorious Procelites 23. Why Kings speake in the Plurall Princes speake in the plurall Vs and Wee It is their charge from wrongs to keepe Vs free And We are wronged when They wronged bee Thus Plurals with their Plurall charge agree 24. The effects of Gods Word Gods Word to Sheepe is grasse to Swine hard stones Vnto Beleeuers Flesh to others Bones 25. A Scottish Honest Man A Londoners Good Man An Honest man as Scot'shmen vnderstand Is one that mickle gudes hath at command A Good man in the Londoners account Is one whose wealth to some Summe doth amount Lord make me Honest Good by thy instruction Then Good and Honest after their construction 26. How and whereof to iest Iest fairely freely but exempt from it Mens misery State businesse Holy writ 27. The Worlds Whirlegigge Plenty breeds Pride Pride Enuy Enuy Warre Warre Pouerty Pouerty humble Care Humility breeds Peace and Peace breeds Plenty Thus round this World doth rowle alternatly 28. On a Good fellow Papist who makes no

obiects the coldnesse of the Winter in Newfound-Land and may serue for all those that haue the like conceit You say that you would liue in Newfound-land Did not this one thing your conceit withstand You feare the Winters cold sharp piercing ayre They loue it best that haue once winterd there Winter is there short wholesome constant cleare Not thicke vnwholesome shuffling as 't is here 82. To the right worshipfull Iohn Slany Treasurer to the Newfound-land Company and to all the rest of that Honorable Corporation I know that wise you are and wise you were So was hee who this Action did preferre Yet some wise men doe argue otherwise And say you were not or you are not wise They say you were not wise to vndertake it Or that you are not wise thus to forsake it 83. Of the same Honorable Company Diuers well-minded men wise rich and able Did vndertake a plot inestimable The hopefull'st easiest healthi'st iust plantation That ere was vndertaken by our Nation When they had wisely worthily begunne For a few errors that athwart did runne As euery action first is full of errors They fell off flat retir'd at the first terrors As it is lamentably strange to me In the next age incredible 't will be 84. To the right Honourable Sir George Calvert Knight late Principall Secretary to King IAMES Baron of Baltomore and Lord of Aualon in Newfound-land Your worrh hath got you Honour in your dayes It is my honour you my verses praise O let your Honour cheerefully goe on End well your well begunne Plantation This holy hopefull worke you haue halfe done For best of any you haue well begunne If you giue ouer what hath so well sped Your sollid wisedome will be questioned 86. To the same Nobleman Yours is a holy just Plantation And not a iustling supplantation 86. To the right worthy learned and wise Master William Vaughan chiefe Vndertaker for the Plantation in Cambrioll the Southermost part of Newfound-Land who with penne purse and Person hath and will proue the worthines of that enterprise It ioy'd my heart when I did vnderstand That your selfe would your Colonie command It greeu'd me much when as I heard it told Sicknes had layd on you an vnkind hold Beleeue me Sir your Colchos Cambrioll Is a sweet pleasant wholesome gainefull soyle You shall find there what you doe want Sweet health And what you doe not want as sweet Sweet wealth 87. To the same industrious Gentleman who in his golden golden-fleece stiles himselfe Orpheus Iunior Your noble humor indefatigable More vertuous constant yet then profitable Striuing to doe good you haue lost your part Whil'st lesser losse hath broke some Tradesmens heart Yet you proceed with person purse and penne Fitly attended with laborious men Goe on wise Sir with your old bold braue Nation To your new Cambriolls rich Plantation Let Dolphins dance before you in the floods And play you Orpheus Iunior in her woods 88. Some Diseases were neuer in Newfound-land To the right worthy Mistres Anne Vaughan wife to Doctor Vaughan who hath an honourable desire to liue in that Land Those that liue here how young or old soeuer Were neuer vext with Cough nor Aguish Feauer Nor euer was the Plague nor small Pox heere The Aire is so salubrious constant cleere Yet scuruy Death stalks heere with theeuish pace Knocks one downe here two in another place 89. To Sir Richard Whitborne Knight my deare friend Sometime Lieutenant to Doctor Vaughan for his Plantation in Newfound-Land who hath since published a worthy booke of that most hopefull Country Who preaching well doth doe and liue as well His doing makes his preaching to excell For your wise well-pend Booke this Land 's your debter Doe as you write you 'le be beleeu'd the better 90. To my good Friend Mr. Thomas Rowley who from the first Plantation hath liu'd in Newfound-Land little to his profit When some demaund Why rich you doe not grow I tell them Your kind nature makes it so They say that heere you might haue gotten wealth Adam in Paradise vndid himselfe 91 There is more gaine in an honest Enemy then in a flattering Friend A flattering Friend in 's Commendations halts An honest Foe will tell me all my faults 92. To the right Honourable Sir Henry Cary Knight Viscount Faukeland Lord Deputy of Ireland I ioy'd when you tooke part of Newfound-Land I grieu'd to see it lye dead in your hand I ioy'd when you sent people to that Coast I grieu'd when I sawe all that great charge lost Yet let your Honor try it once againe With wise stayd carefull honest-harted men I am to blame you boldly to aduise For all that know you know you wondrous wise Yet neere-hand Dull bleare-ey'd may better see Then quicker cleare-ey'd that a farre off bee 93. To the Honourable Knight Sir Perciuall Willoughbie who to his great cost and losse aduentur'd in this action of Newfound-Land Wise men wise Sir doe not the fire abhorre For once being findg'd more wary grow therefore Shall one disaster breed in you a terror With honest meet wise men mend your first error If with such men you would begin againe Honor and profit you would quickly gaine Beleeue him who with griefe hath seene your share 'T would doe you good were such men planted there 94. To my very good Friend Mr. Iohn Poyntz Esquire one of the Planters of Newfound-Land in Doctor Vaughans Plantation 'T is said wise Socrates look't like an Asse Yet he with wondrous sapience filled was So though our Newfound-Land look wild saluage She hath much wealth penn'd in her rustie Cage So haue I seene a leane-cheekes bare and ragged Who of his priuate thousands could haue bragged Indeed she now lookes rude vntowardly She must be decked with neat husbandry So haue I seene a plaine swarth sluttish Ione Looke pretty pert and neat with good cloathes on 95. To the right Honorable Knight Sir William Alexander Principall and prime Planter in New-Scotland To whom the King hath giuen a Royall gift to defray his great charges in that worthy busines Great Alexander wept and made sad mone Because there was but one World to be wonne It ioyes my heart when such wise men as you Conquer new Worlds which that Youth neuer knew The King of Kings assist blesse you from Heauen For our King hath you wise assistance giuen Wisely our King did aide on you bestow Wise are all Kings who all their gifts giue so 'T is well giuen that is giuen to such a One For seruice done or seruice to be done By all that know you 't is well vnderstood You will dispend it for your Countries good Old Scotland you made happy by your birth New-Scotland you will make a happy earth 96. To the same Wise Learned Religious Patriot most Excellent Poet. You are a Poet better ther 's not any You haue one super-vertue 'mongst your many I wish I were your equall in the one And in the other your