gallant Sea-men not their Pay But the use here of fair ETâ—…RNITY She means to tell 't her Son and well she may For with his shafts it is she makes the high GODS stoop to the base ground and with â—…is fire Unworthy mortals to bright Heav'n aspire 21. This well digested she resolves in fine There in the middle of the briny frost To have in readiness an Isle Divine With flow'rs on green inameld and imbost For she hath many in those Seas which joyne To that blest Land which our first mother lost Besides those sweet ones in the Midland Seas Impounded by the Gates of HERCULES 22 There will she have th' Aquatick maids prepare To these rare men their graces to impart All that are honor'd with the name of Faire The glory of the Eye Bane of the Heart With Balls and Banquets blithe and debonayre For she inspires into their brests the dart Of secret love that they with all their might Of their Gallants may study the delight 23 Such once her Project for the man she bare To TROY'S ANCHISES neer to SIMOIS'S flood To get him welcome in that City fair Which in the compass of an Oxe-hide stood Her boy she seeks for without Him her rare Beauty is nothing CUPID giv'n to blood That as to Him of yore she recommends Her sayling son so now her sayling Frends 24. She yoaks those Birds unto her Coach of gold Which sing their own sad Dirge with long white necks And those into the which was turn'd of old PERISTERA That gather'd flow'rs by pecks The flying Goddess These in Rings enfold Exchanging kisses with lascivious Beaks She where she passes makes the Wind to lye With gentle motion and serenes the skye 25. Over Idalian Mountains now she hung The winged Boy residing in that Land To get an Army up of Bow-men young For a great War which he hath then in hand Against the rebel WORLD where late have sprung Much Weeds as he is giv'n to understand Loving those things wherewith 't is richly stor'd To be made use of not to be ador'd 26. He sees ACTEON hunting so inclin'd To that mad sport and brutal exercise That a deform'd wild-beast to follow blind The Beauty of a humane Face he flyes And to torment him with a Fair Unkind Shews stript DIANA to his gazing eyes Now let him take good heed he do not prove A Prey ev'n to those Hounds he doth so love 27. He sees the great ones of each Land that none Have Publike Good so much as in their Eye Sees they love nothing but themselves alone Which is part Intrest and part Philautye Courtiers he sees men That besiege a Throne How for true Doctrine they vent Flattery 'T is husbandry these like not in a King To weed the Flow'rs out of his Corn in Spring 28. He sees how Those that owe a vâ—…wed love To Povertie and Charitie to Men Love Riches onely and to floate Above Pretending justice and a Conscience clean They tell the People what doth Them behove OBEDIENCE in the deed the Tongue the Pen. Laws they set up in favour of the CROWN Laws in the People's favour they pull down 29. He sees in fine none love that which they should But onely what complies with some vain lust Therefore his hands can he no longer hold From punishments that may be sharp yet just His Captains prickt his Soldiers are inrol'd Fit for a War which undertake he must With the misgovern'd World whereby to quell All that persist against him to rebel 30. Swarms of these little Hov'rers newly flown At sevâ—…ral works busie as Bees are all Some whetting Arrow-Heads on bloâ—…dy Hone Others the shafts of Arrows shaving small Working they sing and sing of love alone And then that Love it is Seraphical In Parts and in the burtheâ—… all do joyne The Ditty excellent the Tune Divine 31. On the immortal Anviles where their Arts They use the steeled points to forge and fit Instead of Embers there are burning Hearts Which bring their Bellows with them panting yit The streams with which they temper their steel'd dâ—…rts Tears which from miserable LOVERS flit The sparckling flame the neverâ—…quenched fire Which burns and not consumes them is desire 32. Some of these Archers exercise their Hand On the hard Bosomes of the Vulgar rude The bor'd Ayre hiss't by this we understand The sighings of the wounded multitude For Sugeons Nymphs to Curâ—… them ready stand With Sov'raign Vertue to this end indu'd Who to the Hurt not onely life can give But make ev'n them that ne're were born to live 33. Some of these Nymphs are faire and some are not According to the Nature of the Wound Into the blood if once the Taint be got Oft ugly Treacle gives the Patient sound There are whom Spells and Philters do besot Nayl'd to their Seates they wiss not how and bâ—…und Where this is LOVE hath us'd against fraile Hearts Unlawful weapons shooting poyson'd darts 34. From these raw Soldiers out of ranke and life A thousand rash and senceless Darts are sped A thousand senceless loves are born the while In the low People to be pittied Ev'n amongst Those in highest Forms of vile And horrid Love are thousand 〈◊〉 read BIBLIS and MYRRA for one sex for t'other Th'ASSYRIAN SON and the JUDEAN BROTHER 35. And you Great Lords by shepherdesses meane Under the yoke of LOVE have oft been brought And you great Ladies with rude Clowns uncleane In VULCAN'S subtle Nets have oft been caught Some watching the dim fall of the Serene Some pitchie Night o re Tiles or Walls to vaut Though for these sordid fires if right we did More then the Son the Mother should be chid 36. But the swift Coach now softly on the Green The white Swans ballanc't in their Harness put On which DIONE in whose Cheek is seen The Snow-mixt Rose sets light her milky foot The Archer meets her with a jocund meen Who shoots at HEAV'N and doth not miss the But. With Him in Squadron his SUB-CUPIDS move To do their Homage to the QUEâ—…N OF LOVE 37. She not to spend the pretious time in vain Snatching her Child up confidently said Dear Son in whom and whose strong Arm I raign And the Foundations of my Pow'r are laid Son in whom all my strengths always remain Who feard st not Them That made great JOVE afraid I have a special buis'ness to be done In which I greatly need thy pow'r my Son 38. The LUSITANIANS harast out behold Who are my Care of long Antiquity Because my Friends the Fates to me had told Wheree're They go my worshipt name should fly And for they imitate my ROMANS old In all Heroick Actions therefore I Resolve for them to do a Guardian â—…s duty And raise the Posse of the Realm of Beauty 39. And since the malice of the God of Wine Spun them new troubles upon Indian-ground When from the furies of the swelling Brine They crope out weather-beaten and half-drownâ—…d Therefore
LVIS DE CAMOENS SPAINE gaue me noble Birth Coimbra Arts LISBON a high-plac't loue and Courtly parts AFFRICK a Refuge when the Court did frowne WARRE at an Eye's expence a faire renowne TRAVAYLE experience with noe short sight Of India and the World both which I write INDIA a life which I gaue there for Lost On Mecons waues a wreck and Exile tost To boot this POEM held up in one hand Whilst with the other I swam safe to land TASSO a sonet and what 's greater yit The honour to giue Hints to such a witt PHILIP a Cordiall the ill Fortune see To cure my Wants when those had new kill'd mee My Country Nothing yes Immortall Prayse so did I Her Beasts cannot browze on Bayes THE LUSIAD OR PORTUGALS Historicall Poem WRITTEN In the PORTINGALL Language BY LUIS DE CAMOENS AND Now newly put into ENGLISH BY RICHARD FANSHAW Esq HORAT Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori Carmen amat quisquis Carmine digna facit LONDON Printed for Humphrey Moseley at the Prince's-Arms in St Pauls Church-yard M. DC LV. To the Right Honorable WILLIAM EARL of STRAFFORD c. My good Lord I Can not tell how your Lordship may take it that in so uncourted a language as that of PORTUGALL should be found extant a Poet to rival your beloved TASSO How himself took it I can for he was heard to say his great JERUSALEM being then an Embrio HE FEARED NO MAN BUT CAMOENS Notwithstanding which he bestow'd a Sonet in his praise But admitting the TUSCAN SU periour yet as He with â—…ome anger of GUARINI when he saw by the unquestionable Verdict of all ITALY so famous a LAUREATE as himself by that man's PASTOR FIDO outstript in the Dramatick way of Poâ—…try SE NON HAVUTO VISTO IL MIO AMINTA because indeed the younger for a Lift in this kind was beholding to the Elder So and for the same cause might my PORTINGALL have retorted upon Him with reference to his own Epick way IF HE HAD NOT SEEN MY LUSIAD HE HAD NOT EXCELL'D IT Since then I find HORACE in the days of old held himself accountable to his potent friend LOLLIO for the profits of those vacant hours which he past in his proper Villa whilst LOLLIO lay Ledger in ROME about that which was the great Domestick glory of the ROMAN NOBILITIE of those Times Trojani belli Scriptorem maxime Lolli Hor. lib. 3. Epist. 2. Dum Tu declamas Romae Praeneste relegi Whilst thou Great LOLLIO in ROME dost plead I in PRAENESTE have all HOMER Read How much more obliged am I to bring unto your Lordship this TREASURE-TROVE which as to the second life or rather Being it hath from me in the English-Tongue is so truly a Native of YORKSHIRE and holding of your Lordship that from the hour I began it to the end thereof I slept not once out of these Walls And if the same HORACE proceed Qui quid sit pulâ—…hrum quid Turpe quid utile quid non Plenius ac melius Chrysippo Crantore dicit Who what is Right what not what brave what base Clearer and better then the STOICKS says Whether this Poet also however dis-figur'd in the translating yet still reteining the old materials both Politicall and Moral on a truer and more Modern Frame of Story and Geography then that of HOMER Et quamvis plebeio tectus Amictu Indocilis privata loqui shall not be valuable upon the like account I appeal to your Lordship whose devoted since he turn'd Englishman he is by the title I have already mentioned and by as many more as I am From your Lordships Park of Tankersley May 1. 1655. MY LORD Your Lordships humble servant RICHARD FANSHAW Petronii Arbitri SATYRICON pag. 48. MUltos inquit Eumolpus O juvenes carmen decepit Nam ut quisque versum pedibus instruxit sensumque teneriorem verborum ambitu intexuit putavit se continuò in Helliconem venisse Sic forensibus Ministeriis excercitati frequenter ad carminis tranquillitatem tanquam ad portum faciliorem refugerunt credentes faciliùs Poema extrui posse quam controversiam sententiolis vibrantibus pictam Caeterum neque generosior spiritus vanitatem amat neque concipere aut edere partum mens potest nisi ingenti flumine literarum inundata Effugiendum est ab omni verborum ut ita dicam utilitate sumendae voces à plebe summotae ut fiat Odi profanum vulgus arceo Praeterea curandum est ne sententiae emineant extra corpus rationis expressae sed intexto Vestibus colore niteant HOMERUS testis Lyricâ—… Romanusque VIRGILIUS HORATII curiosa faelicitas Caeteri enim aut non viderunt viam quâ iretur ad carmen aut versum timuerunt calcare Ecce belli civilis ingens opus quisquis attigerit nisi plenus literis sub onere labetur Non enim res gestae versibus comprehendendae sunt quod longè melius historici faciunt sed per ambages Deorumque ministeria fabulosum sententiarum tormentum praecipitandus est liber spiritus ut potiùs furentis animi vaticinatio appareat quam religiosae orationis sub testibus fides Tanquam si placet hic impetus etsi nondum recepit ultimam manum Orbem jam totum victor Romanus habebat Qua mare qua terrae qua sidus currit utrumque Nec satiatus erat Gravidis freta pulsa carinis Jam peragrabantur Siquis Sinus abditus ultra Siqua foret tellus quae fulvum mitteret aurum Hostis erat fatisque in tristia bella paratis Quaerebantur opes Non vulgò nota placebant Gaudia non usu plebeio trita voluptas Aes Ephyraeum laudabat miles in udâ Quaesitus tellure nitor certaverat ostro Hinc Numidae lapides illinc nova vellera seres Atque Arabum populus sua despohaverat arva Ecce aliae clades laesae vulnera pacis Quaeritur in Sylvis Mauris fera ultimus Hammon Afrorum excutitur ne desit bellua dente Ad mortes pretiosa fames premit advena classes Tigris auratâ gradiens vectatur in aulâ Ut bibat humanum populo plaudente cruorem Heu pudet effari perituraque prodere fata Persarum ritu male pubescentibus annis Surâ—…ipuêre viros exectaque viscera ferro In venerem fregêre atque ut fuga mobilis aevi Circumscripta mora properantes differat annos Quaerit se natura nec invenit omnibus ergo Scorta placent fractique enervi corpore gressus Et laxi crines tot nova nomina vestis Quaeque virum quaerunt Ecce Afris eruta terris Citrea mensa greges servorum ostrumque renidens Ponitur ac maculis imitatur vilibus aurum Quae turbant censum hostile ac male nobile lignum Turba sepulta mero circumvenit omniaque orbis Praemia correptis miles vagus extruit armis Ingeniosa gula est Siculo scarus aequore mersus Ad mensam vivus perducitur inde Lucrinis Eruta littoribus
From the Armada in his Boats doth dance To meet Him of MELINDâ—… with a Train Whom much their cloaths but more their deeds advance GAMA comes clad after the use of SPAIN But wears a Cassock ala mode de France The Stuff a Florence-Satin and the dye A perfect Crimson glorious in their Eye 98. The Sleeves have golden Loops which the Sun-shine Makes too too bright and slippry for the Eyes His close Camp-Trowzes lac't with the same myne Which Fortune to so many men denyes Poynts likewise of the same and Tagging fine With which his Doublet to his Hose he tyes A Sword of massive Gold in Hanger tyde A Cap and Plume the Cap set a toe side 99. Mong'st his Camrades the noble Tyrian dye Not liv'ry-wise but sparcled here and there The sev'ral Colours recreate the Eye So do the diff'rent Fashions which they weare Such their inamel'd Cloathes Varietie Compriz'd in one survey as doth appear The painted Bow in water-colours laid Of JUNOS Minion the Thaumantian Mayd 100. The ratling Trumpets now their joy augment As other times they had their courage done The Moorish Boats cover'd the Sea and went Sweeping the Water with their silks Anon. The Clowds of HEAV'N the thund'ring Cannon rent And with new Clowds of Smoak put out the Sun Before the Blow the winged lightning flies The MOORS'S hands stop their Eares the lids their Eyes 101. Into the Captain's Boate the KING doth come Folding him in his Arms And He agin With such respect and rev'rence as become Doth both receive and speak unto the KING A while with wonder and Amazement dumb The MOOR on GAMA stands considering As He That highly doth esteem the Man Who came so far to seek the Indian Stran. 102. Then makes him a large proffer of whate're To do him good his Kingdom can afford And that he freely would demand it there As his own goods if ought he lackt aboard Adds though till now he saw the LUSIANS ne're Yet he from FAME had heard much of their SWORD And how in other Parts of AFFRICA They have had wars with People of his way 103. And how through all that spacious LAND resown The glorious Actions of that NATION When they therein did gain that Kingdom 's Crown Where the HESPERIDES of old did won And most of That which to the KING was known Although the least the PORTINGALLS had done He spread out thin in words and magnifide But to the KING de GAMA thus reply'de 104. O great and gracious KING who dost alone The Lusitanian People's sad estate By NEPTUNE'S rage and adverse Fortune thrown Into so many streights Commiserate The KING OF KINGS who from th' eternal Throne Turning HEAV'N round did the round Earth create Since Mercy is his chiefest Attribute Reward thee for it for We cannot do 't 105. Thou onely of all Those APOLLO blacks In peace receiv'st us from the Ocean vast In Thee from peril of Eolian Wracks We find a Refuge kind syncere and fast Whilst the Sun lights whilst Night his presence lacks In HEAV'N'S blew Meade whilst Stars take their repast Where re I go in either Hemisphere Thy Name and Praises shall be â—…ounded there 106. This humbly said towards the Fleet they row The KING requesting that he now may see 't Ship after Ship about it round they go That he of All may note all he thiâ—…ks meet Lame VULCAN walks on â—…ynstocks to and fro With which the Guns salute him from the Fleet. The Trumpets play unto him in shril notes The MOORS with Cornets answer from the Boates 107. But when the gen'rous King had ceast to Noate All That he would nor heard with little wonder Th' unusual Instrument with the wide Throate That speaks so big and tears the Clowds in sunder He bids them in the Sea anch'ring the Boate Suspend their 〈◊〉 as they had done their thunder That he may know at large of brave DE GAME Those things which lightly he had heard from FAME 108. The MOOR doth into sev'ral questions run With gust inquiring sometimes of the great And famous Wars between our NATION And Those who do believe in MAHOMET Now of the LAND we dwell in which the Sun Bids last good night when he makes hast to set Now of the NATIONS which therewith confine Now of his ploughing through the Gulphs of Brine 109. But rather valiant Captain quoth the KING Make us a full and orderly narration Under what Part of the Câ—…LESTIAL RING Under what Clyme ye have your Habitation Also your ancient Generation's spring And of a REALM so potent the Foundation With the successes of your Warrs For though I know them not that they were vast I know 110 Tell us besides of all that tedious maze Through which thon hast been tost with angry flaws On the salt Seas observing the strange ways Of our rude AFFRICK and the barb'rous Laws Tell For the Horse of the new Sun the DAY' 's Imbroydered Coasts with golden traces draws Postilion'd by the MORN The Wind 's asleep And the curst Billowes couch upon the DEEP 111. And if the Winds and Seas are husht to hear The story thou shalt tell no less are Wee Who would not lend your Acts a greedy Eare Who hath not heard of LUSUS'S Progenie SOL who the Brain of man doth purge and cleer Drives not his Coach thus nigh us as you see To have MELINDIANS thought so dull a Breed As not to value an Heroick deed 112. A daring War the haughty GYANTS made Upon OLYMPUS permanent and pure Rash THESEUS and PERITHOUS did invade Grim PLUTO'S Kingdom horrid and obscure If such high Boys as these the world hath had 'T is not less hard nor will less Fame procure Then the attempting HEAV'N and Hell by Them That others should attempt the Watry Ream 113. DIANA'S Templebuilt by TESIPHON Rare Architect HOROSTRATUS burnt down To be talkt of though for a Thing ill done And dye defam'd rather then live unknown If on so false and vile Foundation The sweet desire deceives us of Renown How much more lawful is' t to seek a name By deeds deserving everlasting FAME End of the second Canto Third Canto STANZA 1. Now what illustrious GAMA neer the Line Inform'd that KING report CALIOPE Breathe an immortal Song and voice divine Into this mortal Breast thaâ—…'s big with Thee So never the great God of Medicine To whom thou ORPHEUS bar'st love CLYCIE Court DAPHNE more or call LEUCOTHOE Frend Since Thou in Beauty doest them All transcend 2. Thou Nymph promote my pious just desire To pay my Country what to It I owe That the whole world may listen and admire To see from Tagus AGANIPPE flowe Leave PINDUS'S flow'rs For Loe the MUSES'S Sire Bathes me in Sacred dew from top to toe If not I swear thou hast some jealousie ORPHEUS thy joy should be eclyps'd by me 3. To hear the noble GAMA In a Ring Gather'd was all th'attentive Companie When having sat a while considering Raising his manly
Visage thus said He. Thou doest command me to unfold O KING My noble NATION' 's genealogie Thou bid'st me not to tell a forraign story But of my Own thou bid'st me tell the glory 4. Upon Another's Prayses to dilate Is usual and that which Friends doth raise But of One's Own the Prayses to relate Will prove I fear me a suspected praise Besides to praise ours to the worth the date Would first expire of six the longest days But to serve Thee a double fault I 'l do I 'l praise my own and crop their praises too 5. Yet what in fine doth animate me is I 'm sure of Lying I shall run no danger For of such deeds say what I can I wis I shall leave more to th'utterance of a stranger But to pursue that method in all this Thy self prescrib d nor seem in all a Ranger First of the Territory large I 'l tell Then of the bloody Battailes that befell 6 Between the Zone where Cancer bends his clutch To the bright Sun a Bound Septentrionall And that which for the Cold is shun'd as much As for the Heate the middle Zone of all Prowd EUROPE lyes whose North and parts which touch Upon the Occident have for their Wall The OCEAN and with unreturning Waves Her South the SEA-MEDITERRANEAN laves 7. Upon the East she neighbours ASIA But that cold River with the doubling stream Which from Riphean Mountains plough his way To the Meotick Lake divideth Them So doth that furious and that horrid Sea Which with their Fleet th incensed GREEKS did steme From whence the Sayler now with his mind's eye Sees the name onely of once glorious TROY 8. Where she is most beneath the Artick Pole The Hyperborean Mountains she doth see And those where EOL raigns without controle Owing to blustring their Nobility The Sun That spreads his lustre through the Whole His rays have here such imbecility That a deep snow is still upon the Mountains The Sea still frozen frozen still the Fountains 9. Here SCYTHS and TARTARS in great numbers live Who were ingag'd in a sharp war of old About their Pedigrees prerogative With those who then th'EGYPTIAN-LANâ—… did hold But where the justice of the Cause to give Being hard by erring Mortals to be told To get more certain information look In the Clay-Office from which Man was took 10. In that far Nook to name of many some Are the cold LAPLAND NORWAY comfortless SCANDIA that triumpht o're triumphant ROME Which her proud ruines to this day confess Here whilst the waters are not stiffe and numb With Winters Ice glazing the BALTICK-SEAS That Arm of the SARMATICK OCEANE Sayles the brave Swede the Prussian and the Dane 11. Betwixt this Sea and TANAIS live strange Nations RUTHENI frozen MUSCOVITES LIVONIANS That were in former Ages the SARMATIANS And in th'HERCINIAN FOREST the POLONIANS Held of the GERMAN EMPIRE are ALSATIANS SAXONS BOHEMIANS HUNGARS or PANNONIANS With divers other whom the RHINE'S cold waves The ELIVE the MOZELL and the DANOW laves 12. 'Twixt wandring ISTER and that NARROW-SEA Where with her life fair HELLE left her name The warlike THRACIANS dwell who lay a plea To MARS his Sword as from whose loyns they came Here HAEMUS and ORPHEAN RHODOPE Obey the OTTOMAN and to the shame Of Christendom BYSANTIUM'S noble Seat A proud affront to CONSTANTINE THE GREAT 13. The next in order MACEDONIA stands Bath'd with the Actian now LEPANTO'S Sea And likewise you O admirable LANDS Where Wit and Manners were in high degree Which bred those solid Heads and valiant Hands Those streams of Eloquence and Poetrie With which Thou famous GREECE unto the skies As well by Letters as by Arms didst rise 14. DALMATIANS follow Them and in that Bay ANTENOR chose for his new City's Syte VENICE like VENUS rises from the Sea From low beginnings swoln to that proud hight That Sea an Arm of Land doth over lay Which the whole WORLD subjected by its might That Arm no less then GREECâ—… to HEAVEN soar'd With the two wings of LEARNING and THE SWORD 15. 'T is wall'd by nature part where it doth joyn Unto the ALPS thick shoulders NEPTUNE barrs The rest with his salt waves The APPENINE Cuts ith'middle where your LYBIAN MARS Wan him such Fame But now since the divine Porter hath got it impotent in Wars 'T is stript of the vast pow'r it had before So much is GOD delighted with the pore 16. Pass we from thence to FRANCE so much of old With CAESAR'S triumphs through the World renownd 'T is water'd with the ROYAL SEYN the cold GAROON the pleasant LOYRE the RHINE profound Now those high Mountains in the clowds behold Which still the lost PYRENE'S name resound From which being fir'd as ancient Books have told Rivers ran down of Silver and of Gold 17. Loe here displays it self illustrious SPAIN As Head there of all EUROPE In whose strange Successes of their Wars and ways of raign FATE' 's wheel gave many a turn wrought many a change But never Force or Fraud shall fix a stain Through Fortune's humor always giv'n to range But SPAIN will finde a time to wipe it out And make her blasted honors freshly sprout 18. She faces TINGâ—…TANIA and There As if to make the Mid-land Sea an Isle The well-known STREIGHTS to close their jaws appeare Innobled with the THEBAN'S latest Toyle With diff rent Nations she her head doth reare Sea-girt three sides the fourth with Hilly Pyle Of such Nobility and Valour All That each pretends to be the principal 19. She has the ARRAGONIAN so renown'd For conqu'ring twice stubborn PARTHENOPE Those of NAVAR ASTURIANS who did bound The MOORS broke in upon us like a Sea She has the shrewd GALLEGO many-crownd CASTILIAN whom his Star reserv'd to be SPAIN'S great Restorer and her Lord SEVILIA GRANADA LEON MURCIA with CASTILIA 20. The LUSITANIAN KINGDOM here survay Plac't as the Crown upon fair EUROPE's Head Where the Land finishing begins the Sea And whence the Sun steps to his watry Bed This first in Arms by gracious HEAV'N'S decree Against the filthy MAURITANIAN sped Throwing him out of Her to his old Nest In burning AFFRICK nor there let him rest 21. That That the loved EARTH where I was born To which if kinder HEAV'N do so dispose That I this Task perform'd alive return With It my dying Eyes there let me close From LYSUS which the Latines LUSUS turn Old BACCHUS'S Camrade or as some suppose His Son was LUSITANIA'S name deriv'd When in that Countrey his Plantation thriv'd 22. Here was that Shepherd born who in his Name As well as in his Actions did write MAN Whom none must hope to equal in his Fame Since that of ROME he to eclipse began This Spot through shuffling of light Fortune's Game TIME who devours his children saw Anan On the WORLD'S Theater a great Part play Rays'd to a Kingdom and it was this way 23. There was in SPAIN a King ALPHONSO hight Who made so
close a War upon the MORE That what with policy and what with might Many he slew and many a Town he bore This KING' 's sublime Renown taking her flight From Streights Herculean to the Caspian Shore Diverse affecting an immortal name To Him and Death to offer themselves came 24. Others more fir'd with an intrinsick love Of Christian Faith then Honour popular Flock from all Corners willing to remove Both from sweet Countrey and from private Lar. But when their names by Actions rais'd above The vulgar pitch they All advanc't in War The fam'd ALPHONSO for such gallant deeds Would have them reap proportionable meeds 25. Amongst These HENRY saith the History A younger son of FRANCE and a brave Prince Had PORTUGAL in lot in the World's eye Not then so glorious nor so large as since And the same KING did his own daughter tye To Him in Wedlock to infer from thence His firmer love as giving in her hand The Livery and Seisin of that LAND 26. He when against the Off-spring of the Hand Maid HAGAR mighty Conquests he had won Gaining in much of the adjacent LAND And doing what was comely to be done Obtains from Him who doth high Heav'n command In a short time to guerdon All a Son Who adding to his Father's worth his owne Shall first erect the LUSITANIAN THRONE 27. HENRY was now come from the HOLY LAND And Conquest of enslav'd IERUSALEM Having seen consecrated IORDAN'S Strand That saw the flesh of GOD bath'd in his stream For GODFREY finding nothing could withstand After IUDEA was subdu'd by Him Many who in that War had giv'n him Ayd Their wisht return to their Dominions made 28. When come to the last Exit of his Age The famous FRENCH-MAN to a wonder brave Pull'd by DEATH'S hand down from this mortal Stage His Spirit unto Him that gave it gave His Son remain'd in tender â—…upillage True Copy of his Sire that 's in the Grave Then whom more excellent the world had none For such a Father must have such a Son 29. But old Report how true I cannot say For things so distant with much night are spred Tells how the Mother taking all the sway Scorn'd not to stoop unto a second Bed And for herself an After-Game to play Her Fatherless-Son disinherited Claiming for Hers the Land and Princely Pow're As giv'n her by her Father for a dow're 30. Then young ALPHONSO so the Prince they call Inheriting his Grandsire in his Name Despairing by fair means of PORTUGALL For that the Mother and her Groom the same Usurp and mean from Him to give it All His bosom boyling with a Martial flame By force to seize it in his mind revolves As briskly executes what he resolves 31. The blushing Plains of ARADUCA groan With one-same blood of War intestine dide In which the Mother whose deeds spake her none The Son her love and his own LAND deny'de Now stands against him in battalion And cannot see being blinded with her pride How much she sins 'gainst HEAV'N and natural Love But in her Breast the sensual swims above 32. O Witch MEDEA PROGNE with blood-stain If for their Fathers not their own misdeeds By you your children in Revenge were slain Behold TERESA'S Sin ev'n yours exceeds Incontinence the sacred Thirst of Raign These are the Causes whence her Crime proceeds SCYLLA her aged Father slew through one Through Both TERESA goes against her Son 33 But the brave Prince a perfect conquest had O're an ill mother and a Father-in-Law Forthwith the Victor all the LAND obay'd That did before their swords against him draw Then by his Wrath his judgement oversway'd Fast laid in Irons he his Mother saw Which GOD' 's avenging Hand did soon pursue Such Reverence is to all Parents due 34. Loe proud CASTEEL unites her Forces all To be reveng'd for sad TERESA'S wrong Against the few-in-People PORTINGALL But though his Troops be weake his Heart is strong His mortal Head with Shield Angelical Hid in the day of Battail from a throng Of falling darts not onely firm he stands Their shock but routs the formidable Bands 35. Yet not long after was this valiant Prince In the same ARADUCA his chief Nest Blockt up with avast Army to which since Their late defeat the angred Foes increast But by his faithful Tutor EGAS thence Offring himself to death he was releast Else of all needful matter ill bested He in that streight had surely perished 36 But the best Servant ever Master found Seeing his rince can no resistance make That he should hold of Him the Countrey round To the CASTILIAN KING did undertake He having honest EGAS MONIZ bound The dreadful siege did presently forsake But the Illustrious youth cannot afford To pay low Homage to another Lord. 37. The time prefixed was arrived now When the CASTILIAN MONARCH made account To do him homage that the Prince would bow As to his Founder and Lord Paramount EGAS who knew that would not be and how Because of Him CASTEEL rely'de upon 't Resolves his broken promise at the rate Of his sweet life's expence to expiate 38. And with his children and dear Wife he went T'unpawn and to redeem his morgag'd Faith Barefoot and bareleg'd and with eyes so bent To th' Earth as would move pity more then wrath If my rash confidence thou have intent To scourge as it deserves O KING he saith Loe here I bring thee of mine own accord A life in lieu of ill-accomplisht word 39. Loe here to piece out mine the innocent Lives of my Wife and Babes before thy Eyes If Bosoms generous and excellent Accept so frail and dire a Sacrifice Loe here the guilty Hands and Tongue invent All sorts of pains and deaths to exercise On These such as may prove fierce SCINIS dull In mischief and out-roare 〈◊〉 'S Bull. 40. Just as before the Heads-man one condemn'd Who doth in life his death anticipate And now upon the Block his Neck extend For the fear d stroak which must dispatch him straight So EGAS look't expecting the worst end Could be pronounc't by KING'S deserved Hate But the KING seeing such stupendious Faith Mercy at length could more with him then Wrath. 41. O great and Portingal-Fidelitie Payd by a Subject to his Prince What more Perform'd the PERSIAN in that Project high When Nose and Face he carbonado'd o're Which made the great DARIUS sighing cry His brave ZOPYRUS such as he was once H 'had rather have then twenty BAEILONS 42. But now the Prince ALFONSO did provide The happy Hoast of LUSITANIA Against the MOORS who on the other side Of TAGUS'S delectable River lay Now in the fam'd ORIQUE'S Champion wide The proud and warlike Troops he doth aray Just in the beard of the confronted MOOR As rich in couraege as in numbers poor 43. His Trust is not in Flesh but placed all In the eternal GOD That Heav'n doth steer For the baptized Army was so small To his one man an hundred MOORS there were
one Head Since the dry Earth was compast by the Main It terrifies the living where it rolls And ev'n alarums their dead Father's Souls 104. His frighted subjects to protect and skreen He whom thou hast my Lord and Husband made Stands with small strength exposed to the keen And thirsty edges of the Moorish Blade And I shall soon depriv'd of all be seen If thou afford him not thy present ayd A sad and private Woman Husbandless Without a Crown or Him or Happiness 105. Therefore O King for very fear of whom The streams of hot MALUCO do congeale Succour O! quickly to the succour come Of miserable and despis'd CASTELE If that deare smile be an assenting dumb If that thy fatherly affection seal Run Father if thou do not by the MORE I fear thou 'lt find it over-run before 106. This with the self-same tone MARIA said To King ALPHONSO on her trembling knees With which sad VENUS once her Father pray'd For her ENEAS tost on Lybian Seas At which with sense of the deep moan she made Such tender pitty did JOVE'S bowels seize Indulgent Sire he let his Thunder fall And griev'd she askt no more granted her all 107. Streight armed Squadrons glitt'ring in the Sun Are mustred in the Fields of EBORA Scowr'd is the Sword the Lance the Murrion In rich Caparisons the Horses neigh. The Trumpet shrill with pendant Banner done Rowzes from peaces down where long they lay Their tickled Hearts to disaccustomed Arms And concave Drums go thund'ring fresh Alarms 108. Amongst them and above them All appeers Higher by head and shoulders then the rest And where He goes the Royal Standart veers Valiant ALPHONSO with erected Crest His very look it animates and cheers If there are any ev'n the Coâ—…ard's Brest Into CASTEEL thus marching is he seen With his fair daughter the Castilian Queen 109. The two ALPHONSO'S in conclusion joynd In wide TARYFA'S Fields confronting stood The endless numbers of the people blind For vvhom too narrovv are both Plain and Wood. Of ours not one so hardy but did find Somevvhat of cold and shiv'ring in his blood Save onely such as cleerly understands CHRIST fights the battail vvith his People's hands 110. Derided are the thin-spread Christian-Bands By Bond-Mayd HAGAR'S Progeny unclean Who by anticipation all their lands Divide amongst the Army Hagarene Which by false Title in possession stands Of the illustrious Name of Saracene Just as Another's noble Land they boast Now for their own reck'ning without their Host. 111 As that big-bon'd and barb'rous Gyant whom King SAUL so fear'd and all his Army worse Seeing a simple Swain against him come Onely with Peebles arm'd and a clean force With haughty language arrogant and grum Scorns the poor Boy and sends him to his Nurse Whom rounding with his sling He taught at length The diff'rence betwixt Faith and humane strength 112. So the perfidious MOOR advancing cracks Over the Christian Hoast nor understands What POW'R it is that their weak Powers backs Which Hell with all its Fiends in vain withstands Helpt by that POW'R He of CASTEEL attacks MOROCCO'S King who there in Chief commands The PORTINGAL who sleights their whole Armada He takes to Task the Kingdom of GRANADA 113. Now crack the Lances and the Swords cry clink Upon the Armours Pow'rs incountring Pow'rs Invoking when they stand on danger's brink Theirs MAHOMET and St. IAGO ours The strook strike Heav'n with Cries making a sink And standing Pool with thick 〈◊〉 show'rs Where some half dead lye drowning where they stood In too much nâ—…w who fell for want of blood 114. With so great blood-shed did the PORTINGAL Make Spoyl and Havock of the GRANADINE That in small space he kills or routs them All ' Spight of their Mayles and breast-plates of steel 〈◊〉 His hungry Blade which will to supper fall In FEZ if in th'ALHAMBRA it did dine The brave CASTILIAN helps to end the Fray Who hath the MAURITANIAN at a Bay 115. The burning Sun was making his retreat To THETYS'S grotts and the bright Ev'ning Star Drawing that glorious day to it's red Set Whose memory no time shall ever bar When the two Kings consummate the defeat Of the MOORS'S Powers assembled in this War With so much Tragick slaughter as no Age Beheld before or since on the World's Stage 116. Not a fourth part rough MARIUS slew of Those That lost their lives in this day's Victory When water dasht with blood of their dead Foes He made his Army drink which then was dry Nor He of CARTHAGE sworn a child t' oppose With Fire and Sword the Pride of ITALY When he so many Knights kill'd famous ROME That their Rings tane did to three Bushels come 117. And if Thou noble TITUS couldst alone So many souls to black COCYTUS send When thou the Holy City didst unstone Of that stiff People never to be wean'd From their abolisht Rytes This GOD did owne And christned it his Act that what was pen'd By the OLD PROPHETS might be verify'de And JESUS said too whom they Crucify'de 118. After this great and prosperous event ALFONSO come to PORTUGALL again There to injoy in peace and sweet content The spreading Glories he in War did gain A black and lamentable accident Worthy in FAME'S Memorials to remain Was on a miserable Lady seen Who after she was dead was made a Queen 119. Thou onely Thou pure LOVE with bended bow Against whose Force no brest whate're can hold As if thy perjur'd Subject or Sworn Foe Did'st cause her death whom all the World condol'd If Tears which from a troubled Fountain flow Quench not thy Thirst as hath been said of old It is that such is thy tyraâ—…nick mood Thou lov'st thy Altars should be bath'd in blood 120. Thou wer't fair YNES in Repose of LOVE'S Reflected Fires fost'ring the sweet heat young In that sweet Error that worse Fates removes Which Fortune never suffers to last long In sweet MONDEGO'S solitary Groves Whose streams no day but thou didst weep among Teaching the lofty Trees and humble Grass That Name which printed in thy bosom was 121. Thy pensive Prince with thine did sympathize Remembrances which in his Soul did swim Bringing thee always fresh before his Eyes When from thy fair ones bus ness banisht Him By night in dreams that cheat him with sweet lyes By day in thoughts that pencil thy each lim And all he mus'd and all he saw in fine Were dear IDEA'S of thy Form divine 122. Of other Ladies fair and Princesses The tend'red Matches he did vilifie For of a Heart 't is hard to dispossess True Love that hath had time to fortifie Upon these highly am'rous passages The Father looking with an old man's Eye Enrag'd with what the common-people sed And his Son's resolution not to wed 123. YNES determines from the World to take His Son from Her to take and to remove Believing with her blood 's ill let-out Lake To quench the kindled flames of constant love O! that
gave it 100. Hast thou not close at hand the ISHMAELITE To cut thee work out more then thou canst doe If for the sacred Law of CHRIST thou fight Th' ARABIAN'S false one does not He pursue Hath Hee not thousand Citties Infinite Of Land if Power 's availe if Wealth 's one too Hath not Hee got in Arms a mighty Name If Honour and not Bootie be thy Ayme 101. Leav'st thou a growing Foe just at thy dore To goe and seek another Foe so farr Dispeopling an ould Realm wasting her store Quitting thy Countrey and thy private LAR That flatt'ring Fame to Heav'n may make thee soare Through waves uncertain seekst thou certain warr In thy swoln Style in words at length to find ARABIA PERSIA ETHIOPIA YN'D 102. Accurst be Hee who first sorsook the Ground And fastned canvas wings to a dry Tree Worthy in endlesse darkness to be bound If that which I was taught RELIGION bee May never Judgment solid and profound May never Happy Veyn in Poetrie Retrive his memory adorn his Fame But dye with Him his Glory and his Name 103. The son of IAPET stole from PHEBUS'S Carr Fire which in humane Breast he did infuse Fire which the world did kindle into Warr Plagues and debaucheries a great abuse PROMETHEUS had it not been better farr For Us and for the world which wee misuse Thy noble Statute had excus'd that fire Which made it with Ambition's wings aspire 104. Then had not the much pittied youth been driving His Sire's gilt charet nor that great contriver Through th' empty Ayre sayld with his Son This giving The sea a name Hee Fame unto a River Nothing so high nothing so barrd the living Through Fire Sword Water Calm and Cold what ever Which MAN projecteth and attempteth not A strange Condition an unquiet Lot End of the fourth Canto Fifth Canto STANZA 1. THe rev'rend Father stood inculcating These Sentences when Wee to a serene And gentle Gale expand our Canvas wing When from the loved Port our selves we reane And sayles unfurling make the Welkin ring After the manner of Sea faring Men With BOON VOYAGE Immediatly the Wind Does on the Trunks his Office and his kind 2. The ever burning Lamp that rules the day In the Nemean Bruite began to rage And the great world which doth with time decay Limpt in his Sixt infirm and crooked Age Thereof accompting in the CHURCH ' is way Of Sol's incessant Race the THOUSAND stage Four hundred Ninetie Seav'nth was running whan In all their trim the Shipps to saile began 3. Now by degrees out of our sight did glide Parts of our Coâ—…ntrey which abode behind Abode deer TAGUS and we then did hide Fresh SYNTRA About this our eyes did wind In the lov'd Kingdom likewise did abide Our Hearts whose stâ—…ings could not be thence untwind And when as all the Land did now with draw The sea and Firmament was all wee saw 4 Thus went we opening those seas which save Our own no Nation open'd ere before See those new Isles and clymates near which brave PRINCE HENRY shewd unto the world before The Mauritanian Hills and Strand which gave ANTEUS birth who there was King of yore Upon the left hand left for there is none Upon the right though now suspected known 5. We the great Island of MADERA pass Which from its Wood's abundance took the name The first which planted by our Nation was Of which the worth is more then the great fame Nor though the last place in the world it has Doth any VENUS loves excel the same Who rather were it Hers would lay aside For This CYTHERA CYPRUS PAPHOS GNIDE 6. We leave adust M SSILIAS barren Coast Where AZENEGUES'S lean Heards take their repast A People That want water to their Roast Nor Herbs it self in any plenty tast A LAND in fine to bear no Fruit dispos'd Where Birds in their hot stomachs Iron waste Suff'ring of all things great Necessitie Which ETHIOPIA parts from BARBARIE 7. We pass the Bound that hedges out the Sun When to the frozen North he bends his way Where people dwell whom CLYMENE'S rash Son Deny'de the sweet Complexion of the day Here NATIONS strange are water'd one by one With the fresh Currents of black SENEGA Here ARSINARIUS Aloof is seen That lost his name confirm'd by Us CAPE GREEN 8. CANARIAN ISLES the same men call'd of old THE FORTUNATE declined After These Among the Daughter-Islands we did fall Of aged HESPER term'd HESPERIDES Locks in the which the Fleets of PORTUGAL To wonders new before had turn'd the Keys There did we touch with favourable wind Some fresh provisions for our Ships to find 9. It 's Name the Isle on which we Anchor cast Did from the warlike St. IAGO take The Saint That holp the SPANIARD in times past Such cruel havock of the MOORS to make Thence when the North renew'd his kinder blast We cut again the circumfused Lake Of the salt Ocean And that Store-House leave From which Refreshment sweet we did receive 10. Winding withal about your Affrick shore Where to the EAST like a half-moon it bends About JALOFO'S Province which doth store The world with BLACKS whom forc't Aboard it sends The large MANDINGA that affords the Ore The which doth make Friends Foes and of Foes Frends Which suck't GAâ—…MEA'S crooked water laves That disimbogues in the Atlantick Waves 11. We pass the GORGADES peopled by faire Sisters in ancient time residing there Who rob'd of seeing did amongst them share One onely Eye which they by turns did weare Thou onely Thou the Net of whose curl d Haire Caught NEPTUNE like a Fish in his own Were Turn d of them all at last the ugliest Lout With Vipers sow'dst the burning sands about 12. Ploughing in fine before a Northern Wind In that vast GULPH the Navy went embayd LEONA'S craggie mountains left behind The CAPE OF PALMS so call'd from Palmie shade And that great RIVER where the Sea confin'd Against the shores which we had planted bray'd With th' Isle that boasts his name who would not trust Till in the side of GOD his Hand he thrust 13. There lyes of CONGO the wide-spreading Ream By Vs before converted to CHRIST'S Law Through which long ZAYRE glides with crystal stream A River this the Ancients never saw In fine through this vast Ocean from the Team Of known BOOTES I apace withdraw Having already past upon the Maine The BURNING LINE that parts the World in twain 14. There we before us saw by it's own light In this new EPICICLE a Star new Of which the other Nations ne're had sight And long in darkness no such matter knew The world's Antartick Henge less gilt less bright For want of Stars then th' Artick we did view Beneath the which a question yet depends Whether more Land begins and the Seâ—… ends 15. Past in this sort those equinoxiall clymes By which his steeds twice yearely drives the sun Making two Summers VVinters Autumns Primes Whilst he from one to
agrees The carved WATER serves her for a Gyrth And brancht like Veyns ore all her Body is Innumerable sorts of Fishes breeding Men with her Fish Earth with her moysturc feeding 13. Another door upon it carved has The War between the Gods and Gyants bold Beneath great ETNA crusht TIPHOIUS was Whence crackling flames in sulphur Baâ—…ts are roll'd NEPTUNE himself stood heer of breathing Brass Striking the ground in that contention old When the first Horse to the rude world gave Hee And PALLAS the first peacefull olive-Tree 14. LYEU s's Choler would not let him stay To view the rest and passing through this Gate The GOD who told of his Approach did stay At th'inner Court receiv d him there in state Accompanyed with Nymphs in bright Array Of whom each seems to wonder with her Mate To see the Water's King paid one in fine Of many Visits made the King of Wine 15. NEPTUNE quoth he O! never think it strange That BACCHUS comes thy succour to implore For highest pow'rs and most secure of change 'T is envious FORTUNE'S pride to triumph o're Call all thy Peers that in the Ocean range Ere more I speak if thou wilt hear me more Down-weight of misery they shall discern Let them All hear the wrongs which All concern 16. NEPTUNE presuming it some hideous thing He would impart doth TRITON streight command To call the DEITIES inhabiting The frigid Waves on one and t other hand TRITON who vaunts himself son of the King By SALACEE ador'd in LUSUS'S Land Was a great nasty Clown with all that boast His Father's Trumpet and his Father's Poast 17. His thick bush-beard and his long hair which hung Dangling upon his shoulders from his head Were spungy Weeds so wet they might be wrung Which never Comb seem'd to have harrowed The nitty points thereof were tag'd were strung With dark blew Mussels of their own filth bred He had for a Montera on his Crown The shell of a red Lobster overgrown 18. His Body naked and his genitals That he might swim with greater speed and ease But with Maritine little Animals By Hundreds cover'd and all hid vvere these As Crayfish Shrimps and other Fish that cravvles Receiving theirs from the pale Moon 's increase Oysters and Periwinckles vvith their slyme Snayles vvith their Houses on their backs that climbe 19. His great wreath'd Shell to his black mouth apply'de With all the might he had he now did sound Whose shrill and piercing noyse heard far and wide O're all the Sea from wave to wave did bound Now all those Gods without excuses high d To the bright Palace from their Quarters round Of that moist God who built the Walls of TROY Which angry GREEKS did afterwards destroy 20. Old Father OCEAN first with all the sons And Daughters he begat inviron'd went NEREUS That married was to DORIS runs Who peopled all the Crystal Element The Prophet PROTHEUS his Flocks left for once To range the bitter Meade at full content He likewise came but He already knew What FATHER BACCHUS to the Ocean drew 21. Another way came NEPTUNE'S snowy Wife URAN and VESTAS daughter soveraign Grave in her Gate yet had her Graveness life And with a Face that calmd the wand'ring Main A Robe of Lawn whose Spinster had a strife With Her That with MINERVA strove in vain Of her bright limbs was the transparent Lid For they had too much beauty to be hid 22. Fair AMPHITRITE then the flow'rs in May Fresher and sweeter would not wanting bee The Dolphin who advis'd her to obay The love of the Seas KING with Her brought Shee The Sun in all his glory yields the Day To either's Eyes more worth then all they see They marched hand in hand an equal paire For Both the Spouses of one Husband are 23. That Queen who flying ATHAMAS run mad Came so to compass an immortal State Went and with Her her pretty Infant had Him too the Gods did to their Ranks translate Toying before his Mother tript the Lad With painted Cockles which salt Seas create Whom when the looser sand molests and harms Fair PANOPEA bears him in her Arms. 24. Likewise that God who had been once a Man And though a powerfull Hearb he chanc'd to tast Was chang'd t' a Fish so from that loss began A glorious life turn'd Deitie at last Came adding water to the Ocean Still weeping the lewd Tricks by CIRCE past On his lov'd SCYLLA Hee belov'd by This Hate where it springs from love so mortall is 25. Seated in short the Powers that rule the seas In the great Hall majestick and divine On gorgeous Cushions first the Goddesses The Gods in carved Chayres of crystall fine The King with gracious gestures All did please His Throne deviding with the King of Wine The House is filld with that rich sea bred masse Which doth Arabian Frankinsence surpasse 26. When now the whisprings of the Gods were ceast And ceremonies done between the Kings Burst THYONEUS began from hidden Breast To powre the Cause out of his sufferings Knitting his brow a little which confest His leaded Heart hung heavy on the strings Hee that with other's weapons he may slay The men of LUSUS thus his cards did play 27. PRINCE who of right from one to t'other pole The angry sea dost awe and dost command Thou that all earthly creatures dost comptroll And bridlest Nations with a roape of sand And Father OCEAN Thou whose Billows roll About the world and circumscribe the Land Least those meet Bounds which are for All decteed It 's proper dwellers should presume t' exceed 28. And you SEA-GODS that wont not to permit Your Kingdom 's high perogatives be broke But whoso dar'd to trespass upon It Felt what it was your vengeance to provoke What tameness this what dull lethargick Fit Who had such pow'r to stay your Anger 's stroke Ready with cause upon mankind to fall Frayle as the Glasse yet venturing at All 29. You saw with what unheard of Insolence The highest HEAV'NS they did invade of yore You saw how against Reason against sense They did invade the SEA with Sail and Oare Actions so Prowd so daring so immense You saw and We see dayly more and more That in few years I fear of Heav'n and Sea Men will be called GODS and but men WEE 30. You see a little Generation now Call'd by the name of one that serv'd me too With haughty Bosom with undanted Brow Both you and me and all the World subdue You see your Sea with winged Oak they Plough Farther then ROMAN EAGLES ever flew You see your Wealth how they propose to drayn Your Statutes cancel and your walks profane 31. When first the MYNIAE went about ye know To cut a way through the forbidden Flood How BOREAS and his Fellow AQUILO With all the rest the Trespass then withstood If They so stormd if they concern'd were so That as their own your wrong they understood You whom it touches in a neerer way Why
knit To wrest from you your old Inheritance And on your shames their name in Arms advance 10. Ye see it is a principle of state A rooted custome in the HAGAâ—…ENE Armies on Armies to accumulate Against the people That on CHRIST doe leanâ—… But amongst you doth sow rank seeds of Hate And Tares of strife the Enemie unclean How can ye sleep secure how can ye close Your Eyes having both them and yâ—…u your Foes 11. If love of powre and empire uncomptroll'd Set you a work to conquer others Lands Both HERMUS and PACTOLUâ—…'S streams behold Rouling into the Ocean golden sands ASSYRIA spins and LYDIA thrids of gold AFFRICK'S rich Mynes imploy her Negroes hands Against THE TURKE let Bootie league you all If not to see THE HOLY CITY Thrall 12. That Hellish project of the IRON AGE Those Thunderbolts of Warr the Cannon-Ball At TURKISH GALLEYS let them spit their Rage And batter prou d CONSTâ—…NTINOPLE'S Wall Thence to their Holes in Caspian Cliffes ingage The frighted monsters back again to craw'l And Scythian Wains that in your EUROPE build With barb'rous spawn her civill Countreys fild 13. The THRACIAN GEORGIAN GREEK ARM ENIAN Cry out upon you that ye let them pay Sad Tribute to the brutish ALCORAN Their Christian-children to be bred that way To scourge the arrogant MAHUMETAN Your hands unite your heads togeâ—…her lay Unwise ungodly Glory cease pursuing By being valiant to your own undoing 14. But whilst mad People you refuse to see Whilst thirst of your own blood diverts you All Christian-Indeavours shall not wanting be In this same little House of PORTUGALL Strong places upon AFFRICK's Coast has she In ASIA a Style Monarchicall Dominions in AMERICA she has And were there more Worlds Thither she would pass 15. And turn we to behold in the mean while To our Sea-faring Worthies what befell After that gentle VENUS with a File Of BEAUTIâ—…S the inamour'd Storm did quell After they came in siâ—…ht of that vast soyle Sought with a purpose so unchangeable The CHRISTIAN FAITH into the same to bring To introduce new Laws and a new King 16. No sooner come at that new Land a sort Of little Fisher-barks they light among Directing them the way into the Port Of CALICUT whereto the same belong Thither they bend their Prows being the Court Of MALABAR A City fair and strong In which a King his Residence did hold Who round about a spacious LAND comptrold 17. On this side GANGES and the YND beyand A large and famous Province is markt forth On the South bounded by the Ocean-Strand By the Emodian Mountain on the North Sundry both Laws and Kings obeyth this Land Sundry pretended Deities ador'th Some beastly MAHOMET some Idols dead Some Living Creatures in that Region bred 18. In that long Mountain which all ASIA laces Running athwart so vast a Continent And borrowing sev'ral names of sev'ral places Through which it runs Two Fountains have their vent Whence YND and GANGâ—…S starting for two Races At the same Post and at the same length spent Dye in the INDIAN SEA Now This and Ihey Make the true INDIA a Pen-Insula 19. 'Twixt these expiring Rivers's Mouthez wide From the broad Countrey a long point extends In fashion not unlike a Piramide Which fronting CEYLAN'S Isle in th' Ocean ends And where first thrust out of the Mountain-side The great Gangetick Arm a Richness lends Tradition says the Folk That there did dwell Of dainty flow'rs were nourisht with the smell 20. But the Inhabitants THat now are found In names and manners diff'ring from the old Are DELIIS the PATANS who most abound In People and in Countreys which they hold The DECANIES the ORIAAS That found Their hopes of beeing sav'd in what th' are told Of sounding GANGES Then BENGALA'S Land With which can none in Competition stand 21. CAMBAYA'S Warlike Kingdom this of yore Held great KING PORUS as the fame doth goe The Kingdom of NARSINGA pow'rful more In Gold and Jewels then against a Foe Here from the INDIAN OCâ—…AN'S Billows hoare Discerned is of Mountains a long Rowe Serving for Nat'ral Walls to MALABAR Inroads of those of CANARA to bar 22. GATE the Countrey 's Natives call this Ridge From foot whereof skirts out a narrow Down Which backt by that is by a natural Seige Of angry Seas affronted Here the Town Of Câ—…LICUT undoubted Sev'raign Liege Of all her Neighbours reares heâ—… lofty Crown Seat of the EMPIRE Fair and Rich and Him That 's Lord thereof they stile the SAMORIM 23. The Fleet arriving close to that rich strand A PORTINGALL is sent in a long-Boatâ—… To let the Pagan Monarch understand Their coming from a Regiâ—…n so remote He through the River entering the Land Which enters there the Sea by a wide Throate With his strange Colour Physnomy Attire Makes all the flocking Multitude admire 24. Amongst the Rout which Him did swarm to see Comes one trayn'd up in the ARABIAN'S Lore Having been born in Land of BARBARIE There where ANTEUS was obey'd of yore Whether the Lusitanian People He Knew meerly as a neighbour to that shore Or bitten with their Steel was sent so far On FORTUNE'S errand by the chance of War 25. The Messenger with jocund Face survay'd He in plain Spanish gave him thus the Haile How to this World in name of Heav'n Cam'rade So distant from thy native Portugale Op'ning a passage through rough Seas he said Which never mortal Wight before did sayle We come to seek of INDUS the great streame Whereby to propagate the GOSPEL'S beam 26. Astonisht at so great a Voyage stood The MOOR his name MONSAYDE briefly told Their sad disasters on the azure Flood And hair-breadth Scapes by this same LUSIAN bold But since his main Affair he understood Unto the King alone he would unfold He telâ—…s Him He at present is not there Being retir'd into the Countrey neer 27. So that until the News at Court have bin Of their prodigions passage through the MAYN Please him to make his homely Nest his Inne With Victuals of the Land hee 'l entertain Him There and being well refresht therein Himself will bring him to the Fleet again For that the World hath not a thing more sweet Then in a distant Land when Neighbours meet 28 The PORTINGALL with Bosome not ingrate Accepts the Offer kind MONSAYDE made As if their friendship were of ancient date With Him he eat and drank as he was pray'd Towards the Ships that done return they straight Which the Moor knew when he the Build survay'd They climbe the Am ral where both Man and Boy Receive MONâ—…AYDE with a gen'ral joy 29. The Captain rapt Him in his Arms did squeeze Hearing the Musick of the Spanish Tongue And seated by him Shreives him by degrees Touching the Land and things thereto that long But as in THRACIAN RHODOPE the Trees And Bruits to hear his golden Lute did throng Who did his lost EURIDICE deplore So throng'd the common-men to hear the MORE