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A15870 The doue: or Passages of cosmography. By Richard Zouche ciuillian, of New Colledge in Oxford Zouch, Richard, 1590-1661. 1613 (1613) STC 26130; ESTC S111819 14,892 72

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THE DOVE OR PASSAGES OF Cosmography BY RICHARD ZOVCHE Ciuillian of New Colledge in OXFORD Sicut Columbae LONDON Printed for George Norton and are to besould at his shop vnder the blacke Bell neere Temple-barre 1613. TO THE TRVELY Noble and worthily Honoured Edward Lord Zouche St. Maur and Cantelupe of his Maiesties Priuie-Councell Right Honorable MY resolued assurance that the mouths of Infants may reueale a truth makes me who haue not attain'd that perfection of speech which is reputed worthie to be openly heard yet hopefully ambitious to be beleeu'd And truely I desire no more but that this simple Intelligencer who hath brought in a relation of the WORLD to me may report me againe to the world one who wish the good of all who are studiously affected and Honour of those who haue put life into my poore indeauours How much I am bound both in my selfe and those whom I esteeme as neare to your Lordships fauours I should blush in this idle manner to make profession did I not thinke that those noble ends which haue giuen beginning to all your actions haue enabled you to entertaine with constancie the slender acknowledgements of great deseruings But what your Honour did neuer expect in the great vnthankfull and cannot meet in this little imperfect world of mine may you finde eternally remembred in that more glorious and incorruptible to come Your Lordships kinsman obliged in duty RICHARD ZOVCHE Ad Autorem ISte tripartitae liber est Descriptio terrae Et simul ingenij Mappa typusque tui Consimili versu pingatur America su tu Ipse Columba velut Musa Columbus eris THO. LAKE TAm paucis tot tanta quis O si deforet orbis Non velit in Libro Zouche habitare tuo IOAN HARRIS N.C. To my dearely affectionate friend Mr. RICHARD ZOVCHE THy worke hath tongue for vs t' admire thy worth Silence the voyce of an admiring minde Should then best fit my pen but Loue breaks forth And will needs speake what in thy booke I finde And wrestingly out of my wonted lynes It makes me shuffle in these hobling rymes Though t' were not thine it 's good but hauing birth From thee it 's excellent who in an houre Flyest o're the forrest of the spatious earth And of each Eden dost cull out some flowres And leau'st out nothing this is admirable Which to a setled eye can be remarkeable And in so narrow lines could be discouer'd Of so much World but thy penne hath vtterr'd And for this Truth which men best-bred do know Didst but into the Muses garden goe Who fearing danger dares not crosse the Sea And of the Earth desires to know the frame Let him but read thy worke and he shall see The worlds faire Symstry by distinguisht names And by thy Art his ignorance may know For which most men by Land and Sea doe row And let him blesse thy wit and prayses sing that thus with ease dost him such knowledg bring Ingenious ZOVCHE liue thy Verses long Fly faire and far thy Doue with her smooth song Of thy all-Noble name for Armes long knowne These Lettred times haue thee design'd their owne Your Louer and friend Richard Yong. To the Author BEhold a miracle a singing Doue Which sweetly sings yet sings not sweets of Loue. Each studie be her Doue-house and each breast Which harbours studious thoughts her gentle neast Nic. Stoughton Int. Temp. ASpice non veneri est deuota Columba mouetur Illius auspicijs penna Minerua tuis Ergo Deae noctis studiosae Noctua cedat Dum tu gaudentem luce tueris auém Car. Herbert N.C. The Doue TAke wing my Muse and like that siluer DOVE Which o'er the world new-bath'd did hou't●● fly The low-coucht Seas and high-plac't Land aboue Discerne with faithfull though with fearefull eye That what both Land and Sea resounding ring Wee may to this All-makers prayses sing He who directs the Sparrowes tender flight And sees him safely reach the hurtlesse ground Guide thee in all thy PASSAGES aright And grant thy Course be sure they Restin● found From Mount of Oliues as from Hill of ●●yes Blest with the Branch of Peace though not of Praise And you whose Care our Floating house yet saues From sinking in the Deluge of Despayre Whil'st with poore feather'd oares she passe the waues Of this all-vulgar-breath'd storme-threatning Ayre Deare LORD vouchsafe with patient looke t' attend Her flights both trembling rise and humble end The World TO our small Isle of Man some well compare The WORLD that greater Continents huge frame Nor much vnlike eythers Perfections are Their Matter and their Mixture both the same Whence M●ns Affection it so much allures Sith greatest Likenesse greatest Loue procures But if their outward Formes we looke vpon Wee shall their Figures diuers plainely see For mans erected tall Proportion To his heau'n-hoping Soule doth best agree VVhereas the World each way being framed round The aptest forme for turning Change hath found Like Natures rarest workemanship the Eye The well contriued instrument of seeing VVhich by exact and apt Rotunditie Performes his duty and preserues his beeing Of many curious circling Spheares composed And Orbs within the Orbs without enclosed The Earth IN midst of which by rarer Engeny Then Mars and Venus hang in Lemnian net The Land and Sea imbracing louingly Making one perfect Globe in th' ayre were set VVhose interveyning qualities agree To breede and beare what moue or resting be Thrice happy Vnion when these Greater things Accord in perfect Loue and Amitie VVhose peace an vniuersall blessing brings Causing in lesser states sweet harmonie And euer blessed be his powerfull hand By whom this Order doth supported stand Now Rose-cheek't Morning kindest Friend of Arts Learnings best Mistresse my presuming Muse Of all the Earths diffused sundry parts Thy Neighbour confine Kingdomes first doth chuse That when her faultie boldnesse shee doth see If blush she doe not she may learne of thee Asia THe worlds true Mother-Land mans Nurcery Great ASIA obiect of diuiner view Saluted first by Heau'ns all-seeing eye Soonest by it departing bid t'adiew The West yet wrapt in Darknesse shin'd in Light That since inlightened lyes inwrapt in Night CHINA her farthest Region in the East By Portugals to vs discouered late Is with much Pleasure and rich Plentie blest With People and with Princes fortunate Yet most procuring wonder doe excell The Cities where her Prince and People dwell The skill of Printing and Artillery Rarest inuentions which these dayes haue seene If we beleeue the Fame which thence doth flye Here in the ancient'st times haue practis'd beene And sure that People is or should be wise Which say We see with one They with both eyes Bord'ring on China Northward lies CATHAY Rul'd by her Emperour the mighty Cham To whom great TARTARIE doth tribute pay Great Tartary whose farre distended name Twixt auncient India and the Icy Sea Possesseth all to Westerne Muscouy The Nation sprung from Sires of Scythian race Not satisfi'ed