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An historical romance of the wars between the mighty giant Gallieno, and the great knight Nasonius, and his associates
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Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.
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1694
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sign'd on both sides they marched forth carrying the unwelcome News to the Duke of Bawwawia and the rest of the Associates and Grandorsio put in what Forces he thought fit employing many to remove the Ruins rebuild the destroyed Habitations and repair all damage done to the Fortifications in which work he sent to Archimedes for his Direction and Assistance so that in a short time he made it stronger than it was before It is to be observed that contrary to the relation of all Histories and all Countries known to us that the Giants in these Countries generally beat the Knights and that the Giants are courteous sweet-humour'd and chearfully undertake the Protection and Relief of wronged Ladies and all distressed Persons but the Knights except some few are proud surly injurious and set upon mischief Such difference is there in the unknown parts of the World from the known But to return to our Business it is doubtful whether the taking this strong-hold caused greater Joy in Tutelia or grief of Heart at Sennopolis The Associates having gotten nothing all this Campaign but Shame and Confusion hung their Heads and knew not how to look on each other their only Comfort was that the Season of the Year for Action being past Grandorsio had dispersed his Forces into their Winter-Quarters and was gone to the mighty Gallieno to give him an account of all Transactions and consult what was to be done for the future whereupon the Associates met at Sennopolis and held serious Consultation how they might repair their broken Fortunes Some said that their Moneys were spent their Souldiers Slain their Towns taken and that if Sabaudiero made a Peace they were all undone and that therefore it behoved them to take Care of themselves At this Nasonius rose up in a Rage asking if they intended to betray him who had fed them with such Sums of Money as they had never before seen and urged their Promises and solemn Oaths that no Peace should be made without his Consent It was replied that he himself upon occasion never stood upon such Formalities and therefore it was unreasonable for him to press any such thing upon them unless he could produce his Charter of Priviledge that he alone was not to be bound by any Promises or Oaths Nasonius smelt that their design was to get more Money and therefore in a calmer Stile answered thus That it would be an Eternal Shame to give over thus that there was no want of Men which they could raise abundantly and that he had made so many Beggars in Vtopia that he did not question but that in a short time he should out of them raise a formidable Army and that if Money was wanting they should be supplied to their Hearts desire for Vtopia was not yet above half drained and he was resolved not to leave one Penny in the Kingdom rather than any Associate should want and that at present to secure Sabaudiero he would send him more Money than his barren Dukedom ever afforded him and make him think himself the Richer for his Loss At these Golden Promises they began all to prick up their Ears and talk complyingly and so some Pittance at present being distributed among them and an agreement made what share he would afford to every one they came to a Resolution that they would all raise more than their former Quota's and try their Fortuneâ— the next Year with greater Forces and Courage than ever Nasonius could scarce sleep for thinking what large Promises he had made which it was not possible he should perform unless he could most shamefully gull the Vtopians out of their Money of which he was somewhat doubtful at this time because by reason of his great Losses and ill Conduct he must return to them under some kind of Disgrace but that he might consult what to do he repaired to Holoo where he found his damn'd Mistress Ambitiosa newly returned from the Revels at the Plutonick Court. To her he made a long and lamentable Complaint of his Misfortunes expostulating with her why she had deserted him at such time as he most needed her Advice and Assistance Quoth she There are certain Laws of Hell unknown to you which indispensably required my Presence there but withal she told him that his Misfortunes befel him through his own Rashness and Inconsiderateness in that he had not followed her Counsel but said she if you will yet follow my Advice I will do all I can for you This somewhat cheared his Spirits and after a seeming passionate Salute he intreated her to open her Mind She bade him to make haste to Vtopia without any the least Fear for said she I have sent before you Fictitiosa and Fatuitosa and before you can possibly get thither the one will have framed so many Lies in your behalf and the other made them believed that when you come you shall be received with Ringing of Bells roaring of Cannons making of Bonfires and all the Windows of their Houses set with glaring Farthing Candles as if they were all in a Flame so that you shall return in such a Triumph as the most Famous Greeks or Romans never knew or heard of But when you come thither above all take care to caress the Bethlehmites of Dom. Com. give them Offices Places of Profit large Pensions larger Promises stick at nothing I have prevailed with Mammoneta and Fatuitosa so to bewitch them that they shall not only afford you Supplies beyond your expectation but contrive such Tricks and find out such ways and means as shall make all the Moneys in the Kingdom run into your Exchequer Nasonius overjoy'd with these Promises and Prognosticks after a plentiful return of Thanks in the kindest Expressions his sowr Nature could squeeze forth took his formal leave earnestly begging that she would not be long after him to advise and assist him in any difficulties that might arise and then in all haste departed for Vtopia to put her advice in Practice What is to ensue History cannot at present inform us it belonging to Astrology or rather it being wrapt up in the Shady Leaves of Destiny To prejudge of which leaving the Foppish Almanack-Makers to fool weak People with their silly Predictions from the Stars we may frame a more solid Prognostick from the immense Riches vast Power and highest Wisdom of King Gallieno The former of which can never be exhausted by the Wars whilst the multitudes of Ships he has taken from the Vtopians reckoned to be above Two Thousand Five Hundred since the War began and perhaps near as many from the Hydra and the great Contributions he raises upon his Enemies Countries bring him in such huge supplies besides his own vast Revenues Secondly from his Power which encreases daily He having raised for the next Year upwards of Sixty Thousand Souldiers besides Recruits and knowing how to use the Victories he still obtains as well as how to get them And lastly from his Wisdom which lays all his Designs in the best Methods out of a true and exact a Knowledge of all that his Enemies can do His intelligence of what they aim at and his proportioning the Causes he lays to the effects he intends in comparison of which the best Policy of the Associates is meerly Childishness Every Man of good Sence being able to discern that their Projects are laid in no steady Tennent and carried on disorderly and distractedly as if they proceeded from Men meerly awaked out of their Sleep or half frighted out of their Wits by the Surprizes he gives them This high Wisdom I say is that which being peculiar to himself gives a dazling Lustre and Glory to all his Designs and entitles him to the â—rotection and Assistance of Divine Providâ—nâ—e Nullum numen abest si sit prudentia Whole Heaven does for Success engage When Soveraign Prudence War does wage FINIS POSTSCRIPT BEfore the Devastations made by these Bloody Wars the places where these things appeared were generally very rich and plentifully stored with all manner of Commodities but the Merchant who for his gain had a long time traded in these unknown unheard of Parts during these Convulsions had undergone no little trouble and sustained great losses and now by some means coming to the knowledge of these future Counsels and Revolutions weary of these continual Dangers and â—earing the Storm gathered together all his Effects he could and Embarqu'd for England his own Country where he lately arrived and now resides in London his Name is Mr. Non-such a courteous and affable Person and very free and open â—n his Discourse He dwells at the sign of the â—â—icoâ—ns-Horns in the Oudemiâ—n-Stâ—eet whither if any please to repair they may have from him a very large and satisfactory account of these strange Countries and Actions but he hath told so no of his Friends that he left a greater share of his Effects behind him than he is willing to loose and therefore intends speedily to adventure one Voyage more and if it please the Fates that he return in safety he shall then be able to give a further if not a full â—ccount of all the strange Revolutions Hellish Contrivances Cruel Wars and Infinite Convulsions which have now almost wasted those goodly Forreign Nations so little known in these parts of the World The Reader is desired to Correct with his Pen the following Errata's which among others less considerable slipt in the Press Page 3. line 1 for the Throw read be thrown p. 5. l. penul for which r. such p. 11. l. 22. after to insert go p. 12. l. 7. for Gentlewoman r. Gentleman p. 17. l. 6. for trickss r. tricks p. 26. l. 1. r. Proboscis p 28. l. 31. for willy r. wilie p. 30. l. 74. for i r. in p. 34. for would r. should p. 37. l. 19. dele and put it in the beginning of l. 20. ib. p. 39. l. 5. for send r. go p. 42. l. 28. dele Eugenius p. 46. l. 18. for as'd r. ask'd ib. l. antepenult for them r. them p. 47. for Grendosio r. Grandorsio p. 18. l. 27. for places r place p. 51. l. 4. for Bordeering r. bordering ib. l. 5. for Formâ—litosa r. Formalitoso p. 54. l. 21. for Fambriua r. Sambrina p. 56. l. 15. for yet as r. as yet p. 61. l. 32. after with insert in Contents of Chap. 14. for Dunkirkia read Balwinopolis p. 72. l. penul for self r. heart p. 76. l. 21. for Stenters r. Stentors
appointed three or four solemn Drinking Matches which out of Devotion to God Bacchus they would not omit they had not leisure to come into the Field till the Campaign was almost at an end and when they did as if the fumes of the Wine had not been yet well evapourated they took such broken Measures that when they made account to pass into Luyslandia where the great Giant Allemano-Mastix had strongly posted himself they lost many Men in attempting it and were forced with shame and loss to retire After which that Politick Giant led 'em such dances ad made 'em reel from one end of the Rhenusia to the other till their Heads were giddy and quite ravell'd all the Designs their muddy Policy had laid In the mean time Allemano-Mastix waiting his opportunity took their Towns burned and plundered their Villages and put all the large Country of Wirtemania under Contribution But the Campaign now drawing to an end and the Associates thinking it a great Dishonour to them all that the avow'd Project of invading Luyslandia should come to just nothing at all They poor dull Gentlemen held a Consultation as their Courants tell us for a whole day together what they should do and the Result of it was the Besieging the Castle of Ebrenburga defended by no more than three hundred of King Gallieno's Soldiers Mean while the Politick Giant Allemano-Mastix having defeated their Army beyond the Rhenusia and taken the Duke of Wirtemania Prisoner hasted to raise the Siege But assoon as this came to the Ears of the improvident Knight Hessio who would contrary to the Sentiments of the rest undertake that worthy Business away he ran as fast as he could and yet for all his haste there wanted but little of his being intercepted in his Flight by the vigilant Allemano-Mastix which had cost him the loss of his Army and brought him Prisoner to Tutelia to bear his Fellow-General the Duke of Wirtemania Company in their Land of Captivity CHAP. XV. How Nasonius surprized Meudixia and Furnium which were soon after retaken by the Giant Nicobelgus THE Season of the Year began to grow so severe that Souldiers could not much longer abide the Field and scarce any thing but one Disgrace upon the Neck of another had befallen Nasonius so that he thought he must now be forced to break up that Years Campaign with an irreparable Blast upon his Reputation upon which he was so cursedly fallen out with himself and grown so enragedly out of Humour that he was become a Plague to himself and a Torment to all that were about him Yet in this Temper he at length bethought himself and he which never had any kindness for Women but for the promoting some wicked Designs retired to the Apartment of the haughty Daughter of Lucisero his Coneubine Ambitiosa with whom he very passionately expostulated his Case telling her that he thought his Designs to be wicked enough to have obliged her by her own Inclination to assist him though there had not been that near Relation between them and that he wondred that She and her Maiâ—s of Honour could not or would not do him as good Service against his only Enemy Gallieno as they had done against his Father Eugenius she replied That his Sorrows and Disgraces were also hers and that she was as deeply affected as himself with all his Misfortunes and Disappointments That she and her Maids had not been wanting on their part but the strict Government and strong Spells set upon Luystandia had hitherto render'd all their endeavours ineffectual but that she would immediately haste away to her Father Lucifero the grand Master of all mis-rule and mischief all the World over and having coâ—â—ulted with him would contrive something yet which might make for his better Satisfaction before the Campaign ended Upon this she immediately posted away and he a little better comforted with her Promise lay down to try if his troubled Mind could admit of or find any ease or refreshment in a little Sleep Ambitiosa somewhat nettled with her Gallant 's Misfortunes made all haste to the Plutonick Court where she found her Father Lucifero all alone drawing up a Scheme of Hellish Politicks how to employ all his Under-Devils and fill the World with Wickedness and Confusion whom without further Ceremony she thus rudely accosted Dread Sire whilst you take care even of the minutest matters relating to your Infernal Dominions I wonder you should be so regardless of my Gallant and your Son-in-Law Nasonius as to suffer that damn'd Necromancer Archimedes to command your Spirits to his assistance against him and to blast all his designs and undertakings As she woud have gone on Lucifero with a kind but somewhat scornful Smile thus took her up My dear Daughter if you be such a fool as to be fallen in Love yet I pray do not take my work out of my Hands and teach Lucifero to play the Devil I throughly understand Nasonius he is as fit an Instrument for my use as the World affords but if I should flush him a little too much with Successes the Devil himself would not be able to rule him and when he descends hither and if for want of my Spectacles I lately read right in the Book of the Destinies his fate is not far off he would be as ready to dethrone me his Hellish Father-in-law as he hath already shamelesly in the face of the whole World done the same to his too kind Earthly Father-in-Law Besides I am highly offended at the wrong done to you and I wonder that you should not highly resent it to see Sodomicus more dear to him than your self for though Sodomy be a Sin of my own Invention devised on purpose to make the Righteous Jove with his Thunder-bolts to strike down all Mankind to Hell as it did provoke him to destroy whole Cities by Fire from Heaven yet I am not pleased to see my darling Sins turned against my self and my own dearest Daughter thereby wronged And further you know that it is an infallible Maxim in Hell That I must bring all my Servants to Shame and the more signal Service they do me so much the greater Shame must they be brought to and I assure you he shall have it according to his deserts But because at present I have great occasion for him I will give him some small Encouragement go therefore and advise him to set upon Meudixia and Furnium and I will take care that both shall fall into his hands Ambitiosaâ— Zeal for her Gallant upon her Father's Lecture began to cool and being somewhat weary of the open Air and desiring to refresh and recreat her Devilish Nature for some time in Hell and â—lso being suspiciouâ— that her Father had some trick and further design in it which she durst not then enquire after she would not go herself but with a low Courtesy retiring she went and called for the old Mother of the Witches Câ—amâ—ogna and having given he her Errand