Toms Tom Thumbe Tom foole Tom piper and Tom-asse Thou Tom of Toms dost all these Toms surpasse Tom tell-troth is a foolish gull to thee There 's no comparisons twixt thee and hee If tell-troth Tom were any of thy kin I thinke thy Booke not halfe so big had bin Clareanus Videanus Not last nor least but neere thy praises end This worthy man thy worthlesse works commend No scuruy idle name he will thee call And therefore he will call thee none but all If I on euery Epithete should write Thy friends bestow on thee thou wandring wight No Reader then durst on my writings looke They would so far out-swell thy boystrous booke But shortest writ the greatest wit affoords And greatest wit consists in fewest words Thus Monsieur Coriat at your kind request My recantation here I haue exprest And in my Commentaries haue bin bold To write of all that haue your fame inrol'd I meane of such my wit can vnderstand That speake the language of the Britaine land But for the Latine French the Greeke or Spanish Italian or the Welsh from them I vanish I on these tongues by no meanes can comment For they are out of my dull Element Consider with your selfe good Sir I pray Who hath bin bolder with you I or they If I I vow to make you satisfaction Either in words or pen or manly action I haue bin bold to descant on each iest Yet from the Text I nothing wrong did wrest My lines may be compared to the Thames Whose gliding current and whose glassie streames On which if men doe looke as in a glasse They may perceiue an asse to be an asse An owle an owle a man to be a man And thou thou famous great Odcombian Shalt see thy selfe descypherd out so plaine Thou shalt haue cause to thanke me for my paine But holla holla whither runnes my pen I yet haue descanted what other men Haue wrote before but now I thinke it fit To adde additions of mine owne to it I yet haue champ'd what better writers chaw'd And now my Muse incites me to applaud Thy worth thy fortune and thy high desart That all the world may take thee Asse thou art And now to sing thy glory I begin Thy worthy welcome vnto Bossoms Inne M'Coriats entertainement at Bossoms Inne IEwes-trumpt Bag-pipes musick high and low Stretch to the height your merry squeking notes And all you Cockney cocks clap wings and crow Here comes an Odcomb cocke will eat no oates Pipes tabers fiddles trebble and the base Blow sound and scrape fill all the ayre with mirth Blind harpers all your instruments vncase And welcome home the wonder of the earth Great Coriat mirrour of the foure-fold world The fountaine whence Alacrity doth flow On whom rich Nature nat'rall gifts hath hurld Whom all admire from Palace to the Plow The onely Aristarck-asse of this age The maine Exchequer of all mad-cap glee For Fortune thrust him on this earthly stage That he the onely Thing of Things should be He that so many galling steps hath trac'd That in so many countries earst hath bin And to his euiternall same is grac'd To be well welcom'd vnto Bossoms Inne Vnto which place whilst Christians time doth last If any once in progresse chance to come They of my Lords great bounty needs must taste Which oftentimes doth proue a pondrous summe For why my lusty liberall minded Lord Is very friendly to all passengers And from his bounty freely doth afford Both pounds and purses to all messengers And thither now is Monsieur Odcombe come Who on his owne backe-side receiuâ—d his pay Not like the entertainement of Iacke Drum Who was best welcome when he went his way But he not taking my Lords coyne for current Against his Lordship and his followers raues Like to a cruell all-deuouring torrent These words he vtterd stuff'd with thuÌ„dring brâ—â— Bafe vassals of the blacke infernall den Vntutor'd peasants to the fiends of hell Damn'd Incubusses in the shapes of men Whose mind 's the sinke where impious dealings dwell Curst age when buzzards owles and blinded bats Against the princely Eagle rise in swarmes When weazels polecats hungry tau'ning rats Against the Lyon raise rebellious armes When as the offall of the vilest earth Raile roguishly ' gainst their superiour powers And seeme to contradict them in their mirth And blast with stinking breath their pleasat houres When base mechanicke muddy-minded slaues Whose choysest food is garlicke and greene cheese The cursed off-spring of hells horrid caues Rude rugged rascals clad in pelt and freeze And such are you you damn'd Tartarian whelps Vnmanner'd mungrels sonnes of Cerberuâ— Whom Pluto keepes for speedy hellish helps T' increase the monarchie of Erebus But now my Muse with wrinkled laughter fild Is like to bursts O hold my sides I pray For straight my Lord by his command'ment wild Cause Coriat did his Lordship disobay That in the Basket presently they mount him And let him see his ancient royall tower For he hath maz'd them all that they account him To be some mighty man of forcelesse power And now the matter plainer to disclose A little while I 'll turne my verse to prose 2. Oration COntaminous pestiferous preposterous stygmaticall slauonians slubberdegullions since not the externall vnualued trappings caparisons or accoutrements that I weare as outward ornaments or inuellopings of the more internall beauty of the minde that is â—â—is incaged within them since not the eye-amazing character of my austere Physiognomy since not the sword of Aiax nor the words of â—vlisses since no meanes nor proiect neither of â—force or policy could stay the rugged râ—bustiâ—ous rage that your innated hereditary inciuility or inhumanity hath made you to inflict â—on me I vow and sweare by the burning heard of scorching Sol and by the bloudy cut-throat cuttleaxe of swaggering Mars and by the dimple faire Venus chin and by the armed cornuted front of sweating Vulcan that I will execute on you such confounding vengeance that your off-springs off-spring to the 39. generation shall ban with execrations as bitter as coloquintida the day houre and bald-paâ—â—ed Time of this your audacious insolency And thou ignoble horse-rubbing peasant that by the borrowed title of a Lord being but a vilipendious mechanicall Hostler hast laid this insulting insupportable command on me the time shall come when thou shalt cast thy â—nticke authority as a snake casts her skin and then thou for an example to future posterities shalt make an vnsauory period of thy maleuolent dayes in litter and horse-dongue No sooner was this graue Oration ended Whereto my Lord and all his traine attended Being strooken in an admirable maze That they like Ghosts on one another gaze Quoth one This man doth coniure sure I thinke No Quoth another He is much in drinke â— Nay quoth a third I doubt he 's raging mad Faith quoth my Lord he 's a most dangerous lad For such strange English from his tongue doth slide As no man
A Tale to cast me to ten thousand Hels The Iury are my Thoughts vpright in this They sentence me to death for doing amisse Examinations more there need not then Than what 's confest here both to God and Men. The Cryer of she Court is my blacke Shame Which when it calls my Iury doth proclaime Vnlesse as they are summon'd they appeare To giue true Verdict of the Prisoner They shall haue heauy Fines vpon them set Such as may make them dye deepe in Heauens debt About me round sit Innocence and Truth As Clerkes to this high Court and little Ruth From Peoples eyes is cast vpon my face Because my facts are barbarous damn'd and base The Officers that 'bout me thicke are plac'd To guard me to my death when I am cast Are the blacke stings my speckled soule now feeles Which like to Furies dogge me close at heeles The Hangman that attends me is Despaire And gâ—owing wormes my fellow-Prisoners are His Inditement for murder of his Children THe first who at this Sessions â—â—â— doth call me Is Murder whose grim visage doth appall me His eyes are fires his voice rough winds out-rores And on my bead the Diuine vengeance scares So fast and fearefully I sinke to ground And with â— were in twenty Oceans drownd He sayes I haue a bloudy Villaine bin And to proue this ripe Euidence steps in Brew'd like my selfe Iustice so brings about That blacke sinnes still hunt one another out 'T is like a rotten frame ready to fall For one maine Post being shaken puls downe all To this Inditement holding vp my hand Fattered with Terrors more then Irons stand And being ask'd what to the Bill I say Guilty I cry O dreadfull Sessions dayâ— His Iudgement FOr these thick Stigian streams in which th' ast â—â—â— Thy guilt hath on thee laâ—d this bitter doome Thy loath'd life on a Tree of shame must take A leaue compeld by Law e'r old age make Her signed Passe port ready Thy offence No longer can for dayes on earth dispense Time blot thy name out of this bloudy roule And so the Lord haue mercy on my Soule His speech what hee could say for himselfe O Wretched Caitiffe what perswasiue breath Can cal back this iust Sentence of quick death I begge no beene but mercy at Gods hands The King of Kings the Soueraigne that coÌ„maâ—â— Both Soule and Body O let him forgiue My Treason to his Throne and whilst I liue Iebbits and Racks shall torture limme by limme Through worlds of Deaths I 'l breake to fly to him My Birth-day gaue not to my Mothers wombe More ease then this shall ioyes when e'r it come My body mould to earth sinnes sink to Hell My penitent Soule win Heauen vain world farewell FINIS TAYLORS REVENGE OR The Rimer VVILLIAM FENNOR firkt ferrited and finely fetcht ouer the Coales To any that can read BE thou either Friend or Foe or indifferent all 's one Read Laugh like or dislike all the care is taken The chiefest cause why I wrote this was on set purpose to please myselfe Yet to shew thee the meaning of this little building imagine the Epistle to be the doore and if thou please come in and see what stuffe the whâ—â—â— Frame is made off Bee it therefore knownne vnto all men that I Iohn Taylor Watermanâ— â—â—â—agree with William Fennor who arrogantly and falsely entitles himselfe the Kings Masâ— â—â—â—Riming Poet to answer me at a triall of Wit on the seuenth of October last 1614 â—â—â— the Hope stage on the Bank-side and the said Fennor receiued of mee ten shillings in â—â—â— of his comming to meet me whereupon I caused 1000 bills to be Printed and diuulg'd â—â—â—1000 wayes and more giuing my Friends and diuers of my acquaintance notice of â—â—â— Bear-garden banquet of dainty Conceits and when the day came that the Play should â—â—â—haue beene performed the house being fill'd with a great Audience who had all spent their moâ—â—â— extraordinarily then this Companion for an Asse ran away and left mee for a Foole amongst thousands of criticall Censurers where I was ill thought of by my friends scorned by â—â—â— and in conclusion in a greater puzzell then the blinde Beare in the midst of all her â—â—â—broth Besides the summe of twenty pounds in money I lost my Reputation amongst â—â—â— and gaind disgrace in stead of my better expectations In Reuenge of which wrongs done â—â—â— me by the said Riming Rascall I haue written this Inuectiue against him chiefly because ill-looking Hound doth not confesse he hath intur'd mee nor hath not so much honestly â—â—â— bring or send me my money that he tooke for earnest of me but on the contrary parts â—â—â— and abuses mee with his calumnious tongue and scandalizeth me in all Companies â—â—â— beares me nominated But in a word Reader when thou hast read this that followes I thinke thou wilt iudge me cleare of the many false Imputations that are laid vpon mee So I â—â—â—thee to thy Considerations and I proceed to my Exclamations Thine as thou art mine IOHN TAYLOR WILLIAM FENNOR Anagramma NV VILLANY For me OR Forme NV VILLANY NV VILLANY Forme Nue fresh and New Or Forme NV VILLANY Come Turk come Iew â—â—â— who dares come for I haue found a Theame That ouerflowes with matter like a streame And now stand cleere my masters ' ware your shins For now to kick and fling my Muse begins How fit his name is Anagrammatiz'd And how his Name is Anatomiz'd 'T would make a horse with laughing breake his bridle But to the purpose long delayes are idle TO WILLIAM FENNOR COME Sirrha Rascall off your clothes S r strip For my Satyrrick whip shall make you skip Th'adst better to haue dealt with all the Deuils They could not plague thee with so many euils Nay come man neuer whine or crooch or kneele My heart cannot one lot of pitty feele I haue squeez'd the Gall from out the Lernean snake With which Reuengefull Inke I meane to make Which I with Aqua-fortis will commix Yblended with the lothsome Lake of Stix And with that Marrow-eating hatefull Inke I 'll make thee more then any Aiax stinke A Scritch-owles quill shall be my fatall pen That shall emblaze thee basest slaue of men So that when as the pur-blind world shall see How vildly thou hast plaid the Rogue with mee They shall perceiue I wrong them not for pelse And thou shalt like a Rascall hang thy selfe What damned Villaine would forsweare sweare At thou didst 'gainst my challenge to appeare To answer me at Hope vpon the stage And thereupon my word I did ingage And to the world did publish printed Bills With promise that we both would shew our skills And then your Rogue-ship durst not shew your face But ran away and left me in disgrace To thee ten shillings I for earnest gane To bind thee that thou shouldst not play the Knaue Curre hadst thou no mans Credit to betray But mine or couldst thou find no other way
pickt the purse damn'd the Soule Because they knew the Pope and all his crue Hâ—â— hounds whoÌ„ heauern in rage on earth did spue And in a word they thus were ouer-trod Because they truly seru'd the liuing God This was the maine and onely cause of all Because they would not offer vnto Bâ—el The Popes outragious and couragious actor Was Bishop Bonner hells most trusty factor Romes hangman and the firebrand of this Realme That with a sloud of bloud did ouerwhelme The true beleeuers of Gods holy truth He burchered not regarding age or youth With him was ioyn'd a man almost as ill Who tooke delight Gods seruants bleud to spill Cal'd Stephen Gardner Englands Chanceller And Bishop of the Sea of Winchester These two did striue each other to excell Who should doe greatest seruice vnto Hell Vntill at last God heard his seruants cry And each of them did die immediately Thus when Iâ—honah heard the iust complaints Of his beloued poore afflicted Saints Then this too cruell Pope defending Queene The bloudiest Princesse that this land hath seene She did decease and persecution ceast And tired wofullâ— Englands purchast rest Queene Mary being dead her welcome death Reuin'd our ioyes in blest ELIZABETH Innumerable were her woes and cares Abundance were the subtill wiles and snares Which Sathan and his Ministers oft laid To reaue the life of that most harmelesse Maid She was accus'd abus'd reuil'd miscal'd She was from prison vnto prison hal'd Long in the Tower she shas close prisner shut Her louing seruants all way were put From thence to Windsor thence to Woodstocke sent Closely mewd vp from all the worlds content But God whose mercies euer did defend her Did in her greatest Sorrow comfort send her He did behold her from his Throne on hie And kept her as the apple of his eye Let Hell and Hell-hounds still attempt to spill Yet the Almighty guards his Seruants still And he at lest did ease her Sorrowes mone And rais'd her to her lawfall awfull throne This Royall Deborah this Princely Dame Whose life made all the world admire her fame As Iudith in Bet hâ—lias same was spread For cutting off great Holophernès head So our Eliza stoutly did begin Vntopping and beheading Romish sin Shee purg'd the Land of Papistryâ—agen Shee liu'd belou'd of God admir'd of men Shee made the Antichristian Kingdome quake She made the mighty power of Spaine to shake As farre as Sunne and Moone dispears'd her Rayes So farre and farther went her matchlesse praise She was at home abroad in euery part Loadstar and Loadstone to each eye and heart Supported onely by Gods powerfull hand She foure and forty yeares did rule this Land And then she lest her Royall Princely Seat She chang'd earths greatnesse to be heauenly great Thus did this Westerne Worlds great wouder dye She fell from height to be aduanc'd more hie Terrestriall Kings and Kingdomes all must fade Then blest is she that is immortall made Her death fild woefull England full of feares The Papists long'd for change with itching eares For her decease was all their onely hope To raise againe the doctrine of the Pope But he whose power is all omnipotent Diâ— their vnhappy hopelesse hopes preuent Succession lawfully did leaue the Crowne Vnto a Prince whose vertue and Renowne And learning did out-stripall Kings as sarre As doth the Sunne obseure a little starre What man that is but man could bassâ— more Romes seauenâ—headed purple beastly Whore How wisely hath he Bellarmine conâ—uted And how diuinely hath'he ost dispated How zealously he did Cods faith desend How often on Gods word he did attend How clement pious and how gracious good Was he as fits the greatnesse of his bloud Were 't not for him how should the Muâ—â—s doe He was their patterne and their patron too He was th' Apollo from whose radient Beames The quinteffence of Poetry our-streames And from the splendor of his piercing rayes A world of worthy writers won the bayes Yet all the worthy vertues so transparent And so well knowne to be in him inharent Could not perswade the Papists leaue their strife With cursed treasons to attempt his life For when their disputations helpt them not They would dispute in a damn'd powder plot In which the Romists went beyond the deuill For Hell could not inuent a plot so euill But he that plac'd him on his royall Throne The God of Iacob Iudahs holy one That God for Iesus sake I doe beseech With humble heart and with vnfained speech That he or his may Britaines Scepter sway Till time the world and all things passe away But now he 's gone into Eternall blissÌ„e Crowneâ— And with Eternall glory crowned is Long may King CHARLES weare Britaines royall And heauens best blessings raise his high Renowne FINIS GODS MANIFOLD MERCIES IN THESE MIRACVLOVS DELIverances of our Church of England from the yeare 1565. vntill this present 1630. particularly and briefly Described IOSHVA 4.21 22. 24. When your Children shall aske their Fathers in time to come What meaneth this Pillar Then yee shall let your Children know saying THESE ARE THE DELIVERIES WHICH GOD HATH VOVCHSAFED TO HIS CHVRCH IN ENGLAND SINCE THE BEGINNING OF QVEENE ELIZABETHS RAIGNE TO THIS DAY That all the People of the Earth might know the hand of the Lord that it is mightie that yee might feare the Lord your God for euer THere was a Bull in Rome was long a breeding Which Bull prou'd little better then a Calfe Was sent to England for some better feeding To fatten in his Holinesse behalfe The vertues that this Beast of Babell had In thundring manner was to banne and curse Raile at the Queene as it were raging mad Yet God be thanked she was ne're the worse The goodly Sire of it was Impious * Pius the fufh of that name Pope of Rome piuâ— Hee taught it learnedly to curse and banne And to our faces boldly to defie vs. It madly ouer England quickly ranne But what succeâ—â—e it had reade more and see The fruits of it herevnder written be This Bull did excommunicate and curse the Queene â—â—depâ—â—eth her from her Crowne it proclaimed her an Hereâ—â—â—â— it cursed all such as loued her it threatned damnation to all subiects as durâ—t obey her and it promised the kingdome of heauen to those that would oppose and kill her This was the effect and nature of this Popish Beast which all wise godly and vnder standing men did deride and contemne 1. A Priest call'd Moortâ—n by the Pope assign'd Northumberland and Westmerland seduceth With whom the Duke of * Duke of Norfolke and Earle of Northumberland beheaded Earle of Westmorland fled Norfolke is combin'd The whilst the Pope nocost or charge refuseth But pawnes his challices his Beads and Crosses Giues them his gracelesse blessing for their ayde The fruit where of were heads and honors losses God still defending Englands Royall Maid Thus we by proofe must thankefully confesse That where the pope doth
loue thee hee is either a foole or a mad man indeed our first father was too diffident towards God and too credulous toward Thee our first mother was a lyar and our first brother was a murtherer this is the sweet kindred wee came of yet thou Obewitching world doest puffe vs vp with pomp making vs forget our originall and esteeme our selues Demie-gods when we are farre lesse then men there is a more resemblance of immortalitie in a suite in Law then in the life of a man and we are so credulous that when the whoremaster is called honest man the Knaue will belieue himselfe to be so Truth is and euer hath beene dangrous to be spoken It cost Iohn Baptist his head and Clytus his life World I haue two requests to thee which if thou grant mee I will neuer thanke thee the first is good cloathes for those beare a monstrous sway because I haue occasion to speake with great men and without good cloathes like a golden sheath to a leaden blade there is no admittance Secondly that thou wilt keepe close from my Readers all preiudicate opinions or let them be perswaded that this following Booke is not of my writing for oppinion doth worke much in such cases There were Verses once much esteemed for their goodnesse because it was thought that a learned Italian Poet named Sanazarus made them but afterward being found to bee of a poore mans writing they lost their estimation An Anthem was once sung before the Dutchesse of Vrbin and but slightly regarded but after beeing knowne that Iaquin de pris made it it was extolled So for my poore inuentions of my poorer selfe were it namelesse I am perswaded that it would passe more blamelesse howsoeuer world to thee I send it I know thou hast many humours and qualities and I hope to finde some of the best of them resoluing to take my lot as it fals with patience fortitude and as many vertues as I haue and more too knowing my selfe for two conditions to haue no fellow first in beeing a Sculler secondly a VVater-Poet of the last of which there is and shall bee no more I hope And knowing further that the way to immortalitie is euer to remember mortalitie and that death hath more manners then an Ague for death will bee a mans guest but once which when hee comes I wish all men readie to bid him welcome So world in plaine termes I tell you there is no trust in you yet I like a foole put you in trùst with my Booke the reason is I am wearie of you and it and take leaue to leaue you IOHN TAYLOR Errata or Faults to the Reader FAults but not faults escap'd I would they were If they were faults escap'd they were not here But heere they are in many a page and line Men may perceiue the Printers faults or mine And since my faults are heere in prison fast And on record in print are like to last Since the Correcters let them passe the Presse And my occasions mix'd with sicknesses And that foure Printers dwelling farre asunder Did print this booke pray make the faults no wonder I will confesse my faults are â—cap'd indeed If they escape mens Censure when they read No Garden is so cleare but weedes are in 't All is not Gold that 's coined in the Mint The Rose hath prickles and the spots of sinne Oft takes the fairest features for their Inne Below the Moone no full perfection is And alwaies some of vs are all amisse Then in your reading mend each mis-plac'd letter And by your iudgement make bad words â—ound better Where you may hurt heale where you can affect There helpe and cure or else be not too strict Looke through your fingers wink conniue at mee And as you meet with faults see and not see Thus must my faults escape or escape neuer For which good Readers I am yours for euer IOHN TAYLOR In laudem Authoris THou hast no learning yet with learned skill Thou dost write well although thy meanes be ill And if I could I would thy merits raise And crowne thy temples with immortall Bayes Thine in the best of friendship ABRAHAM VIELL TAYLORS VRANIA To the Vnderstander SEe here the Pride and Knowledge of a Sayler His Sprit-saile Fore-saile Main-saile his Mizzâ—â— A poore fraile man God wot I know none frailer I know for Sinners Christ is dead and rizen I know no greater â—inner then Iohn Taylor Of all his Death did Ransome out of Prizzen And therefore here 's my Pride if it be Pride To know Christ and to know him Crucifide 1 ETernall God which in thine armes do'st Graspe All past all present and all future things And in ineuitable doome dost claspe The liues and deaths of all that dyes and springs And at the doomefull day will once vnhaspe Th' accusing booke of Subiects and of Kings In whom though ending nor beginning be Let me O Lord beginne and end in thee 2 All cogitations vaine from me remooue And cleanse my earthly and polluted heart Inspire me with thy blessings from aboue That to thy honour I with Artlesse Art May sing thy Iustice Mercy and thy Loue Possesse me with thy Grace in euery part That no prophane word issue from my pen But to the Glory of thy name Amen 3 I doe beseech thee gracious louing Father Reiect me not in thy sharpe iudging Ire But in thy multitude of Mercies Rather Recall me to thee Recollect me Nigher My wandring Soule into thy bosome Gather And with thy Grace my gracelesse heart Inspire Dictate vnto my mind what it may thinke Write with thy Spirit what I may write with ink 4 Thou all things wast cu'n then when nothing was And then thou all things did'st of nothing make Of nothing All thou still hast brought to passe And all againe to nothing must betake When sea shall burne and lâ—â—d shall melt like brasse When hills shall tremble and the mountaines quakâ— And when the World to Chaos turneâ— againe Then thou Almighty All shalt All remaine 5 And since this vniuersall massie ball This earth this aire this water and this fire Must to a ruine and a period fall And all againe to nothing must retire Be thou to me my onely All in All Whose loue and mercy neuer shall expire In thee I place my treasure and my trust Where Fellon cannot steale or canker rust 6 All things but only God at first began The vncreated God did all Create In him Alone is equall will and can Who hath no ending or commencing date To whose Eternitie all time 's a span Who was is shal be euer in one state All else to nothing hourely doth decline And onely stands vpon support Diuine 7 Our high Creator our first Parents form'd And did inspire them with his heau'nly spirit Our Soules-seducer Satan them deform'd And from Gods fauour did them disinherit Our blest Redeemer them againe reform'd And ransom'd them by his vnbounded merit Thus were
Did in his Mothers belly leape with ioy Both Christ and Iohn vnborae yet Iohn knew there His great Redeemer and his God was neere When Ioseph his pure wife with child espide And knew he neuer her accompanide His heart was sad he knew not what to say But in suspect would put her quite away Then from the high Almighty Lord supreme An Angell came to Ioseph in a Dreame And said Feare not with MARY to abide For that which in her blest wombe doth recide Is by the Holy Ghost in wonder done For of thy wise there shall be borne a Sonne From him alone Redemption all begins And he shall saue his people from their sinnes This being said the Angell past away And Ioseph with his Virgin-wife did stay Then he and she with speed prepared them To goe to Dauids Citty Bethelem Through winters weather frost wind and snow Foure weary daies in trauell they bestow But when to Bethlem they approched were Small friendship lesse welcome they found there No chamber nor no fire to warme them at For harbor onely they a Stable gat The Inne was full of more respected guests Of Drankards Swearers and of godlesse beasts Those all had roomes whilst Glory and all Grace But among beasts could haue no lodging place There by protection of th' Almighties wing Was borne the Lord of Lords and King of Kings Our God with vs our great Emanuel Our Iesus and our vanquisher of hell There in a cratch a â—â— well was brought forth More then ten thousand thousand worlds is worth There did the humane nature and diuine The Godhead with the Manhood both combine There was this Maiden-mother brought to bed Where Oxen Kine and Horses lodg'd and fed There this bright Queene of Queenes with heau'nly my Did hug her Lord her Life her God her Boy Her Sonne her Sauiour her immortall Blisse Her sole Redeemer she might rocke and kisse Oh blessed Lady of all Ladies blest Blessed for euer for thy sacred brest Fed him that all the famisht soules did feed Of the lost sheepe of Israels forlorne seed A Stable being Heau'n and earths great Court When forty dayes were ended in that sort This Virgin-Mother and this Maiden-Bride All pure yet by the Law was purifide Old Simeon being in the Temple than He saw the Sonne of God and Sonne of man He in his aged armes the Babe imbrac'd And ioying in his heart he so was grac'd He with these wordswisht that his life might cease Lord let thy Seruant now depart in peace Mine eyes haue seene thy great saluation My Loue my Iesus my Redemption Vnto the Genteles euerlasting light To Israel the glory and the might Hope faith and zeale truth constancy and loue To sing this Song did good old Simeon moue Then turning to our Lady most diuine Thy Sonne said he shall once stand for a signe And he shall be the cause that many shall By faith or vnbeliefe arise or fall He shall be raild vpon without desert And then sorrowes sword pierce through thy heart As Iesus fame grew dayly more and more The tyrant Herod is amazed sore The Sages said Borne was great Iudaes King Which did vsurping Herods conscience fling For Herod was an Idumean base Not of the Kings of Iudahs Royall Race And hearing one of Dauids true-borne Line Was borne he fear'd his State he should resigne And well he knew he kept the Iewes in awe With slauish feare not loue 'gainst right and law For t is most true A Prince that 's fear'd of many Must many feare and scarce be lou'd of any Herod beleaguer'd with doubts feares and woes That Iesus should him of his Crowne depose He Chaf'd and vext and almost grew starke mad To vsurpation he did murther adde An Edict sprung from his hell-hatched braine Commanding ad male Infants should be slaine Of two yeares old and vnder through the Land Supposing Iesus could not scape his hand But God to Ioseph downe an Angell sent Commanding him by slight he should preuent The murd'rers malice and to Egypt flye To saue our Sauiour siem his tyranny Our blessed Lady with a carefull flight Her blessed Babe away did beare by night Whilst Bethelem with bloody villaines swarmes That murth'red Infants in their mothers armes Some slaughter'd in their cradles some in bed Some at the dugge some newly borne strucke dead Some sweetly fast asleepe some smiles ewake All butcher'd for their Lord and Sauiours sake Their wofull mothers madly here and there Ran rending of their checkes their eyes and haire The Tyrant they with execrations curst And in despaire to desp'rate acts out-burst Some all in sury end their wofull liues By banefull poison halters or by kniues And som with sorrow were so fast combin'd They wept and wept and wept themselues starke blind And being blind to lengthen out their mones They piec'd their sorrows out with sighs grones Thus with vnceasing griefe in many a mother Teares sighs groues did one succeede the other But till the Tyrant Herods dayes were done The Virgin staid in Egypt with her Sonne Then backe to Nazareth they return'd againe When twelue yeeres age our Sauiour did attaine Her Sonne her selfe her Husband all of them Together trauell'd to Ierusalem The Virgin there much sorrow did endure The Most pure Mother lost her Child most pure Three daies with heauy hearts with care thought Their best belou'd they diligently sought But when she found her Lord she held most deare Ioy banisht griefe and loue exiled feare There in the Temple Iesus did confute The greatest Hebrew Doctors in dispute But Doctors all are dunces in this case To parley with th' Eternall Sonne of Grace Th' Immortall mighty Wisedome and the Word Can make all humane sapience meere absurd Soone after this as ancient Writers say God tooke the Virgins Virgin-spouse away Good Ioseph dide and went to heauenly rest Blest by th' Almighties mercy mongst the blest Thus Mary was of her Good-man â— creâ—t A Widdow Maiden Mother being lose In holy contemplation she did spend Her life for such a life as n'er shall end Search but the Scriptures as our Sauiour bid There shall you find the wonders that he did As first how he by his high power diuine At Canan turned Water into Wine How he did heale the blind deafe dumb lame How with his word he winds and seas did tame How he from men possest siends dispossest How he to all that came gaue ease and rest How with two fishes and fiue loaues of bread He fed fiue thousand how he rais'd the dead How all things that he euer did or taught Past and surpast all that are taught or wrought And by these miracles he sought each way To draw soules to him too long gene altray At last approacht the full preâ—xed time That GODS blest Sonne must dye for mans curst crime Then Iesus to Ierusalem did goe And left his Mother full of griefe and woe Oh woe of woes and
expressed by Saint Paul Romans 9. 3. Where he saith For I would wish myselfe to be separated from Christ for my brethren that are my kinsmen according to the flesh Thus these two blessed Lamps or Beacons which God appointed to illuminate his Church did desire the dreadfull Curse of Gods heauy and eternall wrath to fall vpon them for euer rather then Gods honour should be violated or their brethren befor euer reprobates These two last Curses of Moses and Paul against themselues were so great and good examples of true zeale to God and loue to our neighbours that though it be long since they liued yet I haue not read or heard of any that euer imitated them Moses as a Type of Christ before his Incarnation and Paul as a follower of Christs example after his bitter death and passion did both wish themselues to be accursed to the end that thereby so many of their miserabeb rethren might be blessed so our Sauiour Christ though hee were and is the fountaine of all blessing yet hee was contented to be made a Curse for as many as would lay hold on the promises of God by faith in him Galatians 3 23 14. And thus I conclude my third part of this Treatise of Man Cursing himselfe Fourthly When Man Curseth or Blasphemeth God THis sinne is as it may rightly be called a degree beyond sinne for this is the sword which the Deuill doth put into mad-mens hands wherewith they doe wound themselues mortally for there were neuer yet any that durst to lift vp this Cursed weapon of Blasphemy against God but that the point thereof did alwayes turne into their owne bosomes to their destructions or most grieuous calamities as Pharaoh when hee said Who is the Lord I know not the Lord neither will I leâ—â— Israel goe Exodus 5. 2. and Sennacherib King of Assyria by the mouth of his seruant Rabshakeh blasphemed the Name of the Lord of Hoasts 2. Kings 18. Where he doth impiously extoll the Heathen Idols aboue the God of Israel saying verse 34. and 35. Whence is the God of Hamath and of Arpad Where is the God of Sepharuatm Heua and Iuab How haue they deliuered Samaria out of mine hand The like did Holophernes Iudith 6. 3. when he threatned the Israelites in Bethuliah saying That their God should not deliuer them When he had set vp his golden Image threatning all that would not fall down and worship it with most cruell torments to death he proudly said Who is that God that can deliuer you out of mine hands Nicanor Lieutenant Generall or Captaine of the Host of King Demetrius 2. Machabeus 15. Against Iudas Machabeus and the Host of Israel whom he purposed to inuade vpon the Sabbath day said verse 3. Is there a Lord in Heauen that commandeth the Sabbath day to be kept and verse 4. when they said There is a liuiâ—â— Lord which ruleth in the Heauen who commanded the seuenth day to be kept then he said And I am mighty vpon Earth to command them for to arms themselues and to performe the Kings busines But this Blasphemons miscreant had his hire for he lost 35000. of his men in the battell and himselfe was slaine and his head hand and shoulder brought in triumph to the City of Ierusalem and his accursed tongue cut out and cut in small pieces and giuen to the fowles of the Ayre as the same chapteâ— doth declare The Scribes and Pharises Marke 3. 22. did Blaspheme our Sauiour and said hee had Deuill and that through the power of Beelzebub he did cast out Deuils out of the possessed But as the liues of these and all other Blasphemers were odious and execrable so were their deaths and punishments miserable and remarkable for Pharaoh after the enduring of many most grieuous plagues lost his Kingdome and his life he and all his Army being drowned in the red Sea Exod. 14. 27 28. Sennacherib for his Blasphemy lost in one night 185000. men all of them being slaine by the Angell of the Lord himselfe being forced to flee to saue his life where at his returne to his Kingdome he was slaine by his owne sonnes in the Temple at Nineueh as he was at the vngodly worship of his god Nisroch 2. Kings 19. 37. Holophernes that blasphemous Champion was by Gods iust Iudgement being asleepe in his Tent and drunken although he were in his Camp amidst a great Army of his owne rusty Souldiers yet was his head smote from his shoulders by a woman and carried â—nto the City of Bethulia and there vpon the highest place of the walles set vp in memoriall of Gods vengeance and his peoples victory â—deth 14. 1. Nebuchà dnezzar was for his blasphemy depriued of his manly reason and Kingdome â—nd for seuen yeeres space liued as a beast among the beasts of the field Daniel 4. 30. The Scribes and Pharises who were the onâ—y men in reuerend estimation amongst the â—ewes as being the writers and expounders of the Lawes for their blasphemy were deliuered vp into most miserable captiuity and â—â—erpetuall slauery as is before expressed God is iealous of the honour of his Name that he commanded the blasphemer â—o be stoned to death Leuiticus 24. 14. Which was forthwith executed vpon him in the â—3 verse For which cause when that blessed man Iob was in his greatest afflictions sitting in â—â—shes full of Byles and sores then his wife perswaded him to Curse or blaspheme God and dye Iob 2. 9. She well knowing that the Law was so strict that for euery such â—ffence there was a speedy execution of death and so by that meanes shee would haue perswaded him to haue been quickly dispatched out of his paine and misery Briefly then to conclude this short Treatise Cursing I beseech you brethren by the â—percies of God that you all haue an especiall â—â—are not to blaspheme the holy and glorious Name of our good and gracious Creator Redeemer and Sanctifier that we by our Cursing doe not turne his blessings into a Curse vpon vs and our posterity here and eternally thereafter that wee bee not so much out of â—oue charity and obedience as to Curse our Superiours neighbours or any other persons or lastly that wee bee not so wilfully â—â—ad to Curse ourselues all which Cursed â—â—eanes are the causes to plucke downe vpon our heads the dreadfull Curses of the Almighty as it hath done in all times and ages vpon Blasphemers and Cursers Against Swearing WHen man hath so farre offended God by his disobedience that hee had thereby purchased to himselfe and all his posterity perpetuall damnation not knowing which way to turne himselfe from the Almighties wrath and much lesse knowing how to bee repossest in his fauour when vndeserued vnknowne vnhoped for mans infinite misery was to bee cured by his Creators infinite mercy then at that time if God had giuen man leaue to aske some great gift which he might be redeemed by had he had licence to desire or request what
is not seene in thee Would'st haue a Whore a coach smoke drinke or dice Money will bring thee all at any price Woul'dst haue all pleasures in variety Money will thy insatiate wantâ— supply Then seeting money can doe what it will Haue not men reason to regard it still Some things there are that money cannot win But they are things men take small pleasure in As Heau'n and a good Conscience Vertue Grace He that loues Money cannot these imbrace For he whose heart to Money is inclin'd Of things Coelestiall hath but little minde If Money were a woman I doe see Her case most pittie pittifull would bee Because I thinke she would â—â—â—â—â—â—â— haue Except a Goâ—ty miserable Knave One that all night would by her lye and Grone Grip'd with the Coâ—â—icke or tormenting Stone With stinking coughing gruting spitting spauling And nothing â—ut Contagâ— us Catterwalâ—ing Besides hee 'd be so Iealous day and night He would not suffer her goe out of sight That sure I thinke her Case farre worie would be Then is the Turkish Galley slauery â—or none but such as thâ—se whome Age hath got Are in the Loue of Money extreme hot And when as Hearing Sent and Teste and sight Are gone yet â—eeling Money 's their delight The whilest a Young-man full of strength and pride Would make her goe by water Run and Ride Force in all things to supply his neede For Recreation or to Cloath and Feede Compell her to maintaine him fine and braue And in a word make her his Drudge or Slaue And all his Loue to her would be â—ose For hee 'd but kiâ—e her and so let her goe Thus if It were a Woman as I say Her Case were lamentable euery way For Old men * Old mâ—n loue money viâ—â— within Doores would euer worr'y her And youngmen round about the world would hurry her That were she matched with either yong or old Her miseries would still be manifold But this Commanding bright Imperious Dame Vsde well or ill Shee 's euermore the same Locke her or Let her loose the cares not which She still hath power the whole world to bewitch I call to minde I heard my Twelue-pence say That he hath â—â—â— at Christmas beene at play At Court at th' Innes of Court and euery where Throughout the Kingdome being farre and neere At Passage and at * Strange alteration Mumchance at In and in Where Swearing hath bin counted for no Sinne Where Fullam high and Low-men bore great sway With the quicke helpe of a â—â—ard Cater â—rey My sâ—illing said such swaggering there would be Among the wrangling Knaues for me quoth he Such sâ—outing â—â—â—â— dring thrusting thronging setting Such striuing crowding iustling and such betting Such storming â—retting â—uming chasing sweating Refuse â—enounce me â—â—â—ne me sweâ—ring cheating So many heauy curses pâ—â—gues and poxes Where all are losers but the Butlers boxes That â—â—re in hâ—ll the Dâ—â—â—â—â— are in â—â—â—â—â— â—â— curse and to blasphemeâ— as they â—â—â— there Whilst without â—â—â— of â—â—â—â—â— offence They abuse th' 〈…〉 And this wicked â—â—â— that they doe make Is me from one another hâ—â—â— to rake * And tâ—wâ—â—y games â—â—â—â— * â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— That though I were a Pagan borne I see They make themselues much worse to pocket me * My shilling is no Putitan for all this These Gamâ—sters make this time a time of mirth In memory of their blest Sauiours birth Whose deare remembrance they doe annually Obserue with extreme edious gluttony With gurmandizing beastly belly filling With swinish drinking and with drunken swilling With ribald Songs Iigges Tales gawdy cloathes With bitter cursings and most fearefull oathes That svre my shilling saith the * I speake not against honest mirth friendly Gaming nor good cheere but against the vnlawfull vse of these Recreations and abuse of God Heathen will Not entertaine the Deuill halfe so ill But worship Satan in more kinde behaviour Then some professed Christians doe their Sauiour In Saturnes raigne when money was vnfound Then was that age with peace and plenty crown'd Then mine was thine Thine mine and all our liues All things in common were except our wiues But now the case is altred as they say Quite topsie-turuy the contrary way For now mens wealth is priuatly kept close The whilst their wiues are commonly let loose For he whom loue of money doth besot For 's owne soule or 's wiues body much cares not It bewitch'd Achan at the siege of Ai For which the Israelites did lose the day It made Geâ—ezi false in his affaires And gain'd the Leprosie for him and 's heires It with th' Apostle Iudas bore such sway That it made him the Lord of life betray And * Ioshua 7. Ananias and his wretched wife By suddaine death it made them lose their life And Diuine stories and prophane recite Examples of such matters infinite * 2 Kings 5. 'T is said in Salomons Dominions That Siluer was as plenty as the Stones But sure the sinne of Couerise was not Amongst them either borne or scarce begot For all that Siluer and a great deale more Rak'd and Rip'd from the Europian shore From Asia and Sun-parched Africa And from the wombe of vast America * Acts 5. From which last place the Potent King of Spaine Eleuen millions in one yeere did gaine And from Pottozy Mines he daily had Three hundred thirty thousand Ryals made To speake what mighty summes King Dauid won And left them vnto Salomon his Son * 1 Kings 10. 27. Of Gold one hundred thousand Talents fine Siluer one Thousand and thousand from the Mine Besides from Ophir he had at the least Three thousand Golden talents of the best * Purchas Iosephus doth of Dauids Tombe thus write How th'hidden Treasure there was infinite The Basons Candlesticks and Censors all Lampes Organs Instruments most musicall Ports Altar Tables Hindges the Gates to hold They were all made of pure Refined Gold Besides six hundred Shields and Targets more The King causd all with Gold be plated o're Besides the Richnes of his Royall Throne The like whereof elsewhere * 1 Chro. 22. A Talent of Gold is in value 600. Crownes was neuer none When the Great Macedonian did subdue Darius * Ioseph in the seuenth Booke of his Antiquitâ—â—â— and his haples Persian Crue 'T is said his Treasure did so much abound Twenty nine thousand Talents there was found And more he saith if we may credit this How that in Susa and * And more the Captaines 5000. Talents and 10000 â—â—â—â— of Gold and 10000. Talents of Siluer besides Brasse â—â— Iron Persepolis They found of Siluer to encrease their store One hundred seuenty thousand Talents more When Cyrus Conquer'd Croesus * Quintus Curtius Croesus lost Three hundred millions of good Gold almost 'T is writ that Midas * Two Cities in Persia. Treasure so amounted Innumerable not be Accounted Sardanapalus an Assyrian * Aâ—â—â—
Grasse And for a Sawce he seldome is at charges For euery Crabtree doth affoord him Vergis His banket sometimes is greene Beanes and Peason Nuts Peares Plumbes Appies as they are in season His musicke waytes on him in euery bush The Mauis Balfinch Blackbird and the Thrush The mounting Larke sings in the lofty Sky And Robin-redbrest makes him melody The Nightingale chants most melodiously The chirping Sparrow and the chattering Pye My neighbour Cuckow alwayes in one tune Sings like a Townesman still in May and Iune These feather'd Fidlers sing and leape and play The Begger takes delight and God doth pay Moreouer to accomplish his Content Ther 's nothing wants to please his sight or sent The Earth embrodered with the various hew Of Greene Red Yellow Purple Watched Blue Carnation Crimson Damaske spotles White And euery colour that may please the sight The odoriferons Mint the Eglantine The Woodbine Primcrose and the Cowslip fine The Honisuckle and the Dasfadill The fragrant Time delights the Begger still He may plucke Violets in any place And Rue but very seldome hearbe of Grace Hearts-case he hath and Loue and Idle both It in his bones hath a continuall growth His Drinke he neuer doth goe farre to looke Each Spring 's his Host his Hostesse is each Brooke Where he may quasse and to 't againe by fits And neuer stands in feare to hurt his wits For why that Ale is Grandam Natures brewing And very seldome sets her Guests a spewing Vnmixt and vnsophisticated drinke That neuer makes men stagger reele and winke Besides a Begger hath this pleasure more He neuer payes or neuer goes on score But let him drinke and quasse both night and day Ther 's neither Chalke nor Post or ought to pay But after all this single-soar'd small Ale I thinke it best to teâ—l a merry tale There was a Rich hard miserable Lord That kept a knauish Foole at bed and boord As Great men oft affected haue such Elues And lou'd a Foole as they haue lou'd themselues But Nature to this Foole such vertue gaue Two simples in one Compound Foole and Knaue This Noble Lord ignobly did oppresse His Tenants raising Rents to such excesse That they their states not able to maintaine They turn'd starke Beggers in a yeere or twaine Yet though this Lord were too too miserable He in his House kept a wels furnish'd Table Great store of Beggers dayly at his Gate Which he did feed and much Compassionate For 't is within the power of mighty men To make fiue hundred Beggers and feed Ten. At last vpon a time the Lord and 's Foole Walk'd after dinner their hot bloods to coole And seeing three or fourescore Beggers stand To seeke reliefe from his hard-clutched hand The Nobleman thus spake his Foole vnto Quoth he what shall I with these Beggers doe Since quoth the Foole you for my Iudgement call I thinke it best we straightwayes hang them all That were great pitty then the Lord reply'd For them and me our Sauiour equall dy'd to Th' are Christians although Beggers therefore yet Hanging 's vncharitable and vnfit Tush said the Foose they are but beggers tho And thou canst spare them therefore let them goe If thou wilt doe as thou hast done before Then canst in one yeere make as many more And he that can picke nothing from this tale Then set him with the Bergger drinke small Ale Thus is a Begger a strange kinde of creature And begg'ry is an Art that liues by Nature For he neglect all Trades all Occupations All functions Mysteries Artes and Corporations Hee 's his owne Law and doth euen what he sist And is a perfit right Gimnosophist A Philosophicall Pythagoras That without care his life away doth passe * A Begger neuer growes mad with too much study A Lawyer must for what he gets take paines And study night and day and toyle his braines With diligence to sift out Right from wrong Writes trauels pleads with hands feet tong And for to end Debate doth oft debate With Rhetoricke and Logicke Intricate And after all his trauell and his toyle If that part which he pleads for get the soyle The Clyent blames the Lawyer and the Lawes And neuer mindes the badnes of his Cause T is better with a Begger that is dumbe Whose tongue-lesse mouth doth onely vtter mam In study and in care no time he spends * Dumbe Rhetoricke mooues Charity And hath his businesse at his fingers ends And with dumbe Rhetoricke with Logick mute Liues and gaines more then many that Dispute * The weake Beggers haue great aduantage ouer the strong If case a Begger be old weake or ill It makes his gaines and commings in more still When Beggers that are strong are paid with mocks Or threatned with the Cage the Whip or Stocks Hee 's better borne then any Prince or Peere In 's Mothers wombe three quarters of a yeere * Beggers for the most pâ—â— well borne And when his birth hath made her belly slacke Shee foure or fiue yeeres beares him at her backe He liues as if it were grim Saturnes Raigne Or as the golden age were come againe * Vertues that Beggers haue Moreouer many vertues doe attend On Beggers and on them doe they depend * Humility Patience Fortitude Temperance Humility's a Vertue and they are In signe of Humblenesse continuall bare And Patience is a vertue of great worth Which any begger much expresseth forth I saw a Begger Rayl'd at yet stood mute Before a Beadle of but base repute For Fortitude a Begger doth excell There 's nothing can his valiant courage quell Nor heate or cold thirst hunger Famines rage He dares out-dare Stocks whipping-posts or Cage Hee 's of the greatest Temperance vnder heauen And for the most part feeds on what is giuen He waytes vpon a Lady of high price * It waytes on Charity worthy bountifull Mistris Whose birth-place was coelestiall Paradice One of the Graces a most heauely Dame And Charity 's her all-admired Name Her hand 's ne'r shut her glory is in giuing On her the Begger waytes and gets his liuing His State 's more * Antiquity ancient then a Gentleman He from the Elder brother Cain began Of Runagates and vagabonds he was The first that wandring o're the earth did passe But what 's a Vagabond and a Runagate â—â—ie Anagramatiz'd I will relate RVNAGATE Anagram A GRAVNTE VAGABONDE Anagram GAVE A BOND And many well-borne Gallants mad and fond Haue with a Graunt so often Gaue a Bond And wrap'd their states so in a Parchment skin They Vagabonds and Runagates haue bin * Beggery descended from Cain who was the first man that euer was borne and heire apparant to the whole world A Begger 's nob'ly borne all men will yeeld His getting and his birth b'ing in the field And all the world knowes 't is no idle fable To say and sweare the field is * Honour
from whom it was so free of the loane of this Lent that would bee knowne First then you must conceiue that the true Etimologie or ancient name of this Lent is Lean-tide which being Anagramatiz'd Landit for the chiefeâ—prouision that he is furnished withall being fish and such sea-faring fare that except he land it there will bee but cold takings in the fish markets for Iack a Lent hath no societie affinitie or propinquitie with flesh and blood and by reason of his leannesse as Nymshag an acient Vtopian Philosopher declares in his Treatise of the Antiquitie of Ginger-bread Lib. 7. Pag. 30000. hee should haue beene a foot man to a Prince of that Empire named Lurguish Haddernot but Lent shewed him the tricke of a right footman and ran away from him faster then an Irish Lackquey and from that time to this was neuer seenâ— in Vtopia Besides he hath the Art of Legerdemaine beyond all the Iuglers in Egypt or Europe for with a tricke that he hath he is in England Scotland France Ireland and the most part of the Christian world at one and the selfe same time yet for all this nimblenesse and quicke agility he was neuer seene to sweare which is no maruell because he hath not any fat or pinguidity in his incorporeall corps He hath a wise named Fasting as leane as himselfe yet sure I thinke she is as honest as barren but it were very dangerous for an Epicure or a Puritan to haue a bastard by her for there were no other hope but that the father of the brat if it should proue male would tutor it in all disobedience against both Lent and Fasting for although Lent and Abstinence be but forty dayes endurance yet to these valiant men of their teeth it seemes forty yeeres for they put the Letter e into the word Fast and turne it into Feast And though a man eate fish till his guts crack yet if he eate no flesh he fasts because he eates as fast as he can For the word Fast is to be taken in many sences as to fast from feeding and to feed fast to be bown to fast and to be bound fast The Fast from feeding is diuers wayes performed 1 Some there are that fast for pure deuotion with a zealous abstinence from any kind of corporall foode for a space because they will bring downe and curbe their vnbridled affections and tame their fleshly desires that so the exercise of spirituall contemplation may be the more seruent their repentance more vnfained and their prayers more acceptable 2 Another Fast is hypocriticall or sophisticall as a holy Maid that inioyned her selfe to abstaine foure dayes from any meate whatsoeuer and being locked vp close in a roome she had nothing but her two Books to feede vpon but the Bookes were two painted Boxes made in the forme of great Bibles with claspes and bosses the inside not hauing one word of God in them nor any fault escaped in the printing but the one well fild with Suckets and sweet meates and the other with Wine vpon which this deuout Votary did fast with zealous meditation eating vp the contents of one Booke and drinking contentedly the other Then there is a Fast called in spight of your teeth and that is Will yee nill yee when a mans stomacke is in Folio and knowes not where to haue a dinner in Decimo sexto This Fast I haue often met withall at the Court and at diuers great mens houses not because there hath wanted meat but because some hâ—â—â— wanted manners and I haue wanted impâ—dence But Iack a Lents Fast is otherwise then â—â—â—â— these for I am as willing to fast with him as â—â—â—â— feast with Shrouetide for hee hath an army â—â—â—â— various dishes an hoast of diuers fishes wâ—â—â— fallets sawces sweet meates Wine Aâ—â—â— Beere fruit rootes Reasons Almonds Spices â— with which I haue often and care not mucâ— to doe more often made as good a shiftâ—â—â—â—â—â— fast and with as good a zeale performed it â—â—â—â— a Brownist will goe to plow vpon a Christmas day Thus hauing shewed the originall of this Iack it followes next that I declare his yeerely entertainâ—ment into this I le of Great Britaine what priuiledges he hath to whom he is best welcome who are glad of his departure what friends or foes he hath and when he inhabiteth all the yeere after his going from hence Alwayes before Lent there comes wadling fat grosse bursten-gutted groome called Shroue-Tuesday one whose manners shewes theâ—â— he is better fed then taught and indeed he is the onely monster for feeding amongst all the dayes of the yeere for he denoures more fâ—â—â— in foureteene houres then this whole Kingdome doth or at the least should doe in â—â—â—â— weekes after such boyling and broyling such roasting and toasting such stewing and breâ—ing such baking frying mincing cutting caruing deuouring and gorbellyed gurmoâ—â— dizing that a man would thinke people did take in two months prouision at once into their paunches or that they did ballast their bellâ—â—â— with meate for a voyage to Constantinople or â—â—â—â— the West Indies Moreouer it is a goodly fight to see how the Cookes in Great mens Kitchins doe fry in their masters suet and sweat in their own grease that if euer a Cooke be worth the â—â—â—â—ting it is when Shroue-Tuesday is in towne foâ—â— he is so stued and larded roasted basted and almost ouer-roasted that a man may eate the rawest bit of him and neuer take a surfet In a word they are that day extreme cholericke and too hot for any man to meddle with being Monarchs of the Marow-bones Marquesses of the Mutton Lords high Regents of the Spit and the Kettle Barons of the Gridiron and sole Commanders of the Frying-pan And all this hurly burly is for no other purpose but to stop the mouth of this Land-wheale Shroue-Tuesday At whose entrance in the morning all the whole Kingdome is in quiet but by that time the clocke strikes eleuen which by the helpe of a knauish Sexton is commonly before nine then there is a bell rung cald The Pancake Bell the sound whereof makes thousands of people distracted and forgetfull either of manner or humanitie Then there is a thing clad wheaten flowre which the sulphory Necromanticke Cookes doe mingle with water egges spice and other tragicall magicall inchantments and then they put it by little and little into a Frying-pan of boyling suet where it makes a confused dismall hissing like the Learnean Snakes in the reeds of Acheron â—tix or Phlegeton vntill at last by the skill of the Cooke it is transform'd into the forme of a Flap-iack which in our translation is cald a Pancake which ominous incantation the ignorant people doe deuoure very greedily hauing for the most part well dined before but they haue no sooner swallowed that sweet candyed baite but straight their wits forsake them and they runne starke mad assembling in routs and throngs numberlesse of vngouerned numbers with vnciuill ciuill commotions
meanes he saues his Mine which otherwise would be destroyed with the Sea besides he doth make euery weeke ninety or a hundred Tunnes of salt which doth serue most part of Scotland some he sends into England and very much into Germany all which shewes the painfull industry with Gods blessings to such worthy endeauours I must with many thankes remember his courtesie to me and lastly how he sent his man to guide mee tenne miles on the way to Sterling where by the way I saw the outside of a saire and stately house called Allaway belonging to the Earle of Marr which by reason that his Honor was not there I past by and went to Sterling where I was entertained and lodged at one Master Iohn Archibalds where all my want was that I wanted roome to containe halfe the good cheere that I might haue had there hee had me into the Castle which in few words I doe compare to Windsor for situation much more then Windsor in strength and somewhat lesse in greatnesse yet I dare affirme that his Maiesty hath not such another hall to any house that he hath neither in England or Scotland except Westminster Hall which is now no dwelling Hall for a Prince being long since metamorphosed into a house for the Law and the profits This goodly Hall was built by King Iames the fourth that marryed King Henry the eights sister and after was slaine at Flodden field but it surpasses all the Halls for dwelling houses that euer I saw for length breadth height and strength of building the Castle is built vpon a rocke very lofty and much beyond Edenborough Castle in state and magnificence and not much inferiour to it in strength the roomes of it are lofty with carued workes on the seelings the doores of each roome being so high that a man may ride vpright on horsebacke into any chamber or lodging There is also a goodly faire Chappell with Cellers Stables and all other necessary Offices all very stately befitting the Maiesty of a King From Sterling I rode to Saint Iohnston a fine Towne it is but it is much decayed by reason of the want of his Maiesties yeerely comming to lodge there There I lodged one night at an Inne the goodman of the house his name being Petricke Pettcarne where my entertainement was with good cheere good lodging all too good to a bad weary guest Mine Host told me that the Earle of Marr and Sir William Murray of Abercarny were gone to the great hunting to the Brca of Marr but if I made haste I might perhaps finde them at a Towne called Breekin or Breechin two and thirty miles from Saint Iohn stone whereupon I tooke a guide to Breekin the next day but before I came my Lord was gone from thence foure dayes Then I tooke another guide which brought me such strange wayes ouer mountaines and rockes that I thinke my horse neuer went the like and I am sure I neuer saw any wayes the might fellow them I did go through a Countrey called Glaneske where passing by the side of a hill so steepe as the ridge of a house where the way was rocky and not aboue a yard broad in some places so fearefull and horrid it was to looke down into the bottome for if either horse or man had slipt he had fallen without recouery a good mile downe-right but I thanke God at night I came to â— lodging in the Lard of Eggels Land where I lay at an Irish house the folkes not being able to speake scarce any English but I sup'd and went to bed where I had not laine long but I was enforced to rise I was so stung with Irish Musketaes a creature that hath sixe leg and liues like a monster altogether vpon man flesh they doe inhabite and breed most in flâ—â—tish houses and this house was none of the cleanest the beast is much like a louse in England both in shape and nature in a word they were to me the A. and the Z. the Prologue and the Epilogue the first and the last that had in all my trauels from Endenborough and had not this High-land Irish house helped â—â— at a pinch I should haue sworne that all Sealand had not beene so kind as to haue bestowed a Louse vpon me but with a shift that I had I shifted off my Canibals and was neuer mâ—â— troubled with them The next day I trauelled ouer an exceeding high mountaine called mount Skeene where I found the valley very warme before I went to it but when I came to the top of it my teâ—â— beganne to dance in my head with cold like Virginals iacks and withall a most familiar mist embraced me round that I could not see thrice my length any way withall it yeeldest so friendly a deaw that it did moysten thorow all my clothes Where the old Proueriâ—â— of a Scottish Miste was verified in wetting me to the skinne Vp and downe I thinke this hiâ—â— is sixe miles the way so vneuen stony and full of bogges quagmires and long heath that a dogge with three legs will out-runnes horse with foure for doe what we could wee were foure houres before we could passe it Thus with extreme trauell ascending and descending mounting and alighting I came at night to the place where I would be in the â—â—ea of Maâ— which is a large County all composed of such mountaines that Shooters â—hill Gads hill Highgate hill Hampsted hill â—Birdlip hill or Maluernes hills are but Mole-hills in comparison or like a Liuer or a Giâ—â—â—â—â—ard vnder a Capons wing in respect of the altitude of their tops or perpendicularitie of their bottomes There I saw Mount Benawne with a furrd'd mist vpon his snowie head in stead of a nightcap for you must vnderstand that the oldest man aliue neuer saw but the snow was on the top of diuers of those hills both in Summer as well as in Winter There did I finde the truely Noble and Right Honourable Lords Iohn Erskin Earle of Marr Iames Stuarl Earle of Murray George Gordon Earle of Engye sonne and heire to the Marâ—uesse of Huntley Iames Erskin Earle of Bughan and Iohn Lord Erskin sonne and here to the Earle of Marr and their Countesses with my much honoured and my best assured and approued friend Sir William Murray Knight of Abercarny and hundred of others Knights Esquires and their followers all and euery man in generall in one habit as if 〈…〉 had beene there and made Lawes of Equality For once in the yeere which is the whole moneth of August and sometimes part of September many of the Nobility and Gentry of the Kingdome for their pleasure doe come into these high-land Countries to hunt where they doe conforme themselues to the habite of the High-land-men who for the most part speake nothing but Irish and in former time were those people which were called the Red-shankes Their habite is shooes with but one sole apiece stockings which they call short hose made of
a warme stuffe of diuers colours which they call Tartane as for breeches many of them nor their forefathers neuer wore any but a ierkin of the same stuffe that their hose is of their garters being hands or wreathes of hay or straw with a plead about their shoulders which is a mantle of diuers colours much finer and lighter stuffe then their hose with blue flat caps on their heads a handkerchiefe knit with two knots about their necke and thus are they attyred Now their weapons are long bowes and forked arrowes Swords and Targets Harquebusses Muskets Durks and Loquhabor-Axes With these Armes I found many of them armed for the hunting As for their attire any man of what degree soeuer that comes amongst them must not disdaine to weare it for if they doe then they will disdaine to hunt or willingly to bring in their Dogges but if men be kind vnto them and be in their habit then are they conquered with kindnesse and the sport will be plentifull This was the reason that I found so many Noblemen and Gentlemen in those shapes But to proceed to the hunting My good Lord of Marr hauing put me into that shape I rode with him from his house where I saw the ruines of an old Castle called the Castle of Kindroghit It was built by King Malcolm Canmore for a hunting house who raigned in Scotland when Edward the Confessor Harold and Norman William raigned in England I speake of it because it was the last house that I saw in those parts for I was the space of twelue dayes after before I saw either House Corne-field or habitation for any creature but Deere wilde Horses Wolues and such like creatures which made mee doubt that I should neuer haue seene a house againe Thus the first day wee traueld eight miles where there were small cottages built on purpose to lodge in which they call Lonquhards I thanke my good Lord Erskin hee commanded that I should alwayes bee lodged in his lodging the Kitchin being alwayes on the side of a banke many Kettles and Pots boyling and many spits turning and winding with great variety of cheere as Venison bak't sodden rost and stu'de Beefe Mutton Goates Kid Hares fresh Salmon Pidgeons Hens Capons Chickins Partridge Moorecoots Heathcocks Caperkellies and Termagants good Ale Sacke White and Claret Tent or Allegant with most potent Aquavitae All these and more then these we had continually in superfluous aboundance caught by Faulconers Fowlers Fishers and brought by my Lords Tenants and Purueyers to victuall our Campe which consisteth of fourteen or fifteene hundred men and horses the manner of the hunting is this Fiue or sixe hundred men doe rise early in the morning and they doe disperse themselues diuers wayes and seuen eight or tenne miles compasse they doe bring or chase in the Deere in many heards two three or foure hundred in a heard to such or such a place as the Noblemen shall appoint them then when day is come the Lords and Gentlemen of their Companies doe ride or goe to the said places sometimes wading vp to the middles through bournes and riuers and then they being come to the place doe lye downe on the ground till those foresaid Scouts which are called the Tinckhell doe bring downe the Deere But as the Prouerbe sayes of a bad Cooke so these Tinckhell men doe like their owne fingers for besides their bowes and arrowes which they carry with them wee can heare now and then a Harquebusse or a Musket goe off which they doe seldome discharge in vaine Then after we had stayed there three houres or thereabouts we might perceiue the Deere appeare on the hills round about vs their heads making a shew like a wood which being followed close by the Tinkhell are chased downe into the valley where we lay then all the valley on each side being way-laid with a hundred couple of strong Irish Grey-hounds they are let loose as occasion serues vpon the heard of Deere that with Dogges Gunnes Arrowes Durkes and Daggers in the space of two houres fourescore fat Deere were slaine which after are disposed of some one way and some another twenty and thirty miles and more then enough left for vs to make merry withall at our Rendez-vous I liked the sport so well that I made these two Sonnets following VVHy should I waste Inuention to endite Ouidian fictions or Olympiam games â—â— My misty Muse enlightned with more light To a more noble pitch her ayme the frames I must relate to my great Master IAMES The Calydonian annuall peacefull warre How noble mindes doe eternize their fames By martiall meeting in the Brea of Marr How thousand gallant Spirits came neere and farre With Swords Targets Arrowes Bowes Guns That all the Troope to men of iudgement are The God of Warres great neuer conquered Sonnes The Sport is Manly yet none bleed but Beasts And last the Victor on the vanquisht feasts IF Sport like this can on the Mountaines be Where Phebus flames can neuer melt the Snow Then let who lift delight in Vales below Skie-kissing Mountaines pleasure are for me What brauer obiect can mans eye-sight see Then Noble Worshipfull and worthy Wights As if they were prepard for sundry fights Yet all in sweet society agree Through heather mosse moÌ„gst frogs bogs fogs 'Mongst craggy cliffes thunder battered hills Hares Hinds Bucks Roes are chas'd by Men dogs Where two houres hunting fourscore fat Deere kills Low land your Sports are low as is your Seate The High-land Games Minds are high and great Being come to our lodgings there was such Baking Boyling Roasting and Stewing aâ— if Cooke Russian had beene there to haue sealded the Deuill in his feathers and after suppâ—â— a fire of Firre-wood as high as an indifferent May-pole for I assure you that the Earle of Marr will giue any man that is his friend for thankes as many Firre trees that are as good as any shippes masts in England as are worth if they were in any place neere the Thames or any other portable riuer the best Earledome in England or Scotland either For I dare affirme hee hath as many growing there as would serue for masts from this time to the end of the world for all the shippes Carackes Hoyes Galleyes Boates Drumlers Barkes and Water-crafts that are now or can be in the world these fourty yeeres This sounds like a lye to an vnbeleeuer but I and many thousands doe knowe that I speake within the compasse of truth for indeede the â—ore is the pitty they doe grow so farre from â—y passage of water and withall in such rockie Mountaines that no way to conuey them is â—â—ssible to bee passable either with Boate â—â—dorse or Cart. Thus hauing spent certaine dayes in hunâ—â—ing in the Brea of Marr wee went to the next County called Bagenoch belonging to the Earle of Engie where hauing such sport and entertainement as we formerly had after foure or â—â—â—â— dayes pastime we
tooke leaue of hunting â—or that yeere and tooke our iourney toward â—â— strong house of the Earles called Ruthen in â—â—â—â—â— where my Lord of Engie and his Noble Countesse being daughter to the Earle of Argile did giue vs most noble welcome three dayes From thence we went to a place called Ballo â—â—â—â—â— a faire and stately house a worthie Gentleman being the Owner of it called the â—â—â—â—â— of Graunt his wife being a Gentlewoman honourably descended being sister to â—heright Honourable Earle of Atholl and to Sir Patricke Murray Knight she being both inwardly and outwardly plentifully adorned with the gifts of Grace and Nature so that â—â—â— cheere was more then sufficient and yet much lesse then they could affoord vs. There â—â—â—â— there foure dayes foure Earles one â—â—â—â— diuers Knights and Gentlemen and their seruants footmen and horses and euery â—â—â—â— foure long Tables furnished with all varieties Our first second course being threeâ—core dishes at one boord and after that alwayes a Banquet and there if I had not forâ—ornee wine till I came to Edenborough I thinke â— had there dranke my last The fifth day with much adoe we gate from thence to Tarnaway a goodly house of the Earle of Murrayes where that right Honourable Lord and his Lady did welcome vs foure dayes more There was good cheere in all variety with some what more then plenty for aduantage for indeed the Countie of Murray is the most pleasantest and plentifull Countrey in all Scotland being plaine land that a Coach may be driuen more then foure and thirtie miles one way in it alongst by the Sea-coast From thence I went to Elgen in Murray an ancient Citie where there stood a faire and beautifull Church with three steeples the walls of it and the steeples all yet standing but the Roofes Windowes and many Marble Monuments and Toombes of honourable and worthie personages all broken and defaced this was done in the time when ruine bare rule and Knox knock'd downe Churches From Elgen we went to the Bishop of Murray his house which is called Spinye or Spinaye a Reuerend Gentleman he is of the Noble name of Dowglasse where wee were very well wel-comed as befitted the honour of himselfe and his guests From thence we departed to the Lord Marquesse of Huntleyes to a sumptuous house of his named the Bogg of Geethe where our entertainement was like himselfe free bountifull and honourable There after two dayes stay with much entreatie and earnest suite I gate leaue of the Lords to depart towards Edenborough the Noble Marquesse the Earle of Marr Murray Engie Bughan and the Lord Erskin all these I thanke them gaue me gold to defray my charges in my iourney So after fiue and thirty dayes hunting and trauell I returning past by another stately mansion of the Lord Marquesses called Strobeggi and so ouer Carny monnt to Breekin where a wench that was borne deafe and dumb came into my chamber at midnight I being asleepe and shee opening the bed would faine haue lodged with mee but had I beene a Sardanapalus or a Heliogabalus I thinke that either the great trauell ouer the Mountaines had tamed me or if not her beautie could neuer haue moued me The best parts of her were that her breath was as sweet as sugar-carrion being very well shouldered beneath the waste and as my Hostesse told me the next morning that she had changed her Maiden-head for the price of a Bastard not long before But howsoeuer shee made such a hideous noyse that I started out of my sleepe and thought that the Deuill had beene there but I no sooner knew who it was but I arose and thrust my dumb beast out of my chamber and for want of a locke or a latch I staked vp my doore with a great chaire Thus hauing escaped one of the seuen deadly sinnes as at Breekin I departed from thence to a Towne called Forfard and from thence to Dundee and so to Kinghorne Burnt Iland and so to Edenborough where I stayed eight dayes to recouer my selfe of falls and bruises which I receiued in my trauell in the High-land mountainous hunting Great welcome I had shewed me all my stay at Edenborough by many worthy Gentlemen namely old Master George Todrigg Master Henry Leuing flow Master Iames Henderson Master Iohn Maxwell and a number of others who suffered mee to want no wine or good cheere as may be imagined Now the day before I came from Edenborough I went to Leeth where I found my long approued and assured good friend Master Benianâ—â—â— Iohnson at one Master Iohn Stuarts house I thanke him for his great kindnesse towards me for at my taking leaue of him he gaue me a piece of gold of two and twenty shillings to drink his health in England And withall willed me to remember his kind commendations to all his friends So with a friendly farewell I left him as well as I hope neuer to see him in a worse estate for he is amongst Noblemen and Gentlemen that knowe his true worth and their owne honours where with much respectiue loue he is worthily entertained So leauing Leeth I return'd to Edenborough and within the port or gate called the Netherbowe I discharged my pockets of all the money I had and as I came pennilesse within the walls of that Citie at my first comming thither so now at my departing from thence I came moneylesse out of it againe hauing in company to conuey me out certaine Gentlemen amongst the which was Master Iames Atherson Laird of Gasford a Gentleman that brought mee to his house where with great entertainement he and and his good wife did welcome me On the morrow he sent one of his men to bring me to a place called Adam to Master Iohn Acmootye his house one of the Groomes of his Maiesties Bed-chamber where with him and his two brethren Master Alexander and Master Iames Acmootye I found both cheer and Welcome not inferiour to any that I â—â—â—â— had in any former place Amongst our viands that wee had there â— must not forget the Soleand Goose a moâ—â— delicate Fowle which breeds in great aboâ—dance in a little Rocke called the Basse which stands two miles into the Sea It is very good flesh but it is eaten in the forme as wee â—â—â— Oysters standing at a side-boord a little before dinner vnsanctified without Grace and after it is eaten it must be well liquored with two or three good rowses of Sherrie or Câ—â—rie sacke The Lord or Owner of the Basse doâ— profit at the least two hundred pound yeerâ—â— by those Geese the Basse it selfe being of â— great height and neere three quarters of a mile in compasse all fully replenished with Wildfowle hauing but one small entrance â— to it with a house a garden and a Chappâ— in it on the toppe of it a Well of pure frâ—â—â— water From Adam Master Iohn and Master Iâ—â—â— Acmootye went to the Towne of Dunbarr â—â—â—â— me where ten
Scottish pints of wine were consumed and brought to nothing for a farewell there at Master Iames Baylies house I tooke leaue and Master Iames Acmootye commiâ—â—â— for England said that if I would ride with â—â—â— that neither I nor my horse should wantâ—â—â—â— twixt that place and London Now I hauing â— money or meanes for trauell began at once â—â— examine my manners and my want at last my want perswaded my manners to accept of this worthy Gentlemans vndeserued courtesie So that night he brought me to a place called Câ—per-spath where we lodged at an Inne the liâ—â— of which I dare say is not in any of his Mâ—â—â—sties Dominions And for to shewe my thankfulnesse to Master William Arnet and his wife the Owners thereof I must explaine their bountifull entertainement of guests which is this Suppose ten fifteene or twenty men and horses come to lodge at their house the men shall haue flesh tame and wild-fowle fish with all varietie of good cheere good lodging and welcome and the horses shall want neither hay or prouender and at the morning at their departure the reckoning is iust nothing This is this worthy Gentlemens vse his chiefe delight being onely to giue strangers entertainment gratu And I am sure that in Scotland beyond Edenborough I haue beene at houses like Castles for building the master of the house his heauen being his blue Bounet one that will weare no other shirts but of the Flaxe that growes on his owne ground and of his wiues daughters or seruants spinning that â—â—â—th his Stockings Hose and Ierkin of the Wooll of his owne Sheepes backes that neuer by his pride of apparell caused Mercer Draper Silke man Embroyderer or Haberdaâ—â—â—â— to breake and turne bankerupt and yet this plaine home-spunne fellow keepes and maintaines thirty forty fifty seruants or perhaps more euery day releeuing three or foure score poore people at his gate and besides all this can giue noble entertainment for foure or fiue dayes together to fiue or sixe Earles and Lords besides Knights Gentlemen and their â—â—llowers if they hee three or foure hundred men and horse of them where they shall not onely feede but feast and not feast but banker this is a man that desires to know nothing so â—â—â—â—â—â—â— his duty to God and his King whose â—â—â—â— cares are to practise the workes of â—â—â—â—â— Charity and Hospitality he neuer studies the consuming Art of fashionlesse fashions hee neuer tries his strength to beare foure or fiue hundred Acres on his backe at once his legges are alwayes at liberty not being settred with golden garters and manaâ—â—ed with artificial Roses whose weight sometime is the Reliques of some decayed Lordship Many of these worthy house-keepers there are in Scotland amongst some of them I was entertained from whence I did truely gather these aforesaid obseruations So leauing Coberspath we rode to Barwicke where the worthy old Soldier and ancient Knight Sir William Bowyer made me welcome but contrary to his will we lodged at an Inne where Master Iames Acmooty paid all charges but at Barwhicke there was a grieuous chance hapned which I thinke not fit the relation to be omitted In the Riuer of Tweed which runnes by Barwicke are taken by Fishermen that dwell there infinite numbers of fresh Salmons so that many housholds and families are relieued by the profit of that fishing but how long since I know not there was an order that no man or boy whatsoeuer should fish vpon a Sunday This order continued long amongst them till some eight or nine weekes before Michaelmas last on a Sunday the Salmons plaid in such great aboundance in the Riuer that some of the Fishermen contrary to Gods law and their owne order tooke Boates and nettes and fished and caught three hundred Salmons but from that time vntill Michaelmas day that I was there which was nine weekes and heard the report of it and saw the poore peoples lamentations they had not seene one Salmon in the Riuer and some of them were in despaire that they should neuer see any more there affirming it to be Gods Iudgement vpon them for the prophanation of the Sabbath The thirtieth of September we rode from Barwicke to Belford from Belford to Anwicke the next day from Amrick to Newcastle where I found the noble Knight Sir â—â—enry witherington who because I would haue no gold nor siluer gaue me a bay Mare in requitall of a loafe of bread that I had giuen him two and twenty yeeres before at the Iland of Flores of the which I haue spoken before I ouertooke at Newcastle a great many of my worthy friends which were all comming for London namely Master Robert Hay and Master Dauid Drummond where I was welcom'd at Master Nicholas Tempests house From Newcastle I rode with those Gentlemen to Durham to Darington to Northalerton and to Topelâ—sse in Yorkeshire where I tooke my leaue of them and would needs try my pennilesse fortunes by my selfe and see the City of Yorke where I was lodged at my right Worshipfull good friend Master Doctor Hudson one of his Maiesties Chaplaines who went with me and shewed me the goodly Minster Church there and the most admirable rare-wrought vnfellowed Chapter house From Yorke I rode to Doncaster where my horses were well fed at the Beare but my selfe found out the honourable Knight Sir Robert Anslruther at his father in lawes the truely noble Sir Robert Swifts house he being then high Sheriffe of Yorkeshire where with their good Ladies and the right Honourable the Lord Sanquhar I was stayed two nights and one day Sir Robert Anslruther I thanke him not only paying for my two horses meat but at my departure he gaue me a letter to Newarke vpon Trent twenty eight miles in my way where Master George Atkinson mine Host made me as welcome as if I had beene a French Lord and what was to be paid as I call'd for nothing I paid as much and left the reckoning with many thankes to Sir Robert Anstruther So leauing Newarke with another Gentleman that ouertooke me we came at night to Stamford to the signe of the Virginitie or the Maydenhead where I deliuered a Letter from the Lord Sanguhar which caused Master Bates and his wife being the Master and Mistresse of the house to make me and the Gentleman that was with me great cheere for nothing From Stamford the next day we rode to Huntington where we lodged at the Post-masters house at the signe of the Crowne his name is Riggs He was informed who I was and wherefore I vndertooke this my pennilesse Progresse wherefore he came vp to our chamber and sup'd with vs and very bountifully called for three quarts of Wine and Sugar and foure Iugges of Beere He did drinke and beginne healths like a Horse-leech and swallowed downe his cuppes without feeling as if he had had the dropsie or nine pound of Spunge in his maw In a word as he is a Poste he dranke poste striuing and
rest he 's one that I must thanke With his good wife and honest brother Frank. Now for the City 'T is of state and Port Where Emperors Kings haue kept their Court 939 yeere the foundation Was layd before our Sauiours Incarnation By * Ebrank was the fift K. of Britain after Brule Ebrank who a Temple there did reare And plac'd a * An Arch-Flamâ—â— which was as an idolatrous high Priest to Dians Flammin to Diana there But when King Lucius here the Scepter swaid The Idols leuell with the ground were layd Then Eleutherius Romes high Bishop plac'd An Archbishop at Yorke with Titles grac'd Then after Christ 627. Was Edwin * Edwin and his whole family were baptized on Easter day the 12. of Aprill 6 7â— baptiz'd by the grace of heauen He pluck'd the Minster down that then was wood And made it stone a deed both great and good The City oft hath knowne the chance of warres Of cruell forraigne and of home-bred iarres And those that further please thereof to read May turne the volumes of great Hollinshead 'T is large 't is pleasant and magnificent The Norths most fertile famous ornament 'T is rich and populous and hath indeed No want of any thing to serue their need Abundance doth that noble City make Much abler to bestow then need to take So farewell Yorke * Yorkshire the greatest shire in England and 308. â—â—â— about Speed the tenth of August then Away came I for London with my men To dinner I to Pomfret quickly rode Where good hot Venison staid for my abode I thanke the worshipfull George Shillito He fill'd my men and me and let vs goe There did I well view ouer twice or thrice A strong a faire and ancient Edifice Reedifi'd where it was ruin'd most At th' high and hopefull Prince * Pomfret Castle of Wales his cost I saw the roome where Exton * Prince Charles and his rowt Of Traytors Royall Richards braines beat out And if that King did strike so many blowes As hackes and hewes vpon one pillar showes There are one hundred slashes he withstood Before the Villaines shed his Kingly blood From Pomfret then vnto my noble friend Sir Robert Swift at Doncaster we wend An ancient Knight of a most generous spirit Who made me welcome farre beyond my merit From thence by Newarke I to Stamâ—ord past And so in time to London at the last With friends and neighbors all with louing hearts Did welcome me with pottles pintes and quarts Which made my Muse more glib and blythe to tell Thistory of my Voyage So farewell * Sir Pierce of Exton Knight King Richard the second murdered there An Epilogue Thus haue I brought to end a worke of paine I wish it may requite me with some game For well I wote the dangers where I ventered No full bag'd man would euer durst haue entered But hauing further shores for to discouer Hereafter now my Pen doth here giue ouer FINIS THE GREAT O TOOLE ENglands Scotlands Irelands Mirror Mars his fellow Rebels Terror These lines doe gallop for their pleasure Writ with neither feet or measure Because Prose Verse or Anticko Story Cannot Blaze O Tooles great Glory GReat Moguls Landlord and both Indies King Whose selfe-admiring Fame dot â— lowdly ring Writes 4. score yeeres More Kingdomes he hath right to The Starres say so And for them be wiâ— Fight toâ— And though this worthlesse Age will not beleeue him But clatter spatter slander scoffe and grieue him Yet he and all the world in this agree That such another TOOLE will deuer bee AN ENCOMIVM OR ENCO-MI-ASS TRICK DEDICATED TO THE VNLIMITED memory of Arthur O Toole or O Toole the Great Being the Sonne and Heire of Brian O Toole Lord of Poores Court and farre Collen in the County of Dublin in the Kingdome of Ireland The Marâ— and Mercury the Agamemnon and Vlisses both for Wisdome and Valour in the Kingdomes of Great Britaine and Ireland Prologue BRaue Vsquebough that fierce Hibernian liquor Assist my braine and make my wit run quicker To heat my Muse like to a well warm'd Chimney I beg thy merry ayde kinde Polyhimny I list not to call Fables into question Nor of Baboones or idle bables jest I on And yet if Sence or reason heere you looke for For neither or for either read this Booke for And if perchance I doe in any word lye Doe as I writ it reade it o'r absurdly Though in these daies there are a Crew of fond men That for inuention striue to goe beyond men And write so humerous Dogmaticall To please my Lord and Lady what d' ee Cail With Inkehorne tearms stiffe quilted bumbastâ—â— And though not vnderstood yet are well tasted And therefore I 'l not reach beyond the bounds of My weake capacity nor search the sounds of Deepe Natures secrets or Arts spacious cirquit My Muse is free from those my selfe will her quâ— But leauing idle toyes with toyle endure I on To write the praise of this braue bold Centutiâ—â— THE ARGVMENT AND MEANING of this following History IN all Ages and Countries it hath euer bin knowne that Famous men haue florished whose worthy Actions and Eminency of place haue euer beene as conspicuous Beacons Burning and blazing to the Spectators view the sparkes and flames whereof hath sometimes kindled Courage in the most coldest and Effeminate Cowards as Thersites amongst the Grecians Amadis de Gaule Sir Huon of Burdeaux in France Sir Beuis Gogmagog Chinon Palmerin Lancelot and Sir Tristram amongst vs here in England Sir Degre Sir Grime and Sir Gray Steele in Scotland Don Quixot with the Spaniards Gargantua almost no where Sir Dagonet and Sir Triamore any where all these and many more of the like Raâ—â— haue fill'd whole Volumes with the ayrie Imaginations of their vnknowne and vnmatchable worths Sâ— Ireland amongst the rest had the Honor to produce and breed a sparke of Valour Wisedome and Magninimity to whom all the Nations of the world must giue place The Great O Toole is the toole that my Muse takes in hand whose praises if they should be set forth to the full would make Apollo and the Muses Barren To whom the nine Worthies were neuer to be compared betwixt whom and Haniball Scipio the Great Pompey or Tamberlaine was such oddes that it was vnfit the best of them should â—ell his stirrop and who by his owne Report in whom Ireland may reioyce and England be merry whose Youth was Dedicated to Mars and his Age to Westminster which ancient Cittie is now honour'd with his beloued Residence To the Honour of the Noble CAPTAINE O TOOLE THou Famous man East West and North and Southward â—om Boreas cold rump t' Austers slauering mouthward â—all Apolloes daughters all to witnes â—uch would I praise thee but my Wit wants fitnesâ— â—â— thou thy selfe of thy selfe canst speake so-well â—â—ut though my Rimes not altogether goe-well â—â—et if the worlds applause would not
Rayling hedging plashing turning winding and returning circular Triangular Quadrangular Orbicular Ouall and euery way curiously and chargeably conceiredâ— There hath hee made Walkes hedges and Arbours of all manner of most delicate fruit Trees planting and placing them in such admirable Artlike fashions resembling both diuine and morall remembrances as three Arbours standing in a Triangle hauing each a recourse to a greater Arbour in the midst resembleth three in one and one in three and he hath there planted certaine Walkes and Arbours all with * Not a Tree stands there but it beares one good or rare fruit or other Fruit trees so pleasing and rauishing to the sense that he calls it Paradise in which he playes the part of a true Adamist continually toyling and tilling Moreouer he hath made his Walkes most rarely round and spacious one walke without another as the rindes of an Onion are greatest without and lesse towards the Center and withall the hedges betwixt each walke are so thickly set that one cannot see thorow from the one walke who walkes in the other that in conclusion * A round worke is endlesse hauing no end I touch not the matchlesse adioyning wood and walke of Rowlington here whose prayses consists in it selfe my penbâ—ing insufficient the worke seemes endlesse and I thinke that in England it is not to be fellowed or will in haste be followed And in loue which I beare to the memory of so industrious and ingenious a Gentleman I haue written these following Anagrams Adryan Gilbert Anagrams Art redily began A breeding tryall Art redily began a breeding tryall VVhen she inspir'd this worthy Gentleman For Natures eye of him tooke fulle spiall And taught him Art Art readily began That though Dame Nature was his Tutresse he Outworkes her as his workes apparent be For Nature brings but earth and feeds and plants Which Art like Taylors cuts and puts in fashion As Nature rudely doth supply our wants Art is deformed Natures reformation So Adryan Gilbert mendeth Natures features By Art that what shee makes doth seeme his creatures THus with my humble thankes to Sir Thomas Morgan and my kinde remembrance to all the rest of my Lords Seruants there my legges and my labouring lynes returne againe to Salisbury and from the next day being Sunday to Langford to my Lord Gorge his house with whom I dined and left my humble thanks for the reckoning In briefe my fruitlesse and worthy lip-labour mixt with a deale of Ayrie and non substantiall matter I gaue his Lordship and the like requitall I bestowed on the right VVorshipfull Mr. Thomas Squibb Maior of Sarum with Mr. Banes Mr â—â—â—â— Iuy M. Windouer with all the rest and more then thankes and a gratefull remembrance of their Honourable VVorshipfull and friendly fauours I know they expect not and lesse then such a common duty as Gratitude I must not or cannot pay To shut vp all in few words I know his Maiesties pious inclination is so ample that he will be graciously pleased with any of your laudable endeauours for your welfare and commodity if you take good and speedy aduice then no doubt but the effects wil be according to your honest intendments So farewell Salisbury till we meete againe which I hope will be one day in the meane space I pray thee take this poore Pamphlet as a louing pledge of my returne Me thinks I see already Men Horses Carts Mattocks Shouels Spades VVheelebarrowes Handbarrowes and Baskets at worke for the cleaning of your Riuer But if my thoughts doe deceiue me and my expectation faile I shall euer hereafter giue small credit to their intelligence So once more Salisbury I wish thee thankefully well to fare On Thursday the 21. of August I took Woâ—chester in my way homewards where I saw aâ— ancient City like a body without a soule and I know not the reason of it but for ought which I perceiued there were almost as many Parishes as people I lodged at the signe of the Cocke being recommended to the Host of the house by a token from Salisbury but mine Host dyed the night before I came and I being weary had more minde to goe to bed then to follow him so long a iourney to doe my message or deliuer any commendations but the whole City seemed almost as dead as mine Host and it may be they were all at Harâ—â—est worke but I am sure I walked from the â—â—â— end of it to the other and saw not 30. people of all sorts So that I think if a man should goe to Winchester for a Goose he might lose his â—abour for a Trader cannot liue there by venting such commodities On Friday I gallopp'd a foot pace one and twenty miles from Winchester to Farneham where I and one of my company hired a couple of Hampshire lenets with seuen legges and three eyes betwixt them vpon whom wee hobbled seuenteene miles to Stanes whence on Saturday the 23. of August we footed it to Brenford and Boated it to LonDON The Scourge of Basenesse OR The old Lerry with a new Kicksey and a new-cum twang with the old Winsey DEDICATED TO THE MIRROR OF GOOD FELLOWSHIP THE PATTERNE OF TRVE FRIENDSHIP AND the onely nonparallell of iouiall Entertainement M r Andrew Hilton at the signe of the Horse-shoo at Daintree I. Taylor wisheth daily increase of good Guests true payment hearts content in this life and afterward as much happinesse as his soule can desire KInde Sir I haue seene oftentimes men offering to snuffe a candle haue against their wills put it cleane out and an vnskilfull Chyrurgian taking a small greene wound in hand hath brought it to an old Vlcer I would be loth for my part to imitate either of these examples for my intent is confession of the wrong I did you and an endeauour to make amends I doe confesse that I did you wrong in print in my booke of my Trauels to Scotland and now in print I doe make you a publike satisfaction For I protest to God that I haue heard so much good report of you that I am double sorry that I was so mistaken and that I haue beene so long time before I haue printed my recanâ—tion It was your Tapsters want of wit and manners and my want of discretion that was the grounds of my too much credulity and temerity For his part I wish him no more harme but that chalke may bee his best payments Thunder may sowre his Hogsheads Rats gnaw out his spigots at midnight and himselfe to commit his wit to the keeping of a foole or a knaue while hee liues And your Ostlers for gaping so greedily like Gudgeons vpon mee I pray that they may euery day mourne in litter and horse dung But these are but Iests by the way for as many as know you haue told mee that if you had beene at home my entertainement had beene better If it had beene so it had beene more then you owed me and more then I
hold Bias. Now to tell you this Bias was one of the 7. Sages or Wise-men of Gaeue My authors to proue him the inuenter of Bowling are Shamrooke a famous Scithian Gimnosophist in his ninth booke of Rubbing and Running of which opinion Balductus the Theban Oratour seemes to bee in his third Treatise of Court performances the likeliest â—iecture is that it was deuised as an embleme to figure out the worlds folly and vnconstancy for though a childe will ride a sticke or staffe with an imagination that hee iron horsebacke or make pyes of dirt or houses of cards feed with two spoones and cry for three pieces of bread and butter which childish actions are ridiculous to a man yet this wise game of Bowling doth make the fathers surpasse their children in apish toyes and most delicate dogtrickes As first for the pollures first handle your Bowle secondly aduance your Bowle thirdly charge your Bowle fourthly ayme your Bowle fiftly discharge your Bowle sixtly plye your Bowle in which last posture of plying your Bowle you shall perceiue many varieties and â—â—â—inns as wringing of the necke lifting vp of the shoulders clapping of the hands lying dowae of one side running after the Bowle making long dutifull scrapes and legs sometimes bareheaded entreating him to flee flee â—â—â— with pox on 't when 't is too short and though the Bowler bee a Gentleman yet there hee may meet with attendant rookes that somtimes will bee his betters six to foure or two to one I doe not know any thing fitter to bee compared to bowling then wooing or â—â—â— for if they doe not see one another in two dayes they will say Good Lord it is seuen yeeres since we saw each other for Louers doe thinke that in absence time sleepeth and in their presence that hee is in a wild gallop So a Bowler although the Allye or marke bee but thirty or forty paces yet sometimes I haue heard the Bowler cry rub rub rub and sweare and lye that hee was gone an hundred miles when the bowle hath beene short of the blocke two yards or that hee was too short a thousand foot when hee is vpon the head of the Iacke or ten or twelue foot beyond In a word there are many more seuerall postures at bowles then there are ridiculous idle tales or iests in my booke Yet are the bowlers very weake stomackt for they are euer casting sometimes they giue the stab at the alley head but God be thanked no bloud shed and sometimes they bestow a Pippin one vpon the other but no good Apple I 'l assure you The marke which they ayme at hath sundry names and epithites as a Blocke a Iacke and a Mistris a Blocke because of his birth and breeding shewing by his mettle of what house he came a Iacke because he being smooth'd and gotten into some handsome shape forgets the house hee came of suffering his betters to giue him the often salute whilest hee like Iack sauce neither knowes himselfe nor will know his superiors But I hold a Mistresse to be the fittest name for it for there are some that are commonly termed Mistresses which are not much better then mine Aunts and a Mistris is oftentimes a marke for euery knaue to haue a fling at euery one striues to come so neere her that hee would kisse her and yet some are short some wide and some ouer and who so doth kisse it may perhaps sweeten his lips but I assure him it shall neuer fill his belly but rather empty his purse So much for bowling that I feare mee I haue bowled beyond the marke 98 A Minister riding into the west parts of England happened to stay at a village on a Sunday where hee offered kindly to bestow a Sermon vpon them which the Constable hearing did ask the Minister if he were liceÌ„ced to preach yes quoth hee that I am and with that hee drew out of a box his Licence which was in Latine truly said the Constable I vnderstand no Latine yet I pray you let mee see it I perhaps shall picke out heere and there a word No good sir quoth the Minister I will haue no words pickt out of it for spoyling my Licence 99 A Clinch A Country man being demanded how such a Riuer was called that ranne through their Country hee answered that they neuer had need to call the Riuer for it alwayes came without calling 100 A Fellow hauing his booke at the Sessions was burnt in the hand and was commanded to say God saue the King the King said hee God saue my Grandam that taught me to read I am sure I had bin hanged else 101 Atoy to mocke an Ape IN Queene Elizabeths dayes there was a fellow that wore a brooch in his hat like a tooth drawer with a Rose and Crowe and two letters this fellow had a warrant from the Lord Chamberlaine at that time to trauell with an exceeding braue Ape which hee had whereby hee gat his liuing from time to time at markets and fayres his Ape did alwayes ride vpon a mastiffe dog and a man with a drum to attend him It happened that these foure trauellers came to a towne called Lâ—â—e in Cornwall where the Inne being taken the drum went about to signifie to the people that at such an Inne was an Ape of singular vertue and quality if they pleased to bestow their time and money to see him now the townsmen being honest labouring Fishers and other painfull functions had no leasure to waste either time or coyne in Ape-tricks so that no audience came to the Inne to the great griefe of Iack an Apes his master who collecting his wits together resolued to aduenture to put a tricke vpon the towne whatsoeuer came of it whereupon hee tooke pen inke and paper and wrote a warrant to the Mayor of the towne as followeth These are to will and require you and euery of you with your wiues and familes that vpon the sight hereof you make your personall appearance before the Queenes Ape for it is an Ape of ranke and quality who is to bee practised through her Maiestics dominions that by his long experience amongst her louing subiects hee may bee the better enabled to doe her Maiesty seruice hereafter and hereof faile you not as you will answer the contrary c. This warrant being brought to the Mayor hee sent for a shoomaker at the furthest end of the towne to read it which when he heard hee sent for all his brethren who went with him to the towne Hall to constult vpon this waighty bustnesse Where after they had sate a quarter of an houre no man saying anything nor any man knowing what to say at last a young man that neuer had borne any office said Gentlemen if I were fit to speake I thinke without offence vnder correction of the worshipfull that I should soone decide this businesse to whom the Mayor said I pray good neighbour speake for though you neuer did beare any
will make men rotten â—re they die Old Adam liu'd nine hundred thirty yeere Yet ne'r dranke none as I could read or heare And some men now liue ninety yeeres and past Who neuer dranke Tobacco first nor last Then since at first it came from faithlesse Moores And since t is now more common far then whores â— I see no reason any Christian Nation Should follow then in diuellish imâ—â—ation So farewell pipe and pudding stuffe and smoake My Muse thinks fit to leaue before the choake Certaine verses written in the Barbarian tongue dropt out of a Negroes pocket which I thought good to insert because they tend to â—â— honour of Tobacco VAprosh fogh stinkguash slauorumques fie fominoshte Spitterspawâ—smon loather so hem halkâ—sh spewrsbâ—shte Mistrum foâ— smoakrash choakerumques olifa â—rish trash Dam durtâ—cun belehum contagioâ—â—te vemâ—â—troshe Whifferum puffe gulpum allisnuff huff fleaminon odish Rewmito contaminosh disboâ—â—â—â— dungish odorish To the Right Honourable Lord William Earle of Pembroke WILLIAM HERBERT Anagramma My heart will beare RIght Noble Lord whose brest doth beare a heart Which is a Patron vnto Armes and Art Inspight of Enuy still thy fame shines cleere For none but honor'd thoughts thy heart wil beare WHen I but think the daies we wander in How most part of the world do liue by sin How finely Satan shewes his cunning sâ—ill That one man gets his goods from others ill Doe not the Lawyers liue like mighty Lords On brawles on iarâ—res contentions and discords When if men as they should would but agree A Tearme would scarcely yeeld a Lawyers fee Let vsurers bragge of conscience what they can They liue like deuils vpon the bane of man The racking Land-lord gets his ill got store By raysing rents which make his tenants poore Clap-shoulder Serieants get the deuill and all By begg'ring and by bringing men in thrall Like Gentlemen the Iaylors spend their liues By keeping men in fetters bonds and gyues The vintner and the vict'lar get most gaines From dayly drunkards and distemperd braines From whence do Iustice Clerks get most they haue But from the whore the thiefe the bawd the knaue In what consists the hangmans greatest hope But hope of great imployment for the rope The very blue-coate Beadles get their trash By whips and rods and the fine firking lash But leauing these note but how Corporations From others vices get their reputations The vpstart veluet silken satten gull His owne purse empts to fill the Mercers full When for his birth or wit more fit agrees A breech of leather and a coate of freese The Taylor is a Gentleman transform'd For his inuenting fashions new deform'd And those that make the Verdingales and bodies Get most they haue from idle witlesse nodies The Tires the Periwigs and the Rebatoes Are made t'adome ilshap'd Inamoratoes Yea all the world is falue to such a madnesse That each man gets his goods from others badnesse The Chirurgian and Phisicion get their stockes From Gowts from Feauers Botches Piles Pocks With others paine they most of all are pleas'd And best are eas'd when others are diseasd As Sextons liue by dead and not by quicke So they liue with the sound but by the sicke Thus each man liues by other mens amisse And one mans meat anothers poyson is To the Right honourable Iohn Lord Viscount Haddington Earle of Holdernes Iohn Ramsey Angaramma I ayme Honors THrice worthy Lord whose vertues do proclaime How Honors noble marke is still thy Ayme T' attaine the which thou holdst thy hand so steady That thy deserts haue woâ—ne the prize already To the Honourable Knight Sir Thomas Bludder Anagramma Arm'd Thus bold GOd is my Captaine my defence and hold Through faith in him I am thus arm'd thus boldâ— Vpon the Powder Treason the fifth of Nouember 1605. THis day old Dâ—mon and the damned Crue Our King and Kingdome in the ayre had tost But that our God their diuellish practice crost And on their treacherous heads the mischiefe threw No Pagan Tartar Turke or faithlesse Iew Or hels blacke Monarch with his hatefull host Since first amongst them Treason was ingrost No plot like that from their inuention flew But when they thought a powder blast a breath Should all this Iland into totters teare Th' Almighties mercy freed vs from that feare And paid the Traitors with infamous death For which let King and all true Subiects sing Continuall praise vnto Heau'ns gracious King To the Right Honourable Iobâ— Moray Lord Viscount Annan Earle of Annandale Gentleman of his Maiesties Honourable Bed-chamber Anagramma I ayme Honour INdustrious Loyalty doth dayly tell You Ayme at honour and you leuell well And with your trusty seruice shoot so right That in the end you sure will hit the white Twelue Sonnets vpon the Sonnes entring into the twelue Caelestiall Signes The 10. of March the Sunne enters into Aries or the signe of the Raw. March 10. Aries DIurnall Titans all reuiuing Carre Through all the heauens his progresse now he â—â—â—â—â— And now his glistering Raies he doth vnbarre And what his absence mard his presence makes Now he begins dame Tellus face to parch With blustring Boreas with Eurus breth Thicke clouds of dust in March through ayre doth march And Plants dead seeming Re-reuines from death Now at the heauy-headed horned Ram AEoâ—â—â— AErbon Phlogon and Pyrois â—â— sweet Ambrosya sweetly feede and cram And drinking Nector's gods carowsing iuice Thus yeerely one and thirty daies at least In Aries Titan daines to be a guest To the Right Honourable Christopher Villers Earle of Anglesey Anagramma Christ is our helper TO me and mine our onely comfort 's this In all good Actions Christ our helper is The 11. of Aprill he comes into Taurus or the Signe of the Bull. Taurus HIpericon now 's remou'd vnto the Bull And seemes all hid in Mists and watry bowres Till wollsacke seeming cloudes are bursting full And then he glides the Aire with golden showres He shines he hides he smiles and then he lowres Now glorious glowing and straight darkned dim He 's now obscur'd and now his beames out powres Asskies are cleare or thicke twixt vs and him Thus all the Aprill at bo-peepe he plaies â—â—circling daily the Rotundious spheare And at the Bull he hides his glistring raies Tilâ— ayre is purgde of cloudes and skies are cleare Then he the head-strong Taurus soone forsakes And to his Summer progresse haste he makes To the Right Honorable the Earle of Manchester Lord priuy Seale to the Kings Matestie HENRY MONTAGVE Anagramma Gouerneth many AMongst a Million there is hardly Any That like your selfe so well doth gouerne Many The 12. of May the Sunne enters into Gemini or the Twinnes Gemini May. NOw bright fac'd Sminthus with faire Flora meet Adorning her with Natures best attire Trees plants hearbs flowres odoriferous sweet With Birds all chaunting in their feathered quire Now countrie Tom and Tyb haue their desire And rowle and tumble freely on the
and â—â—â— to King Edward the sixt Shee was crowned at Westminster the first of October 1553 by the hands of Stephen Gardner Bishop of Winchester King Edward being dead his death was concealed two daies by reason of the feare of Queene Maries alteration of the religion which King Edward had established for which cause the Lady Iane was by many of the Lords and the Londoners proclaimed Queene This Lady Iane was eldest daughter to Henry Duke of Suffolke shee was then married to the Lord Guiford Dudlty fourth sonne to Iohn Duke of Northumberland her mother was the Lady Francis the daughter of Mary the French Queene and the younger sister of King Henry the 8. Queene Mary bearing that Iane was proclaim'd Queen begain to rowse raised an Army and was first proclaimed in the City of Norwich her powers still increasing she made towards London where all supplies forsocke the Lady Iane so that she with her husband and father and the Lord Thomas Gray with others were beheaded The Queene ceases all the protestant Bishops and Clergie to bee degraded suspended or imprisoned She raised againe the Mase and with it masse of misery to this kingdome King Philip of Spaine was contracted to Queene Mary but Sir Thomas Wiat with an Armie opposed it and after much bickering was taken and executed on the Towreâ—â—â— The Lady Elizabeth the Queenes sister was wrongâ—â—ly imprisoned and in danger to be put to death Philip King of Spaine was married to Queene Mary withâ—â— Royall solemnity at Winchester the 25 of Iuly Anno 1454. This wofull Land was in those daies a very Achetdima or field of blood the Popes Mâ—rebanâ—s â—â—â— Church and Commonwealth with holy Water Pax Censors Oyle Spittle Creame Altars Pictures Images â— Crosses Crucifixes Beades Lights Tapers Candâ—â—â— the Breaden god these Romish warres did cost the liâ—es neere 6000 people that refused them some hanged â—â—â— burne and diuers others suffering other deaths and â—â—ties K. Philip Queen Mary send defiance into France Philip went thither in person besieged the strong â—â—â— of S t. Quintins and man it but shortly after the English men lost Callice which had beene the King of English Towne 21 yeeres Wherefore Queene Mary tooke â—â—â— griefe that sheâ— neuer enioyed her life-long after â—â—â— Callice was lost the 17 of Ianuary and the Queene â—â—â— at Saint Iames house the 7 of Nouember following â—â—â— 1558 when she had reigned 5 yeeres 4 monethâ—â—â—â— daies she lieth buried as Westminster ELIZABETH QVEENE OF ENGLAND FRANCE and IRELAND Defender of the Faith c. THe griefes the feares the terrors and the toiles The sleights tricks snares that for my life were laid â—pes prisons poysons pistois bloody broyles â—â— these incompast me poore harmelesse Mayd â—â— I still trusting in my Makers ayde Was still defended by his power diuine â—y glory and my greatnesse was displai'd â—â— farre as Sunne and Moone did euer shine Gods mingled Seruice I did re-refine From Romish rubbish and from humane drosse â— yearely made the pride of Spaine decline â—â—â— and all Belgia I sau'd from losse I was Arts patterne t' Armes I was a Patron I liu'd and dyed a Queene a Maid a Matron Anno Dom. 1558 Nouember 17 Thursday Lady Elizabeth borne at Greenwich second daughter to King Henry the eight sister and heire to the late Queene Mary after shee had by Gods gracious prouience past through many afflictions as scandals calumnations sundry imprisonns â—â—â— and hazard of her life shee was at the age of 25 yeeres and od dayes crowned Queen of England France and Ireland at Westminster by the hand of Owen Oglethorpe Bishop of Carlielc the 13 of Ianuary The first good worke of hers after her coronation was to reforme and restore and Seruice of God to the Primitiue sincerity and prayer and preaching to be vsed in the English tongue she caused all the bables of Babek and all the Romish rubbish to bee cast out of the Church shee dismissed those Bishops and others of the Clergie as would not be reformed She caused all base momes and coyneste to be supprest and to be no vallue and in their stead she ordained that no coyne but Gold and Siluer shouâ— passe for current in her Dominions The French King Henry at a â—lâ—ng was vnfortunately slaine by a Lord named Mountgomery â—â—inter of the lâ—â—â—nce running into his eye An. 1559. Sorne after the French molest Scotland but by Queene Elizabeths â—yde they were expulsed The Noble Earle of Arraw in Scotland and Ericus King of Sweaden were suuerâ—â— to marry â—â—â— the Queene which her Maiesty with all princely modesty refused She was after sued to by Henry Duke of Aniou brother to the French King Charles the 9. Anno 1514. The bloody massaker was in France where in the City of Paris only 10000 Protestarts were mâ—n thered by the Pepists The Irish fell to rebellian vnder the Earle of Tirone which rebellion put England to much cost and trouble Henry Lord Darneley King of Scots most inhumanely murdred Anno 1568 and his Queen Mary assaulted by the oppression of her rebellicus Subiects came into England and was royally welcomed One Thomas Appletree discharging his â—â—ce the Queene was in her Barge vpon the Thames the bullet ranne thorow both the Armes of one of her Watermen but the Queene vnderstanding that the shot was by casualtie pardoned the offender Her mercie iustice temperance fortitude magnanimity prudence learning and incomparable wisedome would each of them fill a volume So that neither â—â—â— vnablenesse of me the writer nor the briefnesse which I am â—â—â— to in thus abstract can no waies touch the â—em of her vertues wherefore I refer the reader to the great volumes of Hollinsheds story the Reuerend learned Cambden Master speed and others who haue writen more largely of her though all of them are much short of her vnimmitable merits shee ayed the 24 of March 1602 aged 69 yâ—eeres 6 moneths and 7 dayes she reigned 44 yeeres â—4 months and 7 daies On the 28 of Aprill after shee was buried at Westminster IAMES Of that Name THE FIRST And I. Monarch of the whole Iland of GREAT BRITAINE c. WEre all the flatt'ry of the world in me Great King of hearts Arts great Britaines King Yet all that flattery could not flatter thee Or adde to thy renowne the smallest thing My Muse with truth and freedome dares to sing Thou wert a Monarch lou'd of God and Men. Two famous Kingdomes thou to one didst bring And gau'st lost Britaines name her name agen Thou cansedst Doctors with their learned pen The sacred Bible newly to translate Thy wisdome found the damned powder'd Den That hell had hatcht to ouerthrow thy state And all the world thv Motto must allow The peace makers are blast and so art thou Anno Dom. 1602 March 24 Thursday Iames the first of that name King of England Scotland France Ireland the first King that was â—â—â— in England since the Norman conquest
and be Tombd with him together Sonnets 3. FRom two strong Iailes thy corps â—onâ—â— acquitted The one compact of flesh and bloud and bone The other vnrelenting sencelesse stone By God to one by man to one committed I euer did expect a happy time When thou shouldst shake by bondage from thy backer I euer hop'd that thy vnwilling crime Would be forgot and thou secur'd from wracke For this I wish'd and prat'd both day and night I onely aym'd to haue thy body freed But heau'n beyond my reason had decreed Soule body both at once to free thee quite Thou in thy life hast past a world of trouble But death from double Iailes hath freed thee double Sonnet 4. COrruption Incorruption hath put on Immortall weake mortality is made Earths wo hath gain'd a happy heauenly throne By death life dyes by life deaths force doth fade Though death kill life yet life doth conquer death Death but puts off our Rags of shame and â—ine When for a moment's an eternall breath Life passing through the dore of death doth win This thou well knowst my much beloued friend And therefore thou didst dare death to his worst But he much busied could not thee attend Or durst not till thy cares thy heart had burst And then the slaue came stealing like a thiefe And 'gainst his will did giue thy woes reliefe Sonnet 5. THou fortunes foot-ball whom she vs'd to tosse From wrong to wrong from wo to wo againe From griefe rebounding backe to pinching paine As 't please the blind-fold Dame to blesse or crosse But thou vnmou'd with either gaine or losse Nor ioy nor care could vexe they constant braine Thou smil'dst at all her buffets with disdaine And all her fauours thou esteem'dst as drosse Her and her Fauorites thou still didst deeme Iust as they are not as they seeme to be Her Minions all as fooles thou didst esteeme And that 's the cause she would not fauour thee Then since such reck'ning she of fooles doth make Would thou hadst beene one for her fauours fake Sonnet 6. T Is written in the euer liuing Word The Rule and Square that men should liue thereby Afflictions are the tuch-stones of the Lord. By which he onely doth his seruants try Then Noble Moray thou hadst many a tuch And still the patience good and currant prou'd Thy manly carriage in thy griefs were such Which made thee more then much admir'd and lou'd What yeer what month week day or fading houre Wherein some mischiefe did thee not befall Yet had Affliction ouer thee no power To conquer thee but thou didst conquer all Vnnumbred times thou wast both toucht and tri'd And in thy Makers feare and fauour dy'd Sonnet 7. VVEep heart weepe eyes weep my vnable pen In teares of blood of water and lake With bread of sorrow and afflictions drinke I liue for I haue lost a man of men Yet heart eyes pen dry vp your teares agen He is not lost he 's rather newly found Enfranchis'd from a dolefull theeuish den And with a rich Immortall Crowne is crownd Then hart eies pen no more with teares be drownd Weepe not for him that doth reioyce for euer Yet this againe my comfort doth confound Hee 's lost to mee and I shall find him neuer Then weep Muse heart eies pen lament and weepâ— My ioyes are buried in eternall sleepe Sonnet 8. SLeepe gentle spirit in Eternall rest Free from all heart-tormenting sorrow sleepe Whilst I doe vent from my care-crazed brest Hart-wondring sighs that there their mansion keepâ—â— And let my grones from out that Cauerne deepe With lamentations and cloud-cracking thunder And let mine eyes an Inundation weepe Let sighs grones teares make all the world to wonder I meane my little Microcosmo world Sigh stormes grone thunder weep a floud of tearesâ— Through eu'ry part of me let griefe be hurld That whosoeuer my lamenting heares May mone with me the cause of this my Ditty Or if not mone with me vonchsafe to pitty Sonnet 9. SInce cursed fates haue fatally decreed To tosse and tumble harmelesse Innocence And all the crue of hels abortiue breed Haue glutted Enuies maw by lawes defence Yet God whose knowledge knows the least offence Who all things sees with his all-searching eye Doth with his glorious great omnipotence Right wronged wrongs heares his seruants cry His mercie 's not immur'd within the sky But freely he doth powre it downe on earth He with afflictions scourge his sonnes doth try And when he pleases turnes their mone to mirth And though man liues in care and dies in sorrow A heauy euening brings a ioyfull morrow Sonnet 10. WEll hast thou runne in this â—y weary race Well hast thou fought with Satan hand to haÌ„d Th' ast won the Goale and gain'd the blessed Land That 's neither limitted with time or place There thou attendest on the thâ—â—â—â—â—â—e of Grace There Angels and Archangels sweetly sing Eternall praises to th' eternall King And see the glorious brightnesse of his face All this I doubt not but thou wâ—ll hast done Not of thy selfe with shamefull sinne pollated But thy Redeemer hath the coâ—â—iest wonne And vnto thee the victorie's imputed He paid the score and cancell'd all thy bands And gaue thee to his blessed Fathers hands Sonnet 11. NOw may you theeuing Poets filch and steale Without controlement breaking Priscians pate For he that whilom could your theft reueale Your Criticke and your Hypercriticke late Now may you cog and lye and sweare and prate And make your idle verses lame and halt For by the pow'r of euiternall Fate Hee 's gone that could and would correct each fault But you haue greatest cause to moane his want You sacred heau'nly Sisters three times thrice He from your Gardens could all weeds supplant And replant fruites and flowres of pecrelesse price He kept vnbroke your Numbers Tipes Tropes But now hee 's dead dead are your onely hopes Sonnet 12. AS Solon to rich haplesse Croesus said No man is happy till his life doth end The proofe in thee so piainly is displaid As if he thy Natiuity had kend What mortall miseries could mischiefe send But thou therein hast had a treble share As if Calamities their powers should bend To make thy Corps a treasure-house of care Yet fell Aduersity thou didst out-dare And valiantly 'gainst stormes of woe resisted Loue of the world they minde could not insnare Thou knewst wherein the best of best consisted And as old Solon said so I agree Death makes men happy as it hath done thee Sonnet 13. NO 〈…〉 Trophee Vertue needes And good report a marble Tombe out-weares â—â—â—â—â— plaies the Herald proclaimes mens deeds Her Trumps Thrill sound the spacious world heares And such an vniuersall Tombe hast thou Borne on the tops of thousand thousand tongs Thy liuing merit doth thy name allow A Monument for euer which belongs To none but such as whilom was thy selfe Who vs'd the world as if they vs'd it not And did
some played with the small shot some with other weapons as Swords and halfe Pikes and such like in middest of which skirmish it so happened by ill chance that our Ship was fired and in great danger to bee lost and cast away had not the Lord in his mercy preserued vs and sent vs meanes happily to quench it but now marke the accident the fâ—â—â— being perceiued by our enemies to burnâ—â—â—â—agiously and thinking that our Ship would â—â—â— therewith beene sudainly burned to the water they left vs to our fortuines falling a â—â—â—â—â— of from vs and so we put to the shore vnder the little house for some succour where we let an Anchor fall thinking to ride there all that night which we had no sooner done but we saw another ship beare vpon vs whereupon we were sore frighted and so forced to let ouâ— Anchour flâ—p and so set sayle to get better succour putting into the Road betweene the two little hoâ—â—s where we lay fiue dayes mending the bruites and lâ—â—kes of our ship the â—â—â—â—â— receiued in the aforesaid sight were â— Men and one Boy which were killed outright and there were hurt eyght men and one boy more but the Lord doth know what damage we put them to and what number we flew in their ships The Master of our ship beeing at the Helme was shot twice betwixt the legs And the Chyâ—â—â—gion dressing the wounds of one of our men a Ball of Wild-fire â—elt into his Baâ—on which he â—â—â—inly cast-into the Sea otherwise it had greatly endangered vs. The Turkes were aboord and founded their Trumpets yet notwithstanding our men assaulted them so â—â—â—â—rcely that they forced them off and the Boson seeing them flye most vndantedly with a whistle â—lourd them to the skirmish if so they durst The Captaines of three of their ships were English men who tooke part with the Turkes thus to rob and spoâ—le vpon the Ocean their names were Walsingham Kelley and Sampson Vpon the 13. of Ianuary there came aboord certaine Spaniards in the morning betimes to wines what hurts we had receiued who seeing our men dead went a shore with vs and shewed vs where we might bury them but as we were buâ—â—â— in making their graues and couering the bodies with earth there came sayling by a Flemish Ship of twelue score tunne which had in it some fiue or six thousand pounds which had beene chased with those men of warre that had fought with vs before all which money they brought in along Boate to the shore and left in the Ship onely the men which were 16. Sailers and two Boyes that afterwards within two dayes brought the â—aid ship into the â—â—â—â— not â—â—â—â— at all indangered God be praised â—â—â—â— the 15 of the â—â—â—â— when wee â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— as God would â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— tempest â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— of weather as taine â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— that we thought we â—â—â— gotâ—â—â—â—â—â— from the Road whereâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— which storme and tempest theseâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— man that had beene â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— ther buâ—all and to when the Wind and Sea a little caâ—â—â—es we let vp â—â—â—â—â— in â—â—â—â—â— forward but within three â—â—â—â— after websâ—â—d thâ—â—e men more in the â—â—â—â—â— the â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—one we arriued in the Road or Callery and â—y at anchor where againe â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— ship wee found it â—â—â—â—â— and â—â—â—â—â— seuerall places one in the gun-roomâ— another betweene the Deckes the third â—â—â—◠〈…〉 and the fourth in the Masters round â—onâ—â— in Callery we mended our Ship and â—ured â—â—â—â—â— men there to helpe vs to stop her Leakes and â—â—â—â—â— all things most fitting for our Voyage homewards vpon the 30. day of Ianuary wee committed our fortunes againe vnto the Sea and so leaurâ—â—â— Callery wee canâ— forward withâ—â— Frenchman who was bound to a place called Orestone some â—0 Leagues from Callery where after 2. dayes we left his company being the 1 day of February and after that putting forwards still towardâ—â— England wee are now by the will of God most lately arriued and our Ship after so many ouerpassed dangers receiued into the Thames neare London to the great ioy and comfort of the Owners thereof God be praised FINIS A FAMOVS FIGHT AT SEA Where foure English Ships vnder the command of Captaine IOHN WEDDELL and foure Dutch Ships fought three dayes in the Gulph of Persia neere Ormus against 8. Portugall Gallioâ—s and 32. Fâ—â—gots As also the memorable Fight and losse of the good Ship called the Lyon with the barbaronâ— Crueltie of the Enâ—â—â— truly declared DEDICATED To the right Worthy Generous and well experienced Commander Captaine IOHN WEDDELL late Generall of the East-India Fleet. WOrthy Sir hauing written the true manner of your late Famous perilous and fortunate Fight with the Portugals in the Posâ—â—â— Gulph and knowing that Bookes without Patrons are like fatherlesse Children I imagined that it was better to send it to you for succour and protection than to any other whomsoeuer for the most part which is herein by Relation I am assured that you doe know to bee ture by Action and my Pen hath but only superficially pratled of those things w ch you saw did suffered I therfore humbly intreat you to accept this poore Fish out of your owne Ocean this sheepe of your owne fold this cloaâ—h of your owne weauing and this deserued memorie of part of your worthy won Reputation Thus not doubting but your affabilitie is correspondent to your approued knowledge and knowne sufficiencie I commit both my selfe and this Relation to your acceptance and good censure my best wishes still attending on you that your fortunes be euer equall to the goodnesse of your minde Eâ—â—er at your command to be imployed IOHN TAYLOR TO THE COVRTEOVS READER THe Eternall prouidence hauing diuided Mankind into many Kingdomes Climates People and Nations yet to the end there should bee an vnitie or mutuall societie amongst all men hee hath permitted Traffique and Commerce betwixt Nation and Nation Realme and Realme Nâ—â—â— tion and Shipping being as it were the fleeting Bridges for the transportation and exâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— and Merchandize from Countrey to Countrey that though God hath not inriched any our â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— Countrey with all things the one hauing what the other hath not yet to maintaine â—â—â—â—â—â— Sâ—â—â—â— â—â—us chiefly for his owne glory inâ— spâ—â—ing his gâ—â—fts Commerce and traffâ—que â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— at all â—â—â—â—â— and in all Ages for the which noble imployments our Kingdome of â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— feriour to any Nation for the abilitie and worthinesse of Merchantsâ— and I thinke not equalleâ—â— any for goodnes and sufficiencie of skilfull Nauigators and Marrâ—ners and strength of shipping and â—â—â—â— So that neither the parching heat of Lybia and AEthiopia or the â—â—â—â—ming â—â—â—â—â— of Groenland or the Hyperborean â—â—â—â—â— Regions neither the sarre remotenesse of China Eastwards or the vttermost bounds of the new world America Westwards the dangers of Stormes Gusts Flaâ—es Tempests Spâ—â—ts and Tornadoes or Monsoones the hazard of Shoales Rockes Leakes Enemies Pirates barbarous and cruell
likewise shot by the boord their Admirals Mizzen-mast Flag and flag-staffe shot by the boord and her Hull much rent and torne Their fourth ship had the head of her maine mast shot by the boord Another of their ships had all her top-masts shot by the boord In conclusion all their eight ships were so torne and tattered that they had neither good Masts Sailes or Yards to helpe themselues with no tide sides to beare saile vpon Thus it pleased thâ— Almighty to giue the victory of the day vnto those that relie vpon his promise to that greaâ— God be all glory for euer and let all true Christians say Amen The 13. of February being Friday the English and Dutch Fleets set saile at day-light from thâ— Road of Gombroone hauing also with them foure Iunks other vessels of lading vnder the conductâ—â— and charge of the Dutch which as soone as thâ— Enemie perceiued they let slip their Cables anâ— slipped from their harbour at the Iland of Law racke which is foure or fiue Leagues from the Roade of Gombroone the Enemie making all the sayle he could to Sea-boord of the English and Dutch all the day till Sun-set when they were got within Saker-shot of each other and a good bearing gale they all kept company together all night This 13. at night it blew so hard at Westâ— south-west that one of their great Gallions borâ—â— ouer-boord the head of her maine Mast close vnder the hownds not being able to hoyst vp heâ— maine sayle she was forced to steere alongst with her fore-saile fore-top-saile her Sprit-saile and Mizzen the wind being at West-South-west they steered away South and by East The 14. in the morning the Dutch Fleet staying and bearing vp vnto the Iunke the night past was a starre so farre that the English Fleet could scarce descry them so the Iames laid her fore-saile a backe staies and staid for them the Portugall neuer offering to alter his course but kept on still The same day about noone the Dutch being come vp with the English it was agreed betweene them that the Royall Iames should giue the first on-set vpon their Admirall and the rest of the Fleet to second her so about two of the clocke that afternoone the two Fleets came to weather of the Enemies Admirall receiuing the first shot from their Vice-Admirall and presently a whole broad side from their Admirall both sides comming as neere each other as they could but well keepe cleane of each other they â—ell to it of all hands pell mell the Ordnance going off as fast as small shot the Iames for her part giuing them two broad sides she then edged vp in the winde laying her fore-saile and fore-topstyle abacke stayes as well to giue leaue to the â— who was second to the Iames as also to suffer the Portugall Admirall to shoot a head which the suddainly did then the Iames filling her top sayle the second time bore vpright with the Enemie Admirall plying her whole broad side so fast vpon him that he had scarce any leaâ—â—â—â— to returne any shot backe whilst the English and Portugall Admirals were so nere each other that they could hardly cleare themselues In this time whilst our ships plyed the Enemies Admirall not so much looking after or heeding the other ships the Vice-Admirall with the rest of their fleet were left a sterne their Admiralll plyed very hard vpon the Iames giuing and receiuing many dangerous shots the Iames being shot betweene winde and water often and had more â—oyle in her Sayles and Rigging than she had done any of the two dayes fight before then the third time comming side by side with each others Fleet they let driue one at another like Thunder in the ayre the Iames comming vp with the Admirall the great ship of Damon who the first dayes fight lost her maine Mast crept in betwixt the Iames and the Portugall Admirall lying as a Bulwaâ—ke to weather off her to receiue all that might be put vpon her and indeed all that was meant to haue beene bestowed vpon tbe Admirall was still plyed vpon that great Hulke as likewife the Ionas and Dutch did continue this third dayes fight till day-light was shut in the Portugals edging vp to get nere the Arabian shore insomuch that at 8. at Night both English and Dutch were faire by it chasing them in This Night the English and Dutch steered away their course for Surat the Portugals steering for Swar a place where they haue a Castle The Royall Iames with the rest were forced to giue ouer the Chase for these reasons FIrst for that the time of yeere was so farre spent that they should not haue time enough to deliuer their goods at Surat and so to goe cleere off the Coast before the Westerly Monsâ—â—ne which is a Wind that blowes at West sixe moneths together beginning in Aprill would be come and so endanger the Ships in getting off againe A second reason was that the Royall Iames had but 31. Barrels and some 500. Cartreges fild with Powder and some 600. shot all which was not aboue three quarters of a dayes fight for her vse for in her former dayes worke the third of February she alone spent 1000. great shot vpon the Enemie so that now through want of Powder was not able to maintaine such another dayes fight according to that rate And this last dayes fight she lost but one man hauing spent vpon the Enemy more then three hundred great shot To the Lord of hosts the only giuer of victory the mighty God of Battels be all honour glory praise and dominion for euer Amen A note of the mens Names slaine in these three seuerall fights with the Portugals out of the English Fleet. Slaine in the Royall Iames. Richard Dauis Nicholas Burton quarter Masters Robert Skaife Gunners Mate Ioseph Wright Thomas Bland Iohn Burcham Godfrey Howton Carpenters Richard Dauis Iunior Richard Walker Iohn Maisters William Wilcockes William Clarke William Surdam dismembred in their legs and dyed Sailers Slaine in the Ionas Robert Modding Masters Mate Iohn Beedam mid-ship-man William Adams Robert Stacie Edward Wilkinson Robert Larke Richard Hergoll Francis Blow Thomas Page Thomas Wilkinson Thomas Williams Slaine in the Starre Iames Wanderton William Carter Reignold Sanderson Charles Robinson Slaine in the Eagle Iohn Sares. The Dutch lost neere the like number amongst whom their chiefe Commander Albert Becker was slaine the first dayes fight A Relation by Peter Hillion a Frenchman of the force of the eight Portugal Gallions which fought with the English and Dutch Fleet in the Gulph of Persia as also the spoyle they receiued by them with their number of men slain on the 13. and 14. of February,1624 himselfe being then in the Admirall which afterwards riding with three more of her Fleet at the Riuers mouth of Surat be escaped from her and ran to the English which were then riding in the Barre of Surat THeir Admirall named S. Francisco Sanuer wherein was Generall
obiects to satisfie euery sence is there abundantly so that nature seemed to make that Country her store house or granary for there is nothing wanting except mens gratitude to God for such blessings The first night we lodged there at a pretty towne called Comoda which towne by negligence and occasion of fire had fifty houses burnt two dayes before our comming thither it beeing eleuen Dutch miles from Pragus There we hired a waggon 7 dutch miles to a towne called Slowne from whence we walked on foot along 16. English miles to Prague which long looked for Citty wee could not see vntill we came within an houres trauell of it within halfe a dutch mile is a fearefull place being frequented with inhumaine and barbarous murderrers that assault trauellers first shooting and murdring them after searching their pockets where if they haue mony or not all is one it is but so many slaine for these villains haue a wood and a deepe valley to shelter themselues in that they are hardly taken afterwards but if they chance at any time to be but apprehended they are racked tortured to make them confesse afterwards their executions are very terrible But I thanke God we past that place many other as dangerous as that where some were robbed murdered as report told vs both before vs behind vs and on each side and we saw in our iourny aboue score Gallowses and wheeles where theeues were hanged some fresh and some halfe rotten the carkases of murtherers broken limb after limb on the wheeles and yet it was our happines only to see the dead villaines escape the liuing I came into Prague on Thursday the 7. of September whither if I had come but the Friday before I had seene a most fearfull execution of a notorious offenders the manner how with their faults as it was truely related to me by English Gent. that saw it I think it not much impertinent to relate The one of them being taken apprehended and racked for ripping vp a liue woman with child for taking the infant out of her body did sow a liuing puppy into her belly all w ch he confessed he did to make properties for witch craft and being further tortured he confessed when and where he had commited 35. murthers more the other in respect of him was but a petty offender for he in all his lifetime had murthered but 14. For the which execrable facts their deserued executions were as followeth First they were brought out of the Iayle naked from the girdle vpward and so being bound fast on high in a Cart that the spectators might see them then the Hangman hauing a pan of coales neere him with red hot pincers nip'd off the nipple of one breast then he tooke a knife and giues him a flash or cut downe the backe on one side from the shoulder to the wast and presently gaue him such another flash three inches from the first then on the top he cut the flashes into one and presently taking pincers tooke hold of the crosse cut tore him downe like a Girse below the middle letting it hang downe behind him like a belt after which he tooke his burning pincers pluck'd of the tops of his fingers of one hand then passing to another place of the Towne his other nipple was plucked off the other side of his backe so cut and mangled which they call by the name of rimming if it had beene riming I would neuer haue written but in prose his other fingers nip'd off then passing further all his toes were nip'd off with the burning pincers after which he was enforced to come out of the Cart and goe on foote vp a steepehill to the Gallowes where he was broken with a wheale aliue one bone after another beginning at his legs and ending with his necke and last of all quartered and layd on the wheele on a high post till Crowes Rauens or consuming time consume him This was the manner of both their executions but I speake of the greatest murtherer particularly because it is reported that all these torments neuer made him once to change countenance or to make any signe or action of griefe to call to God for mercy or to intreat the people to pray for him but as if be had beene a sencelesse stocke or stone hee did most scornafully and as it were in disdaine abide it whilst the other villaine did cry rore and make lamentation calling vpon God often the difference was not much in their liues and manner of their deaths but I am perswaded the odds was great in their dying The Citty of Prague is almost circular or round being diuided in the middle by the Riuer of Moldoue ouer which is a faire stone Bridge of 600. paces ouer and at each and a strong gate of stone there is said to be in it of Churches Chappels 150 for there are great numbers of Catholiques who haue many Chappels dedicated to sundry S t s and I was there at 4 senerall sorts of diuine exercises viz. at good Sermons with the Protestants at Masse with the Papists at a Lutherans preaching at the Iewes Synagog 3 of which I saw heard for curiosity the other for edification The Iewes in Prague are in such great numbers that they are thought to be of men women and children betwixt 50. or 60000. who doe all liue by brocage and vsury vpon the Christians and are very rich in mony and Iewels so that a man may see 10. or 12 together of them that are accounted worth 20.30 or 40000 l.a piece and yet the slaues goe so miserably attired that 15. of them are not worth the hanging for their whole ward-ropes The Castle where the King and Queene doe keepe their Court is magnificent and sumpruous in building strongly scituated and fortified â—â—â— by nature and art being founded on a high â—â—â— so that at pleasure it keepes the towne in command and it is much mere spacious in â—â—â—â—â— for receipt in Gardens Orchards then the Towre of London I was in it dayly the space of 20 dayes and saw it royally graced with the presence of a gracious King Queene who were honorably attended by a gallant Courtly traine of Lords and Ladies and Gentles of the High Dutch and Bohemians where was free bounâ—â—â—â—â— entertainment to strangers in aboundance I must euer humbly and thankfully acknowledge the Queenes Maiesties goodnesse towards me whole vndeserued fauours were helpfull vnto me both there and in my tedious iourny homeward Moreouer there I saw had in mine armes the King and Queenes youngest Son Prince Robert who was borne there on the 16 of December last a goodly child as euer I saw of that age whom with the rest I pray God to blesse to his glory and his Parents joy and comfort There for a token I did thinke it meet To take the shooes from off this Prince his feet I doe not say I stole but
so himselfe himselfe doth ouerthrow The Philistines his childrens bloud did spill And with his Sword King Saul King Saul did kill 2. Samuel King Deuids royall heart is fild with woe For Ionathan and Saul his friend and foe In Regall state he liues and flourisheth And loues Sauls Grandchild lame Mephibosheth Affection blinds him on Vriahs wife T' accomplish which her husband lost his life The King 's reprou'd by Nathan and repents And by repenting heau'ns high wrach preuents Incestuous Amnon Absâ—lon doth kill For forcing Tamar gainst her Virgin will He 's reconcil'd vnto his louing Sire And proudly to the Kingdome doth aspire The old King flees and ouer Iordane hies The Sonne pursuing and the Father flyes Achitophel himselfe hangs in dispaire And Absolon dyes hanged by the haire The King for his rebellious Sonne doth mourne His people numbred are at his returne The Lord is wrath the pestilence increast That seuenty thousand dye and then it ceast 1. Kings The Kingly Prophet valiant Dauid dyes His Throne is left to Salomon the wise False Adoniah Ioab Shimei kild By his command as erst his Father wild With speed he sends for workmen from farte Coasts To build a Temple to the Lord of Hosts Before or after him was neuer such That had of wisedome or of wealth so much A thousand women some wed some vnwed This wise King to Idolatry misled He dyes and 's buried by his fathers toome And Rehoboam doth succeed his roome Now Israel from Iudah is diuided Both Kingdomes by bad Kings are badly guided Yet God to Iacobs seed doth promise keepe And raises faithfull Pastors for his sheepe 2. Kings Eliah worketh wonders with his word By inspiration of the liuing Lord He 's taken vp aliue and his blest Spirit Doth doubly in Elishaâ—s breast inherit Some Kings doe gouerne well most gouerne ill And what the good reformes the bad doth spill Till Isr'el Iudah King and Kingdome 's lost To great Nebuâ—hadnâ—zzar and his host 1. Chronicles Here euery Tribe is numbred to their names To their memorials and immortall fames And Dauids acts t' instruct misguided men Are briefly here recorded all agen 2. Chronicles The state of Israel Iâ—dah and their Kings This Booke againe againe Recordance brings Their plagues of plague of â—â—mineâ—â—lâ—uery sword For their contemâ—ing heau'ns All sauing word Mâ—â—â—ssâ—â—â— Praâ—er Mâ—â—â—ssâ—â— almost drown'd in black despaire Gaines mercy by repentance and by prayer Ezrs. The Persian Monarch Câ—â—â—â— granteth haue The Iewes once more their freedomâ— should receiue When at Ierusâ—lâ—m they make abâ—d They all with zeale â—â—â—â—â— the house of God Malicious men with poysnous â—â—â—â—â— fild Makes Artaâ—â—â— â—irdeâ— tho'e that build Yet God so workes that Israels is loâ—e and zâ—ale Resâ—mes againe their ancient Church and weale Nehemiah The booke of Ezra doth concord with this Commanding good forbidding what 's amisse And godly Nehemiah â—â—â—â—â— reform'd What sinne and Sathan had long time deform'd Esther Here he that dwels in heauen doth deride Queene Vshy's and ambitious Hamans pride The Iewes are sau'd by Esters suite from death And Haman and his Sons hang'd loose their breath Poore Mordecay is held in high account And to great greatnesse humbly he doth mount Thus God doth raise all those his Lawes doe seeke He layes the lofty low exâ—lâ—s the meeke Iob. No lusse of Sonnes and Daughters goods and all Make not this man into impatience fall Assailing Sathan tempring wife false friends With perfect patience he â—ll woeâ—â— defends I â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— quoth he into this world And â—â—â—â—d herâ—â—â—â—â—â— I shall be hurâ—d God giues and takes according to his word And blessed euer bee the liuing Lord. Psâ—lmes The blessed Kingly Prophet sweetly sings â—â—â—nall praises to the King of Kings Gods Power Iustice Mercy Fauour looke For they are comprehended in this Booke Prouerbs The wisest man that euer man begot In heauenly Prouerbs shewes what 's good what 's not Ecclessiastes Health strength wit valour wordly wisdome pelfe All 's nought and worse then vanity it selfe Salomons song This Song may well be call'd the Song of Songs It to the heauenly Bride and Groome belongs It truely shewes Christs loue vnto his loue His Church his Wife his Virgin Spouse his Doue Isaâ—ah This worthy Prophet truely doth foretell How Christ shall come to conquer death and hell Rewards vnto the godly he repeats And to the godlesse he denounceth threats Ieremy This Man of God long time before foreshoes Ierusalems Captiuity and woes Lamentations He wishes here his head a fountaine deepe That he might weepe weepe nothing else but weep That he might gush forth flowing streames fo teares For Iuaah's thraldome misery and feares Ezeâ—hiel In Babylon this Prophet Captiue is And there he prophesies of bale and blisse How all must come to passe the Lord hath said How Iudgement surely comes although dalayed Daniel The Kings darke dreame the Prophet doth expound For which he 's highly honour'd and renown'd Nabuchadnezzar doth an Image frame Commands all paine of death t' adore the same Three godly Iewes by no meanes will fall downe And for contempt are in the fornace throwne Where midst the flames vnhurt they sweetly sing Which wonder doth conuert the tyrant King Here Daniel Prophesies of Christ to come Of Babel Persia Graâ—ia and Rome Hosea He tels misgouern'd Israel their sinnes And how the losse of grace destruction winnes Ioel. This Prophet tels the stubborne hearted Iewes How heau'ns consuming wrath apace ensues He therefore doth perswade them to contrition And by contrition they shall haue remission Amos. Mans thanklesse heart and Gods vnmeasur'd loue This Prophet doth to Isr'els faces proue Obadiah He comforts Pudah ouer-prest with woes And prophesies destruction of their foes Ionah Here Ionah tels the Niniâ—itrs except Repentance wrath of Heauen doe intercept In forty dayes high low rich poore great small The Lords hot fury shall consume them all With hearts vnâ—aign'd the sinfull Citie mournes The Lord grants mercy Ionah backe returnes Micah He speakes of Isr'els and of Iuda's crimes And tels them their confusion comes betimes Nahâ—m The Niniâ—ites againe forsake the Lord And are subdu'd by the Assirian sword This Prophet comforts those that are opprest And tels the godly they shall be releast Habakkuk He doth be waile th' oppression of the poore For mercy humbly he doth God implore To keepe the Captiu'd Iewes from fell despaire He teâ—ches them a heauenly forme of Prayer Zephaniaâ— He fils the good with hope the bad with â—eare And tels the Iewes their thraldome draweth neere Haggay He exhorteth them to patience in their paine And bids them build the Temple once againe Zachariah He tels the Iewes why they haue plagued beene He bids them shunne Idolatry and sinne Malachi For sinne he doth reproâ—e both Peince and Priest And shewes the comming both of Iohn and Christ. Which Christ shall be a Sauiour vnto all That with true faith obey his heauoâ—ly call Apâ—â—ryphâ— These bookes doe all in generall intimate The State