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A19775 The vievv of Fraunce Dallington, Robert, 1561-1637.; Michell, Francis, Sir, b. 1556. 1604 (1604) STC 6202; ESTC S109214 101,702 171

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neuer made his great banquets of Fish but when he was farthest from Sea and Aesope the Tragicke that spent 15000. crownes at a feast bestowed it all in birdes tongues as of Linnets Nightingales and such others as had beene taught to sing that the price might be the greater Giue me for all this the good old Bishop of Toledo his Capon who vpon a fasting day would needs make the companie at table beleeue that by the force of certaine wordes of consecration he had transsubstantiate this fat Fowle into fish and that there onely remained the outward forme as Poggio the Florentine reports of him This Country must needs be wel stored with fish for besides the benefit of the sea the lakes and ponds belonging only to the Clergie which at the most haue but one third of France are reported to be 135. thousand The riuers also of France are so many as Boterus reporteth of the Queene Mother she should say heere were more then in all Christendome but we hold her for no good Cosmographer shee had her other qualities which shall not be forgotten in their fit place True it is that the riuers here are many and very faire and so fitly seruing one the other al the whole as it seemeth na●ure in the framing of our bodies did not shew more wonderfull prouidence in disposing veines and arteries throughout the bodie for their apt conueyance of the blood and spirit from the liuer and heart to each part thereof then shee hath shewed in the placing of these waters for the transporting of all her commodities to all her seuerall Prouinces Of all those these are the principall the Seine vpon which standeth the Citie of Paris Rouen and many other It hath his head a little aboue Chatillon in the northwest of Lingonois and receyueth nine Riuers of name whereof the Yonne the Marne the Oyse are nauigable that is doe carrie boats with sayle The Some whereupon standeth the Citie of Amyens Abbeuile and many other It hath his head aboue S. Quentin diuideth Picardie from Artois and receyueth eight lesser Riuers The Loire hath standing vpon it the Cities of Orleans Nantes and many other his head is in Auuergne it parteth the middle of France his course is almost two hundred Leagues it receyueth 72. Riuers whereof the chiefe are Allier Cher Mayne Creuse Vienne all nauigable The Garond vpon which standeth Bourdeaux Thoulouse and other Cities it hath his head in the Pyreney mountaines it diuideth Languedocke from Gascoine it receyueth sixteene riuers whereof Iarne Lot Bayze Dordonne and Lisle are chiefest And lastly the Rhosne vpon which standeth the Citie of Lions Auignon and diuers others it hath his head in the mountaines Alpes deuideth Sauoy from Lyonnois and Dolpheine from Languedocke it receyueth thirteene riuers whereof the Soane the Doue Ledra and Durance are the chiefest All the other Riuers carrie their streames into the Ocean Some at Saint Vallery Seine at Newhauen Loyre beneath Nantes and Garond at Blay onely the Riuer of Rhosne payeth his tribute to the Mediterranean at Arles The Seine is counted the richest the Rhosne the swiftest the Garond the greatest the Loyre the sweetest for the difference which Boterus makes of them where he omits the Garond and makes the Soane a principall Riuer is generally reiected When we rightly consider the happie fruitfulnesse of this soyle and the exceeding benefit of these riuers I know not what wee should say is wanting vnlesse yee will say Animus qui his vtatur deest wit to vse them for in deede the French hath these eight and thirtie yeeres abused them with their ciuill and intestine warres Doe but conceyt in your imagination the faire Townes of Italy heere seated and in them the English Nation planted and in my opinion ye haue the right Idea of Platoes happy State O vtinam O si But I must remember one inconuenience and discommodity it hath I haue heard some poore Countrey-man say He loues not to haue his house too neere a Lawyer It should seeme they bee ill Neighbours and it may be that Themistocles roued at some such matter when hee caused the Sergeant to cry in publike place that besides all the good properties which his Farme had that hee set to sale Qu'il auoit bon voisin That he had a good neighbour This is the mischiefe that faire France hath about her so many bad neyghbours as Lorraine Sauoy and Spayne of whose good affection to this Countrey wee may say with the Poet Vnum cognoris omnes noris Knowe one and knowe them all Neyther of them wish her better then other as hath well appeared in the late ciuill warres wherein eche thought to haue had his share howsoeuer now they loue no Grapes The Ports and passages into France where Custome is payd to the King were in times past more then they be now the names of them at this present are these In Picardy Calais Bologne S. Vallery In Normandy Diepe Le Haure de Grace Honnefleux Caen Cherbrouge In Bretaigne S. Malo S. Brieu Brest Quimpercorentine Vannes Nants In Poictowe Lusson les sables d'Olonne In Rochellois Rochelle In Xantogne Zoubisse In Guyenne Bourdeux Blay Bayonne In Languedocke Narbonne Agde Beucaire Maugueil In Prouence Arles Marseilles Fransts In Lionnois Lions In Burgogne Ausonne Langres In Champagne Chaumont Chalons Trois In the Territory Metzin Metz Toul Verdun In all thirty seuen Of all these Lions is reputed to be the most aduantageous to the Kings Finances as being the key for all silks clothes of gold and siluer and other marchandise whatsoeuer which come or goe from Italy Swisserland and all those Southeast Countreyes into France which are brought to this Towne by the two faire Riuers of Rhosne and Soan the one comming from Sauoy the other from Burgundy and heere meeting where by the way me thinks I may fitly compare these two Waters to two great Princes of these two great Countries comming to be maried at this great City which within the walles is within ten Toyses as large as Paris In which allusion I make the Rhosne which in the French toung is of the masculine gender the Sauoyard Prince and the Soane which is likewise in this language the feminine the Princesse of Burgundy which conceit is the better warranted because le Rhosne is a very swift and furious Riuer which well agreeth with the nature and condition of the man and la Sona a still and sweet water which rightly symbolizeth with the quality of a woman I would our Poet that made a marriage betweene the Medun and Thames at Rochester had the handling of this matter for it becomes a Poeme better then a Relation For profit next to Lions are Bourdeaux Rochell Marseilles Nantes Newhauen But for capability of shipping I haue heard that Brest excelleth and for strength Calais especially as it is now lately fortified by the Spanyard which was not