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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05594	A most delectable and true discourse, of an admired and painefull peregrination from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Affricke With the particular descriptions (more exactly set downe then hath beene heeretofore in English) of Italy Sycilia, Dalmatia, Ilyria, Epire, Peloponnesus, Macedonia, Thessalia, and the whole continent of Greece, Creta, Rhodes, the Iles Cyclades ... and the chiefest countries of Asia Minor. From thence, to Cyprus, Phænicia, Syria ... and the sacred citie Ierusalem, &c.	Lithgow, William, 1582-1645?	1616 (1616)	STC 15711; ESTC S108584	89,947	136

of the most High It was in this Chamber my Mother Anna conceiued me nourished me and brought me vp in singing Psalmes Hymnes and Prayses to the glory of God and also I kept in this roome the blessed Infant Iesus very God and very Man without any grieuance or paine brought him vp with all dilligent obseruation And when cruell Herod sought the Babes life by the aduertisement of the Angell I and my husband Ioseph who neuer knew my body fled with him downe to Egypt And after his passion death and ascension to Heauen to make a reconciliation of humane nature with the Court Celestiall I stayed in this house with Iohn and the other Disciple Who considering after my death what high mysteries had beene done in it consecrated and conuerted the same to a Temple for a comemoration of Christ sufferings the chiefe of Martyres Also that resplending image thou seest was made by Saint Luke my familiar for eternizing the memory of my portraiture as I was aliue by the commandement of him who doth all things and shall conserue this sacred Image to the worlds end That Crosse of Cedar which standeth at the side of the little westerne Window was made by the Apostles These Cindars in the Chimney touch not because they are the fragments of the last fire I made on earth And that Shelfe whereon my linnen cloathes and prayer Bookes lay let no man come neere it For all these places are sanctified and holy Wherefore my sonne I tell thee Awake and go recite the same which I haue told thee vnto others and to confirme thy beliefe therein the Queene of heauen giueth thee freely thy health Frier Alexander being rauished say they with this Uision went and reported it to Nicholas Frangipano Lord of that Country And incontinently hee sent this Prior and other foure Friers to Nazareth whereby he might know the truth thereof but in that iourney they dyed The Uirgin Mary perceiuing their incredulity caused Angels the second time to transport the house ouer the gulfe of Venice to a great wood neere by the sea side in the Territorie of Riginati Which when the Countrey-men had found and remarking the splendor of the illuminating Image dispersed these newes abroad And the Cittizens of Riginati hauing seene what great miracles was daily done by the vertue of this Chappell imposed to it this name Madonna di Loretta A little while after the people resorting to it with rich giftes there haunted in the Wood many Theeues and Cut-throates who robbed and murdered the Pilgrimes Which innocent spilt bloud pricking her to the heart shee made the Angels transport it the third time and set it on the toppe of a little Mountaine belonging to two brethren in heritage But they vpon a day quarrelling and discording about the vtilitie of the Offerings to this House the Angels did remoue it the fourth time and placed it in a high broad way where it standeth vnremoued to this day This was confirmed by the Papall Authoritie to bee of an vndoubted truth after a hundred and fifty thrée yeares deliberation Loe as briefly as I could haue I laid open to thy iudicious eies the Transportations Originall and Papisticall Opinions of Loretta Protesting I haue added nothing to the Authors description but onely collected these speciall Warrants omitting other infinite foolish toyes conceiued for their blind-folded credulitie O strange and wonderfull frailetie of men what damnable imperfections domineere ouer their braine-sicke knowledge Sathan thou Prince of darknesse hast so ouer-sylled the dimmed eyes of their wretched soules that notwithstanding Gods eternall word ordained to call them through the spotlesse bloud of Christ Iesus to bee the heires and adopted Sonnes of Saluation yet thou all-abhominable enemy of mankind ouerthrowest both their spirituall and naturall vnderstanding in a bottomelesse Ocean of darke ignorance promising to thy obdurate souldyers to build Castles in the Aire and contrarywise are busie digging downe dungeons to welcome thy hellish eternized guests with horrible torments and neuer-ceasing flames of euerlasting fire What wilfull-hearted man can be so apt to beleeue that our blessed Lady had such estimation of morter and stones as to haue although shee had had power caused Angels to transport a rotten house so often No I say beléeue it who so will questionlesse the iudgements of God in the truth of his all-seeing Iustice shall reward their too credulous minds accordingly Then shall they know their foolish and superstitious errours Leauing this and returning to my purpose I embarked at Ancona in a Frigato And by Accident heere I encountred with a most curteous and discrete Gentleman Iames Arthur whose company was to mee most acceptable our acquaintance being first made at the beginning of the same voyage vpon the Mountaines of Terrara in Burgundy Hee had also beene at Rome and bound to visite Venice in his returning home to his natiue Countrey of North Britaine This Citie of Ancona in the time of Traianus the Emperour flourished mightily in fame and reputation and yet a gallant place to this day Contemnunt omnes Anconae moenia Turcas Along this Adriaticke Coast I saw no remarkeable thing saue the two Citties Rimini and Rauenna which were famous in the daies of Octauius Caesar but now somewhat impouerished in regard of diuers incursions sustained Sayling by the mouth of Rubicon called now Pissatello which Iulius Caesar passed ouer against the ordinance of the Senate and afterward seazed vpon Rome putting Pompeius to flight I saw the place where the bloudy battell was fought betweene the French and Spaniards Anno Domini one thousand fiue hundred and twelue but the victorie fell to the Gaules with the losse of nineteene thousand men on euery side and they haue erected singular Monuments there in a perpetuall memory thereof After three daies sayling hauing passed by Malamucko which is the Hauen of the great Venetian shippes wee arriued at Saint Markes place in Venice Cingitur vrbs Venetum pelago ditissima nummis Venice is a Garden of riches and worldly pleasures the chiefe floure of Common-weales and the perfite mirrour of Ciuill and Politicke Gouernement This sequestrat Citie is scituate in the bosome of Neptune and diuided from the world with a part of his maine body which inuironeth the Iland The prouision of their magnificent Arsenall Artillerie Munition and Armour the diuision of stréets with Channels the innumerable Bridges of Stone and Timber their accustomable kinde of liuing apparell curtesies and conuentions and finally the glory of Gallants Galleries Gallies Galleasses and Gallouns were a thing impossible for me briefly to relate Wherefore since the scituation thereof and the decorements of their beautifull Palaces are so well knowne by the better sort I desist concluding thus this incomparable mansion is the onely Paragon of all Cities in the world In the time of my staying heere I went forth to Lumbardy and visited the famous Cities of Padua Verona and Ferrara The commendation of which

of beasts but by experience I approue the contrary for it beareth nothing aboue at all yea not the weight of a feather The water it selfe is of a blackish colour and at sometimes in the yeare there are terrible shapes and showes of terror in it as I was informed at Iericho which is the néerest Towne that bordereth thereupon This contagious and pestilentious lake of Sodome resembleth much as may be supposed that infernall gulfe of Hell but in my opinion I hold it to be the purgatory of Papists for they say Limbus Patrum is neere or in the second roome to hell which I thinke must néedes be Sodome for although it bee not Hell it selfe yet I am perswaded it is a second Hell hauing as some report no botome Wherefore I conclude thus that since Papists will haue a Purgatory I absolutely affirme it must be such a Purgatory as the purging of Sodom and Gomorha which was with fire and brimestone About the breach of day on Tuesday morning we past by the ruines of an old house where as they say Saint Iohn the Baptist remained when hee baptized those that came from Ierusalem and other Regions about which is but the flight of an arrow from Iordan Approaching to the banke-side we dismounted and vncloathed ourselues going in naked to the riuer we washed vs to refresh our bodies In this place as the Guardiano said was Christ baptized of Saint Iohn when the Holy Ghost came downe in a bodily shape like a Doue vpon him and there was a voice from heauen saying Thou art my beloued Sonne in thee I am well pleased I saw also an apparant like testimony of a quadrangled stone lying on the banke side whereupon are ingrauen letters of Hebrew Greeke and Latine testifying the same thing and may also bee so coniectured in regard of the ancient Habitacle of that precursor which is not farre from thence This Riuer Iordan beginneth in Mount Libanus two Fountaines Iore and Dan which run separated till they come to the lake Maronah and hence it maketh one body keeping his course through the Lake Genesereth endeth in Sodome The riuer Tibris at Rome and Iordan are not much different in quantity and colour and not vnlike in their courses for Iordan falleth in the old Gomorah and Tibris runneth through the new Sodome A Historie of such euidence as trauell taught mee by experience for it is the Priests confluence which breeds in the Italians insolence If I erre I will begge indulgence of the Popes Aureat Magnificence The water of Iordan hath beene transported to Venice in barrels for that purity it hath which will reserue vnspoyled both monthes and yeares and the longer it is kept it is the more fresher and to drinke it is an excellent remedy for the feuer Quartan and Quotidian Considering the ancient reputation of this famous Riuer and the rare fight of such an vnfrequented place I climed vp to the toppe of a Turpentine Trée which grew within the limited floud euen naked as I came from swimming and cut downe a faire hunting rod which afterward with great paines I brought to England and did present it as the rarest gemme of a Pilgrimes treasure to his Maiesty But I remember in the choosing thereof an vnexpected accident fell out for I being sequestrate from the sight of the company vpon his solitary tree with broad obscuring leaues the Friers and Souldiers remoued kéeping their course towards Iericho but within two furlongs from Iordan they were baset with the formed Nocturnall enemies who assailed them with a hard conflict For I heartng the Harquebuse goe off was straight in admiration and looking downe to the place where I left my associates they were gone so bending my eyes a little further in the plaine I saw them at a martiall combat which sight gaue mee suddenly the threatning of despaire not knowing whether to stay intrenched within the circumdating leaues to approue the euents of my auspicious fortunes or in prosecuting a reliefe to bée participant of their doubtfull deliuerance In the end pondering I could hardly or neuer escape their hands leapt downe from the Tree leauing my Turkish cloathes lying vpon the ground tooke onely in my hand the rod and Shasse which I wore on my head and ran starke naked aboue a quarter of a mile amongst Thistles and sharpe pointed grasse which pittifully be-pricked the soles of my féete Approaching on the safe side of my company one of our souldiers broke forth on horse-backe being determined to kill mee for my staying behind yea and thrée times he stroke at me with his halfe pike but his horse being at his spéed I preuented his cruelty first by falling downe next by running in amongst the thickest of the Pilgrimes recouering my beast Which when the Guardiano espied and saw my naked body he presently pulled of his Gowne and threw it to me whereby I might hide the secrets of nature By which meanes in the space of an houre I was cloathed thrée manner of waies first like a Turke secondly like a wilde Arabian and thirdly like a Grey Frier which was a barbarous a sauage and a religious habite The Captaine mitigating the fury of the Arabs by some contributing promises we marched toward Iericho where we reposed and dined on the prouision carryed with vs. After dinner wee arose and went to the house of Zacheus this was hee who sate vpon a Trée to sée our Sauiour as hee passed by the wals whereof stand to this day Iericho is now a poore Village onely of nine dwelling houses inhabited by a kind of Arabs which are in subiection vnder the Gouernour of Ierusalem but I saw many ruiuous lumpes of the walles and demolishings of the old Towne Here I saw two most dainty kind of fruits the one was a little lesser then an Apple but more round whose coulour was like to gold without and within it was white as snow and swéet like sugar I would gladly haue eaten of them but the Friers forbad me saying they were the onely pest and death vnto a stanger The other Apple was like to a gréene Lemmon long and full of knots of a reddish colour like to a Mellone being both delicate and wholesome of which we did eate to satisfie the Natural appetite From Iericho we set forward in the way of the Wildernesse our determination being such as to view the Mountaine whereon Christ fasted fortie dayes where arriued being late we durst not go vp till morning Wherefore we pitched that night by the fountaine of Elizeus the water of which was of old naturally bitter but by the praiers of that diuine Prophet was restored to a sweet taste It is also excellent in digestion and wil do a man no harme for I estéeme it to be the lightest water the earth yéeldeth Hauing on the morrow filled a Boares skinne of it to carry with mee to the mountaine I found it so light that I had no weight nor paine