unbeaten yet that is like you Leave common-Play-book-Poetry that spends The same Encomium upon any friends As we doe Funerall Sermons and alone Move in an Epicycle of his owne Your observations such a path have trod They turne old Pegasus quite out on 's rode And we are dry till Rosinantes foot Strike â—s another Helicon to do 't 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 On DON QUIXOT with Annotations THE famous Errant Knight of Spaine Once more here sallies forth againe Remounted upon Rosinante Though leane his ribs and belly gant be Gentle and without jadish tricks Whose Provender him never pricks Sancho likewise that witty Squire On dapple followes through the mire The monstrous Gyant not to tame That lately into England came And lies sick since he was brought over Some say at Plimouth some at Dover Nor like his neighbour Portugall Damsels to fright and kill us all His well known sword he needs not try on Our Morefield Windmils since the Lyon Made a retreat into his Cage By good hap and would not ingage No new Adventure or Supply Swels so compleat a History Nor is our Author a Translator But a Criticall Commentator His Notes he to the Text doth fit With English matching Spanish wit Like Coyne with Philip stampt and Mary Or till divorc'd like Kate and Harry Or those Pavillions powdered With H. and K. in Hollinshead * Great thankes the Mancha may him con Great honour hath he done the Don And Dulcinea del Toboso Hath disinchanted Reader know so Aesop to the Knight of the Ill favour'd Face AS Aesop who made Birds and Beasts to speak Putting plaine Nature into learned Greek Her dimmer instinct did so well unveile That he taught Morals from an old wives tale And where as men were turn'd to beasts by Art Did them againe by Beasts to men convert So thou considering what befits this age Hast brought thy Don unridled on the stage And with thy rayes illustrating his shade Hast a cleer mirrour of a night-piece made Whose cunning placing doth much skill detect To make it so far off these times reflect For we the common size of men out-grow As farre above as th' other were below In Arts and Arms in our disputes and fights Nay in all trades almost w' are Errant Knights We start up Heroes Here a Cobler enters And in the next page doth a Knights adventures Now you shall hardly see because he 's gaunt And poor a draught Horse yield to Rosinant Who did the Knight carry as we have read So many miles still better taught then fed Pattent though Sancho did his belly pinch So disciplin'd though gass'd he would not winch Proportionably eate so many Oates As in his purse his Master carried Groates Who might not so against his Order sinne As to weare mony or pay it in his Inne For who could mony aske of him who did Oblige the world by deeds where ere he rid Could any Hostesse for the reckoning scold Who did this doughty man of Arms behold That Lady that would not wipe out his score Be sure he 'll never see her Castle more In just revenge for then should any Gyant Abuse her after he would ne'r say fy on 't Or question him who otherwise should feel His anger printed by his Bilbo steele But Hosts and Hostesses and Ostlers too Were civiller or he would make them so But Friend take heed thy Notes may doe him wrong Who never needed helpe of any tongue I only feare that you may kindly erre By ventring to be his Interpreter Since it is knowne and by himselfe made good Where e'r they came Errants were understood But this I thinke will that objection choke He is not when he ' â—read as when he spoke And read he 'll be unlesse by Errâ—â— Knights Like him they 're not for reading but for fights Goe forth then and lit Rosinant out-run In his good speed the Coursers of the Sun A Trumpet before the Puissant DON BY your leaves friends give way to usher on With trunch'on pen toth ' gate this mighty Don I would be briefe as truth if any shall Demand what 's here an Amadis de Gaul A Knight o' th' Sunne or Warwicks dreadfull Guy Whose famous Acts are writ in Stars on high Th' old King Arthur or that feeble Fable Of his Round Knights sate round his rounder Table I answer none of these but one no jot Lesse then the best of those who Don Quixot A bold Knight-Errant that toth ' very day Atchieves as strange Adventures as all they Bring me a Saracen with head and A-neck So bigg you 'd take him for a sonne of Anak Or any of that monstrous brood of Gath If any such the world at this time hath Old and decrepit growne The Don with Lance Against the Gyant-race doth strait advance Which way the victory will sure incline Look up and judge the Saracen's a Signe Is there a Lady who the Lord knowes how Shee came to be so that 's imprison'd now In some inchanted Castle built i' th' aire Immur'd with Devils moated with despaire That whines and whimpers pines for some reliefe From her lost Knight almost undubb'd with griefe Madam take courage melt no more but pray Let those salt drops descend another way See Quixot at the Castle Gate in Armes And anger fell vowes to uncharme your Charmes And spight of Hell and what the Devils can doe Tilt you from all their Spels or them from you Shew me a Gyant Caniball that duels Retired now to uncouth Caves and Cels Batning with humane flesh and blood that knowes Save what he eates no other friends or foes Whoe 's guts being all the braines he has do's dread That only paine the belly ake in his head Let the puissant Quixot but appeare Arm'd at all points and in the first Career This monster Gyant fals when the bold Knight With his keen steele to consummate the fight Opens his Butt'ry-Belly sweeps all away And there commands an endlesse fasting day Whilest to the wonder of the world and just Trophee to Don and his renowned dust His monstrous Block head shall converted be Into a signe for some great Ordinarie From these adventures doth he sternely wagge on And meets the fiercer Lyon or the Dragon The cruell Tiger the spear'd Unicorne Or any humane beast of stranger Horne The rav'nous Beare or the mad raging Bull Hee 'll tame all these give all their Belly full And as old Orpheus did by stones and trees So shall this Don make up a Dance with these More might be said which if 't expected be Enter good Don and do 't thy selfe for me E D. On the Festivous Notes upon Don Quixot HAve you not seen a Hench boy lac'd all o're So thick you could not tell what cloth he wore Have you not heard the oaths of Country people They could not for the Scaffolds see Pauls Steeple Or have you heard of happy had you been If I might aske you have you also seen Dulcinea's
jades Their standing at the Inne door was a sign of themselves and the house and though they were bound for Sevil that their behaviour was not so Checking Rosinante with his bridle Rosinantes head-strongnesse is here remarkable and shewes that a beast knowes when he is weary or hungry better then his rider These naturall offerings at an Inne door gazings and head writhings are most proper symptomes in the creature of an appetite or longing for Limb-ease and tooth motion A way bit then and not a bit of way more The Knight for all Knight errants understand all languages whether vocall or naturall apprehended Rosinante and taking pitty of the croakings of his empty guts to which his owne sometime sympathetically answered He spurr'd up to the Inne door full upon the Donsellas which Item Rosinante tooke the more patiently because he was within the comfortable smell of provender but O the hogheards horne 't was an ill winde and blew no body good for by this meanes it came to passe that Rosinante must heare the other speech which came from a head as empty as his belly in which was nothing but wind just both alike Discovering his withered and dusty countenance This souldier-like visage of the Dons brought the Donzellas to a stand Venâ—s did not so much despise Vulcan for his lame leg as she was enamor'd of Mars for his manlike face I have heard it reported of an understanding Lady of our Nation whose opinion being asked concerning a very beautifull and streight limb'd gentleman Usher how shee liked the owner of that face that shee replyed thus presently Ladies wits being best upon the sodaine Pish what doe you tell me of a face I say a Venus face and Mars his truncheon never met together in the same person They could not containe their laughter Continence was rare in any thing as wel as laughter with them yet their rude carriage shewed that they were tender hearted for they had been of very hard hearts if they could not have laughed at him and I believe had the Don made experience he would have found them thorow good natur'd and as ready to lye downe as to laugh Mine Host a man of exceeding fatnesse I did not think that mine Hosts of the Mancha or indeed of any place of Spaine had been of such vast dimensions certainly he was transported out of Holland or great Britany this is the first Rhodomont ado in Re that I have met with but yet considering him to be of the Commark of St Lucars and no lesse theevish then Cacus if he stole and eat as much provision as that beast-robber did his magnitude is no wonder Allow us but in Spaine the beasts and I will grant the Host a thiefe and as fat untill then I suspend my beliefe Rozinante one of the best pieces that ever eate bread Mine Host viewed the Brute very narrowly as if he meant to buy him he need not have gone round him to his great paines for the horse was transparent and rather a beast that had never eat a piece of bread then as the Don expressed it The strangest and most pleasing figure to behold It was well that the Don was pleased to tell his name for by his face they should never have known him his Helmet being on he was a hard head and when that was off he was a Cods-head And then the valour of mine arme shall discover The valour of that part was not the thing his courteous undressers expected who rather wished him steel to the back then as it fell out to be to his head It was impossible to salute him without losse of teeth this sad apprehension of their particular defraudings made them melancholly at present but they are resolved since they can make him no sport to make sport of him One of the Ladies served his turne in that She was enforced to Caw him as they doe young Iack dowes and every bit she administred he gap'd full wide as the Helmet would let him which if it had not streigthned and that very much the widenesse and capacities of his jawes the poor Iohns would have past whole without slicing and with more ease down his throat then a cormorant dispatches Minnows CHAP. III. He must be dub'd or nothing will availe Mine Hoast the Order gives Carriers the Haile Stones in such number that our Knight might be Not of the Mancha but à Lapide And that poore Rosinant might stoutly stir The Hay and Oat-booke was the Register Where on Record stands scor'd our dreadfull Knight For want of pay for fourteen pence a night TEXT ANd being thus tossed in mind he made a short beggerly Supper Aurae sacra fames What will not thirst of honour make one drinke or not drinke eat or not eat Here it almost made our Don lose his share of the poore Iohn as many a Noble Duke Humphryan for honour-sake meerely because he would not beg hath walkt manfully from twelve till three in contempt of three-penny Ordinaries wondring at the gluttony of the Age he liv'd in thinking all the time of that melancholy motion of the rare course of Lescius his dyet or else why it were not possible to so habituate Nature that by degrees she might need no other sustenance then the Camaelion the ingeniousest Wits in the world have been such who feed exilest or most slenderly The woman who was sustained only by Flowers the scent I mean beside the sweetnesse of her Fare no doubt had a nutriment most Hyblaean and had her Thighs been well surveyed they were as well laden as the Bees as you have it in the Poet Crura Thymo c. The Inne-keeper seeing his Guest at his Feet You see Pride will have a Fall These high thoughts brought the Don to his Knees happily on a Cushion of Rosinantes own or during for It was in the stable It was well the Knight was the Votary and mine Host the Idoll otherwise had mine Host been on his knees neither Rosinante though formerly used to burthens nor Asinego his Master would have been able to have raised the Elephant Mine Host as was noted before was a great Gyber It is ordinary for Hosts to be khavishly witty the latter being a set-off to the former Much of a reckoning goes current sor the Drolery of the maker of the Bill There is a kind of Leachery in neat and ingenious cozenage It doth find mercy before a Judge and applause amongst most but this was a great Giber but not so great as to lose a friend for a jest that was the way to undo himselfe no no the Authors Counsell runs upon his Corpulency just as one said of an Over-Obese Priest that he was a great Arminian grant quoth a second that he be an Arminian I le sweare he is the greatest that ever I saw Just as mine Host is here so is every Host almost upon all rodes of the Temper with his Guest he is a Knight errant with a Knight errant
being of that measure was not easily fill'd Such a servant was never advis'd to his Master by Marriot But although the Don could have been contented with the fresh services of Madam Aura for which he opened as constantly as an Oyster against tide Yet the Knights of the Mountaines obtained this favour of their younger brother of the Hils and Dales that he would vouchsafe his company to such cheer as they had which Goat-provision were most agreeable with their Errant bodies which were alwaies saltitant passant or currant sometime volant sometimes after a Windmill or so couchant Omne simile nutritur à simili which is the reason that swines flesh which most inwardly of all creatures resembles his master is so nutritive and apposite unlesse to old Jewry men or Scots I belive Sancho and his Master fed most upon Goates countenance the head boil'd in haire being as rare and choyce meat as Lambs head in the wool very good dyet and the most successfull for any that are troubled with a desperatio Barbae beyond your unguents or whatsoever else is given to dilate the pores of the place 'T is true 't is somewhat rough at going downe and untoothsome but I told you before it is not for the teeth or palat but the chinne though a pallat of Mo-haire is very good lodging I take it now you know the attractive facultie is implanted in every part ad every part drawes and every part as the learned say agglutinates and assimilates and then the work of nature is done so that the chinne the cheeks the boscos and suboscos I mean the dulapes and the jawy part of the face know what they have to doe and what thatch is best for that place And it is very well known that ever after this entertainment and the next day Sancho's face moss'd and his chinne had a down sprung out substantiall enough to grate a nutmeg The Don had a Philosophers Aspect wih anâ—oblong handle Mustachios circular which were a great grace to his countenance Martiall Sancho was a most grosse feeder and you might smell much of his dyer evaporated from under his Arme pits which reak'd upon motion like a lime-kill and by this dyet gave a stronger Hogo And spreading certaine sheep-skins Those sheep-skin coverings without infringement of his oath the Don might endure at his table it was agreeable with the chief head at board and the bottome of the trough was sutable to a knight in pennance and in pilgrimage for a new Helmet the horne cup if it had been large enough would very well have supplyed the defect and became the Don better then the cushion did the Biscaine The same is said of Chivalry that is said of Love that it makes all equall Love and danger are very glutinous and of a sodering and associating nature if two love one another it is very probable they will lie together and so for quarrelling if two fall out they will presently fall in and together by the eares Contrariorum eadem est Ratio So here extreame love of Sancho's person made his sides-man with his Master love is a leveller for laugh which is a but a variation for love and ly down and Chivalry do's so too lay all before it I doe here renounce from this time to the worlds end It was not modesty in this duck-legs that made him refuse the Table-fellowship with his Master but only feare of starving For the Knight was but a small feeder and Sancho durst not gormandize and guttle and guzzle too for he would doe both under his Master's nose as he us'd to doe at the side Table or the Cupboard It is a good house-policy and piece of great frugality that a whole family should set all in common together according to the Proverb 't is merry when beards wag all the Master and men Dame and damsels all together these cannot be so merry whereby much that by licentious feeding would be wasted is sav'd beside orderly eating makes no mammocks nor scraps for the Almes-basket It is impossible to cure servants of the woolf or dog in the stomack without they be sed under the Mistesses eye and on the other side I doe admire how Ladies gentilewomen and themselves too make a shift to look so plumpe and faiâ—e with those slender pittances which they eat at their Tables where I am sure they abstain not out of an intention to save their meat but from constancy in the sobriety I will not censure the reason of the temperance nor impute it to the Cullises eaten before diner or the sweat-meats after but leave them to their owne waies and customes knowing full well that they were old enough to fill their owne bellies with what let it be left to their Ladyships good liking for me Tossed in with their fists whole slices If any man hath a desire to learn how to choak himself let him look upon Sancho and these commoners or cormorants shall I call them with whom a piece of Goates leg goes as nimbly down as it ever alive went up the crag they doe as an exact trencher-Squire did with a Capons leg draw him at one passe through the teeth as emptie as you would doe a boyl'd peasecod For handsomenesse of feeding use of Napkins and complement they had been very well all trained up in Grobians school where they learn'd every punctilio of abominably nasty and grosse feeding which would make a man loath any meat that should be eaten by such swine His non invideas porcorum aâ—â—â—nge palatum Their palats all alike it had been rare If with the hogs alike had been the fare He took a handfull of Acornes and beholding them earnestly he began this discourse This Oration of the Dons is much aloke to the description of Ovids golden age which being excellent well rendred by the golden Sands I shall not render it in such meeter but in a suit agreable to this subject The Oration of DON QVIXOT Happy that Age which called was the golden Not because gold which doth so much embolden Men in this Iron age was plenty store Alas good men they had nor coyn nor â—ar But because all things were in common to 'um And those two filthy words meum and tuum Were not i' th' World but each mans heart and â—ouse Were open they kept gen'ral randevouze A man might dine like Sancho fill his guts For nough with Acornes or with unsavory Nuts And for his drink for Nuts are somewhat dry The silver liquor did run bubling by Which out of hand they drank for cups and dishes Were not in use by word of mouth like fishes They drank and drank and n'er could drink 〈◊〉 up Nor was it vile to slabber in the cup. In clefts of rocks and antient hollow trees The Common-Wealth or Monarchy of Bees Did hive and left to men the fragrant vales Carrying no sting but honey in their tailes Vulcan was then no God for then no steel But only cork was fast'ned
off-springs who are as innocent as their Husbands and it is counted a kind of blessing wealth to the places where they march Thus was this Sheep-Field Marshall'd which the Don and Sancho saw through the Prospectives of their fingers but Sancho a very Woolfangian was bloody minded and wished the utter ruine and confusion of these two Warlike bodies Animal propter Convivia natum was all the Latine he had or cared for and to expresse his Sanguinarious Nature he whispered the Don in the eare so subtilly and close that Cyd Hameti did not hear it and protested by the Gods of Mancha that he wisht from his heart and the bottome of his belly that every Souldier in both those Armies were dead upon the Turfe And so it was indeed If ever Knights wits went a wool-gathering ours did at this instant where a Flock of Sheep are supposed an Host of men Ramms taken for Gyants Ewes for Ladies Wethers for Eunuchs black Sheep for Negromancers Lamkins for Knights Pages Shepheards with their Crooks in their hands for Inchanters and Pioners with their pipes for Martiall Flutes the Wethers bels for Drumms and their taile clouts their colours their tupping and rutting for the maine Battalia and the Buttons for the slaught ' red bodies which were innumerable One of the effects of feare is to trouble the senses Videri facit quae non sunt Timor If this axiom be true the Don by his owne mouth shall be judg'd that he is the greatest coward of the two and that he reprehends Sancho unjustly who was not distempered by that womanish passion for he saw really that the Sheep were Sheep and no Gyants but the Don taking Geese for Swans as we say Sheep for Souldiers 't is a hundred to one upon Sanchos side that his Master was more timerous pro praesente For all this Don would not returne but cri ' don on Knights all that March under the valorous Emperor Pentapolin The Knight is as mad as his Enemie when it is vex'd with the ticks he charges through and through and routed the whole Body and made such gaps and gashes in the sides of the assaylants that one Sheep might have leapt through another till the main part of the Armie had escap'd through the first Sheep-breach Never was such a slaughter here lay legs and armes there breast and sides there necks there heads without hornes there hornes without heads there feet there rumps Sire Dam and Barne Ram Ewe and Lamb lay all in one ruine the Knight himselfe like Iohn-a-Green discolour'd with the garbage of the Enemie which he fetch'd out of the very bowels of them using the Sheep as the Romans did the Iewes at the sacking of Ierusalem ransacking in their Fundaments and upwards for conceal'd Gold and Jewels but the Don ripp'd them up not out of covetousnesse but meer revenge and was so bespattered and bespringled with the Intrailes that a-was more terrible then a Forrester and did so stinke of offall and slaughter that the Crowes Owles Ravens and Buzzards flew about him for provisions as if he had been Quarter-Master-Generall for those birds of prey His word was Pentapolin of the Naked Arme and look'd himselfe like a Lyon of East-cheap The Shepheards unloose their slings and bepelt him he crying Ali-fam-fa-ron where art thou The Shepheards at last take heart and stones and defy this Goliath of the Mancha who not afraid of an incounter of that nature run in upon the great Ali-feramme-Anae-faron and advancing his sanguine Javelin in the very curled front of him said dye Tyrant dye libidinous Ravisher dye of the yellowes as thou livedst jealous and lecherous so dye Never any more hope to tup the daughters of Pentapolin or see the naked and goodly leg of the faire Lady Ovesia or the tender quarters of the pretty young and chast Agnetis or Agnesia So fell this buffle-headed Gyant by the hand of Don Quixot who skill'd in Astronomie as farre as an Almanack could instruct him struck the Ramme in the neck and shoulders and with one blow the signe being at that time Aries sever'd his head from his body He thought himselfe slaine and remembring his liquor he took out the oyle-pot which a Shepheard with a stone broke Saepe premente Deo fert Deus alter opem The Gyant of the Tarre-box makes the wound The Knight of the good oyle-pot makes the sound But O the fate Cephalus his dart Conseâ—uitur quodcunque petit This Shepheard was some Parthians Bastard he had so unlucky an aime he would hit you a bird flying and unlesse an Owle be no bird he was his marks-man now He stops two gaps with one bush as they say with one stone doth Triplex malum makes three gaps a shrewd one in the oyle-pot whence the remainder of the Dons mornings draught and drench for his rib-sparre or split choose you which runne all out and a cut on the fingers but the fowlest gap of all was the breach in his mouth which the stone did forcibly enter in despite of his violent detainer of an high and mighty Guard of Teeth and a Jaw-boâ—â—e as strong as that with which Sampson did wonderfull things the foure principall Gyants of his mouth fell to the Earth with that blow his Cheek-teeth which so confounded our DON as if his strength had laine most in his mandibles that he fell after them upon the Earth himselfe lamenting the loss of his Face-frontiers and conceiting with himselfe that if he meet not in some good time with the French or Madrid Operators who can supply him with a new set his mouth was upon the West side like to be unpalisado'd for ever At the season which Sancho look'd in his mouth the Balsamum wrought and the Knight disgorg'd all in Sancho's face This was the first meal that Sancho had this day and the good Knight spar'd it as we say out of his owne belly but Sancho could not keep it it smelâ— so strong of the Pantry whence it came and the odious stench set Sancho's pot boyling till it run over in such violence that he return'd his Masters full meale into his mouth againe and a second course into the service they never knew one anothers mindes better then now for they utter'd them fully and wholly not a secret to their very heart but was open'd the Knight had all that was in Sancho and Sancho had all out of the Knight If their soules were ever so faithfull at confession upon easie Pennance they might very well be clear'd Which Wallet when he found wanting he was reâ—dy to run out of his wits This violent and thorough discharge puts Sancho in mind of his Wallet Animus in Patinis Which when he saw lost he wish'd his head also lost which he thought was the lesse dammage for the Wallet held somewhat but the other nothing his stomack cri'd out upon him too for making such clean work there was not an egge in the nest nothing for that boyling Caldron