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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43850	Iter Lusitanicum, or, The Portugal voyage with what memorable passages interven'd at the shipping, and in the transportation of her Most Sacred Majesty Katherine, Queen of Great Britain, from Lisbon, to England, exactly observed by him that was eye-witnesse of the same, who though he publish this, conceals his name / by S.H. ...	Hinde, Samuel.	1662 (1662)	Wing H2058; ESTC R20099	14,566	40

Mythologize From Earth and Waters Light and Fire were sent In Blazing Comets to the Firmament Balls of consuming Wild-fire here were hurl'd Like to quick Fire drakes through the liquid world The lights of heaven were darkn'd the pale Moon Pull'd in her horns to see her self out-done Each Ship a globe of glory did appear Each light a fixed Star in 's Hemisphere That that had least had most 〈…〉 for there the Queen Queen-Regent of th' new Firmament was seen Charles Wain was here predominant and these Great lights below dar'd the Antipodes City and Sea were gilded with the shine That overspread them both in this designe Those Engines blaz'd with flames which just before Roar'd out in Thunder to th' astonisht shore The Hulls the Masts the Cordage and the Tyre Of those Boanergeses seem'd all on fire And yet no noise nor harm what did appear Was fitted to the Eye and not Eare. To please the Queen the Elements conspire That of the Earth the Waters and the Fire Oh for an Aye ry Wagoner whose prayer Elias-like ●…s ●…ì 〈…〉 may now command the Ayre The KINGS last Farewel THe winde was wholly contrary that day All which in visiting was pass'd away But then when Morpheus had clos'd up most eyes And nights black Curtains were drawn o're the Skyes Down comes the King in 's Royal Barge amain Incognito with his harmonious train To sing his Sisters Farewell which was done To Extasie and Admiration Under our gilded Galleries he floats And there they advance their most melodious throats In severall Sonnets which the Artist calls Epithalamions Carols Madrigals Thalia to the Queen did here impart What skill in Musick lay and what in Art What comes from Instruments what from the throats Well warbl'd out in sweet-dividing Notes The vocall Musick that we heard this Night Had in 't the Quintescence of all delight Here was the true Arion who they say Made Dolphins dance and caper in the Sea Here was the Orpheus and Amphion too That with their Musick did such wonders do Layd Charms on man and beast made stones to rise From th'sullen Earth and re-salute the Skyes It were a task for Lanier Cooke or Lawse To give the merit of it just applause I want both Skill and Language to express The order melody and comeliness Of this nights action But th' approaching day Silenc'd the Musick sent the King away That morning we put to Sea HElen ●…na 〈◊〉 all and Troy ne're parted where the Queen Was present there the Court was also seen 'T is now a floating in this Royal Arke At which the Stars may gaze and Dogs may bark Down to the wombe of moysture now we fall Leaving the Native soyl of Portugall Where formerly on shore we did descry Whole Constellations of Nobility Clouded with sadness Ladies all in Vails E're we weigh'd Anchor or could hoise our Sails Each man 's an Agamemnon as they say Mourning to part with Iphigenia The Ladies farewell to her seem'd to be Sadder then th'parting of Andromache Oh! for a Zeuxis or Aglaophon To paint their looks at Lisbon now she 's gone Delug'd in seas of sorrow hear their cryes Colchos it selfe ne're sent forth such a Prize Great Englands Argonaut that Princes bears That widows all our joyes drowns all our tears The Royal Charles in her ha's shipt in more Than all the Lisbon Caracks did before Both Indies in a trice where ere she comes She out-ballances all Wealth Persumes and Gummes Tagus does flow to Thames and now White-hall H 'as found Capacity for Portugall London ha's swallow'd Lisbon Englands Coast Hath gain'd more from us then our Conquests boast A vertuous Virgin on whose cheeks do lie Concentred Beautie Grace and Modestie A Gracious Bride whose meer Intrinsick worth Runs parallel with what the world brings forth A Glorious Queen array'd in Majestie Mirrour of Vertue Prudence Pietie A Virgin Bride and Queen young fair and good Leander-like attempts the curled Flood To court Great Britains King o' th British shore Waving both Tagus and Pactolus o're Leaving all hopeless e're her like to see Except it come Great Charles from Her and Thee Good Winde and Weather ALL Oracles invok't we launch again By Heavens safe Conduct to the Briny-main Our Canvas swelling with such gentle gales As strain no Top-masts and yet fill her Sayles Our hollow Keels the Ocean do divide With all advantages of Winde and Tyde Mercies do seem to multiply We find Fair weather added to the fairest wind A cross and contrary Winde THe morn was glorious but our hopes Alas Blasted and withered e're the day did pass The wind did alter and the weather rage Both with the angry Element engage The Waves did rise the Clouds let fall their Rain Ships took in Seas Men pumpt e'm out again Nor were we far into the Ocean gone But we were crost with an Euroclydon North-east and turbulent just such a one As crost that Vessel of Election He from Lasea we from Lisbon came Ours had a storms but his a tempests name The ambitious Waves in curled Billows flye Rowling themselves in Mountains to the Skie then ●…n ●…ains ●…lled ●…ae ●…a ●…ng ●…an●… So vast so very high they seem'd to some To be the very Mountains of the Moon The hollow winds with whistling from the Clouds Strain both the Top-mast Main-mast Yards and Shrouds The very day was darkness and the night Presented nought but horrour to the sight The sounds of Port and Starbor'd heard before Were dwindl'd to Non-near and ware-no-more The Face of Heaven was dreadful and the noise Of winde and water drown'd the Saylors cries 'Larums of vengeance sounding in our ears So lately fill'd with Musick of the Spheres In this Great bustle 'twixt the Sea and Storm Some had their Main-sails some their Top-sails torn The Passengers in this Storm THe Jaw-fall'n Passongers could as soon ear Morsels o' th Main-mast as a mess of meat Cordials of Amber and dissolved Pearl Would now be Nauseous to Man and Girle Doctors and Pothecaries were useless now The Sea was Physick and Physician too Some it 'h Star-chamber some in Cabins lie Neither had more to do but winck and die Ai-ke cries one Jesus another sayes Here 's one a cursing there 's another prayes Here laughs a Saylor while another cry'd Hee 'd change this great Fish-market for Cheapside The Deck with sick men covered so that It look't like th' valley of Jehosaphat Alive or dead they knew not like Men shot With dreadful Thunder live but know it not They who the Storm in darker Cabin's spent Took each his Coffin and his Monument Resolving there to lie and lie alone 'Till th' Trump should sound a't Resurrection A Whale neer the Ship I' Th mid'st of these incumbrances we spy'd A Tortuous Leviathan by th' Ships side Who on the Rouling waves did sport and play Taking his Pastime in the troubled Sea Great store of Porposes do here advance Above the Surges And

the Dolphins dance As if those wonders which i' th deep do lie Had all been shuffl'd into Mutiny With cross and adverse winds for thirteen dayes We rowl and tumble on the fearfull Seas And pass our time with very small delight ' Mongst Sons of Neprune and of Amphitrite Each Man turns Votary his Temple drest With Royal wreaths like great Apollo's Priest Praying the Heaven of Heavens propitious be In the safe Conduct of her Majesty The Mariners Prayer ILLustrious Princess may nor Winde nor Tide Croud to disturb King Charles His Royall Bride Gentle as breath of Eunuchs be the Gales That fill and swell your large distended Sailes Now let all storms be crampt The surly wind That stirs Hesperian billows be confin'd May never Aeolus with boysterous blasts Invade your Canvas Cordage or your Masts Nor Thracian Boreas whom Poets said Too loudly courted the Erythrean Maid Too saucily attempt to see you But sail on Free from them all free from Euroclydon From all stones Billow-gnawn and waves that roare Like those upon Puzzola or Baiae shore May never Remora nor Proserpine Nor Aeacus nor Alceus who designe And prophesie hard Sea-adventures Be Occasion'd to foretell your Naufragie Lest while such Destiny they should make known They blast our Kingdomes Glory and their own Blest by a higher Auspice still go view Your vast Dominion while we joyntly sue Your safer Convoy through the watry main As the return of Englands Prayers again That He who gave's a King and him his due Would give him all things else in giving You. Castor and Pollux too who use to save The weather-beaten-vessels from the wave With bright Orions help May all cornbine In Pitch-dark Firmaments most bright to shine That no cross Constellation them undo Who bear both Caesars Name and Fortune too But that from South to North we come again With CHARLES his Bride enthron'd in Charles his wain The Queens Courage A Little Remora the Ship they say Of Caius the Emperour did stop the way But nothing can Retardate Englands Bride Hinder or keep her from King Charles his side 'T was not a Cyclops that could block the way Or keep Vlysses from his Ithaca The sight of which he did prefer by odds Before the Immortalitie o' th gods It was not Helespont though it divide The shores from Sestos to Abydos side Could part that Amorous Pair Th' Ambiguous flowes Conspir'd to bring them to their sweet repose Le So here while we our constant Course do ply Mounting on Surges sometimes to the Sky As if wee 'd climbe the Clouds Then sinking fall With hollow Waves as low as lowest of All. Seas like Ceraunian Mountains that do swell As high as Heaven and fall as low as Hell Yet not th' Envellop't Clouds nor blustring Winde Nor raging Billowes though they roar by kind Such Resolution does her Breast afford Can Fright the Infanta from her Royal Lord. All danger she disdains o're-looks all harms Till she be lodg'd within her Soveraigns Armes Cast up the various hazzards and you 'l say Th' are more then Hercules ran for 's Omphale And yet none more vivaclous then She The Pride and Glory of the Companie The reward of Patience THe turbulent Atlantick that did roare Bellow and bluster but the day before Appears so gently milde so calm to day You might well call it the Pacifick-Sea The raging Winde was breathless Now no noise Or from the Surges here or from the Skies E're long twelve Leagues a Watch the Yeomen cry A better Winde ne're blew out of the Sky A smoother Sea no man alive can boast Or fairer Weather on the Biscay Coast The Sea-sick Passengers that loath'd their meat Are readier now for to devour then eat And that Ship-Royal which it 'h darkest night To 'th rest o' th Fleet still bore the Royal Light cum Pupp●… tuler●… In these brave Gales has easily found the way To be their Leader through the Atlantick-Sea And thus with winged-speed She plows the Seas Like Atalanta and Hippomanes All Arm'd with Zeal No Golden Apple here To stop the Passage of her swift Carreire To the Queen A Main For England now the Say lors crie The Royal Standart fluttering in the Skie Old Palinurus to his Compass flies Having no Object now ●…s●●…r but Seas and Skies Lifting his watchful Eyes his heart his hands The Helmesmen waiting still his quick commands The Weather beaten Pilots who do know What Oracles and Tripod's us'd to show Bestir themselves improve their utmost skill To do their duty and observe his will That son of Neptune the Lieutenant stands Daring all Weathers wary in 's commands Master and Mates the Boatswain and his crew From stem to stern bid ease and sleep adiew From the Gunner and his Gang afore and af't The rest o' th Navy are their dutie taught Silence or Thunder from their Admirall Creates Example here to One and All. Each Mariner t' his sheats and Halyards stands Ductile and Pliant to supream commands Restless and labouring till their Anchor 's laid In Thames Great Queen which were in Tagus weigh'd To the World THe Royal Navie now being put to Sea Their Loyalty and Duty for to pay Let no bold interruption that can Bid others stand upon the Ocean 'Twixt us and th' Horizon presume t' appear On perill of being sent to their own sphere Lower your Top-sails Dutch-men strike amain Down with your Flags proud Hollander and Spain Let no bold French-man dare to come too nigh That English Flags or Ensigns can descry Let all your severall squadrons Homage pay To the great Lord and Lady of the Sea To Englands Monarch still now to his Queen Let not the thoughts of Ruben Intervene England thy floating Isles thy wooden Walls Damps the discourse of ten Escurials A Navy so puissant ne're was known To cross the Seas since Seas knew Oleron On the Royal Charles SHips are Hermophrodites we call them Men Charles James and Henry At next breath agen She 's a brave Man of War here 's one for all P●…h the Worlds wonder and her Admiral The Royall Charles The name o' th Faiths Defender Admits Expressions in a double Gender No Flegmatick Commander can gainsay This truth but in discourse will pa'st away Bate me this Sea-absurdity and then He fall to write o' th Royal Charles ag'en The Worlds seven wonders Time had swallow'd down Seem to be now disgorg'd in this alone A Ship so Large so Gilt so Gun'd so Man'd So Arm'd so Fortify'd as may withstand All Opposition that may seem to come From any Port or Part of Christendome Her Ensigns Pendants Streamers and Array Richer then th' King of Tyrus put to Sea Her Trumpets Silver and her Wastcloth's round Form'd of the deep'st-dy'd-Scarlet could be found Her high-exalted-Masts like Towers would shake The loftie Coloss o're the Rhodian Lake Her Cannons and her Culverine out-roare Ferar as Cacodemon on the shore And 's Terrae-motus too make Sea-Nymphs wonder To

our Generall Such Honours has your Excellence who brings The best of Consorts to the best of Kings Thus to be Fam'd and known by one and all Englands Ambassador and Admirall The Valediction between the Queen of England and the Queen of Portugall THe affaires of State and ceremony past The parting and the farewell comes at last The King both Queens with all their Glorious traine Doe Solemnly appear in Court again Here they receive his Excellence and he From them receives her Sacred Majestie So rich so splendid that you might have told Whole rocks of Diamond in Mines of Gold Here the two Queens took leave but in such sort As with amazement fill'd the thronged Court. Their carriage more then masculine No tear From either of their Majesties appear Art conquer'd Nature State and Reason stood Like two great Consuls to restrain the Flood Of passion and affection which nere th' less Appear'd in sad but prudent comeliness Majestie acted as Dictator here And as Lord Paramount in 's proper sphere Bearing the sway and sole dominion Of Art Love Reason Nature Passion Light sorrows finde a vent from Great ones rise A damp that stops the sluces of the Eyes A Scene so solemn that the standers by Both Lords and Ladies did that want supply In this great concourse every one appears Paying a tribute to them but in tears Thus were they dry like Gideons fleece when round About the spacious Court was watry ground And they that conquer Kings and kingdoms too Shew how themselves themselves can conquer now It is not Caesar or Miltiades Can boast of Trophees adequate to these Since they that govern Passion triumph more Then they that conquer Kingdomes o're and o're Her Majestie Ship'd on St. George his day SAint George was this day mounted in such state He fear'd no Dragon and could finde no mate This day surmounted other Feasts as far As any Festivall i' th Calendar Does other dayes The Portugeses vaunt St. George their Guardian and tutelar Saint St. George for England too the English cry Apr Stilo Though perhaps neither knows the reason why This was th' allotted and th' appointed day The Queen first took possession of the Sea England and Portugal were then made one After a stately grave Procession The Churches visited the Offrings layd On th' Altars and all due Devotion paid The People throng'd in multitudes to see Their King and our great Queen in Majesty Houses were out o' th windows hurl'd th' array That in Imbroyderies and Velvets lay And coffin'd up for many years before By all consents were turned out of door Thousands of houses and vast pillars told Array d with Damasks Silks and cloths of Gold All Streets adorn'd triumphant Arches fram'd In all rich Furniture as can be nam'd Thus pass'd the King with all his Royal train Conducting the INFANTA to the Main Thus Englands Representative ●…arl of ●…ch ●…el●… we see Attend receive conduct her Majestie And as great Trajan triumph'd once in Rome In Effigie 〈◊〉 oculi ●…de●… So they that hither come Our Great King Charles in Lisbon streets might see Triumphant with his Queen in Majestie The Robes and Royal Ensignes he put on I' th solemn day of 's Coronation He in his Princely Portraiture and she Both in her Person and her Effigie From the Procession to the Royall Gallery DOwn from the City to the Sea they come Into th' Kings Gallery a glorious Room And such as they of Lisbon have not known To speak the splendour of that Nation So Xerxes fetter'd up the Hellespont With 's bridge of boats He and his Army on 't As the Grear King Alfonso here we see O're Tagus rears a stately Gallery Barges and boats were numberless which stood To bridle up the raging of the Flood And make a Royal passage for the King For Englands Queen and for what Nobles bring Their Majesties aboard the Royal Charles Dons Condies Marquesses with Dukes and Earls Ladies and Lords san's number with a train Would blear the eyes or break the heart of Spain Thus link'd and chain'd together now we stand As if the Sea were married to the Land And thus of two both Nations were made one In this arrival and conjunction The Queen comes aboard ANd thus in Princely Equipage she comes Into her gloriously Embellish'd Rooms Where Persia India Italy have sent As tribute both for use and ORnament Such Riches and such Furnitur as flow OR from Bezaleel's loom or mines below Made by the curious Artists to set forth Their matchless skill and the Queens matchless worth Her royall Cabin and her State-room too Adorn'd with Gold and lin'd with Velvet through The cushions stools and chairs and clothes of State All of the same materials and rate The bed made for her Majestics repose White as the Lily red as Sharons Rose For colour cost and candour may compare With what in Historie we finde most rare Egypt nor Isles of Chittim have not seen Such rich imbroderies or such a Queen Windowes with Taffataes and Damask hung While Costly Carpets on the Floors are flung Regions of Perfumes Clouds of incense hurl'd In every roome of this our little World Here shee begins her Progress comes a board Turnes Voyager to greet her Greatest Lord The Royal Charles by Sea and Land shee 'l take Both for her Zenith and her Zodiake Her Majesties welcome Aboard WElcom'd she was in thunder while the shore By King Alfonso's Order strives t' out-roare Our Cannon and our Culverin which fly And Fill the Land the Waters and the Sky Give fire the Captaines cry and Quick t is gone Beyond the Axis of the Horizon Lightning and Thunder from each Oaken side Proclaimes the welcome of our Royal Bride Such Thunder bolts and such Granadoes fly From Stem to Stern from waters to the Sky Between his Castles and our floating Isles Th' amz'd In habitants for many miles Surpriz d with wonder ●…arting Gaz'd and thought it strange Earths Centre reeld no● at the Inter-change St. Georges Night THus has the day been solemniz'd by all But t is the night must Crown the Festivall Then then Dame Nature had Convulsion fits And to keep up the Revels lost her wits The Sea was all on fire and people came In shoales like Fishes to behold the flame The Great Pavilion of Condensed Clouds Had now no other light but from the shrouds The Starres like images of Jupiter fell down And Fixt a while i' th watry Region As if the Virgins or Ariadnes Crowne To Court the Queen had here descended down All lesser lights as Homagers were sent To pay this duty in their Element The lustre of the night darkned the day Dampt the bright girdle of Andromeda Nor could the fam'd Cassiope presume Among these dazeling Tapers to a Room Thus Israell-like we gly'd into th' Sea Pillar'd with Fire by night and Clouds by day The antient Story of old Argos eyes In Cannons mouthes you might