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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

golden Touch As Whales doe play vpon the lesser Fish Till Harping-irons spoyle their latest wish So These wound Christ againe through Neighbours sides Till Earth denoures her due their hideous hides O curuae in terras Animae Coelestium inanes O stooping Soules to Earthly trumperies And quite deuoid of Heauenly Mysteries Shall I sleepe on both eares as the Prouerbe saith while these indignities range abroad vnpunished or conniued at among the learned Societie of Parnassus No mighty Monarch I feele an inward motion in my Soule pricking me like a spurre to run as at a deified Deuill against the defied foes of Charitie And now the rather being heere enforced in your Maiesties Court of Parliament the transcendent Light of all worldly Actions Take away the chaine of Charitie take away the Communion of Saints established on the eternall vnion of the Sonne of God who left vs at his departure this last Commandent Loue one another And doe we loue one another if we liue in hatred and watch opportunitie to hurt the members of Christ Decretum profer Apollo I appeale to this high Tribunall How can we say that God is in vs if our Soules and Bodies bee not his Temple The Ground-worke of this Temple is Faith as Saint Paul writes Faith is the ground of things hoped for The walles are the Gifts of Hope without which wee of all men were most miserable And what is the perfection of the Roofe which couers this Temple but Charitie This is the fruit of all our Actions both immanent and transient This brightsome vertue extends to God and man to Heauen and Earth It lifts it selfe vp to God as the prime Mouer of our wils to the Angels as our Guardians and to the triumphant Saints for their participation and spirituall fellowship with our Soules in the harmonious concent and agreement of Holy Workes expecting our humane minds to ioyne with them in their vniuersall Alleluiahs without iarres discord or disproportioned tunes O Angelicall Concord which requirest this Contemplation and Practice of all such which are predestinated to be saued O the depth of Gods scope which exacteth this obedience of the true Catholike Church to loue our Neigbours as wee would haue him to loue vs to doe euill to no man to wish well to all the World like vnto the Sunne which not onely casts his beames vpon all but refresheth the very earth which beareth weeds In what a miserable case then stand those Lawyers which polish their wits and with hired tongues goe about to defeat O●phans Widowes and other innocents by desending wrong-doers Cursed be yee which speake good of euill and euill of good saith the Prophet Which likewise the Wiseman testified He that iustifieth the wicked and he that condemneth the Iust they both are abhominable vnto God What auailes it a man to gather wealth for a small time when hee knowes hee must leaue them behind him and answere for euery idle word and sentence which he produced to disgrace or hinder his Neighbour whom he was bound to tender and loue as himselfe What profit shal he get by his golden fees when Death dogges him at the heeles When his pulses shall faintly beat his senses faile and his eye-lids shut neuer more to open vntill they see the gates of New Ierusalem shut fast against their wretched Master No doubt but some of our Lawyers doe happily thinke vpon this fatall stroke but alas that weake thought for want of Zeale quickly perisheth like those seedes which were sowne by the Husbandman and afterwards for want of care suffered to be ouergrowne with weeds and choaked with auarice The want of employments in some other Professions or Trades which might benefit them in their worldly thoughts and dreaming conceits of priuate lucre doe constraine many great Spirits to fall to this wrangling course of life who otherwise would proue more notable members for their Countries Good But seeing no other way then this to arriue without danger of a bloudie nose to a great estate they forgoe those braue flames which Nature had kindled in them and in their steed doe harbour earthy and slimy cogitations like the Serpent whom God cursed and destinated to creepe vpon his belly and to licke the dust of the earth All their mind runnes on Gaine Gaine is their God the God which deliuers them out of the Land of bondage out of the iawes of Pouertie Gaine is the golden Angell which leades them out of the Wildernesse into the Land of Canaan Gaine is their Iosuah that gouernes their battels and giues them superioritie and victory not ouer the vncircumcised Philistines but ouer their owne Brethren the heires of Saluation in the world to come What faire protestations and goodly hopes will they not faile to promise at the first opening of their Clients Cause yet when the matter by their vnluckie Counsell succeeds not as they promised they will shamelesly stand vnto it that their Clients had not throughly informed them or else with admiration and eyes lift vp towards Heauen they will ioyne to lay an aspersion on the Iudge whereas themselues were the chiefe Procurers of the Suite About twenty yeeres past it was my fortune to bee present in a Counsellers Chamber at the Counsell of the Marches where a Gentleman of Worcestershire bitterly complained that the Counsell had ordred him to pay seuenscore pounds which hee might haue compounded for fiftie pounds And that this rigorous sentence proceeded by his relying altogether vpon his Opinion that the Counsell would not deale in matters aboue fiftie pounds being limited by their Instructions from the King To which the Lawyer answered that he had hard measure offered him that the Counsell reduced his Cause from a Common Law businesse to bee a matter of Conscience wherein the King had left vnto them the determining at large without tying their powers to a certaine Summe That hee was sory to see such extreme seueritie Yet notwithstanding somewhat glad that the matter hauing beene so chargeable and trouble some for a long time he might now enioy the continuall company of his wife and children at home which before he could not doe That Peace was a blessed thing and Patience an excellent vertue Which the Gentleman hearing and hauing no comfort else for his great expence paines and troubles he brake forth into Passion saying what doe you tell me of Peace and Patience and going home to haue the company of my wife and children All this I had before I met with your vnfortunate Counsell and but for you I might haue had more meanes to doe for them then now I haue Which Answere of his cals backe into my memory Captaine Eliots Tragedie which about fiue and twentie yeeres agoe he related vnto me at Paris In Queene Elizabeths dayes being enticed by a Iesuite heere in England this Captaine Eliot went to Lisbone with a Pinnasse of the Queenes which hee purposed thence forwards to employ for his New Masters seruice the King

pay 20. shillings for a vertuous purpose And perhaps the same would lessen the exaction of the rest in the mercie of God To this furtherance of money I would haue those Brokers and extorting Iackes receiue corporall punishment who shall by indirect tricks and monthly bills exact vpon pawnes more interest then euer the Iew of Malta tooke of his deadly enemies After him the Lawmaker Solon discoursed as followeth I haue heard this day sundry pretty proiects pronounced by my Colleagues for the enriching of Great Britaine But if all these fall out happily and the Deuill still continue to sow his seeds of dissention in mens hearts to goe to Law one with another for a Goats haire by the procurement of Makebates and the aduice of some couetous Lawiers to what end shall his Maiestie spend his time to succour and supply them with money and they presently after to bestow the same on others for the molesting of Innocents This were to make our great Appollo accessary and priuie to iniurious dealings First let my good Ilanders weed out or at least wise restraine the insolencies deceits and equiuocations of Lawiers and then seeke for remedies to heale their indispositions Shall the mild Comforter of humane soules minister an occasion of scandall to reprobates and fewell to their iniquities If they get wealth men as I see haue not the wit to keepe it Therefore I thinke fit and it is a treasure inualuable to tame the Lawiers before any more riches be giuen as swords in mad mens hands to offend the seruants of God What intolerable knaueries haue beene exercised of late yeares by fellowes of this ranke against honest men yea against whole Countries whose blood like that of Abell doth cry for vengeance I know one poore Lordship in Wales which was persecuted by them and forced for foure thousand pounds to compound for their natiue freehold which by Records found in the Tower their Ancestors had enioyed 300. yeares and all vpon that farre fetcht maxime Nullum tempus occurrit Regi that no prescription of time might barre the Prince of his Right And if the wise King Iames of blessed memory had not set a period to their insinuations by limiting 60 yeares to his titulary demand God knowes to what euent their dangerous positions would haue issued vnto It is an easie thing for a man to find a staffe to beat a dog and for a cunning Lawier with the crochet of his braine to circumuent harmelesse people How many thousand pounds are yearely spent in Wales alone to maintaine suites at Law which might be well spared if the fountaine were dam'd vp Let the King of Great Britaine shut vp the spring which enuenomes multitudes of his poore subiects who grone vnder their burthen worse then the Israelies vnder the bondage of Egypt and Wales alone shall saue aboue 40. thousand pounds a yeare which row they consume besides their dear time not to be redeemed in vnnecessary suits at Law CHAP. 11. Apollo not throughly contented with the proiects of the seuen wise men of Greece commands others viz. Cornelius Tacitus Cōminaeus the Lord Cromwell Sir Thomas Chaloner Secretary Walsingham Sir Thomas Smith and William Lord Burleigh who were knowne to be farre more Politicke Statesmen to deliuer their opinions how Great Britaine might be inriched APollo liked reasonable well of the inuentions demonstrated by the Seuen wise men of Greece But for all that some of them hee deemed to be more theoricall then really practick and therefore He caused some of his vertuous Attendants which had been famous for their Actiue diligence in managing matters of State to discouer more proiects whereby Great Britaine might attaine to a present fruition of Treasure For as his Imperiall Maiestie said Philosophers being Clinickes and retired to close chambers delighting more to be as Persius notes of them Esse quod Arcesilas arumnosique Solones Obstipo capite figentes lumine terram Like to Arcesilas or Solons found With down bent heads eies vpō the ground then personally to bestirre themselues as men of motion ought in bringing their purposes and plots to execution they could not proue so necessary members to act what he intended as those which had by their industry got the start of them in actuall businesse The euent his Maiestie saw in Cicero and Caesar which moued our most prudent Apollo to referre these Pragmaticke affaires of Great Britaine to the experienced Cornelius Tacitus to Philip Comm●naus to the Lord Cromwell which flourished in King Henrie the 8. daies to Sir Thomas Chaloner sometimes Ambassadour in Spain author of those admirable books de repub Anglorum instaur to Sir Francis Walsingham to Sir Thomas Smith which wrote the Common-wealth of England and to William Lord Burleigh Treasurer of England Cornelius Tacitus as the most ancient was elected first to certifie his censure who with a free Romane candour framed this discourse There is asmuch difference betwixt the face and state of Great Britane at this day and the fashion as it stood in Domitian time when I liued there with my victorious father in law Iulius Agricola as we see betwixt it and the Countrey of the Crime Tartare Then there was elbow roome for the Inhabitants sufficient without multiplicities of Law-suites subtle shifts conycatching or contagious thronging and hudling together But now Sunt homines alij natura Britannica differt In Britanes Isle both men and Land are chang'd We Romanes by our Legionary Cities wonne them to ciuility which they according to their quicke capacities speedily apprehending embraced the Christian Faith paid tribute to Caesar and continued in loyall obedience vnder his Lieutenants vntill our Monarchy became translated to Constantinople that so the fulnesse of time might inuest Antichrist in old Rome the Babylon of the West Since which time as the Children of Israel were sometimes aloft sometimes cast downe this Iland indured sundry changes But in my iudgement next vnto suits at Law which the wise Solon obserued to begger both Towne and Country the populousnesse of some chiefe Cities and specially of London doth impouerish the Royall Chamber of that Empire insomuch that it is in a manner impossible to inrich them before the Drones and yong hungry Bees bee remoued to some forraigne Places by an Act of Parliament and so prest by transcendent authority The people which I would haue thus prest are the Inmates the Cottagers the needy and needlesse numbers An honest Minister assured me that in his Parish at London there were many which perished of want being ashamed to begge and that he knew tenne persons hauing but a roome of twelue foot square to containe them but one bed for them all Many of the like calamity might bee found in that City two or three housholds crept into one house that I haue diuers times wondred that they are not euery second year visited with the Plague or Purples considering the multitudes of Channels Iakes and other vnpleasing places which

Great Britaines Monarchy might in a short time arriue to as great riches as the Spanish After these applauses his Maiestie beckned to Orpheus Iunior that hee should proceed in his discourse But suddenly the Lady Pallas interrupted him saying that it were requisite all his Nobles and Gouernours of Prouinces should be present at the discouery of the Golden Fleece whereby some timely order might bee taken for the guarding of the Coast which produced this pretious increase of Trade Apollo liked very wel of this wise admonition against that day seuennight required his Pegasean Postmasters to summon his Prouinciall Gouernours all other businesses set aside that they should appeare before him in the great Hall of the Court of Audience at Parnassus CHAP. 2. Orpheus Iunior particularizeth the manifold benefits of the Golden Fleece which might serue to repaire the decay of Trade lately complained of in Great Britaine and to restore that Monarchy to all earthly happinesse IVst on the prefixed day the afore-mentioned Gouernors appeared before his Maiestie at the place appointed where Apollo the Lady Pallas the Muses the Graces the Nymphs of Great Britaine and Ireland and all the wise Councellors of State with the choise spirits of his Empire attending on his Maiestie hee commanded Orpheus Iunior particularly to certifie vnto them the necessity and commodity of the Golden Fleece which might supply the defects of Great Britaine and restore it to the most flourishing estate wherein it euer stood in former times Orpheus Iunior after some few excuses of his disability proceeded to epitomize the singular properties of the Golden Fleece so much expected in this wise Most redoubted Emperor and next to our great Creator the prime Author of our worldly happinesse I am glad after the manifold crosses which I haue sustained by sundry accidents that God hath reserued me an Instrument this day to discouer that gaine which helpes our Commerce personall betwixt party and party and the Prouinciall betwixt our Kingdomes and the foraigne and both in the scale and ballance of Trade But before I declare the Commodities of this Trade I wil first shew the Necessity wherein we stand if it be not suddenly aduanced forwards To begin with my Natiue Countrey Wales Although many strange sicknesses haue diuers times of late yeares afflicted vs yet notwithstanding the multitudes of people are here so great that thousands yearly doe perish for want of reliefe Yea I haue known in these last deare yeares that 100. persons haue yearly died in a parish where the Tithes amounted not to fourscore pounds a yeare the most part for lacke of food fire and raiment the which the poorer sort of that Country stand in greater need of then the Inhabitants of the Champion Countreyes by reason of their Mountaines and hills which cause the winter there to be most bitter with stormy winds raine or snow and that for the space of eight moneths As also experience teacheth that Mountainous people require more store of nourishment for their bodies then they which dwell in the plaines or vallies which was the reason that in the North parts of England Seruants vsed to couenant heretofore with their Masters to feed them with bread made with Beanes and not of Barly from Allhalontide vntill May. Another point of Necessity to procure vs to set forwards this most hopeful Plantation and consequētly the Fishing proceeds of the want of woods For the Ironmongers vpon what warrant I cannot learne haue lately consumed our woods and those fit for timber within lesse thē● miles to the Sea so that we must shortly repaire to other Countryes for woods to be employed towards shipping building husbandry c. which poore men are not able to do The decay of these woods also wil cause our breed of Cattle to decrease which heretofore stood as a shelter vnto them against tempestuous blastes Thirdly this maine businesse is to be promoted in regard of the Generall Populousnesse of Great Britaine which is the cheife cause that Charity waxeth cold Euery man hath enough to doe to shift for his owne maintenance so that the greatest part are driuen to extremities and many to get their liuing by other mens losses witnes our Extortioners Periurers Pet●ifoggers at Law Conycatchers Theeues Cottagers Inmates vnnecessary Alesellers Beggers burners of hedges to the hindrance of Husbandry and such like which might perhaps proue profitable members in the Newfoundland But aboue all the state of younger Brothers is to the pitied who by the rigour of our Norman Lawes being left vnprouided of maintenance are oftentimes constrained to turne Pyrats Papists fugitiues or to take some other violent course to the preiudice of the Common-wealth For these important reasons arising out of meere necessity Pantations ought suddenly to be erected And where with lesser charge then in the Newfoundland Where can they liue to helpe themselues and benefit their Country better then in ioyning to encrease the reuenewes of the Crowne of Great Britaine by the rich trade of Fishing The Commodities whereof I will here cursorily repeat First this Trade of Fishing multiplyeth shipping and Mariners the principall props of this Kingdome It yearely maintaineth 8000 persons for 6. moneths in the Newfoundland which were they at home would consume in Tobacco and the Ale-house twice as much as they spend abroad It releeues after their returne home with the labour of their hands yearely their wiues and children and many thousand families within this Kingdome besides which aduentured with them or were employed in preparing of nets caskes victualls c. or in repayring of ships for that voyage Secondly It is neer vnto Great Britane the next Land beyond Ireland in a temperate Aire the south part thereof being of equall Climate with Little Britaine in France where the Sunne shines almost halfe an houre longer in the shortest day in the yeare then it doth in England Thirdly it will be a meanes for vs to reape the rest of the commodities of that Countrey which now we cannot enioy for want of people to looke after them and also for want of leasure our men there being busied in the Summer about the fishing or in preparing of their stages and boats and afterward returning home against winter The commodities of the Land are Furres of Beuer Sables Blacke Foxes Marternes Musk-rats Otters and such like skinnes as also of greater beasts as Deere and other wild creatures To this I adioyne the benefit which may be made by woods being pine birch spruce Furre c. fit for boords Masts barke for tanning and dying Charcoales for making of Iron Out of these woods we may haue pitch Tarre Rosen Turpentine Frankinscence and honey out of the hollow trees as in Muscouy and heretofore in our owne woods before they were conuerted to the Iron Mills There is great store of Mettals if they be lookt after The Plantations well and orderly there once erected will helpe vs to settle our Fishing Trade farre

throats with Cods-heads In what a case thinke you will your Iasons bee with their Fishing for the Golden Fleece if some of these Raggamu●●ins make hauocke of their Ships Mariners Goods and Plantations Before you borrow the personal presence of those Gentlemen who are here wanting it were fit you tooke some order to secure that Coast from Piraticall rouers The Lord Vicount Falkland looketh vnto his great Gouernement in Ireland to see the same well fortified and guarded The Lord Baltimore is likewise busie in supplying his Colony at Feriland Sir William Alexander attends on the valiant King of Great Britaine night and day taking care by what meanes he may most commodiously transport his Scottish Colonies into those parts Sir Francis Tanfield and Sir Arthur Aston two generous Knights which to their immortall glory doe imploy their times in building and manuring that new ground cannot be spared from their Plantations lest the wild Boares breake into their Gardens I thinke said Apollo I must send for Hercules from his starry Spheare or get another Medusa whose very sight shall turne these Dunkirkes into stones before my vertuous followers shall endure the least affront at the hands of malicious Erynnis that Patronesse of barbarous Pirates In the mean time we will thinke on some conuenient course to restraine these threatned thunders and blustering blasts And seeing that you my deare seruants are here assembled at this time I must haue you to satisfie the wauering world whether the Golden Fleece be in greater plenty and abundance in this Iland or in New England Virginia the Summer Iles or in some other forraigne Coast which your Nation may easily possesse At these words there was much muttering among the English and Scottish For some contended on the behalfe of Virginia others contested for New England Euery man had his opinion according to his imaginary obiect wherein most preferred priuate fantasies before the intellectuall facultie His Maiestie hauing patiently awayted for their vnanimous resolution like Brethren of the same Iland borne vnder the same Prince Religion and Gouernement and seeing no end of their disputes hee willed Captaine Mason to breake the Ice in respect he had beene sixe yeares acquainted with ice and frosts at Cupert Coue one of the coldest places of those Countries and boldly without partiality feare or sinister regard to disclose the secrets of the Soile the benefits of the Land and whether this Plantation were such an inestimable iewell as Orpheus Iunior had deliuered or to be had in more estimation then any other place Captaine Mason after some complementall excuse of his disability answered in this wise I could haue wishe that Mr. Iohn Guy my predecessor in Britannioll a man both learned experienced in these exploits had spared me the relation which your Maiestie hath imposed on me But seeing the lot is falne into my share I will repeat those passages which hee and others here know better then my selfe This Iland now in question is altogether as large as England without Scotland And at the degree of 51. of Northerly latitude Where England ends there this blessed Land beginnes and extends it selfe almost as farre as the degree of 46. iust in a manner as the climate lieth from Caleis to Rochell The weather in the winter somewhat like vnto it in Yorkeshire but farre shorter for the Sun shines aboue halfe an houre long●r in the shortest day then it doth in London The Summer much hotter then in England and lasteth from lune vnto Michaelmas specially in the Southerly part I haue knowne September October and Nouember much warmer then in England But one thing more I found worthy of an Astrologers search wherefore the Spring begins not there before the end of Aprill and the winter comes not in before December or Ianuary the causes I know not vnlesse Nature recompenceth the defect of the timely Spring with the backward and later winter Or else because our Plantations lay open to the Easterly windes which partaking of the large tract of the Sea and of the icie mountaines which flote there being driuen by the current from the Northerly parts of the world might happily proue the accidentall cause of the Springs backwardnesse yet tolerable enough and well agreeing with our constitutiōs Towards the North the land is more hilly and woody but the South part from Renoos to Trepassa plaine and champaine euen for 30. miles in extent It abounds with Deere as well fallow Deere as Ellans which are as bigge as our Oxen. And of all other sorts of wilde Beasts as here in Europe Beuers Hares c. The like I may say for Fowle and Fish I knew one Fowler in a winter which killed aboue 700. Partridges himselfe at Renoos But for the Fish specially the Cod which drawes all the chiefe Port townes in Christendome to send thither some ships euery yeare either to fish or to buy the same it is most wonderfull and almost incredible vnlesse a man were there present to be hold it Of these three men at Sea in a Boat with some on shoare to dresse and dry them in thirty dayes will kill commonly betwixt fiue and twenty and thirty thousand worth with the Traine oyle arising from them one hundred or sixe score pounds I haue heard of some Countries commended for their twofold haruest which here we haue although in a different kinde yet both as profitable I dare say as theirs so much extolld There is no such place againe in the world for a poore man to raise his fortunes comparable to this Plantation for in one moneths space with reasonable paines he may get as much as will pay both Land-lords Rent Seruants wages and all Houshold charges for the whole yeare and so the rest of his gaine to increase As for the other question whether the title of the Golden Fleece may bee conferred more deseruedly vpon this Iland then on any other forraigne place where his Maiesties Subiects of Great Britaine doe vse to Trade By the last part of my Discourse it is plaine that it goes farre beyond all other places of Trade whatsoeuer and iustly to be preferred before New England Virginia and other Plantations for these foure reasons First it lieth neerer to Great Britaine by three or foure hundred leagues then eyther of them For wee may saile hither within twelue or fourteene daies being not aboue sixe or seuen hundred leagues passage whereas Virginia lieth as far again Secondly it is better in respect of Trade and the concourse of people which with 500. or 600. Ships doe yearly resort thither By which meanes they augment their Princes Customes and doe maintaine many thousands of their fellow-subiects their wiues and children Thirdly he conueniency of transporting Planters thither at tenne shillings a man and twenty shillings the Tunne of goods And if the party be a Labourer it will cost him nothing for his passage but rather hee shall receiue foure or fiue pound for his hire to helpe the Fishermen on

of Spaine And for this cause with his commendatory Letters from a Iesuite in England to his brother Iesuite Robert Parsons at Madrid he posted thither in hope of high preferment In the meane time his men which hee left a ship-boord finding themselues betrayed by Captaine Eliot and destitute of necessaries to relieue their wants they complotted to steale the Pinnasse away But the matter casually discouered some of them were hanged and the rest made Gally-slaues which comming to the eares of Captaine Eliot at Madrid and hearing that his Brother whom he had left to ouer-see the Pinnasse had likewise tasted of this Spanish Courtesie hee repayred in this male-content to Father Parsons pittifully complayning of his cruell fortune and this bloudie course extended toward his people which hee brought of purpose to serue the King of Spaine hoping of reward rather then to bee so inhumanely dealtwith Father Parsons at that time being more in a moode of deuotion then willing to shew himselfe a Statesman began to reade a Lecture to Captaine Eliot of Patience Humilitie and of Mortification The which hee for a while gaue eare vnto but at last perceiuing that his speeches tended to defeate him of his Ship and to get him into a Cloyster he brake into these impatient termes What doe you preach vnto mee of Patience and Mortification Can flesh and bloud rest satisfied with this vsage Can I be patient when I see my brother and my friends executed and the rest of my men condemned to the Gallies Had it not beene for the aduise which your friend and brother Iesuit gaue me to betray the Q Pinnasse I might haue liued in my own Countrie a happy man far from this barbarous end Surely it were fitting that those which vndertake for money to direct their Clients should requite them for their charges if by following their sinister Counsell the matter goes against them If a Smith hauing but a penny for his paines vnwitting ly chance to prick a horse to the quick whereby the horse is the worse for it there lyes an Action of the Case against the Smith How much more then ought a poore Country fellow altogether without the rudiments of Law haue remedie against a learned Master of the Lawes which takes vpon him to know the whole proceedings of Iustice aswell as the wisest Iudge of the Kingdome O I would that men would become more charitable the one to the other that I might heare from time to time the like complaints as Lawyers made at the end of Michaelmus Terme last 1625. They bewailed their misfortune that whereas some one of them vsed to haue sixtie Clients hee had scarce eight at that Redding Terme which complaints moued mee no more to pittie then to see a Goose goe bare foot I rather reioyced to heare the tidings that Suites of Law were not become eternall And presently I ministred this Pill vnto them My Masters said I you seeme for all the world to bee like the Sextons and Diggers of Graues now of late in London who when any askt them how they did they answered with you Neuer worse It is a hard time For whereas one of vs haue receiued fees for ringing and opening of foure hundred graues a weeke now the Plague being abated wee receiue not money for eight graues A pitifull Case To end this my Apologie against Doctor Bartolus and Master Plowden for my vsurping of Orpheus Iuniors Title I doe it permissu Superiorum by your Maiesties command emboldned by the examples of those which in the like matters borrowed the like Titles as Terentius Christianus and Democritus Iunior lately haue done to their great honour and the Readers satisfaction euen as Ausonius before them had imposed the name of Cato to his little Booke of Manners Nor can any man much blame me if hee compare the Aduentures of our Newfoundland with the Argona●ticks Golden Fleece though more sweetly sounded by the elder Orpheus Apollo after this Apologie seemed highly to extoll it And further to let the world know his fuller resolution hee vttered these words God forbid that Vice should raigne without controulement If my Attendants shall bee tongue tied when such vncharitablenesse possesseth mortall men it is to be feared that men wil sooner glory in euill then turne to good nay more it is to be suspected the whole world but for our peales of Charitie and sounding retraits from Hatred will fall vnder a generall Excommunication from the presence of God Take away the abuse which is meerely accidentall and let the substance of Law remaine still Long may Iustice flourish without ecclipse or stormie oppositions Florescat viuat vigeat celebretur ametur CHAP. XII The learned Vniuersities of Great Brittaine doe finde themselues agrieued that Popish Physicians are permitted to practice Physick in this Kingdome Apollo remedies their grieuances and decreeth that the Popish presume not to minister Physick to any Protestant but to them of their owne Sect. VPpon the Wednesday after Low Easter Sunday there arriued at Parnassus certaine Deputies sent from the Learned Vniuersities of Great Brittaine pitifully complaining that whereas sundrie honest Persons of wonderfull rare Spirits and singular dexteritie had spent the most part of their time in ruminating reuoluing the workes of Hippocrates Cornelius Celsus Galen and also had read the volumes of other Physicians aswell Arabian as Paracelsian Antient as moderne there crept notwithstanding some false Brethren seruants to the Mysticall Whore as Drones which vnder a counterfeit maske of more pregnant knowledge had ingrossed the Gaine and Rewards due vnto them as the laborious Bees of their Country and wrought so effectually with some of the Greater sort that by their example others repaired to them for helps in their Bodily Infirmities forsaking them being of the same Religion and no way inferiour vnto these Romish Physicians The danger both eminent and imminent which by this conniuence might happen they submitted to his Maiesties good will and pleasure Apollo nettled at this complaint called for the Romish Physicians and caused some Patients which had lately taken Physick at their hands to be brought before him to whom he said O yee of little Faith what a lunacie and distemper of the Braine hath peruerted your vnderstanding as to moue you to abandon the medicinable waters of Silo and Bethesdae and to haue recourse vnto muddie Pooles not deriued from the Rocke of liuing waters Is it because there is not a God in Israel that yee goe to the God of Ekron to enquire and looke counsell Did the example of Lopez the Portugall who by warrant from the great Dispencer of Murthers poysoned some Noble Personages of your Countrie nothing terrifie your mutable phantasies but ye must resort for cure vnto your knowne Foes the Foes of Christ Is it possible that my Remedies shall worke their proper effect which are ministred by profane hands but rather the contrary being accursed like the Fig-tree in the Gospell It was a sinne in