spent it on a whore Epigram 17. Doll held the Candle Raph would faine be doing O when qd she will you â—â—lewdnes turne yeâ—â— I prethee Doll â—â—th Raph regard my woâ—ng In truth quoth Doll let be or else I le burne ye Raph puts the light out sweares to haue about And yet Doll burn'd him though the fire was out Epigram 18. A Sat an Inne I lately did a light I to my Chamber lighted was with lights Where a light Curâ—â—zâ—n of manners light Make glad my heart my Liuer and my Lights Yet when the Candle light was me berelt For all those lights I was in darkenesse left Epigram 19. Light vanitie WHat is more light then vapor cork or feather â—â— Or what more light then Vanity can be Compact compose compare light things together And nothing's lighter then a wanton she Yet heere 's the Riddle past my wits to scan Her light nesse weighes downe many a heauy man Epigram 20. 'T was ne're so hard since first the world began To finde an honest true right handed man Hath man two left hands no I pray how then Are men nor right hand or left handed men The left hand now may well be call'd the left For true and honest dealing it hath left And for the right hand 't is the wrong hand sure It selfe to wrong or wrong doth still inure So to conclude I doubt aboue the ground A true right handed man can scarce be found Epigram 21. MY Lawyer said the case was plaine for mee The Angell told him so hee tooke for fee But yet my Angell and my Lawyer lyed For at my Iudgement I was damnifi'd Epigram 22. AS Gold is better that 's in fire â—ride So is the Banktide Globe that late was burn'd For where before it had a thatched hide Now to a stately Theator 't is turn'd Which is an Emblem that great things are won By those that dare througâ— greatest dangers run Epigram 23. GOod companie 's in such request with Ione T is death to her to walke or lye alone Epigram 24. IScorne quoth Auâ—â— to be put downe by any And yet 't is knowne she 's bin put downe by many Epigram 25. MY Ladies foysting bound surnamed Muske Did chance to â—â—â—â— vpon my Ladies buske But ouer all the world ' tâ—â— Heauen and Hell I thinke no Muske had euer stronger smell Epâ—â—â—â—â—â— GOod Reader if my harse vnlearned rimes Wherewith my Muse â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— these heed lesse times Hath pleas'd thy pallat with their true endeauour She then well thinke her selfe most fortunate And shall hereafter bee â—â—â—â— Her selfe in better labour to perseuer I speake not to those guorant lacke dawes That with their Canker â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— Will seeme to â—â—â—â— my â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— But in all humblenesse I yeeld to these Who are detracting Ignorances foes And loues the labours of each good pretence Dislike and scorne may chance my booke to â—â—â— her But kind acceptance bring forth such another YOu that the â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— Hee 's very â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— But if that any â—â—â—â— â—â—â— honest meaning â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— To such in all â—â—â—â—â—â— From Booke are â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— bord I.T. FINIS THE DOLPHINS DANGER AND DELIVERANCE Being a Ship of 220. Tunhauing in her but 36. men and 2. Boyes who were on the 12. of lanuary 1616. set vpon by 6 Men of Warre of the Turkes hauing at the least 1500. Men in them who fought with them the space of 5 houres and a halfe yet to the glory â—f God and the honour of our English Nation both Ship and goods safely brought vp the Riuer of Thames and deliuered Truely set forth by the appointment of Master EDVVARD NICHOLS being Master of the said Ship The names of such men as were in the sayd Ship These men were kild out-right and buried a shore WAlter Penrose the first man kild being shot in the belly 2 Thomas Shepheard quarter Master his head shot off 3 William Sweat Trumpetter as hee founded in the sight had one arme shot off yet hee founded till another great shot stroke off his other arme with his Trumpet and all then after hee was kild with a shot thorow the body 4 William Russell quarter master had one arme first shot off afterward he was shot through kild 5 Iohn Sands the Crowne of his head shot off 6 Beniamin Cornellâ—â— a Boy shot in the throat kild 7 Dauid Fause Masters mate shot in the groyne kild These foure men dyed within 4 or 5 dayes after were cast into the Sea 8 Iohn Blackâ—tâ—â— quarter Mâ—his leg maim'd and burnt blind yet he labored to quench the ship being fired 9 Thomas Worger a youth the Masters seruant his shoulder blade shot off and liued three dayes 10 William Iames Trumpetter burn'd with wild fire that he flamed like a fierie man all ouer then lohn Reff Purser cast water on him he liued 5 dayes in great paine in the fight an arrow came betwixt the Maisters legs at the helme and ran into the laid Iames his leg which the Maister puld out 11 Iohn Prestin a youth kild with a musket These following were maim'd and hurt and are liuing Robert May Masters mate shot in the thigh Thomas Wright gunner with shot and splinters hurt in twelue places Tho Daniel burnt with powder and lost an eye Roger Ginner wounded in the head with splinters Rob Downs the Masters boy shot in the belly liâ—â—s These men are aliue vnhurt Edward Nichols Master shot with a small shot that tore his hose and stockins through and gaue his leg a scatre and 4 times shot through the â—â—â—Fraâ—â— Constable Boat swaine Iohn Rophe puâ—â—â— William Lucas Carpenter Tho Hobs Gunners mate Will Moore quarter Gunner Wil. Colluel Steward Rob Graue Chirurgion Iohn Adiney Couper Christe Austen Câ—dâ— son Hump. Lee Boatsons mate Wil Renfrâ—â— quart M. Will. Chalicom Isaâ—e Watlington Trumpetters Thee Anderson Thomas Spurden Nicho Wilkingson Henry Low Cornelius Scot Philip a welchman Saylers The rest were passengers FINIS A FIGHT AT SEA Famously fought by the Dolphin of London against fiue of the Turkes men of Warre and a Saâ—tie the 12. of Lâ—â—â—â— Anno Dom. 1616. THe Magnanimitic and worthy resolution of this our English Nation from time to time indureth the true touch and tryals of the Sea in deepe extremitie whereby other Countries not onely admires thereâ—â— but ties to the same a deserued commendation Amongst many other such like Aduentures I am imboldened to commit to your cenâ—re the Accidents of this our late Voyage and returne from Zant into England which happened as hereafter followeth Hauing at Zant at the end of the yeare,1616 â—â—â—shed our businesse and laden our Ship for England being named the Dolphin of London of the Burthen of 280. Tunne or thereabouts hauing in the same some 19. pieces of Ordnance and 9. Murtherers manned with 36. Men and two Boyes the Master thereof one Mr. Nichols a man of much skill and proued experience who making for England wee came from Zant the first day of Ianuary
yeres Maior 1330. Sir Iohn Pultney Draper 2. yeeres Maior 1332. Iohn Preston Draper Maior 1333. Sir Iohn Pultney Draper Maior 1336. Sir Iohn Pultney the tourth time Lord Maior he built a Chappell in Pauls where hee lyes buried he also built Saint Laurence Pultney Church and the Church of little Alhalowes and the Church called the Fryers in Couentrie hee gaue to the poore of Saint Giles in the Fields to the poore Prisoners in the Fleet and Newgate ten shillings to each yearely for euer besides many other deeds of Charity which he did Many of these men did good and charitable deeds but they did them secretly in their liues time Anno 1363. Stephen Candish Draper Maior 1367. Iames Andrew Draper Maior 1381. Ioh. Northampt. Draper 2. yeres Maior 1391. Iohn Hinde Draper Maior Anno 1402. Iohn Walcot Draper Maior 1404 Iohn Hinde the second time Maior he newly built the Church of Saint Swithin neere London stone 1413. Sir William Cromer Draper Maior 1415. Sir Nicholas Wotton Draper Maior 1423. William Cromer Draper Maior 1427. Iohn Gedney Draper Maior 1430. Nicholas Wotton Draper Maior 1433. Ihon Brockle Draper Maior 1441. Robert Clopton Draper Maior 1445. Sir Simon Eyre Draper Maior he built Lraden Hall for a Garnetie for the Citie and gaue fiue thousand markes to charitable vses 1447. Sir Iohn Gedney Draper Maior 1453. Sir Iohn Norman Draper Maior 1458. Sir Thomas Scot Draper Maior 1462. Sir Thomas cooke Draper Maior 1464. Sir Ralph Ioslin Draper Maior 1474. Sir Robert Drope Draper Maior hee lyeth buried in Saint Michaels Church in Cornehill London he gaue towards poore Maids marriages of that Parish twenty pound and to the poore of that Ward ten pound and three hundred shirts and smockes and hundred gownes of Broadcloth 1476. Sir Ralph Ioslin Draper the 2. time Maior 1479. Sir Bartholomew Iames Draper Maior 1481. Sir William Harriet Draper Maior 1484. Sir William Stocker Draper Maior 1489. Sir William White Draper Maior 1503. Sir William Capell Draper Maior 1507. Laurence Aylmer Draper Maior 1509. Sir William Capell the 2. time Maior 1511. Sir Roger Achley Draper Maior 1514. Sir George Monox Draper Maior hee repaired the ruinated Church at Walthamstow in Essex and erected a Free-schoole there and thirteene Almes-houses for aged people also hee built a long Timber Cawsway ouer the Marshes from Walthamstow to Locke-bridge 1512. Sir Iohn Bruges Draper Maior 1521. Sir Iohn Milbourne Draper Maior hee built fourteene Alines houses for fourteen aged poore people neere the Lord Lumleyes house in the crossed or crouched Friers allowing to each two shillings foure pence monthly for euer 1524. Sir William Bailie Draper Maior 1528. Sir Iohn Rudston Draper Maior 1533. Sir Christopher Askew Draper Maior he payed largely to the building of eight Almes houses in Beechlane London for eight poore widowes of his Company 1540. Sir William Roch Draper Maior 1560. Sir VVilliam Chester Draper Maior 1565. Sir Richard Champion Draper Maior a good Benefactor to the poore of Saint Dunstans in the East and to the poore in Saint Edmunds in Lumbard street hee gaue fiftie foure shillings yearely in bread for euer besides other guists 1578. Sir Richard Pipe Draper Maior 1580. Sir Iohn Branch Draper Maior 1584. Sir Thomas Pullison Draper Maior 1588. Sir Martin Calthrop Draper Maior 1614. Sir Thomas Hayes Draper Maior 1615. Sir Iohn Iolls Draper Maior 1621. Sir Edward Barkeham Draper Maior 1623. Martin Lumley Draper Maior These good deeds following were done by others of the said company who were not Lord Maiors IOhn Holmes Draper gaue his house to the poore in Saint Sepulchers Parish for euer the yeerely rent of it being thirty two pound Iohn Russell Draper gaue eighty pound to Schooler and to other pious vses Iohn Quarles Draper gaue sixe pound a yeare for euer to be giuen to the poore in bread William Dummer Draper gaue to the poore thirteene pound eighteene shillings foure pence yeerely for euer Owen Clun Draper gaue to the poore fiue and twentie pound yeerely for euer William Parker Draper towards the maintenance of Preachers at Saint Antlins sixe pounds yeerely for euer Iohn Skeet Draper gaue to the Hospitals at London three hundred pound and to foure poore Schollers at Oxford fiae pound a peece and the like to foure poore Schollers at Cambridge Henry Butler Draper gaue to Saint Thomas Hospitall ten pound to Christ-Church Saint Bartholomewes and Bridewell fiue pounds to each Peter Hall Draper gaue to Christs Hospitall ten pound to Saint Bartholomewes and Saint Thomas Hospitall three pound to each Thomas Church Draper gaue to Christs Hospitall and to Bridewell to each ten pound and to the Hospitals of Saint Thomas and Saint Bartholomew to either fiue pound Humphrey Fox Draper gaue to Christs Church Hospitall fiftie pound Edmund Hill Draper gaue to the poore of Saint Andrew Vnder shaft fiftie two pound Anno 1609. William Guilborne Draper gaue foure markes the yeare for euer to the poore of Saint Katherine Christ Church neere Aldegate and twenty pound he gaue to build a Gallerie in the same Church Iohn Quarles Draper gaue to the poore in Saint Peters in the poore in Brecstreet ward fiftie pound to bee bestowed yearely in bread for euer Sir Richard Goddard Draper and Alderman gaue to the Hospitall of Bridewell two hundred pound Master Benedict Barnham Draper gaue for the reliefe of the poore Prisoners in the seuerall prisons in London fiftie pound Sir Iames Deane Draper and Alderman gaue to the seuerall Hospitals in London a hundred and thirtie pound and to sundry prison 70.1 Lady Bainham sometimes an A dermans wife of the Drapers Company gaue to the poore of the said Company ten pound yearely for euer Lancelot Thompson Draper gaue to the parish of Saint Peters in Cornehill twenty pound for fiue Sermons and a hundred pounds to the poore of the Drapers Companie and fiue pound yeerely to hee bestowed by them in fire and bread on the poore of that Parish Richard shore Draper gaue fifteene pound to build a Church porch at Saint Mildreds in the Poultry Iohn Calthrop Draper built the bricke Wall betwixt the Hospitals of Christ Church and S. Bartholomew Iohn Chertsey Draper gaue to the Hospitals 20.1 and to other charitable vses a 100 pound Master Henry Woolaston Draper gaue to Saint Thomas Hospitall fortie pound with other charitable beneuolences These memorable and pious workes with many more then my weake capacitie can collect or reckon haue beene done by the Drapers or Clothsellers which doth approue the sheepe to be a thriuing happy and a most profitable beast Now to speake somewhat of the Right Worshipfull Company of Clothworkers Anno Domini 1559. Sir William Hewet Clothworker Lord Maior 1574. Sir Iames Hawes Clothworker L. Maior 1583. Sir Edward Osborne Clothworker L. M. 1594. Sir Iohn Spencer Clothworker L. Maior 1596. Sir Thomas Skinner Clothworker Lord Maior gaue to the Hospitals in London and the Suburbs 120. l. 1599. Sir Nicholas Mosley Clothworker L.M. 1606.
Sir Iohn Wats Clothworker Lord Maior gaue to Christ Church Hospitall ten pound â—â— to the Hospitall of S. Thomas in Southwarkeâ—tic pound King Ioses our most gracious Soueraigne was made a Irec â— of the Worshipfull Company of Clothworkers Sir Iohn â—â—â— being then Lord Maior who seasted his Marestie Sir Wisâ—â— Knight being then Master of the Company at which â— the King gaue a Guist of two brace of Buckes to the said Company yearely for euer to bee spent at their feast in their â—â—â—â— Richard Faringdon Clothworker and Aldermangaue to the seuerall Hospitals in London and the Suburbs 66. pound 13. shillings 4d Sir William Stone Clothworker gaue to the â—â—rall Prisons in London 50 pound Lady Barbara Stone wife to the forenamed Sir William Stone gaue to the Hospitall of Christ church one hundred pounds Lady Spencer wife to Sir Iohn Spencer clothworker gaue to the seuerall Hospitals 20. pound William Lambe Esquire free of the Company Clothworkers and one of the Gentlemen of the Chappell to King Henry the 8. built a Free Grammer Schoole at Sutton Valence in Kens where he was borne allowing yearely for euer to the Master of the said Schoole twenty pound and to the Vsher ten pound Also he built sixe Alemet-houses there with Gardens and Orchards and ten pound yearely to each of them foreuer Besides he gaue to the Free Schoole at Maidstone in Kent ten pound yearely for euer which he appointed to bee bestowed onely vpon â—â— children who were destitute of friends and â—courlesse Also hee bestowed three hundred pound for the vse of decayed Clothiers in the countie â—â—â—â— of Suffolke and in the Townes of Bridgâ—â—â—le and Ludlow Moreouer hee built two conduits in London one at Holbourne Bridge and the other on the Hill towards New Gate â—oth of which cost 1500 pounds at which time â—â—gaue 120. new Pailes to so many poore woâ—â— to beare Water withall Moreouer hee gaue thirty pound a yeare to his Company for euer and 4. pounds yearely to a Minister for 4. Sermons and 301. yearely for euer to be bestowed on twelue poore men and twelue poore women each of them to haue a Freeze Gowne one Lockerom shirt or smocke one paire of winter shooes which guist is yearely distributed on the first of October he also gaue to the poore of Saint Giles Parish without Cripplegate fifteene pound To the poore of the Company of Stationers hee gaue sixe pounds thirteene shillings 4d yearely for euer to be bestowed euery Friday in the Parish of S. Faiths on twelue poore people twelue pence in bread and twelue pence in money He gaue to Christs Hospitall Sixe pounds yearely for euer and 100. pound in readie money present Hee gaue to S. Thomas Hospitall 4. pounds yearely for euer and to poore Maides marriage hee gaue 20. pounds besides Newgate Ludgate the two Comptors in London the Marshalsea the Kings Bench and the White Lyon had all most louing tasts of his Charitable liberalitie and in conclusion he gaue 108. Gownes to poore aged people at his Funerall This was a Lambe whose like was neuer any Whose loue and pitty fed and cloth'd so many And'sis no doubt but these good deeds of his Did helpe to lift his soule to endlesse Blisse Master Iohn Berriman of Byshops Tannton in the Countie of Deuonshire Clothier and free Draper of London gaue to the Hospitall of Christ Church 100. pounds to S Bartholomews 5 pounds to S. Thomas Hospitall 6. pounds to Bridewell 40. shillings and to the Hospitall of Bethlehem 50. pounds Peter Blundell Clothier gaue to Christ-Church Hospitall 500. pounds to Saint Bartholomewes Hospitall 250. pounds to Saint Thomas Hospitall 250. pounds to Bridewell 8. pounds yearely for euer to the Reparation of the Church at Tiuerton where he was borne fiftie pounds towards the mending of High-wayes one hundred pounds to the twelue Companies in London to euery of them one hundred and fiftie pound to poore Maides marriages in Tiuerton foure hundred pound to the poore at Exeter hee gaue nine hundred pound to build a Grammar-schoole at Tiuerten 2400.l and after layd out by his Executors one thousand pound to the Schoole-master fiftie pounds yearely for euer to the Vsher 13. pound 6. shillings 8. pence yearely to the Clarke 40. shillings yearely to place foure poore boyes yearely Apprentises twenty pounds per annum to keepe 3. Schollers at Oxford and three at Cambridge 2000. pound Robert Chilcot seruant to the aforesaid M r. Blundell gaue to Christs Hospitall 100. pound towards a meauer Schoole to haue Children taught to be fit for his Masters GraÌ„mer schoole he gaue 400. pound to maintaine it he gaue 90. pound allowing the Scholemaster yearely 20. l. the Clarke 3. pound and toward Reparations 40. shillings per annum to fifteene poore men he gaue sixteene pounds 10. shillings a yeare for euer to 15. poote labouring men 15. pound to 15. poore people weekely sixe pence each for euer to mend the Church at Tiuerton 19. pound ten shillings to mend High wayes ten pounds and to other charitable vles more then is mentioned Thus hath it pleased God that these men whose trades and liuings were deriued from the poore Sheepes backe haue not onely growne to great wealth and places of honour but haue bin also great Instruments of the Almightles mercy in relieuing the needie and impotent members of Christ should I reckon vp the particulars of profits that arise from this Beast to Graziers Butchers Skinners Glouers Felmongers Leather sellers Feltmongers Taylors and an infinite number of other Trades and Functions who could not liue or else liue very hardly without this Commoditie I say should I write of these things in particular my worke would neuer bee done in generall Wooll hath beene formerly in such esteeme in England that in Parliament holden the 36. of Edward the 3 the King had his Subiects payd him in Wooll and before that in the eleuenth yeare of his Raigne it was forbidden to be transported out of this Kingdome and then did strangers come ouer hither from diuers parts beyond the Seas who were Fullers Weauers and Clothworkers whom the King entertained and baro all their charges out of his Exchequer at which time the Staples or places of Merchandize for Wools were kept at diuers places of this Land at once as at Newcastle Yorke Lincolne canterbury Norwich Westminster Chichester Winchester Exeter Bristoll and carmarthen by which may bee perceiued what a great commodity Wooll was in those dayes But in the 6. yeare of King Edward the 4. the King sent certaine Sheep out of Cotswold in Glocester shire into Spaine the encrease of which so enriched the Spaniards with our Wooll that euer since it hath beene in the lesse request in England neuerthelesse as it is it is the means of life and maintainance for many hundred thousands Here fokoweth a touch of paultry Scabbed and infectious kinds of Sheepe which I thinke sit to place by themselues in the lagge end of my Booke as
That what they could do all they though too little Striuing in loue the Traueller to whittle We went into the house of one Iohn Pinners A man that liues amongst a crue of sinners And there eight seuerall sorts of Ale we had All able to make one starke drunke or mad But I with courage brauely flinched not And gaue the Towne leaue to discharge the shot We had at one time set vpon the Table Good Ale of Hisope 't was no Esope fable Then had we Ale of Sage and Ale of Malt And Ale of Woorme-wood that could make one hair With Ale of Rosemary and Bettony And two Ales more or else I needs must lye But to conclude this drinking Alye tale We had a sort of Ale called Scuruy Ale Thus all these men at their owne charge cost Did striue whose loue should be expressed most And farther to declare their boundlesse loues They saw I wanted and they gaue me Gloues In deed and very deed their loues were such That in their praise I cannot write too much They merit more than I haue here compil'd I lodged at the Eagle and the Child Whereas my Hostesse a good ancient woman Did entertaine me with respect not common She caus'd my Linnen Shirts and Bands be washt And on my way she caus'd me be refresht She gaue me twelue silke points she gaue me Bâ—â—â—â— Which by me much refused at last was taken In troath she prou'd a mother vnto me For which I euermore will thankefull be But when to minde these kindnesses I call Kinde Master Prestwitch Author is of all And yet Sir Vrian Loigh's good Commendation Was the maine ground of this my Recreation From both of them there what I had I had Or else my entertainment had bin bad O all you worthy men of Manchester True bred bloods of the County Lancaster When I forget what you to me haue done Then let me head-long to confusion runne To Noble Master Prestwitch I must giue Thankes vpon thankes as long as I doe liue His loue was such I ne'r can pay the score He farre surpassed all that went before A horse and man he sent with boundlesse bounty To bring me quite through Lancaster large Câ—â—â—â—â— Which I well know is fifty miles at large And he defrayed all the cost and charge This vnlook'd pleasure was to me such pleasure That I can ne'r expresse my thankes with measure So Mistresse Saracoale Hostesse kinde And Manchester with thankes I left behinde The Wednesday being Iulyes twenty nine My Iourney â— to Freston did confine All the day long it rained but one showre Which from the Morning to the Eue'n did powre And I before to Preston I could get Was sowsd and pickeld both with raine and sweâ—â— But there I was supply'd with fire and food And any thing I wanted sweet and good There at the Hinde kinde Master Hinde mine â—â—â—â— Kept a good table bak'd and boyld and rost There Wednesday Thursday Friday I did stay And hardly got from thence on Saturday Vnto my Lodging often did repaire Kinde Master Thomas Banister the Mayer Who is of worship and of good respect And in his charge discreet and circumspect For I protest to God I neuer saw A Towne more wisely Gouern'd by the Law They told me when my Soueraigne there was last That one mans rashnes seemâ—d to giue distast It grieu'd them all but when at last they found His Maiestie was pleasd their ioyes were crown'd He knew the fairest Garden hath some weedes He did accept their kinde intents for deedes One man there was that with his zeale too hot And furious haste himselfe much ouer-shot But what man is so foolish that desires To get good fruit from thistles thornes and bryâ—â—â— Thus much I thought good to demonstrate here Because I saw how much they grieued were That any way the least part of offence Should make them seeme offensiue to their Prince Thus three nights was I staid and le dg'd in Preston And saw nothing ridiculous to lest on Much cost and charge the Mayor vpon me spent And on my way two miles with me he went There by good chance I did more friendship get The vnder Shriefe of Luncashire we met A Gentleman that lou'd and knew me well And one whose bounteous mind doth beare the bell There as if I had bin a noted thiefe The Mayor deliuered me vnto the Shriefe The Shriefes authority did much preuaile He sent me vnto one that kept the layle Thus I perambuling poore Iohn Taylor Was giu'n from Mayor to Shriefe from Shriefe to Taylor The Taylor kept an Inae good beds good cheere Where paying nothing I found nothing deere For the vnder Shriefe kind Master Câ—â—â—ill nam'd A man for house-keeping renown'd and fam'd Did cause the Towne of Lancaster afford Me welcome as if I had beene a Lord. And 't is reported that for daily bounty His mate can scarce be found in all that County Th' extremes of mizer or of prodigall He shunnes and liues discreet and riberall His wiues minde and his owne are one so fixt That Argus eyes could see no oddes betwixt And sure the difference if there difference be Is who shall doe most good or he or she Poore folks report that for relieuing them He and his wife are each of them a lem Atth'Inne and at his house two nights I staide And what was to be paid I know he paide If nothing of their kindnesse I had wrote Ingratefull me the world might iustly note Had I declar'd all I did heare and see For a great flatt'rer then I deemd should be Him and his wife and modest daughter Besse With Earth and Heau'ns felicity God blesse Two dayes a man of his at his command Did guide me to the midst of Westmerland And my Conductor with a liberall fist To keepe me moist scarce any Alehouse mist. The fourth of August weary halt and lame We in the darke t' a Towne call'd Sebder came There Master Borrowd my kind honest Host Vpon me did bestow vnasked cost The next day I held on my iourney still Sixe miles vnto a place call'd Carling hill Where Master Edmond Branthwaite doth recide Who made me welcome with my man and guide Our entertainement and our fare was such It might haue satisfied our betters much Yet all too little was his kind heart thought And fiue miles on my way himselfe me brought At Orton he I and my man did dine With Master Corney a good tâ—â—â— Dâ—â—â—â—e And surely Master Branthwait's well beleu'd His firme integrity is much approu'd His good effects doe make him still affected Of God and good men with regard respected He sent his man with me o're Date and Downe Who lodg'd and boorded me at Peereth Towne And such good cheere and bedding there I had That nothing but my weary selfe was bad There a fresh man I know not for whose sake With me a iourney would to Carlile make But from that Citie about two miles wide Good
graciously offer to purchase for them and to bestow vpon them freely certaine low and pleasant grounds a mile from them on the Sea shore with these conditions that they should pull downe their Citie and build it in that more commodious place but the Citizens refused it and so now it is like for me to stand where it doth for I doubt such another profer of remouall will not bee presented to them till two dayes after the Faire Now haue with you for Leeth whereto I no sooner came but I was well entertained by Master Barnard Lindsay one of the Groomes of his Maiesties Bed-chamber hee knew my estate was not guilty because I brought guilt with me more then my sins and they would not passe for current there hee therefore did replenish the vaustity of my empty purse discharged a piece at mec with two bullets of gold each being in value worth eleuen shillings white money and I was credibly informed that within the compasse of one yeere there was shipped away from that onely Port of Leeth foure score thousand Boles of Wheat Oates and Barley into Spaine France and other fortaine parts and euery Bole containes the measure of foure English bushels so that from Leeth onely hath beene transported three hundred and twenty thousand bushels of Corne besides some hath beene shipped away from Saint Andrewes from Dundee Aberdeene Desert Kirkady Kinghorne Burnt-Iland Dunbar and other portable Townes which makes me to wonder that a Kingdome so populous as it is should neuerthelesse sell so much breadâ—orne beyond the Seas and yet to haue more then sufficient for themselues So I hauing viewed the Hauen and Towne of Leeth tooke a passage Boate to see the new â—â—rondrous Well to which many a one that is not well comes farre and neere in hope to be made well indeed I did heare that it had done much good and that it hath a rare operation to expell or kill diuers maladies as to prouoke appetite to helpe much for the auoyding of the grauell in the bladder to cure sore eyes and old vlcers with many other vertues which it hath but I through the mercy of God hauing no need of it did make no great inquisition what it had done but for nouelty I dranke of it and I found the taste to be more pleasant then any other water sweet almost as milke yet as cleare as cristall and I did obserue that though a man did drinke a quart a pottle or as much as his belly could containe yet it neuer offended or lay heauy vpon the stomacke no more then if one had dranke but a pint or a small quantity I went two miles from it to a Towne called Burnt-Iland where I found many of my especiall good friends as Master Robert â—ay one of the Groomes of his Maiesties Bed-chamber Master Dauid Drummend one of his Gentlemen Pentioners Master Iames Acmooty one of the Groomes of the Priuie Chamber Captaine Muray Sir Henry Witherington Knight Captaine Iyrie and diuers others and there Master Hay Master Drummond and the good olde Captaine Murray did very bountifully furnish mee with gold for my expences but I being at dinner with those aforesaid Gentlemen as we were discoursing there befell a strange accident which I thinke worth the relating I know not vpon what occasion they began to talke of being at Sea in former times and I amongst the rest said I was at the taking of â—aâ—es whereto an English Gentleman replyed that hee was the next good voyage after at the Ilands I answered him that I was there also He demanded in what ship I was I tolde him in the Rainebowe of the Queenes why quoth he doe you not know me I was in the same ship and my name is Witherington Sir said I I do remember the name well but by reason that it is neere two and twenty yeers since I saw you I may well forget the knowledge of you Well said he if you were in that ship I pray you tell me some remarkable token that happened in the voyage whereupon I told him two or three tokens which he did know to be true Nay then said I I will tell you another which perhaps you haue not forgotten as our ship and the rest of the fleet did ride at Anchor at the I le of Flores one of the Iles of the Azores there were some foureteene men and boyes of our ship that for nouelty would goe ashore and see what fruit the Iland did beare and what entertainment it would yeeld vs so being landed we went vp and downe and could finde nothing but stones heath and mosse and wee expected Oranges Limonds Figges Muske-millions and Potatoes in the meane space the wind did blow so stiffe and the Sea was so extreme rough that our Ship-boate could not come to the land to fetch vs for feare she should bee beaten in pieces against the rockes this continued fiue dayes so that we were almost famished for want of food but at last I squandring vp and downe by the prouidence of God I hapned into a Caue or poore habitation where I found fifteene loaues of bread each of the quantity of a penny loafe in England I hauing a valiant stomacke of the age of almost of a hundred and twenty houres breeding fell to and ate two loaues and neuer said grace and as I was about to make a Horse-loafe of the third loafe I did put twelue of them into my breeches and my sleeues and so went mumbling out of tâ—e Caue leaning my backe against a Tree when vpon the sudden a Gentleman came to me and said Friend what are you eating Bread quoth I. For Gods sake said he giue me some With that I put my hand into my breech being my best pantrey and I gaue him a Loafe which hee receiued with many thankes and said that if euer hee could requite it he would I had no sooner told this tale but Sir Henry Witherington did acknowledge himselfe to bee the man that I had giuen the Loafe vnto two and twenty yeeres before where I found the Prouerbe true that men haue more priuiledge then mountaines in meeting In what great measure hee did requite so small a courtesie I wiâ— relate in this following discourse in my Returne through Northumberland So leauing my man at the Town of Burnt Iland I tolde him I would but goe to Sterling and see the Castle there and withall to see my honourable friends the Earle of Marr and Sir William Murray Knight Lord of Abercarny and that I would returne within two dayes at the most But it fell out quite contrary for it was fine and thirtie dayes before I could get backe againe out of these Noble mens company The whole progres of my trauell with them and the cause of my stay I'cannot with gratefulnesse omit and thus it was A worthy Gentleman named Master Iohn Fenton did bring me on my way sixe miles to Dumfermling where I was well entertained and lodged at Master
Iohn Gibb his house one of the Groomes of his Maiesties Bed chamber and I thinke the oldest Seruant the King hath withall I was well entertained there by Master Crighton at his owne house who went with me and shewed me the Queenes Palace a delicate Princely Mansion withall I saw the ruines of an ancient stately built Abey with faire gardens orchards medowes belonging to the Palace all which with faire goodly reuenues by the suppression of the Abbey were annexed to the Crowne There also I saw a very faire Church which though it bee now very large and spacious â—yet it hath in former times beene much larger But I taking my leaue of Dumfermling would needs goe and see the truely Noble Knight Sir George Bruce at a Towne called the Coor as there he made mâ—â— right welcome both with varietie of fare and after all hee commanded three of his menâ—â—s direct mee to see his most admirable Cole mines which if man can or could worke wonders is a wonder for my selfe neither in any trauels that I haue beene in nor any History that I haue read or any Discourse that I haue heard did neuer see read or heare of any worke of man that might parallell or bee equiualent with this vnfellowed and vnmâ—â—chable work though all I can say of it cannot describe it according to the worthines of his vigilant industry that was both the occasion Inuentor Maintainer of it yet rather then the memory of so rare an Enterprise and so accomplisht a profit to the Common-wealth shall bee raked and smothered in the dust of obliuion I will giue a little touch at the description of it although I amongst Writers as like he that worst may hold the candle The Mine hath two wayes into it the one by sea and the other by land but a man may goe into it by land and returne the same way if he please and so he may enter into it by sea and by sea he may come forth of it but I â—â— varieties sake went in by sea and out by land Now men may obiect how can a man goe into a Mine the entrance of it being into the sea but that the Sea will follow him and so drown the Mine To which obiection thus I answer That at low water the sea being ebd away and a great part of the sand bare vpon this same sand being mixed with rockes and cragges did the Master of this great worke build a round circular frame of stone very thicke strong and ioyned together with glutinous or bitumous matter so high withall that the Sea at the highest flood or the greatest rage of storme or tempest can neither dissolue the stones so well compacted in the building or yet ouerflowe the height of it Within this round frame at all aduentures hee did set workemen to digge with Mattockes Pickaxes and other instruments fit for such purposes They did dig forty foot downe right into and through a rocke At last they found that which they expected which was Sea-cole they following the veine of the Mine did dig â—â—rward still So that in the space of eight and â—â—enty or nine and twenty yeeres they haue â—â—gged more then an English mile vnder the â—ea that when men are at worke belowe an hundred of the greatest shippes in Britaine â—ay saile ouer their heads Besides the Mine â— most artificially cut like an Arch or a Vault â—â— that great length with many nookes and â— wayes and it is so made that a man may â—alke vpright in the most places both in and â—â—t Many poore people are there set on work which otherwise through the want of imployâ—ent would perish But when I had seene the line and was come forth of it againe after â—y thankes giuen to Sir George Bâ—uce I told â—m that if the plotters of the Powder Treason â— England had seene this Mine that they perâ—â—ps would haue attempted to haue left the â—arliament House and haue vndermined the â—hames and so to haue blowne vp the Barges â—nd Wherries wherein the King and all â—e Estates of our Kingdome were Moreoâ—er I said that I could affoord to turne Tapâ—er at London so that I had but one quarter of â— mile of his Mine to make mee a Celler to â—â—epe Beere and Bottle-ale in But leauing â—ese Iests in Prose I will relate a few Verses â—at I made merrily of this Mine That haue wasted MoÌ„ths weeks dayes houres In viewing Kingdomes Countries Townes and Without al measure measuring many paces tow'rs â—nd with my pen describing many places With few additions of mine owne deuizing Because I haue a smacke of Cortatizing â—ur Mandeuill Primaleon Don Quixot â—â—reat Amadis or Huon traueld not â— I haue done or beene where I haue beene â—â— heard and seene what I haue heard and seene â—or Britaines Odcombe Zany braue Vlissis â—â— all his ambling saw the like as this is â—was in would I could describe it well â—â— darke light pleasant profitable hell â—and as by water I was wasted in â— thought that I in Charons Boare had bin â—â—ut being at the entrance landed thus â—hree men there in stead of Cerberus â—â—â—â—â—â—me in in each one hand a light â—â— guide vs in that vault of endlesse night There young old with glim'ring candles burning Digge delue and labour turning and returning Some in a hole with baskets and with baggs Resembling furies or infernall haggs There one like Tantall feeding and there one Like Sisiphus he â—owles that restlesse stone Yet all I saw was pleasure mixt with profit Which prou'd it to be no tormenting Tophet For in this honest worthy harmelesse hell There ne'r did any damned Deuill dwell And th' Owner of it games by 't more true glory Then Rome doth by fantasticke Purgatory A long mile thus I past down downe steepe steepe In deepenesse far more deepe then Neptunes deepe Whilst o're my head in fourefold stories hie Was Earth Sea Ayre and Sun and Skie That had I dyed in that Cimerian roome Foure Elements had couered o're my tombe Thus farther then the bottome did I goe And many Englishmen haue not done so Where mounting Porposes and mountaine Whales And Regiments of fish with finnes and Scales Twixt me and Heauen did freely glide and slide And where great ships may at an anchor ride Thus in by Sea and out by land I past And tooke my leaue of good Sir George at last The Sea at certaines places doth leake of soake into the Mine which by the industry of Sir George Bruce is all conueyd to one Well neere the land where he hath a deuice like a horse-mill that with three horses and a great chaine of Iron going downeward many fadomes with thirty sixe buckets fastened to the chaine of the which eighteene goe downe still to be filled and eighteene ascend vp to be emptied which doe emptie themselues without any mans labour into a trough that conueyes the water into the Sea againe by which
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
principall matter there and so be gone In this city of Agra where I am now I am to remaine about 6. weeks longer to the end to expect an excellent opportunity which then wil offer it selfe vnto me to goe to the famous riuer Ganges about 5. dayes iourney from this to see a memorable meeting of the gentle people of this countrey called Baicans whereof about foure hundred thousand people goe thither of purpose to bathe and shaue themselues in the Riuer and to sacrifice a world of gold to the same Riuer partly in stamped money and partly in massie great lumpes and wedges throwing it into the Riuer as a sacrifice and doing other strange Ceremonies most worthy the obseruation such a notable spectacle it is that no part of all Asia neither this which is called the great Asia nor the lesser which is now called Natolia the like is to be seene This shew doe they make once euery yeere comming thither from places almost a thousand miles off and honour their Riuer as their God Creator and Sauiour superstition and impiety most abominable in the highest degree of these brutish Ethnicks that are aliens from Christ and the common-wealth of Israel After I have seene this shew I will with all expedition repaire to the city of Lahore twenty dayes iourney from this and so into Persia by the helpe of my blessed Christ. Thus haue I imparted vnto you some good accidents that happened vnto me since I wrote a letter vnto you the last yeere from the Kings Court and some little part of my resolution for the disposing of a part of my time of abode in Asia Therefore now I will â—â—aâ— to a conclusion the time I cannot liaâ—â— when I shall come home but as my merciful God and Sauiour shall dispose of it A long rabble or commendations like to that which I wrote in my last letter to you I hold not so requisite to make at this present Therefore with remembrance of some few friends names I will but vp my present Epistle I pray you recommend me first in Odcombe to Master Gallop and euery good body of his family if hee liueth yet to Master Bâ—râ—b his wife and all his family to all the Knights William Chum Iohn Selly Hugh Donne and their wiues to Master Atkins and his wife at Norton I pray you commend mee in Euill to these to old Master Seward if hee liueth his wife and children the poore widow Darby old Master Dyer and his Sonne Iohn Master Ewins old and young with their wiues Master Phelpes and his wife M. Starre and his wife with the rest of my good friends there I had almost forgotten your husband to him also to Ned Barbor and his wife to William Ienings commend me also I pray you and that with respectfull termes to the godly and reuerent fraternity of Preachers that euery second Friday meet at a religious exercise at Euill at the least if that exercise doth continue pray read this letter to them for I thinke they will be well pleased with it by reason of the nouelties of things And so finally I commit you and all them to the blessed protection of Almighty God From Agra the Capitall City of the Dominion of the great Mogoll in the Easterne India the last of October 1616. Your dutifull louing and obedient Sonne now a desolate Pilgrim in the World THOMAS CORIAT The Copy of a speech that I made to a Mahometan in the Italian tongue THe Copie of a speech that I made extempore in the Italian tongue to a Mahometan at a City called Moltan in the Eastern India two daies iourny beyond the famous Riuer Indus which I haue passed against Mahomet and his accursed Religion vpon the occasion of a discourtesie offered vnto me by the said Mahometan in calling mee Giaur that is infidell by reason that I was a Christian the reason why I spake to him in Italian was because he vnderstood it hauing been taken slaue for many yeeres since by certaine Florentines in a Gally wherein he passed from Constantinople towards Alexandra but being by them interrupted by the way he was carried to a City called Ligerne in the Duke of Florences Dominions where after two yeeres hee had learned good Italian but he was an Indian borne and brought vp in the Mahometan Religion I pronounced the speech before an hundred people whereof none vnderstood it but himselfe but hee afterward told the meaning of some part of it as farre as he could remember it to some of the others also If I had spoken thus much in Turky or Persia against Mahomet they would haue rosted me vpon a spit but in the Mogols Dominions a Christian may speake much more freely then hee can in any other Mahometan Country in the world The speech was this as I afterward translated it into English BVt I pray thee tell me thou Mahometan dost thou in sadnes call mee Giaur That I doe quoth he Then quoth I in very sober sadnes I retort that shamefull word in thy throate and tell thee plainly that I am a Musulman and thou art a Giaur For by that Arab word Musulman thou dost vnderstand that which cannot be properly applied to a Mahometan but onely to a Christian so that I doe consequently inferre that there are two kindes of Muselmen the one â—n Orthomusulman that is a true Musulman which is a Christian and the other a Pseudo-musulman that is a false Musulman which is a Mahometan What thy Mahomet was from whom thou dost deriue thy Religion assure thy selfe I know better then any one of the Mahometans amongst many millions yea all the particular circumstances of his life and death his Nation his Parentage his driuing Camels through Egypt Syria and Palestina the marriage of his Mistris by whose death hee raised himselfe from a very base and contemptible estate to great honour and riches his manner of coozening the sottish people of Arabia partly by a tame Pigeon that did flye to his eare for meat and partly by a tame Bull that he fed by hand euery day with the rest of his actions both in peace and warre I know aswell as if I had liued in his time or had beene one of his neighbours in Mecca the truth whereof if thou didst know aswell I am perswaded thou wouldest spit in the face of thy Alcaron and trample it vnder thy feet and bury it vnder a laâ—e a booke of that strange and weake matter that I my selfe as meanly as thou dost see mee attired now haue already written two better bookes God be thanked and will here after this by Gods gracious permssion write another better and truer yea I would haue thee know thou Mahometan that in that renouned Kingdome of England where I was borne learning doth so flourish that there are many thousand boyes of sixteene yeeres of age that are able to make a more learned booke theaâ— thy Alcason neither was it as thou and the rest of you Mahometans
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
in the house and art so busie a baggage that thou canst let nothing stand to which the other answered and you are so wayward and teasty that a little thing troubles you and puts you in a great anger 122 IN a time of peace a Captaine being in company where after dinner there was dancing with whom a Gentlewoman was desirous to dance the Captaine said hee was made to fight and not to dance to whom she answerd that it were good that he were oyl'd hang'd vp in an Armoury till there were occasion to vse him 123 ONe asked a huffing Gallant why hee had not a Looking-Glasse in his Chamber he answered he durst not because hee was often angry and then he look'd so terribly that he was fearefull to looke vpon himselfe 124 THere was a fellow that not for his goodnesse was whip'd at a Carts tayle and in his execution he draw backward to whom a Gentleman in pitty said Fellow doe not draw backe but presse forward and thy execution and paynes will be the sooner past and done to whom the Rogue answerd It is my turne now when thou art whip'd doe thou goe as thou wilt and now I will goe as I please 125 ONe said that hee had trauaild so farre that he had layd his hand vpon the hole where the winde came forth a second said that hee had beene at the farthest edge of the world and driuen a nayle quite thorow it the third replide that he had beene further for hee was then on the other side of the world and clencht that nayle 126 THere was a Pope who being dead it is said that hee came to heauen gate and knock'd Saint Peter being within the gate asked who was there The Pope answered brother it is I I am the last Pope deceased Saint Peter said if thou be the Pope why dost thou knocke thou hauing the keyes mayst vnlocke the gate and enter The Pope replied saying that his predecessors had the keyes but since their time the wards were altered 127 A Rich Miser being reuiled by a poore man whom he had oppressed the rich man said Thou dogge leaue thy barking the poore man answered that hee had one quality of a good dogge which was to barke when hee saw a thiefe 128 A Man being deeply in play at dice hauing lost much money his sonne a little lad being by him wept quoth the father Boy why dost thou weepe the boy answered that hee had read that Alexander the Great wept when he heard that his father King Philip had conquered many Cities Townes and Territories fearing that hee would leaue him â—â—hing to winne and I weepe the contrary â—ay quoth the boy for I feare that my father will leaue me nothing to loose 129 AN Oppressor hauing feld all the trees in a Forest which for a long time had beene â—â—e reliefe of many poore people sayd that it was as good as a Commedy to him to see the trees fall to whom a poore man said I â—â—pe as thou makest a Commedy of our miseries that three of those trees may be reserued â—â—â—â—â—ish a Tragedy for thee and thy Children 130 ONe lamented his friends hard fortune that being raysed to a place of honour his growne sencelesse forgetting all his old â—â—milar acquaintance and so farre from knowing any man that he knew not himselfe 131 THe Plough surpasseth the Pike the Harrow excelleth the Halbert the Culter exâ—â—deth the Cuttleaxe the Goad is better â—â— the Gunne for the one sort are the instruments of life and profit and the other are the engines of death and all kindes of calaâ—â—ries 132 A Poore man is in two extremes first if he â—â—â— he dyes with shame secondly if he â—â—â— not he dies with hunger 133 ONe being in office was reproued for negligence his excuse was that it was his best policy to be idle for if he should doe â—â—â— he should displease God and if he should â—â—e well should offend men to whom one answered you ought to doe your duty for â—â— well doing you shall please God and in ill â—â—â—ing you shall please men 134 VVOmen take great pleasure to be sued to though they neuer meane to grant 135 ONe said that Suiters in Law were mortall and their suite immortall and that there is more profit in a quicke deniall then in a long dispatch 136 A Trauailer was talking what a goodly City Rome was to whom one of the company said that all Rome was not in Italy for wee had too much Rome in England 137 A Countrey fellow came into Westminster Hall where one told him that the roofe of it was made of Irish wood and that the nature of it was such that no Spider would come neere it and he said further that in Ireland no Toad Snake or Caterpiller can liue but that the earth or the trees will destroy them Ah quoth the Countrey man I wish with all my heart that the Benches Barres and Flooring were all made of such earth and wood and that all Coaches Barges and Wherries were made of Irish Oake that all our English Caterpillers might be destroyed 138 MAster Thomas Coriat on a time complained against mee to King Iames desiring his Maiesty that hee would cause some heauy punishment to bee inflicted vpon mee for abusing him in writing as he said I had to whom the King replide that when the Lords of his honourable Priuy Councell had leisure and nothing else to doe then they should heare and determine the differences betwixt Master Coriat the Scholler and Iohn Taylor the Sculler which answere of the King was very acceptable to Master Coriat WhereupoÌ„ I made this following petitioÌ„ to the King TO THE KINGS MOST Excellent Maiestie The humble petition of Iohn Tailor your â—… â—… I begge thou wilt be graciously inclined To reade these lines my rusticke pen compile Know Royall Sir Tom Coriate workes the wile Your high displeasure on my head to bring â—… Did heare the cause of two offending Harlots So I beseech thee Great great Britaines King To doe the like for two contending Varlots â—… A Ribble â—â—bble of Gossips THe space of a â—orting he from the Bearbaiting â—… stulted by the right reuerend Matron madam Isabel that Katherin should go no more a maying â—… spoones now old Sibill all this while sate mumping like a gib Cat and on the sodaine she starts vp and thrusts Charity out of doores to take vp her lodging where she could get it well being much offended to see Marget inâ—â—â—… it and bade her tell Alice that vnlesse she toolâ—â— heed the pot would run ouer and the fat lye in the fire at this â—â—â—â—… Now in the heat of all this businesse Barâ—â—â— tels Frances how there is good ale at the laboâ— in vain the matter being brought to this passe Winisrit saies that her god-daughter â—â—â—â—â— newly brought â—â—â— God blesse the child and â—â—â— Constance the Comfit maker wife at the â—â—â— of the Spiders leg must be â—… dresse to
euen the very earth quakes and trembles the casements shatter tatter and clatter and such a confused noise is made as if all the diuels in hell were at Barly-breake so that a man can neither sleepe speake heare write or eate his dinner or supper quiet for them besides their tumbling din like a counterset thunder doth sowre Wine Ale and Beere most abominably to the impairing of their healths that drinke it and the making of many a Victualer and Tapster Trade-falne A Wheele-wright or a maker of Carts is an ancient a profitable and a Trade which by no meanes can be wanted yet so poore it is that scarce the best amongst them can hardly euer attaine to better then a Calues skin sute or a piece of necke beefe and Carret rootes to dinner on a Sunday nor scarcely any of them is euer mounted to any Office aboue the degree of a Scauenger or a Tything-man at the most On the contrary your Coach-makers trade is the most gainefullest about the Towne they are apparelled in Sattens and Veluets are Masters of their Parish Vestry-men who fare like the Emperors Heliogabalus or Sardanapulus seldome without their Mackroones Parmisants Iellyes and Kickshawes with baked Swannes Pasties hot or cold red Deere Pyes which they haue froÌ„ their Debtors worships in the Country neither are these Coaches onely thus cumbersome by their Rumbling and Rutting as they are by their standing still and damming vp the streetes and lanes as the Blacke Vriers and diuers other places can witnes and against Coach-makers doores the streets are so pestered and clogg'd with them that neither man horse or cart can passe for them in so much as my Lord Maior is highly to bee commended for his care in this restraint sending in February last many of them to the Counter for their carelesnesse herein They haue beene the vniuerfall decay of almost all the best Ash Trees in the Kingdome for a yong plant can no sooner peepe vp to any perfection but presently it is felled for the Coach Nor a yong Horse bred of any beauty or goodnes but he is ordaind from his foaling for the seruice of the Coach so that whereas in former ages both in peace and wars we might compare with any Nation in the world for the multitude and goodnes of our horses we now thinke of no other imployment for them theâ— to draw in a Coach and when they are either lamed by the negligence of the coachman oâ— worne out after many yeeres with trotting to Playes and Baywdy-houses then are they like old maimed Souldiers after their wounds and scarres preferr'd to Wood-mongers wheâ—â— they are well Billited or to Draymen wheâ— they turne Tapsters and draw Beere by whole Barrels and Hogsheads at once and theâ— they weare out the remainder of their daies till new harnis for others are made of their â—â—â— skinnes The last Proclamations concerning the retiring of the Gentry out of the City into theiâ— Countries although my selfe with many thousands more were much impouerished and hindered of our liuings by their departure yet â—â—â— the other side how it cleered the Streetes oâ—â— these way-stopping Whirligigges for a man now might walk without bidding Stand vp â—â—â— by a fellow that scarcely can either go or stanâ— himselfe Prince Nobility and Gentlemen oâ—â— worth Offices and Quality haue herein theâ—â— Priâ—iledge and are exempt may ride as theâ—â— occasions or pleasures shal inuite them as mosâ— meet they should but when euery Gâ—ll Tâ—â—â—â—â— tripe Mistris Fumkins Madame Polecat and my Lady Trash Froth the Tapster Bill the Taylor â—â— Lauender the Broker Whisse the Tobacco seller with their companion Trugs must be coach â—â—â— to Saint Albanes Burntwood Hockley in the Hole Craydon Windsor Vxbridge and many other places like wilde Haggards prancing vp and downe that what they get by cheating sweating lying at home they spend in riot whoring and drunkennes abroad I say by my hallidome it is a burning shame I did lately write a Pamphet called a Thiefe wherein did a little touch vpon this point that seeing the Heard of hyreling Coaches are more â—â—â— the Whirries on the Thames and that they make Leather so excessiue deare that it â—â—â— good the order in Bohemia were obserâ—ed heere which is that euery hyred Coach should bee drawne with ropes and that all their Harnesse should be Hemp and Cordage besides if the couer and boots of them were of good rosind or pitched canuas it would bring â—â—ne the price of leather and by that means â—hyred Coach would be knowne from a Princes a Noble mans Ladies or people of note account respect and quality And if it be but considred in the right Kue a Coach or Caroach are meere Engines of Pride which no man can deny to be one of the seuen deadly sinnes for two leash of Oyster-wiues hyred a Coach on a Thursday after Whitsontide to carry them to the Greene-Goose faire at Stratâ—ord the Bowe and as they were hurried betwixt Algate and Myle-end they were so be-madam'd be-mistrist and Ladified by the beggers that the foolish women began to swell with a proud supposition or Imaginary greatnes and gaue all their mony to the mendicanting Canters insomuch that they were faigne to pawne their gownes and smocks the next day to buy Oysters or else their pride had made them cry for want of what to cry withall Thus much I can speake by experience I doe partly know some of mine own qualities and I doe know that I doe hate pride as I hate famine or surfetting and moreouer I know my selfe to be at the best but Iohn Taylor and a mechanicall waterman yet it was but my chance once to bee brought from Whitchall to the Tower in my Master Sir William VVaades Coach before I had bin drawn twenty yardes such a Timpany of pride pust mee vp that I was ready to burst with the winde chollicke of vaine-glory In what state I would leane ouer the boote and looke and pry if I saw any of my acquaintance and then I would stand vp vailing my Bonnet kissing my right claw extending my armes as I had beene swimming with God saue your Lordship worship or How doest thou honest neighbour or good-fellow In a word the Coach made mee thinke my selfe better then my betters that went on foot and that I was but little inferiour to Tamberlaine being iolted thus in state by those pampred Iades of Belgia all men of indifferent iudgement will confesse that a Cart is an instrument conformable to law order and discipline for it rests on the Sabbath dayes and commonly all other Holy daies and if it should by any means breake or transgresse against any of these good Iniunctions there are Informers tâ—â— at lye in ambush like carefull Scowtes to informe against the poore Cart that in conclusion my Lady Pecunia must become surety and take vp the matter or else there will be more stirre about the flesh then the broth is worth wheras on the contrary a
weaknes may babble of Reformation thougâ— to no end and so I end FINIS The Nipping or Snipping of ABVSES OR The Wooll-gatheÌ„ring ôf VVit A Skeltonicall salutation to those that know how to reade and not merre the sense with hacking or mis-construction THou true vnderstander my inuention doth wander with the quill of a Gander to shield mee from slander to thy good protection I yeeld in subiection my poore imperfection with friendly correction and as thou dost â—â—e or stroake mee or strike mee reproue mee or proue mee or mooue mee â—â— loue mee or quiteme or spight me friend me or mend me or else not offend â—â—â—â— If in ought that is written thy humors are bitten seeme not to espy it and â—one will descry it But if thou doest kick the spurre sure will prick and if thou â—â—â—â—ing the waspe then will sting My verses are made to ride euery Iade but â—â—are forbidden of Iades to be ridden they shall not bee snaffled nor braued â—or baffled wert thou George with thy Naggon that foughtst with Draggon or â—â—re you Great Pompey my verse should bethumpe ye if you like a Iauel against â—â—â— dare cauill I doe not intend it as now to commend it or yet to defend it But â—â— mee I doe send it to like it or mend it and when thou hast end it applaud it â—â— rent it my wits I could bristle for a better Epistle but yet at this time this â—â—â— Rime I send to thy view because it is new So Reader adue I thine if thou mine IOHN TAYLOR To the Castalian Water-writer Splende dignoscar â— Diall set vpon an eminent place â— iâ— clouds doe interuall Apolloes face â—â—â—â— a flgur'd shape whereby we knowe â—â—le of Time which it doth owe â—â— expectations yet wee see â—â—â—ctes by which Times should distinguish'd be â—â—â—alelled punctuall ciphered lines â—â— by a shadow when the faire sunne shines Explaines the houres So if the Sonne of men Thy Glorious Patron deeme to blesse thy pen With his faire light Thy Muse so young so faire So well proportion'd in conceites so rare And Naturall streames and stile and eu'ry part That Nature therein doth exceed all Art Will then as with Enthusiasme inspir'd Print Legends by the world to be admir'd Thine Iames Ratray To my friend by land and by water Iohn Taylor THese leaues kind Iohn are not to wrap vp drams That doe containe thy witty Epigrams Let worser Poems serue for such abuse Whilst thine shall be reseru'd for better vse And let each Critick cauill what he can T is rarely written of a Water-man Thy friend assured Rob Branthwaite To his deare friend Master Iohn Taylor ME thinkes I see the Sculler in his boate With goodly motion glide along faire Thames And with a charming and bewitching noate So sweet delightfull tunes and ditties frames As greatest Lordingâ— and the nicest Dames That with attentiue eare did heare thy layès Of force should yeeld due merit to thy praise Worth to all Watermen straine forth thy voice To proue so pleasing in the worlds proud eye As eyes and eares and hearts may all reioyce To see heare muse vpon the melodie In contemplation of thy harmony Let Thames faire bankes thy worth and praises ring While I thy worth and praise beyond sea sing Tho Gent. To the Water-Poet Iohn Taylor Honest Iohn Taylor though I know 't no grace To thee or me for writing in this place Yet know I that the multitudes of friends Will thee protect from vile malignant mindes The rather cause what euer thou hast snowne Is no one mans inuention but thine owne Malicious minded men will thee dispraise Enuy debases all her selfe to raise Then rest content whilst to thy greater fame Both Art and Nature striue to raise thy name Thine euer as thou knowest R Cudner To my friend Iohn Taylor IF Homers verse in Greeke did merit praise If Naso in the Latine won the Bayes If Maro 'mongst the Romanes did excell If Tasso in the Tuscan tongue wrote well Then Taylor I conclude that thou hast don In English what immortall Baies haue won Thy friend Iohn Taylor To my honest friend Iohn Taylor THy Taylors shears foule vices wings â—â—â—â—â— The scames of impious dealings are vnript So Art-like thou these captious times hast quipt As if in Helicon thy pen were dipt All those who ' gainst thy worth are enuious lipt Thy sharpe Satyrick Muse hath nipt and sâ—ipâ—â— And to conclude thy nuention is not chipt Or stolne or borrowd begd or basely gript Then Taylor thy conceits are truely sowde And Sculler on my word it was well roude Thine to mybest powâ—â— Enoch Lyâ— In Laudem Authoris MOst commonly one Taylor will dispraise Anothers workmanship enuying alwaiâ—s At him that 's better then himselfe reputed Though he himselfe be but a botcher bruted So might it well be said of me my friend Should I not to thy worke some few lines lend Which to make probable this sentence tendeth Who not commends he surely discommendeth In my illiterate censure these thy rimes Deserue applause euen in these worst of times VVhen wit is onely worthy held in those On whom smooth flattery vaine praise bestoâ—es But I not minding with thy worth to flatter Do know thy wit too good to toyle by water Rob. Taylor To my friend IOHN TAYLOR THis worke of thine thou hast compil'd soâ—â—â— It merits better wits thy worth to tell Thine Maximilian Wâ—â— The Authours description of a Poet and Poesie with an Apology in defence of Naturall English Poetry SHall beggers dine into the Acts of Kings Shall Nature speake of supernat ' rall things â—â—â—â— Eagles flights attempted be by Gnats â—â—â—â— mighty Whales be portraied out by Sprats These things I know vnpossible to be â—â—â—d it is as vnpossible for mee That am a begger in these Kingly acts Which from the heau'ns true Poetrie extracts â—â—â— foole by Nature I â—â—â— neuer knew this high-bome mystery â—â—â— worthlesse gnat I know my selfe more weake â—â—â— the Princely Eagle dare to speake â—â—â—y sprat the Ocean seekes so sound â—â— seek this Whale though seeking he be drown'd â—â—â— to proceed a Poets Art I know â—â—â— compact of earthly things below â—â—â— is of any base substantiall mettle That in the worlds rotundity doth settle â—â—â—tis Immortall and it hath proceeding â—rom wheÌ„â—e diuinest soules haue all their breeding â—â— is a blessing â—â—â—u'n hath sent to men â—y men it is diâ—â—lged with their pen And by that propagation it is knowne And ouer all the world disperst and throwne â—â—â— verball elocution so refinde That it to Vertue animates mans minde The blessed Singer of blest Israel â—â— this rare Arte he rarely did excell He sweetly Poetiz'd in heau'nly verses â—â—â— lines which aye eternity rehearses â—â—â— and glorious great esteeme â—â—â— Câ—â—â—â— did a Poet deeme â—â—mired Virgils life doth plainely show â—â—t all the world a Poets worth may know â—â—â— leauing Israels King and Romane Caesar â—â—seeke in England English Poets
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
associates assaults this Castle of Enuy where after halfe an houres fight or thereabouts by the inuincible prowesse of the assaiâ—ants the Hell borne defendants were vanquished their Castle vtterly razed demolished and subuerted with Rackets breakers blowes and reports innumerable IOHN TINDALL The description of such part of the Fire workes as were deuised and accomplished by Master William Fishenden Gunner and Seruant to his Maiestie Apiramides or loftie platforme in the forme of a Triangled spire with a Globe fixed on the top therof the whole work turning burning the space almost of halfe an houre or neere thereabouts from whence proceeded many Rackets firea blowes and reports in great numbers to the great delight and contentment of the King the Queene the Prince the Princesse Elizabeth the Prince Palatine and diuers others the Nobility the Gentry and Commons of this Kingdom FINIS EPITHALAMIES OR Encomiasticke Triumphall Verses Consecrated to the Immortall memory of the royall Nuptials of the two Parragons of Christendome FREDERICKE and ELIZABETH HEe * God that vpon the Poles hath hing'd the skyes Who made the Spheares the Orbs and Planets seuen Whose justice dams whose mercy justifies What was is shall be in earth Hell or Heauen Whom men and Angels lauds and magnifies According as his Lawes command hath giuen The poore the Rich the Begger and the King In seuerall Anthems his great praises sing Then as the meanest doe their voices stretch To lawd the sempiternall Lord of Lords So I a lame Decrepit-witted wretch With such poore Phrases as my skill a floords From out the Circuit of my braine did fetch Such weake inuention as my wit records To write the tryumphs of this famous I le On which both Heauen earth with ioy doth smile My Genius therefore my inuention moues TO sing of Britaines great Olympick Games Of mirth of Heau'n and earths beloued loues Of Princely sports that noble mindes enflames To doe the vtmost of their best behoues To fill the world with their atchieued Fames T' attaine Eternities all-passing bounds Which neither Fate nor Death nor Time confounds Guns Drums and Trumpets Fire-workes Bonfires Bels. With acclamations and applausefull noyse Tilts Turneyes Barriers all in mirth excels The ayre reuerberates our earthly ioyes This great Tryumphing Prophet-like fore-tels I hope how * The Lake or Gulph of forgetfulnes of the which I hope our griefes haue sufficiently carowled Leathes Lake all griefe destroyes For now blacke sorrow from our Land is chac'd And ioy and mirth each other haue embrac'd How much Ichouah hath this Iland blest The thoughts of man can neuer well conceaue How much we lately were with woes oprest For him * Prince Henry whom Death did late of life bereaue And in the midst of griefe and sad vnrest To mirthfull sport * God freely giu'es vs leaue And when we all were drench'd in blacke dispaire Ioy conquered greife and comfort vanquish'd care Thou high and mighty 〈…〉 â—â—â— Count Pallatine and pal 〈…〉 of the â—â—â—â—â— Bauares great Duke whom God on high doth life To be the tenth vnto the Worthies nine Be euer blest with thy beloued * The Princesse Elizabeth Guilt Whom God and best of men makes onely thine Let annually the day be giuen to mirth Wherein the Nuptials gaue our loy loyes new birth Right gracious Princesse great Elizabeth In whose Heroicke pure white Iuory breast True vertue liues and liuing flourisheth And as their Mansion hath the same possest Belou'd of God aboue and men beneath In whom the Goddesses and graces rest By vertues power Ichonah thee hath giuen Each place doth seeme where thou remain'st a heauen The Royall bloud of Emperours and Kings Of Potent Conquerours and Famous Knights Successiuely from these two Princes springs Who well may claime these titles as their rights The Patrons Christendome to vnion brings Whose vnity remoted Lands vnites And well in time I hope this sacred worke Will hunt from Christian Lands the faithlesse Turke By this happy marriage great Britaine France Denmarke Germany the most part of Christendonâ—e are vnited eyther in affinity or consanguinity Since first the framing of the worlds vast Roome A fitter better match was not combinde So old in wisdome young in beauties bloome And both so good and graciously inclinde And from this day vntill the day of doome I doubt succeeding ages shall not finde Such wisdome beauty grace compact together As is innate in them in both in eyther None but the Diuell and his infernall crue At this beloued heau'nly match repines None but such fiends which hell on earth doth spue Which wish Eclips of their illustrious shines The Gods themselues with rare inuentions new With inspiration mans deuice refines And with their presence vndertakes these taskes Deuises motions Reuels playes and Maskes That which God loues most the Diuell hates most and I am sure that none but the blacke crew are offended with these Royal Nuptials The thund'rers * Iune Bride hath â—efe her heauenly bed And with her presence this great wedding graces Himâ—â— in Saffron Robes inuelloped Ioynas and accords these Louers lou'd embraces Yea all the Gods downe to the Earth are fied And mongst our ioyes their pleasures enterlaces Immortals joynes with mortals in their mirth And makes the Court their Paradice on earth Maiestick Ioue hath left his spangled Throane To dance Leuoltoes at this Bridall feast Infusieg Iouiall glee in euery one The high the low the greatest and the least Sad mindes to sable melancholy prone Great loue their vitall parts hath so possest That all are wrapt in sportfull extasies With showes and Glamors ecchoing in the skyes Where the Planeâ— Iupiter hath sole predominance there is all Royall mirth and jouâ—all alacrity a Sol. Apollo from the two topt b Pernassus Muses Hill Eight of the c The Muses Sisters nine hath brought from thence Leauing d A tragicall mourneful Muse who hath beene here already but I hope now she is lame of the Gout that she wil keepe home for euer Meâ—pomence alone there still To muse on sad and tragicall euents The rest all stretching their all matchlesse skill To serue this Royall Princesse and this Princes Thus Sol descended from his Radient shrine Brings Poesie and Musicke downe diuine The wrathfull God of e Mars War in burnish'd Armes Layes by his angry all confounding mood And in the Lifts strikes vp sweet Loues Alarmes Where friendly warres drawes no vnfriendly bloud Where honours fire the noble spirit warmes To vndertake such actions as are good Thus mighty Mars these tryumphs doth encrease At Tilt. With peacefull warre and sweet contentions peace The Queene of f Venus Loue these Royall sports attend And at this Banquet deignes to be a guest Her whole endeauours she doth wholly bend She may in Loues delights outstrip the best For whosoe're doth Hymens Lawos preâ—end If Venus be but absent from the feast They may perhaps be merry in some
your leaue a little in Prose and to the purpose GEntlemen I pray you take me not for a common Ferriman to Conicatchers I transport this fellow this once not out of confederacy but out of commiseration For I confesse ingenuously at first sight of his pittifull Preface he turn'd all my malice into compassion For I had thought hauing giuen himselfe the Title of his Maiesties Poet and by his owne confession poore enough to be one that necessity at least would haue begot that which a beggar cals Phrase â—him Whereas this Cadworme hauing onely got Rime which is but the buttons and â—â—â— to couple Verse together or as the wings of a Butter-flye now turn'd out of his Sumâ—â— weeds hee appeares to be the same which I euer held him to be A most naked and â—â—ched Mungrell not able to pen a letter in true English though it were to borrow moâ—â—â— But you will say it was the badnesse of the matter being the absolute only profest lyâ—â—â— of our age it behou'd him to build vpon his memory which Artists say is an enemy to wit â—â—â— hereon his memory is so short that as we speake of the Italians they tell lyes so long till â—â—â— beleeue themselues for truths so this Hydra-tong'd Proteus-prater in his owne and â—â—â— selfe same pestiferous Preface auer's and confutes and then auer's againe the same contradictions which he denies that he was tyed to performe the Challenge at the Hope Yet â—â—â— he confesses he sent his man backe with the earnest which he sayes was fiue shillings say ten but we will not contend for the summe had it beene ten pounds hee 'll as soone pay as fiue shillings Did I giue him fiue shillings earnest then no question but it was to tye him â—â—â— bargaine was the money certaine and the conditions at his owne choice Indeed he â—â—es to haue money for a Song but I haue more wit then to be one of his Patrons But his â—â—â— plaid the knaue as how could he doe other hauing such a Master and ran away with â—â—â— money was euer poore Rat driuen to more extremity to free her selfe from the trap by â—â—ning off his owne taile is Monsieur le Foggnieurs seruice so cheape that it will be sold for five shillings He will say his Annagram is I will feare no man It is a deere Anagram Monsiâ—â— â—â— it cost you fiue shillings For had you fear'd your Man you would neuer haue trusted him but you may see the scald Squire will haue his Iade though it be but a scabbed one â—â—â—his Man hath beene found in three or foure tales about the vnfortunate fiue shillings First he confest that hee paid it to a Broker for the loane of a Cloake for his Master to goe twiâ— to the Court in Secondly that he paid it for the hyre of two Shirts for his Master which he had to ride into the Country withall Thirdly that hee gaue it to a Punke for her diuidend which Punke was to haue a share in their Riming and whistling and they were to shaâ—â— with her in her commings in Fourthly that he paid it to a Broome-man for foure paire â—â—â— Bootes for his Master at fifteene pence a paire Was euer Poore crowne so martyr'd and quaâ—ter'd amongst Brokers Knaues and Whores But were this all the dust that stucke on â—â—â— Coate his man might beat it out of it you shall finde he hath a Father to father his lyâ— on which Sire of his as hee saith sent for him into the Country I say t was the Thiefe whoâ—â—â— pardon he was to get Now sayes hee whether should I obey my parents or Iohn Taylor Surely thy Father Mounsieur for he hath much need of a sonne that will Father thee Nayâ—â—â— such a father that gaue him a hundred pound at parting I hold my life he meant with aâ—puâ—â— for a parting blow This lye a man would thinke carries some colour with it did not thâ—â— witlesse Asse himselfe discouer it to bee but a Vizard For a little before he writes Might heâ—â—â— haue had fiue pound he would haue staid his iourney Doth not Esops pluck'd Crow looke like a Rooke now Vngracious Child wouldst thou preferre fiue pound to thy fathers blessing came the hundred pound so vnlook'd for that the hope of it was not worth fiue Surely Gentlemen I hope to auoid this tax hee will in his next edition confesse himselfe the child of the people and the hundred pound was one of his poeticall fictions for as yet one penny of it was neuer extant And beleeue it his faith his father and the money are aloâ—â— Implicite neuer made manifest Imagine his Father had beene able to giue him 100. pounds would hee haue bound hiâ— Prentice to a blinde Harper whose boy he cannot deny but he was whom the hungry sawâ—â— scroyle almost famisht with beguiling him of his victuals so that the poore musician was faine to shift him off for his guts were clung in his belly and Fennor meant to make Haâ—â— strings of them But thinke you if his Father had beene of that worth that he would haue suffered him to runne ouer the earth like one of Caines Imps that had a Plough tayle of his own to tye him to But you will obiect a reconcilement vpon better fortunes he is now married and hath a stayd head He hath call'd the King master and the blacke Guard fellowes heonors change manners I confesse and that he is adorn'd I will not deny the hundred pound well laid out shall speake his Fathers bounty At thy return Mounsier Le Fognier what became of the mony didst thou pay the Hackney man for horse-hire hee pleads not guilty because hâ— receiued no gilt thou hast but one only part of a Gentleman in thee and that is thou wilt pâ—â— no debts didst thou buy houshold stuffe Let the Thiefe speake who is most familiarly guâ—â— vnder colour of a pardon but thou holdst it lawfull to punish Sinners Didst thou buy appareâ— with it No verily he pawnâ—d his Cloake the next morning of his returne Oh inuisible summâ—â—â— what is become of thee This was a hidden blessing whose effects are not yet to be seene Tâ—â— one of Erra Paters predictions t is intailed vpon his Issue But to conclude if it were lawfull for me to examine thee at Staffords Law I would make thee confesse the receit of ten shillings the acknowledgement of my bill the acceptance of thy answere and thy word and promise for thy meeting me and that I neuer receiued mony or message to the contrary Aâ—â— which thou didst confesse to me before fiue Witnesses since thy booke was written when thâ—â—â— paidst me my Mony and this and more I could make thee say and sweare or else I would beat thee to mash and make a Gally-mawfry for Dogges of thee But I think it time to leaâ—â— Prose and fall into Verse for the satisfaction of the Reader thy shame and my Fame IOHN TAYLOR He
giues himselfe an honest good report And to himselfe he is beholden for 't Tet 'twixt the greatest knaue and him I weene Ther 's thus much ods A pair of sheers betweene Master PENNORS taking Boate. COme fellow Bull-beefe quicke thrust in the boat Here comes a braue fare in a horsemans coat â—â—d in man Sir lend me your worships hand â—â— the â—eed t' hath rain'd 't is slippery Sir to stand â—â—â— sit you downe we haue the winde and tide â—â—â— sir a little on the Star-boord side â—â—â— off now I am glad I haue you here â—â—â— Master Fennor aliâ—s Le Fognier â—â—â—â—â—â— are a fare falne to my lot diuinely â—â—â— you my Boat and I will trim you finely â—â—â— as I Row I le tell you whom I am â—â—â— Iohn Taylor made your Annagram In defence of the true Annagram I made of William Fennor Nv Villany for mee THat I thy Annagram did truely finish No letter did I adde or none diminish â—â—â— which Nu Villany for me 's the same â—â— Annagram of William Fennors name â—â—â— think'st to make thy Reputation stretch â—â—â— out of Normandy thy name wilt fetch â—â—â—â—â—â—â— men may see thy folly plaine appeare â—â—â— wilt forsooth be called Le Fognier â—â—â— Fognier out alas thy wits are fogg'd â—â—â— but laugh to see thee mir'd and bogg'd â—â—â— holla holla hobby hold my fist â—â—â— thee out of this blacke foggy mist. Le Foggnier Annagramma Flieng Roge. HOw lik'st thou this braue Annagram 't is true â—â—â— And euery letter in his place is due â—â—â— for thy further grace shal't haue another â—â— hardly do so much for mine owne Brother Le Foggnier Annagramma Forge Lieng â—â—â—â—â—â— how I haue help'd thee at a pinch And Annagramatiz'd thee to an inch The sunshine of my Muse the Fog hath broke And clear'd thy Name from out the misty smoake Thou shew'st thy plenteous beggery of wir That mak'st thy Annagram so much vnfit Thy Name 's but thirteene letters as I weene And in thy Annagram thou hast fifteene Then William Fennor's Annagram's not such I will feare no man ' sE and A to much I guesse at first thy Ancestors did keepe Within some fenny ground Hoge Kine or sheep And liuing Hogheards or poore labring men They tooke their Names of Fennor from the Fen. And now to write a iest my Muse doth smile I thinke thou wast begotten on a stile Thy father looking one way and thy mother For feare of being spide she look'd another And leering sundry waies kept carefull watch Lest any at their businesse should them catch And that 's the reason why thine eies doe rowle And squint so in thy doltish iobbernowle I cry thee mercy in my other booke Thy Coat of Armes I very much mistooke As from the Fen at first thou didst suruiue Thy Scutchion from the Fen I will deriue Marke how I will emblaze thee I'lbe briefe Within a Quagmire-field two Toades in Chiefe â— A Lope staffe for the Bend I hold it best A paire of Oxe hornes Rampant for the Crest Well Mantled with an old Raw tough Cow-hide Thus I my armes diuide and subdiuide For calling me a Taylor and a shred A dish not worthy whereon to be fed Could I but Cut and sow and steale and stitch As well as thou canst lye I would be rich The Time hath bin a Poor Iohn's scraps would fill The hungrâ— Maw of thredbare Lowzy Will Thou hast forgot thou rim'st to me of late For sixteene Oysters once at Billingsgate Thou hast forgot I gaue thee my old breeches Because thou sung'st spok'st extrump'ry speeches When barly bread and Lamp oyle thou didst eate A Poor Iohn then with thee had bin good meat Vpon his false Annagram on my name ARt not asham'd to be so false in print Thy Muse is like thine Eyes sure all a squint The world may see my name no â— affords And thou hast thrust in two to make vp words O hate rayle on and then rayle on O hate Thy wit I see is in a desp'rate state Else thou wouldst neuer vnto all mens view Declare thy folly printing things vntrue For thine owne sake let Annagrams aloue Thou canst not make a true one then make none To him I hold too vnworthy to be my foe William Fenner THou hast look't ouer I perceiue and seene Th' inuectiue Scourge of my reuenging spleene And wisely as thou dem'st thou weighest it lightly Thou Gracelesse disgrace thou esteemest slightly There 's not a bad word in it that is writ But well thou knowst thou hast deserued it And if I thought I ow'd thee any more I would rayle on till I had paid the score For though my iust incensed anger sleepe Yet doe I keepe my Satyres whip in weepe In salt and brine that to the quicke shall scourge Thee or who dares my angry Muse to vrge And by your leaue Sir I 'l a little â—irke yee And with a milder lash I 'l gently ierke yee I will not rayle or rogue thee or beâ—slaue thee But I will finely baffle beard and braue thee I 'l squeeze crush and vnto poulder pounce thee I 'l make thy wits for euer to renounce thee I 'l lay thee open and I will attaint thee And for a pittifull poore scab I 'l paint thee I 'l nip and strip and whip thee out of breath Like Bubenax I 'l rime thee vnto death Thou sayst my verse is impotent and hault Thou dost accuse me for thy onely fault Alack in Rime thou canst doe naught but cobble Thy cripled Verses vp and downe doe hobble And doe so lamely runne and rise and fall Like maimed Beggers in an Hospitall Thou hast no iudging vnderstanding eare Thy Accents and thy Sillables to reare Or let them fall thou botchest many a line That I would shame to father such for mine When a tressillable a verse doth end 'T is harsh 't is palty and it doth offend In a translation I with it would beare But in Inuention it offends the eare Thou often end'st thy lines with Memory And then thou answer'st that with Pillory And then thou comst vpon me Horribly And in conclusion writ'st solowsily That when thou gett'st'a Poets dignity I 'l hang thee of mine owne benignity Ther 's many a fault thou mak'st which I wold show But that I feare 't would make thee halfe a Poet And well I know thou wouldst vnthankfull be And wouldst deny thou learndst thy skill of meâ— I 'l therefore leaue thee as a plague to time A selfe-conceited witlesse Asse in Rime I know thy ouer-daring minde doth dare With me and my inuention to compare Indeed by fortune I some things haue done Which many sayes from better wits did run But let their enuious misconceit belye me Nor thee or they or any dares to try me But to the purpose dar'st thou thus much doe Let one man giue one Theame betwixt vs two And on that Theame let both of vs goe write And he that best and soonest doth indite