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A14292	The golden fleece diuided into three parts, vnder which are discouered the errours of religion, the vices and decayes of the kingdome, and lastly the wayes to get wealth, and to restore trading so much complayned of. Transported from Cambrioll Colchos, out of the southermost part of the iland, commonly called the Newfoundland, by Orpheus Iunior, for the generall and perpetuall good of Great Britaine.	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.; Mason, John, 1586-1635.	1626 (1626)	STC 24609; ESTC S119039	176,979	382

smelt out your drift and banished your Iesuites to requite some part of your hospitalitie to strangers in that for the space of a whole yeere and better you restrayned their Embassadour at Lisbone from entring into your Hypocriticall Church And as he wrot to Damianus a Goes such was your insolencie that by no meanes you would admit them to communicate nor keepe companie with you as if they were the arrantest Heretickes of the world The Romish Church much agrieued that the Patriarke of Alexandria had preuented her in a Suit which shee had cunningly canuased and almost brought to perfection pleaded that all the world ought to be vnder her Gouernment For our Sauiour Christ after his Passion said that all Power was giuen vnto him in Heauen and Earth And this Power with the keyes did Hee before his Ascension into Heauen commit vnto Peter Which Soueraigne Authoritie after Peters death rested like the Spirit of Elias on Eliza the Prophet vpon the Successors of Peter For proofe of which Princely preheminence shee alledged the testimonie of Pope Gregorie the ninth who flourished in the yeare 1225. how God made two great Lights in the firmament of Heauen that is to say of the Catholicke Church the which two Lights are the Pontificall Authoritie and the Regall Power whereby men might know that there is as much difference betwixt Popes and Kings as betwixt the Sunne and the Moone At these words the Patriarke reioynd and said these arrogant words of yours pronounced now in your drooping and declining Age doe decipher you to be like an old Bawd and gracelesse Strumpet Was not the cure of Soules sufficient for you but you must also domineere ouer their bodies and more ouer their Purses This last is the cause of your discontent How doth the Spirit of Saint Peter rest on you more then the Spirit of Saint Matthew or Saint Philip rest on mee or my Aethiopian Clergie By that similitude Caiphas might vaunt that he had the spirit of Aaron But their Glorie ought not to countenance our Infirmities Neither as Saint Chrysostome said is the Place able to sanctifie the Successor nor can the Chaire make a Priest Saint Peter was of a higher Function then a Pope an Apostle to trauell from one place to the other hauing the charge of the Circumcision as Saint Paul of the Gentiles Hee was not tied to any one peculiar City O I would that both of vs were able to follow his godly steps and to labour vp and downe the world in conuerting of Idolaters and to preach nothing but Christ crucified without collaterall Mediators and worldly respects of Dignities Pompes or in hunting for Superioritie Gaine and fat Benefices Saint Peter had no Gold nor Siluer to giue as himselfe told the Creeple in Salomons Porch Hee wore no Triple Crowne but reioyced in the Crowne in his Masters thornie Crowne the Crowne of Martyrdome Hee wore no filuer Crucifixe but in his heart hee bore the contemplation of the bloudie Crosse which day and night hee earnestly beheld He taught his conuerted Flock to bee subiect vnto Kings The Pope exalts himselfe aboue all Kings aboue the Generall Councels Saint Peter would not suffer Cornelius to kneele vnto him The Pope expecteth that euen the mightiest Monarchs should kisse his Feet Et mihi Petro. Saint Peter willingly endured reproofe at the hands of Paul But who dares rebuke the Pope and tell him of his faults Saint Peter acknowledged the rest of the Apostles for his Brethren and Fellowes The Pope allowes of no Patriarch nor Bishop to be his equall nor of any Clergie man to be made but by his Authoritie Saint Peter and Saint Paul preached that Christ was the Head of the Church as the Husband of the Wife and for that end hee sent the Holy Ghost as his Vicar generall to direct the Soules of the Elect in spirituall mysteries during his residence in Heauen without apointing any Earthly Potentate or visible Head to execute that high Office and left their bodies to the Gods of the Earth to bee tried as Gold in the fornace It is the Soule the noblest part of man which hee takes most care of Why should He then ordaine a visible Head an ambitious Pope to domineere nay to tyrannize ouer that I●uisible Part What neede any other Head as ministeriall ouer our Consciences He that ouerlookt the seuen Golden Candlestickes that is the seuen Churches in the Reuelation and further promised the presence of his God-head I am with you to the Worlds end no doubt but hee will supply the place of a spirituall Head and infuse both spirituall nourishment into our Soules as also afford food and necessaries to our bodies though not according to the vaine desires of flesh and bloud which gape after superfluities yet enough to content nature O miserable state of Rome In what danger lyes thy Soule Saint Bernard long agoe reprehended this aspiring humour of the Romish Clergie And yet such is the force of tempting Gaine dolosinummi that if Moses himselfe and the Prophets arose from the dead they would not heare them as long as they spake against their worldly profit At first you beganne saith he to vsurpe as Lords ouer the Clergie contrary to Saint Peters admonition and within awhile after against Saint Pauls counsell who was Peters fellow Apostle yee got the rule ouer the Faith of men Nor yet doe yee stay heere but yee haue gone further and obtained a peremptorie dominion ouer Religion it selfe What remaines now but that yee climbe on high to bring into subiection the very Angels of Heauen Apollo very well approued the Catriarkes reproofe of the Romish Church and fell into such detestation of her intolerable ambition that he made this speech against her Three things haue wrought this absurditie in the Religion of the Westerne Christians the one hapned by the Opinion of the Popes extraordinarie Power imprinted in mens minds by their Ghostly Fathers that his Holinesse as Saint Peters Successour cannot erre in matters of Faith The second and most craftie that all men whatsoeuer who beleeue not in the Catholick Church which you must perswade your selfe to bee onely the Romish are vndoubtedly in the state of Damnation The third are the lyes of Purgatorie the which being at his dispose as Iudge Iayler made euery man specially the melancholick to take heed of angring him or any of his tribe as on the contrarie to appease his humour with Gifts and the buying of his idle Pardons But now my Beloued of Par nassus the vaile is taken from his painted face and you shall see and read in his eyes the affections of his heart And least some of you bee not so quicke sighted as others I will briefely runne ouer the two first causes of his Greatnesse After our Sauiours death for the space welnigh of three hundred yeeres the Christian Religion was so persecuted by the Romane Emperours specially at Rome it selfe

dayes To abstaine from Flesh they account it meritorious and yet to eat Fish Caueare Almonds Figs and other lustfull viands they professe it lawfull Our Sauiour notwithstanding warrants vs to eate Flesh saying that which goeth into the mouth defileth not a man And this hee proues by a forcible reason because that whatsoeuer entreth into the mouth goeth into the belly and is cast out I condemne not the true vse of Fasting with bread and water in them who finde their bodies carnally bent or so full of grosse humours that they breathe vp into their heads like cloudie and foggie vapours to ecclipse and darken their vnderstanding wills and memories those noble Organs of the Soule if they cannot otherwise without such mortification subdue their fleshly longing desires and fall to feruent Prayers Likewise I commend Fasting to all the vnmarried and lazie Persons who haue liued without much exercise faring well and lying in downie beds Such indeed haue reason aboue others to embrace Abstinence as a Iewell least their Gluttonic with ease should fill their veines with too much blood least their spleene grow to a bigger proportion then is fitting least through oppilations and obstructions feuers the small poxe the plurisie the greene sicknesse the consumption and chefly the Scuruie that vnsuspected Guest and hardly discerned Traitouresse at the first approch to the wisest Physician doe seize vpon them as their slaues neuer to bee redeemed But to make it a point of Religion and to perswade men that Fasting can satisfie Gods iustice or appease his wrath iustly conceiued against vs for sinne is the Doctrine of Diuels and a marke of Antichrist To the cleane all things are cleane as the Apostle said And the Elders of the Church ought not to clog and burthen the consciences of their yonger brethren with such yokes of mens inuentions and Traditions as Touch not taste not handle not which as Saint Paul againe saith bee things of no value sith they belong to the filling of the Flesh. For it is the soule and not the Flesh which good Christians ought to keep pure and vndefiled Which moued that ancient Father Tertullian who liued within lesse then two hundred yeares after Christ to auerre that the Apostles imposed no burthen of set and solemne Fasting but left it to our libertie as euery man saw his occasion The fourth marke of Antichrist is manifested that he must be a mysterie the mysterie of Iniquitie hee must sit in the Temple of God For the expounding of which place Saint Chrysostome deliuers a notable Commentarie Antichrist saith bee being seated in the Church and possessing the chiefest places of the Church is to hold all that in shew which the true Church of Christ holds in truth that is hee shall haue Churches Scriptures Bishops Priests Baptisme and the Communion c. Hee is a mysterie that is close and hidden vntill the Prophesie be winded to the bottome For as Saint Paul wrot before the time of his reueali●g must come their must needes fall out a departure from the Faith and then that Man of Sinne should bee knowne which had abused the world with lying signes and deceits The fist marke is expressed out of the Reuelation of Saint Iohn where Antichrist is termed the Where of Babilon the Beast the false Prophet all signifying the same hauing his power from the Spirituall Dragon which fought with Michael and his Angels By the name of Whore wee must note that none is called by that name but one which had beene once an honest woman The Church of Rome was once pure but afterwards by pride and ambition grew to be impure as now wee see her domineering Head sitting in the great Citie on the seuen Hills adored aboue all which is called God As on the Triumphall Arch engrauen in Lions 1555. was proclaymed Oraclo vocis mundi moderaris habenas Et merito in terris diceris esse Deu● By thy Tongues mightie Oracle The World thou gouern'st all On Earth thee without obstacle Of right a God wee call The sixt marke of Antichrist is taken out of Saint Paul that he began mystically to worke in his time But that which then with-held and let his reuealing did let and hinder vntill the splendour and glorie thereof that is the Maiestic of the Roman Empire was taken out of the way which afterwards in fulnesse of time came to passe when the Imperiall Seat was translated from Old Rome to New Rome which Constantine called after his own name Constantinople In Saint Pauls time hee o●ept on his feet and hands like an Infant about three hundred yeares after hee grew to his stripling age But about the yeere 666. which is the number assigned in the Re●elation hee was in his strength and euer since vntill my time he shewed himselfe in his owne colours a mightie Potentate with a Triple Crowne and vnder colour of Saint Peters keyes he arrogates to himselfe a higher Power then Nabuchadonozor the Caesars or the great Turke euer presumed to haue heere on Earth As long as the Roman Emperors liued in the great Citie the Bishops stood inawe and followed their bookes not carking for the vanities of the world But when the Place by the Emperours absence became an habitation for his Holinesse then that Barre which with-held his discouerie was also taken out of the way so that now all men of Iudgement may clearely see the mysterie of I●iquitie manifestly discouered The seuenth marke of Antichrist is the great wonder and maruell which Saint Iohn had when he saw this vnlookt for alteration which he would not haue confessed if in his vision he had beheld an Heathen Antichrist or any Infidell Tyrants For hee had sufficient triall of their Tyrannies But when he saw in the Temple of God a Reuerend Prelate attired in Purple and Scarlet with Imperiall Ornaments and Princely Authoritie which Christ forewarned his Apostles to take heede of hee could not choose but wonder The eight marke of the Antichrist is that his Sect shall magnifie him with one consent and with one mind In this they glorie and in all their communications you shall heare them brag of Catholicke Antiquitie and of the Popes succession neuer heeding Saint Pauls prophecie that before the discouerie of Antichrist a generall defection of the Faith was necessarily to come nor yet giuing credit to Saint Iohn that the Church was to flye into a Desert This very ostentasion passed of the Iewes that they crucified the Lord of life and persecuted the Apostles as the Founders of a new Religion Vpon this did the Romane Idolators insist and by Antiquitie defended their idle Opinions The ninth marke of Antichrist is apparantly deciphered by his vaunting of Miracles a token which our Sauiour deliuers that there should arise false Christs and false Prophets which should doe great wonders and signes so that if it were possible they should deceiue the very Elect if it were possible The like

the Saints But vnto God she framed her Complaints Bad Company she shunn'd as Rockie shelues And fear'd suspected Suiters worse then Elues If Flesh and Bloud in her began to tickle She mortified her thoughts that were so fickle She fasted oft but oftner vs'd to pray To which she ioyn'd some labour eu'ry day No Day without a Line She daily wrought Somtimes on Needle when she fitting thought Or spunne by Distaffe or the Wheele she rowld Somtimes on Loome her skil she would vnfold At times she stirr'd more busie then the Bee And was well pleas'd the Maids to ouer-see Tir'd with houshold busines on Harp she playes Or Violl which she tunes to Dauids Layes One while she sings for her recreation Of Noahs Arke and the first Creation Another whiles of Aegypts Miracles Her Nation blest with Sinaes Oracles Their wandring forty yeeres with Manna fed And in the Desert by an Angell led Now of their Wars she tels with warbling voice Anon of Iewries fall with dolefull noyse One while she reades another while she writes She writes those rules which she herself endites Some other time to draw the Countries Aire She went abroad but neuer to a Faire Least Tortoiselike cub'd vp shee might take harme She goes abroad to see her Fathers Farme The Fields shee likes but more the Garden walkes To note Gods workes in seedes herbes flowres and stalkes Yea though seldome she the Towne suruayes With her deere Mother witnesse of her wayes CHAP. XIII A Corollary or an epitomized Censure of Apollo pronounced after the aforesaid Opinions deliuered touching the Election of Wines and their vsage AFter these Gentlemen had deliuered their seuerall Iudgements how men should not onely chuse their wines and conforme them to their wils but like wise take away all the Occasions of vnlawfull Loue ie pleased his Imperiall Maiestie to adde these few Admonitions Well haue yee O my vertnous Minions discoursed of the affections of the Female Sexe And I doe approoue and confirme your positions with this Caueat to the Man that he make choise of a Wise by the Eares and not by the Eyes And to the woman I aduise her not to presume on her owne Conceit either of her honestie wit or loue of Company as to giue way vnto fl●ttering and idle speeches of any Man whatsoeuer but at the first touch with a braue yet modest disdaine to bid Sathan a●oid though hee speake in an Angels shape lest otherwise shee bee misconstrued loose For it is enough for a Man because hee is a Man to bee honest though hee doth but seeme so But for a woman because shee is a woman it is not enough to be chaste if shee bee not knowne to bee chaste yea and apparantly knowne in despite of the Deuill and all his Followers CHAP. XIIII Cato the Censour of good manners hauing arrested certaine Persons a drinking more then the Lawes prescribed them brings them before Apollo His Maiestie reproues them for their Drunkennesse and banisheth them for euer out of the precincts of Parnassus VPon the tenth of Iune last 1626. Cato the diligent Inquisitour and Censour of good manners hauing apprehended foure persons in a Wine-tauerne which had drunke ten quarts of strong wine at a sitting brought them before Apollo to be censured and humbly desired his Maiestie that he would shew some exemplarie punishment on those bestiall persons who albeit they dranke more then a dozen yet could they not performe the deeds of two able men either in the bodies Actions or in the Spirits functions Apollo asked them what tempted them to lade their bodies with so much strong Liquor They answered that it was not the loue of the wine but of the Companie which drew them to carowse so many pots And further they alledged that their natures being accustomed to drinke they bare it out well without the least giddinesse in the head reeling or staggering which as long as they could so doe they hoped no man might taxe them of Drunkennesse To this Apollo replied that by the late Statutes of England no Trauellers might drinke aboue one q●●rt of Ale or Beere at a penny the quart vpon one ●itting or meale so that to drinke more then that measure prescribed by Law ought to bee construed Drunkennesse because the wise Law-makers of that State foresaw that so much would serue any reasonable Creature But to exceed that quantitie in a stronger kind of liquor in Corsicke Greeke or Falerne wines could not but redound to Drunkennesse in the superlatiue degree And whereas said he yee would couer your Drunkennesse with the ablenesse of your braine I must tell you that he is to bee termed a reall Drunkard which surpasseth the set stint of his Countryes Lawes or if hee enters after his bibbing into any vnseemely passion or borrowes the gesture of a raging Lion of the toyish Ape of the sensuall Hog or of the lasciuious Goat pratling or acting any feates more then are decent or more then he vsed at other times he may be branded with the note of a Drunkard then which nothing is more odious in the sight of our vertuous Societie Bring a horse to the water all the world cannot vrge him to drinke more then sufficeth nature at that time And yet man a Creature enriched with free will in naturall things wil proue himselfe worse then the Beasts which haue no vnderstanding Most honourable be those Masters of Families which hate and curb this wanton excesse of Drinking in their Seruants And worthy of applause in our Court is that Nobleman who seeing no admonitions nor change of Butlers could restraine his vnruly Seruants from this Swinish vice caused his seller to bee remoued by building one within his Parlour whereby shame his Eye being vpon them might bridle their inordinate affections freely protesting that hee would haue nothing spent which might be honestly spared nor any thing spared which might be honestly spent that it was not the expence but ciuill gouernment to settle sobrietie in his house which made him to take so strict a course In this he imitated that Learned Emperour Antonius Pius which banished all the Wine-tauernes in Rome because hee saw his Subiects begin to turne Drunkards and that none but Apothecaries should presume to sell any wine and that as Phy sick to the sick and weake Heeretofore a King of England noting that by the Companie of the Daues all his Subiects were infected with this Sinne he imposed a fit and limited measure for euery man to drinke by Within these fiftie yeeres Drunkennesse was scarce knowne in England At such time as the Low Countrey warres began the souldiers at their returne by the Diuels temptations brought it thither to impouerish their natiue Country And vntill a set s●int bee prouided for pledging and carowsing with a Law to make the misdoers infamous and vncapable of promotion it wil hardly be rooted out What a preposterous thing is it that one man should drinke more then

might satisfie soure honester men then himselfe What a shame is it that the Ilanders of Great Brittaine should wast in wine malt and hops more then would serue to maintaine fortie thousand men in the Field How simple is that excuse of yours O yee children of Bacchus that yee care more for the companie then for the liquor Doe not yee know that hee which toucheth pitch shall become defiled therewith In Holy writ it is registred Thou shalt not follow a maltitude to doe euill And againe haue no fellowship with the Instruments of Sathan but rether reproue them Which likewise King Salomon long before admonished to take heed of Bee not saith hee of the number of them which are bibbers of wine for the Drinker and the Feaster shall become poore In like manner the Prophet rouzeth them vp with an alarme Awake yee Drunkards weepe and howle And in another place the Wise man denounceth a woe vnto them which rise vp early to follow Drunkards If the feare of Gods Iudgements work not in your heedlesse wills yet the daily tortures wherein ye see before your eyes thousands afflected ought to imprint some sensible motion in you to beware by others harmes of drunken Companie The Apoplexie the Gout Dropsie Ague spring out of this enchanting fountaine In regard of these grosse abuses wee doe vtterly banish these present Drunkards out of our Territories of Parnassus And we doe also enact that none of this infamous rout presume heereafter to touch our sacred two topt Mount Prouided neuerthelesse and be it excepted out of the Premises that it shall be lawfull at the end of euery meale for any honest man without impeachment of Drunkennesse to pledge and carowse one draught of good liquor to their gracious Aduersaries as a token of reconciliation as the cup of Charitie poculum Charitat is which the Founder of Trinitie Colledge in Oxford decreed for euer among his Fellowes and Schollers or poculum boni Genij the cup of good fellowship to the health of their cheerefull nature which the Romans practised at their Feasts And because the representation of this vgly vice may appeare in mens imaginations with some more feeling dint we require our Pronotarie to publish these verses What at this day doe Brittaines Tongues bewray That by strong liquor some haue gone astray Faiths Temple they pollute with Cup and Can In Duties fayling towards God and Man They spend their wealth spoile their health mar their wits By drinking more then sober men befits Thus haue our bordring Dutehmen lately swill'd Vntill their Pots with Neighbours bloud are fill'd Repent be wise in time by others harmes Flie witching Cups for feare of after-harmes If not your King your Tauernes must destroy Least suffring Sinne himselfe doe feele annoy Curtua vox titubat mea magna Britannia Baccho Dederis Templum contemerare Dei Ebrietate scatet Germania pocula vindex Replet at humano plena cruore Deus Tolle moras iubet ipse Deus resipisce Tabernas Effuge Circ●as Luxuriare caue Qui mala non prohibet cum possit conscius esto Has potes infames Rex prohibere domos CHAP. XV. The Author of this Treatise called the Golden Fleece exhibits a Bill of Complaint against the Tobacconists of Great Brittaine Apollo condemnes the immoderate vse of Tobacco and recommends the care of the extermination thereof to the Clerg●e and the Temporall Magistrate THe Author and Publisher of this present Treatise seeing the beastly vice of Drunkennes like to be quite cashierd out of his natiue Country with a streit commandement from his Maiestie to the Coustables of euery seuerall Diuision to conueigh the Offenders from Parish to Parish towards the Sea-side where they should take shipping for the Low Countries or Germanie from whence they first had it hee like wise burned with zeale to haue the common Takers of Tobacco sent after them For as he informed Apollo it was not possible vtterly to banish Drunkennesse out of the Land as long as the shooinhorne sta●d behinde that Tobacco-taking of late yeeres supplied the vse of Preparatiues Leaders or drawers on of drinke such as Caueare and salt meates were vsed among the Sibarites To this Apollo answered that it were fit Physicians should cause some skilfull Surgeons to let them bloud in vena cephalica in the head veine or to purge them with black Hellebore for surely men beganne to grow mad and crazed in the brain in that they would aduenture to suck the smoke of a weed nay if it were neuer so Catholick Medecin at all times feasting and fasting in health aswell as sicknesse without regard had to the persons ages sexes times temperatures moist or dry hot or cold All this hath beene sundrie times repeated vnto them by many zealous Physicians of the Soule and Bodie replyed the Complaynant And for my poore Talent albeit neither Diuine nor Physician I haue not buried the same but in most of my workes I haue rebuked the excessiue taking of Tobacco and chiefly in my Booke entituled Directions for Health I haue canuased this abominable vice I freely shewed that by the inordinate taking of it the course of Nature was peruerted the state of the bodie turned topsie turuie when the Nose like a Chimney did vent out vnnaturall smokes which ought to exhale and breathe with naturall Aire when the mouth ordained by nature to receiue in sustenance for the whole body is now become a priuy hole to spet to spew to spatter and bel●h without need yea and to cast vp whole gobbets of most necessary fleame like stinking Oysters when the stomack the bodies Kitchin which ought to bee kept sweete must harbour lothsome dampes filthy excrements and bad smels worse then the snuffe of a Candle which otherwise would quickly passe through the guts to the sinke of the bodie Apollo at this relation demonstrated apparant tokens of sorrow and commanded all the deuout Preachers of Parnassus to ioyne their heads together to beate the inconueniences into their Auditours consciences and vnder paine of the Thunderbolt of Excommunication to will them to desist from making that crooked which God had made straight from defiling the house where the Holy Spirit ought to reside as a sanctified seate Whereto the sacred Ministers made answere that they had employed the vttermost of their endeauours to clense that pure place but by reason of sundry inuisible spirits which the Deuill sent to tempt their Flockes they contemned their wholsome counsels And for the other point of Exconsmunication that wrought lesse effect by reason that that spirituall power in these dayes degenerated from the proper vse being too commonly wrested and fulminated against men euen for not paying of some pettie Fees due to the Officers of the Court. Well then said Apollo if Saint Peters Keyes cannot prenayle let Saint Pauls Sword or rather that of Saint Peters where with he strooke off Malchus Eare serue to cut off this superfluous member And