coūsaile wauering in dyet sumptuous gentle in speech diuers in apparell outfacing his enemie a sweete singer a swift paser a merry louer If any man can draw a righter counterfait of our Nation let him take the pensill 63 Yet would th' Immortall God He showes for what cause it pleased God the earth should be enhabited by men of so diuers natures as 1. to the end he might shew forth his mercy and louing kindnes in raysing his chosen out of the sincks of sinne wherewith each of their birth-soyles were bestayned 2. That it might appeare how neither the soyles nor yet the heauenly Signes though they haue great power ouer earthly bodies can force the mindes of men especially such as God himselfe hath blessed 3. That there might be some in all places of the world to acknowledge his manifold goodnesse and glorifie his Name And 4. that whatsoeuer needfull things the earth any where by his gratious blessing bringeth forth proper and seuerally they might be enterchanged and carried from place to place for the vse of man 64 For as a Citie The last consideration giues the Author occasion to compare the world vnto a great Citie such as Paris Roan Tolouse Lyons or any other like where there are marchants and craftesmen for all kind of wares each in their seuerall wardes buying selling changing and trading one with other And euen so one countrie affoordeth sugar another spice another gummes and gold alabaster Iuorie hebenwood horses amber furres tynne and silke they are brought from diuers coastes all the more to furnish with thinges necessary this great Citie of the worlde VVhereby wee may note that no countrie bee it neuer so well appointed can say that it needes not the commodities of another And againe that there is no land so barren but hath some good thing or other which the rest want For euen in men wee see the like there is none so poore but hath some speciall gift none so rich but hath neede of the poorest Our Poet therefore hauing so fitly resembled the world by a great Citie he brings-in thereupon a fine example of the Persian Queene who as Herodotus Xenophon and Plutarch report called one Prouince her Iuelhouse another her Wardrope c for euen so may euery man say that hath the true knowledge and feare of God such a man may saye Peru bringes foorth Gold for me the Moluckes or Chaldaea Spice Damaske Alabaster and Italie Silke Germany sends me great Horses Moscouie rich Furres Arabia sweet Parfumes Spaine Saffern Prusse Amber England Cloath and Tinne France Corne and Wine Yea more the child of God may say the Earth the Sea the Aire and all that is therein the Sunne the Moone the Heauens are mine for he that needeth nothing made all things of nothing to serue me and me to worship him But of this let the Deuines discourse more at large He goe on with the Poet who sayth further against the carping Atheist that nothing was created in vaine but euen the most vnlikely places bring foorth many good fruits and very necessarie for the life of Man And hee proues it plainly by some notable particulars that follow 65 The Moores enameled First The Fennie Valleis though too moyst they are and ouer-low for men to build and dwell vpon yet are they so beset with diuers herbes and flowers so iagg'd garded and enter-trailed with riuers that they are as 't were the common gardens of the world as also the plaine fields are our seed-plots and the stony grounds our Vineyards 2. The huge Mountains about whose tops are engendred thunders lightnings and tempests for which cause the Atheists count them hurtfull or at least superfluous or made by chaunce and errour they are in trueth cleane contrarie as Theodoret hath long agoe shewed in his Sermons of Gods Prouidence euen the sure-standing Bounds and Land-marks of euery kingdome and countrie they beare great store of timber-trees for ships and houses and fuell to burne from them spring the great riuers that breede much fish and helpe the conueyance of prouision and other marchandise vnto many people dwelling far-of by them are stayd and gathered the clowdes and thicke musts that manure and fatten the lower grounds the Wind-milles are much helped by them as if they were the store-houses of winde like rampiers and bulwarks they keepe-of the sudden force of warlike neighbours and to conclude they are as 't were the very morter that ioynes Land and Sea together 3. The great Deserts and wast-grounds that are for men by reason of some wants scarse habitable yet like huge Commons they feede an infinit sort of beasts great small whereof we haue good vse and commoditie 4. The Sea it breeds fish maintaines many Cities encreases Traffick and makes the wayes for trauaile easier and shorter and lastly thereout the Sunne draweth vapours which after turned into raine doe refresh the Aire and make the ground fruitfull The like good vses may bee found in all other the Creatures of God how vnlikely soeuer they seeme to wicked Atheists Looke more in S. Basil Chrysostome Ambrose and others who write of the Creation and at large haue declared what excellent commodities man may reap of euery creature 66 But shall I still be toss'd Fitly and in very good time the Poet hauing ouerslipt nothing worthie note in this discourse of Colonies now strikes sayle and after his long voyage thorow all Climats of the world ariues happily at the hauen he most desired to weet in France and well he takes occasion to reckon-vp the great commodities of his countrie as commending the same aboue all the kingdomes of the world After he hath saluted the land with diuers honourable termes and titles he sayth very truly that it hath brought-foorth many worthie warriors cunning workmen and learned Schollers more is the meruaile because it is but a small kingdome in comparison of Polonia Persia Tartaria China and others But indeede the commodities thereof are most wonderfull Besides the seas that bound it as on the North and West the Ocean and the Midland on the South it hath many riuers of great name and euen little seas as the Rosue Saone Dordogne Loire Marne Seine Oise and yet a great number of other lesser streames and brookes Cities it hath as Paris Tolouse Roüan Lyon Bourdeaux and others of more value then diuers whole Duchies Earldomes or Prouinces elsewhere There are Forts and Castles now stronger and goodlier then euer were As for the ciuill behauiour of the people I report me to the iudgement of other nations The Land for the most part is very fruitfull and the aire there temperate almost euery where Against the sudden inuasion of enemies all is well defended by the two Seas aforesayd and the Alpes toward Italie and the Pyrenes toward Spaine More then all this the countrie is no where troubled with Crocodiles as Aegypt is nor with monstrous long Serpents or any wilde rauening beasts as the inner countries of Affricke are And in stead of Gold and Siluer Pearles and precious stones which diuers lands barren of necessarie fruites abound with it hath of Cloath Woade Wooll Salt Corne and Wine euer-growing Mines and euen vnwastable Woade and Salt in Languedoc and Salt againe in Guyenne Wine in most places Wooll and Corne in Prouence and Beausse and in euery Prouince but foure or fiue good store of diuers the sayd commodities More there are but the Poet notes the chiefe onely and such as the neighbour countries and many far-of doe most of al trade-for Hereby we are taught and should be moued with heartie thanks to acknowledge the great benefits that God hath bestowed on vs for the Poet rightly concludes that wee lacke nothing but peace and peace he craueth of the Lord with whom and all my good countrimen I ioyne humble suite from the bottome of my heart that once again this Realme sometime so florishing may enioy a sure that is a iust and right Christian peace Amen FINIS
or bad-eyed because he lost an eye by ouer-watching himselfe in the passage of certaine great marrish-grounds into Hetruria Liuie 22. He it was that enlarged the Empire of Carthage by meanes of the great ouerthrowes hee gaue the Romanes but was after driuen out of Italie and in Affrick quite vanquished at Zama field where the Carthagineans were forced to yeeld themselues wholy to the Romanes mercie so had their Citie rased and their State vtterly destroyed The other Armie of the South was of Sarasens no lesse then foure hundred thousand strong led by their king and Captaine Abderame they set out of Affrick into Spaine from thence marched forward into Aquitaine and came wasting all the way as farre as the Citie of Tours there three hundred thousand of them with the king himselfe were slaine by the French who had for Generall the Duke or Prince Charles that for this great and happie victorie was after surnamed Martel the Maul because he broke and battered the force of that Southerne people as a great maul or hammer doth Iron Looke the Histories and Chronicles of France in the life of Charles Martel 58 A fine discourse vpon the 〈…〉 peoâ—le O world of sundry kindes O nature full of wonders For eu'ry part thereof as from the rest it sunders It hath not only men of diuers haire and hew Of stature humour force but of behauiour new Be 't that a custome held at length a nature makes Or that the younger sort still after th' elder takes Or that the proper Lawes of diuers-coasted Realmes Doe so much disagree or these enflowing beames Of th'vmour-altring Lights that whirling neuer stint Here in our mindes below their heau'nly force emprint 59 The Northen man is faire the Southern fauor'd-hard One strong another weake one white another sward Ones haire is fine and smooth anothers grosse and twinde One loues the bodies paine another toyles the minde Some men are hoat and moist some others hoat and dry Some merry and other sad He thunders out on hye This other speaketh small he dudgen is and spightfull This other gentle and plaine he slow this other slightfull Some are vnconstant so they often change their thought And others ne're let goe conceits they once haue caught He typples day and night and he loues abstinence One is a scatter-good another spares expense One is for company another in his moodes Is like a Bugger-bo and strayes amids the woodes One goes in leathern peltch another richly dight On 's a Philosopher another borne to fight 60 The middle man takes part of all the qualities Of people dwelling neere the two extremities His body stronger is but not his minde so franke As theirs who till the gleabes of Nilus fruitfull banke Again he 's not so strong but many wayes more fine Then they that drinke the streames of Donaw and of Rhine 61 For in the sacred close of th' vniuersall Town The southern men that ofte with ouer-musing sown And fall int'extasies and vse to dreame and poue That measure how the heau'ns by rules appoynted moue And are so curious none other knowledge base Mâ—y satisfie their mindes they hold the preest his place The Northen whose conceit in hand and finger lurkes That all what ere he liâ—t in wood and mettall workes And like Salmoneus with thunder-sound compares Hee 's for the man of warre and makes all cunning wares The Meane as knowing well to gouerne an Estate Sits with a grauer grace in throne of Magistrate And to be short the first seekes knowledge wondrously The second handy-crafts the third good policy Though some skore yeares agone Themis that mendes abuses Apollo Mercurie Minerua with her Muses Haue taught their holy schooles as neer the Northen coast As Vulcaneurs forg'd or Mars encamp'd his Oast Hâ—â—â— the FreÌ„ch Dâ—â—ch 〈◊〉 and â—â—anâ—sh nations dâ—â—â—er in many poynts 62 But eu'n among our-selues that altogether mell And haue of all the world no more whereon to dwell Then as it were a clot how diuers are the fashions How great varietie the Dutch of all our Nations Is stout but hir'd in Warre the Spaniard soft and neat Th' Italian merciles the Frenchman soone on heat The Dutch in counsaile colde th' Italian althing weeting The Spaniard full of guile the Frenchman euer fleeting Th' Italian finely feedes the Spaniard doth but minse The Dutch fares like a clowne the Frenchman like a Prince The Frenchman gently speakes the Spaniard fierce and braue The German plaine and grosse the Roman wise and graue The Dutch attire is strange the Spanish is their owne Th' Italian sumptuous and owers neuer knowne We braue an Enimie th' Italian friendly lookes him The Dutchman strikes him straight the Spaniard neuer brookes him We sing a cheerfull note the Tuscan like a sheepe The German seemes to howle the Lusitan to weepe The French pase thicke and short the Dutch like battel-coeks The Spaniards Fencer-like the Romans like an Oxe The Dutch in Loue is proud th' Italian enuious The Frenchman full of mirth the Spaniard furious Why it pleased God the worlde should be inhabited of so 〈…〉 63 Yet would th' Immortall God appoynt so strange a race Of this great carthie bowle to couer all the face To th' end he clensing all his children from the foile Of sinne which had as'twere bestain'd their natiue soile Might his great mercy shew and how the heauenly Sines A little only moue but not oresway our mindes That in the furthest partes his seruants eu'rychone A sacrifice of praise might offer to his throne And that his holy name from Isie Scythia Might sound vnto the sandes of red-hoat Africa Nor should his treasures hid in far-asunder land Created seeme in vaine and neuer come to hand But that all cuntry coasts where Thetis enter-lies Should trafficke one with oth'r and chaunge commodities The world compared to a great Citie 64 For as a Citie large containes within her wall Here th'Vniuersitie and there the Princes hall Here men of handy-craftes there marchant-venterers This lane all full of ware and shops of shoomakers That other chaunging coyne that other working gould Here silke there pots and cups here leather to be sould There cloth here hats and caps there doublets redy-made And each among themselues haue vse of others trade So from the Canar Isles our pleasant Sugar comes And from Chaldeaa Spice and from Arabia gummes That stand vs much instead both for parfume and plaster And Peru sends vs golde and Damask alabaster Our Saffern comes from Spaine our Iuory from Inde And out of Germany our Horse of largest kinde The skorched land of Chus yeelds Heben for our Chamber The Northen Baltike Sound emparts her bleakish Amber The frosty coast of Russe her Ermins white as milke And albion her Tinne and Italy her Silke Thus eu'ry country payes her diuers tribute-rate Vnto the treasury of th' vniuersall State Man Lord of the world And as the Persian Queene this prouince call'd her
the seruice of God But the Lord being mercifull vnto Abraham restored to him againe and kept for his faithfull children the first language which had not bene so much corrupted in the familie of Sem who parted not so farre from his father Sem â—ent toward the West 6 This countrey reaching foorth as rich as it is large From Peake of Perosites where doth himselfe discharge The stately running Ob great Ob fresh waters king A riuer hardly crost in sixe dayes trauelling To Malaca to th'isles from vvhence are brought huge masses Of Calamus and Cloues Samotra whereon passes The night-equalling line and to the waters far Of Zeilan breeding-pearle and goldie Bisnagar And from the Pont-Eusine and from the brother waues Of those Chaldean streames vnto the sea that raues With hideo us noise about the Straight of th'Amens To Quinzits moorie poole and Chiorzeke from whence Come Elephantick buls with silken haired hides That was the share of Sem for Gods decree it guides How and what nations came of Sem. 7 Ashur t' Assyriland that after some few dayes Chal Râ—zen Niniué their towres to heau'n may raise The Persian hils possest great Elams princely race And those fat lands where-through Araxes runnes apace Lud held the Lydian fields Aram th' Armenian And learned Arphaxad the quarter Chaldean 6 This countrey He setteth downe the lots of Sem Cham and Iaphet first in generall after meaning to shew the particular Colonies of each So then to Sem he allotteth Asia The proofe of these seuerall shares may be gathered out of the 10. Chapter of Genesis It is not meant that Sem in his owne life-time tooke possession of this huge plot of ground although he liued 600 yeares but the posteritie of his fiue sonnes ouer-spred it by succession of time as the Poet declares at large hereafter and a man may perceiue some token thereof in that Moses reckeneth in the foresaid Chapter the sonnes of Ioktan the sonne of Heber peti-sonne of Arphaxad sonne of Sem. Now before I shew the bounds here noted by the Poet in this lot of Sem I will set downe the description and deuision of Asia as now it is The map-drawers of our time differ in their order some consider it by the whole masse others by the sea-borders and parts best knowne which they recken to be nine those particularly deciphered in the first chapter of the 20 booke of the Portugall historie But this kind of deuision because it is more obscure and farther from my purpose I leaue and rest on the other which deuides the masse of Asia into fâ—ue principall riuer Ob or Oby the lake of Kittay and the land-straight that is betwixt the Caspian and Euxine sea The second is Tartary subiect to the great Cham which abutteth Southward on the Caspian sea the hill Imaus and the riuer Iuxartes Northward and Eastward on the Ocean and Westward vpon Moscouie The third part is possessed by the Turke and containeth all that lyes betweene the Euxine Aegean and Midland seas and so further betwixt Egypt the Arabian and Persian Gulfes the riuer Tygris the Caspian sea and the land-straight there The fourth is the kingdome of Persia abutting Westward on the Turke Northward on the great Cham Eastward on the riuer Indus and Southward on the Indian sea As for the fift part it is the same which we call the East-Indies so named of the riuer Indus and distinguished the higher from the lower by the famous riuer Ganges These Indies are verie large countreys as the maps declare and front out Southward as fâ—â—re as Malaca hauing besides an infinite sort of Ilands great and smal which the Card-men haue well set downe both in â—â—ps and writing Now see we the maner how the Poet considereth Asia He takes it first by right line froÌ„ North to South to 〈◊〉 from the peake foreland or cape of Perosites as farre as Malaca where he taketh in the Moluckes and Taprobana and from thence riseth againe to Zeilan and Bisnagar Then draweth another line from the Maior or Euxine sea on the West to the straights of Amen Northeast and toucheth by the way some few countreys most note worthy reseruing the rest vntill his particular description of the Colonies which followeth from the 297 verse vnto the 319. To make plaine some words in the text the Peake of Perosites is a promontory about the farthest part of Moscouy neare the Scythian sea where liueth as Cellarius reports of Asia in his great booke entituled Speculum orbis terrarum and Mercator in his world-map a certaine people which haue so small a vent for their mouth that they are nourished onely by the sauour and steeme of sodden flesh And about this promoÌ„tory the riuer Ob rising from the lake of Kythay groweth to an huge breadth and so emptieth into the Scythian or frozen sea The Baron of Herbestoin noteth it in his map of Moscouie and in his Historie saith as much as here followeth touching this riuer fol. 82. They that haue bene thereon say they haue laboured a whole day without ceasse their vessell going verie fast to passe the Riuer and that it is fourescore Italian miles brode Which agreeth well with that the Poet here saith and with report of Mercator and Cellarius so that by good right it may be called rather then any other streame the king of all fresh waters because in all the world besides there is none so large and this also is of a wonderfull great length for as the foresaid Baron affirmeth from the one end to the other to wit from the lake of Kythay to the frozen sea it asketh more then three moneths sayling The realme and citie of Malaca are described in the sixth booke of the Portugall historie chap. 18. It is neare the Equinoctiall aboue Taprobana so therefore Asia reacheth from the North pole beyond the Equator Th' isles froÌ„ wheÌ„ce are brought huge masses of Cloues Cassia are the Moluckes fiue in number Tidor Terenat Motir Maâ—hian and Bachian beset with diuerse other Isles Islets vnder and neere the Equator in the East which with their properties and manners of their inhabitants are well set downe in the 13 booke of the hystorie of Portugall Chap. 8. Samotra whereon passes the night-equalling line or the Equator is the Isle Taprobana Southward ouer against Malaca it is aboue 450 leagues long and 120 broad I haue described it in the fift day of the first weeke see further the history of Portugall in the sixt booke the 18 chap. Zeilan is an Isle right against the Cape of Calecut aboue Taprobana toward the East it lies North and South in length about 125 leagues and in the broadest place is 75 ouer There are taken out of the sea great store of pearles very faire and bright for the further description thereof see the 4 booke and 20 chapter of the hystory of Portugal Bisnagar is a kingdome lying betweene Decan and Narsingua the
Gomer and all his bandes and the house of Togarmah of the North-quarters They that expound the prophesie gather out of this place that the Gomerites were people bordering on the North of Asia and brought by the Kings of Syria and Asia to destroy the Iewes after their returne from Babylon They preased foorth of Asia and enlarged their dominions greatly as hath been saied for they were a very warlike Nation Of them the Poet sayth are come the Germanes so Melancthon affirmeth vpon Carion so doe others also and chiefly Goropius in his fift booke But there is great diuersitie in these outworne matters betweene the late and auncient writers A diligent conference of places in the old Testament and the ancient Latine Greeke and Chaldean translations serue best for the purpose next a carefull examining of the best Greeke Latine histories but this requires a whole volume whereunto the searches of Goropius being so well handled might affoord a man great helpe Concerning Tubal the Poet followes the opinioÌ„ of Iosephus that he was author of the Spanish which must be rightly vnderstood that is after a long tract of time For by the 38 and 39 of Ezechiel it seemes that the people issued from Tubal and Mosoch that were neighbours dwelt neare Arabia and were gouerned or led to war by the king of Asia and Syria And in the 32 chapter where is mention made of the mourning that should be among the nations for the king of Egypt there are named among others Ashur Elam Mosoch and Tubal wherby it may be gathered they were of Asia As for their Colonies and outcreases into Spaine they are verie darke and hardly proued Vasaeus indeed in his Chronicle of Spaine and Taraphe in his historie and others that haue written of Spaine in diuerse languages following Ioseph and Berose make Tubal first king of Spaine but sithence they declare not what time he came thither I leaue the reader to consider-of search further into the matter Looke the historicall Librarie of N. Vignier the first part page 15. where he treateth of the people of Europe Magog as the Poet saith is father of the Scythians his first habitation and Colonie was in Coelesyria as may be gathered out of the fift booke and 23 chapter of Plinie and the 37.38 and 39 chapters of Ezechiel At this time the right Scythians are the Sclauonians Mosceuites and Tartarians who vaunt of their descent from Iaphet This might haue bene by tract of time but not so soone as the Poet in the sequele Melancthon in his first vpon Carion takes the prophecies against Gog and Magog to be meant especially of the Turkes whom he calleth by the name of Scythians and applieth also vnto them that which is written in the Reuelation And in the end of his secoÌ„d booke he giues the name to all people that professe Mahomet I thinke my selfe that some while after Noes partition of the lands Magog and his people dwelt in Coelesyria or therabouts and thence by succession of time thrust vp into the higher couÌ„treys Now as the ancient people of God were much vexed outraged by the kings of Syria and Asia successors of Seleucus Nicanor and signified by the name of Gog who aiding the people of Magog Mosoch and Tubal their subiects greatly annoyed the Iewes then returned from Babylon so hath Satan in these later dayes against the holy Citie the Church of God stirred vp againe Gog and Magog many kings and Princes enemies to the faith who haue conspired together and made a League to ouerthrow it vtterly but th' Almightie in due time and season shall confound them Reade the 20 Chapter of the Reuelation and the 89 Sermon of Bullinger thereupon As for Mosoch Ioseph saith of him are come the Cappadocians and for proofe thereof alleageth a certaine towne of their countrey called Mazaca It may be gathered out of the 120. Psalme that Mesech or Mosoch was a neighbour people to Syria and Arabia which place the Chaldee Paraphrast expoundding vseth words of this import O wretch that I am for I haue bene a stranger among the Asians and dwelt in th' Arabiantents The Poet considereth what might haue bene in continuance of time how farre the mans posteritie might haue stretched Madai sure was author of the name of Medes whose Empire was verie great in the higher Asia they destroyed the Chaldean Monarchie as may be noted out of Ieremy 51.11 Dan. 5.18 The Thracians Ioseph saith and the Poet are descended of Thyras Melancthon thinks that of him are come the Russians but the Scripture speaketh not of his posteritie Plinie makes mention of a riuer Tyra in the Russian or European Sarmatia Melancthon Goropius and others call it Noster Coropius in his seuenth booke puts the Gotes Daces and Bastarnes among the Thracians as all of one stocke and speaking almost the selfe same tongue which also as hee saith comes verie neare the Câ—mbricks and Brabantish Iauan the fourth sonne of Iaphet gaue names to the Ionians who after with their neighbours were called Greekes and therfore the Latine interpreter translating the place of Ezech. 27.19 for the Hebrue Iauan hath put Grecia so haue the 70 put 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is the name of Greece for the same word As also in the thirteenth verse of the sayd Chapter and in the 19 of the 66 of Esay they both haue translated the Bebrue Ieuanim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Graci The couÌ„try of Athens hath in old time bene called Ionie as Plutarke saith in the life of Theseus and Strabo in his 9 booke recites out of Hecataeus that the Ionians came out of Asia into Greece Now the Greekes as they were great discoursers they haue deuised a thousand tales of their first beginning but I let them passe because my notes are alreadie waxen ouer long He will noâ— eâ—ter into matter far out of knowledge 12 Here if I were disposd vpon the ground to tread Of that supposd Berose abusing all that read As he and others do well might I let you see Of all our Auncesters a fayned pedegree I boldly might assay of all the worlds prouinces From father vnto sonne to name the former Princes To sing of all the world each peoples diuerse lot And of the meanest townes to lay the grunsill-plot But what I meane not I as eu'ry wynd shall blow To leaue my former course and straight begin to row The Load-starre bright vnseene vpon the waues vnknownâ— Of such an Ocean so full of rocks bestrowne And Scylla's glutton gulfes where tumbleth equall store Of shipwracks on the sands and billowes to the shore Not hauing other guide then vvriters such as faine The names of auncient kings and tell vs fables vaine Who make all for themselues and gaping after glory Vpon one Cirons foote can build a perfect story 12 Now. The like is seene in many bookes of late times and auncient that treate of the kingdomes countreys and people of the world
for many labor more to come nere Noes Arke and to finde there the foundation of their townes and names of their first Princes then about other more certaine and sure grounds And they had rather forge names and deuise matter of their owne head then leaue to packe huge volumes full of tales witnessing the strange vanitie of mans braine The Poet condemnes this foolish ambition and by good right all the matter when it is at the best being verie doubtfull and vnprofitable for man was placed on the earth to thinke rather on the seruice of God then so to trouble his head with curious out-search of his auncestors names 13 Of that suppos'd Berose Who so desires to know that the Berose late printed is false supposed and plaine contrary to the right Chaldean cited often by Ioseph in his Antiquities against Apton let him reade the fourth booke of Goropious his Origines Antuerpiaenae And so let him thinke also of Manetho Metasthenes Fabius Pictor Sempronius Myrsilus Lesbius others packt as they are into one volume by some one that thought to do great matters by abusing so the readers holding them in a muse by fals deuises from further search of the truth I will not here set downe the wordes of Goropius who at large discouers the forgednesse of this new Beros and his followers let it suffise to haue pointed at the place The true Berose was one of the Priests of Bel and at the commandement of Antiachus the third who succeeded Seleucus wrote three bookes of the Chaldean historie so saith Tatianus Ioseph and ClemeÌ„s Alexandrinus Some fragments of his we reade in Ioseph against Apion and they make flat against that other Berose published in our time 13 Why it is a hard matter to search Antiquities 14 Th' Allusion of words is not a suer ground For any man thereon a steddy worke to found Sith greatest hils and seas and most-renoumed riuers Though they continue still among long-after liuers Are often diuerse-nanâ—'d as eke the generation Of him that built a wall or laid a townes foundation Inherits not the same nor any mortal race Hath an eternall state in this same earthly place But holds for tearme of life in fee-farme or at will Possession of a field a forest or an hill And like as when the wind amids the maine sea rustles One waue another driues and billow billow iustles So are the people at oddes eachone for others rome One thrusts another out scarse is the second come Vnto that houses dore whereas he meanes to keepe But comes a third and makes him forth at window leep A fit Example So from great Albion 15 th' old Bretton being chas'd By Saxon-English force the Gaules forthwith displac'd That wond in Armoricke and call'd the land Brettains Where Loyre his glyding charge vnloadeth on the maine So when 16 the Lombard left with mind to rome at large Vnto the skotched Huns the diuerse-furrow'd marge Of lster double-nam'd he made the French to flie By force of warly rage out of rich Insubrie But vnder-fell againe the French reuenging heate And was to bondage brought by sword of Charles the great And so 17 th' Alaine and so the Northen-borne Vandall Dislodged by the Goth from Cordube and Hispall In Carthage harboured then by the conquering stroake Of him that fram'd the lawes sustain'd the Romane yoake The Roman aft'r and all the land Barbarian What causeth people often to remoue and change their dwelling Of frizel-headed Moores obayd th' Arabian 18 This hunger neare-suffiz'd of gold and great Empire This thirst of sharpe reuenge and further this desire Of honour in-conceit all builded on rapines On slaughters cruelties towne-burnings and ruines Dishabiteth a land and diuerse-wayes and farre To waue and wander makes the people sonnes of warre Diuerse examples of waÌ„dting people 19 I do not speake-of here the spoiling Arabes The Hordies proper Scythes or Sheppardes Nomades Who grazing on in troopes despised eu'ry fence And pitched where they list their bristel-hairie tents Like as with wing are vvont blacke swarmes of Swallovves swift Acrosse the sayled sea their bodies light to lift And chaunging their aboade as'twere on prograce go For loue of sweeter aire twince yearely too and fro But other peoples feirce who for Bellones renowne With often losse of bloud haue romed vp and downe And weeting better how to ouercome them vveild To conquer then to keepe to pull dovvne them to build And choosing rather warre then iâ—st and holy rest Haue boldly diuerse lands one after other prest The naturall countrie of the Lombaâ—des their diuerse remoones conquests 20 Right such that Lombard was who borne in Schonerland Seiz'd on Liuonia thence went to Rugiland And hauing wrought reuenge vpon the Bulgar-men Of Agilmond his death he boldly ventur'd then Vpon Polonia so march'd on braue and fine To bath his golden haire in siluer flote of Rine Thence turning him about he setled in Morauie And so to Buda went and after flew to Pauie There rain'd two hundred yeares and honour'd Tesin so He princely dares compare streames with his neighbour Po. Of the Goths 21 Such was the Goth who left the freizing-cold Finland Scanzie and Scrifiaie Norway and Gotterland To sit on Wixel-banks and for that aire did please In temper keeping neare that of the Baltik seas With his victorious hoast entring Sclauonia Surprized Zipserland and all Valachia And then set foote in Thrace but scorning long to toile Among the beggar Greekes for hope of richer spoile Four times the Roman tryde God Mars his elder Sonne To robbe him of the crowne that he from all had wonne Once led by Radaguise once led by Alarick Once vnder Vidimer once vnder Theodricke And after dwelt in France then chased from Gascoine Aboade in Portugal Castile and Cataloine Of the auncient Gaules 22 Such was the French of old who roaming out as farre As darted are the beames of Titans firie carre Inuaded Italie and would in rage haue spilt The tow'rs that Roinulus or Mars himselfe had built Went thence to Hungarie then with his conquering plough He fallowes vp the ground cold Strimon runneth through The faire Emathick fields doth altospoile and fleece And spareth not at all the greatest Gods of Greece At length with Europe Cloy'd he passeth Hellâ—spont And wasteth as he goes of Dindyma the Front Pisidia ruineth surprizeth Mysia And plantes another Gaule in midst of Asia 23 Of people most renownd the darke antiquitie Is like a forest wide where Hardy-foolery Shall stumble at eu'ry step the learned Souenance It selfe intangled is and blind foldignorance Blundring athwart the thick of her dark-nighty wits Is ouer-throwne in Caues in Quagmiers and Pitts 14 Th' Allusion They that in our time haue entreated of the Nations pedegrees haue much stood vpon the resemblance that one word or proper name hath to another and haue aptly framed coniectures of good import likelyhood as a man may note in
the yeare 411. to Philip that now raigneth are eight and twentie in number according to the account of Lazius who reckoneth also two and thirtie kings of Arragon and two and twentie of Nauarre vnto the kings father that now is Of these matters it may suffice to haue touched thus much in a word 22 Such was the French To enter into the whole historie of the FreÌ„chmen or Gaules it was not the Poets meaning but onely to note briefly the chiefe Outroads of this braue nation and that within the compasse of 2000 yeares I will go no further but follow the text The first beginning of the French is diuersly recorded and all the opinions thereof are well gathered and examined by the Author of the French Antiquities who in the end sheweth his owne iudgement and auoucheth it to be verie likely that the land of Gaule which in old time besides the realme of Fraunce did containe also the Low countreys Germany within Rhine Lorraine was first inhabited by the line of Gomer thither comming vpon diuerse occasions and inereasing more and more with the time as also by the Germanes a neighbour people for litle could the Rhine hinder the Gâ—ules and Germanes from coming together but that either as they preuailed in strength might come into others countrey for their better liking And as the men of Marseil are counted an outcrease of Asia it is like the rest of the towns and quarters of Fraunce were peopled after the same sort Amâ—anus Marcollinus liuely painteth out the Gaules in his 15. booke So doth Polybius Caesar Diodorus Siculus Strabo and others All agree they were a very warlike people and their multitude gaue them to thinke vpon such remedie as others had vsed before Their first outroade that was of any account was in the raigne of Tarquinius Prisons and about the time of the Iewes thraldome in Babylon some 600 yeares before the birth of Christ The Celâ—ae which were the auncient Gaules possessed the countreys now called Suisse Sauoy Daulphine Languedoc Vellay Viuaretz Lionnois Forest Auuergne Berri Limosin Quercy Perigort Xanctoigne Angulmois Poictou Brettaigne Anjou Tourraine Maine Perche Normandie within Scine the Chartrain Hurepois Beaulâ—e Gastinois Brie Champagne the Duchie and Counte of Bourgongne their king Ambigat sent forth Sidoveze and Belloveze to seeke other dwelling Sidoveze taking towards Germanie left people in Bauaria Bohemia and Carinthia and seated him selfe in the point of Europe toward and beyond the Riphean mountaines Belloveze a while staying at the foote of the Alpes was after by the perswasions of a certaine Tuscane called Arron drawne into Italie and possessed Insubria Some of his company seating first among the Pyrene hils at length entred a part of Arragon and gaue the name to Portugal But these were nothing so renowmed as the other who preassing further into Italie marched vnder Brenâ—us as farre as Clusium and so to Rome Of his exploits there Liuie writeth and Plutarke in the life of Camillus which was â—86 yeares before the coming of Christ A third companie that followed Bellevoze because they wold haue roome inough ouer-ran Slauonia and maugre all stay entred Hungary and after many skirmishes departed thence in two bands the one coasting into Macedonie the other into Greece where they made the whole world afraid of theÌ„ after they had slaine Ptolomeus Keraunus brother to Philadelphus king of Egypt Pranses was their king whoÌ„ others call BreÌ„nus but was not he that sackt Rome This man not content to haue obtained a great victorie of the Macedonians and harried their countrey presumed so farre as to spoile the Temple at Delphos whereby himselfe and all his were brought to a miserable end Neuerthelesse the French that stayed behynde to guard the frontiers of the countrey fainted not at the report of these newes but went to field with 1500 foote and 3000 horse ouercame the Getes and Triballes and wasted all Macedonie onely through negligence as they retired loaden with spoile they were brought to their end Yet they that remained in Gaule sent forth other companies into Asia who passed on as far as Bossen Dardanie where by reason of a quarell that fell betweene them they sundred themselues One part of theÌ„ cast into Thrace raigned there a long time the other setled about where Sanus and Danubius meete not far froÌ„ Belgrade These that remained in Dardanie when they heard tell of the fruitfull soile of the lesser Asia went on so farre as Hellespont and there because they were three coÌ„panies they parted Natolia betweene them into three partes The Trocynes had the coast of Hâ—llâ—â—pâ—nt the Tolystoboges Eolide and Ionie which the Turkes call Quiscon The Tectosages the countrey further into the maine land All that part of Asia which lyeth on this side Taurus they made their tributarie plaÌ„ting theÌ„ selues all along the riuer Halys that parteth Paphlagoria from Syria That prouince where the Gaules dwelt in Asia froÌ„ their first arriual to the height of the Romane Empire retained the name of Gaul-Greece together with that same language which S. Ierome sixe or seuen hundred yeares after saith was like that he heard spoken in Gaule about the quarter of Treues Thus concerning the auncient Gaules now to cleare some few dark words of the text The worke of Romulus c. He meaneth Rome builded by Romulus the most warlike Citie of all the world and therefore Mars whom the Painims counted the God of warre may be thought the founder of it Cold Strymon A riuer parting Macedome from Thrace as Plinie saith and because Thrace is no very warme countrey he giueth Strymon the adioint of Cold. Th' Emathicke fields to wit Macedonie so called of king Emathion Plinie speakes thereof in his 4 booke and 10 chapter thus Macedonie a countrey containing a hundred and fiftie nations sometime renowmed for two kings he meaneth Philip and Alexander and for the Empire of the whole world it was aforetime called Emathia which word the Poets as Virgil and Lucan do somtimes vse for Thessaly a country neare Macedonie Lucan in his very first verse Bella per Emathios plusquam ciuilia Campos And Virgil in the end of his 2 Georgic Nec fuit indignum superis his sanguine nostro Emathiam latos Aemi pinguescere campos The Pharsalian fields are in Thessaly as Plinie recordeth in his 4 booke and 8 chapter Dindyma A hill in Phrygia The Poet calleth it Dindyme chastré guelt Dindym because the Priests of Cybele called Curetes kept and sacrificed there and were Eunuches attired like women The Poets meaning is that these Gaules harried also Phrygia and called the countrey where they dwelt in Asia Gaul-Greece after the name of that from whence they first came and so planted as it were another Gaule in the middest of Asia What became of their successors in the Romanes time because the Poet makes no mention thereof I passe it also 23 Of people most renown'd He sheweth in few words wherfore he thrusteth no
farther into discourse of the out-roades the people made in old time For though Carion Melancthon Peucer Lazius Rhenanus Goropius and others of our time haue that way farre ventured and somewhile with very good successe He groundeth all his discourse vpon holy writ and sheweâ—h more particularly how the 3. sons of Noe peopled all the World yet it cannot bee denied but that they leaue manie doubts and do not alwhere cleare the matter See then how fitly the Poet addes that followeth 24 It shall suffise me then to keepe me ne are th'encloses And carefull hanging on the golden mouth of Moses Amram his learned sonne in verses to record Sem Cham and Iaphet fill'd this round worke of the Lord And that of mighty Noe the far out-roming boat Did thus the second time all countries ouer flout 25 Yet not as if Sems house from Babilon did run Together all at once vnto the rising Sun To drinkâ— of Zâ—iton the water siluer-fine To peopl'all rich Catay with Cambalu Chine Nor Iaphet vnto Spaine nor that vngodly Cham Vnto the droughty soyle of Meder and Bigam The fields of Cefala the mount of Zanzibar The Cape of hoped good in Affrick most afarre Very meece coÌ„parisons For as th' lblean hilâ—s or those Hymettick trees Were not in one yeares space all ouer-buzz'd with bees But that some litle rocke that swarmed ev'ry prime Two surcreases or three made on their tops to clime Their sydes and all about those nurslings of the Sun At length all ore the Clyffes their hony-combes to run Or as two springing Elmes that grow amids a field With water compassed about their stocks do yeeld A many yonger trees and they againe shoot-out As many like themselues encroaching all about And gaining peece by peece so thriue that aft'r a while They for a shared mead a forest make that Isle Accordingly the Wrights that built proude Babels towre All scattering abroad though not all in an howre At first enhous'd themselues in Mesopotamie By proces then of time encreasing happily Past riuer after riuer and seiz'd land after land And had not God forboad the world should euer stand No countrey might be found so sauage and vnknowne But by the stocke of Man had bin ere this ore-growne 26 And hence it comes to passe the Tig'r-abutting coast In all the former Age of all did slonish most That first began to war that only got a name The cause why the first monarchie was in Assiria And little knew the rest but learned of the same 27 For Babilon betimes draw'n vnd'r a kingly throne Th'emperiall scepter swayd before the Greekes were knowne To haue a Policie before by charming tones Amphion walled Thebes of selfe-empyling stones Or Latins had their townes or Frenchmen houshold-rents Or Almains Cottages or Englishmen their tents The Hebrues their neighbors were learned religious before the Greekes knew any thing 28 The sonnes of Heber had with Angels often spoke And of all stranger Gods detested th'altar-smoke They knew the great vnknowne and ô most happy thing With faithfull eyes beheld their vnbeholden king The learned Chaldee knew of stars the numb'r and lawes Had measured the skie and vnderstood the cause That muffleth vp the light of Cinthia's siluer lips And how her thwarting doth her brothers beames eclips The priest of Memphis knew the nature of the soule And straightly marked how the heau'nly flames do roule Who that their faces might more flaming seeme and gay In Amphitrites poole once wash them eu'ry day He Phisick also wrote and taught Geometree Before that any Greek had learnd his A Be Cee Th' Egiptians Tyrians had all riches and delights before the Greeks and Gaules knew the world 29 All Egypt ouershone with golden vtensilis Before the limping Smith by Aetna's burning kill 's Had hammerd Iern barres before Prometheus found The fire and vse therof vpon th' Argolian ground Alas we were not then or if we were at least We led an vnkouth life and like the sauage beast Our garments feathers were that birds in moulting cast We feasted vnder trees and gaped after mast When as the men of Tyre already durst assay To rase the salty Blew twixt them and Africa Were set on Marchandize with purpl'en-gâ—â—â—rt their flankes And all the pleasures rain'd about Euphrates bankes 30 As if a pebblestone thou on the the water fling Of any sleepy poole it frames a litle ring About whereas it fell and far about doth rase The waâ—â—ng marbl ' or eu'n the trembling Chrystal face With gâ—â—tâ—l moouing of a number circles mo That reaching further out together waxing flow Vntil the round at length most outward and most large Strikes of the standing poole both one and other marge So from the cent'r of All which here I meane to pitch Vpon the the waters brinke where discord sprong of speech Man dressing day by day his knowledge more and more Makes Arts and wisdome flow vnto the Circle-shore As doth himselfe encrease and as in diuerse bands His fruitfull seede in time hath ouer growne the lands 31 The first Colonies of 〈…〉 the East For from Assyria the Semites gan to trauell Vnto the land beguilt with Hytans glestring grauell And peopling Persiland drooke Oroates lâ—yse And cleere Coaspes eke that lickes the walles of Suse So to the fruitfull dale and fowerbearing plaine Betwixt high Caucase tops whereas th' Arsaces raigne And some in Medie dwelt and some began to make The second The fields abutting on the great Mesendin lake 32 These mens prosteritie did like a flood surround And ouer flow in time the Cheisel-fronting ground They came in diuerse troopes vpon Tachalistan Carz Gadel Chabula Bedane and Balestan 33 The third Their of spring afterward broke vp with toiling hands Narzinga Bisnagar and all the plenteous lands That Gauges thorow-flowes and peopled Toloman The Realme of Mein and Aue and muskie Carazan And saw the fearfull sprights in wildernesse of Lop The fourth That maske in hundred shapes wayfaring men to stop 34 Long after sundry times this Race still coasting East Tipura seizd that breedes the horny-snowted beast Mangit and Gaucinchine that Aloes hath store The first Colonies of Iaphet in the west And stopt at Anie Straights and Cassagalie shore 35 Now from the center-point enclining to the Set Far spread abroade themselues the Children of Iaphet To Armenie the lesse and after to Cilice So got the hau'ns at length of Tarsis and of Ise The sweete Corician Caue that neare Pernassus Hill Delights the commers-in with Cimbal-sounding skill Huge Taure his lofty downes Ionie Cappadoce Moeanders winding bankes Bithyne and Illios The second 36 Then boldly passing ore the narrow Cut of Sest They dronke the waters cold of Strimon Heb'r and Nest The Rhodopean dales they graz'd and laid in swathes The leas that running by Danubies water bathes The third parted into many branches 37 Thrace did athonside fill the
Grecian Territory Greece peopled Italic law giuing louing-glory By Italy was France by France was filled Spaine The borderings of Rhyne and all the great Brettaigne Ath'other side againe it sent a Colonie Beth to the Pont-Eusine and towards Moldauie So raught Transsiluanie Morauie Hungarie And Seruie farther west and east-ward Podolie Thence men to Prussie came and Wixell borders eard And that of Almanie that narre the pole is reard The first Colonies of Cham in the South 38 Now turning to the South consider how Chaldaea Spewes out in Arabie Phoenice and Cannaea The cursed line of Cham yet nerthelesse it growes The second And right betwixt two seas downe into Egypt goes So stores the towne Corene and that renowmed coast Whereon the punick Seas are all to froth betost Fesse The third Gogden Terminan Argin Gulosa Dara Tombuto Gualata Melli Gago Mansara The sparkling wildernesse of Lybie breeding-venim Caun Guber Amasen Born Zegzeg Nubie Benim The fourth And of the droughty soyle those euer-mouing sandes Where Iesus yet is knowne and Prestre Ian commands Who though in many points he commeth neare the lâ—w Yet hath a kind of Church not allvnlâ—ke the true How the north was peopled 39 And if thou long to know whence all the land 〈◊〉 large That vnder-lyes the draught of many asâ—â—ding barge All ouer pau'd with Ise and of the sea of Russe Enuironed about with surges mutinous Was coâ—â—-vnto by men thinke after they forsooke The â—laine where Tegill flood swift-running ouertooke Once and againe the streame of running-far Euphrates They lodged at the foot of hoary hill Niphates So forth of Armeny the field Hiberian The Colchish th' Albanick and the Bosphorian Ware furnished with men thence to the Suns Vprist The cruel Tartar went that roameth where he list All ore those quarters huge and thence acoast the Set Was stoar'd the land that Rha doth neare his rising fret The shore of Liuonie the plaines of Moscouie Biarmie Permie Russe Whitelake and Scrifinie 24 It shall suffise The Poet hath heretofore compared Antiquitie chiefly concerning the Nations Out-roads vnto a great forest wherein the cunningest guides haue often lost theÌ„ selues Now therefore he saith it is the safer way to follow and keepe neare the verge of the forest rather then venter too far into it He shewes thereby that his meaning is to giue vs a generall view of these matters not curiously to minse the particulars as they haue done who vndertake to gather out of Authors and teach others the course of Noes posteritie euerie mile as they haue runne vntill this present and pore still into the Arke to finde there the names of their countrymen and auncestours Therefore he voweth to relye wholly vpon the golden mouth of Moses which was the sonne of Amram as the Scripture witnesseth Nomb. 26.59 Now Moses saith Genes 10. in the ende of the Chapter That of the children of Noe were the Nations deuided on the earth after the flood And before in 5.20 and 30. verses he sheweth plainly from whence they began to people the world and as it were to leade againe the Arke ouer the face of the earth in filling most countryes of the world with their great posteritie encreased as it was by vertue of Gods wonderful blessing Gen 9.1 Encrease and multiply and fill the earth 25 Yet not as if Sems house He saith Sem peopled not the East all at once but by succession of time that Iaphet when he came out of the Arke did not forthwith runne to Spaine nor Cham to hide himselfe in the furthest part of Affrick but that by litle and litle and in processe of time their issues raunged so farre forth either way He speaketh of diuerse countreys far vp in the East and farre downe Southward the site whereof appeareth plaine in the Mappes and to enrich this true storie he vseth two prettie comparisons of the rockes of bees in Hybla and Elmes in an Island as by their surcrease both places are by peecemeale at length quite ouergrowen so he saith the world by yearely encrease of Noes posterities was part after part oâ—er peopled as it is First after the confusioÌ„ of touÌ„gs they lodged one behind another about the coast of Mesopotamia afterward as they encreased in stocke their new families passed the riuers hilles and straights looking-out other dwelling places to their liking the prouidence of God directing all as appeares for the better grace and trimming of the earth and the commoditie of all mankind 26 And heÌ„ce it comes to passe This ensueth necessarily of that goes before Where the posteritie of Noe were most together in the beginning there we must confesse was the chiefe sway and greatnesse of mankind and that was in Assyria and Chaldaea as Moses witnesseth Gen. 11. whereout the Poet coÌ„cludeth as afore see further Gen. 14. Concerning the kings warres that are there named with their countreys marching vpon Tigris or there abouts and of Nymrod it is namely said that the beginning of his raigne was Babell c. in the countrey of Sennaar marching vpon the riuer Tigris 27 For Babilon betimes Hauing spoken in generall of the first people their greatnesse he specifieth now the first Monarchie whereof it seemes Moses hath enough written in the 10. chap. aforesaid Now the best Authors many of these and the former times declare and proue by the account of yeares that the first Monarchie was in Babilon and Babilon was in Chaldaea wherupon some dispute for Niniuie and Assyrians some because these two great Cities began about one time had seuerall Princes and raigned both many hundred yeares they make a double Monarchie of the first vntill such time as the Chaldean had swallowed the Assyrian I take not the word Monarchy too precisely as if in the time of the BabyloniaÌ„ there were none other in the world Egypt began in good time to be of power and great kings there were in the land of Canâ—an and the countreys adioyning But I vnderstand with our Poet that the first rule plainlie appeared at Babylon euen in the time of Noe. Hee that would vpon this point compare profane Histories with the Scripture might finde matter for a long discourse the summe whereof may bee seene in Funecius Carion Vignier and other Chroniclers To be short I say the raigne of Nymrod mentioned Gene. 10.10 many yeares forewent all other we reade of and especiallie those of the Greekes Romaines Gaules c. as is proued plainlie by the account of time Thebes a towne of Boeotia in Greece it hath a spring by it called Dirce whereof the towne selfe among the Poetes is often surnamed Amphion a wise Politician who by his eloquence and sleight perswaded the people of those times rude as they were and vnciuill to ioyne together in building the walles of Thebes whereupon the Poetes to shew the force of eloquence faine that Amphion by the cunning stroakes of his Lute made the stones come downe from
the rockes and lay themselues together in order of a wall And thus saith Horace in his Epistle of Poetrie ad Pisones Dictus Amphion Thebanae conditor vrbis Saxa moucre sono testudmis prece blaÌ„da Read more of him in Appollonius his Argonauticks 28 The sonnes of Heber This proues again that the neare successours of Noe filled not the world all at once but by successioÌ„ of time So the true religion remained in the familie of Sem The Chaldeans were excellent Astronomers Philosophers the Egyptian Priestes knew the secretes of Nature before there was any knowledge of letters in Greece which was not peopled so soone as the other by many yeares as the histories euen of the Greekes themselues declare See the latter Chronicles 29 All Egypt ouershone Another proofe If the world had bene peopled all straight after the flood riches and dainties would haue bene found vsed in all countreys at the same time But they were in Egypt and Tyre long before the Greekes and Gaules knew the world So it followes that Greece and Gaule were not so soone peopled as Egypt and Phoenicia By the limping Smith he meanes Vulcan that first found out the vse and forging of Iron in Sicilie Prometheus was the first that found the vse of fire among the Argolians or Greekes Of him saith Hor. 1. booke 2. Ode Audax Iapeti genus igneÌ„fraude malâ gentâ—bus intulet That is the bold son of Iaphet brought fire by craft among the nations Of this matter the Poets haue set forth many fables the true drift whereof our Authour sheweth in a word Looke what I haue noted vpoÌ„ the yoy verse of the 6. day of the 1 weeke The rest of this place is easie to be vnderstood 30 As if a pebble stone A fine similitude concerning the aforesaid matter to shew how all the Arts began froÌ„ the plaine of Scunnar to spread by litle and litle ouer all the world 31 For from Assyria He beginneth here to treat of the more particular peoplings And first he sheweth how the posteritie of Sem began to fil Asia Their first out crease leauing the coast of Assyria bent toward the East Of this riuer Hytan Plinie faith 6.23 Carmamae flumen Hytanis portuosum auro fertile Look Solinus cha 67. They hauing peopled this quarter hrust on further toward Oroatis a riuer of Persia whereof Plinie saith in his 6. booke the 23. Flumen Oroatis ostio difficili nisi peritis Insulae 2. paruaeâ—nde vadosa nauigatio palustri similis per euripos tamen quosdam peragitur in the 25 chap. Persidis initium ad Flumen Oroatin quo diuiditur ab Elimaide Read also the 24. chap. of the said booke of Plinie for the better vnderstanding of their dwelling here Then they drew further forth into Persia towardes the Citie Susa close by the which Coaspâ—s runneth such is the sweetnesse of that water that as Plinie Soline Plutarch others record the kings of Persia drink of none other So they came into the valleys of the famous hill Caucasus where dwelt the Parthians whose kings were coÌ„monly called Arsaces From heÌ„ce into Medie lastly vp higher toward the Mesendin Hyrcaman or Caspian lake Looke Ptolo in his 1.2 3. table of Asia Mercator â—â—rtelius Cellarius Thouet All these remoues are coÌ„tained within the compasse of 5. or 600. leagues 32 These mens posteritie He setteth downe in fower verses the chiefe countries peopled by the second ouercrease of Sems Issue The land fronting Cheâ—â—el is a part of Tartarie not farre from the Caspian sea whereinto that riuer falleth and riseth neare the wildernesse of Lop aboue Tachalistan which is a great countrey neighbour to the mountaine â—maus Charasse Charassan or Chorasan it is a couÌ„trey that hes between Istigias Bedane and Tacalistan which I note more particularly then I finde in the French Commentarie because there is so little difference of letters betweene that and the name of Carazan whereof the Poet speaketh in the fourth verse following This Charasse Gadel Cabul Bedane and Balistan are prouinces enclosed by the riuer Indus the mountaine Imaus the Mesendin or Caspian Sea and the realme of Persia a circuit of land somewhat more then 600. leagues 33 Their of spring afterward He commeth to the third ouercrease of the Semites who went foorth Southward as well as North and Eastward The inhabitants of Cabul thrust forward their Issue toward Bisnagar a rich countrie of South Asia lying betweene the Persian sea and the Gulfe of Bengala Narsinga for so I haue translated the French Nayarde is a kingdome lying yet lower and very rich That plenteous land that Ganges thorow-flowes it containes the higher India where are many wealthie kingdomes set forth well at large in the Mappes as Cambaie Decan Bengala Pedir c. Toloman is further vp toward the North. Aua is beyond the Gulfe of Bengala toward the East about Pegu and Siam countries of infinit wealth Mein on the West hath Ganges on the East Macin on the South Bengala and on the North Carazan which the Poet surnameth Muskey because there is great store of the best Muske Lop a Desert thirtie daies iourney ouer lying yet higher Northward It seemes the Poet followes the opinion of M. P. Venet who in the first booke of his Tartarian Historie chap. 35. makes very strange report of the fearefull sights that the poore passengers there meete with often to the losse of their liues Not vnlike it is that certaine legions of euill Spirits there abiding haue had some speciall power giuen them so to punish the Idolotrous Mahometists who still inhabit those quarters The Poet saith all the countries marching this Wildernesse were peopled by this third out crease of the Semits It is an opinion somewhat likely and thereon I rest vntill I heare some other if it bee possible giue more certaine intelligence of the matter 34 Long after sundrie times He speaketh of the fourth and last ouercrease of Sem. Tipura a countrie breeding many Rhinocerots which according as the Greeke name signifieth I haue translated horny-snouted beasts reade the description of them in the exposition of the 40. verse of the 6. day of the first weeke this Tipura lieth East ward aboue Toloman betwixt Carazan an Caichin or Gaucinchine for so I haue translated it hath on the West Tipura and Toloman on the South Campaa on the North China Mein and on the East the East-Ocean a land very large and bearing great store of Aloës Mangit is far vp in the North so is also Quinsai Ania and Tabin one aboue another euen vnto the Amen Straight and Scythike Ocean By this description plaine to be seene in the Maps of Asia the Poet meant to shew vs all the seuerall remoues of Sems posteritie who not passing beyond the Anian Straight might long content themselues with so large a portion as Asia containing aboue foure thousand leagues of ground As for the particular description of these countries
their length bredth and commodities I neither dare nor wil euer charge therewith my notes entended for short Besides it was not the Poets minde to hold the reader long with view and studie of such matter and questions as may be had and plainly resoiled of the Card-men 35 Now from the center-point Out of Assyria and Mesopotamia Iaphet or the next race from him drew toward the West into those places that the Poet names set downe as they are in the ancient and later Mappes of Asia and Europe I neede not mince euery word of the text Armenie is distinguished into the Great and Lesse it lieth neere the Caspian sea and coasteth toward Europe The sweete Corician cave it is in Cilicia and is described of Plinie in the 27. chapter of his 5. booke and Strabo in his 4. book and Solinus in his 51. chap. Concerning the strange matters which the Poet reports of it reade Pomponius Mela his description of Cilicia the first booke Besides many notable properties of the place he sayth moreouer that when a man hath gone there a troublesome narrow way a mile and more he shall come through pleasant shades into certaine thick woods which make a sound no man can tell how of certaine country-songs and after he is passed thorow to the end thereof he shall enter another deeper shadowe which amazeth much all that come there by reason of a noise is heard loud and passing mans power to make as it were the sound of many Cimballes These are his words Terret ingredientes sonitis Cimbalorū diuinitùs magno fragore crepitantium He sets downe also at large al other the pleasant delights of the place Concerning this musicke some thinke it a fable Others ascribe it to a naturall cause as that the ayre entring by a narrow mouth into a vault of stone wide and very deepe soone growes thereby exceeding raw and so turnes into water then dropping still downe in many places and quantities somewhat proportionable vpon the sounding stone makes in those hollow rockie places a noyse as it were musicall Taure his loftie downes this great mountaine reacheth hence well toward Pisidia Westward and on the other side a great way into Asia as Ptolomee sheweth in his first table Meander a riuer arising out of the mountaines of Pelta and Totradium in Asia the lesse it runneth thorow Hierapolis Pisidia Licaonia Caria and other countries thereabouts into the Midland sea Illios or Troas Bithynia and the rest are higher toward Hellespont and the Maior sea 36 Then boldly passing ore He spake before of Illios which lies in low Phrigia vpon the shore of the Midland sea about the Sigean Peake and the riuer Simöis hard by the Straight of Gallipolie where Abydos on Asia-side stādeth and Sestos on the side of Europe now he saith the second ouercrease of Semites past the Straight it being in breadth but the fourth part of a league as Bellon auoucheth in the 2. booke and 3. chapter of his Singularities In times past there stood two towers one in Sest the other in Abyde in the toppes whereof wont to bee set great lights to waine the marriners by night Looke what we haue noted vpon the word Phare in the first day of the first weeke verse 448. and what vpon the word Leander 1. weeke fift day 912. verse At this time Sest and Abyde are two Castles where the Turke hath Garrisons and are the very keyes of Turkie in that quarter so neere is Constantinople vnto them Strimon Hebre and Nest are three great riuers passing thorow Thrace which is now called Remania and falling into the Aegean sea called now by some Archipelago and by the Turks the White sea Look the 9. table of Europe in Ptolomee The Rhodopeā dales Rhodope is a mountaine bounding Thrace in the dales thereof beside other townes are Philippoli and Hadrianopoli Danubie or Donaw is the greatest riuer of all Europe springing out of Arnobe hill which Ptolomee and Mercator puts for a bound betweene the Sweues and Grisons this Riuer running thorow Almaine Austria Hungaria Sclauonia and other countries with them interlaced receiueth into it aboue 50. great Riuers and little ones an infinite sort so emptieth by sixe great mouthes into the Maior sea Moldauia Valachia and Bulgaria are the countries neere about the fall of Danubie 37 Thrace These countries neere the Maior and Aegean Seas and the Thracian Bosphore thrust on the third ouercrease of people further West and Northward as the Poet very likely fayth the Mappes of Europe shew plainly the coasts he nameth for their chiefe seates But to shew how and when they changed and rechanged places and names of places driuing out one the other and remouing by diuers enterspaces it were the matter of a large booke 38 Now turning to the South He commeth now to handle the Colonies or ouercreases of Chams posteritie first into Arabia Phaenicia and Chananaea which was after called Indaea the site of these countries wee know well they are easie to bee found in the generall Mappes and those of Europe beside the particulars in Ptolomee and other late writers as namely in the Theater of Ortelius When the Chamites had ouerbred Arabia and the countrie south from Chaldaea which lies betwixt th' Arabian and Persian Gulfes they went at the second remoue down into Aegypt betwixt the red Midland seas thirdly they entred Affrick and by little and little filled it The Poet points-out many countries for better vnderstanding whereof wee must cōsider that Affrick the fourth part of the world knowne is diuided into foure parts Barbaria Numidia Lybia and the land of Negroes Barbaria conteineth al the North coast from Alexandria in Aegypt to the Straight of Gibraltar along by the Midland sea and is diuided into foure kingdomes Maroco Fessa Tremisen and Tunis conteining vnder them 21. Prouinces Vnder the same Southward lieth Numidia called of the Arabiās Biledulgerid and hauing but few places habitable Next below that is Lybia called Sarra as much to say as Desert a countrie exceeding hot and marching athonside vpon the land of Negroes that the last and greatest part of Affrick reacheth South and Eastward very farre In the further coast thereof is the countrie of Zanzibar certaine kingdomes and deserts neere the Cape of good hope which is the vtmost and Southerest peake of all Affrick Corene is neer Aegypt The Punick Sea the Sea of Carthage put for the Midland that parteth Europe and Affricke asunder Fesse is the name of the chiefe Citie of that Realme in Barbarie Gogden a Prouince of the Negroes as are also Terminan Gago and Melli neere the same Argin lieth neere the White Cape Gusola is one of the seuen Prouinces of Maroco in Barbarie Dara a countrie in the Northwest of Numidia not farre from Gusola Tombuto a great countrie in the West part of the Negroes neere aboue the riuer Niger So is Gualata but somewhat higher and right against the Greene Cape Mansara which I haue put in
for the verse sake as I left out Aden it lies neere Melli vpon the lowest mouth of Niger By Aden that the French hath I take to bee meant Hoden which is betwixt Argin and Gualata or somewhat lower The Wildernes of Lybie is surnamed Sparkling because the sands there ouerchafed with a burning heate of the Sunne flye vp and dazle mens eyes Cane Guber Amasen Born Zegzeg Nubie Benim all are easie to be found in the Mappe neere about the riuer Niger sauing Benim which is lower by the Gulfe Royal and Nubie higher toward Nilus Amasen which I haue added is a great countrie neere the place where Niger diueth vnder the Earth From these quarters South and Eastward lies the great Ethiopia a countrie exceeding hot sandie and in many places vnhabitable because of the sands which by the wind are so moued and remoued oftentimes that they ouerheate and choke-vp diuers great countries that might otherwise bee dwelt in There the great Negus called Prester-Ian raigneth farre and neere His Realmes Prouinces customes lawes Religion and the manner of his peoples liuing are set foorth at large by Franciscus Aluares in his historie of Ethiopia that is ioyned with Iohannes Leo his description of Affrick 39 If thou desire to know Hitherto the Poet hath told vs how Asia Europe and Affricke were peopled by the successors of Noe. But he hath not shewed how the Japhethites from Chaldaea got vp to the furthest Northerne parts and that he now goeth about and doth in 16. verses supposing them from Euphrates to coast vp toward the mountaines of Armenia and so to enter Albania and the neighbour places from thence to people Tartaria Moscouia and all the North countries they are plainly set downe by Mercator Ortelius Theuet and others in their Maps of Europe and I thought good for causes often aforetold not here to entreate of them particularly There is left vs yet to consider two notable questions concerning these out-roades and Colonies of Noes posteritie The one how they came vnto the West India which hath so lately within these 100. yeares been discouered The other how it came to passe that so few of them in the short space of some hundreds of yeares were able to encrease to such a number as might empeople and fill so many huge and diuers countries of the world The Poet straight makes answere hereunto Let vs marke his discourse vpon either the demaunds 40 But all this other world How America was peopled that Spaine hath new found out By floting Delos-like the Westerne Seas about And raised now of late from out the tombe of Leath And giu'n it as it were the Being by the death How was 't inhabited The first obiection if long agone how is' t Nor Persians nor Greeks nor Romans euerwist Or inckling heard thereof whose euer-conquering hoasts Haue spred abroad so far and troad so many coasts Or if it were of late The second obiection how could it swarme so thick In euery towne and haue such works of stone and brick As passe the tow'rs of Rome th'antike Aegyptian Pyramis The King Mausolus Tombe the walles of Queene Semiramis 41 What then alas Answers negatiue by an Ironic belike these men fell from the skie All readie-shap'd as do the Frogs rebounding frie That aft'r a soultie day about the setting hower Are powred on the meades by some warme April shower And entertouch themselues and swarme amid the dust About the gaping clifts that former drought had brust Or grew of tender slips and were in earthy lap In stead of cradle nurst and had for milk the sap Or as the Mousherom the Sowbred or the Blite Among the fatter clots they start-vp in a night Or as the Serpents teeth sow'n by the Duke of Thebes They brauely sprong all arm'd out of the broken glebes 42 Indeed this mightie ground that call'd is Americk The first earnest answere Was not inhabited so soone as Afferick Nor as that learned soyle tow'r-bearing louing-right That after Iupiter his deer-beloued hight Nor as that other part which from cold Bosphors head Doth reach the pearly dew of Tithons saffran bed For they much more approach the diaprized ridges And fair endented banks of Tegil bursting-bridges From whence our ancestors discamp'd astonished And like to Partridges were all-to-scattered Then doth that newfound world whereto Columbus bore First vnder Ferdinand the Castile armes and lore 43 But there the building are so huge and brauely dight So differing the States the wealth so infinite Generali That long agon it seemes some people thither came Although not all at once nor all by waies the same Some by the clowdy drift of tempest raging-sore Perhaps with broken barks were cast vpon the shore Some other much anoyd with famin plague and warre Particular Their ancient Seates forsooke and sought for new so farre Some by some Captaine led that bore a searching minde With wearie ships arriu'd vpon the Westerne Inde 44 Nay could not long ere this the Quinsay vessels finde A way by th' Anian straight fro th' one to th' other Inde The second As short a cut it is as that of Hellspont From Asia to Greece or that wher-ore they wont Sayle from the Spanish hil vnto the Realme of Fesse Or into Sicilie from out the hau'n of Resse Colonies according to the second Answere noting by the way certaine meruailes of the countrie 45 So from the wastes of Tolm and Quiuir where the kine Bring calues with weathers fleece and camels bunchy chine and hair of Courserots they peopled Azasie Coss Toua Caliquas Topira Terlichi The flow'r-entitled Soile Auacal Hochilega Saguenai Baccalos Canada Norumbega And those white Labour-lands about whose bleachy shore The sweeter waterd seas are most-anon befrore 46 They sow'd athother side the land of Xalisco Mechuacan Cusule and founded Mexico Like Venise ore the wat'r and saw astonished The greenest growing trees become all withered As soone as euer touch'd and eck a mountaine found Vesenus-like enflam'd about Nicargua ground So passing foorth along the straight of Panama Vpon the better hand they first Oucanama Then Quito then Cusco then Caxamalca built And in peruvi-Peruvi-land a countrie thorow-guilt They wondred at the Lake that waters Colochim Al vnder-paued salt and fresh about the brim And at the springs of Chinck whose water strongly good Makes pebble stones of chalk and sandy stones of mood 47 Then Chili they possest whose Riuers cold and bright Run all the day a pace and slumber all the night Quinteat Patagonie and all those lower seates Whereon the fonâ—y Brack of Magellanus beats Vpon the left they spred along by Darien side Where Huo them refresht then in Vraba spide How Zenu's wealthie waues down vnto Neptune rould As big as Pullets egges fair massie graines of gould And in Grenada saw mount Emeraudy shine But on Cumana banks hoodwinked were their eyne With shadie thickned mist so quickly from Cumana They on to Parie went
appeares that aboue ten thousand Myllions of golde haue been brought thence into Europe beside heapes of Rubies Emeraudes and Pearle much wracked in the sea and much brought for a yearly tribute into Spaine Whereunto I will adde what Franciscus Lopes de Gomara saith concerning the vnualuable riches of Guainacapa the name signifieth young and rich the father of Antibalippa last king of Peru whom the Spaniards put to death All the furniture of his house table and kitchin saith hee in the 120. chapter of his fourth booke were of golde aend siluer and the meanest of siluer somewhat embased with copper for the more strength He had in his wardrop giant-like images of golde liuely featured as also all kinde of beasts foules trees herbes and flowers that the land there beareth and all kinde of fishes that either the Sea there or any fresh water of his kingdome breedeth in the said mettals well and proportionably resembled not so much as cordes paniers troughes billets and other such implements but were so to conclude there was nothing in his kingdome whereof he had not the counterfet in golde or siluer Jt is also said that the kings of Peru called Ingaes haue a garden in a certaine Isle neere Puna where they delight themselues when they list take the Sea that hath in golde and siluer all hearbes flowers and trees and other things whatsoeuer meet for a pleasant garden such a sumptuous deuise as neuer was heard-of or seene elsewhere Besides all this that king last but one had gathered into Cusco huge masses of golde and siluer vnfined which the Indians hid so secretly as the Spaniards could neuer come-by it there was also in and about Cusco great store of picture-tables and tombes all of fine siluer worth some thirtie some fifty some threescore thousand ducats a peece also dining-tables vessels and images a great number all of fine golde The Spaniards at the taking of Antibalippa found as good as 252000. poundes of siluer and of golde 1300265. pezoes euery pezo valued at a ducat and a halfe Besides the great golden table of Antibalippa worth nye 40000. Crownes Now for all this great spoyle that the Spaniards got and hauock that they made as well in Peru as other the Prouinces thereabout yet the Indians as Benzo reports who stayde there with the Spaniards foureteene yeares and wrote in three bookes worthy-reading that whole storie they sticke not to say they haue yet more remaining then all that the Spaniards euer had And to make their meaning plainer they will take out of a great vessell full of wheate one graine betwixt their fingers and say See you this the Viracochie so they call the Spaniards haue taken as it were this one graine away but thus much say they poynting to the rest in the vessel thus much and more haue they left behinde them Now the word Viracochie because it comes thus in my way Benzo himselfe in his third booke saith it signifies the frother scumme of the Sea and that the Peruvians so call the Spaniards for deepe hatred and abomination of them saying also sometimes one to another in their language The winde bears downe houses and trees and the fire burnes them but these Viracochie they doe worse then winde and fire They waste all they eate all they turne the earth and all vpsedowne they turne the course of riuers they are neuer at quiet they neuer cease ranging vp and downe to seeke golde and siluer and all they finde is too little for them When they haue it what doe they They take their pleasure they warre one with another rob one another kill one another they are euer giuen to lying blaspheming and denying the same God whom they professe and these men haue cruelly slaine without cause our fathers our children and kinsfolkes taken from vs contrarie to all right our goods our libertie and countrie Hauing thus commended the Spaniards they curse the Sea for vomiting on the Earth so cruell and wicked a people and often haue vpbrayded the Spaniards themselues with this notorious reproach that golde was the Christians God O how shall this people in the latter day condemne that euer-greedy couetousnes for which Europe nowadayes heareth so ill and is by the selfe-people thereof so wasted and vnpeopled But concerning the diuers gouernements of the West Indies seeing they are set downe so well at large by Lopes Ouiede Benzo and others it is too great a matter for mee to handle in this discourse which is I feare mee growne to long alreadie therefore will I draw to an ende The Poet at the 413. verse begins to shew some likely opinions how this new-founde worlde was peopled and first in generall that the people of countries enhabited exercising their ordinary trafficke one with another might sometimes be cast by force of tempest vpon the West-Indian shore and so be constrained their shippes being broken to remaine still there Others by plague warre or famine were driuen to leaue their countries seeke some quieter dwelling farther off and so haue lighted on these new Countries Or perhaps some great man of authoritie or cunning Pilot by ventring made a discouerie thereof and ledde the ouer-creases of some people thither As the Poet sheweth more particularly in the verses following 44 Nay could not long agoe He guesseth inspeciall and most likely that the inhabitants of the furthest Northeast shore of Asia to witte the men of Quinsay and other places there might haue emptied their ouer-peopled Citties by passing the Anien Straight a part of sea no broader as he saith then the Phare of Gallipoli Gibraltare or Messine and so frō the East Indies might they haue stoared first the lande of Tolguage which Theuet in his mappe of the new world placeth betwixt the Realmes of Anian Tolm and Quiuir within 15. degrees of the North-pole then the rest as followeth 45 So from the Wastes of Tolm Quiuir In all this huge Northen part of America few people there are especially toward the coast ouer-against Quinsay and th' other East-countries There are therefore great Waste-landes as the later Card-men haue noted about the kingdomes or countries of Anian Tolguage Quiuir and Tolm aboue 12000. leagues compasse So then the Poet holds opinion that some of Sems posteritie hauing once passed from the farthest East-point of Asia ouer to the West-Indian Coast thrust their of spring farther into the land The Countries here named by the Poet are to be found in the Sea-cards and Land-mappes betwixte New-Spaine and Estotilant as if he meant that the North-part of America was first inhabited concerning the properties particular descriptions of these places reade the thirde volume of the Spanish Nauigations the second Booke of the generall history of Lopez de Gomara Chap. 37. c. the History of Florida Benzo the Reportes of Iohann s Verazzanus laques Cartier and other French Captaines concerning their discouering of the Land of Labour where the sea is frozen Baccalos New-France Canada
Hochilega and other landes thereabouts Reade Theuet also the latter Card-men For the French Calicuza I haue translated Caliquas according as I finde it written both in others and in Ortellius who also hath for Mechi Terlichi-mechi and therefore I translate it Terlichi 46 They sow'd at'hother side Xalisco nowe called Noua Gallicia is described by Gomara in the 21. Chapter of his 5. booke It is a land very fruitfull and rich in honny waxe and siluer and the people there are Idolaters and Men-eaters Nunnius Gusmannus who seized the countrie for the king of Spain in the yeare 1530. hath written a discourse thereof and it is to be read in the third volume of the Spanish Nauigations The Prouince of Mechuacan from whence not farre lyeth Cusule is about 40. leagues lower southward then Xalisco that also the said Gusmannus conquered after he had most cruelly and traiterously put to death the Prince and Peeres of the countrie as Gomara sheweth in his booke chapter aboue quoted Mexico which some count all one with Themixtetan is the mother Cittie of that kingdome now called Hispania Noua wonderfull rich it is and strong and of high renoume built farre more curiously then Venice vpon a lake salt on the northside because it is there of a Sea-like breadth and on the southside fresh because of a Riuer that empties there into it Greater is the Cittie thought to be then Seuille in Spaine the streetes are passing well set and their channels in such manner cast as can not be mended Diuers places there are to buy and sell-in the needefull and ordinary wares but one there is greater then the rest with many walkes and galleries round about it where euery day may bee seene aboue threescore thousande Chapmen There is the Iudgement hall for common Pleas and were also many temples shrines of Idols before the comming of Ferdinando Cortez who made thereof the first conquest for the K. of Spaine exercising most horrible cruelties vpon all both yong and old in the Citie as Barthelemi de las Casas a Monke Bishoppe of Spaine reports in his historie of the Indies where he stayed a long time Looke the description of Mexico in the thirde volume of the Spanish Nauigations fol. 300. See also Benzo of Millaine his historie of the newe worlde the 2. booke and 13. Chapter Now from these partes aboue named after report of some wonders of many there seene and worthie a larger discourse by themselues the Poet drawes his Colonies down further towardes Peru by the Land-straight of Panama which parts the South-sea from the Ocean and thereabout is hardly 20. leagues in breadth The fiery mountaine of Nicaragua is by Gomara described in his 5. booke Chap. 203. so are the other wonders which the Poet here notes in his 4. booke chap. 194. 47 Then Chili they possest Gomara in his fourth booke chap. 131. holds opinion that the men of Chili are the right Antipodes or Counter-walkers vnto Spaine and that the countrie there is of the same temper with Andaluzie This Chili lyeth on the shore of el Mar Pacifico so also doth Quintete which I haue put for Chinca both neere the Patagones or Giants whose countrie is full of people and hath certaine riuers that runne by day and stand by night some think because of the snowes which in the day time are melted by the Sun and frozen by the Moone in the night but I take it rather to be some great secret and miracle of nature The cause why here I made exchange of Chinca was first for that the Poet had spoke before of the springs of Chink which I take for the same then because it is so diuersly placed of the Card-men for Ortelius in his Mappe of the new world sets it aboue and Theuet beside Chili in either place it stands well to be taken for the Chink afore-named but Mercator placeth it a great deale lower and on the contrary coast neer the riuer of Plata where indeede is a countrie called Chica that perhaps hath bred this error Lastly Quintete stands so right in way which the Poet followes from Chili to the Patagones that I thought it not amisse to take the same rather then the doubtfull Chinca By the fomy Brack of Magellanus he meanes the sea and Straight of Magellan close by terra Australis Gomara describeth it well in the beginning of the third booke of his Portugall Historie The Poet hath alreadie shewed how people came first on the North America from the kingdome of Anian ouer the maine land to th' Atlantick sea shore then on all the further coasts from Quiuir to the Magellan Straight along th' Archipelago de San Lazaro Mar del Zur Pacifico and now he takes the higher side on the left hand from the Land-Straight of Panama to the riuer of Plata which is not farre from the Magellan noting by the way the most note-worthie places of all this huge reach of ground represented as it is by our late writers in their generall and particular Mappes of the New-found world Huo is a great sweet-water streame rising at Quillacingas that lieth vnder the Equatour and running athwart the countrie now called Carthage into the sea at Garia Vraba is the countrie that lieth betwixt that riuer and Carthagene Concerning Zenu marke what Gomara sayth thereof in his second booke and 69. chapter It is the name of a riuer and citie both and of a Hauen very large and sure The Citie is some 8. leagues from the sea There is a great Mart for Salt and Fish Gould the inhabitants gather all about and when they set themselues to get much they lay fine-wrought nets in the riuer of Zenu and others and oftentimes they draw-vp graines of pure gold as big as egges This countrie is not farre from the Straight of Darien In the sayd second booke chap. 72. he describes also Noua Grenada and the Mount of Emeraudes which is very high bare and peeld without any herbe or tree thereon growing and lieth some fiue degrees on this side the Equatour The Indians when they goe-about to get the stones first vse many enchauntments to know where the best vaine is The first time the Spanyards came there they drew thence great and little 1800. very fayre and of great price but for this commoditie the countrie is so barren that the people were faine to feede on Pismers till of late the Spanish couetousnesse hath made them know the value of their Mountaine Cumana is described in the foresaid booke chap. 79. in the ende whereof Gomara sayth the vapours of the Riuer of Cumana engender a certaine little mist or slime vpon mens eyes so as the people there are very pore-blind Parie is described in the 84 chapter of the said second book Maragnon a Riuer which as Gomara sayth 2. booke 87. chapter is three-score miles ouer It emptieth at the Cape of Aâ—inde three degrees beiond th' Aequator but springeth a great way further
South by Tarama in Peru thence running Eastward it casteth onely an Arme into th' Amazon about Picora Which hath caused many the first writers of America to count from that place both but one riuer So also doth our Poet here otherwise he would haue mentioned first how the people passed th' Amazon that other great streame now knowne by the name of Orenoque which riseth about Carangui and emptieth as Theuet sayth 104. leagues aboue the mouth of Maragnon Bresile which the Spaniard discouered in the yeare 1504. is surnamed fierce because of the Canibales Caribes and other man-eating people there lâ—de Leri hath written very fully all the historie of his aduenture in part of the countrie where dwel the people called Toupinamboes The riuer of Plata the Indians call Paranagacuc which word importeth as much as a great water Gomara speaking thereof in the 89. chapter of his second booke sayth In this riuer is found siluer pearles and other things of great price It containes in bredth 25. leagues makes many Islands and swels like Nilus and about the selfe-same time It springeth first out of the mountaines of Peru and is after encreased by the in fall of many riuers for the countrie thereabout is leuell or flat whereof it seemes to haue receiued the name of Plate Thus the Poet gesseth at the maner of this new-found worlds empeopling by the coast of Asia Whereunto I will adde what Arias Mont. that learned Spaniard hath written thereof in his book entituled Phaleg He saith Ioktan the double pety-son of Sem that is whose double grandfather Sem was had thirteene sonnes which are named by Moses in the 10. of Gen. and some of them peopled the West Indies from the East That which Moses saith Gen. 10.30 concerning Sephar a mountaine of the East Arias applies to the great hils of Peru which the Spaniards call Andes they reach out further in length then any other in the world and neere them stands an ancient towne called Iuktan Moreouer there lies higher a Neer-isle betwixt Cuba and Mexico called Inkatan which may be thought to resemble still the name of him that first brought people into the country To Ophir one of the sonnes of Ioktan Arias allots the land of Peru for as much as in the 3. chap. and 6. verse of the 2. booke of Chron. there is mention made of the gold of Paruaim To Iobab the countrie of Paria which is neere the Straight of Panama very rich also in gold and pearle I haue said elsewhere that Arias Montanus tooke Asia to be all one main-land with America and knew no Anian Straight If that bee true sure the race of Sem peopled those quarters But others considering the horrible ignorance and brutishnes of the West-Indians so lately discouered and the rather to excuse their outragious crueltie exercised vpon the poore people cannot thinke but that they are some relikes of the race of Cham. This opinion hath but a weake ground as he may well perceiue that will dulie examine the circumstances For strange it is not that the race of Sem after so many generations and in so farre-discoasted countries should at length bee thus corrupted Besides the West-Indians in diuers places liue still after the manner of the East But for better answering sundrie obiections that make to proue them Chamites reade the Preface to the New-found world of Benzo Frenched by M. Vrbain Chauueton 48 Moreouer one may say This is another guesse of the Poet as that the West-India was peopled from the North by some Iaphethites who veÌ„tured ouer the Straight of groâ—Groâ—land Indeed these Northerne countries haue euer swarmed with people and well it may be that some thence by others driuen or by necessitie or of their owne heads haue sought that way other places more to their liking As also that the coasts of Bresile and Plata which I thinke the Poet meanes by the Shore of Corican were peopled by some Chamites from Temian Tombut and Melli countries lying in the West of Africk about the fall of Niger For vnlikely it were seeing Almightie God gaue the whole earth to Noe and his three sonnes Gen. 9. that the race of any one of them should engrosse all this New-found world beside his part in the other Thus rather doubtlesse as the Poet guesseth and I am further bold to gather by little little at sundrie times and places did all the three families of Noe possesse those quarters as the rest that the wil of God might be fulfilled and the light of his glorie appeare in so equall-parting ouer-peopling the whole earth howsoeuer all that huge reach of ground that lieth vnder the South-pole and is thought the fift and greatest part if it all be habitable is as yet vnknowne or very little discouered How is was posâ—â—ble that 〈◊〉 his three sonnes should encrease as they did 49 Well may I graunt you then thou'lt say perhaps ther 's naught In all this vnder-world but may at length be raught By mans Ambition it makes a breache in Hilles It runneth dry by sea among the raging Scylles And in despight of Thirst it guides the sailing Holme Amids th' Arabick Sandes the Numid and the Tolme But verely methinks it goes against all sence One house beds only four should break so large a fence As t'ouerbreed the landes af Affrick Europe Ase And make the world appeer to narrow for the Race 1. Answer 50 If little thou regard th' I mortals pow'rfull hest That once againe the bond of sacred Marriage blest And said 2. Answer Encrease and Fill 51 If thou profane deny That Iacobs little train so thick did multiplie On Pharces fruitfull ground that in 400. yere The 70. lyuing soules fiue hundred thousand were 52 At least consider 3. Answer how because in elder time The fruites they ate grew not vpon so foggy slime As ours doe now nor was their meates with sauces dight Nor altered as-yet with health-destroying slight Of gluttonating Cookes because with murdring sword Of raging enemies they were not laid aboord Because their bodies were not ouercome by sloth Or void of exercise they waxt in liuely groth And liu'd some hundred yeres and eu'n in latter daies With siluer-haired heads were able sonnes to raise So that Polygamie then taken for a right This world an Ant-hill made of creatures bolt-vpright And many people rose in short time if thou marke From out the fruitfull reines of some one Patriarch 53 Right so a graine of wheat Two fit comparisons if all th' encrease it yeildes Be often times resow'd vpon some harty feildes Will stuffe the barnes at length and colour mighty lawnes With yellow-stalked eares likewise two fishes spawnes Cast in t ' a standing poole so fast breed vp and downe That aft'r a while they stoare the larders of a towne An example of late yeares 54 Hath not there been of late a certain Elder known That with his fruitfull seed a