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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

Dauid doth morally teach vs that wee must not smite our Princes with the sword of our Lips though they wrong vs nor that we teare the hemme of their superfluous deeds If wee approoue not the holinesst of their liues let vs applaud the holinesse of their Vnctions In the English Chronicles euen when the Pope was at the highest staire of worldly triumph it is registred that Anselmus Archbishop of Canterbury in some difference betwixt him and King William Rufus would haue appealed to the Pope And that the King and the Bishops withstood it In the Raigne of King Henry the Second a Law was made on paine of Treason not to appeale out of the Kingdome of England Thus from time to time it is manifest that the Popes power hath beene inferiour and subiect to Earthly Princes And therefore to broach out such damnable Paradoxes for the iustification of murther and the warranting of priuate men to conspire against their Soueraignes is a Doctrine which God hates Somtimes men are plagued by the immediate hand of God sometimes by mediate and secondary means for their sins Sometimes men are forced to endure extraordinary stormes tempests famine warres and also crosses at their very friends hands Sometimes their women are deliuered of abortiues or mishapen Creatures All which they must patiently brooke Much more must they beare with the spots of Princes who haue long Eares and long hands It is not safe or vertuous to meddle with litigious wares nor to trouble the braine with these kind of Problemes For if men liue in a Monarchy which is hereditary the Fault is the greater If in other Kingdomes the fundamentall Lawes must be regarded by the publike States and not by priuate persons If the Kingdome be Electiue as Poland let the Chancelor looke to it If in Germanie it belongs to the Electors to decide the quarrell betwixt the Emperour and the Subiects Wee doe therefore vtterly detest these Iesuites for maintayning of these bloudy Tragedies and from henceforth wee banish that pestilent Race of Sectaries out of our Iurisdiction of Parnassus Mariana heere we doe order to bee perpetually tortured in Phalaris his Brazen Bull and his Bookes also to be burnt and the ashes to be scattered in the Riuer of Lethe CHAP. III. Now Doctor Wicliffe of Oxford espying in a Church at Athens a Franciscan Frier a kissing of a Maide of Honour belonging to the Princesse Thalia brought Saint Frances to surprize them who of meere Idiotisme applaudes the Fact IN May last when all liuing Creatures followed their naturall motions and kinds Doctor Wicliffe of Oxford who in King Richard the Seconds time by the countenance of Iohn of Gaunt and the Londoners opposed himselfe against the Romish Clergie as hee was entring into the Temple of the vnknowne God at Athens espied a Franciscan Frier very heartily kissing a Gentlewoman which in that jouiall and merrie time had made choise of that lustie Frier to confesse her whereupon Doctor Wicliffe being euer held to be of an vnblemisht behauiour and as chaste as Origen but that he had not gelt himselfe as Origen did burned with Zeale and like another Phinehes thought once to haue runne vpon them both to haue scratcht their eyes out for weapons he had none to offend with such was the Law of Apolloes Court But remembring himselfe of a place in Homer how Achilles as he intended to draw out his Sword against Agamemnon was preuented by the Ladie Pallas who inuisibly restrained his hand from that reprochfull Act he reculed backe vnseene by the youthfull Couple whose lips were so fastned together that as if they had beene in a trance the Church might haue falne by piece-meales about their eares before they would been parted from their sugred kisses and like an Arrow out of a Bow hee rushed into Saint Frances cloyster where meeting with the Old man a mumbling on his Orisons and Rosaries he desired him in all haste to come and visit the Corpse of one of his Friers which was strooke dead by the Planet Venus together with a Maide of Honour belonging to the Princesse Thalia At these words Saint Frances flung away his deuout Offices and went a long with Doctor Wicliffe to the place where he found the Frier and the gentlewoman a kissing After that Saint Frances had considerately noted how lo●ingly the Frier lay as it were in an extasie with his lips as close as Iuy to an Elme vnto the Maides lips the good man fell downe vpon his knees and thanked God that he had seene so much Loue and Charitie in the World which before hee doubted had forsaken all humane race CHAP. IIII. Doctor Wicliffe connents Saint Frances and the kissing Frier before Apollo Saint Frances defendeth the cause and discouereth seuen sorts of kisses Apollo refuteth his Defence condemnes the Frier and abolisheth all Monasticall Orders DWicliffe the next day after this aduenture loth to be accessary to such baudy deeds made the matter knowne vnto Apolloes Maiestie who immediately sent Mercury for both the Friers And vpon the Friday after appointed a speciall Conuocation for the ordering of this lasciuious Cause About nine a clocke in the morning vpon the prefixed day both the Friers being brought before the Lords of the Connocations Apollo spake in this wise to Saint Frances The first time that you were initiated in morall Precepts and sithence matriculated in our Court you vndertooke aswell for your Monasticall Order as your selfe to liue chast and not to minister occasion of scandall to the married Societie to suspect the least token of incontinencie in your carriages But we find that you are flesh and bloud subiect to concupiscence as well as others Saint Paul therefore aduiseth you rather to marrie then to burne But you on the contrary doe forbid your Clergy to marry at all although in your consciences you know it a most grieuous yoke the which our Sauiour Christ said that no man can beare vnlesse as a speciall Gift some few receiue it from Heauen And therefore Saint Paul tels you It is the doctrine of deuils to forbid Marriage Why then haue you imposed such a burthen such a vow on these silly Nouices of your Fraternitie which they can neuer keep without hinneying and lusting after the Female Sexe Haue not you heard that a certaine Hermite cockolded the chiefest Nobles of a Princes Court whose Wiues vsed to repaire to his Cell for Spirituall Physicke as if he had beene another Baptist Endeauour yee neuer so violently to expell the affections of nature they will breake into your thoughts and bodies doe what yee can as on a time another Hermit but more holy of life experimented in a Nephew of his who notwithstanding that hee had brought him vp euen from his cradle in his hermitage shut vp from the sight of all Women-kinde and afterwards by chance following his Ghostly Father to a Towne when he had looked on the Sexe of women and askt his Father what creatures those prettie

Mastership haue Nor to carke for cloth or for food From euery mischiefe he would them saue Their Clothing should be Righteousnesse Their Treasure pure life should be Charity should be their Riches Their Lordship should be vnitee Hope in God their Honestie Their vessell cleane Conscience Poore in spirit and Humilitie Should be Holy Churches defence The Griffon said thou shalt abie Thou shalt be burnt in balefull fire And all thy Sect I shall destry You shall be hanged by the swire I le cause you soone to hang and draw VVho giueth you leaue for to preach Or thus to speake against Gods Law And the people thus false to teach Thou shalt be cursed with Booke and Bell And disseuer'd from Holy Church And cleane ydamned into Hell Otherwise but you will worke The Pellican said I doe not dread Your Cursing is of little value Of God I hope to have my meed For it is falshood which you shew For you beene out of Charity And would doe vengeance as did Nero. To suffer I will ready be I dread not that what thou ca●st doe CHAP. XV. Sir Geffrey Chaucer being pro●oked by Scotus to defend his Cause proues the Pope to bee the great and vniuersall Antichrist prophesied in the Scriptures AFter that the Pronotarie had read that Part of the Plowmans Tale which Sir Geffrey Chaucer had published against the Pope the Romish Church hee was commanded by Apollo to defend his Doctrine Sir Geffrey Chaucer obeyed and framed this extemporary Oration Most high and redoubted Emperour I am glad that Scotus hath prouoked mee this day to open that Secret which by the craft of our Arch sorcerer of the Christian Church hath beene concealed from the vulgars knowledge vntill this fulnesse of Time which the Holy Ghost hath appointed for his Discouerie The Waldenses Albigienses and many others long before my time haue done their endeauors in other Countryes to reueale him but here in England Abbot Ioachim excepted who in K. Rich. the firsts dayes proclaymed the Pope Antichrist no man durst for feare of his formidable Tyrannie disclose what they knew in their Consciences to bee apparantly true This Illumination and Gift of discerning Spirits was indeed kept from the Common people by that execrable Policie of with-holding the Bible from our English translation so that these two Witnesses which lay martyred and yet vnburied in the streets of Spirituall Sodome and Aegypt could not performe their proper offices Now that it hath pleased God to remoue that palpable Darknesse they begin to reuiue and to stand vpon their feet to the amazement of the Carnall Beholders By their sacred motion the eyes of my vnderstanding are likewise opened and I doubt not but all your Maiesties Court shall know out of my mouth this day that the Pope and none but he is that Antichrist which was so long agoe prophesied to come and seduce the Christian Church with lyes Equiuocations and the wonders of Sathan For the manifestation of which damnable practices inspire my heart O fierie Comforter Inflame my mind with true Zeale the seale of thy sacred Spirit that I may soare vp like an Eagle to the Sunne of thy Grace with feruencie founded on Diuine Discretion for Feruencie is but foolish furie without Diuine Discretion The first marke of Antichrist I gather from our Sauiour himselfe who prophefied many shall come in my name and shall say I am Christ vnder this Title the Pope doth most blasphemously co●er his Temporall Power For what signifies the word Christ but Anointed Insomuch that whensoeuer any of his Clergie hath offended the Temporall sword must not punish them but for their protection his Holinesse wardeth them with that saying of the Prophet Dauid Touch not mine Anointed Meddle not with my Christs Though they be taken fighting in the Field with Armour on their backs hee termes them his Sons the Conqueror must leaue them to depart in peace Which made a Prince sometime to returne him this Answer I haue sent your Holinesse your Sonnes Coat the Armour in which I found your Bishop fighting when I tooke him Prisoner And if you be as quick-sighted as Iacob let me know whether this be your Iosephs Coat vntill King Edward the first his time Clergie men were the Lawyers in England as an Ancient Writer testified Nullus Clericus nisi Causidicus They sate as supreme Iudges in Temporall Causes But when their King should chastize them for their briberies and extortions then they shrowded themselues vnder the Spirituall keyes and appealing to the Pope they freed themselues from all Accusations Thus did Errors play vpon the preheminence of Kings vntill they were beaten out from their Law and at the last from their chiefest holds by the valour of King Henry the Eight and well worthy seeing that they presumed to make vse of the name of Christ to cloke their falsehoods and lewd tricks The second Mark of Antichrist I collect out of Saint Paul that in the last dayes men should bee high-minded louers of pleasures more then louers of God hauing a shew of godlines but denying the power thereof All these are verified in the Pope and his Clergie Hee exalteth himselfe aboue Emperours and Kings comparing himselfe to the Sunne and them to the Moone and lesser starres Yea he ranketh his Courtly Cardinals with Kings Which ambition moued Cardinall Wolsey to place himselfe aboue his King Ego Rex meus What greater pleasure can worldly men enioy more then the Pope and his Hierarchie doe They haue a large command of Cities and huge Territories Besides Rome Romania Bolonia Ferrara Auinion the Pope is like to possesse very shortly the Dutchie of Vrbin Nor doth his Ambition cease in these pleasant places many other Episcopall Seates out of Italie doth hee dispose of In Humilitie farre from Christs life yet pretending sanctimonie and a vertuous life but denying the effects thereof as his tolleration of the Iewes and Stewes his seruing of Idols his vnlawfull Dispensations and monstrous Pardons doe plainly demonstrate The third marke of Antichrist is deriued from another place of Saint Paul Now the spirit speaketh euidently that some should fall from the Faith giuing heede to seducing Spirits and Doctrines of Deuils speaking lyes in hypocrifie forbidding Marriage and Meates Now what Church is the same which forbiddeth Marriage and the eating of flesh at prefixed times Is it not the Romish The Greeke Church whom for Antiquitie none can deny but they stand parraleld and equall with the Romane doe prohibit no such things Their Clergie as the Abissines in Aethiopia haue alwayes continued marriage Therefore let this Marke serue for one to conuince the Pope of the Doctrine of Deuils as Saint Paul calls it And for their prohibition of meates who doe insist more strongly then the Pope and his Clergie To eate Flesh vpon some dayes is a mortall sinne vnlesse it bee with their speciall dispensation as the Castilians haue bought out their freedome vpon some forbidden

the Land for the drying of their Fish whereas euery man which goeth to Virginia must pay fiue pound for his passage Lastly wee are better secured from Enemies for we haue no Sauages to annoy vs in the South-parts And if any warres should happen betwixt Great Britaine and Spaine we need not feare their insolent inuasions For wee haue a Garrison of three or foure hundred Ships of our owne Nation which fish at our doores all the summer and are able to withstand an Armada if their King would but confirme that Commission which his blessed Father about three yeares already past granted that two warlike Ships be yearely sent as waftors to defend the Coast and to be authorized with power to leuy men Ships there if occasion so require and all vpon the charges of the Fishing fleete This Commission I obtained and sithence I left it with my friend Orpheus Iunior to bring to perfection who as I am informed is at this present in the Court of Great Britaine an earnest solicitor to that effect To conclude after the Fishing Fleetes are returned homewards we are safe for the windes are commonly from August out Westerly whereby none can come to vs. And if they should we haue other places in the Country to goe to till our Enemies bee gone For there long they dare not stay for feare of the Frosts which perhaps their tender complexions cannot brooke as well as our Northerly Nations CHAP. 4. Apollo commands Iohn Guy Alderman of Bristow to shew how the Plantations in the Newfoundland might be established secured from the cold vapours and foggy mists which in the Spring are supposed to molest that Country APollo hauing noted how important to Great Britaine the Plantations are like to succeed and fall out for the restoring of their State to worldly felicity that it proue a paralleled Monarchy to the proudest of the bordering kingdomes made choise of Iohn Guy Alderman of Bristow to shew in what manner the Britaines should order their Plantations in this Golden Iland and secure their new habitations from the icie and cold foggy Aire which in some seasons of the yeare were reported by the Fishermen to molest and damnifie the Inhabitants Master Guy earnestly sought to post ouer the handling of this serious determination to Captaine Mason in respect hee had wintred there longer then he had But Apollo by no meanes would alter his imposition saying that in regard that Mr. Guy had oftentimes beene personally in the Land and wintred there twise being the first Christian which made it apparent to the world that it was habitable commodious for the vse of mankinde and also for that he had calculated the mutations of the seasons keeping a Iournall of euery Accident during his abode in the Country hee and none but he should direct what might be conuenient for the setling and prosperous propagation of these most hopefull Plantations Mr. Guy seeing that by no entreaty or excuse he could put the taske off from himselfe with a lowly reuerence to his Maiestie he said If the Noble Emperour had askt my poore iudgement a dozen yeares past concerning these secrets it may be I might haue giuen him more agreeable contentment then at this time For then the modell of the Country and Climat lay more fresh in my apprehension Notwithstanding seeing the lot is cast vpon me I will produce the best remedies which I know for the correcting of the malignant ayre if so I may without scandall call it The Country I assure your Maiestie is as tolerable as England Caeteris paribus comparing all the seasons together And if some nice persons feele one winter among many more snowy and frosty then other they seeme to forget their owne Country where the like inconuenience hapneth But to auoid the worst if euery Householder digge vp the next ground to his habitation and round about the same and then burne it those moyst foggy vapours will not appeare specially after the Sunne hath once warmed and pierced into the earth so dismantled and layd bare Secondly let them dig welles neere their houses against winter that they may haue water in despite of the frost or snow Thirdly let them prouide them of fewell enough before winter to haue the same more seare and dried Fourthly let them build their houses with a hill or great store of trees interposed as a shelter betwixt them and the sea-windes which there are Easterly and very nipping There is no winter to speake of before the midst of Ianuary And when the Easterly windes blow the weather is no other then it is in Holland And I verily beleeue that in the south part of the Land where it trends towards the west and where the ground is eauen and plaine without hilles it differs not much from the temperature of the south part of Germany And for the further encouragement of our Planters I can auow this for a certaine rule that once being passed a mile or two into the Land the weather is farre hotter I found Filberds fixe miles distant from the Sea side very ripe a moneth before they were fit to be eaten by the Seaside So great an alteration there is within sixe miles space by reason that those raging Easterly windes are defended and asswaged by the hilles and woods which stand as walles to fence and breake their force Aboue all things I wish the Planters to sleepe in boorded roomes and not to be too idle the first winter for feare of the Scuruy For in all Plantations this disease commonly seaseth vpon lazy people the first winter Yea Sir Walter Rawleighs Colony in Virginia though a hotter Country 1586. could not auoid this mortall sicknesse These rules obserued our Planters may liue happily They may fish a moneth before others which come out of England thither to fish they may fish three moneths or more for Cod and Herring after they are departed which will much enrich them CHAP. 5. Sir Ferdinando Gorge is accused by the western Fishermen of England for hindering thē of their stages to dry their Fish in New England and from trading with the Sauages for Furres and other Commodities Ferdinando Gorge his answer Apollo reconcileth their differences VPon the Friday seuen night before Easter in Lent last 1626. there arriued here at Parnassus certaine Westerne Merchants out of England iust about that time as Apollo had decreed straight execution against some for the eating of Flesh on some prescribed dayes for that weighty and politicall respect of maintaining Nauigation wherein the workes of our Creator doe shew themselues no lesse admirable then the land Assoone as these Merchants had heard this necessary Law with the execution one of them a person of very discreet behauiour desired liberty to speake on the behalfe of his poore Countrey men for some oppressions which Ferdinando Gorge Gouernour of the Fort at Plimouth whom they pointed at present in the great Hall of the Court of Audience had vnder colour of

bee sent for Sir Francis Drake Sir Martin Furbisher Sir Henry Middleton and Sir Thomas Button As soone as they were come into his Maiesties presence he related vnto them that vpon a Petition exhibited vnto him by many poore Widowes of the City of London and of other Cities Towns in Great Britaine how their Husbands perished in their voyages to the East Indies by the distemperature of the climate in passing so often vnder the Tropickes and the burning Zones they therfore desired eyther that he should dissolue the East Indie Company or finde out a more conuenient passage to these Countries where the Spices grew which their Country men wanted Otherwise they must of necessity continue still vnmaried or liue in daily feares to lose their succeeding Husbands who for their reliefe would hazard their liues as the others had formerly done For such was their ineuitable Fate they said that none would aduenture on Sailers Widowes but men of the same vocation Vpon which clamors of these distressed Creatures his Maiestie being moued to pitty and commiseration required them to yeeld their seuerall censures by what passage the English Nation might traffique into those Lands of Spiceries with lesse perils and losses of Sailers Sir Francis Drake first deliuered his opinion that the moderne Cosmographers agreed vpon foure waies to the East Indies Two imaginary by the Northeast which Pliny mentioned Sir Hugh Willowby attempted and the Hollanders prosecuted vpon the North of Muscouy to Noua Zembla Waygate and the Ri●er Ob but all in vaine and by the North-west which Sir Martin Furbisher first entred into and Sir Thomas Button sithence pursued but without fortunate successe The other two waies to ●aile into the Lands and Ilands of Spices were famous which himselfe had past The one through the Streights of Magellan the other by the Cape of good Hope Of these he liked those of Magellan and now the rather for that Tierra del fuego which is the South part of those Streights is lately found out by certaine Hollanders to be an Iland And that himselfe had beene driuen by foule weather as farre as 57. degrees of Southerly latitude where he found some Ilands and in all likelihood an open passage about the 60. degree which the Hollanders tried to be true now stiling the same Lameers Streights This way hee approued lesse dangerous then the other specially to the Molucca Ilands so that they would begin their voyage about the end of August from England that they might arriue there by the end of December which falls out to be the first of Iune or end of May in these Streights Sir Maurice Abbot contradicted Sir Francis Drake and said that the greatest comfort in such long voyages was to be sure of fresh victuals which they could not bee assured of by those Southwest Streights To this Sir Francis Drake answered that for Wood Water Fish and Fowle they might haue enough on this side and neere the Streights that they might be relieued in distresse at the Riuer of Amazous by their Countrymen where Captaine North Captaine Parker and Captaine Christmas had planted whereof the two last liued there of late foure years in despite of the Spaniards whom they wearied out of the Country with the helpe of the Natiues for all that they came with 1500. men to surprize them Being past the Streights they might haue fresh victuals in abundance at the Iland of Mocha in the height of 38. degree which is subiect to the States of Arauco deadly enemies to the Spamards and but fiue or sixe leagues from that Centinent Or else they may get some with ease at the Iland of Saint Maries twenty or thirty leagues further If the Trade be to the Moluccaes they may spare two moneths voyage this way and also they shall meet with Salomons Iles and many rich places vpon the Coast of New Guinea which affoord plenty of victuals Gold Pearles and Spice Sir Henry Middleton much misliked this Southwest way because of the vncertainty of prouision and the solitarinesse of the voyage whereas hee was sure all the way by the Cape of good Hope at Sancta Helena Soldana at the Iland of Madagascar to be stored with necessaries vntill he came to his iourneyes end Further hee said as also the East India Company confirmed the very same to be true that they had small doings now to the Moluccaes For their Trade lay about laua maior where they had a Factory at Bantam and to Serrat in Cambaia to Sumatra and the Persian Gulfe After some altercation betwixt these last afore-specified Apollo commanded Sir Martin Furbisher to declare his opinion touching the Northwest passage which hee accordingly did prouing that the most part of Meta incognita where hee had beene seemed by all probability to bee broken lands and Ilands and that if he had had sufficient store of prouision hee would haue aduentured through in despite of the mountaines of Ice which threatned to immure him in And that hee much maruelled at their slownesse of late which finding the passage cleere and open in a farre more temperate climate then where he had beene did notwithstanding misse to finde it out Sir Thomas Button much incensed to bee taxed for slownesse who had busied himselfe all the daies of his life in warrelike actions hauing beene at the sacking of Cales and imployed in Ireland against the Spaniards in Hispaniola at the voyage of Algiere and many other Sea voyages for answere said That if Sir Martin Furbisher had wintred in the 58. degree in America which experience taught to be as the 63. degree of Europes coldnes hee would not haue beene so briefe to impute slownesse vnto him As for the Passage hee verily beleeued as Sir Martin did it lay open And that hee would haue done his endeuour to haue sailed through For in Hudsons Bay hee saw two very likely passages towards the Northwest to enter in but that hee was otherwise authorized and commanded to goe on Southwestwards to the bottome of Hudsons Bay so that hee durst not but follow the tenor of his Commission Yet notwithstanding he hoped that he had not spent his time in vaine during his voyage in those angry climates For first he discouered that those Seas could not bee sailed through but in Iune Iuly and August being alwaies subiect to foggs ice stormes and sudden windes The sunne seldome seene so that the best Nauigator can hardly obserue the certaine height thereof Onely his chiefest comfort during his abode there was that the dayes were very long with very short nights though otherwise the want of cleernesse to obserue either sunne or starre were able vtterly to ouerthrow the whole voyage Further he noted that Trumpets might not be spared but most necessary to be had of such as passe in those Seas For if two ships went together they would quickly lose one another by reason of the thicke mist though they went so neere as they might hallow one to the other