[Page] THE TRYALL OF TRAVELL OR,

  • 1. The Wonders in Trauell,
  • 2. The Worthes of Trauell,
  • 3. The Way to Trauell.

In three bookes Epitemizd. By Baptist Goodall Merchant.

They that trauaile downe to the sea in shipps, and passe opon the great waters, such see the workes of the Lord, and his wonders in the deepe. Psalme. 107. 24.
Ignoti nulla, cupido.

LONDON, Printed by IOHN NORTON, and are to bee sould by IAMES VPTON, at his shop in Paules Church yeard at the signe of the Fox, 1630.

TO THE THRICE NOBLE And Illustrious Lady: prime seate of all princely worth, Great honor of trauell, Patterne of Piety and patience ELIZABETH.

Queene of Boheme, Countesse Palatz of the Rhine, Duehesse of Bauary Marchionesse of Mo­rauy.

These tripart tryalls of trauell are consecreated by Baptist Goodall: in Hope of her Honourable acceptance, with Wishes of ioyes Externall, Eternall.

To all the sonnes of Noble tra­uaile whether Merchant, Martiall, or Maryne Negotiators.

TO you the liuely Characters of my muses Epitome (as more due) I present her: not for shelter, but suruay, her sonets are in short the trophes of your trauails: Anti­dots against obliuion, and the Aconite of skillesse cen­sure. Therein may ye reuise the wonders once viewed, the worths preconceiued, with the wayes of trauaile traced already: so doing scan how short you are of what may be; as well as reuiue time of that hath bin. Action is proper to you speculation to scollers: what they Aenigmatically peruse, you personally visit, now al­though she can neyther much augment your notions, nor yet for­tifie your Iudgements by these her primortiues, so sub alternate to your sufficiencies: yet hapily in the garden of her diuersitie▪ some flowers may selected no lesse delectable then profitable, if not serue they as s [...]uchions pendant in memory of more Iuditious ob­seruations: or euer dure they as pledges of an vnlimited loue to all the Noble sonnes of trauaile, Such primly Whose wishes drilled her out from pen to presse I am not ignorant how our crittick can cauill, therefore haue I fortified her with diuine, and Morall Auncient and moderne marginals, as little how our satirist in his Laciuyous textures confront the like Carpere vel noli nostra, vell edetua, nor how the Tertullian wil puffe at her plainesse, A [...] faut point d'enseigne, alas deformityes in nature, are only [...] ­dulterate defects obscured deceptio visus fits homespune punies, not blades who pump for their wits midd salt surges and haue [...]ur [...] [...]yed more countryes thou the carier countrytownes, my [...] (my present wife) is as plaine as yong nor lesse true then vncommon please shee you with her songs I am satisfied our speech by pa [...] death proues silence what suruiues in abscence is writing eyther after vs, or farr of, Quo lic [...] at libris non licet ire mihi. she may speake when I cannot, where I may not. I comit her to your custo­dy, wishing your happy progresse in trauaile, with peace foreuer.

Your fellow trauailer, Baptist Goodall.

The Prologue to the Generall

THat our vnwise domesticke many discerne
With the Agrestick Trauailes worths to learne
And that Both may behold as in a glasse
Pleasures of such who foraine parts do passe
Vnuailing so the vices of a crue
Who guesse all things by them vnseene vntrue
I haue in short set downe my thoughts therin
Some credit to that choyce estate to winn,
First from my owne li [...]es who a small haue seene
Yet better may the worths of trauaile deeme
Then from the house bird, and the Dormouse dull
So from our critick, and th' vnletterd g [...]ll
Now if as 't may be) th' sonnes of Didimus
In Stoicke humor Daine not to beleeue vs
Lo th' Sacred writ will vrge a credit to it
No Antidote but seeing else will do it
Diuine, and Morall, Modern, and the ould
All in her worths v [...]asked with vs hould
The Patriarcks, Princes, Ptophets stories Churches
And worlds of more of all sorts sort with these
The Iewes, Greeks, Turks, Moors, Indians: and wee
All ages times, and states, there to agree
To Christian some, to Mortall trauaile all
Trovaile to euery mortall must befall.
Ci [...]ill alone is now our muses taske
Which [...]he (by Zoilas leaue) shall now vnmaske
Its wonder, worth, and way and plant from hence.
Canons dismount all homebred impudence
[...]pell their false auouch, whose trembling pen
Like Canaan spies disconsolateth men
Read all or none at all, do but as due
Thou't say though yong and short, [...]hee's plaine and true.
Quem recitas meus est fidentine libellus
At male dum recitas, incipit esse tuus,
Martialis.

The wonders in trauaile.

What time Iehove had all things ready made.
Geneseos. 1. Adam primus homo damnauit seenla prima, 3
The Sea, Land, riuers, winds the Sunne and shade
The day and night, both foule and Firmament
Heauen and earth form'd all to mans content,
Him made he then the microcosme of all,
Seated in costly Eden, whilst his fall,
Qui facit magna & inscrutabillia abs (que) numero Eliph.
Makes him accursed of a Lord compleats
Insweat of browes adindg'd his bread to eate
And pilgrimewise henceforth on earth to wander,
Pacing about it as a crookt meander,
Thenearth for sin sustaines a whole delusion
Oshominisubline dedit omne me­tam 1. caput.
And Nimrods plott produces tongues confusion
Sin, still and sorrow relatiues in vs
We are to spend our dayes in trauaile thus.
Diuinest for sight arm'd the world with store
nihil in terra Sine cansa sit Iob. 5
Of adhuments to trauaile long before
To this end we are the windes volutions fram'd
Which east, west, north, and south, by man are nam'd.
To this end were both seas and flouds prepar'd
As is in the Creations rule declar'd.
And so become the tongues confusion good
Deus [...] totus quodenim togitat hoc Loguitur & qvod loqnitur togitat Iren Lib. 2. c, 48.
One aydes the other to be vnderstood.
Yea heerevnto was shipping preinuented,
Least entercourse twixt nations be preuented
Since man to sweate and trauailes destind heere
So to consume in life day, month, and yeare.
[Page] Tis nothing else to trauaile but to breath
Trauailes ordained posterities bequeath.
Tis nothing more to trauaile then to liue
Qunti instit Li­ber, [...]:
Earth cannot least reposd contentment giue
Nor may the wise, or great, or faire, goe free
But equaly the trace of trauaile see.
Trauaile tripartite prime to all the rest
Is mortall trauaile, all thus interest.
The Christian and Ciuill stand dependants
Both being on our mortall course attendants
Ciuill we treat of tis wee vnderstand
Mans state of entercourse by sea and Land
As they are destind heere to vndergoe,
Great Ioue in his degree commands it soe.
To tell such wonders they at sea haue seene,
His greater fames forgotten to redeeme.
Of things vnknowne a Credit to procure,
And men to see his greatnesse to allure
Of natures rares indifferent of Climes.
To tell the worths, strange qualities and times.
Vti beneficia omnibus horis—sunt consideransa Chrisostom:
Acquaint the earth with miracles vnknowne,
which oney are by ciuill trauailes showne.
And friendly chang of each lands fruites thus made,
Yea many thousands each way fed by trade.
Thus trauailes wonders first their maker praise,
Then add they store and sollace to our dayes
The forme of ciuill trauailes thus prepard
Now shall its wonders briefly be declard
Not able to conceiue the cause of much
In mare:
Her miracles in her surueyes are such
Microcosme
Each mans a wonder of himselfe alone
Much wonder may a man suruay at home
Much more in many millions disagreeing
Informe wits mannors, nations habitts being
Th' invisiue deiety hearin disclosd
Romans. 1.
Omnipotence in natures frame proposd
To leaue sayth scripture man without excuse
[Page] When faithlesly men cause his powers abuse
Psalme. 8. Qui desendunt mare in nauibus facientes opera­tionem in aquis multis ipsi vide­runt opera domi­ni & mirab [...]llia sua in profundis:
Wise Dauid first at heauen, then earth admires
From whence with wondering downe to sea retires
Such as descend to deepe (quoth he) such see
The powers of Iehova what they bee
His fame is raised by euery dayes successe
The rudest region will explaine no lesse
When men saith he are tossed in the maine
So that their soules consume in sence of paine
Sometime are tossed to the cloudy skies,
Hence in a hast hell low, her shipping flyes
Billowes carreyring tosse too and fro
And wash her as a wherry high and low
Now pray they and their sorrow seekes an end
Past hope or helpe or harbour to defend
The stormy winds are stild, the men haue hope
When in a calme the ship findes larger scope
The men reioyce, blesse God, and well ariue
And in the midd of many perilles thriue
Twas sure a wonder Iouas vnder went
When he in trauaile crossed Ioues intent
The monstrous Whale should harbour be to him
Who in his soule had harbourd so much sinne
Three dayes aliue transported in his Chest
Yet all this time with life and safety blest
Then layd ashore, out of his mighty power
Whose quality is solie to deuoure
Aegypts red sea to admiration parts
And from an ocean to drie land conuert
Billowes, are walles, they passe on dry foot ground
Patientia dei 12 [...] annes dura vit cumarca si [...]bat.
When Lo! their foes the Aegiptians are drownd
No lesse admired was the Arke of Noe
Prepard to trauaile in earths ouerthrowe
The monstrous Generation, mockt his skill
How ere twas formd by God Almighties will
All earths indeluge he and his are fownd
[Page] Careyring safe in shipp, all others drown'd,
Solares est quae [...]omines obsentes presentes facit Turp: de fit viciss

Quibus pusum­nusetiam abce­tibus alloqui August,

And by this rare inuentions h [...]rbinger
The world doth alwayes with it selfe conferre
Shipping ar embasies, he get relation
Through farr remote twixt nation, and nation
Posts packing each way with intelligences
Garners to store mortals assure defences
The wandrous arke anchours Ararats mount
Her docke, and now the nations recounte
Hauing a patterne how her like to build
Then from a future deluge still to sheyld
And I, make the waters passable they try
Phenicanus bowe the first in history
Naue primus as egypto damnus, aduenit pliny
Aegypt proceedes the Greeke and many omre
Solomon trads to Opior for his ore.
Thus did deuine prescience ships inuent
Mans Cheifest friend, the temples ornament
Reg: 1,
Our Lord and his desciples once at sea
Great gulfts arise and tempest ouersway
The shipp suckes billowes as her onely diett
vide: Mark. 4. 38.
Makes the desciples fearefull and vnquiet
He wakes, they cry helpe master or wee perish.
Oft times thus feare by vnbeleefe is cherisht
Christ giues the word and bids them all be still
And gladly they as soone obey his will
So that the faithlesse Iewes are forst to say
Oh what is he whom windes and seas obey.
Examples moue oft more then reasons good
where sence and sight ar wholy vnderstood
monumenta aeto­tum Lest: L:
Lo! Last in paull his voyage is a wonder.
When sea and windes teare all their ships in sunder
Each boardes conuey, and safe the people land
Act. 27 20:
Rul'd in the Loue of Paul by highest hand
See now at sea the wonders trauail knowes
Where God himselfe in omnipotence showes
Proclames a power exceeding other places
Vbitung fuerit dei prouidentia
[Page] And sea aboue the land with wonder grace
[...]rustrautar vni­uersa contraria [...] August:
Next acts his matchlesse mercy greater part
And seeming death to long life doth conuert
Daily experience fortisies our faith
Should we surmise vnsure what scripture saith?
Our eighty eight Gibralter and the rest
Would with amazement scale our flinty brest
As thus on sea Ioue in high wonder passes
So him in sea his creatures wonder graces
Creatura miran­da.
Witnesse the worlds of fish of various birth
When waters broad doth simpathise the earth
Liuiathan Iohes wonder as a rocke
But at a ship maiestickly doth knocke
His huge and massy beard whole billowes brusshes
Iob 41 6. Corpus eius qu­scuta susillia compactum se squamis se prementibus
He through the ocean as a whirle winde rushes
Or as an earthquake makes the seas to shake
Deuouring shoules, and supping drie the lake
His sinnes plowe way in midest of proudest waues
Thus Neptune like he all the sea out braues
Puffes out a challenge, what can quele my might
Or who like me can on an ocean light
Forgetting how the sea man in meere play
Winnes him in sport, to throw his bulcke away
And drunkard like allyes the Barrell ore
Till he appeareth naked one the shore
Now gald with darts that cloudes of blood ensue
And die the neerer streames another hue
The slimy sea horse; and the Cowe contend
Better then the terre [...] themselues to send
Yet on the ice will wallouw in a rowte
And both brought Captiue by the seaman [...]lente
Men monsters and the Syrens rares to see
Yet on the waues such wonders dayly be
Scene in the north and Southerne hottest climes
Chifely the former in our latter times
The boulting sea hogg spouts against the storme
[Page] And will attend though wild sweete musickes charme
Whose consorrs Saluson, Codd, and Sturgeon bee
Such in our natiue soile hath primacie
[...].
Tis said of sages not so ould as true
That althings silent shew Gods powers due
And that some workes of his mirit admire
Rather then reason how and why inquire
His prouidence in heauens high influences
To the other regions els are sole defences
Sunn, Moone, and starres, aire, Earth, and sea direct
Order, dispose, rule, alter, get, protect
Their dispositions haue effects in all
In sea, in skie, or earth, men creatures call
Their constant motion diuine influx causes
The sea store hath at large a share in these
A second earths store, as the shapes of vs
So Brutes, horse, doggs; and all sorts wonderouse
Yea vegetiue and minerall appeare
The sword, fist, pike, cuts, tortise farr and neare
All sorts by sholes in order know their like
Their formes so strang, men in amazement strike
For note as euery Clime doth various stand
The obiect Zones ruling the nether land
So euery sea as is the Climes degree
Differs in Creatures shape and rarity
All which howere to home bred men vnknowne
Yet are in midd of trauaile wondrous showne
The rule of Reason is my argument
It brings in men (things neere so strange) Consent
For a relation in one body rownd
Twixt sea and land was in Creation fownd
In Creatures kind though different in forme
Yet cannot natures liknesse be out worne
This of the wonders on, and in the ocean
The frutes there off are only trauailes notion
Cumfreta discu­ditrapidis (que)
See now the sea it selfe miraculouse
[Page] His height exceeds earths, and is fluctuos
tumes [...]rre ventis & am circum­dare litora terroe metam Lib. 1.
Yet giueth God sayth Dauid to him bownd
Nor can earth by its ouerheight be drownd
A miracle exceeding common since
And wherin reasons proofe is impotence
As is the cause of tides slux and retreate
Howere by luner motions made compleate
This watry orbe is various euery where
Now red, then blacke, then yellow, greenish cleare
Now hot and seethes, there ice mountes her couer
vtque duae dex­caelum to tidem qu si a [...]sira, parte secant zon [...], quinta [...] stard en­ [...]orillis &c.
Wonders best knowne by such as trauaile ouer
Fiue zones earths guards, the Equinoctiall girt
Which vnder Climes still as they are Conuert
Two frigid, one fire hot two temporate
Gouernd by the high Celaestiall fate
the differing seas, and seasons vnder each
How ere knowne part by speculationes reach
Guid metam: 1:
Yet sights the sure, and teitruth of a notion
Not subiect, to the pennes vnsure deuotion
Trauailes adiacents more miraculous
Inable man to presse seas reaches thus
The compasse by his loadstone wonders chiefe
Yeilds in vnknownest pathes a knowne reliefe
Teaching the steareman how to runn his way
And midest of Rockey billowes take survay
Now sunn and starres are hid not to digresse
In nauall calculations more or lesse
Instrumenta naevallia mir [...]n­da,
In course to Cape, Ile, harbour, stranger nation
But find the true rowmb, in winds variation
In midd of misty fogges secure to runn
Although in darknesse and defect of sunn
Knowing and surely too, each Cape and Cliffes
where slatts, sands, shoules, safe harbours rockes or riffes
That Ephimerian callender a wonder
There astrolab, Crosstaff viewd asunder
Whose issues and effects p [...]sse home Conceits
[Page] Wherewith our seamen act admired seates
Bernar in Can­tic: 76
The Compas Card, scale limbes of euery shipp
That plannifp heere, and tranfames so be fit
In rarest art, sunnes horall height to know
And the altitude of euery starre to show
Northeasting, aud Northweasting by a line
What way is made, which way the length, the time
The North starre where aboue tho pole or not
Skilles wherein euery home bredd proues a sott
My relation Hebrue, he athen Greeke, yet know
Tis now my talke sea miracles to showe
Sunnes surgere gresse in euery latitude
Harden then heera at home ar to conclude
Each lands dimension length, and square and site
The solar progresse, euery where his height
Tides in all countries by the moone to find
Their flux and reflux, and the depth they wind
Timly meridian, solles true Declinations
The North starres power, Globes rule in Nauigations
The pillotts art his Chanall sownds, quicke viewe
Vesputiones Ano 1499: Collumbus: Anno 1492. Darcus Anno 1579. In learning ad­uancement. Magell anus 1520: Candish 1587
Lo! from these fruits our voyages accrue
Amazing earth in great discoueties made
Inriching Europ with a potent trade
Thus euery way at sea are wonders showne
I will not name discoueries well vnknowne
Those new found Gulphes: exacter reuolutions
Collumbus, Drakes, or candishes conclusions
Vesputius Norts or Dauis nouigatianes
For earths pacts latly rowue by many nations
The thorow lights by trauell made are cleare
Through which our new world doth to the ould appeare
Amerricca her sisters three scarce knew
While trauell brought them to an enter view
And now acquainted both in admiration
Honour, and vse as briges Nauigation
Thence to the skies high wonders travaile sees
[Page] Cosmographies the plott discouers theese
The leuen heauens, Circular effects
Trauail in all her wondros dessects
That Zodiacke, his twelue parts operation
Discrepant to the subdependent nation
The Equinoctiall change, earths axaltree
Embraces differently her orb ye see
Heere starres both fixt and motiue alter Case
Wonderous in act according to the place
The foure winds Rhouts, and thirty two partitions
Eclipses solar, lunar; such positions
As these are plainely writ, I neede not say
The worths in sight its sure, beyond denay
I am quod vide­tur sciri potus quam credi dici­tur.
For so much as the thing is fancies better
View passesse reading, its contents are greater
The heauens declare Gods glory, Heauens power
Is picturd in earths woundrous parts each houre
Gregor in Euan­geli. 32.
Earths miracles in trauelling are more
Since the Almighty formd heere greater store
That so the sonnes of men in admiration
Terraemira.
Might passe to view from nation to nation
Varieties still added to desire
Terra vires vr­bes (que) gerit fru­gesque faerasque flumina (que) hec superest Caelisul­gentis. Imago mett: Lib: 1.
Filling the greedy stranger with admire
The men, townes, frutes, riuers and brutes all Change
Turne any way in trauaile things are strange
Geography treats most of arts hearin
But trauaile only sweet of sence doth winn
Earths sipherall orbe both ile and continent
According to their sits are different
Complexions to the Climes do beare relation
So is in men a diuers propagation
How full of miracles is nature now
Which euery way such difference can allow?
Mens statutes, colloures, haire much different
In humours, and in manners diuers bent
Our Northern cleare, the Southern swarty browne
[Page] Thats merry plaine, this cunning bent to frowne
Ons frolicke other sad and dull of spirit
Thus diuers Climes their diuerse breed inheritt
Europe the Queene though least of sisters foure
Ad me undum foc [...]etatem home naturà ferter sua Aug. De ciuitat Lib. 19. cap. 12.
Greatest in fame, in arts in wits in power
In wines and mines high Garmany exceedes
As Mosco Beauers, and the rich furr breeds
The Belgick fish, and linen, a iarring nation
Yet much suprasseth most in nauigation
The french her wines, and silkes of Itally
Spaines fruits, rich ores, and Irons raise her high
The Danish tackle skinnes, and whales suplie
The Norway plankes, firres furies, and fishery
The polish flaxes, Sweadish Brasse, and mast
The Turkey stuffes Hungarian coppers Cast
The florence silke, Beames Buffe, moluccoes spice
The Brittish wooltrin, lead, corn, cole of price
Sicillian Coralls sugaries Candie wines
Zauts Corrants, and the venice Muskadines
The Chinaes gould, pearle, muske, and Iuory
The Indian silke, and mines of ores supply
Behould the diuerse store each land affordes
The wonders in creations due the Lordes
Each land in worths to wonder disagreing
In nature, colour, quantity and being
Hence may wee wondering in a higher straine
On trauells stage admiring mount againe
Scorning the least of lying wonders tould
inhil [...]minus i am Obsequium amicos veritas obuim parit. Terentius.
By sicophants to obiect basenesse sould
Telling of foothigh pigmeyes, doggeard men
Blue blacke and yellow collored, cald by them
Out scoggin, skinke, and like to these in credit
Fables, ales hate, trauailes eiection merit
What need fond men, the vulgar bee deluded
Or yet the Lord of nature be abused?
His names almighty in true wondrous things
[Page] And truth alone sound satisfaction bringes
Hees truly great in all, abhorres all glozing
Dishonourd much by each false tales composing.
Yet wants no fame; the little ants a wonder
Much more those many thousands all out number.

Edifficia miran­da.

Id circo credere debemus que non vidimus vt vi­dere me rea­mur quae credi­mus. Hug: victor cap: 1.

De fid invi [...]:

See but some rares in fabrickes admiration
Duly attends on some in euery nation.
That Chinan wall twelue hundred miles in length
Their mighty citties and, vnuoted strength,
Those Piramids of Aegypt twelue miles rownd
And fiftie cubitts mounted from the grownd
The tower and walles of mighty Babilon
The Capitall and ruind worths of Roome
The venice fabricks, Cayroes circle stronge
The spannish bridge admired three leagues long,
As these the creatures vegetiue excell
And sensitiue their alterations tell,
That Indian figtrees an admired thing
Whose touch to earth causeth a world of spring
Breeding a long atracke of mighty store
Ones brood oft Carreyeth a furlong ore,
Those siluer sands, and peatlie vaines distilling
The spanish with their matchlesse treasures filling
The oliue nutmegg, and the cloues are rare
And may with Mirch, and lemond well compare,
Land Creatures wonders in the Ellephant
Creatura mirada.
He most for massy fortitude doth vaunt
Able to tuggship laden in a calme
And fel the Dragon with his massie palme
Carrie a fort of Cannon, vnderstand
Yet willingly obay his guiders hand,
Writters admire at fieirce Rhinoce rosse
His horne, sayd the mightiest can tosse
With glassy scales encounters greater things
And to the new beholders terrour bringes
Poore muskcats ciuer as a rare receiued
[Page] The Bezar, ambir, rubies rares conceaued
But the Camell Leopard hatches an admire
In all that to the Southern poles retyre.
A Composite, two natures mixt we see
Bearing to both an equall Simpathy
The cruell Dragons' fell deuouring iawe
The serpent makes his venamous sting his lawe
Both lurking close in rockes of desert springs
And an affrighting of the neighbour things,
The Crocodile whose teeth in sumder sharke
Making decision limit to his marke
Numquid [...]volet R [...]moceros, tibi s [...]ruire? aut mo­rab [...]ur is ad prae sepe tuum. Iob. 39.
Hatcht of an Egge oh wonder of admire
To all in trauailes in the torrids are
Shee men and beasts often by land deuoures
More fish in sea and riuers [...]ue his powers
Yet oft the musket meete his high attempt
And with his ruine doth a hurt preuent
Strange Armadillo armed round about
Scales hath as Iron with, a swinish snout
Teeth cruell bent, yet helpe his bones to Cure
Whose rarenesse trauailes view doth oft allure,
But should I pen the tenth of all the store
The things some see; good writers record more
Nor paper, pen, nor skill could sure suffice
Let vs hearin with modesty be wise
Instancing truths, truth beares the only sway
When worlds of extant fictions decay.
Our dayes are short suppose no one hath had
A viewe of halfe in progresse of his trade
Each what it is add truely to the store
Of wondrouse brutes now say my muse no more,
Omit the Lyon, Beare, wolfe, vnicorne
The Elck, and Estrich, and the Hart, forlorne
In wildernesses with the Leopard pacing
And with the Tiger trauailes wonders gracing
Passe by the Eagle, faulcon, para, kite
And fly the tortoise, and the Rockfish sight.
[Page] And add to these as different conditions
Tot species tani tos (que) ortus var­os (que)uouatus ipsa clies apperit con­ficit ipsa dies. Ouid: Amorum.
The Spanish pride, and insolent ambitions
French, and Itallien lust, and light conceits
The vnbeleeuing Iewe in close deceits
Dane, German, Pool, Norwegian Russe, and Duch,
Tainted with cupping clownishnesse as much
Brittish how bould, how various, belly bent
Turkes cruell, chinenses maleuolent,
Germani multos possunt suffèrre labores ó vtinam possiut tam bene ferre sitim. Vt nos dulce me rum sic vos ve­nus impia tur­bat; lix ventri imposta est Iulia nalla mere. Vestitus varys.
Rude Indians, and Tartarians Idolizers
The morish blacke Barbarians bloody mizers,
The west, and southerne soyles to lust runn madd
The East, and north, in drunkennesse us bad.
As natures ilnesse diuersly doth vent
Hauing in climes peculier extent,
See how the habits men, and women weare,
Varie to admiration euery wheare.
The Russe his furd long Coat slopt, Collers beares
The Dane his pointed buffes, wiues wreathed haires
The German Iumphre huicke, Crague hull, and Copp
The swedish mustzell, and long flemish slopp
The french all puffes, naked Itallian vailes
The Spanish bagg fleues, Long sauoyan tailes
The Irish rugg, welch freez; and highland trouses
The Brittish proteus, Course norwegians Couses
Ciuitatum varic tas.
Where ere in trauell thou arriue thus see
One named for worlds what various habits bee
Fabricke of realmes, as fashions alter much
One vsed heare of wood; Bricke, with the Duch.
The Geanovoijs guilt, leaded marble frame.
Venice for fite and glazing beares the name.
Mad rid his fiery wall, St. Lawrence grace
The Ancient Roman edifice, high race
Cayro and Paris greatnesse, Londons plenty
The famous neatherlands structures no place empty
Antwerp, and Culloyne,, temples goodly site
This handfull for the heape in trauailes sighte.
[Page] One passing still another in some rare
Wherein alone he triumphs past compare,
But that the wisest God may seeme more high
Heel mixe his honours with diuersitie,
And time the Epoch passe their fittest birth
And when and where disperst to be one earth
One land this graces, and another that
Yet the supremist worths not to relate
If one way Spaine passes for grapes our ile
Societatùsub lata omuis cuitaest suqlata Ci­iucunditas. cero: de Ami­citia.
In food, and cloth we more then countervaile
If India passe for ores and pearles the Duch
Their nauies passe the Indian as much,
If china, sends with Turkey silken store
Our sheep clad, and our benes feed thousands more
If Norway whale, Ruffe furr, and swedish brasse
By steetes in trafick to the westerne passe
They turne gould, wine, and fruits of contentation
So might I instance much in euery nation
One succours other, traficke breeds affection
The whole is gouernd by the high protection.
For windes, seas skie, and trauell all agree
To frame one earth a iust conformity
That nature hots, and coulds may be suffied
And euery parts commodities be prizd
And all men muse to view Earths aged forme
Solemaenum do videntur demerequi amiciam. Siue qui auitam incundam nullo modo habere passvmu [...]s Cicer: de Ami­citia.
Triumphs in trauaile more; as lesse out worne
Thousands vnseen assisting one another
And the Barbarian rude the Christians brother
This harmony in nature, and each nation
Hatched by trauailes howrely propagation
Nor warr, nor iarr, can totally mollest
But some way finde they mutuall interest,
Ordaind to fit in all parts man entire
Begetting trauailes wonder, our admire,
Whereof howres much more might instancd bee
Yet I conceaue enough in what wee see
The wise may by the modell iudge the masse
[Page] So speed my muse to trauailes worths a pace
In sea, skie, earth, fish flesh; reason and sence
Lo! wonders of diuine omnipotence
Some scatterd each way; trauaile must discry
And industry, and wisdome moue to try
Occasionall wonders these attend on time
And we for them since none can pre diuine
In Christian trauailes, an almighty hand
Protects his Church, and Children in each land
In mortall trauailes steard by force of fate
Men may presume but no way can rebate
What strange effects they are allotted too
What wonders they are destind heere to doo
Life tis a trauile through earths sea of woes
And miracles doth Christian state disclose
Neyther the matter of my muses songe
They to diuines and moralists belong
And my discourse of ciuill trauails worth
After her wonders let her vtter forth
Prostrating so his selfe to trauailes friend
So much in short of wonder makes an end.

Aut face, Aut tace.

The worthes of trauels.

CAuses fortunne effects Logitians say

Est enim iustitia Vnicui (que) Suum tribuere: cic: de officijs.

Ignorantiae duae Filiae falsitas & Dubietas, illa misereor, ista miserabillior illa peruitiotior ista molestior Austin

As subiects euer Leade their adiuncts way,
Though trauells worths are in wonders showne
Yet by her rare effects shees better knowne,
Iustice say sages is to giue each righte
Oppon its worth apparent to the sight,
Worth must be knowne, ere't can be iustly prizd
In ignorance it can but be surmisd.
The fruits then seen pluct off the fertill tre [...],
Can best expresse it's worthinesse to thee,
Commit it to the tast of any man
Thens no more need it's excellency to scann,
Pleasures, and profitts Commonly are crosse
And the, gaine of one is still the others losse,
But if they in one subiect mett agree
That neuer faild to prooue a raritie,
Behould heers both, and larglie too extended,
Whereby earths seede from ruine is defended.
Profits abayte t'allure the thrifty mind
Though he small pleasure in the obiect find,
How trauail sutes in both is admiration
Mans witt, and wealth of these a first relation
The wise terms witt, a siluer gliding streame
The witts of nobler natures tis I meane
[Page] For thers the cause the earthly minded lake
Nor will nor can of trauailes worth pertake,
Such wits I say still flowing from the fountaine
And inbred vigour of the holy mountaine
Natures remaines more cleare by graces shine,
Both by assistance influence diuine,
Still throuh the nations current are more pure
By sunnc [...]re [...]ne, made actiue to endute,
Mans wit and fence by trauailes daily tried
Remaine by issue still vnputrified,
Oth harmony in diuerse witts accord
Officiisvitae hu­mana Constat mutuis omnis (que) ratio & insti Cutiovitae qumanae adiu­menta desiderat cicero off. Lib: 2.
Neuer Could Clime all sorts Comactt afford,
Lands must bee louing borow much of each
The nearer witts perfections to reach,
The God of nature calls for mutuall trade
Diuersicie this enter course hath made,
The Stoic Iewe loues of the Christians learne
And wee in them frugallity discerne
The Could dull northerne practize westerne witt
And they a true plaine hartednesse in it.
The rudest Indian manners of our planter
His heathen skill became our trades aduancer,
The orphean musicke with Itallian dwelles
The Spannish linn [...]ing euery way excelles,
The deepe Giunosophist, the Captiue grecian
The paracelian phisicks with Venetian,
The Expert Pool, and Pertian horst in warre
The prying Crees his iudgement of the starre
In some all passe that none may be deiected
But none in all that all may be respected.
As arts inuentors heere and there abide
That they might be to all allwayes discried
When the decree aginst, Lewd earth was past
And God by waters ment the Earth to wast
He then instnicted Noah first ship to build
Both him and his from waters force to shield
The eye of man Could not forsee the worth
[Page] This rare art doth posterities bring forth
By it earths spacious kindred Comes acquainted
And Christian faith midd infidels is planted,
But not Enthusiall, but by practize skill
Men Nauigations miracles fulfill
A rarat mounts taught the Phenicians how
A second arke by Industry to bowe,
Hence Egipp, next it to the Greeks extends
Who add the Deckes, ones art the rest befriendes
The Creet, then Carthage hence the Roman next
But prouidence assigens it to them next.
And winds transport a shippe of Tyre to them
So are the Romans made sea fairing men,
Cret [...]nsis n [...]scrit peligus.
Become sea masters, whence our Brittaine learnes
Belgickes french, spsnish all the art discernes
Behold the fabricke out of diuerse nations
As this so other arts haue propagations
Ciprus the large, Illyrians the Barke
Rhodes formes our frigats; nay the tackles marke
Beotia ores, Dedalus mast and saile
Which bred first poets fond I Carian tale.
[...] nibus grande leuatur onus.
The Tuscans ruder, heime and sterne invent
And stearing from skild Typhis first descent.
Lo! now the lott is euery way disposd
Wee see some heere some there of artes disclosd
Icarcus Icarijs, nomina dedit equis.
The wise may by his matter iudge the masse
And see Gods goodnesse cleare as in a glasse.
The issues they shall force thee to beleeue it
Worthy to tell, and trie true trauailes credit
As Noah and his suruiue by this innention
And Solomon at Ophirs Long desceusion.
Whence he the temple ornaments did bring
Gold, pearles, and Iewels, worthy such a King
So since the new world and the ould shake hands
And freinds are found in many, forraine Landes
wilt man be witty, then thy daies deuote
or some of those some traueld worths to note.
[Page] For trauailes fruit is reapt by obsuruation
eorum filij nos dicimur quorux actiones imitamur Grigeni [...] ezeck homi. 4.
And thers a seuerall Cropp in euery nation.
For all mens genius some way Chiefly bends
It to accomplish some way he intendes.
It may he thine cannot at home be sitted
Some artists proue elsewhere, farr sharper witted.
The handmaid trauaile brings you both as friends
So now ye purchace your desired ends.
Thou shalt suruay behauioures of a world
All in exact diuersities in rowld
Hec ediseas & vigilare Labo­rare Solon.
Cull out the Choice of flowers in the feilds
So decke thy witts with that each climate yeilds
Sweet plesant sauours of their vertues loue
And noysome sent of vices disaproue.
So bring home haruest with the ant with thee
Equidem exem­pla multa docere Possu [...]t.
Which in thy gray haires may a sollace bee.
Come to the proffits next each state enioyes
By iust Comerce, and trauailes Counterpoise
How as in man each member aideth other
So ouer earth each Climes suports the tother
Earth neuer knew it selfe while trauell rose
Ouid: am [...]:
Which did it selfe vnto it selfe, disclose
Mans mcrocosme can scarsely be accquainted
But Brutall be from rationall disionted.
Loose in himselfe himselfe his hart vnknowne
Though in his midest but to his god alone
Much more the Globe, howere the Globe is round
Thousands of Angls meere vnknowne a bound.
One cannot ayd another while vnseene
Trauaile the prospect medium betweene
A tripart lamelesse Long possest its forme
Whilst by the force of enter view outworue,
In reasons order twas adiudged rownd
But which wayt only twas by trauaile found,
Long time past Assia vaunting all alone
She onely she in scriptures trauaile knowne
While affrica ascends on Churches stage
[Page] And doth it selfe for E [...]ropes search engage.
Downe to the Romans yea to Spaine it comes
And so to Brittaine hither to her homes,
Thus in a glory trauailes the most high
O [...]e earth with that his Arke triumphantly
Brittaine and thule vngill accounted last
Christoprero columbo, deind Ameri [...]oue ves­putio vnde & Americiae [...]omen fortitur.
When we abroad the earth as scumm were cast
While latlie Lo! as Light [...]ing trauils flyes
And then a fourth America descri [...]s
With worldes of wealth and mines of ore repleate
And all but man, wild man there vncompleate,
Sweet trees, raie gummes, rich ores and liluer sands
In length and breadth surmounting other Landes.
Dubartus.
Collumbus and Magellian Prowdly venetrd
Then Drake, vespuritis and our forbish enterd,
Peruana and the Mexican are cleard
But the south regiones what they are vnheard
Terra Australis Incogn. ta est.
The worlds of wealth thence to our Lands acc [...]ue
And the many fertile Coloines insue.
In many large discoueries is declared
An therefore shall in my discourse be spared.
I onely aime the wealth trade bringes to tell
All as one household ruld by fate to dwell.
Europ the chiefest right by trauell tries
Fixe one those Indies your indicious eyes.
Virginia, and Bermudaes, Brittaine plantes
And Spaine in her west Indian highnesse vauntes.
The Northerne riches; whales and fures brings home
Vt enim Solitu­do in odioest, ita in dulcedine & appetitio soda­litalis S [...]nn ep. 9
Things to our fathers, and to theirs vnknowne
And we the flemish French and all crept in
A part in Spaines rich Indian soyle to winn
As lands so Citties yea and men are made
Potent by trauile, and recourse of trade
Whence comes it princes scorne not merchants stile
By it their Cosers they with substance pile
For as of warr are siluer strings the tyes
So it by trade and trauaile must arise.
[Page] That prowdest monarck who the whole Earth claimes
And would haue Earth cald Gods stild onely Spaines
May make a Saint of trauaile for his ore
Ere those aduentures, neuer prince more poore.
Twas Tyre, and Memphis priueledge so great
That holy writts their merchandize repeate
The Hauen Low become now highlands better
The Ile though but a blott a whole lands greater
The merchants warchouse as a princes store
Some states in rule are rich in venture more.
Some vse them as supports in a relation
On to the other mutuall propagation.
Quantum quis (que) sua nu­morum seruatin arca tantum ha­bet & fidei.
Defensiue potence makes trade better thriue
As trade preserues a potency aliue,
No in stance but the Netherlands, and hantz
A mutuall knot, their welfares to aduance.
Trafickes true nerues armistically mixt
And twixt marine, and land ende avoures fixt
No way mechannieke for a boore to know
Impiger merca­tor Horrace.
Nor mind I merchants misteries to showe
Yet who Denies those mistery of exchange
(If able to be sounded) shew how strange
The proper subiects are themselues should know
Nor any else how goes it high or low.
How rich to states ye nether Nobles say,
Omnia adiues habet nam prae­strantomnia nu­min. 1. Marcell.
Who her with can Spaines magnitude or sway;
And Countercharme his indies by your tra [...]le
And the victorious fleets by flemings ma [...]e
Nor dare I banke our eighty eights defence
Though primely due to high omnipotence,
The Noblemeane weare ships of victory
Martius aduerso dux strennus ob­v [...]at hosti quan­dr sub hac veluti palladi bella gerit. Matheus leiuer­uill vbi:
Mixt with aduentures ost tryed v [...]liancie.
What agents he who trauaile neuer knew
Wanting such parts as tradings worths a true?
But by a broker in a forraine soile
Become meere slaue to forrainers beguile.
See citties clad with shipping as a robe
[Page] Whose natiues send to search about the globe
How fraught with riches, both of soule and minde
He that perceius not this is wilfull blind
Sugars and wines we from caunaries haue
From Florence silkes, from Naples satens braue.
From Candy Currants Oyle and muskadine,
From Indies East store of all spices fine
Arabian odoures, swete, and [...]ubaes ore
From the Could russe fine furres and fishes store.
From Newfoundland, the norway firr and flax
The swedish Coppers, Cordage ambers wax,
The flemish hope his linen flanders say.
Volupias non­nisi varietate confistit.
Our brittish stores wee know no more suruay
The sea winde weather shippings stores and saile
All iump the worthes of trauaile to availe.
So that in short it serues the sones of men
No more of trauails profits needfull then
Now forits pleasures, pleasure tis to tell.
Those multitude that do in trauaile dwell.
Both soule, and senses mutually fild
A secret solace in them both distild
Christs crosse a modellis of what we say
Tis a meere trauaile passing all denay,
Wherein (as Paule) the christian is assaild
With many woes, to vertues lot intayld
Yet Lo! as he in all becomes victorious
And ioyes in sorrow, by abasment glorious
Tramples on sin and sorrow by an ayd
Which makes the fell infernall curres affrayd
Of this to come, as man all for content
Poore man his curses bitter would preuent
By various obiects relishing his toyle
Whereof he findes out some in euery soyle
His sences seruants to his will desire
Nothing so much as noueltie require,
Wise Solomon saw this when once he sayd
My eyes with seeing is not satisfied
[Page] Nor tongue by taste, nor eares with hearing fild
Et deprendi ui­hill esse melius quam Laetari in opere sua & hane esse partem illius Eclesiafies. Delectant alterna magis veti­tis (que) potiridulcius & sordent qua possunt semper haberi: pallin.
Nor nose by sents, nor hands by touching stild
Yet is mens solace heere below quoth hee
To proue what pleasure may procured bee,
And as a creature consolate the mind
While he in heauen comforts period find
To this end weare those rares of nature framd
Where by creation god great power proclamd,
Diuersities each clime, and country spreading
Diuersities, of creatures diuerse breeding.
That as the temple made by Solomon
Was framd of forraine rares as well as stone
From Sheba some, from Ophr others sent
The Fabricke fmisht bredd a st [...]ueshment.
So we the temples, reasonable soule
The temple it earths wonders to enrowle
And view the totall, or iudge by a part
Each Creatures rarenesse, the Creators art.
Our passiue humors proue not halfe so well
The actiue chiefly to delight excell
The sight, the taste, and touch, and actions like.
[...]. Amor,
Those at the ground of noble solace strike
When hearing reading and dull absence go
Void of delight, or certainely to know.
On others pennes or lipps tis to relie
Onth only organs of vncertainty
When thou dost see and seeing vnderstand
The various obiects in a foraine land
The men in habit, and condition strange
Their Citties sites and forme, of stru & ures change,
Religion differre men of sauage breed
The rarity in cloth and what they feed,
There speech and paradox themselues and all
Nothing but what thou different maist call
Much inward Cheere the sences will surprise
Tast, touching smelling seeing eares and eyes
[Page] Tis not for vnexperience to expresse
Dci beneficia omnibus horis Con­sideranda. August.
Such as haue tasted will auouch nolesse.
Thout blesse thy God for thy Religion pure
And all will in thee thankfulnesse procure
And much contentment in thie course of trade
How ere it with a forrainer be made,
When thou shalt tast from tree the forraine rare
Vine iuyce the mirch and such spics are
Viewing the Cloue and cinamonds delight
And worldes of such a stonishing the sight
Supose the pleasure, and the contentation
Attend the florehouses of euery nation.
When thou shalt saile the Course in surges high
Noting thy ship mount proudly to the skie
Psalme. 10.
Then delue the deepe then tosse thee vp againe
And curtey sporting with thee through the maine.
By ayd of card and compasse strangly guided
And by her way those Labyrinths diuided.
The dolphin and huge whale swim tumbling by
The mariners their trickes to gore them trie
These wonders shall surpasse thy admiration
Stulta placent Slultis obsonia quisque palato querit Dignasuo non emnibus vita voluptas mare: Paline.
Yet cleare thee with a world of contentation
We speake as men (conceiue vs as we say)
The soule we know suffied another way
In midd of these shees actiue by a hope
Surmounts wide oceans in their largest scope
And by a ioy in praise of God Creatour
Extolling thanfully his wondrs power
Lo landed now thou canst not turne thy head
But cause is giuen to bee astonished
To view in East the Beare and Lyon strong
The Vnicorne or Elaphant, high and long,
The heards of wilds Ele, beeuer ernim Fox
Such stores of treasures deluued out the rockes,
Psalme. 19.
Those many models of ancient ruind things
The rare Erections of our moderne Kings,
Thy eye will fixe thy heart one pleasures midd
Nor wouldest thou for a world haue any hid.
[Page] But be spectatour: twas thewisests wish
Who spent much time although a prince in this
And from the Cedar to the Shrub did goe
The rares in stature amplier to know
Yet thousands haue more pleasures vnderstood
Who haue in larger trauailes bin improud
Twas that thy spirit shebaes queene thee blest
When thou by hearing hadst bin now possest,
And seeing of his worthy gouernement
Raised her strangely to astonishment,
To cry thy witt o King exceeds report
Blessed was I to Iury to resort
A like the sonnes of forraine trauailes cry
When they the wonders where they passe suruay
Nam vt quise arnant adhibent speculum, ita gesturus nego­tium Proponat sibi illustrum virorumexempla Plutarke.
Twas of a truth O King of Kings we said
Thy wonders, each way sure weare vndenayd,
But now behold aboue conceit we finde
Fair more then could while now possesse our minde
O! all thy workes great god thee each way praise
Both sea and thy fame to heauen raise.
Our factour who in youth full dayes is sene
The Merchants goods by enter cource to vent
When seated in the clime, and mannor both
Now to returne to natiue soile is loth,
The change of cuntries and of pleasures moue
This man then there as natiue to approue
Full oft is seene in fortunes great preferd
Viri excellentis antipites va­rijsque casus ha­bent admirati­onem, Laetitium, molestiam siuero exitu notabili conclud untur expletur mens gaudio sum [...]o cicer: Lucullo Episto. 12.
And die he there is famously enterrd
Thence if returne parts language and behauour
Mount him to worth respectednesse and honour
He longs and's thirsty through the midd of danger
To trauaile out, remaine at home a stranger
Such pleasures, and comodities accrue.
To men who trauaile honestly pursue.
We seeastatist scarse fixe statsman bee
Vnlesse he forraine parts, and passage see
[Page] And get more language then his mothers say.
Whereby he coop well for his Country may,
By writ, embassage, treaty or protest
As by his state he then is interest.
He sportes in all their rates so entertaind
His princes welcome is in him proclamd,
[...] venustas in mari [...]Span quid babies laus est omnes (que) vi [...]e partes bonaesunt Me [...]rodorus
Their wines, rare presents, pleasures all are his
And he though great holds his most worth in this.
Returnd prince, people and religion loue him.
And the forraine prince (if worthy) all approue him,
Thus soule and sences, both haue pleasures cropp
And's brought by trauaile to his wishes topp
The valiant souldier, Captaine, Colonell,
Will not be confind to his mothers Cell:
But trie the fortunes forraine quarells yeild
And learne what proiects there besit a feild.
Tryall the Guards french spannish, and Itallien,
The foot from flanders, horse from Poole and Persian,
Triumph in sportes of leaguers fortified
And haue seige, afterseige his valloures tried
The persons here in famous ile nor name
Since shortly we shall come to persons fame,
Their pleasures now Ingenerall I note
qualis qu [...]que aerbor tales solet dere fructus.
Who do them thus to traueling deuote.
But know the aime of noblest youthfull men
Is still in forraines to accomplish them
Sea captaines in the ioyes of Nauigation,
Land captiues where warr is extant in a nation.
Nobles at courses of greatest sport, and fame,
Merchants to port townes of the richest name,
Discouers to the farr remotest regiones
The vnsetled Crac-kbrane 't Ansterdams religiones,
The nouelest, to'th shadow of a sieidge
Rome, Compostella, or Castillian Bridge,
Laurettoes relicks, or ould Iuryes Celles,
The wild and sauage wonders lapland telles,
[Page] So each his humour couets to attend
For trauaile euery humour can befreind,
Some to the East, some west, or Northerue runne,
Others discoueries to the South vnknowne
All sorts of solace trauelers attending
And them with their desired ioyes befending,
Quallitates de­s;iderande
Good propertyes in trauailes learnd are many
Qualities not inferiour to any,
Of other subiects men on earrh enioy
Or this our tedious pilgrimage imploy,
That betters man within, without and both,
Expelling sickenesse, lazinesse, and sloth,
Subiects man both to health and happinesse,
Must needs be iudgd an earthly worthinesse
True trauailes this it excercises men
That these home oppilations choake not them
Clearing the stomacke by the seas purgation
The mind of dumps by motiue recreation,
The braine of melancholly blockishnesse
The bo [...]y of laciuious filthinesse,
If well pursued, thus worthy I conclude
Chearing the soule and checking sonces rude,
That breeds eternall quietnesse to men,
Begetting vertuous faculties in them
Virtutem veram qui possidet ille beatus ille satis felix permitat cetera diuis marcell.
Must needs be worthy in their natiue kind
Worth the embraces of each noble minde,
Lo! trauailes this humility it causes
Conducting man thence to deserud applauses,
Ciuility breeds by experience made
Dilligence by true practise in each trade,
Pollicy by suruay of thousands acted
Patience by endure of griefes effected,
Siqua amisis [...] vitae gaudia ne­gotiatio est par­ua amitere vt maiora lucrerir:
Pitty by religious obseruations
Curtesie from the vse of best seene nations,
Complement from the order of the Court
Manners and trade where factories resort,
[Page] Agillity and actiuenesse by motion
Wisedome collecting euery way good notion,
Sea arts from view of practizd nauiga ion
Chrisost: Rom. 7 ad pop: antis:
Partes from the trauaile of each dayes delatian,
Language by trade and forayners comerce
And what in briefe of worth man may rehearse,
And though most misse this, tis not it but them
Wisdome is hid from greatest part of men.
And man must practize long with patience
And thanke his god for what he gathers thence.
Therefore I say neerlesse, these qualities
Will vrge the wise her worthynesse to prize,
O Could we but consider at the sea
How in a storme the trauailer doth plea
Mercator factu­rus iter terretur & alt [...]: pectore d [...] gemitus, metu ens scopu­los [...]reta ventos.
With god for mercy, ayd and preseruation
Expecting still a fatall invndation,
His faith now conflicts with his feare therein
Vowing to god preserud neere more to sin
But liue renewd and thankfull euermore
The Lord ore come with penitence deplore,
Soone sends a calme as wisht to cure his heart
And windes and weather to desire conuert,
He passes now with praises to his maker
And vowes himselfe to vice and sin forsaker
Next course he meetes with pirates opposition
And must indure a souldiers condition,
The smoake and bullets smoake it many die
A time to importune the god on high.
If Ionas house th' whales belly made him pray
Or the Desciples when the storme oresway,
Or Paules associates at approching night
Then needs the christian in his nauall fight.
His faith and valour grow by vse more strong
Praises to god in conquest are his song
So that the foe surpressed with the sight
By prostrate yeildance forced is to flight
[Page] The medicinall rares on earth dispersed
With exceilencies not to be rehearsed
Besides those waters bath and Spaw excelling
Sicredire dig­num est, Ouid.
Both many noysome foule defects expelling
The Poets fictions of acadian welles
Wherein the per [...]urd onely dy hee telles
Azaniam causing hate of wines and drinke,
Matters for puny shallow pates to thinke
Such and a crue of frothy fictions vaine
As sotts surmise, meere simples entertaine
I hate to name, the mentions a disgrace
Colligitac ponit temere & mula­tur in horrace imberhis iunen is tandem custode remote gaudet equis canibus­que & aprici gramine campi­vtilium tardax prouisor
Plaine truth that claimes iustly trauailes place
Her worths are in true properties relation
Not needing any fained innouation
Note but the rusticke hatcht with pap at home
In mothers mannors; plow-trickes only knowne
Eyther in Citty or with gentry plast
At first how motley raw, dispisd disgract.
While by the nurtures of a better breed
Hees with behauiours better farr agreed
Iust thus tis with a new hatcht trauailer
Noratrus in Ar­te p [...]etic [...].
In forraine way on each file bent to erre
Though iudgd, at home sufficient any way
Come heere hees wanting what to do or say
Tis with him thus I say and nothing lesse
Vntill he parts, and language too possesse
His home bredd posture cannot act his part
Thats folly heere, theers estimate an art
Experience it wiil worke an Vniform
And obseruations strangers hedge from scorne
Tis somes ambition they were gentile bred
Too little mannors taught and too much fed
When such (as oft it fales) are disapointed
And from their former golden hopes disioynted
Strange tis to see the shiftes they vndergoe
Who neere in youth desire of worth to know
[Page] The trauailer (the wise it is I meane)
Though of all fortunes disposessed cleane
Wisely with sage, ould Bias still can say
Omnia me a me­cum porto cic: Som: sc:
Yet all my wealth I beare with me away
In spite of Pirate soe of iosse or crosse
Which would a foole to desperation tosse
My witts my arts and learnings and good life
Hipocrates.
Are to me riches, houses, children, wife,
A trauailers experience as Phisition
Is such as none, s' at home of like condition,
Each for raine soile still stored with some rare
Hauing it may be else where no compare
Nepenthes clearing of the broken hart
Euphones purging of the envenomd part,
The Corrall, Cipres, Rhewbarb, mandrakes vse
The Melt take it for all yeilds sugred iuyce
Makes weapons, phisicks needles, thridd, and line,
Balme, suckets parchments, sweet pursumes, and wine,
Cures serpents sting, both french, and stone disease,
One Indian tree to wonder doth all these.
As places proue in nature all deliciouse
So are they still in some case all propicious
We see somes health at sea got by purgation
Some in the Easterne, some the Westerne nation,
Pectoribus mores tot sunt quot in orbe Figurae: Qui sapit innumeris moribus aptus crit
Some in the freezing North can thriue a pace
Some though in scorching Southerne come to grace.
Sorting with noble Dauid in opinion
That Gods sole soueraine King in each dominion
Promotion comming not from East nor West
Ouid 1: Amor.
Nor man alone in North, or South are blest,
But euery where cares cround with good effects
As euery where the Lord the iust respectes
And euery soile the wisest hath a thing
Which will him custome, trade, and traficke bring,
Good propertios are alwaies worth respect,
As bad deserue reiection, and neclect.
[Page] In mentall matters faculties of minde
Some better one way, some elsewhere we find.
Flumina pauc [...] vides magnis de fontibusor ta plurima collectis multip licantur aquis ibid.
The workes of sages: and of churches too
Transported euery way as still they doe
So harmonize each documents perfection
That trauails this way worthy als protection.
Their sayings, ours, ours theirs, both so suruiue
By mutuall fauour cherished aliues
Next huma [...], arts we see haue propagation
By reference twixt nation and nation.
Barbaro & In­dianor peritia,
How acurate some wa [...] mechanicks are
Whom christians count but brutish in compare
That now the gray haires of the world appeare
And age her to confused vice doth weare
Trauails tricks vp and keepe her still aliue
Noy more, shee seemes in wrincles to suruiue
Since lately that America so vast
Hath her whoel selfe to the three sisters cast
And an acquaintance made by traficking
Makes our new planters much admire the thing
Each for his ends: some passe to blessed ends
Whose aime to heathens true conuersion tends
Others to liue, to labour, and remaine,
Transplants, from Brittaine, Holland, France, & Spaine,
The properties of traualle so imense
Taken in christian; or in Ciuill sence
Profit esteemed worthy als embrace
Pleasures and properties excell in grace
The one assuring Chiefly youth to trie
The other midage, the iudicious eye
The third to gaine euen aged do proceed
Vntill they run their glasse of time decreed,
Lo! as the obiects thus in briefe appeare
Next now their subiects in their place come neare
Examples oft aboue all precepts sway
Men mind more how we doe, then how we say.
[Page] Twas the holy order God vsed in creation
Non intendunt qua a nobis di­ [...]ntur gen [...]ilia sed quae aguntur [...] [...]om. 7. ad pop: autio.
Ands worthy euery artists immitation
The sky, sea land, fish, flesh, and all else framd
Then formd he man, and man he Adam namd
So we the instance framd, obiects of worth
Next shall in briefe traine trauailes subiects forth
To name those clouds of subiects (men I meane)
Who haue had part in acting trauailes sceane
Is with no art, nor labour to be acted
As much as need shall briefly be compacted.
And by the goulden rule mete what wee say
In mortall, Christian or in ciuill way.
So by Commixion of this rule of three
Summe trauailes worthies so their worths to see.
Nor neede distinction, we of totall treate
In trauaile men saith God his bread must eate
Iew gentle, all some way must haue a share
Eorum fily dici­mur quorum actus nos immi­tamur Grigen: ineze
And all haue interest in what we declare.
When Adam and his house had spent their dayes,
In cares and trauaile wandring many wayes,
Now by the naked sword from Edon guarded
And iustice thus their treasons had rewarded,
Genes. 4,
We all attainted, all his ofspring cast:
Yet after him in arebellion hast
S [...]nce the fall, we trauaile all.
So that our maker missing his intent
Fales now of mans creation to repent,
For Lo! the Sonnes of God mens daughters wedd
Ca. 5.
Whereby a monstrous generations bred
The highest angry, powrs his furie downe
And (but a remnant left) all earth doth drowne.
Noah and his house now trauaile in this flood
And by his arke the waters are withstood
A hundred dayes and fifty straying so
Now all the earth beside lay drownd below.
Genes. 7.
[Page] From Vr to Canan, Abram, trauails next
Caput. 11. 12. 14.
With Heathen ills his righteous soule now vext
Forsakes by Iouahs call his fathers land
By saith obeing this diuine command,
Through Haran, Bethell, Egypt Terah dies
At first: from Hay he then for famine hies
To Egypt: yet at Egypt cannot stay
His wife abusd heere makes him furrher stray,
From Bethell now by his brothers quarell chast
Then captiued by the foure Kings, and displast
Thence rescued by his brothers valient hand
Thus wanders Abram out his fathers land.
While aged in yeares, and Iorneyes he departes
To Machpelah his graue: sole end of smartes.
Nor differs Isaack from his fathers dayes
Genes. 25. 26.
But as a pilgrime downe to Gerar strayes
As his sonne Isaack, Iacob Isaacks child
Wanders by Esaw (brothers ire) exild.
Goes pilgrime wise to Padan with a staffe
Trauailing from his natiue brothers wrath,
To Shechem next, whence, he to Beathell goes
Where in a caue he takes his last repose
A hundred and eighty yeares the one
And fiue yeares lesse ould Abram? Iacobs mone
God heard in famine and a Iosepth sends
Who father land and brethren all befriends
Ould Iacob trauailes) few and ills my dayes
(Quoth he to Pharaoh) troblesome many wayes.
Hic enimnos diuersorium comorandi, non habitandi habe­bus. cic [...] sence [...]
He buried now! note Iosephs traualle blest
Who in his dayes exceeded all the rest.
Though in a pit him first his brothers cast
There iudgd to die; yet saud, then brought at last
Gennes. 37
Carried to Egypt set to sale yea sould
To Potiphar 'o wonders to be tould
[Page] By lot made ruler of his Lords estate
But as best meritts meet on earth most hate,
His Ladyes Lawlesse lust procures him ire
Vt hoc ag [...]mn [...] in deum offendere?
Since his chast humour crost her lewd desire.
Hees cast in prison yets, exalted there
When by his diuination dreames were cleare.
Hee, next made Egypts Lord, weares Pharaohs ring
And by his trauailes blest of bondman, King
His witts the seauen yeares of Famine feeds
[...]enres. 50
Supplying fathers lands and brothers needs,
Heere ruling fourscore yeares, much blest; then dyed
When thus in trauaile strangely dignified.
As thus the father so the Church did stray
Ands meerly militant, as scriptures say.
Hic Eclesiamillitans Illie triumphans.
Not Chaird in roome or any where in rest.
But's millitary and in trauailes blest
More then in ease, still pooles they gather mudd,
And drousie sweets souest corrupt good blood.
Both Church, and soule, and vertues mount more high
As they in trauailes through temptations flie.
Exodus. 15.
Yea man is modell of the whole we say
Best are the best men, most when motiones sway.
Exo. 1, 2, 7, 8, 9.
Earths in fancy in trauailes nursed euer
The Churches in the partriarks thus peseuer,
Come now to any growth is Egyps hate
Ioseph now gone the blood hound of her fate
The bondage noted and theit cryes come vp
Moises is raised to beget a hope
Lo! hee at first saued among the reedes
And mid wiues knife) him there his mother feeds
By pharaohs daughter fownd) pitty preserud
Nurst him and so's in Pharaohs Court preserd,
Where he in state did forty yeares abide
Whence in greate feare he downe to Midan hied
Kept sheepe a while there married alterd thus
The Lord accommpanies him in a Bush.
[Page] Sends him to court thence to redeme his land
Vide [...]t Israeli­tarum vita de­seribitur quin­que libris moyst Iosue iudicu [...]r, & regum.
Where hee with wonders doth before Pharaoh stand
Turnes waters blood, brings frogs, and flies and lice
Murren sores thunders grashopers and nightes
Instead of dayes next are there males destroyd
In trauails thus is Moises now imployd.
Is pharoahs god: the socerers Admiration:
Egyps scourge, but deliuerer of his nation
Bring Israel safe through the sea, when foes are drownd
Caput, 14.
Six hundred thousand strong the church is found
And is to Canaan promisd traueling
Hauing bene foure hundred yeares flaues to that king
Deutronom. 13
forty yeares trauaile hath now ere they rest
Being in their trauailes wonderfully blest
Apparell weares not nor dare foe withstand
Exod. 13, &c.
Pillar of fire their day stare, cloud on land
Forty and two great iorneyes in the wild
The Rocks yeild waters, are with manna fild
Iosuah: 1.
And with all dainties still their iorneys flowe
Their foes the heathen haue the ouerthrowe,
In view of Canaan come, now Moises dies
Caput. 24.
And with the rule God Iosua dignfies,
Who Ierico, then Ay quite ouerthrowes
And flayes both prince, and people of their foes
Iob: 1, 2, 3. &c
Thirty and one lands they in trauaile got
So now the Church parts Canaan by lot,
Triumphs in Rule of iudges would ye know
The case more cleare? behold the scriptures show
Caput. 42. 10.
Nor can we christians sure be ignorant
Of what the Iewes of trauaile vse to vaunt
This onely this, may serue to shadow foorth
The Patriarckes, Churches both their trauails worth.
About this time was holy Iob in east
In mortall trauaile oh so much opprest
Bereft of Children goods and freinds turne foes
Be guirt by sathan round and round in woes
[Page] Yet Lo! when patience had her perfect aime
Ruth. 4 13
Hees easd of trauaile and releast of paine.
Come on to ruth a woman trauailer
Youl finde it will that weaker sex prefer
From Israelles famine shee to Moab goes
Hestre, 2. 16.
Where for a wife her wealthy Boaz Chose
Renowned Hester of a Captine Queene
Though poore rema [...]ning as a iemm vnseene
Empresse of thirty two great prouinces
Vide litincra Daiud a regum 13. priads. cun­terlij.
Prouing the Churches fauster dame in these
Hamans confusion, Mordecayes sole raise
One woman all the Churches foes ore swaies.
All telling plaine gods blessings where meanes want
Whose loues in trauailes are the iust to plant
I need not name great Dauids trauelling
Ionah. 2.
Before nor after he was anointed King,
Though as a flea by saule in trauaile chast
Sauls flaine and Dauid Lord of Israell graet
But to that antitipe of our redemption
Ionah from plague for sin had no exemption,
Cast into sea the waues deny receite
The whale may swallow but he may not eate,
But from his vaste chest cast him one the sand.
And after three dayes postage comes to land.
So now lets hence to the churches head away
Behold how he in trauailes heere doth stray
While he on earth our shape did vnder goe
For of his life himselfe confesseth so,
The foules they haue their hooles, a nest each bird
But I poore I no hole to hide my head
His mates to trauaile chose he trauellers
Math. 3, 15. Esay 61. 11. Iohn 46 Ma [...] [...]. 21.
Ship men and fishers these our Lord preferes
At Beathlem born hies to Ierusalem,
Taking a iorney downe to Egypt then,
In feare of Herods cruell bloody aime,
But Herod dead, retireth backe againe,
[Page] To Gallile: and Nazaret, to teach
And thence to Capernauum there to preach.
Much cares and crosses euery way enduring
Yet euer teaching, doing good, and curing.
And Lo! at last our Lord is first betrayd
Next by another of his owne denayd,
Araind, whipt, scorned, spitted, and despisd
Omnis Christi actio, nostra est instructio august
And at Golgotha after crucified.
Our Lord and King thus trauailed below
Waies of earths trauailes to vs all to shew
Now out of sea in middest of many stormes
Math. 27. Math. 16, 19.
And then on land in middest of many harmes
In hunger thirst, wants, woes and trauails tryed
Math, 3, [...] ▪
And now with heauens high honoures dignified.
To tell vs all and giue vs this to know
Hebrewes. 11.
Our rest is vp aboue and not below.
Which apprehension moues by faith our minde
Caput. 14. 12. 10: Baptistae vita. Luc. 1.
To spend our trauailes heere, that rest to find.
That graue forrunner of our Sauiour, Iohn
In wandring through the wildernesses knowne
Hard bred with locusts, and wild hony there
Rough skinn, and Camels haire his softest weare
Actor, 14. 16. 2. Cor. 5. 22. 1 Tim. 4. 16.
After all trauailes by a virgins hand
Is sent to heauen, the forexpected land,
Now Paul and Peter trauaile Christ to preach
And middst the gentils Christ ascended teach
In Selench, Cipres, Lystra Pergamus
Antioch, Paphos Derb, and Ephesus,
Troas, Cilicia, Creet, Neapolis.
Athens, Cesarea, Spain, Amphipolis,
Macedon, Tyre, Samos, and Milletum,
Phenicia, Ptolomais, Trogillium,
These for a mapp of cuntries Paul did see
And lastly suffered Roman tyranny.
Apocahp. 1▪ 1,
Weel Close with Iohn to Pathmos banished
So rownd about it by the spirit ledd.
[Page] Much wonders to him in his trauailes tould
Prophesies ages since each day vn fould,
And hauing much foretould of Church and nations
With heauens description ends his relations
I my relation too of persons worth
Who haue the way of christians life chalkt forth
Closing as paul these clouds of witnesses
Our passag cleard by worthies worlds of these
Let's arme our feble ioynts with faith passe one
In trauaile to that high Imperiall throne,
Now that the matter each way plaine appeare
Let Ciuill cases see themselues as cleare.
Tell of A [...]illes valloures victories
Aeneas great sea trauails noble prize
The worthy Curios winning worlds of grownd
And by partition sighing each his bownd,
Those three rare Decij vowd to countries good
In trauaile and feirce battaile venturd blood
Hectoreroy hope, renowned Sce [...]uola
Vide policron Graston.
High Pompey braue victorious sway) these may
With Fablos and Marcellios (Roomes support)
And lofty Scipios valours well report,
Much to haue done in trauaile to regaine,
Fortitudo parentum filliorum segnitia narrat.
Their countries freedome; friends, and houses name.
Now should I downe to moderne times retire?
To tell the tith would Illiads require,
That Cordeliew his trauailes in the East
And Edwards too thence Saladine supprest
Wann much of that ould holy land againe
Wherein both trauaild vndergoing paine
Our blacke prince battailes in the spanish warr
And conquests poicters tell his fathers share,
Henry of Monmouth rare victorious actes
Our Glousters, Warwicks Huntingtons high facts
In trauaile e [...]ch for countrie to proceed
Eliza was victorious indeed.
[Page] Much of her father, Henries fame france sayes
Erat fide nobilis quae omnibus ornatibus ornamonto sine quauil tam ornatam quod ornare queatnin. Salui. ep. 1.
Both sure a spurr to our declining daies
Forhish, braue Drake, and Candish, hand in hand
With Willowbeys high ventures grast our land.
But now by trippletye our peace combind
Elizaes second acts her part behind
Through Paltz, then Beame (oh! fate) she makes retire
In spire of foe with patience past admire
Long liue the friends of this thrise noble Queene
Netantiuiri laudes minere oratione m [...]a potus quam exornarem, cul­petur sane in genium non vo­luntas Chris: de sacr Liber: 1.
And for her branches dure they euer greene
While pacient trauaile period hath, and then
Both shall be scene victorious to men,
Gracing his greatnesse whose almighty power
Keeps time that Romish Dragon to deuoure.
Behold next peace, and prince arrelatiues
Yet trauaile in her acme still suruiues,
Our Soueraigne sent his sonne its worth to learne
What he before by tryall did discerne
Lo? how so high a prince passes vnknowne
That trauailes fame might freelier be showne
His happy crop, great cause of comfort giues
In peace, and true religion Brittaine liues
Als ioy, our hope true Christians defence
Rests primely in his sacred excellence
And long may hee great God our ile defend
With whom (as period Trauailes worthys end.
Praise we the highest, cause of each good thing
Vniting loue, and duty to our King.
Hy hence in hast halfe mazd Caliopea
Refresh thy selfe with consorts of the sea
Both Trauailes wonders, and her worths appeare
Returne and make thou trauailes way as cleare
Thy choore's not comon) Momus if thou lowre
Know them the Issues of a vacant howre,

[Page] The sacred sonets since compild in verses

No shame to him lesse worths a like rehearses. [...] parent animos, compraendunt plurima paucis: aures delectant, pristina comemorant

Good matter graced by so sweet a forme,

Shall not by, time, nor enuie be outworne,

The way to trauaile.

LYeurgus lacedemons Lord of ould
When he youths rudenesse did at home behold,
Iohn sab comentar in Arist: & hoc.
their wits through ease as standing pooles corupt
Their vertues growth, by sloth of vice ore topt,
Adds to his volumes of good lawes this one
That heel, admitt of none to stay at home,
All youth must out) some traynd in forrayne parts
Others in tents in th' feilds must practize arttes,
For there sayth he they'r clearest of temptation
And may in trauaile learne from euery nation.
What we haue said of wonders and of worths,
And of aduantage brought by trauaile forth,
Is modeld in this wise mans obseruation
A rule well merits each mans imitation
For the effects braue Lacedemon grast
And him among the wise of princes plact.
But as a wiser Solomon once sayd
Thats truely worth to get it vse all ayd
The foole sees, and neglects a thing of prize
Where as its seene and sought of such are wise.
That wisest Merchant saw a pearle quoth Iesus
And bought with whole estate whats prised thus
Tis not the bare hearing of its worths suffice
But th' way to winn them layd before our eyes.
Quaese scopulosis ardua clmis, in longum pro­rum pit iter riget. aspera prim [...] ingressus.
Of the mannor now or forme wee are to treate
The goods good issue, and the bads deceyte
[Page] Formes of performance, bad as good we know
Hes [...]ed Liber. 1.
The taske is then the better Part to knew.
Way as an adiunct locall may be held
So how attendant fitting to be teld
Way as the mannor, how to trauaile taken
Whats worthy choice, whats fit to be forsaken
The latter part the former comprehends
And first my muse the formall part intendes.
Tis asked how a man may best attaine
When, where, and fittest way, to crosse the maine?
In course of traficke ciuill now we treate
The Cleargy oft the other way repeate
And Christian life is plentifully spread
But oft where most is known worst waies are led.
Yet all accord by right of reason too
He that neere knowes the way can neuer doo,
In ciuill course then know againfull way
Is from the paths prescribed not to stray
Quod bene fit his fit.
For note we this the bests are worst abused.
Trauailes the bad of all bads, badly vsed
Twill in a moment ruing man and state
And proue of all pathes most vnfortunate.
Turne in a trice the ablest youth to Death
And as a viper sucke away his breath
What mischiefes are but it illframd procures
And man confounded then constraind endures,
[...]ustitia in sevirtutes continet omnes. Pythagorus.
Wherefore some iust proportions to be had
At first twixt man and therein hees to trade
Tis as the ruler stearing trauailes shipp
Els must the passenger suffer wracke in it
Some corespondence, possible relation
The mouing cause of tradings propagation.
Tis not each Boor can trauaile to auaile
Nor call we each slugg-ship, can hoise a sayle,
Nor euery place can euery man befit,
Nor euery one each way imploy his wit
[Page] Reciprocall affection must be had
And mutuall betwixt'th, person and his trade.
The subiects birth must sute his way he aimes
Naturam expelolac furcalicet vs (que) recurret Haman vid Woolsey. &c.
Birth greater aptnesse then ye thinke containes
And mi-imployd beyond its reach destroyes
The man imployed, and what he imployes
If one vnskilld rawbred, high matters passe
Hee spoiles both matter: and is proud an asse
For ignorance gets scorne to him of all
Besides the thing must wanting mannage [...]ale
The reasons plaine for natures inbred hue
Vnpotene made aboue her reach to serue
Struggles gainst fate; and streames of higher straine
So needs is forced maymed, backe againe,

Exemp, Phaetto­nis

Proprietatum equabilitas re­quiritur.

As Isops frogg effuse her entrailes out
Coueting proudly lion like to strout.
Ambition cause of this aspiring sence
Euer in finall fales to impotence.
We see our bould Mechanicke vncontent
In discret way, his manualles to vent
Will now be merchant yea pry hither too
Whenskill else pride procureth his vndoe
Our moderne merchant tosse a statists weild
Nor will in fashion scarce to courtier yeild.
Deemes hees imployment [...]it o' silly iest
Preda suis ta­nibus non minus ille fuit metam: lib. 1.
By the supply of forriners supprest
Much like that asse clad in the lions hide
Vncast was scornd and woried for his pride.
As such vnmeete ascents proue ruinous
So the most base descents befoole it thus
When high borne minds debase their breed for gaine
Any slauish trauaile entertaine
Or vse in trauale an vnequall hand
Matters to low for such to vnderstand.
Distinction in maters vulgar vse,
Twixt personall, and Casuall abuse,
[Page] Say sages truly merits to be made
When as a vertue out extreames is had.
The frowne of fate may force a iust debase
In men of worth and once in mighty place
Our stories tell, proportion is our meate
Necessities are banished our treate.
Complect ons corespondence to our way
What natiue vigoures more, or lesser sway.
Must be obserud) according to the time
And place imployd, and qualitie of clime.
This in these paths is needfully requird
Else if not death, disgrace quells all desird
Natures and nations lump in true relation
Numquid amore [...]
Though scatterd ore the earth, haue propagation.
Imploy thy trauailes where these likes accord
And as they inbred powers to do afford
Hott noble spirits actiuest are found
As could with flemy sottishnesse a bound,
Accord thy place and person, first vnyted
To tread a nation like, both be incited
The Russe, and Norway, or could Groynland trade
As in Russy a Groynland &c.
Best by the could hard Phlegmaticke is made.
The coulds extreames such safely entertaine
And may a brother hood in dull coulds attaine
Is potent made to labour, tugg and toyle
The best [...]rchiements in a frozen soyle.
For heere his coulder humours meete their like
When coulds to death the cholericke shall strike
Or nose, toes cheeke, and hands, we see they loose
See then proportion heerein is too be chose,
Let nobler natures places nobler trace
For thers accord twixt natures place and place
Hott natures actiue bent and passiue too
Able t' inuent, and iudgements scann to doo.
The could are meerly patients practizing
Alike it is in place in time in thing
[Page] The rarest fruites I know take putrifaction
The ablest parts, worst chiefely in ill action
And as twas iudgd Themistocles would proue
Worst if ill nurtured best by good improue,
So may we censure of complexions power
In trauaile bent to much gaine or deuoure
Climes their complexions haue in each degree
To which in trauaile men haue simpathy
The tozzid zones one sort of rule command
A differents cald for in the frigidd land
The obseruation trauailers daily vse
Makes mee no further now hearein peruse
As persons thus must be the places meete
So some proportion due in parts discreete
Twixt him now trauailes, and his way of trade
For triall heereof must at home be made
Wherein respectiuely difference is requird
According to the state of that desird
Some generall parts, as strength and languages
Qualitatum proportio.
According to the clime, all must haue these.
Particular notions as now interest
In vitium ducit culpae fuga sicaret arte. Hora­tiua.
If as in publike or his owne invest,
I cannot stand to point at each mans way
The wi [...]e may see the whole by what I say.
And application proper to the thing
Can on ly sollid satisiaction bring.
He must haue tongues each way bownd out to treate
Else shall he be a pray to mens deceit.
Recte collata retina expectant predam [...]-
Each aiming at his properends availe
And ioyes to see the sortish stranger faile.
When ignorant to make his sales or buy
Or if abused vnderstands not why.
If souldiour, merchant, greater strangers raise
For what they point to he constrained paies
If a mechanicke hoodwinkt walkes all mumm
A meete allusion for all cheates to come.
[Page] If on his way, ambitious to see rares
In high way errours ignorantly shares.
And what hee sees, or where, not say where now?
Ignorantia con­fusionis mater non.
But whats a guide to strangers, strangers know.
Chancing on sales, turnes now, knaue brokers ape
For as the Dauus wills 't must rise, or bate
Potos, Sotos, de­uotes.
Yea if more noble in a treaty sent,
If ere state sent out such an imnecent.
The tearmes appeare in writing, as if there
Hisp: pro.
A scipher sent, and no Embassage weare
In short send any meere vnletterd out
And hees a nose of wax made out of doubt.
Tis true times short and many cannot haue
Paris for each place, where tranaile passage craue
But let vs note language collatrall mixt
Non satest bene ali quul sacere visietiam fiat­venuste.
Vnder both Poles by prouidence is fixt
And generall tongues for generalls lead way
Which generals each way specials ouer sway.
Ould Roman Latin in the westerne lands
Italian, Spanish, French, and vs commands,
Ould Greeke the spacious Adriaticke climes
Hebrue the East, honourd in first of times.
High Dutch the danish pole, and Northerne tracke
So hauing one we cannot wholly Lacke
And by the generall language that way vsd
I anuo lingnarunt gramatica.
Perticulars will more easily be infusd
Since a propensitions causd in tongues confusion
Many as members haue to one head allusion
Then fit thy selfe such specialles to collect
And lazinesse worths canker worme reiect.
The many parts each state of way requires,
Causing succesfull progresse in desires
Are in such speciall mannor suting it
So as no parts but such in that place fit.
In all a search is easily made: Let those
Who passe themselues it to themselues disclose.
[Page] The fourth and last attending the persons grace
Equabilitas infortune bonis.
I hould propertion [...]n Estate to place,
Assighning period to the three before
The rudder steareth steadily to shore
Mon [...]es Great Traian tearmes trades nerues to be
This we in daily course of traficke see.
When language, natures worth, mens bredings faile
Now meanes in trauaile seeme to strike their saile.
Yea in the merchanicke how beit their hands
Seeme to supply this want in trackt of landes
A small tis true accomodates his place
Qvantum quis (que) sua, &c,
When higher steps ascend a higher race
Which as it must of force in vse be had
So like wise corespond the place to trade.
I say no more let specials be applyed
The merchants this way chiefly dignified
Where many lands, and rarityes are eyed.
As a meere oreplus; to the gaine of trade;
Which to aduantage is in forraines made.
Plessures attending profits euery way,
Others conditions costlier are to stray.
For trades encrease, and minds contents concure
Accomodating each by trading fuir.
Quam fausta [...] habet regma pe­cunia sortes vt (que) sit hec seltx quamque beata vide ibid. Aruillarj vbij
The fashionists expences buy his humour,
The nouellists paies dearely for a rumour.
The Noble gallant spends, no substance gaines
The aiery Camelion only feeds his braines,
Meanes is the matter, formd by all the rest,
But their effects it wanting all supprest.
Yet as the little puffe makes small barkes fly
When greater Caricks, wind bound grouling lye:
So smailer meanes a m [...]aner way well serues,
When wanting sustenance a greater sterues
Or Comes confounded in his crossed wits,
This of the foure the persons selfe befits.
Subiects that haue good adiuncts their attendants,
Well grace their owne worths, mutuall defendants.
[Page] Two sorts of wayes one method hath proposd
What way man goes in as his cause disclosd
Whereto or which way and the clime, thats next
Via in qu [...].
The time, and these kept trauaile's vnperplext.
The way or state man passes in is tryed,
And by this touchstone needfully discried.
If consonant, not crosse to pious life,
Non nobis solum natisumus sed liberis, sed a mi­cis & patriae.
Nor cause of countries, or religions strife.
And honest iust, and voyd of fraud and guile,
Causing thy owne weale too, this good way stile.
Which foure, though foure, are linkt in vnity.
And handmaids to our christan trauailes bee.
Cicero: de offi.
For christian trauaile it all trauailes blesses,
If not besure thy harboures in distresses.
For us not for vs christianst' vnderstand,
As heathens do als good to take in hand,
After we once from natiue Climate goe,
As if the great God did not all lands know
Hee sees in secret as wise Dauid sayes
As seend I to the Heauens, Heauen he suruayes
Decend I downe to Hell he noteth me,
And in the midd of darknesse he can see.
Yea should I say Ile hence to sea als one.
Or to the outmost Ile, he there's well knowne
Tis therefore mee [...]e we Christians stand in awe
Forming our trauailes to Iehouahs law
Well may we then expect great happinesse
And in most aduers times desire successe
[...]t quis non cau­sas mille doloris babet.
Alas whats Earth as sea vs mortall tofses
Sometimes in sunny calmes and then in crosses
Our destinies our ships transports vs ore
Times trimmer of the sailes and hies to shore
Ouid amor.
What men? all men are passengers therin
Some trauaile in gods siruice, some in sinne
Gods hand it steares, yet none the hand can see,
Nor yet fates fleets, wherein we sayling bee
[Page] Some sport, some sleepe, some worke, the voyage hies
Vns hore zey [...]
Youth midage, dotage, posting through he flies.
Our harbour Earth, graues houses, welcome death,
Royta [...]n skepke royt: all zij [...]gh diewills ver [...]i moyt in hettzee van tribulation icke zal vster ckene met in i [...] gration.
By sortowes, sicknesses, when losse of breath.
Thus ore earths ocean glides our fatall shipp
Iehouah steares, time rowes, man ends by it;
This mortall trauaile; Christian consumates
And though in both we are guided by the fates
Yet may we guesse successe by our attempts,
And by the forme of trauaile iudge euents.
Nor need we part, but in the whole we say.
Come by both Christian and Ciuill way.
With piety our trauailes must agree,
Nor must our gaine religions ruin be.
That proteus like, we as a feather change
Nor through religions as through realmes we range.
Heylichey [...] ni [...]t in de sc [...]ii [...].
Loue Caluin heere, there Luther: Bellermine
And to aduantage make a stall of sinne
See masse, hugg relicks, trade in Images,
Bulles, paxes, pardons, or like trash as these.
Nor as the preist, and giddy braine steale ore,
To serue before their state, that Romish whore.
And when returnd plot mischiefe day and night.
To make some simple puny profelite
Entise alasse in shape of boy disguizd.
Ore to a Cloyster to bee Idolizd
Where oft her guts giue way to ore deuotion,
And in rebellions rumour make comotion,
Our cracksculd Brownist steale to Amsterdam,
Ore to tribe of Gad, their chambered cham.
There cucko like our Church their Dam bewray
Professing als prophetical they say
Runn strange diuision on their iarring muse.
When still the close is natiue soyles abuse.
In ciuill case the mono Politan
Aiming as Atlas, trades, whole orb to spann
[Page] Feeding open the generall defect
Our [...] transporters. Ex malo dogn [...] ­te pra [...]usque mo­ribus dig [...]oscun­tur lupi. Melancton.
These wayes and more past namm meritt reiect
The comon good we Crossing cannot thriue,
But our disgraces in our deedes suruiue
Nor can in iustice fraud, or false deceites
Proue ought but grauell in our tasted meates
Conueiances exceeding law neere thriue
When men their common weale of weale depriue
Turne machiuillians by coueyance ore,
Of whats in proper of their natiue store.
For forreynors tis base; a worser thing.
In such as owe alleagence to their King,
L'o next our trauaile must our owne good breed
Youl say this caueat sure is more then need
Tis true the other three the fourth Create
None benefits himselfe vndoes his state
Nor can it be thy gaine thy god offendes,
Nor when thy trauailes in vniustice endes,
Yet bodily some faculties weare meete
Mentiond before (doubt ye looke backe and seet)
And howsoeuer matters passe relation,
Which out the womb of time haue propagation,
Yet each may view many vndone alas
By rash attempts of trauaile brought to passe.
Somes progresse to Vtopia for a toy
Making their mendicant pilgrimage a ioy
Currey from Saints to relicks, vp and downe.
Others by plotting mischiefe seeke renowne
As Herostrats, or Dionise seeke grace,
Their owne lands welfare, by their force to face
Riot and reuell in a lawlesse wise,
As if their trickes were soly worthy prise.
Neclect their natiue family, and roue
After some forraine whotish lawlesse loue
[Page] At least wise wander in a thriftlesse kinde
Deprauing both the body and the minde
Spend [...]brists
Such holy writ stiles worse then infidels,
Whoes carelesse of his houshould where he dwels
And Solomon tearmes a destroyers matc,
The man (more soole) that lauishes his state
But since our treaty yet some pilot wants
Come we to trauailes true concomitants
Vertues adorne the progresse of the action
Keeping, its body cleare from putrefaction
Of vices poysons fogg, obscuring earth,
Sollace. Our crack braines come bome by weeping crosse Qui populari inititur aur a do­mini in luto ex­truitur. Mach. 1. princip.
And none as these our late dayes equall birth.
In danger desperate, and disconsolate,
Many such symtomes could I now relate.
But see at sea their frothinesse is scourgd,
And by a timely pyll there braines are purgd,
Turne taile to trauaile now retird to shore,
Loue England now so well theyl out no more.
Others in rashnesse (placed) dominere,
As if they Lords, or Denizons weare there
Esteeme their pride extold in als abuse,
Forgetting fooles they'r heere with out excuse,
Are bandied well, informd their not at home.
And th' other sweet tooth glad to picke a bone.
Oh sy! that trauaile ere allowd such brats,
Fitter to hedge the fier with doggs, and catts.
For there they still may play with mothers dugg,
And pamperd, counsell with an Irish rugg.
Prouident trauaile neuer hatch these braines,
Tis true she still of their abuse complaines,
Fond Chimy Cricket know that trauailes way,
Orst: west: Thys: best.
Is danger, and aduenture: and no play.
The bests are hardest euer to be gaind
And with endurance must be entertaind
[Page] In dye [...], rest, speech, welcome, people all,
Make no exceptions take what lots besale.
Expect no sleepy sollace as at home,
Nature it differs in each clime is showne,
Expect no other but a share in crosles,
As thou through trauailes desert each way passes
With good Lo! bad must equaly be shard,
Prouide then, be thou for them both prepard,
See as a second dilligence attends,
The man that trauaile honestly intends.
Sagacity by sages termd of ould,
When wits are actiue and heereby more bould
Timely aduantage in our way attempt
And what a foe may plot that to preuent
On raging seas yeald hast a storme to still,
Dilligentia-Sagacitas. Nil tam d [...]ffi­cile quod non solertia vincat. Temperantia, Modum vocoid non dolorem afferens Pytha­goras.
And valiently oppose a pyrates skill.
If crost by strangers curtesies timely vse,
Whereby a foes engaged not to abuse.
If trafickes commodities to cull,
Yeilding in sale a haruest plentifull.
Hower employd, for tis not to repeate,
Our ends to purchase and preuent deceipt
Neclects assaylants, do molest this care,
And sottish dulnesse, in a slow prepare
Time crownes with lawrell gaines a quicke embrace,
And dilligence will many lets displace.
By temperances rule and bodyes kept,
From routes of illes, in latter ages crept.
Comands the sences, rules by moderation,
In drinke, and meate, according to the nation,
And pleasures, too, for know no vice more raighnes
Then this intemperance in youthfull veines.
Incontinency issues as effect,
And due reward of temperance neclect.
[Page] Much like the passages of drunkennesse,
Worthily said our Brittons to possesse.
As heare at home: in forraine soile men tell
Some place their packhouse in a frothey Cell
moderation praised. Quis secum preit? ebri [...]tas, sopor, otia, Lux us qui comites? rixa, bella, odiae opprobium.
Puft vpse Dutch, nor failes Lasciuious end,
Immoderate drinkings duly to attend.
Whereon the Epicurean vaine serues constantly,
Let trauailes worthies worthlesse vices fly.
So shun such sinnes so many still destroy.
Vnhappy he intemperance shall imploy.
Some haue I noted who haue dyet kept
In eating, drinking: and pleasures sweetly slept,
Marulus [...] Lecheritanians.
When others on a surgions box append,
Or on a doctours bill as bad attend
Some haue I heard of wisely note the Clime,
Great dangers to preuent by keeping time.
In rising after foggs by sunn are cleare,
A death to othets who neclect it there
The freezing could in russe, know how to quaile,
And in the Torrid cuntreyes heets assaile
Swellings and suddaine pa [...]sies ginny boyles.
For diuerse illes encounter diuers soyles.
Men must, as Masinissa keepe good dyet,
Else must the body languish out of quiet.
Luxurious sardinapals imitation,
And Bachus Trophyes are in euery nation.
Couers thou now to shun these lyon clawen
Be temperate, and timely shun the cause.
For venery is occasiond oft by Drinke.
Then men once in, turnd prodigals, soone sinke.
Wherfore an opposition must be framed,
Whereby the lets of trauaile may be tamed,
Prudence of morall virtues for her grace
Merits her ranke in trauailes primest place,
[Page] The straites of vertue so by vice beset,
As we may well perceiue a world of let.
Where for an opposition must be framed,

Prud niia est habitus agendi orta human [...] b [...]na v [...]ra cum [...].

[...] Vt corpus absque [...]ceulis, ita & vir [...]r n [...]gotio im-prouidens By [...]n

Whereby the letts of trauaile may be tamed,
Prudence of morall virtues for her grace
Merrits her ranke in trauailes primest place
By prouidence the armies sentinell.
Discry the things that let to trauaile well.
Forsee the Westerne lust with chast intents,
And th' drunknesse in the East alike preuents.
The vices that attend in court and citty,
Becomming by the better view more witty.
It being no lesse wit ills to escue,
Then that is good by science to pursue,
A quality, next seruing to her worth.
Wherby a forme of mannage issues forth:
Gracing the subiect with admird affection,
An industry well merits alls amplexion
Pericles science praised is heerein,
As did V [...]lisses in his Homer winn.
Pirgoteles heare by the picture drew.
To Allexanders wish when none else knew
Good Iosephs foresight in his trauailes feed,
Pharaohs, al, Egypts, fathers, Brothers need
And moises science, and great weekenesse raisd,
Him though a man of Great loue to be praisd.
The Churches trauaile, wants, and wichednesse,
By his contriuing, purchased release.
Yea so hath arts by search bin brought to light,
When sciences peruse proues mans delight.
Tiresias, and Archilochus for lines,
And Aristotle phisickes best of those times.
As Bazaleel, and Aholiabs skill.
God those thus with his spirit did fulfill.
All Curious arts of sciences to know,
[Page] And one the temples fabricke all to show
Thus prouidence is sent forth to proiect,
How to supplant in trauaile each defect.
Opitime crede i [...]uat rerum pru dentia cunctos, ledtiur aduer­soqui necligit vndi (que) fate-Hesiod. Note.
This seconded by science to an action,
Both to the subiects trauailes satisfaction.
The Contraryes encountring in this season,
Are rashnes, and a shallow vse of reason.
Raigning in many a giddy straying pate,
Who all thinges done doth to the fancy shape,
Lantloping crocheits, any way is best.
Landloper.
When once the giddy humoures preposest.
Little for seeing Scyllaes straights ar nigh,
As they in trauailes from Charibdis flie
For know howere our whole discourse is forth,
Of trauails wonder, praised way, and worth:
Tis not to be assumd as due to all,
But only such whom God to it doth call,
In honest wise, tis the Appostles case,
Wherere mans cald, abide he in that place,
Conditions praisd are propper to the men,
Who are and rightly too instald in them.
And euery man his limits due assighnd,
Giddy pate-Nunquam tefall aut animi sub vulpe latentes impia sub dulci melle venena latent Augustin.
We must dehort, not raise a stragling mind,
Least by refusall they with Icarus,
Or Phaeton descend to ruine thus.
Such haue I scene in giddinesse depart,
From a good settled Course t' some forraine part,
Squander their meanes in fruitlesse lawlesse life,
Vncald forsaking families and wife,
Yet shrouded euer in some poore pretence.
Of need, friends, bettering faith or conscience.
Some small time spending vainely, guld retire,
With pouerty the fruite of rash desire.
What mans to build saith Iesus will not first
Able, or not to end bee prepossest.
[Page] Or who is to encounter any foe,
But first his owne sufficiency will know?
And if too weake in time from both surcease,
Of thoughts to builde, and sue to haue a peace.
For know this rashnesse founded one the send
Of impotencie withers out of hand
Such haue I seene in diet disapointed,
In raging humour on the waues distoynted.
Cursing the climate next, the hochpoch there
Iustitia in se vir [...]tes [...]n­tinel omnes.
Longing for English powder beefe, and beare
One cryes his bones Crach on the Cabin ropes
A second as forlorne now nightcome gropes
A third nice youth his clothes are spoyled cryed
Would to god when I came downe I had dyed.
Of iustice worth I somewhat sayd before
And only speake a distribution more
Comutatiues in dealing iust proportion
Distributiue in Charities deuotion
Giue each his owne in way of honouring
De iustitia vni­ [...]uique quod suum distribure cic, do: offe:
Feare God aboue fitst honour then the King
Preserue thy credit, and thy fellowes state
Whose chance in trauaile is to bee thy mate
Do as thou woulst be done by, Christ commands
And deale with iustice, almes in other lands
A generous and noble minde is meete
That men may praise thy country when they set' [...]
For such as thou thy land stands estimate
And by the subiects men adiudge the state
Contraryes are that miser [...]arous
Who count a stranger as a dogg to v [...]
Where as the Church of Israells c [...]ld to cherish
The strangers heart, and none by need to perish
The Prodigall one lusts will rather spend
Then striue the poore and needy to befriend,
[Page] Let none here neyther enter a mistake
Frugality next trauails worth I make.
A sauing habit of both time; and state,
Frugalitas cla­ [...]is conse ruandi quod est maphae: Note. Magnanimitas▪
Making a man thrifty and considerate.
A worth if ere in any course required
In this its ten times more to bee desired.
Preuents a famine oft of store at sea,
Yers mercifull when others wantings plea.
Attends at pinch, and in extreames befriends.
When lauish prodigallity still spendes.
Si fortuna. Sonat caveto [...]o'li, cum fortu­na tona tonat: ca [...]e to mergi Cato,
So haue Post seene souldiers vainesse payd
When with the pot and pipe purse is decayd
Trugg towid the Lumber (foole) for more supply,
And now beginnes on lauishnesse to crye
Where had he i [...]ueld meanes and score at first
Good licour might serued, stead of thirst
So much in short, one instance stands for all,
And hence I downe to next of vertues fall:
Being a mind magnauimously bent,
With courage eresses bitter to preuent:
Armd in a faith and hope in a tempration
Anchord firme in gods mercy past narration,
To this the scriptures plentifully moue,
And dayly tryals wonder or sly improue.
A barr against whole billowes of temptations
Calling man to dispaire, in crosse of nations
Crosses are the godlyes lot, true churches sate
The earthes sur [...]ayours; euery mortals state
Whence comes it trauailes termd the Godlies lott
No perfect sollace can below be got
The ciuill trauailer first (if christion) suffers
Then as a mortall, many, crosses shares.
Next in his place (for no place so defended
But sometimes is and shall thus bee attended)
Sometime by ship wracke, then by pirates theft
And then by trust of any estate bereft,
[Page] Now in profession, then in body beates,
Then in his trauailes multitudes of cares.
But Lo! his courage, christian faith begets?
When any danger sea or land besets:
As Paul hees bould, and fortifies the rest,
Being with a heart magnanimous possest.
For all things worke he knowes to him for good
Nor can he be by Hell or Hagg withstood.
Crosse to this worth is fearefull pale distrust,
Not rating God as mercifull as iust.
Twas the disciples weakenesse; Thomas sault,
Gratia bene ordinas quae de­dit creatio Ber­nardus in tract: Degr [...]: Lib: 6:
And too to common still when stormes assault.
Or hight of a presumption in our selues
That th' apprehension faith begetteth quelles.
Thus Peeter stood, vpon his resolution,
Which made him fall to fearefull in conclusion.
Though all for sake thee Lord yet will not I
Yet lead he first the other to denye
Note!
Now to a habite effable we come
Not to be Churlish bent, or Cinicksom,
Effabilit as quid.
Vneffable behauioures purchace hate
Haman.
And scorne of strangers in a foraine state,
Yet see wee some, too many too aspird
Ixion!
Into some state of trauaile as desird:
Stand puff, and huff, to natiues coming ore
Phaeton!
The priest forgets he was a clearke before
Icarus!
Lookes squint at strangers turnes imperious
A small imployment, hoists a Haman thus
Primus mali m [...]tor cachedra pestilent a su­perhia, Augustin
And higher to! Tis one of those great illes
Solomon sayth Earth with impatience filles
A seruant when he raignes, a foole in hanst:
wise men on foot, and sotts on horse aduanst
Denyes to know, condition, or kinn,
Or as a iockey, euer to haue binn
Armes fixt agambo, and his beauer cocke
Is learnd in better manners by a knocks
[Page] Sequestred pride, attends a speedy fall,
whereas the meeke are effable to all.
Procures of forraynes by the fact a loue,
Yea with the very infidels approue.
Those churlish Nabals, Doeg minded men
Neuer succesfull scarcely one of tenn.
Come thus farr through the paths of traualling,
Ambitis secre­tum virus. pe [...] tis occulta doli­artifex mater hipocrests liuori [...] parens vitior un [...] origo tinea san­ctitatis cordium excatrix. &c: Bernard: in ser q [...]adragess-
Lets in our course obserue another thing.
Verity to be vsed in word and deede
Through all the paths of trauaile we proceed.
Adding a credit mid the strangers towne.
And purchasing a truth of much renowne.
For witnesse, hand, and oth, thus bare word passes
And much a christian Cariage each way graces.
When lying stops a strangers loue intended,
And trechery when matters passe pretended.
Twas Abners bane, yea Ioabs, Iudas kisse,
Recorded for a trechery in this.
Great Allexanders fame allurd to trechery.
By base Parmeno, that I should gain say.
Was I Parmeno, but I am my selfe,
And prize sayre victory aboue all wealth.
Worthy Fabritlus tould pirrhus though a foe,
How he was moued to his ouerthrow.
Not Ianus Bifrons with a Harpey smile,
Bent both wayes equall falsely to beguile:
But Ionathan like patterne true affection,
Merits true trauailes grace: a false reiection.
Seest thou a smooth salute, proffer too great
Beyond relation? Consure a deceipt
The whistle sweetly playes the fond birds hye
Note! Beware of machi uillian fawning, & simplician slaues.
Thus are surprizd by th'fowers fallacie.
Comes one to ayde thee slauishly officious.
Such hasty helps haue births are to pernitious
The wolfe will worke the sleepe from out the bryer
Poore sheepe thy ruine is his next desire.
[Page] Thy language, and thy owen endeauours trust;
Vnused armours subiect are to rust:
And mens deceipt is silly ones to cheare
They know experience will not brooke dec [...]ite
N [...]te;
Findst thou a country man of base report,
With him of all men neuer once resort,
No Iew or Turke can proue more rauinous:
Then will a christian once appostulate thus.
Auoyd as death a reconsciled foe,
Nor euer with him confidently goe.
West [...] ende [...].
The sore smothd vp not cured out will f [...]ie,
And soonst infect a carelesse stander by.
Man of a crosse religion do not trust,
He hath causion [...] be with thee vniust.
Power allowes the lawesse to offend.
So doth the Lyon on his pray descend.
Voorzich [...]ich in al. keert meni g [...]en val
Deale not in points beyond thee with a foe,
Better then wit abusd, is not to know.
And in their I and thus falst thou in a snare,
Of entermedling in beliefes beware.
A Temporizer shunn though allied,
Vibanitas quid.
May a viper's in the bosome breed,
And feare thy mates accompanying thee,
Non volo tescu [...] ram, sed fi pot [...]s este facetus [...] ▪ alling.
The fox Clad in the sheepeskin warning be
Whose vnspectednesse likenesse did deceaue
And th' silly lamb downe to his den bequeath,
These caueats so in short the wise may [...]end,
The world is now too basely ould to amend.
Last louely posture sages noble deeme,
Vrbanityes defind its an esteeme.
Of euery passage as its worth requires,
And ioy in person as his loue desires
Not stoickes, surley melencholy all.
Much merry parts in traueling befall.
Wherein mens action present is at gage,
And ablenesse of discourses set one stage.
[Page] Now stands the case and touch stone of a man.
When strangers shall his worth of breeding scan
Behauior Crownes the outer mans desire,
merus stoicus merus A sinus.
And makes him great mens presence to aspire.
When Lo. the sottish ci [...]icke selfe deuoted.
Sits in his tubb, how wise so ere [...]noted.
Opon the way a scipher to the view,
And passes Liuing, as one dead in shewe.
Nones sollace, not his owne, sad humours seate,
Be ware thou neuer with a stoicke treate,
In melancholy fancies onely ioyed,
Whereby loues true Vrbanity is destroyd.
And trauailes paths disconsolaterate made.
Man a meere deadman mid a Liuing trade.
Comes secund [...] in via pro vebi culoest.
Good mirth and gladnesse grace true curtesie
As do good properties good men discry.
A merry consorts chariot in the way,
And makes a long way short as sages say.
Artes acting parts, then history attending,
Then the merry muses with their hores descending.
The wood and water nimphe bring in there shares,
And time of ould it selfe a new declares,
A scholer's halfe a trauailer at home.
Attended in his studdy though alone.
Yet better fitted trauailes rites to vse,
Then mid bookes dull acquaintance sit and muse.
Learnings most proper to the fortaine breed,
Whereby both they and these at home are fed.
His protects, plots, and parts of trauelling
Assist the state, himselfe, his church, his King.
Come to the climes of sweete discourse hee's rare,
Heere say and ignorance still attendants are.
Yets heare a moderation much expected,
Iests become scurrill once the meane neclected,
Scu [...]llity exposing man to hate,
Chiefly much vsed in a forraine state,
[Page] The Clownish rusticke short another way
Chuff as idoll wanting what to say
Blurts forth in a presumption homebred shame
Two sorts vnworthy vse of trauailes name
Horat: in Su: lib: 1:
When Lo! in true vrbanit yes no wast,
Offence, ill mirth, presumption or distast.
Apelles like I leaue vnfinisht quite
The shape of trauailes sits for should I write?
The decades decour more: all worth Narration
So might men Iudge it too prolix relation.
Hl [...] is zo ment acht
With Socrates lets giue a iudgement now,
Aske if he would Heracli [...]s writs avow?
What I haue viewd and vnderstand is good:
So sure (quoth he) that is not vnderstood
These Comly habits for the rest may stand
As generals may the specials command.
As for the christian progresse, its dayly taught,
Viuat, Valeat Vincat Carolus
And blesse we him his plenty heere hath brought.
A like much care for mortall trauailes taken,
Whats best to be embraced? what forsaken?
Trauaile to forraine parts, I only tend,
Wherein the rest I briefly comprehend.
Circumstance sayth our lawyer alters Case,
Our circvmstances shall be time, and place,
Part for the whole, though more might be proposd
The whole may in his parts be full disclosd:
First for the time to trauaile in most free,
Is as the persons interessed be:
Met ghemat men gaet verr.
Person with place and time colatertali made
Respectiue to the calling, cause, of trade.
The Sunny beames of peace most cheare the most
How ere the souldier may of quarrels boast.
For warrs a viper that deuoureth euer
It canker like consumes, but comforts neuer,
Beati pacifici. math: 5.
Yet thens the time, the warriour trauailes forth.
And now's the season best to shew his worth.
[Page] Times they are as mens purposes require,
And hearein euery one must backe retire,
And note his owne occasion when best
How should I be with each mans way possest?
Yet theres a time for all things to be donn,
The wisest saith) enuirond with the sunn
A seed time, spring, a haruest, and a frost:
A time to linger trauailes time to hast,
A time to laugh, to morne, to sport to stay.
Elt hefi ze [...]n tij [...] Omnia tempus habent, & suit spatijs transe vnt vniuersa sub caelo Ecles. 3. 1.
A time to fight, to rest, to warr, to pray,
A time to fish, and furr, and fir in East
A time for oyle, and vintage in west,
A time to care, to watch to plodd, yet then
A time without time, thats vnknowne to men,
Wherfore while time is present passe thy trade
By this pursuite are many wise men made
When as the foolish late are wanting oyle:
Naufragium, occursus pirat arnm. Pall.
Others in fruitlesse desperation toyle.
Time is when stormes at sea much multiplie
And Hymall clowdes Enuelop sunn, and skie,
When art, and skill, and tryall, turne to doubt,
Ignorant which way now to vse the route.
When deckes are clad with cloudy oceann,
And dreary gusts incarcerate each man.
Now skill of Compasse Card and crostaffe, failest
Poore man as in a second deluge sayles,
No harbour, hope, or helpe seemes to assist
Yet then the ship to wonder doth resist
She trauiles vp towards heauen as if there,
Conuoy Elyas fiery Chariots weare:
And nests in mounts billowes of Neboos hight
Quauering as drunke thereon; a scarring sight
Not now content she shifts from hill to hill.
And in her progresse sore against her will.
Psal. 107. Ionas. 3- Acts. 23.
They post her downward as an arrow shot,
When lo! her next pursuer sees her not,
[Page] As if to those deiected Angels fled,
Chaced from thence, by the Almightyes dread,
When see no sooner [...]ovvsd in valleys deepe
But at a start she monnts a gaine as steepe,
No more, Wife Dauid Limmes it more at life,
Ionas and worlds of try all end the strife,
Note only this in all these trafickes scenes
Time, ioynes with place, both act as primest meanes
The issues serue the cause, cares are arrendants,
Since prouidence and wit [...]eare, no defendants.
For see the sea men strangely terrified,
Nor land, sunne, starres, or light can be discryed▪
Yet pry, and hale, and pump, and all to saue.
Ziet opt eynde. Apres lapluye vientle beane temps.
And now the merchants bilt the saylours slaue.
His life more precious makes him, pump, and pull,
Stormes make each filly shipper master [...]ull,
Each dye themselues their couch and goods in waues,
And in this dreadfull postutes play the slaues.
Their prayers, and paines and teares, are multiplied,
Est modus in re­bussunt certi denique fines.
Winter stormes terrours not to be descried.
The vernall view fell Bore as homeward Chases
And Calmes for stormes and light for foggs replaces,
Thus oft at last an vnexpected rest
Possesseth Marriners and Merchants brest:
Crosse time growes [...]ilder, mists are vanished,
Billowes made plaine, and Rockes discouered:
Men are at ease, the Ship now quieted,
And th'hilly Ocean as a sheete is spread
But see! the time, times will be wayted on,
Tis better therefore, ta [...]ry [...] now at home:
I meane now Sol to Caprecorne hath hyed,
And Eolns suruayes the Seas in pride.
When churlish Neptune counter maunds our ends,
Herein it is my Muse true time commends:
The time againe is as the Climate stands,
Since diuerse times attend on diuerse Lands:
[Page] For East, and North, by icy hyemes closd,
Trauaile these wayes is crosly now oposd:
No green-land, nor a Mosco voyage then
Presumptions eate the liues of many men:
Temporibus modicina valent data tempore prosunt & data non apto tempore vinanocent.
The times of passage vnder zoones obserue,
Be sure thy bodyes rule to it reserue
Such timely moderation health Commands
When much diseases neclects attendant stands
A time most suting euery limb of trade,
For true auaile by ayd of time is made
Ouid: art am:
One time another Crossing in her state
And whats a gemm now: thens quite out of date.
A time when by iuuasion and warr,
That country where our course is, is at iarr:
Temporiserua, neere stauentis phooilides.
And Garisons, and rutters domineere,
Tis no good season now to trauaile heere.
For Lyon like fell warr deuowres all right,
And lawes, are prostrate to a vulgar might,
A time for specialles, such ile not discouer,
For Propertyes in time surpasse each other.
Iarres sute ye see to somes best benefit,
When, 'ts good for others peacefully to sit.
Peace fits Republick trafick to auaile,
And Actuall smiles the marriner assaile,
Lo! now a limb of trauailes way is this,
Not of true times of trauailing to misse
Occasions figure epitomes these things
Since time still flyes, and hies with swiftest whings
The deed is crownd thus executed well,
And now I come of places rites to tell.
Times howre glasse runnes, and sword deuoures on [earth,
Yet each dayes dissolution is his birth:
Fronte capillata postest occasio calua
Seruing attendant to the God aboue,
Fitnesse of time one such his grace doth loue:
Next to the place our trauailes must be fitted,
Else must the sequell shew vs shallow witted.
[Page] Man must Each Climes condition preconceaue.
And different humoures there in vse perceaue.
For natures wondrous fabricke sorted standes,
Natura gaet voor lecre.
In all the parts and paralells of Landes.
Earths circled kernell with the Heunes according:
Relatiue course to obiect climes affording
A locall method causing to admire,
Whose fruits scene; feed, the trauailers desire
Since discrepant subiect to the clime,
In creature, feature, fruit, delight and time.
Expect none but colaterall relation,
Wat noodich is moet vergaen
Petwixt a diuerse people, clime, and nation:
View well their wiles, the Sutherne nations vse,
B [...]nt to alure, betray, cheat, and abuse,
The Northerne course condition, stupid sence,
For arme thy selfe to these by prouidence.
The Turke Moore Iewe, and Christian haue their illes,
Extreman [...]cent virtus medio,
Man iudging all place one: tis that killes:
Men to their climes still good or worse are fitted,
Had not each then in sight be sharper witted?
With Tom, his plow, or cow no cheats at home,
But millions are intrauailes traces showne,
ziet menkan godt niet bedrieghen
Tis requisite thou Corespond the place,
In all things fit, to decour trauailes grace.
For first, once shipt: now 'ts good to meditate▪
Where thou art now reposd, thy dangerouse state
This place requires much prayers and preparation
Sorted with some suruay of nauigation
See to thy body seaficke keepe it warme,
Vitall powers opend, th' bodies most in harme.
Vse excercise aboue, and little sleepe,
This Galene houlds will thee in temper keepe.
Know thou a Captaine heere is as a King,
And please the mariners in any thing.
Tis they defend thee from fell waues deuoure.
And hee hath now thy liberty in power.
[Page] See th, master haue in seafkilles able share,
And in the stearage looke one haue a care.
Twas Palinure Aeneas shipp did saue,
Neuer make choice then of a skillesse slaue.
Chanct in a storme hale tackle, and assist,
Two better may then one, assaultes resist:
If in a fight scorne cowardise to vse,
Better by farr life, or a limb to loose,
Then be a slaue to tyranny of soe,

Gratiarum enim cessat de cursus vbi recursus non fuerit.

Bern: serm: 55.

Many by try all haue anoucht it soe,
But guesse the worst, tis odds that valience slaues,
And thus the place well, vsd your foes are slaues.
Landed now's place of thankes for gods defence,
So each hast to his owne place free from hence,
Twere friuolous for me to scale the orbe,
Of locall rites each country doth afford:
Take compasses and mete, each man his owne,
And in that place keepe compasse as is showne.
Earths various formes, in trauailes wonders see,
Then paralel and with thy owne agree.
And to thy state, occasion and clime,
Fit vpon tryall course of place and time.
And thus the mapp of trauailes way is spread
The Compasse in the midd; each line is lead
By point: the Rhomb, thou seekest shall direct,
Thee by the causes to censure they effect.
Fates Loadstone right to will of highest set,
Cannot we say by art of man be let.
Yet by our runrace; iudge we the arriue.
Since cases common to their causes thriue.
So had I done and set my muse at rest
Had she not smelt some sauours of disrest,
Ascending from the fogg of misty Zoyle,
And with a puffe or two thus endes the broyle
The Infidell, or home hatcht misty eye,
Seeing vs trauailes wonders thus descry.
Obiectio: 1.
[Page] Puffes out his froth: I neuer saw the things,
Defoliuge breue sort nce.
And sight alone from me a credit brings.
Dull didimus the force of thy saluation
Depends not on thy view but application:
Blessed are they saith Iesus trust vnseene
Whose faiths their goulden medium betweene.
Thus then thy soule the better parts affected
Why'es Charity thy sences quite reiected?
A locall distance causing thy distrust,
[...].
Yea all eyes blinde and men but thee vniust.
Lo! euery day a confirmation comes,
Of wonders wayting at our very homes.
Strange births and mereoures, deluges. and fires
Issues for sin of the all potents ires;
Yea creatures common in our clime no rares,
But wondrous to a stranger heere repaires.
As is the clime: lands are miraculous,
Blind ignorance thee metamorphisd thus.
Creations worth, though Gods first worke vnknowne
Thy sight, not reason Credits what at home.
Elie know how ere in tales are much abuse
The eye of wit will passe twixtlyes and truthes.
Reason, and learning prospects will discerne
And the' truth amidd a world of fallace learne.
Well its enough then; now ile read and credit,
So can I sit by th' fire and purchace it,
Obiectio. 2.
The wise mans sluggard vsd indeed to say
Yet some more sleepe, as lyons in the way
Quisqxt habet mores ita iudicat itaq fatur: M: Palling.
Such shallow puffes are fruits of necligence,
Still tis enough; is euery sotts pretence
This makes thee man so vnbeleeuing bent,
Because come short of trauailes true intent:
Orlando, Bevis, Palmeryn and such,
Are by the fire side credited as much
As truer trauailes; if oppofd thoul't say
A man may credit, or he may denay
[Page] Reeuiew the worth of trauaile and be hold!
Shee triumphs midd of wonders manifould.
Then recollect the loosing difference,
Licet acrioraqua legas, altius ta­men in animo sedent quae vult us, habitus; & gestus dicentis ad figit.
Twixe passiue, and betwixt the actiue sence.
Had our heroickes trusted passiue sences,
And made their ease and safety home pretences
The wayes of trauaile neuer had bin knowne
Nor Earth it selfe ere to it selfe bin showne:
Nor mutually each others rares imparted,
Pliny. Epistola: 4: Lib: 2.
Or the rude heathen to the truth conuerted:
Or yet the wonders of Almighty spredd
But each bin blind fould by relation ledd.
Be ruld by me still keepe thy chimney warme,
A sluggish spirit breeds but trauails harme.
Obiectio. 3.
Ile not repeate her many worths to thee,
Tary at home, let others goe and see,
Omnibus sane factis in est pe­riculum neque quis nouit quo apulsurus esta: negotii principio Solon
Well I agree a third cryes t' trauaile due
In wonders: and her worths wotthy pursue
But oh! the dangers in the way affright
Better then trye: Ile trust what others write.
Twas the fond crochey t Israels spies possest,
Sent by the Church to view that land of rest
The An [...]kims great Giants guard that land
And how can we these enemyes withstand?
This cowardise these saithlesse disinherits
Caleb and Iosua prosper by faiths merits,
Thou readest of Christ his trauailing at sea,
when helpe vs Lord, was the disciples plea.
He checkt soone stormes as Lord of sea and land
Nor can the proudest waue his word withstand
Art, thou a Christian? know Gods prouidence,
At sea, or land is equall strong defence,
Thy lot thats to thee man predestinate
Nor canst ouer run or ouer stay thy fate
Perishes on mans lineage traueling?
Another dies in bed? why heeres the thing.
[Page] Ile neuer come swearst thou where these weare lost
No nor to be by sea or pirates crost
And why forswearest not foole thy bed alike?
Where death each day doth greater numbers, strike?
And aches, paines, yea crosses too: are more,
Then at the sea or of our natiue shore
I had for got in trauailes wayes to tell
How thou art skild in this distruct so well
Tis penury of faith to fortysye.
And breed in thee a noble constancy
Thou liuest at home an vnbeleeuing course
Nor dost with God in priuacy conuerse
Prayers a stranger to thy study cases,
This makes thee so prophaine in forraine places.
A conscience pure is alwayes lion bould,
Impures to ill and desperation sould.
A good man beares the record in his brest
That all to him shall issue for the best.
The man holy at home hees fortified
And's, both for stormes and opposition tryed:
Ibi fides nullum habet meritum, vbi ratio buma nahabet experi­mentum. Gregor: in euan [...]6.
Comes and is bould gods workes at sea to see
Longing to know his wonders what they bee
Armd well by prayer, and patience for a storme,
And fortified by faith can cach no harme
Knowes prouidence his portion hies a way.
And safely can in middest of pirrils stray,
Oivitae secur a vbi est conscien­ [...]a pura. Romans. 8. Caelum non ani­mum mutant qui transemare currunt.
Counts crosses, deaths and all, like aduantagious?
And how can this man chuse but passe couragious?
Thy ignorance how blesst it is, opposes.
Time euery day true trauailes worth discloses.
Se Moises, Ioseph, Hester and the rest,
In forraine trauaile wondrously blest
For where meanes seemeth vacant god supplies,
And in defect gods greatest honour lies,
Posse pati facileest tibi ni patientia desit. Ouid: amor,
Let men saith Dauid tell his wonders then
Deliuering best: when worst to eyes of men,
[Page] Life is at home an ocean of crosses,
Iazillan gebuz Basimah, turk. procua.
Amapp of cares, a labyrinth of losses,
Tis [...]ut a change at sea, a locall shift,
God cannot be preuented of his drift,
Thy lot is in thy forehead writ by fate
Obiectio. 4. Exemplis flectite quoque posse puto Amorum;
It canst thou not alter, amend, abate,
Another Mimick and a worser sayes
Tush trauailers can liue no other waies
Looke backe blinde Doeg to the troupes before
Rings, princes, prophets, who haue trauailed more?
The wisest, richest, greatest leade the way,
And well may then the meaner after stay,
Thinkest thou because poore in her way are blest
No men but base are in her interrest?
Gods no accepter of the persons grace
His blessing waytes on euery lawfull place.
How able meanes is to the place declard,
Looke backe: for now that labour shall be spard.
Yet Know if thou hast small at home to spend,
Much lesse can costly traualle thee defend.
Thou meanst perhaps the lawlesse leagauer crue
Whose profits by all nationes bate accure
Or the land straying spendthrifts Indian course,
Or th' bankrupt cheater bandid of the buise:
Or th' giddy pated criticke stird with errour,
Or the offendour chast with conscience terrour.
The beast and noblest roades some villianes vse
Nor can we trauailes noble path excuse.
Let lawlesse strayers see in Ionas mapp,
And turne a straighter course for what may happ,
Oune saurit faired'une buse unespre [...]ier.
And thy reuile experience checkes vniust
And shewes thou hast to trauaile lesser trust.
It may be thou and such for mentiond gulles,
Acarion crowe neuer good bawke.
Haue sluggishly consumd your meanes as fooles
A broad at home and each way base neclect,
Makes mans weldoing equall in defect.
[Page] Sir tis confest a fift sayes many gaine,
Obiectio quinta:
But many more by losse of it complaine.
Tis part amends with Thomas thou beleeue.
Trauaile hath in it potence to releiue,
Yet he that Credits clowds shall neuer mowe,
Nor the obiecting flowbacke seldome sow
Tis true great losses many times befall
But donot greater gaines the losse recall?
Angli [...]ano, [...] de: [...] de.
Letts paralell the trafickers condition
And iudge him, (as thou vs) without commission
Who more aduentures? passes too, and fro?
To Spaine? to Zant, to east and west we know
Mixing the gaines and losses in account?
Yet do the gaines By much the losse surmount?
How comes it earth ore no degree in state
Proueth so wealthy, able, fortunate?
If (as it sales by land too) comes a Crosse
Impig [...]r extremos currit mercator ad indos: per mar [...] pau periem vitans Horat:
By stormes or pirats vnexpected losse,
His comforts this twas not his owne neclect
Nor as a spend-thrift, lost it by defect,
Men subiect are their losses to repeate
But not of blessings thankfully to treate
Hurts are in marble graud: but guifts in sande
And thus misprise men the almightyes hand
Yea some as Changlings trauaile will bely
Faulting it for their owne ill husbandry
Lo! Losses wayt one men as much at home,
And Crosses charge vs thicker's dayly knowne.
Vnkindnesses in strangers grieuie vs lesse
Then such who though of land, and blood oppresse:
And man can trauaile harder, and content:
Then when his home friends eye his poore intent.
A thousand honest shifts men there effect,
Which end in worth, successe, and good respect,
[Page] Which they abasht at home could neuer try
Or in a worse sort suffer misery.
To you let me appeale who haue it proud
Note Apapret virtue in prosperis; at emin et aduersie Bern: cant. 7: Dan: lib:
And passe farre vnder what your births behoud
In losephs bondage to endure compeld
And in a willing patience mildly yeild
By cruell Egypt, or a Turke affected,
And Daniell like ouer all respected.
Be ye in midd of bloody Lyons cast,
Your cause (is good) his issue good at last.
The more the perill, the more prouidence
And greater glory God in mans defence.
Then's only time for him to spread his power,
When dangers seeme most suddaine to deuoure
So haue I seene, but often heard it tould,
Men by the very sea stormes made more bould.
And in the midd of likely losses gaine,
And (more abroad then neare home) grace attaine.
And lesser cares in forraine cases serue
Then where their birth more mercy did deserue,
Yea more abroad rich then in father land,
See! trauailers help, in the Almighties hand.
Infine a sixe sayes, what need this a doe
Vs now in peace to traueiling to woe?
Sir we are well seated vnder mothers whinge
Ill neuer trauaile further then my king!
Obiecti [...] 6.
Fond How sworme keepe thy chimny corner still,
To win vnwilling sots tis not our will,
Let euery man in his condition stay.
To Gad is not to trauaile but to stray.
The church, and euery christians militant,
Yea euery soyle supplies anothers want
Thers most need man of trauaile in a peace
Fac quod fecit.
The cause of plenty; author of increase.
Natiue comodius good to vtter forth
Iaia ost west thuys best.
Causing a citty, or a countryes worth,
Such men whose causes sute to sit at home
[Page] And the vnwilling may reside alone,
Traficke and peace reciprocall suruiuers
Still where the one, to wonder both are thriuers
None hac [...]t Ca [...]ll [...]rs A bo [...] enten­d [...]urilnef [...]ut que demye parol Carpere vell noli nostra, vel edetua Martiall.
In warts no time for free recourse to bee
This wee by tryall, and experience see,
Embrace thy mothers dugg in promisd peace
Embrace thy slothfulnesse thy shames increase
Till times of tryall or confusions come
Then runnst thou (as a madd man) bout thy home
If not thy pride is clownish ignorance,
The plow or cart thy vttermost aduance.
See now my muse no more of momus crue
Appeare as yet thy progresse to pursue
Recollectio. Generalis Att male dum recitas incipit esse tuus Mar­tiall:
The wise can tell sots soone can cauill more
Thers worth respondence, or a rea ding ore:
And man may sooner Change the moorish hue
Then force a fooles beleefe, be't neere so true.
To the ingenious traueller I bend,
Thus by a short suruay the totall end
His wonders great in skie, on sea, on earth
Hauing each day, and way, a newer birth
His worth in pleasure, and true profits gaine
How they both soule, and sences entertaine,
His worths the persons highly dignifie,
How rares declard in royall property,
His way worth note, in persons fitnesse stands
Nature, birth, parts, and ablenesse commands
The place wherein he passes, pious good,
For god our state, and selfe is vnderstood.
Next note we vertues common worth embrace
And vices ready trauaile to disgrace
The circumstantiall place and time attend
So did my muse against the criticke bend
Who with the dart of truth expelled thence.
Gaue cause (least tedioue now) wee hy vs hence.
Trauailes a rose, man the industrious bee
Wise trauailers sucke, and hiue vp swauity
[Page] Badd spider like suck poisons to deuoure
Tiauai e is as the rose: a curious flowre,
None can come neere its colloures curious sents
Dat rosa mell apibus qua sugit aranea virus Granger.
Delicious rosall rites, and ornaments:
The base neere lesse to uenome vertues change,
And if growe worse by trauaile tis not strange,
One as the Bee sucks hony from this flower,
The spider gale, and venome to deuoure,
Not that the venome in this rose doth grow
Exemplo tanginen propriore potes
For tis of natures sweets most rare we show
But that the others humour poysonous
Conuerts these sweetes to Aconita thus:
In all the parts of mannage more pernitious,
Ouid: amor:
As is the subiect in affection vitious.
Well mannagd trauailes only ornament,
In Christian, ciuill; and a true intent.
Diuersorium enim hic commo­randinon habit andi habemus. Cic: desen [...]nt
Als vse: the heuens, planets, and spherall pace,
The soule, and sences progresse, trauailes grace.
Mans ages childhood, youth, and midd age hye
To summ at death account of destiny
Which destiny in secret set by God,
From all beginnings sealed by his word,
Proceds in progresse with vnknowne envent
Man cannot stop his makers iust intent:
He cannot hast his fate, it keepeth pace
Nor stayes while periods added to the race,
Its trauaile mazeth all the earth to see
The strange effects in destiny there be
From birth to nonage, midle gray and graue
Which some at sea, some land all some way haue.
Some poore of rich, some high of low arise,
Thus wanders man, in him his destinyes.
A sparrow cannot faile but by his fate
Who could ere? once prolong; amend abate?
True Christian trauaile makes the mortall blest
And him that in the two is interest,
The course of ciuill trauaile was our taske,
[Page] Daily, diuines the other two vnmaske,
Trauails welfare to be added.
The issues seene (if worthy uiew) tis well,
Many more learned the forme may happ excell,
Veritas [...]e and [...]
The matter founded on the rocke of truth,
Both recreations of my muse in youth
Courage then trauailes noble sonnes aduance
Arme and expect a mapp of crosse mischance:
Rockes pirates gulphs straights sirens storms & store
Of remoraes and monsters of the shore.
Ille quidem dus gratus est eu: coginat [...] hoc sunt: omnia sue [...] rerum se [...] ad usus Hefio [...].
Behould as vertues vices are attendants
ye must be both assailants and defendants:
Hange not on aiery hope of fate alone,
Prouidence only industry will owne.
Suppose the worst in trauaile that may come
Scorning those flashy preconceyts of some,
Who guesse all done, to doo strange things effected
The goulden meane of modesty neclected
When if a losse, or crosseth wart there intent
The gaines dispaire the end astonishment
Ep: Eronn.
Leuell thy doubts and hopes so though all lost
Thy patient soule of gaine in losse may host:
Ephilegu [...]
Thus trauailes wonders worths and wayes declard
And trauailes walfares as a fourth prepard,
Caliope by Cinthius cald: flyes forth
Denying trauaile wellfare to his worth:
[...]ax pocali Patriaeque [...]alus, & gloria regni, Carol [...].
Since oh the times, fell mars his wellfare crosses
By pirats rapins ruins murders losses
Mourne o my muse in secre [...]t and retire,
Till Europe liue in peace, his long desire.
when on his welfares thou more [...]ee mayst sing,
And Brittaine blesse Iehoue who wrought the thing.
Then for a fourth her wellfar [...] [...] shall ascend
And untill then my tryall hath an end.
Si bene quid feci deo gratare Datori
Si male quid feci noueris esse meum.
Olimpiad: in seriptit
FINIS

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