one of the deepest clerks of his time What a rare man and of heavenly speculations was Io de sacro bosco the Author of the sphaere which remaines yet engraven upon his tomb in Paris some ages after these the world of learned men did much esteem Reginald Poole Iohn Colet William Lillie Linacre Pace Cardinall Fisher Bishop of Rochester Sir Thomas More Latimer Tindall Baleus Tunstall men inferior to none as well for sanctimony of life as for rare erudition and knowledg Toby Matthew Archbishop of York another Chrysostom Thomas Stapleton Nic. Wotton Iewell Cheek Humphreys Grindall Whitgift Plowden Ascham Cooke Smyth Whitaker Perkins Mountagu those great speculative Lords Baeon and Herbert Andrews Usher that rare Primat Selden who knows as much as both the Scaligers Camden the English Strabo Owen another Martiall with divers excellent Dramatique Poets and it is a great wrong to the Common-wealth of learning that their works are not made intelligible in a larger toung then that Insulary Dialect Add hereunto that for Physicians and Lawyers both Civill and Common there are as profound spirits there as any on earth And as for learning so for prowess and magnanimity the Inhabitants of Great Britain have been and are still very celebrous And though there hath been alwayes an innated kind of enmity twixt the French and the English yet they have extorted prayses out of their enemies mouths witnes Comines Froissard and Bodin who write so much in honor of the English Nor do they herein complement or flatter a whit What a bold Britain was Brennus who liv'd long before the English took footing there what notable feates did he perform in Italy Greece and Asia so that the old Britains or Welsh in honor of that Heroe call a King after his name to this day viz. Brennin and there is a Castle in Wales of his name to this day How manfully did the ancient Britains tugg with the Romans who receav'd fowler defeats there then in any other Region which one of their Poets seemes to confesse when he saith Invictos Romano Marte Britannos The Silures who are a peeple but of a few small shires in Wales viz. Monmouth Brecknock and others being animated by the courage of their King Cataracus and provok'd by the menaces of the Emperour Claudius who threatned to extinguish the very names of them met his army in open field and cutting off an auxiliary Regiment which was going to recreut the Emperour under Marius Valens they utterly routed him In so much that Ostorius the propraetor of Britanny for the Romans resenting this dishonor died out of a sense of grief Charles the Great had to doe with them in three battailes wherein there was such a slaughter of his men that he cryed Si vel semel tantùm cum illis adhuc depugnandum foret ne unum quidem militem sibi superfuturum If he were to encounter the Britains but once more he should not have a soldier left him a saying proceeding from such a man as Charlemain that tends much to the reputation of the Britains But the Gaules are they whom the Britains galld having in so many victories left their arrowes in their thighs in their breasts and some sticking in their hearts which makes Bodin complain Gallos ab Anglis in ipsa Gallia clades accepisse ac pene Imperium amisisse That the French receaved many overthrowes in France herself by the English and had almost lost their Kingdom whereupon the Poet sings wittily Anglorum semper virtutem Gallia sensit Ad Galli cantum non fugit iste Leo. For how often have the French Kings with their Nobles been routed defeated and discomfited by the English Gray-goose-wing how often hath it pierc'd the very center of the Kingdom what notable rich returnes have the English made from France And what pittifull looks must France have when Edward the fourth got such a glorious victory at Cressy where above thirty thousand perish'd among whom the King of Bohemia was found among the dead bodies ten Princes eighty Barons twelve hundred Gentlemen and the flower of the French fell that day and King Philip of Valois did hardly escape himself to a small town which being ask'd at the gate who he was qui va la answer'd la Fortune de France the Fortune of France This made France weare black a long time But in another battail she had as ill luck wherein her King Iohn and David King of Scots where taken prisoners and attended the prince of Wales to England yet such was the modesty of that prince though conquerour that he waited upon King Iohn bareheaded at table this was such a passage as happen'd in King Edgars raign who had foure Kings to row him upon the river Dee hard by Westchester viz. Kennad Kind of the Scots Malcolm King of Cumberland Maconus King of Man and another Welsh King The English reduc'd France to such a poverty at that time that she was forc'd to coin leather money In divers other battailes in the raignes of Charles the fift sixt and seventh and Lewis the elevenths time the English did often foyl the French untill the war pour le bien public begun by the Duke of Burgundy Such a large livery and seifin the English had taken in France that for three hundred and fifty years they were masters of Aquitain and Normandy Nay Henry the sixt of England was crowned King of France in Paris And so formidable were the English in France that the Duke of Britany when he was to encounter the French army in the field thought it a policy to cloth a whole Regiment of his soldiers after the English mode to make them more terrible to the French What shall I say of that notable Virago Queen Elizabeth who did such exploits again Spain by taking the united provinces of the Low Countreys under her protection How did she ply the Spaniard and bayt him by Sea and Land how did she in a manner make him a Bankrupt by making him lose his credit in all the banks of Europe And all that while Spain could do England no harme at all touching the strength of which Kingdom you may please to hear what a judicious Italian speaks of it Il Regno d'Ingliterra non há bisogno d'altri per la propria difesa anzi non solo é difficile mà si può dir impossible se non é divisione nel Regno che per via de force possa esser conquistato The Kingdom of England stands in no need of any other for her own defense so that it is not only difficult but a thing impossible unlesse there be some intestin division to make a conquest of that Countrey Philip offer'd very fairly for her in the year eighty eight when he thought to have swallowed her with his Invincible Fleet which was a preparing three yeers she consisted of above 150. saile 8000. Mariners 20000. foot besides voluntiers she carried 1600. Canons of brasse 1000. of iron
of them 'T is incredible how many hundreds of Busses they of Holland put forth every yeer and what infinit benefit they make thereof Therefore Gount Gondamar the Spanish Ambassador had some reason to say that the King of Great Britain had a richer mine upon his coasts meaning fishing then his Master had either at Mexico or Peru if he knew how to make right use of them some of the Charibbi Ilands also which the English have as Antego Mevis and others which have not neer the number of men which should colonize them shew the scarcity of the peeple of Britain or which is worse their sloth Now touching the Inhabitants of Great Britain 't is well known as the sea tumbleth perpetually about the Countrey so their braines do fluctuat in their noddles which makes them so variable and unsteady And herein they are little inferior to their next transmarin neighbours the French only they use to come short of them in point of counsell and policy wherein the French hath been too hard for them in all Treaties But they exceed the French in superstitious kinds of vanities specially as many writers brand them with prophecies and old Milesian tales being very apt in arduous important businesses to suffer their belief to be transported that way and as Tages was to the Hetruscans Indigenae dixere Tagen qui primus Hetruscam Edocuit gentem casus aperire futuros So Merlin of Caermarthen the son of an Incubus left behind him some things which they believe as Oracles though they be meere Orestes dreames To this Merlin I may add that Arch-Heretick Pelagius whose true name was Morgan an old British name who in Europe Afrique and Asia belchd out such pernicious opinions as Prosper sayed Pestifero vomuit Coluber sermone Britannus Like a poysonous Viper he vomited much venome But in point of solid learning the English are much degenerated from what they were they are grown more flashy and superficiall and nothing so pious as they us'd to be where shall we find now among them a Winfred an Alcuin a Bede men that converted whole Nations Yet this must be imputed to their supinesse and sloth rather then to decay of Nature in their intellectualls Now in point of idlenes the women sympathize with their men who have not onely their faces but their hands mask'd with leather for fear their skin should be too much hardned with working And for their femalls they seem to be Hermaphrodits at first appearance for they use to weare hatts as men do with toting feathers in them There cannot be found now among them such a woman as Queen Anne was daughter to the Emperour Charles the fourth married to Richard the second who first reform'd that wanton unseemly fashion of riding astride on horseback Their men of late yeers are arrand pirats one of them call'd captain Ward did do Christendom one of the greatest mischiefs that ever was done by teaching the Art of piracy and a better way of building shipps to the picaroons of Algier and Tunis They go roving abroad to other seas when their own might find them work enough if they would make use of the comodities they affoord They are but dull for invention whereas 't is true they use to add something when they have seene a thing For matter of manufactures of cloth and Kersies with other woollen stuffs they were Flemmins that taught them first as also all goldsmiths work and argentry with judgment in Jewells Add hereunto that it is the proper humor of the English to be arrogant high minded and proud yea in forren Countreys where if they have a little language they will keep such a magnifying of their own Iland that it is fastidious to hear them Nor of any other Nation can they agree among themselves when they are abroad specially the Marchants who are envious and repine at one anothers profit and so ready to cut one anothers throat When the Prince of Wales was in Spain thinking to have the Infanta for his wife it was observ'd that the cariage of the English was very insolent there for some of them being dieted in the Kings House they would fall a vilifying the Spanish fare extolling ever and anon the good beef of England which was so much taken notice of that it did much hurt to the treaty of the match There is a saying and 't is a true one That England may be call'd the Hell of Horses the Purgatory of servánts and the Paradis of Women Touching the first the English take a great pride in galloping and post it on the high way as if they were going for a ghostly father a midwife or a physician for one mortally sick though indeed there be no cause of any hast at all and then the poor beast is thrust into some cold corner all in a water where he commonly contracts some distemper Then have you huge long Races whereof there are many hundreds in England wherein a poor sprightfull horse is rid off his legges and made to spend his very lungs having holes in his flank that will hide rowell and beame And in this kinde of pastime there is more cunning and rooking then in Cardes and Dice or any other sport Then for their Carrs and Carts they are so unmeasurably loaden that the track doth not only spoil the pavements of the streets and highwaies as they passe but oftentimes it seems to break the very heart-strings of the poor passive animall insomuch that of any Nation that holy Text is least observed by the English A good man is mercifull to his beast England is the Purgatory of Servants for they live no where in so much slavery the poor Footman must keep pace with his Master when he gallops in Hunting they are sent upon arrands forty fifty miles a day The Apprentices though Gentlemens sonnes of good extraction sometimes are put to fetch tankards of water carry coales to sweep the gutters and doe other as servile offices as slaves doe in other Countries and Servingmen must not offer to put on their hats though it rain or the weather be never so cold standing before their Master which makes me think on a facetious tale of a German Gentleman who having entertain'd an English servant and riding before him through a rough foard where the horses stayed to drink and the servant keeping his hat in his hand though the winde blew hard his Master smil'd upon him saying Put on thy hat fool for our horses drink no healths But you will say that England is the Paradise of Women then it is either for the extraordinary respect the husbands bear them by permitting them to be alwayes at the upper end of the Table whither their lightnesse carries them sometimes or for their extraordinary beauty To the first I have nothing to say but for the second 't is true they are moulded commonly of good flesh and blood and have sanguine clear complexions but they are withall flegmatick and dull
For the Pole is naturally a stout man that will neither be softned with pleasure nor dismay'd by danger a death bravely purchas'd he holds to be an immortality and a life disgracefully preserv'd to be worse then any death He is more careful to keep his Honor then life as according to Cromers testimony near the Town of Streme there is a hill where Pots Caudrons and other Vessells are found naturally so shapen though they be soft within the Earth but being digged out they quickly incrustrate and grow hard when they are expos'd to the cold air so the Pole is naturally shap'd for a soldier in his Mothers womb but confirm'd afterwards by the severe discipline of his Parents He feares the clashing of armes no more then the wagging of oken leaves or the bubbling of waters And herein they retain still the genius of the Great Piastus who as by probity and justice he got the Kingdom at first so his Ospring conserv'd it by succession for 500. years The women there also are indued with a masculine courage for by the old constitution of Poland no maiden was to marry till she had kill'd three enemies in the field but Piastus abolished this custom and commanded women to exercise themselves in matters more consentaneous to their sex We read that Augustus Caesar gave in command to Lentulus his Ambassador that he should not disquiet the Sarmatian for if he were once provoked he would not understand what peace was afterwards so the Danube did put limits to the so prosperous Augustus and the Pole did terminate his progresse All this is confirm'd by that disticke of Ovid who was banished thither Maxima pars hominum nec te pulcherrima curat Roma nec Ausonij militis armatimet Good Lord what Victorious Kings hath Poland had Ziemovit did debell the Hungarians Bohemians Pomeranians and made them all tributary Boleslaus Chrobri subdued the Russe bridled the Prusse chastised the Saxons and upon the frontires of his Dominions erected brazen Pillars after his death all Poland mourned a whole year all which time there was neither feasting nor dancing What shall I say of Boleslaus the third who fought 50. battailes and was Victor in all In his time the Emperor Otto the third made a Pilgrimage to Poland to visit the body of Saint Adalbertus which Boleslaus had redeem'd from Prusse Pagans and it was to expiate a crying sin that he had committed which was thus The Empresse being light she caressed an Italian Count so farre that she offered him the use of her body which he refusing out of a malitious indignation like Pharo's Wife she accus'd the said Count that he would have forc'd her whereupon he was arraigned condemned and executed but before his death he discoverd the whole series of the businesse to his Wife A little after a great Sessions in Roncalias appointed to right Orphans and Widdows the Countess came before the tribunal and brought her husbands head under her vest so desiring leave of Caesar to speak she ask'd what punishment did he deserve that took away another mans life Otto answered no lesse then death Then O Emperor you have condemned your self who have taken away my guiltlesse husband and behold here his head and because there wants proof in so private a cause I will undergoe the Ordeal the fyrie tryal which the Countesse having perform'd without any hurt the Empresse Maria Augusta who had accus'd the Count was brought and condemned to be burnt which was done accordingly And the Emperor gave the Countesse Dowager 4. Castles in fuller satisfaction To make further atonement for this offence the said Emperor Otto came to Poland upon a Pilgrimage and Boleslaus came 7. miles to meet him the way being cover'd with cloth of divers colours all along Hereupon the Emperor for so Signal a favour did solemnly create Boleslaus King and his Companion and a friend of the Roman Empire declaring him free from all tribute and jurisdiction for ever But to come to more Modern times What a man of men was Sigismund the first you know most noble Princes that the Persians doe cry up Cyrus the Macedonians Alexander the Great The Germans Charlemagne for heroique and valiant Kings The Athenians cry up Miltiades Cimon Alcibiades Thrasybulus Phocio and others The Lacedemonians their Pausanias Lysander and Agesilaus The Thebans Epaminondas and Pelopidas The Carthaginians cry up Hamilcar Hannibal and Asdrubal The Romans do celebrate their Fabios their Scipios Lucullus and Caesar for strenuous and incomparable Captaines 'T is true they might be so but they had to deal with soft effeminate people But the Polonian Sigismund had to doe with the toughest the most intrepid and fiercest Nations of the Earth and a most favourable gale of fortune did blow upon him throughout the whole Progresse of his life and actions He tugg'd with Mechmet the Moscovian Emperor whom Amurath the 3. acknowledg'd to be one of the greatest Warriers in the World and got the better of him He wrastled with the grim Tartars with the furious Valachians and layed them on their backs He cop'd with the Great Turk who glories in a perpetuity of Victorship and foild him more then once Nay he had divers Praeliations with us Germans and took from us the spacious Provinces of Livonia and Prussia which not without a foule blemish to Germany he added to the Crown of Poland And although the people of those Countries have often solicited our Diets and put the German Emperors in mind of the avulsion and losse of those Countries yet we have thought it better to leave the quarrel alone because there is nothing to be got by the Pole but knocks for the Poleax is a terrible weapon Now touching the strength of the King of Poland you know that for Cavalry he is the potentest Prince of Europe Thuanus the Frenchman confesseth that the King of Poland can bring to the field in Noble men and Gentry alone which are bound to serve him so long time upon their own charge above a hundred and fifty thousand men of all sorts of Arms. The name of Cosacks is formidable all the World over And although they are cryed up to be freebooters fighting onely for plunder I will rectifie your opinion in that by a late pregnant example in the Ivonic War for having taken the General of the Enemie Prisoner although there was offer'd 6. times his weight twice in Gold thrice in Silver and once in Jewells yet this would nothing at all move the valiant Cosacks Now for the Nobility of Poland it is numerous and antient nay there be good Authors affirm that the great families of Italy the Ursins the Colonni the Ialians the Gastaldi are originally of a Lituanian race There are in Poland the Radivils the Ostrogians the Starasians the Tarlons the Herburtons with 30. princely families more All this considered most noble Princes Poland may well come in and stand in competition for the principality of Europe but verbum non
and Lorenzo de Medici 23 Reasons that Great Britain may stand in competition for the primacy of Europe 50 Raphael Urbin design'd by Leo the tenth to be a Cardinal 37 Reasons why Great Britain cannot deserve the preheminence of other Countries 67 The Russe seldom travels abroad 2. in the Pro. Rodolphus the Emperours wise speech to a Traveller 6 The Rule of Providence not to powre down all blessings at once 8 Of Regiomontanus 10 A Remarkable passage of Everard Barbatus Duke of Wirtemberg 21 The Roman Emperours had a guard of Germans for their fidelity Of the Renowned Families of Germany and their antiquity and extent through all Europe 26 Rhodope a rich Courtisan built one of the Pyramids of Egypt 2 Rome in one Cense that was made had in her two millions and a half of soules 2 Rome when Pagan had above 400 Temples now Christian she hath scarce the 4th part 2 The sorry report the French gave of Poland at their return with Hen. 3 6 Rome often ravished 28 Rome shrunk into a Pigmey's skin from that Gigantick shape she was 34 The hugenesse of Rome conjectur'd by many arguments 34 S. SCotsmen Men-eaters 63 Spain first attempted and at last subdued by the Romans 2 Spain preferr'd before all countries by Charles the 5 1 Spain with her commodities laid opâ—… 2 Spain the fragrantst Country 2 In Spain Milk cannot turn to Whey in some places 2 Spain the Queen of horses 2 Of the chief Cities of Spain 3 Of the Mines of Spain 4 The site and form of Spain 4 Of the 150 Rivers that water Spain 4 Spain hath a bridge twenty miles long whereon cattle feed 4 Spanish Crown made of her own gold 4 Spain describ'd by Claudian 5 A Spanish Guard about Iulius Caesar Augustus had a Band of Biscainers 6 A notable example of the Spanish valour 6 The Spaniards right justified to the West Indies 7 The Spanish Discoverers of the West Indies the Discoverers of the East 7 Spaniards the sole Grandees of this Age 8 Spain hath bred notable Spirits 8 Of the Jesuits founded by a Spaniard 9 The Spanish Monarchy the vastest since the Creation 10 The Sun alwaies shines upon some part of the Philippian Monarchy 10 Sacriledge to dispute of the Emperours power 2. in the Pro. Spain taunted 6 Seneca's notable Speech against Forren Travell 6 Satan doth commonly set up his Chappel near Gods House 9 Scaligers witty saying of â—…lavius 12 Scaligers coÌ„parison 'twixt thunder canon 14 Scaligers witty saying of Printing of Canon Wheele-clocks 16 Scaligers Elogium of Antwerp 16 The Swisse scarce knew the use of Gold and Silver til the overthrow they gave the Duke of Burgundy near Granson 19 Spanish Souldiers made hilts of swords of massie Gold at the plundring of Antwerp 20 A notable speech of Philip the second when his Father resign'd him his dominions 22 The wondrous strength of Sigismund King of Poland who could crack a horshooe 8 Slavonique the most spacious Tongue 8 Strange examples of some learned men that lost their memory as not to remember their own names 34 Scaligers tart opinion of Rome 35 Sicily call'd by Gâ—…cero Romes Nurse and the peoples Pantry 35 Sannazarius writ three books of Jesus Christ and yet never names him 38 Spain hath afforded many brave Emperors 11 The Spanish Grandezas expressed and reasons alledged that the Spanish King is to be preferrred before all other Potentates 11 In Spain the Mule fares sometimes better than the Master 1â—… The sterillity of Spain discovered by a pleasant tale of the Count Palatin of the Rhine 15 Of the Spanish pride some examples 21 How Spain came to this greatness 22 A question whether the Spaniards were first discoverers of the East and West Indies 22 Of the Spanish cruelty in the Indies 23 Spanish King not so potent as we take him to be and the reasons 24 The Spanish valour question'd 26 Divers Spanish Rodomantadoes 26 The Spanish Fleet the highest Grandeza that ever was 27 The sharp sight of the Spaniard 27 A memorable story of a Spanish Captain in Flanderâ—… 27 Though the King of Spain be in perpetuall war and infinitely indebted yet there is no appearance at all in his Court 27 T A Traveller compar'd to a Horsleech and Paris of Troy 6 Tacitus his notable speech against Germany 7 Thuanus saith that Cambray makes 30000 linnen cloths yearly 13 Tacitus like to have been lost had he not been received in a monastery of Westphalia 15 Typography casts a bridle into times mouth 15 Typography Ars memoriae Mors oblivionis 15 Tacitus his opinion of Germany rectified 17 The Tower of Strasburg 574 foot high 17 Tacitus call'd by Budaeus the wickedest of all writers by Tertullian the lyingst by Orosius the flattringst 17 Tyrol abounds most with Mettals of any Country 17 The Turks call all Christians Freinks and the Abyssins call them Alfrangues 24 The Great Turk prefers the Christian Emperours Ambassador before all others 26 The temple of Ephesus 22 years a building 2 The Pope a great temporal Prince proud 33 A tart censure of the Italian 36 A tart saying touching Saints 37 V ULms excells in Drapery of all sorts 13 Utrecht stands betwixt 50 Cities whereof the remotest but a dayes journey 16 Vienna describ'd by Aeneas Sylvius 18 Vladislaus the perjur'd K. of Poland the horrid judgment that fell upon prince peeple 8 The Yew poysonous to those that sleep under it a brasse nayl beaten in takes away the poyson 40 The vertu of Iron 40 A strange vision Henry the 3 of France had before his death 56 How he was murther'd with his Epitaph ibid. Vulcan hath his chief forge and Mars his Armory in Bilbo 4 Of Viriatus the valiant Portuguez 6 A question discuss'd whither the old world got more by the new or the new by the old 8 The vanity of the Portuguais 20 Of the Spanish Inquisition 20 The three vowes of Solyman 29 W BOdin wittily taunted 53 A witty Epigram on Katherin de Medicis Q of France 54 A witty saying of Henry the 4. of France 57 A witty comparison touching Bodin 60 A witty character of the French by Pontumarinus 60 A witty Chronogram 12 Witty reparties 'twixt a German and a Dutchman touching their languages 61 A witty Epigram for drinking 38 A wise law of the Lacedemonians touching lascivious books 62 A witty saying touching the order of Knighthood in France 63 Two witty comparisons 64 A wise saying of an English Captain 57 A witty letter of Câ—…ligni to the French King 64 A witty Epigram upon Spain 24 A witty saying how Philip got the Kingdom of Portugaâ—…l 6 A wise saying of Philip the second 11 His wise speech at his death 11 A witty simile touching Spain 14 A witty speech of Henry the fourth touching Spain 14 The witty speech of King Iames touching the Spaniard 24 Whither the Indian gold hath done more hurt or good to Europe 24 Some witty sayings of the wild Indians reflecting upon the Spaniards 23 A witty saying of Robert Duke of Normandy 10 A witty speech of K. Iames touching Tobacco 5 A wise saying of Cosmo de Medici 27 Walloons that fled from the fury of the Duke of Alva in Flanders taught the English to make Bays and Serges 13 A witty character of a King 15 The Wines of Germany 18 Wine fo plentifull in Germany that in some places they macerat their lime and mingle their morter with it 18 The Walls of Babylon 200 foot high and 60 miles in compas 2 Of the seven wonders 2 Where the Turks horse sets his foot the grass never grows 4 A witty answer of Charles the sift 21 A wise saying of Scaurus 33 A wise saying of Sigismund the Emperor and of Aâ—…phonso of Aragon touching Learning 37 A witty Epigram upon Henry the 4 19 A wise speech of the Pontano Duke of Venice to the Popes Ambassadors 39 A wise sanction made at a Diet against the Popes power in the election of the Emp. 39 A wise saying of the Duke of Alva 24 Witty answers of som Emperors to the Pope 41 A witty saying of an Ambassadour 1 The witty answer of Hen. 4. to the Parisians 42 Of brave women 47 A witty saying of Hen. the 2. King of France 49 A witty saying of Lewis the 12 50 A witty saying of a Spanish Ambassadour 50 A witty Epigram upon Sir Francis Drake 42 Ward the English Pirat did a world of mischief to Christendom 36 A witty saying of a Spanish client to K. Phil. 26 A witty Pasquil against Spain when the Goletta was lost 26 A witty comparison of Europe 29 A witty Spanish Proverb 29 A Welch Prince freed England of Wolves 40 Why Woolsacks are in the House of Peers 40 The wise speech of King Canutus 43 A wise speech of Charles the 5 1 Of the 〈◊〉 of Wales 46 Women did ride astride til Queen Anne wife to Richard the second 54 Of Câ—…rdinal Wolsey 55 The weakness of the Empire 32 A witty Anagram 56 A witty comparison made to the French by Florus 66 A wise saying of the Emperour Frederique 46 Of the Warrs of the Low-Countries and the grounds of them 46 A wise answer of Tiberius 47 A wise answer of Q. Eliz. to the Hollanders 48 A witty comparison that Florus makes of the French valour 66 The witty saying of an Aethiop 67 Water in Moravia of great vertue 68 A witty saying of Henry the fourth 19 The wise speech of Paschasius against the Jesuits 19 A witty saying touching the Philosophers stone 20 A witty saying touching Portugall 20 A witty revenge of a Secretary 49 The witty answer of an Empress 36 A witty saying of Katharine de Medici 35 The woful catastrophe and last words of Henry the 8 58 To the Reader The plenâ—…y of matter wherewith this book doth swel might have made a larger Index but that the Authour had a regard to the Rule of Proportion viz. that the posterâ—…-gate should not prove too big for the Fabrique Errata Edw. the 6. for Hen. 6. pag. 38. best for left p. 31. Charls the first for fift p. 11.