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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39724	A relation of ten years in Europe, Asia, Affrique, and America all by way of letters occasionally written to divers noble personages, from place to place, and continued to this present year / by Richard Fleckno.	Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678?	1656 (1656)	Wing F1232; ESTC R24329	76,341	184

unlesse from his Childhood he has been train'd up in them In which case they are as natural to him as his own and he sha●● speak with the allowance of a stranger still It matters not much whe'r'● be a grain or two more or lesse let me then understand a stranger Language so as to make all I hear or read in it mine own and speak it so as I may be understood and let whose will take the bootl●sse pains to pronounce it well and have the reputation of an affected Traveller for me To conclude Madamoiselle I shall never envy him who tells you in finer language than my self that he is your most Humble Servant c. but 't would inflict me much that any one should be indeed more than I am Madamoiselle Your c. XXXV To Madamoiselle de B. Of Fame Madamoiselle COnsidering the mighty Elogiums and magnificent prayses that has ever been given to Fame by all Kingdomes and Republiques on th'one side the airinesse and the Fabulousnesse of it on th' other side it makes me half suspect that there is more of Policy than Reality in the thing for who would doe great and noble Actions who would expose their lives for their Countries if somewhat beyond their Lives did not excite them to 't If the memory of what they did were terminated with themselves or that memory nothing appertained to them when they were gon Hence 't is that this is used as a spur to incite men unto Vertue 'T is Fames Trumpet that encourages men and edges them to valor and the sound of this like that of Meltiades Trophies to Themistocles is still resounding in our Ears and animating us to great and noble Actions But if as I say we examine on th' other side the frivolousnesse of the Thing we shall find our selves impos'd by Antiquitie and conclude with that Greek who taken with the voice of the Nightingal and imagining it some mighty thing pluming it for curiosity and seeing what it was cried out Vox est praeterea nihil that 't was a Voice and nothing else For first if we consider the Fame of Writers in which the Fames of all others are included both in its duration and Immensitie for these two forsooth they promise you shall never be terminate and alwayes permanent if we consider I say unto how small a part and portion of the world their Fames can penetrate how few understand their Language and how few of those who do can read it and lastly how few of those who can are curious surely instead of painting it with wings we might more properly paint it with Plumets at the heels and in lieu of imagining it flying about the world we may imagin it rather pent up and fluttering about some narrow Bird-cage or volary So as 't is as great a folly and vanity to imagine what we write in our Language or any other crudite Tongue whatsoever can make any ●ar progresse in other Countries as to imagine the sound of a Cymbal or little Tinckling B●ll could be heard over all the Universe Then for the duration or perpetuating of it when I am dead what avails that me or how can it more rejoyce and delight me than Musick playd at my Tomb or Monument When I am nam'd who remembers what I was or when those are dead that knew me who reflects upon my person hearing me mentioned give me then Fame alive and take whose list my Fame when I am dead which at most is but as the Eccho of dying voices or the perfume of expiring Odours rather shaddows than substances and not so much as pictures which terminate at least the imagination to certain species and Resemblances And if any one object By this opinion all Incitement to Vertue and to noble and Heroick Actions is ta'n away I absolutely deny it and affirm that the Fame we enjoy alive and our Countries and Families after our death is sufficient incitement and encouragement enough so as to conclude I must answer you Madamoiselle demanding what Fame is as that Antient did him who desir'd to know of him what God was That he would tell him on the morrow when summoned of his promise he demanded two dayes respite more and so went multiplying Time and delays till being prest at last he answered ingenuously That before he thought of it he imagined he know it but the more he thought of it the lesse he knew of it and here Madamoiselle before I conclude that the worshippers of this Fame may not think me Atheist I have made this following Hymn here to its honour to acquit me of Impiety Fame that from great noble Actions coms As pretious Odours from Arabian Gums The shadow that from brighter vertue flows And follows it along where ere it goes The Eccho of great names the walking spright And Ghost of mighty men the Tripartite Division of us when we 'r dead and gon And nothing left of 's here but thee alone When Heaven our Soul has where it never dies The Earth our Bodies Fame our Memories Since only thou 't is mak'st our memories last Nor can oblivion ever draw so fast Her Curtain or 't as thou 't undraw't agen To shew the fairer Portrait of 't to men To whom fair daughter of Eternitie Should we commend our selves and works but thee Through whose sole benefit 't is if we survive Long as ther 's worlds or men be left alive XXXVI To Madamoiselle de Clerque at Gant Anno 50. Wherein he declares the Life they led in the Country Madamoiselle MY Indeavours have not been wanting nor ever shall to maintain that good Intelligence betwixt her Altezze of Loreine and you who often mentions you with much honour and tendernesse and the ofter perhaps for my giving her the occasion She always honouring me with that complacency to prosecute willingly that discourse which I begin we often wish you here and to incite you to visit us the sooner I 'll tell you how we passe our time The mornings having finished our Devotions About an hour before dinner we have a little consort of Viols Lutes and Ghittars which we often vary together with our pieces for more variety neither the Dutchesse Princesse nor I but play our parts on all and if Madamoiselle de Beauvais be with us as oftentimes she is they sing 3 parts to which I play the Base nor shall you anywhere hear more excellent voices nor airs more excellently sung having dined and some one or two hours past in pleasant conversation If the day be fair we goe abroad in Coach to take the Air a second Coach following and some Horse besides the Princesse in Side-Saddle who takes much delight in her little Pal●rey and rides excellent well though not above 12 year old From our journey which never ends without some Banquet or Collation we return about Sun set and dance Court and Country Dances some hour or two before Supper our company of Women

are of a pleasant green and shew a far off just like a Field of Corn which being ripe about the month of Iune they joint them in pieces some footlong and carry them to the Mill turn'd by Oxen or Water consisting of two round Cylinders about the bignesse of Mil-posts plated with Iron which turning inwards and joyning as close together as th●y can meet so squeez the canes in passing through them as they come out on th' other side all bruzed and dry as keques which were all liquid before which Liquor is conveyed by Troughs to certain Caldrons wher 't is boyl'd still retaining its amber colour till powr'd out at last into their forms or coolers with a certain Lee 't is rendred white And in these Mills during the season of making Sugar they work both day and night the work of immediatly applying the canes into the Mill being so perillous as if through drousinesse or heedlessnesse a fingers end be but engag'd betwixt the Posts their whole body inevitably follows to prevent which the next Negro has alwayes a Hatchet readie to chop off his Arm if any such Misfortune should arive Of the Starrs and Heavens of the other Hemisphere I will conclude this Treatise of Brasil with a word or two of the Starrs of the other Hemisphere garnisht with many constellations wholly unknown to us of which the Cruciero or Crosse is the principalst consisting of 5 or 6 Stars of the first magnitude as bright as any in our Hemisphere whose brightnesse as with a foil is set off the more by a great black cloud that 's continually under it as is the whitnesse of the Milky way rendred more perspicuous by a streak of black in the midst of it tending towards the same constellation both which as also another great black cloud on th' other side the Milkie way I observ'd at my being there for more than six months continually whence I concluded 't was the natural complexion of that sky as ours is blew to have much part of it black which perhaps renders the people of that Climat far more melancholy than ours which black clouds I much wonder none as I know of has observ'd besides my self especially since there ar 2 white clouds not far from the Cruciero appearing always in the same posture and figure so generally observ'd and known as they are call'd Nubes Magellanicae from Magellan who first discovered them And thus much for Brasilia may suffice In which if I have been too long you will perceive at least I have made al hast I could away There being nothing in the Country besides the satisfying my curiosity that could invite me to longer stay than whilst the Fleet was preparing which in the beginning of August the 8th month after our Arival there was ready to depart I being to Imbark on the Adm●●al Don Rhoderigo d' Alancastro who nobly invited me to dyet and lodge with him in his own Cabbin XXIV To the Reverend Father John Pererio of the Society of J. in Brasil Anno 50. Reverend Father T'Il I can do 't in deeds you will please to accept of my thanks in words for al your noble favours in Brasil by whose curtesie t was that I not only lived there but that my life in all my voyage has been prer●●gued ever since for Non vivere sed bene vale●● vita est you know and I can assure you I never far'd better than I did on ship-board with the General Drn Roderigo d' Alancastro to whom you particularly recommended me who lodg'd me in his own Cabbin plac'd me at his table next himself and not only made me companion alive with him but would have don 't in death ●oo ●f there had been occasion as we imagined on sight of another Fleet which afterward proved frends when putting a Rapier in my hand and arming me with a Rondache or Shield he bid me if we chanc'd to fight keep alwayes close to him that we might live or die together So as my dear F. whilst others oblige as 't were by chance you only have the Art to do it by linking benefit thus to benefit till you make such a chain of it as he must be most ungratefull should not alwayes remaine your Thrall but that which your Modesty will not hear from me I hope shortly you shall hear from the King himself whom I have informed since my Arival of the many favours I received from you in Brasil chiefly for his sake next to God nor have I limited my Gratitude only to this place but I have written also to Rome that I might repay your curtesies the sooner the more I should call into contribution to the debt of which Letter behold the Copy Ad Eminentissimum Card. Fra. Barba Anno 50. Post suum ex Brasilia reditum Eminentissime Domine EX quo soed a illa Tempestas nuper in Anglia exorta me quasi Naufragum in alienas orbis terrarum oras ejecisset ego ac si omnis terra mihi patria suisset vel polius nulla magnâ p●r●ê Europae peragrâta atque nonnulla Asiae Affricaeque Brasiliam tandem in America cogitavi quo à nobis remotior ●o propius ●●men notitiae admoturus After which Exordium I proceed and say that though it abound in many things and that a Gold mine has lately been discover'd there in the Territory of St. Pauls and a veyn of Emeralds nigh Sancto Spiritu yet I esteem more than any Gold or Pretious Stones the planting of the Christian Faith I having no w●ere seen Learning and Piety more flourishing than there chiefly by the Industry of the Fathers of the Society who converting those Barbarous people daily whilst they exercise their Bodies in cultivating the Land do cultivate their Souls for Heaven I will conclude by telling you how our voyage was so prosperous all the way as for more than 3 months none of our 22 sayl ever lost sight of one another til nigh the Western Ilands or Ti●rcieros where I only with our Purser went ashore the Generall suffering none else to stir our Fleet was so distipated by fowl weather as only 7 of us entred Lisbon road together the rest comming afterwards dropping one by one excepting 2 or 3 catcht up by the Hollanders and one or two lost And this is all I can tell you of our Voyage hither besides which I have no more to say but only agen agen to Iterate my many thanks unto you R. F. Rector F. Vas●o●cells and all the rest with the assurances that I shall alwayes be Your R. c. XXV To the Lord from Lisbon Anno 50. Of some Discourses in PORTUGAL My Lord BEing return'd from my Brasil voyage my next is for ●land●rs whither I tended in my thoughts even whilst I tended farthest from it they like Compasses having one foot fix'd in that whilst the other compast the whole world about for which whilst I expect an Embarquement I cannot better entertain my