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A14292	The golden fleece diuided into three parts, vnder which are discouered the errours of religion, the vices and decayes of the kingdome, and lastly the wayes to get wealth, and to restore trading so much complayned of. Transported from Cambrioll Colchos, out of the southermost part of the iland, commonly called the Newfoundland, by Orpheus Iunior, for the generall and perpetuall good of Great Britaine.	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.; Mason, John, 1586-1635.	1626 (1626)	STC 24609; ESTC S119039	176,979	382

was a hard speech for a man to eat his Body and to drinke his Bloud by adioyning these words afterwards It is the Spirit which quickneth the Flesh profiteth nothing The words which I speake vnto y●n are spirit and life What plainer sense will any man looke for then the speech it selfe This is my Body that is this very Bread is my Body which bread he broke into pieces before he suffred on the Crosse and gaue it in commemoration and remembrance of his after-passion The Papists will not allow that the bread is broken but that it is transubstantiated and changed into his very Body which the Apostle vtterly conuinceth saying the bread which wee breake is the Communion of the Body of Christ. And in another place he writes that it is to bee taken in remembrance of the Lords death vntill he comes To which manner of taking it all the antient Fathers of the Primitiue Church subscribe with one consent Iustine Martyr who liued within one hundred and fiftie yeares after Christ protesteth that the Lords Supper is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 recordatio a remembrance of the Incarnation and Passion which Christ sustained for penitent sinners Irenaus who liued about the same time calls it Res terre●as earthly things Clemens Alexandrinus who liued about ninescore yeares after our Sauiour saith that it is the Body and Bloud of Christ allegorice allegorically or by an obscure Figure Origen which flourished within two hundred yeares after Christ writes that it is the Image of Spirituall things and words feeding the Soule Tertullian the first Latine Father which wrot about two hundred yeares after Christ termes it the Figure of the Body and Bloud of Christ. Dionysius Areopagita saith that the Bread and Wine at the Communion were sensible images and apparell symbolically put about our Sauiour Christ. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bishop Chrysostome that was called the Golden-mouthed Father makes this protestation of it The Bread after that is sanctified is worthily termed the Lords Body although the nature of Bread doe still remaine in it Of this beliefe was Saint Augustine To eat the flesh of a man saith he and to drinke his bloud one would thinke it were a heynous matter Therefore it is a figure which our Sauiour vsed commanding vs to communicate his Passion and in our memories profitably to lay vp that his flesh was crucified and wounded for vs. CHAP. XIII The Romish Church accuseth the Church of Aethiopia for denying to acknowledge her to be the Mother and Catholike Church The Patriarch of Alexandria challengeth the primacie ouer that Church and proues the Pope of Rome to be an Intruder and to haue no Right at all ouer the Church of Aethiopia Apollo determineth the Difference by discouering the wayes how the Pope got the Supremacie ouer the Westerne Churches and how both he and the Generall Councels erre in matters of Faith THe Church of Rome seeing that by the helpe of Printing the Spirits of the Westerne Empire were illuminated with the bright Rayes of the Gospell and thereby had shaken her Foundations Superstitions and Traditions which shee had inuented to inueigle mens Soules and to maintayne her temporall Ambition by diuing into their secrets and treasurie and that which was was the greatest Corrosiue to her heart shee had found Apollo and the most part of his learned Troope ardently bent to crosse her proceedings by trying her impostures and suggestions on the Touch-stone of the sacred Scriptures shee vtterly despayring of repayring her credit in that Part of the world before her last motion to enter into the herd of Swine with the vncleane spirits in the Gospel made intercession vnto Apollo by some neutrall Papists and luke warme Lutheranes that shee might haue some Soueraigntie ouer those Countryes which lay remote from his Maiesties Court at Par●●ssus Apollo not accustomed to grant any Charters Monopolies nor other appendants to the state of his Empire which might preiudice either the Reuenues of his Crown or the weale of his Subiects without the aduise of his Parliament willed her to preferre her Suit on the sixteenth day of Iune next after 1626. at the first Sessions of the Parliament to be held at Parnassus The Romish Church failed not to motion vpon the said day and signified that whereas she had liued in infinite glorie and pompe for the space of eight hundred yeeres and that now in her old Age like to the decrepit Lyon in Aesops Fables euery beast had a fling at her euen the veriest Asse and cowardly Hare began to contemne her commands to vilifie her Iurisdiction and to esteeme no otherwise of her thundring Buls then if they were the windie brauadoes of a Braggadochian or the bellowings of the Buls of Basan The consideration whereof did now prick her to intreat a Boone at his Maiesties hands that it might be lawfull for her to exact the same obedience of the Christians in Aethiopia vnder Precious Iohns Scepter which sometimes she had extorted from the Christians of Great Brittaine Germanie and other Prouinces in Europe whereby she might liue in some reputation as yet in her ancient yeares The Patriarke of Alexandria netled with this request and fearing les● by the suffrages of those luke-warme Ecclesiasticks which like Iacks on both sides stood as it were betwixt Heauen and Hell this Imperious Lady might preuayle and depriue him of the Primacie which he and his Predecessors had successiuely enioyed from the Apostles time opposed her with this Oration Was it not enough for you O Ambitious Dame to tyrannize in your youth to prostitute your body for gaine to all commers but now you must bee like another Romane Flora after your abominable whoredomes adored for a Goddesse and triumph ouer those innocents which the scorching Sunne hath diuided by the Aequinoctia●● line from the Meridian of Rome what interest what colour of Title can you prescribe to haue in those places where your Constantine your Phocas and your Charles of France neuer trod nor euer any of the Roman Legions These People were first conuerted to the Christian Faith by the Eunuch in the Acts of the Apostles Seruant to the Queene Candace not without a singular mysterie that there shee might soiourne during the time of the Great Apostasie when Faith was departed according to Saint Pauls prophesie and the Bible represented by the two Witnesses in the Reuelation of Saint Iohn did lye worme-eaten in the Sodomites Libraries Saint Matthew confirmed them afterwards in the Truth And from his time vntill this present we the Patriarkes of Alexandria haue had the Prerogatiue to install their Bishops to institute their Priests and to order their controuersies Nor did you proud Lady heare of the manner of their Liturgie and Ecclesiasticall policie but within these seuenscore yeares It is true you sent your flying Spirits thither of late sundrie times to peruert them and to kindle a combustion in their Religion but all in vaine for they

what they list and at the last obtaine for a little money full remission of all their Sinnes mortall as veniall But now that the Spirit of life is entred into their Carcasses and they stand vpon their feet according to Saint Iohns Prophecie Feare seizeth on them they waxe amazed shunning their glorious Light They reele to and fro and stagger like drunken men Apollo liked exceeding well of Z●ing lius his zealous speech And further adioyned this Admonition to Gratian and the rest of the Popes Fauorites Not without a profound mysterie did Saint Iohn in the Reuelation compare the Romishh Curch to Spirituall Aegypt For euen as the Children of Israell were for many yeares kept in Bondage vnder the yoke of Pharaoh so the Soules of Christians in the times of the generall Apostasie and departure from the true Faith were miserably subiected vnder the Popes Tyrannicall Command insomuch that they were prohibited to haue Seruice in any other language saue in the Romane whose chiefe Citie the Tyrant himselfe vsurped and in subtile policie would admit of no other Tongue then of his own Latine which some hold to comprehend the mysticall name of the Beast who possesseth that seuen hilled Citie We doe therefore ordaine that it shall bee lawfull for euer hereafter to euery Kingdome and Prouince to celebrate Diuine Seruice and to read the Scripture in the Mother tongue following the examples of the Primitiue Church And euen as the Greeke Church the Georgians in Armenia the Abis●ines in Aethiopia vnder Precious Iohn and other Christians in the East haue from the first time of their Conuersions vsed their Godly sacrifices prayers and thanksgiuing euery Nation in their owne language so now wee doe here allow ratifie and decree that the Waldenses and Albigienses shall honour and glorifie their Creator in Vnitie and Trinitie after the same manner in their owne knowne Tongue as they haue accustomed for these fiue hundred yeres last past And if any person be so hardie as to bring in a Bull of Excommunication from the Pope against them for so doing we doe by these Presents pronounce the same to bee void siustrate and of no effect and that the Publishers of that thundring Libell bee laesa Maiestatis reus guiltie for wounding our Royall Maiestie and to suff●● the Punishment due for Capitall Treason CHAP. XII Berengarius reneweth his opinion of the Lords supper and proues both by the Scriptures and by the Authoritie of the most antient Fathers of the Primitiue Church that the same is to bee taken after a spirituall manner and in commemoration of the Lords death VVIcklisse vnderstanding that his old Master Berengarius had for feare of Death recanted his notable Demonstration of the vse of the Lords Supper which in his flourishing yeares hee had maintayned against the Pope and all the Romish Clergie caused him to bee cited into his Maiesties Court at Parnassus to shew the reasons of his Recantation and whether hee did the same in good earnest or else out of the frailtie of flesh and bloud Berengarius appeared and being asked of Apollo wherefore hee made that attestation contrary to his Conscience Berengarius trembling with teares confessed that the Pope extorted that Recantation from him with menaces and threats but that like to Hippolitus in Euripides hee kept a mind vnsworne and that hee still perseuered in the truth of the Doctrine which he formerly had taught that the Body and bloud of Christ ought to be taken spiritually and not really Apollo obseruing his contrition and inward sorrow freely forgaue him vpon condition that hee would yeeld sound proofes out of the Scriptures and the ancient Fathers of the Primitiue Church to conuince the Papists wherby they might be thenceforth toungtied and fully satisfied touching that materiall point of Faith Berengarius glad of his Maiesties pardon promised to declare his full knowledge and out of hand drew out of his pocket this schedule which Apollo presently caused Saint Bernard to read before all his learned Courtiers Saint Bernard obeyed his Soueraignes command and publikely read the Contents as follow Euen as by the Law of Moses there were two Sacraments ordayned to bee kept vntill the comming of Christ that great Prophet whom God promised to raise vp like vnto Moses viz. Circumcision and the Passeouer or the sacrifice of the Lamb at Easter the one seruing to bridle their carnall affections the other to prefigure the eternall Lamb which was to be crucified so in the New Testament two Sacraments were instituted to Christians in their stead Baptisme and the Lords Supper the one supplying the vse of Circumcision the other of the Lamb at Easter both to testifie our admittance and incorporation into the Christian Church as ou●ward visible markes signes or badges of our Faith onely in Christ. To these the Pope added fine Sacraments more in worldly policie to gaine money Confirmation Penance Orders Extreme vnction and Marriage which last his Holinesse debarres his Clergie of because Gods Elect might suspect the rest as humane Traditions These fiue sometimes may bee necessarie as other Diuine vertues Loue Humilitie Sobrietie and such like but not properly to be called Sacraments Which Saint Augustine very plainely affirmeth in these words Christ and his Disciples deliuered vnto vs a few Sacraments instead of many Baptisme and the Lords Supper Neither was the Pope content onely so to adde more yokes of bondage to the free Church of Christ but likewise for his further condemnation hee peruerted with those old Heretickes the Capernaites the true sense of those words This is my Body saying they must be taken literally and really which a sober minded Christian lothes to heare asmuch as Auerroes the Moore who detested Christian Religion for nothing more then for that they did eate their God with their teeth and sought to hale their Sauiour from the Right hand of God where his Father had placed him vntill the Day of Iudgement After the Consecration of the Bread and Wine we confesse that there is an alteration in respect of the End and vse of this mysticall Sacrament to put vs in minde of the Lords death vntill hee comes to iudge the world but we vtterly deny that there is any alteration at all in the substance of the Bread and Wine which remaines as it did before and enters into our Bodies to be digested and concocted like vnto other naturall and corruptible Food Yet most significantly they may bee called Sacramentall Bread and Sacramentall Wine representing the Body and Bloud of Christ if they bee taken with a spirituall mouth and a deuout mind that is by Faith and not receaued with a carnall mouth and bodily appetite For as Saint Paul wrot haue not wee houses for that purpose As a bodily mouth requires bodily meat so a spirituall mouth must haue spirituall Food to refresh and nourish the Soule And this manner of Eating Christs Body did himselfe expound when some grew displeased saying that it

smelt out your drift and banished your Iesuites to requite some part of your hospitalitie to strangers in that for the space of a whole yeere and better you restrayned their Embassadour at Lisbone from entring into your Hypocriticall Church And as he wrot to Damianus a Goes such was your insolencie that by no meanes you would admit them to communicate nor keepe companie with you as if they were the arrantest Heretickes of the world The Romish Church much agrieued that the Patriarke of Alexandria had preuented her in a Suit which shee had cunningly canuased and almost brought to perfection pleaded that all the world ought to be vnder her Gouernment For our Sauiour Christ after his Passion said that all Power was giuen vnto him in Heauen and Earth And this Power with the keyes did Hee before his Ascension into Heauen commit vnto Peter Which Soueraigne Authoritie after Peters death rested like the Spirit of Elias on Eliza the Prophet vpon the Successors of Peter For proofe of which Princely preheminence shee alledged the testimonie of Pope Gregorie the ninth who flourished in the yeare 1225. how God made two great Lights in the firmament of Heauen that is to say of the Catholicke Church the which two Lights are the Pontificall Authoritie and the Regall Power whereby men might know that there is as much difference betwixt Popes and Kings as betwixt the Sunne and the Moone At these words the Patriarke reioynd and said these arrogant words of yours pronounced now in your drooping and declining Age doe decipher you to be like an old Bawd and gracelesse Strumpet Was not the cure of Soules sufficient for you but you must also domineere ouer their bodies and more ouer their Purses This last is the cause of your discontent How doth the Spirit of Saint Peter rest on you more then the Spirit of Saint Matthew or Saint Philip rest on mee or my Aethiopian Clergie By that similitude Caiphas might vaunt that he had the spirit of Aaron But their Glorie ought not to countenance our Infirmities Neither as Saint Chrysostome said is the Place able to sanctifie the Successor nor can the Chaire make a Priest Saint Peter was of a higher Function then a Pope an Apostle to trauell from one place to the other hauing the charge of the Circumcision as Saint Paul of the Gentiles Hee was not tied to any one peculiar City O I would that both of vs were able to follow his godly steps and to labour vp and downe the world in conuerting of Idolaters and to preach nothing but Christ crucified without collaterall Mediators and worldly respects of Dignities Pompes or in hunting for Superioritie Gaine and fat Benefices Saint Peter had no Gold nor Siluer to giue as himselfe told the Creeple in Salomons Porch Hee wore no Triple Crowne but reioyced in the Crowne in his Masters thornie Crowne the Crowne of Martyrdome Hee wore no filuer Crucifixe but in his heart hee bore the contemplation of the bloudie Crosse which day and night hee earnestly beheld He taught his conuerted Flock to bee subiect vnto Kings The Pope exalts himselfe aboue all Kings aboue the Generall Councels Saint Peter would not suffer Cornelius to kneele vnto him The Pope expecteth that euen the mightiest Monarchs should kisse his Feet Et mihi Petro. Saint Peter willingly endured reproofe at the hands of Paul But who dares rebuke the Pope and tell him of his faults Saint Peter acknowledged the rest of the Apostles for his Brethren and Fellowes The Pope allowes of no Patriarch nor Bishop to be his equall nor of any Clergie man to be made but by his Authoritie Saint Peter and Saint Paul preached that Christ was the Head of the Church as the Husband of the Wife and for that end hee sent the Holy Ghost as his Vicar generall to direct the Soules of the Elect in spirituall mysteries during his residence in Heauen without apointing any Earthly Potentate or visible Head to execute that high Office and left their bodies to the Gods of the Earth to bee tried as Gold in the fornace It is the Soule the noblest part of man which hee takes most care of Why should He then ordaine a visible Head an ambitious Pope to domineere nay to tyrannize ouer that I●uisible Part What neede any other Head as ministeriall ouer our Consciences He that ouerlookt the seuen Golden Candlestickes that is the seuen Churches in the Reuelation and further promised the presence of his God-head I am with you to the Worlds end no doubt but hee will supply the place of a spirituall Head and infuse both spirituall nourishment into our Soules as also afford food and necessaries to our bodies though not according to the vaine desires of flesh and bloud which gape after superfluities yet enough to content nature O miserable state of Rome In what danger lyes thy Soule Saint Bernard long agoe reprehended this aspiring humour of the Romish Clergie And yet such is the force of tempting Gaine dolosinummi that if Moses himselfe and the Prophets arose from the dead they would not heare them as long as they spake against their worldly profit At first you beganne saith he to vsurpe as Lords ouer the Clergie contrary to Saint Peters admonition and within awhile after against Saint Pauls counsell who was Peters fellow Apostle yee got the rule ouer the Faith of men Nor yet doe yee stay heere but yee haue gone further and obtained a peremptorie dominion ouer Religion it selfe What remaines now but that yee climbe on high to bring into subiection the very Angels of Heauen Apollo very well approued the Catriarkes reproofe of the Romish Church and fell into such detestation of her intolerable ambition that he made this speech against her Three things haue wrought this absurditie in the Religion of the Westerne Christians the one hapned by the Opinion of the Popes extraordinarie Power imprinted in mens minds by their Ghostly Fathers that his Holinesse as Saint Peters Successour cannot erre in matters of Faith The second and most craftie that all men whatsoeuer who beleeue not in the Catholick Church which you must perswade your selfe to bee onely the Romish are vndoubtedly in the state of Damnation The third are the lyes of Purgatorie the which being at his dispose as Iudge Iayler made euery man specially the melancholick to take heed of angring him or any of his tribe as on the contrarie to appease his humour with Gifts and the buying of his idle Pardons But now my Beloued of Par nassus the vaile is taken from his painted face and you shall see and read in his eyes the affections of his heart And least some of you bee not so quicke sighted as others I will briefely runne ouer the two first causes of his Greatnesse After our Sauiours death for the space welnigh of three hundred yeeres the Christian Religion was so persecuted by the Romane Emperours specially at Rome it selfe

had openly discouered with Cham Noahs nakednesse hee had polluted his fathers ashes and ragingly snatcht at Iupiters golden Beard in disclosing the mysticall secrets Of the Cabalisticall Science whereon as the Mercurian Grinder the wits of many Proficients in the Lawes were so finely whe●●ed that some would gaine whole Manours with a shrill whyning voice yea and they held one another a begger vnlesse a Kite could ●lie about their Purchases in one day Others with a Stertorean roaring throat vsed to astonish the Auditours as if Thunder had come out of the Cloudes sodainly to destroy them The Report of which noyse like a Canon or Basilic● did so terrifie some faint-hearted Meacocks that they fled out of the Countrie into the Iles of Creete Lesbos and the Rhodes perpetually abandoning all their Right Title and interest in such Lands hereditarie or purchased which they had or might haue in time to come within the Territories of Parnassus quite clayming the same vnto those terrible Roaters So powerfull said they was the red clapper before these Mysteries were made manifest by this Cambr●-Britaine like Greene the Detectour of Conicatching that a Lawyers Tongue could doe many feats trot or amble gallop or halt saue or slay chide or charme with more prettie and proper conditions then the Sorcerers of Aegypt could vaunt in the presence of Pharaoh The Delphicke Sword which did cut file saw and shaue came not neere in operation to this pleading member which all the vertuous applauded Orpheus excepted and must stil domineere it in the World as long as the e●mity shal last betwixt the womans seed the Serpent They further alledged that this Authour of the Golden Fleece had vsurped the name of Orphens Iunior which he ought not to haue done vnlesse hee could draw life out of the Rockes and by melodious straines enduce the greatest Oake in this Kingdome to dance the Canaries Likwise they found fault with him for disswading men from going to law like an Anabaptist for speaking against their Profit for seeking to lessen their numbers and to debarre them like Charles the Fift from dwelling in the West Indies and consequently in the Newfoundland where they hoped one day to get a good bootie among the simple Fishermen if the Monyed Queene chanced hereafter to withdraw the sweet influence of her Countenance from them in this flourishing Kingdome Finally they charged him particularly with these Verses by him published in his said Booke tending to discourage men from spending their meanes in Law so that this Corporation might put vp their pipes and in time fall into disgrace to the great scandall of the Lady Themis their Soueraigne if such a Toy should take men in the heads to liue at home quietly and not to pay their quarterly rents No peny no Pater noster was the Song of some Diuines heretofore But for Lawyers rents it was neuer questioned since Demosthenes his time till now Therefore as a Libeller against the sacred persons of Lawyers they desired Apollo to censure him which presumed to set out these vnluckie Verses Fulmina Iuris huic Fauor illi casus at idem Explicitusque rigor implicitusque d●lus Omnes venantur questum qui lura sequuntur Nummus vbi tinnit candida lura silent Spem tibi vox nutrit Mens dāna Colūba fit Aspis Mel Fel. Conueniunt quam malè Lis Amor One's thunder strooke Another's grac't amaine The cause the same Such is the force of Gaine Without deare coine the Lawyer sayes but mum Yet when it sounds the lawes thēselues are dūbe The tongue vowes hope his mind losse Doues turn'd Aspes Sweet hony gall How ill Loue Hatred claspes CHAP. IX Apollo commands Orpheus Iunior to answere the Accusation of Bartolus and Plowden who obeying extolleth Charitie taxeth Conicatching and Hatred and commends the Lawes Apollo smiled to see the impudencie of these Lawyers yet not to seeme partiall in his Seruants cause he commanded Orpheus to defend himselfe who thus began BRight Light of Loue which knowest the Originals And Principles of Supernaturals Which measur'st Globes the 7. wādring Spheares Inspire my heart Let not subrustick Feares Nor bashfulnesse of Virgins crimson hew Astonish me from speaking what is true But that with free and lofty voice I sound Sweet Peace which may strife and not Lawes confound Doues build in holes of Rockes but thou my Doue In holes of bloudied Rocke must build thy Loue. My Soule like to a Doue with siluer wings Flies to Christ's wounds for feare of Vipers stings He is my Rocke my Sauiour and Defence While I stand cloth'd in Robes of innocence Hee knowes my aime is faire jarres to sub due And Charitie in Lawyers to renew Some thinke it a hard taske impossible But vnto God all things are possible Others subiect mens fraile intelligence And Reformations to Starres Influence As though Errours waite on Reuolutions Bald times pleasure or Constellations First let thē learne although the Suns cleere beames With his pale Sister Lady of the streames Doe rule the World and worke in Trees and Flowers Yet can they not controule Diuiner Powers Such as our Spirits be nor yet our wits Which Policie refines with sacred Writs Who can deny but Craft's the cause of Euill As Truth will shame Promooters and the Deuill As Vnicie and Iustice I adore So these turn'd topsie turuy I deplore Of Old it was not so Then no Surmizes Could wrest Lawes nor Pleas m●●k● in disguises Few Sentences then serued to vnfold Great matters Then they pleaded not for Gold But eu'ry man in person to the Iudge As vnto God his Case shew'd without grudge This made them quiet and stor'd with Treasure Where we spend attending Misers leasure We spend our Thrift our Braines and precious times By lewd mens counsels fild with heynous crimes In needlesse Suits whom they hold for Clients Or Tenants like greedy Leaches Patients Through thicke and thinne vp to the eares and chin They make vs drudge to bring them mony in But what 's the end Their Heires do seldom thriue Although in Pomps their aged Starlings liue And sucking Pidgeons bloud turne Cormorants Yet neuer Apes will grow to Elephants Nor will God suffer an Impostors Race To flourish long nor wisdome to embrace Some Nations He plagues for their Drunkennesse With bloudy warres some for their Beastlinesse With Famine of his Word But vs He smites By letting double Tongues vse base despites Then friske like Foxes brisk and fqueak like Rats Or barke like Curres or caterwaule like Cats Feare no thornes lift vp your hornes each Brother Like juggling Gypsies deceiue another This man rake him to the stake hold your owne Cheat kindly my Maisters There 's Gold in Towne By Hook or by Crook by Right or by Wrong Cramme Purses with Curses O dismall Song All 's Fish that comes to Net in Sea or Brooke No surer angling then the Golden Hooke Glad is false Iudas of his siluer pouch Glad is fond Midas of his

Likewise he said that shirts of male might not be spared for feare of the sauages arrowes out of some ambuscado Or else thicke leather Targets made of Buffe as the Spaniards vse To this hee added that by experience hee found another necessary note which hee wished all such as were imployed in these remote Enterprizes to beare in minde to carry with them good tooles as well for repayring of their Ships as to dig on the land if they suffer shipwracke And withall the fittest engines which can bee deuised for weighing of shipping vpon such occasions and in any case a couple of Crabs to be brought along with them in these vnknowne Discoueries for the hoising and landing of their Ships or other heauy necessaries as Artillery Timber c. Also that the Discouerer should marke the set of the Tide For whensoeuer he loseth his strong Tide or findes ground in 100 fathomes let him rest assured that he goes out of his direct course for the finding of this hopefull passage To conclude Sir Thomas Button deliuered two notes more of great consequence for the preseruation of the Discouerers healths and liues which Apollo better liked then all the former Discourses whereof the one was that hee obserued Aqua vita Sacke and such hot liquors to become most hurtfull to his men in the cold Winter and on the other side small drinke and Barly water most soueraine to maintaine them in health The other obseruation was that the iuyce of th●se tender branches or sprigs of trees which flourished fresh and greene in the Winter out-daring the bitter blasts and withstanding the extremity of the frosts being pressed out and ministred to the sicke did miraculously restore them to their health And the meanes of his first knowledge thereof proceeded by seeing of the multitudes of Partridges which fed and liued thereon all the Winter to become fat and plumpe CHAP. 7. Apolloes Censure of Sir Thomas Buttons voyage to the Northwest Passage His Directions for the preseruation of health in frosty seasons and for the preuenting of the Scuruy An Elegy in their commendations which aduentured their persons for the discouery of the aforesaid Passage APollo seemed much delighted with these narrations of Sir Thomas Button and to let the vertuous of Parnassus know somewhat more of these remarkeable euents hee made this discourse How many famous Captaines here haue I admitted into my Court which neuer entred into these hidden and magisteriall secrets of nature Nay how many wise Philosophers bee there here graced with my fauours which vnderstand not these wonders of naturall effects This Gentleman hath sufficiently performed his part in the discouery of the Northwest passage considering the power limited vnto him by his Commission which hee might not with safety transgresse Yet I could wish such as bee in authority in assigning the like Commissions hereafter to adde that Clause which King Henry the eight of England sometimes vsed to enable his Generals with that if that seruice proued disastrous and vnfortunate notwithstanding the former words of the Commission they should preserue the Honour of their King and Country by some braue exploit of their owne proiecting For many occurrences may like rubbes light in their way which the cleerest Eyes of State could not possibly foresee Sometimes the Enemy may haue a siluer bridge by slye intelligencers into his Neighbours Land Sometimes a Commander may meet with a good booty at Sea though he were beaten off from the Land Or if one place be strongly barricadoed hee may finde another most easily to be wonne What ouerthrew and vtterly dispersed the inuincible Armada in 1588. but the precise relye which the Spanish Admirall stood vpon in regard of his Commission limited by the Councell of Spaine Let this suffice to excuse Sir Thomas Button for his not entring into one of the two passages which he suspected to crowne the Discouerers voyage with eternall fame And now to enter into the latter points of those secrets which he mentions to haue tried so vsefull for his peoples health know this O ye that study Physicke that as Hippocrates wrote mens inward parts specially the stomacke is hotter in Winter then in Summer Looke in an extreame frosty Winter how all the sap and vertue of Plants and Hearbs shoote inwardly and descend into the root running thither as to their sanctuary refuge and last helpe in nature Euen so stands it with the body of man which for vegetation and vigorous constitution may in some sort be compared to a Plant. In Summer the heat and radicall moysture is dispersed here and there vp and downe and through all the parts of the body so that the heat in the stomacke is of a mild oily warmth and at that time more truely naturall then in the winter For Experience teacheth and Anatomists confirme it that in the winter chiefly in frosty weather mans liueliest heate setleth it selfe in the stomacke neere the heart the center and root of life the other parts being oppressed with cold There likewise it will beginne quickly to inflame in frosty seasons When the raw ayre gets into the body at the mouth and at the pores or at such time when these pores of the skinne and outward superficies become thickned whereby the spirits may not haue their free euaporation Hence grow oppilations and obstructions and consequently the Scuruy being aided on by the meseraicall veines full of putrified dampish blood or by the melancholike spleen swolne with too much windy nourishment For the abating of which infirmities moyst opening medicines of a biting nature cooling and piercing liquors somewhat of a milky mildnesse and the iuyce of springing hearbs must bee regarded by a wise Phisitian and preferred before strong liquors and fiery Drinkes which commonly are too too binding I doe therefore much commend this Knight for this carefull obseruation as for the discouering of those tender Plants which Iaques Cartier applaudes to be so soueraigne against the Scuruy and called Anneda by the Sauages of Canada But now of late yeares this precious Plant hath beene sought after by Champleine and other Frenchmen albeit without successe vntill this Gentleman renewed the memorie therof And most famous had he yet been if he had transported hither some Setsor Slips of these powerful Plants which by this time might haue increased to succour many an honest mans life distressed by this hidden trecherous Guest I haue spoken the more largely of this sicknesse because our moderne Practitioners in Phisicke should take this obseruation for a watch-word that most of the new diseases Agues putride Feuers and such sicknesses as spring in the winter or in the beginning of the Spring they be but waiting-Maids to this traiterous Lady for this cause let them beginne their Cure with the Scuruy and with the cleansing of the Bloud and the rest will vanish away as it were by miracle As soone as Apollo had ended this speech hee charged Hippocrates Galen Aegineta and other famous