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Al-Man-Sir, or, Rhodomontados of the most horrible terrible and invincible Captain Sr. Fredrick Fight-all English and French.
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Gaultier, Jacques.
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1672
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Wing G381; ESTC R37393
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to tremble the Heavens were astonisht the Wind ceast the Sea became calm Women big with child miscarried Men in general every where fled before me and the most valiant and couragious seeing me cryed out one and all Libera me Domine II. I Swear Villain if I come there I will give thee such a blow with this battoon it shall drive thee six foot within the Earth so that there shall nothing remain of thee above it but thy right hand to put off thy Hat when thou shalt see me pass that way III. CErtainly when I consider how many graces Fortune hath endued me with I have not time sufficient for so many considerations For in the first place she hath heaped on me force and overwhelmed me with strength she hath quallified me with courage to the least punctilio and hath form'd and fashion'd me out of the greatest vallour So that I am as a Colomn in France a Bastion in Spain a Fortress in Italy a Castle in England a Cittadel in Germany a Tower in Poland a Rock in Armenia a Wall in Denmark To be short I am generally better quallified then all the men in the world being a refined mettal taken out of the bowels of the fat of the Earth and conceived by generosity IV. I Swear by the bones of the Sun it is as impossible for my right hand to strike any with my Battoon and not to kill as for the Sun to cease from running his dayly course through the Heaven V. TRuly and witout swearing by the beard of my great Grandfather I do not believe there is any thing in the whole world which can equal the horrible dreadful and furious terribility of my courage And what is there think you in the whole world which will not honour and obey me if so that I can make the earth tremble the Heavens afraid the Stars to disappear the savage beasts of lofty Mountains and craggy Rocks to hide themselves therein And moreover the birds which people the Airy Region the Fish whose Kingdom is the sea and men the most valiant and couragious with one sole angry glance of my eye I reduce them to the Chaos of their first principles VI. GO to my Cook and tell him it is my command that he spit me immedately a dozen and half of Demicannon larded with Piâ—es Muskets and Halberds which I have taken from my enemies in pitcht Battles and let there be the Bandeleers of a Foot-company to hang about instead of Sassages having done this let him put over the Grid-Iron and broil me three or four dozen of Carbines with a score or two of pocket Pistols fryed with Brimstone and Salt-peeter sauce and then come and sup with me for this is the Food which I am accustomed to feed on VII I Am King of Paladins the terrour of the World the flower of the Nobility of Rhodomontado's Furioso's Superboso's Rolands and Olivers beautified with infinite Graces fait as an Angel the heart and courage of Lucifer a Servant to the mighty Queens of the Earth a Friend to distressed Ladies and the Soveraign Prince of the Anthropophagi or Man-Eaters VIII ONe day in battle I found out the Queen of the Amazons she seeing me resolved that I should fall by no other hand than that of so great and mighty a Queen and thereupon raiz'd her hand with her Sword therein but I not willing to loose any time struck her at which she fell to the Earth then taking her by the hair of the head I threw her with such fury and force that she flew to the fifth Heaven and fell upon Mars as he was sporting with Venus the fall of whom broke his head Venus being greatly afraid cryed out for help at whose cry the Gods came running to her aid but were much astonisht when they saw Mars stretcht out upon the place Hereupon Jupiter thrust his head through the casement and saw me distributing wounds among my enemies with so much anger and fierceness that the fire which flew from every blow resembled another Mont-Gibel or Aetna Therefore Jupiter said to all his Brother Gods that none of them should stir or make any further noise of what was done since it might be supposed that he which had killed Mars the God of War was every whit as able to kill the rest of the Gods which yet remained living IX HAve a care Sits stand back there at a distance till I have put on my Cloak for the very wind that comes from the bare Cape thereof is sufficient to fan yee five hundred leagues distant from the Pyrenean Mountains X. JF my Sword could express what wonders it hath done yet wâ—uld it want time to discover all What is it if not that which hath peopled all the Church-yards in the Universe What is it if not my Toledo which hath inricht the Chyrurgeons of this Terrestial Globe What is it that hath sent so many continually to the Sword-cutlers What is that which hath cut in peices the best coat of Mail What is that which so derides the Bucklers of Barcelona which hews the cabaces of Calatayud if not my Sword For it did cut the Head-peece vizors of Almazen with as much ease as if they had been made of a Melon or Cucumber XI THese twenty years my Sword hath provided for me by which I am feard of men and beloved of Women XII ONe told me that the Grand Seignor had committed lately great slaughters among the Christians depriving them in a barbarous manner of their Legs and Arms but if I come there I shall soon cool his courage for I know by the living bones of my Father he will no sooner see mâ— but he will lay on his own life violent hands to avoid falling into mine XIII WHen I speak my voice penetrates the depths of Hell where ever I appear the World offers me a free subjection from East to West It is well known that where ever I am my Bedstead is made of the ribs of Giants the ticking of my bed is filled with the Moustacho's of the Masters of the Camp to the Grand Turk my Bolster with the Brains which I boxt out of the heads of his Captains my cloaths are made of the Hair of Amazons my coverlids are composed of Switzers-beards my curtains of the hair of the eye-brows and eye-lids of Hungarians and Germans and the wall of my lodging is built not only with the pieces of Head-peeces but the entire heads of the standard bearers to the Queen of England which I lopt off with my dreadful and formidable Sword the floor of my house instead of Brick is paved with Janazaries Teeth my tapistry are the skins of Arabians and Sorcerers whom I unbarkt with the point of my Dagger the tiles which cover my house are the nails of Monarchs and Kings whose bodies long since in despight of them and those miserable carcasses they indeavoured to defend with a kick of my Foot I tumbled into their sepultures XIV SCorning
Al-Man-Sir OR RHODOMONTADOS OF THE Most Horrible Terrible and Invincible CAPTAIN Sr Fredrick Fight-all English and French Flectere si nequeo Superos Acheronta movebo If that the Gods wont lend an ear then Hell Shall quake when I my dreadful stories Tell. LONDON Printed by Peter Lillicrap for Philip Briggs living in Mermaid Court at the lower end of Pater-noster-row 1672. The most incomparable Sir Frederick Fight-All to the Reader Reader I Suppose thee both Noble and Valiant or else thou would'st not presume to handle this Book or hazard thy understanding in reading such and so many prodigious Atchievements contain'd therein To hear of thousands killing thousands is no more then the death of one man by another but for a single person to slay a thousand and they all Emperours Kings and Princes is a work impossible for any but me Sir Frederick Fight-All I can out-do what e're was heretofore accounted Fabulous and incredibly dangerous were the Centaure living I would make him crawl away upon his Hands for safety leaving his Headless Horse a sacrifice to my Fury O that I could but see whether one of the Cadmean Race durst peep his Head above ground I would quickly make him hide himself in the next cavern to the Center This may be prou'd and more from what I have done the truth whereof if any are such impudent Infidels as to question let them be ramm'd through the body of the Earth that the Antipodes may satisfie their unbelief It is a thing for School boys to admire a Garagantua a Mandevill a Scare-crow Drake with puny deeds of Chivalry poor Pigmy-Crane oppugnors Let Mars and Hercules astonisht stand Hearing the direful deeds of my right hand Methinks I could unhinge the Poles and were they not too big to grasp I would tear the World to Raggs It hath been hitherto for the sake of my own Country which Cannibals admire for giving me breath that I did not wish as Archimedes did that Rodamontado Kickshaw compar'd to me that I might find some other Footing than what is common to Mortals that I might twirle the giddy Inhabitants of this World into a perpetual motion Many such trifles I 'me asham'd to own Which are but foyls to deeds which I have done Let it suffice to give you an account why I describe my own Heroick Actions and not leave it to the care of my admirers Caesar writ the Commentaries of his own victorious Life then why should not I write mine He was afraid some detracting Writer might lessen his Worth to men but my Fear is they would over-value mine to the Gods and so by jealousie incense their Deities to whom I shall ever bear an amicable respect whilst I am the Bulwork of Christendom and the most Invincible Sir Frederick Fight-All From Hercules Pillars the 5th of the Month Javan To the Elli-mi-hammi-rammi-ziragian Elixir and Deusnoetous Rhapfodist of Enigmaticall and occult Fancy Captain Robert alias Jack Pommell Metropolitan Hydro-mel-mercurialist of Fleet-street SIR I Implore your pardon on the flexed knees of that grand respect which I must show diurnally and owe you diuturnally for this Pyramidall presumption of obstetricating this Gygantick Birth under your Pegasian or rather Helliconian Patrâ—â—age Your rash Negation will but irritate Al-Man-Sirs and my just passion in denying that Protection which the Gods have courted us to accept under the Heaven-spreading lofty Wing of Joves Eagle when she sits abrood on a Cloud to hatch Lightning and Thunder with which her Master doth Tonnitruate and Fulminate the affâ—ighted inhabitants of the Universe into a Non-entity of rational Intelligence That Pallas was the product of Jupiters Head-ach Manu-ducted into the Society of Celestial existencies by Vulcanian Midwifry is an opinion not to be opposed if we believe no Fabulous dotage in Veterane Parnassites or Hypocrenians but who the Gossips were to this Jovial Off-spring comes not within the vierge of our stricktest indigation if none a great oversight in the Gods to act against approved custome To avoid which errour for it seems the Godâ— of old were subject thereunto as well as Mortals I have â—udiciously elected you as Godfather for the Reciprâ—cal Reputation of you both your lofty expressions and Al-Man-Sirs loud actions having already timpaniâ—'d Fames Cheeks into the danger of a Rupture For at the Inauguration of your vulgar-non-intelligible-invisible conceits invisible I call them because they soar out of the ken of dim-sighted Mortality Ophtâ—olmick Fame stood on Tip Toe ready for the Wing who as soon as she heard you named commenc'd her Commission thence and flew first through Englands Metrapolâ—s in all the secret recesses thereof then to its adjacent Suburbâ—carians and in all places with her Trumpet sounded the harmonious Levets of Pâ—mmâ—llian Eulogies And that your Cheek may not seem to borrow tincture from Aurora's complection for Patronizing what cannot claim desert or merit know that Al-Man-Sir may boast of as much Deity as Pallas and not inferiour in Metaphysical extraction if you observe this parallel between them Pallas proceeded from Joves Head Al-Man-Sir from Mars hâ—s Buttocks by a slash in Battail the first and Virgin cut of that bloody yet bawdy Cornuter thus you see he was begot by a Sword conceived in a wounds Womb and obstetticated with the blood which flowed from the profundity thereof Both their Genitors were Deities yet differ in this one is of the upper house the other of the lower My final and ultimate request is that you being placed in the Zenith of sublime fancy will so instruct this Stripling that he may noâ— fall into the Nadit of low and popular expression cloath his understanding out of your Wardrope of hard words such so difficile long and Syllabically extended that each word may require an half hour in the pronunciation and when delivered and stretcht out a whole league by the chain in length and let them have so insufferable a sound they may as infallibly kill as Cannon-shot at the same distance This will be a great ease to Al-Man-Sirs hands and feet the one will not be troubled to foot out their Revenge nor the other to hack and hew out the way if his tongue by your help may be furnished with words shall kill as sure as his Sword by this means that with his Battoon will have some respit from their bloody Sweats and labours and for the ease you give those dreadful Executioners their Master shall give you the Turn-over of their future Service and I shall dayly pay you the tribute of my just admiration whilst I am known to be R. H. RHODOMONTADO'S I. WHen I came into the World Mars the God of War did sit astride my Shoulders Hercules was at my Right Hand and Samson on my Left Atlas at my Thighs Mercury on my Head Venus in my Eyes Cupid in my countenance Nero in my Heart Jupiter in all my Body In such sort that when I walk't it was with such wonderful Force and Strength I caused the Earth