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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62948	The legend of Brita-mart: or A paraphrase upon our provisionall British discipline Inditing it of many severall distempers, and prescribing to the cure. Presented dialogue-wise, betvven Mickle-Worth the patriot, Peny-Wise the worldling, and Mille-Toyle the souldier. The scene being Grayes-Inne Walkes. The author G.T.	G. T. (George Tooke), 1595-1675.	1646 (1646)	Wing T1901; ESTC R219730	26,984	60

THE LEGEND OF BRITA-MART OR A Paraphrase upon our provisionall British Discipline Inditing it of many severall distempers and prescribing to the Cure Presented DIALOGUE-wise between Mickle-Worth the PATRIOT Peny-Wise the WORLDLING and Mille-Toyle the SOULDIER The Scene being GRAYES-INNE Walkes The AUTHOR G. T. London printed by T. B. 1646. TO THE RIGHT Honourable my very good LORD WILLIAM Earle of SALISBURY One of the LORDS of his Majesties most honorable privy Councell and Knight of the most Noble Order of the GARTER WHereas the manage of a real war is now familiarly every mans Tract the premises unconsulted and our provisional Musters and Militia stil left at large without any Paraphrase my neare and usuall privitie with them both thus imposing I have here propounded for some such temper as might render each to be faire and flourishing Neither can it bee presented with more propriety then to the masterwheele from whose course and influence my subordinate motion hath succeeded And may your Lordship deigne it a favourable regard I dare be bold how defective perhaps in severall particulars it shall yet induce so much discourse and contemplation as by hammering out infallible rules may requisitely mature both Finally your gracious acceptation of so meane a piece will beyond the many favours formerly collated stil lay a further obligation upon Your Lordships ever bounden Servant GEORGE TOOKE To the Reader MVst I give many thankes if he please to take me fairly neither are all the subsequents itended so for principles and infallible but as in some of them I dare be confident There is yet another sort only to provoke our serious Criticks pro and con till the perfection may be rightly stated And by presenting this Modell by indeavouring to raise a bridge where thou hast so long gon through the water me thinks should rather ingratiate then any whit disaffect or run into construction O but the Souldier has like his pike been here so plaine enough speaking out so lowd and roundly that it must needs be the kindler of much heate of many dangerous coales but then againe a light hand makes a lamentable soare and the fate of war like that of mariage is as uncertaine at the first as afterwards unalterable and withall of such importance that I had rather suffer under construction detraction and the calumnie of double diligence then the guilt of a tardie partial information G. T. THE LEGEND OF BRITA-MART Mickle-VVorth HOw dearely does the quick and swee ayre ingratiate this place Mille-Toyle the Northerne winde being broken and mittigated by yonder lofty hils and Favonius freely strewing it with his delicious buds and aglets Mille-Toyle Why thence succeeds his appellation nempe à fovendo of brooding and burnishing and indeed this precinct of a Purpoole is one of his cheife Master-pieces having also the nature the perpolitenesse of it both demonstrated in the name and justified as you say in the remarkeable tincture of these severall gemmes and pendants Mickle-VVorth I I though our citie Flora be familiarly sadded with a blacke cobweb-lawne of smoake and sea-coale yet is shee polished here and under a serener zenith the faire complexion of this obvious Rose will instant it and behold this Tulip seemes also to be lined with so rich a satin as imposes an extraordinary estimate Penny-VVise But may then our serious Mickle-worth be with this garden hypocrite this gaudy peice of outside thus affectionately transported Mille-Toyle Indeed the noblest flowers have both colour smel and taste thus the premised Rose with also the Violet and Iuli-flower minister each of them to the smel the sight and the palate yet while yeelding these for such superlatives the Tulip also cannot be denied his single share his positive beauty Mickle-VVorth True Mille-Toyle the detraction of others must not stagger our justice besides who can thinke that nature should prepare so delicate a lodging without some proportionable incumbent Penny-W O Sir excuse me these supposes hold so little water that till further information I for my owne particular shall rather side with a sage leafe or a good pot-herbe Mickle-W Let each one have his due Penny-wise and then upon comparison and competition who but will easily condescend and preferre profit to pleasure a bed of Confound and Milfoile before a border of Daffadilies or the sweetest strewing herbs Penny-Wise And these perhaps are but pharisaicall boasters also may they not be rendered by some other names more usuall amongst us Mickle Worth These Sir are such as will performe beyond their profession pay more then they promise the first if I be not deceived is also called Blind-nettle All-heale and then Woundwort by which name some Masters will especially celebrate it The second is so denominated from the Latin and his innumerous leafes being vulgarly a Yarrow or Nose-bleed and the peculiar plant of Mars These I say are no effeminate delices but truly reall the balme of wounds the hope the helpe of Souldiers Penny-Wise I conceive you Sir subscribing likewise to their efficacy they may be good leaches for the trespasse of an axe or a sith concerning their relation to the Souldier t is here but little and impertinent his room being indeed far better then his company Mickle-Worth Yet say my down-right freind will you then stock up the fence of our Lands our lives oppose the fast-bind fast-finde of our forefathers Why let me tell you that as the natural body so does the body politicke consist of different humours and complexions Learning Mars and Husbandry the cheifest and these when in their due poise and affectionately plighted render it faire and flourishing but if falling into partialities if the Scholler and Souldier say to the Husbandman we have no need of thee or the Farmer and Lawyer to the Souldier we have no need of thee the house is divided within it selfe and cannot long endure Mille-T A grievous curse was it when God in the fifth of Esay threatned to breake downe the wall of His Vineyard for what followes in conclusion but it must be eaten up the Boare out of the VVood shall waste it the Foxes even the little Foxes spoile it and who can with such propriety personate this wall as the Souldier since he it is that animats our strongest peices which otherwise are but meerly dirt and lumber Nay that illustrious Sparta tooke him directly in this sense to such as demanded for her walls replying with a grosse of martiall bodyes And among our moderne criticks a Mendoza Spanish leiger here for Philip the second was likewise of this opinion so that considering the facility and open site of our present England respecting her want of fastnesse of fortification what other refuge have we save the Souldiers breast and how fatall does it protend when we shall so much decry him cut him short what if I say cut him off Is then ambition and the thirst of Empire now become extinct or perhaps transplanted farre away to the Antipodes Are