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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68132	The discouery of a new world or A description of the South Indies Hetherto vnknowne by an English Mercury.; Mundus alter et idem. English	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.; Gentili, Alberico, 1552-1608.; Healey, John, d. 1610.	1613 (1613)	STC 12686.3; ESTC S103684	102,841	283

THE DISCOVERY of A NEW WORLD or A Description of the South Indies Hetherto vnknowne By an English Mercury Imprinted for Ed Blount and W. Barrett TO THE TRVE mirror of truest honor WILLIAM Earle of Penbroke IF IT BE an offence my noble LORD to shew our Affections vnto those wee honor in any obiect of dutyfullnesse whatsoeuer then haue I offended and must kneele for remission But if loue and gratitude be law dable effects in what forme soeuer they appeare then haue not I broken any condition of decorum in consecrating this worke to your illustrious honour It bare the badge of an honorable Patron in the originall and I could make it doe no lesse in the translation And for mine election the worlds generall decay of the esteeme of learning in those breasts that haue best meanes to support it and the farre-spread fame of your glory by that Phoenix-bounty that hath left all the land to build her nest in your bosome these motiues haue more then induced mee to approache so neere that bright lustre your Honour lights the world with as to beare one part in the Hymnes of your prayses by this dutifull dedication And good my Lord herein bee you my seauen-sold shield against the shout of all those blistered mouthes whose most felicitie is to mis-interprete most maliciouslie Or doe but giue mee foote-holde and then let mee alone to beate all their disgraces about their owne eares and the whole worlds in a true Satyrick furie in an Ariostoes Swanne that shall snatch their names from times all-wasting skirt and beare them vp to euer-lasting recorde in the Temple of Infamie But for my dutie to your sacred vertues let this expresse mee I will bee that Bolognian dogge whose faith purchased him this Epi●aph that hee did alwayes Latrai a ladri a gli amanti tacqui c. Barke lowd at theeues and make them euer faile But whē friends came lay down wagd his taile Such am I consecrated to your Lordships seruice and vnder the protection of this mine owne zeale aduenture to present you with A discouerie and no discouerie of a world and no world both knowne and vnknowne by a traueller that neuer trauelled Written first in Latine and no Latine and now translated and yet not translated by the same man yet not the same man that first of all pend it Your Honours most zealously deuoted I. H. To the Readers Instructions for their voiage into this new world THere are diuers inquisitiue Sceptiques vnpartial reader for such I would haue thee to be who since this new Discouery of the South Indies vpon some ouer-sight of mine owne in not giuing sufficient intimation of the grounds whence I had the first light of the said Discouery as also of the manner wherein I haue proceeded vpon the said grounds haue out-runne their owne iudgments in descanting farre otherwise of this worke then a fauourable censure would euer haue held it to deserue and being either lead with too much zeale to the well deseruing vertues of that Reuerend man that long agoe laid the first proiect of this Discouery or with it may be a true obseruation of some imperfection in mee that now of late haue raised this new building vpon that old foundation haue taken occasion both to thinke him lesse worthy of their good conceites and also to proclaime me a iust deseruer of the seuerest and most exemplary censures Which wrong done vnto him whome I must euer reuerence hath bound mee to make an ingenuous acknowledgement of mine owne forgetfulnesse in the first edition of this present worke rather then to sit still and see his reputation exposed to the misconstructions to which my negligence is in some iudgements iustly imagined to haue giuen the first and originall cause But let this protestation be if it may be sufficient to remooue the weight of siniste imputations from his grauity and lay them vpon mine owne youthfulnesse that I dare engage my life there is no man in the whole world who hath either conuersed with himselfe in person or his workes in print that euer will surmise this present copy to haue had any testimony of his acknowledgement or approbation to bee any way befitting his place or which is more his profession Wherefore to giue a full answere vnto that grosse misprision of theirs who imagine the worke it selfe to haue beene of his writing and publishing in the forme wherein it now passeth whereby they take occasion to taxe him of diuers in their iudgement immodest light scurrilous and ridiculous passages therein I doe here absolutely auerre and giue notice to all that shall hereafter take view hereof This worke was neuer his he neuer saw it neuer dreamed of any such matter vntill hee met it in the hand of another man There was indeed a little booke some 8. or 9. yeares agoe that came from Franckford which some few I know not vpon what illumination more then ordinary affirmed to haue passed the file of his muse which if it be true it can be no way in the world either preiudiciall to his learning seeing it hath all perfection fitting an absolute poeme nor to his grauity or profession seeing it was a birth of his youth wherein neuerthelesse I will a vow that hee hath towred aboue the capacities at least aboue the imitation of all those ouer-weening iudgements that dare any way presume to traduce his originall In iust defence of which worthy worke I cast defiance in the teeth of all that malice or traduce him that it is neither any way scurrilous immodest light nor ridiculous and I will giue the proudest Critique that liues as many yeares as hee and his fellowes haue bin fooles either to parallell it or to pick any the least touch out of it which cannot bee defended euen till his wittes that shall oppose be drawne as dry as euer Dutchman left cup. But as touching this present pile of English it is mine it hath no further alliāce to his then chalke hath to cheese for as these haue no cohaerence in their nearest proprieties which translations should neuer want but onely in their generall kind of essence as they are both corporeall substances no more doth this worke any way resemble his in fashion stile or discourse but onely in the inuention and proiect As for the passages in it which some pretend to bee scurrilous or immodest there may perhaps bee some indeed that carry not that pondrous respect in them which an ancient iudgement or retired grauity may seeme to require I grant it what would yee haue more they are flashes of youth semel insaniuimus omnes And I pray yee that censure mee so ruthlesly which of you all is there but one time or other in the forenoone of your daies hath had his vagaries in the world and hath flowne out sometimes as well as I Oh but not inprint saies some seuerer Critique Alas yet had Ouid his Amores Seneca his Lusus in Claudium

nation he would sweare as one did once of Paris that the whole world came to trade thether I am not ignorant of the number of the people that are imagined to be in all Europe take it therefore as from the Historiographers and not from mee Italy is said to conteine 9000000 more or lesse Spaine a number somewhat lesser England 3000000 the Low Countries as manie both the Germanies 15000000 France as many Sicilia 130000 Wee know also what they that vse to amplifie vpon all things say of the number of the inhabitants of China that they do amount vnto ●0000000 That countrie paralelld with the whole country of Fooliana is rather an vnhabitable desert thē a peopled nation it lieth iust vnder the Antarctike pole as the Pigmey-land lieth vnder the Articke and hence doe I gather as any man else may that the extremity of cold in both these opposed regions is cause both of the Pigmees littlenesse and the Foolianders blockishnesse ● nature so well gracing hir selfe by effecting the defect of body in one place and counterpeysing it with as great a defect of witte in another To confirme this doe we not see that such as inhabite the temperate Zones are generally perfect both in body mind But let this be remooued vnto the cloisters of the Philosophers I must proceed with my purpose Fooliana on the South butteth vpon Tenter-belly on the East vpon Shee-landt and the farthest corner of Thriuingois and finally on the West vpon Theeues-wijck The parts of Fooliana the peoples conditions in generall CHAP. 2. FOoliana the great is diuided into fiue lesser Fooliana's as namely there is Fooliana the fickle in the Easterne frontires Fooliana the craggie iust vnder the Pole Fooliana the fatte towards the South-west Fooliana the fond betweene both and Fooliana the deuoute towards the West Now the inhabitants of all these fiue are generally tall of body for all the vehemencie of the cold climate wherein they liue their haire a pale flaxen their heads like sugar-loues their lipps bigg like a Moores and their eare● thick and spacious But their conditions do not keepe all one forme some things they haue generally in them all and they are these what euer stranger arriue amongst them vnlesse he light in Fooliana the craggie they presently entertaine him with all the pleasures that their towne-house table can by any means affoord Come wee to any of them all with a dust-licking congee some three or foure vostra Signioria's Spaniard like and either commend his good face his new coate his fine hand his faire house or season but his affections with an admiring applause and this your obsequiousnesse shall purchase you an hoste whose curtesie will imagine nothing too deare for you good words faire promises are all the moneys that this nation vseth yet they haue great store of gold which they barter away for feathers bells timbrells and garlands happy hee that hath the best store of such commodities to vtter at these Ports The inhabitants are of a hard constitution going bare-brested thin attired in the depth of winter to take ayre the better marry in the heate of summer they were rugge gownes and cloakes aboue that to keep out heate the better yet they haue some Philosophotericall professors amongst them that will go almost naked in midst of winter in contempt of the colde and their reason is this that seeing all creatures besides man can bee content with haire and hide onely why should not man that is made maister to them all make shift to breake through all the battalions of colde being armed onely with his shirt of nature his skin I promise you a strong sensible argument You shall neuer take any of them solitary for they doe continually talke and contend in argument with them-selues when they are alone and in game you shall haue them fall terribly out sometimes with themselues onely one word prouoking him to teares another immediatly procuring laughter the person being all this while single by himselfe They haue also certaine sects of people generally called Fool-osophers amongst them and these haue the same credit there that the Bonzoes haue in China I haue well neere forgotten their seuerall orders some of them run vpō my tongues end and I thinke I am not sure that there was one sort called Browne-backs and another called Clunches besides as I remember there are the Quadricornes the Barly-faces the Greenegeese the societies of Saint Patch del Culo Saint Gynny come home at noone many more that are far frō my remembrance all these giue their own allowances vnto others and begge for scraps themselues wandring through that verges of Fooliana where they finde a stone with any picture vpon it be it what it will downe they go vpon all foure with curtsies and cringes 't is more thē strange to obserue them gold is ready change with them for led prouided it haue a taile of parchmēt at the end of it Tapers and noone day meete ordinarily at euery dinner time amongst them To eate flesh is altogether vnlawfull for them but for fish take your gorge full gratis and neuer breake statute for it I le bee your warrant It is a sinne inpardonable for some of them to touch gold or siluer with their bare hands as it is also their generall custome scarcely to salute any man yet may they neither omitte crosse nor carued statue without a religious duck They whip them-selues cruelly the Spartans boyes scourging was but a flye blowing vnto this of theirs first because no man but themselues will vndergoe sore lashes and secondly because in the obedient times they had a tradition giuen them that calues bloud was a pleasing sacrifice to their gods nosthrils Their crownes are shauen eyther to put the world in minde that all men are borne bald or for auoyding heate of the head or else least the haire growing betwixt heauen and the braine should bee any hindrance to the minde in her celestiall meditation Onely two things in my simple iudgement they are iustly to be accounted too wittie in first in that they bring the people into such a fooles paradice that they fetch all the fruits of other mens labours into their platters whilest themselues sitte at ease in their cells and secondly in that they can so cunningly auoide the bearing of their crosses at home by getting grasse for their stallions abroad and by keeping their foles at other mens mangers There is witte in this beleeue me If any of these monasticall men be sick the couent neuer ceaseth weeping till he either goe for vp or take a longer day Phisick hee must haue none yet when they are in their pangs of death their foolosophers anoint them with oyle They measure not ones wisdome by his silence for so may one of Iohn of Paules Church-yeards blocks prooue wiser then he himselfe but by the choise composition and deliuerance of good