spoke when cleft with lightning sheen Trembles a cloud and darts squeez'd fire between The King of Shades into earth's bosome sunk And from his Brother's thunder frighted shrunk Forthwith the fates of men and ills to come Heaven shows by signes for the deformed Sun Veils with a mist his blushing face as far From giving count'nance to a civil war The Moon at full to leave them groaping pops Her light out too The palsey'd Mountain-tops Supported with weak necks come thund ring down Nor wand'ring Rivers run in channels known To dye a natural death Armies appeare In th' Ayre and Trumpets even in his own spheare Alarum Mars Now hotter Aetna burns And thunderbolts for thunderbolts returns Lo 'Mongst the Tombs and disinterred bones The Gastly shadows send up baleful groans A blazing-Star draws an unusual train And a new Jove descends in bloody rain Heav'n soon these signes expounds for Caesar drove With his own speed and sweet revenges love Threw down the Gallick Civil Arms took up On cloudy Alps where winding to the top The rocks made passable by Graecian hands A Temple sacred to Alcides stands 'T is thatch'd with crusted Snow and blends its gray Head to the Stars how like the milky way It thaws not with the Sun's Meridian rayes Nor with the Spring 's warm breath but pav'd with lays Of Ice and feathered Rain the Heaven it beares For it both threatens and supports the spheares When He the Soldier glad these cliffs did tread And touch'd his wishes from the Mountains head Stretching his voice the Latian fields survey'd And both his hands to Heav'n thus Caesar said All powerful Jove and thou Saturnian Land Triumphant oft safe always by my hand Witness I come unwilling to this warre Unwilling Clash but such my proud wrongs are Expuls'd my Country whilst I paint with blood The Rhine whilst I the Galls the Alps exclude Threat'ning again the Capitoll Exil'd Farther by conquering more the Germanes foyl'd And sixty triumphs are my crime But who Denounce this war Blind with our beams a crew Of trading Soules step-children to my Rome But they I think shall know too upon whom Nor shall mechanick hands bind these with cords Go mine Go victors plead the Cause with Swords We all are in one fault one shame threats all You câ—…nquer'd too If punishment must fall On them that beat if this our triumph be Let the Dye fall and Fortune judge for me Take up the war they throw you try your force If overcome my case can be no worse But arm'd and with such men that ne're can hap This said the Delphick bird her wings did clap An Omen good and in a wood beside A Bay-tree crackling in strange fire was ' spy'd APOLLO'S self shone brighter then he us'd And had a golden glory circumfus'd Stronger then Omens Caesar did advance And with unwonted pace first snatch'd a Lance. First bound with ice and candyed with the driffe The earth was quiet with dull horror stiffe But when the Troops the clouds gives off did take And trembling horses the waves fetters brake The heat snows melted streight new rivers burst Out of the hills these also streight were forc't To make a stand whilst lo new ice appeares And liquid late make work for Pioneers Then first deceiv'd the feet the slipp'ry ground And tript them up Men Arms and wohle Ranks round In heaps deplor'd big clouds with tempest's stroke Their burthens threw Nor blasts with whirle-winds broke Were wanting there or vollyes of gross haile The concrete raine fell ratling on the Mayle Like showres of Arrows from a Parthian bow The Earth was overcome with a deep snow The Lamps of heaven o'recome with Christal bit The Rivers overcome Caesar not yet But leaning on his speare that would not yield With secure steps he brake the horrid field As when Alcmena's son marched apace Down Caucasus or with an angry face When Jove descended the Olympian hill With Giants blood Phlegrean plains to fill ' Mean while swift Fame is born with frighted wings And perching on the Capitol sad things Tells the affrighted Romans that the Maine Is swarm'd with ships The Alps of a light flame With Troops yet reeking with Sicambrian gore Arms Blood Death Fire and War is drawn before Their eyes from head to foot which makes them erre And see their danger double through their feare This flyes by land this by and that to Sea So for no land his native changes he He 's safest now the Chance of war that tryes And follows fates instinct He farthest flyes Whose feare is longest winged A grief to say The people led by wild amazement stray They know not whither Rome delights in flight And scar'd Quirites their sad mansions quite At the bare rumour of approaching Arms Those clasp with trembling hand their tender barnes These in their bosomes hold their Houshould-Gods And hurry from their desolate aboads And in their prayers kill the absent Foe There are that to their wives sad bosomes grow And bedrid parents youths impatient heat Takes onely her on whom his soul is set Some all and to the war unwisely sweep The prey for which 't is made As when the deep Is plough'd up by Northwinds and her roul'd hills Are knock'd together And the Seamen's skills Avail not now one binds the splitting mast Another to the quiet shore doth hast A third to Sea and Fortune trusts with all What talk I of small things the Generall With both the Consuls The great Pompey He Terror of dire Hydaspes and the Sea The Pyrates rock whom thrice triumphing late Jove trembled at lest he should shake his state Whom Pontus having crush'd it 's watry braves And Bosphorus ador'd with crouching waves Oh shame deserting the State 's rudder fled That fickle Fortune might t' have seen be sed Ev'n Pompey's back A flight authoriz'd so Involv'd the Gods and Heaven his back did show See a mild troop of Gods loathing the rage That regins in mortals take a pilgrimage From a damn'd crew of Earthlings And first Peace Beating her snowy Arms her vanquish'd face Hides with a cask and flying from the light Seeks the husht mansions of eternal Night With Her pure FAITH and JUSTICE her sword brâ—…ke And CONCORD in a rent and mourning Cloak On th' other side where Hell 's wide jaws respire Grim Pluto's train springs rife Erinnys dire And fierce Bellona and flame-girt Megeare And Death and Fraud and multiplying Feare Amongst whom Rage like Bacchus his reines broke Runs headlong and with bloody helm doth Cloake A thousand ugly faces digg'd with wounds With heavy shafts a Martial Target sounds Worn with his left and from his right hand hurl'd A blazing fire-brand terrifies the world The stars are pos'd light-headed Atlas reels Wond'ring to miss the weight that poys'd heaven's wheels The factious Gods come down on earth to side And Venus first her Caesar justify'de Pallas with her and Mars that shakes a wholâ—… Oak for a spearâ—… and with his
63. Lo now that noble City certain Seat Of the brave Rebell in old time SERTORIUS Where still his far-fetcht Water pure and neat To serve the place b'an act so meritorious Through Arches on Two hundred Pillars set Doth pass with Royall restauration glorious Ev'n Her the bold GERARDO'S prowess brings To own and serve the LUSITANIAN KINGS 64. Against the City now of BEYA To take revenge for spoyl'd TRANCOSO'S Town ALPHONSO goes who cannot rest a Day For ymping a short life with long Renown Before this City long he doth not stay And storming it b'a part that 's beaten down Enraged enters where of all that breathes His hungry Steel he in the Bowels â—…heathes 65. Jointly with these PALMELA doth he win Fishy CIZIMBRA too nor wins alone But his good star assisting him therein A potent Army there hath overthrowne The Town saw his intent so did her King Nor was he backward to relieve the Towne Careless he marcht along the Mountain-side Little imagining what did betide 66. 'T was He of BADACHOZ a haughty MORE Four thousand furious Spirits were his HORSE Of INFANTRY innumerable store With gilded Arms Gallants and Warriors But as in May a jealous Bull before He is perceiv'd rushes with all his force Upon a Travailer and runs him over Twice mad both as a Beast and as a Lover 67. Just so ALPHONSO from an Ambush close Assaults the people that securely past Strikes overturns and kills The Field he mows The MOORISH KING flyes for his life in hast Struck vvith a Pannick fear the Remnant throvvs Avvay their Arms and follovvs him as fast They That made all this Havock being a Force Good God! consisting but of sixty Horse 68. The Victory vvithout delay the great And indefatigable KING pursues Causing his Drums through all the Realm to beat Conqu'ring of LANDS he as his Trade doth use Besiegeth BADACHOZ and soon doth get The end of his desire For there he shevvs So much of Souldier and a Soul so high That keep It must the others company 69. But the great GOD vvho keeps his Rods in store For such as merit them till his ovvn time Whether for Sinners to amend before They fall or CAUSES Man can not divine If he till now the valiant KING forbore And through all dangers leading gave him line Yet now he vvill no longer let him be From his imprison'd MOTHER'S curses free 70. For lying in this City weakly man'd The LEON-MEN besiege th'ill-guarded Walls 'Cause he that Conquest took out of their Hand Being of LEON and not PORTUGAL'S Here dear did Him his Pertinacy stand As in the World out oftentimes it falls For in a furious Sally his leg burst Against an IRON he to yield was forc't 71. O famous POMPEY Be not Thou in pain To see thy Glories's sad Catastrophie Or that just NEMESIS should pre-ordain Thy Father-in-Law to triumph over Thee Though frozen PHASIS and BOOTES'S Wayn The Land under the BURNING AXLE-TREE And strange SYENE where no oblique Sun A Shadow casts and all the day is Noon 72. And ENIâ—…CHIANS fierce and ARABS rich And COLCHOS famous for the Golden Sheep And CAPPADOCEANS and JUDEANS which Abolisht Rites so obstinately keep And soft SOPHENA scruft with pleasures Itch And with SILICIAN-ROBBERS on the DEEP ARMENIA That two Rivers boasts which came From PARADISE All trembled at thy name 73. And though in fine from the ATLANTICK-SEA To SCYTHIAN-TAURUS with erected Crown Victorious Wonder not that thou shouldst be In the PHARSALIAN BATTAIL overthrown For high and great ALPHONSO thou shalt see Bear All before him and at last bourn down By a Cross-match of FATE were Both undon Thou by a FATHER-IN-LAW He by a SON 74. The noble KING thus scourg'd by HEAV'N at length Restor'd was to his PORTUGAL again There after he had been by a vast strength Of MOORS in SANTAREN besieg'd in vain And after that the Corps of St. VINCENTH The Martyr from that Head of Land in SPAIN Which by his name to all the world is known Translated was to th'ULYSSEAN TOWN 75. To carry on the Work by Him begun The old man weary doth his Son command With men and warlike preparation To march into the ALENTEIAN-LAND SANCHO to prove himself his Fathers Son Like a strong stream let loose passes beyand And makes the River of GUADALQUIVEER Run Moorish blood That wont to run so cleer 76. Flesht with his winnings the young Gamester grows Now Covetous and cannot rest before He in a second Battail overthrows In sight of BEIA the beleagu'ring MORE Nor long with this design in labour goes E're he the â—…ays by Him desired Wore The MOOR on both sides justled to the Wall Resolves at once to be reveng'd for all 77. Now from the Mountain which MEDUSA star'd Out of that Body which the HEAV'N sustayn'd From AMPELUSA'S Promontory hard They march from TANGER where ANTEUS raign'd Of AVILA the dwellers are not spar'd Doth likewise march well arm'd and choicely train'd At the harsh Mauritanian Trumpet 's sound Of noble JUBA all the Kingdom round 78. With this huge mass of men his inroad made The great MIRAMOLIN in PORTUGAL Twelve Moorish Kings he carryed in his Ayd 'Mongst whom He wears the Crown Imperial These having in their march by Parties prey'd And where they could destroy'd the Countrey all In SANTAREN Don SANCHO close impound But a sad Seige it will for them be found 79. Furious assaults th' incensed MOOR doth make A thousand Stratagems in practice puts In vain huge Stones from horrid Engins brake In vain the Mine is hid and the Ram buts ALPHONSO'S Son is everywhere awake Here his Care Sheilds and there his courage cuts So what with these and what with martial Art Stopt is each Meuse and guarded in each part 80. But the old man whose burthen'd Lims and Head With years and Cares oblig'd him to repose Retir'd into that City whose fair Mead To sweet MONDEGO'S streams its verdure ows Hearing his Son is close beleaguered In SANTAREN by blind and barb'rous Foes Flyes from that City to his Ayd For Age Cramps not his wonted speed nor cools his rage 81 He with his Troops inur'd to warlike Feats Thund ring the Reare and his Son salying out The PORTINGAL who now of custom beats In a short space the MOORS doth wholly rout With Terbants Cassacks Faulchions Coverlets Cloaks with wrought Capes the Field is strew'd about Horses and their Caparisons rich Prey And by the Horses their dead Masters lay 82. The Lusitanian Bounds the rest forego Put to a hasty and disordred flight The great MIRAMOLIN he flyes not though For before he could flye he fled the light To HIM who did this Victory bestow Are rendred thanks and Praises infinite For in so great and so apparent odds The part man acts is the dumb shew to GOD'S 83. This was the great ALPHONSO'S latest wreath Of Victory a Prince of vast Renown When He who forg'd it with his Sword his breath Deserting him exchang'd his
Lusitanian prowess and rare parts For an illustrious Name is a strange Spell To attract Love and good Report hath darts Thus he prepares their way with a sweet smell And takes up lodgings in the Peoples hearts Now all MELINDE is on fire to see What kind of men these valiant souls should bee 59. From thence he parteth to MOMBASSA straight Where what to do the Ships uncertain stand To bid them without question or debate Leave that Foes Harbour and suspected Land For wicked plottings of infernal hate In vain are Force and Courage to withstand In vain to extricate our selves is Wit If HEAV'N do not both prompt and second it 60. Now sable NIGHT had finisht half her Race And in the Heav'n the Stars with borrow'd light Supply'd the Moon 's as She her Brother's place And sleeping now was Mortals who le delight Th' illustrious Captain who had all that space Been kept awake about the last day's fright Gave then to his tyr'd Eys a little sleep The rest by Quarters did their Watches keep 61 When in a Vision he did HERMES see And fly he bid him LUSITANIAN fly The Ambush of a wicked King which Hee Hath laid to make thee yet obscurely dye Fly for the wind and Heav'n Both favour Thee Thou hast the Ocean calm serene the skye And not far of another King to frend On whose reality thou mayst depend 62. Look for no better entertainment here Then what was giv'n by THRACIAN DIOMED Whose Horses us'd to bloody Provendere He with the Bodies of his strangers fed Th' infamous Altars of BUSIRIS where His Guests inhumane humane offrings bled Unless thou quit it look for in this place Fly a perfidious and a cruel Race 63 Steer straight alongst the Coast and thou shalt light Upon a Countrey where more Truth resides Close there where burning SOL at constant hight The night and day with equal line divides Then shall a King receive with much delight Thee and thy men and give to you besides Safety and Treatment worthy of a King One who the Fleet shall unto INDIA bring 64. Thus HERMES and the Captain parting woke He rowz'd out of his Nest in a great fright Perceives the circumfused darkness broke With a shot Ray and stream of divine light And seeing it imports Him and his Folke From that infamous LAND to take their flight Commands the Master with a spirit new To hoyse the sayles unto the Wind that blew 65. Set sayl he cride set saile to the large Wind Heav'n is our Guide and GOD our course directs These Eys saw the Express he was so kind To send from his high Court to guard our steps At this the Mariners before behind As with one motion spring upon the Decks They towe the Anchors in to the ship-side With that rude strength which is the Sea-mans pride 66. The self-same time they did their Anchors weigh Hid in the mask of night the trech'rous MORE Sawing their Cables husht and silent lay So to destroy them being run ashore The CHRISTIANS though there shone not the least Ray Yet in their heads the Eyes of Lynces wore The other finding how they were awake With Wings and not with Oares away did make 67. But now did the sharp Keels go cutting through The liquid Element of silver pure The Wind 't was a side-wind gently it blew With motion calm and steddy and secure Discoursing on their dangers past they chew As they sayl on for 't is not easie sure To pass in silence a deliverance So great and brought about as 't were by chance 68. The burning Sun had finisht one Career Began another of his annual Race When as far off as they could ken appeer Two Vessels creeping on the Water's face Knowing they must be MOORS who coast it there Forthwith ours veer their Sayles to give those chace One as more nimble or as frighted more To save her People ran herself ashore 69. Her Fellow not so light to make away Into the hands of those of LUSUS falls Without or MARS to board her or to play On her bruiz'd sides black VULCANS horrid Balls For she being weakly man'd nor built for Fray At sight of his own Men the Master falls His courage and his sayles His wisest course Had he resisted he had far'd the vvorse 70 Then GAMA who did this but to procure A Pilot for the INDIES so long sought Amongst those MOORS thought to have found one sure But found he was deceived in that thought There 's not a man of them That can assure Under what part 't is of the heav nly Vault This All can tell him That MELINDE'S nigh Where he may finde a Pilot certainly 71. The goodness of that KING the MOORS extol His bounteous nature and his Breast sincere The greatness like the goodness of his Soule With other parts which win him love and feare The Captain easily believes the whole Concurring with that very Charactere HERMES had given in his sleep before So goes bid by the dream and by the MORE 72. That gladsome season 't was in which returns Into EUROPA'S Ravisher the Sun Putting new lights in both his gilded Horns Whilst FLORA pours out AMALTHEA'S one And now that glorious Planet turn'd the Morn's Red finger to that moving Feast whereon HE who was dead the soul-sick world to heal To it 's Redemption rose to put the Seal 73. When to that distance from the which their Eys Might reach MELINDE the Armada came Adorn'd with Tapistrie triumphant-wise As that day's holiness it well became The Standart trembles and the Streamer flyes The Scarlet Wast-cloaths at a distance flame The Drums and Timbrels sound Thus they that BAR Like CHRISTIANS enter and like MEN OF WAR 74. With People hid is the Melindian shore That come to see the joyful Fleet. More kind Are These more humane and of truth have more Then Those of all the Countreys left behind The Lusitanian Navy drops before The heavy Anchors which fast rooting find One of the MOORS they took is sent on Land To let the KING their coming understand 75. The KING who was already by report Of those of LUSUS'S gallantry possest The Captain 's so frank entrie in his Port Takes as a favour from so brave a Guest And with true heart and in most courteous sort Both individual from a noble Brest Bids the man pray them much to come on Land Where they shall have his Realms at their command 76. Th' offer as real is as it appears The words full of unfeign'd Sinceritie Which the KING sent the noble Cavaleers Who had past so much Land and so much Sea He sends them more Live-sheep aboard fat Steers And Poultry cram'd by Houswifes industrie With all such Fruit as then in season was And the good will the Present did surpass 77. The well-pleas'd Moor who with this Errand went The Captain pleas'd receiv'd with what he brought And instantly another Present sent Unto the KING far fetcht and dearly
Visage thus said He. Thou doest command me to unfold O KING My noble NATION' 's genealogie Thou bid'st me not to tell a forraign story But of my Own thou bid'st me tell the glory 4. Upon Another's Prayses to dilate Is usual and that which Friends doth raise But of One's Own the Prayses to relate Will prove I fear me a suspected praise Besides to praise ours to the worth the date Would first expire of six the longest days But to serve Thee a double fault I 'l do I 'l praise my own and crop their praises too 5. Yet what in fine doth animate me is I 'm sure of Lying I shall run no danger For of such deeds say what I can I wis I shall leave more to th'utterance of a stranger But to pursue that method in all this Thy self prescrib d nor seem in all a Ranger First of the Territory large I 'l tell Then of the bloody Battailes that befell 6 Between the Zone where Cancer bends his clutch To the bright Sun a Bound Septentrionall And that which for the Cold is shun'd as much As for the Heate the middle Zone of all Prowd EUROPE lyes whose North and parts which touch Upon the Occident have for their Wall The OCEAN and with unreturning Waves Her South the SEA-MEDITERRANEAN laves 7. Upon the East she neighbours ASIA But that cold River with the doubling stream Which from Riphean Mountains plough his way To the Meotick Lake divideth Them So doth that furious and that horrid Sea Which with their Fleet th incensed GREEKS did steme From whence the Sayler now with his mind's eye Sees the name onely of once glorious TROY 8. Where she is most beneath the Artick Pole The Hyperborean Mountains she doth see And those where EOL raigns without controle Owing to blustring their Nobility The Sun That spreads his lustre through the Whole His rays have here such imbecility That a deep snow is still upon the Mountains The Sea still frozen frozen still the Fountains 9. Here SCYTHS and TARTARS in great numbers live Who were ingag'd in a sharp war of old About their Pedigrees prerogative With those who then th'EGYPTIAN-LANâ—… did hold But where the justice of the Cause to give Being hard by erring Mortals to be told To get more certain information look In the Clay-Office from which Man was took 10. In that far Nook to name of many some Are the cold LAPLAND NORWAY comfortless SCANDIA that triumpht o're triumphant ROME Which her proud ruines to this day confess Here whilst the waters are not stiffe and numb With Winters Ice glazing the BALTICK-SEAS That Arm of the SARMATICK OCEANE Sayles the brave Swede the Prussian and the Dane 11. Betwixt this Sea and TANAIS live strange Nations RUTHENI frozen MUSCOVITES LIVONIANS That were in former Ages the SARMATIANS And in th'HERCINIAN FOREST the POLONIANS Held of the GERMAN EMPIRE are ALSATIANS SAXONS BOHEMIANS HUNGARS or PANNONIANS With divers other whom the RHINE'S cold waves The ELIVE the MOZELL and the DANOW laves 12. 'Twixt wandring ISTER and that NARROW-SEA Where with her life fair HELLE left her name The warlike THRACIANS dwell who lay a plea To MARS his Sword as from whose loyns they came Here HAEMUS and ORPHEAN RHODOPE Obey the OTTOMAN and to the shame Of Christendom BYSANTIUM'S noble Seat A proud affront to CONSTANTINE THE GREAT 13. The next in order MACEDONIA stands Bath'd with the Actian now LEPANTO'S Sea And likewise you O admirable LANDS Where Wit and Manners were in high degree Which bred those solid Heads and valiant Hands Those streams of Eloquence and Poetrie With which Thou famous GREECE unto the skies As well by Letters as by Arms didst rise 14. DALMATIANS follow Them and in that Bay ANTENOR chose for his new City's Syte VENICE like VENUS rises from the Sea From low beginnings swoln to that proud hight That Sea an Arm of Land doth over lay Which the whole WORLD subjected by its might That Arm no less then GREECâ—… to HEAVEN soar'd With the two wings of LEARNING and THE SWORD 15. 'T is wall'd by nature part where it doth joyn Unto the ALPS thick shoulders NEPTUNE barrs The rest with his salt waves The APPENINE Cuts ith'middle where your LYBIAN MARS Wan him such Fame But now since the divine Porter hath got it impotent in Wars 'T is stript of the vast pow'r it had before So much is GOD delighted with the pore 16. Pass we from thence to FRANCE so much of old With CAESAR'S triumphs through the World renownd 'T is water'd with the ROYAL SEYN the cold GAROON the pleasant LOYRE the RHINE profound Now those high Mountains in the clowds behold Which still the lost PYRENE'S name resound From which being fir'd as ancient Books have told Rivers ran down of Silver and of Gold 17. Loe here displays it self illustrious SPAIN As Head there of all EUROPE In whose strange Successes of their Wars and ways of raign FATE' 's wheel gave many a turn wrought many a change But never Force or Fraud shall fix a stain Through Fortune's humor always giv'n to range But SPAIN will finde a time to wipe it out And make her blasted honors freshly sprout 18. She faces TINGâ—…TANIA and There As if to make the Mid-land Sea an Isle The well-known STREIGHTS to close their jaws appeare Innobled with the THEBAN'S latest Toyle With diff rent Nations she her head doth reare Sea-girt three sides the fourth with Hilly Pyle Of such Nobility and Valour All That each pretends to be the principal 19. She has the ARRAGONIAN so renown'd For conqu'ring twice stubborn PARTHENOPE Those of NAVAR ASTURIANS who did bound The MOORS broke in upon us like a Sea She has the shrewd GALLEGO many-crownd CASTILIAN whom his Star reserv'd to be SPAIN'S great Restorer and her Lord SEVILIA GRANADA LEON MURCIA with CASTILIA 20. The LUSITANIAN KINGDOM here survay Plac't as the Crown upon fair EUROPE's Head Where the Land finishing begins the Sea And whence the Sun steps to his watry Bed This first in Arms by gracious HEAV'N'S decree Against the filthy MAURITANIAN sped Throwing him out of Her to his old Nest In burning AFFRICK nor there let him rest 21. That That the loved EARTH where I was born To which if kinder HEAV'N do so dispose That I this Task perform'd alive return With It my dying Eyes there let me close From LYSUS which the Latines LUSUS turn Old BACCHUS'S Camrade or as some suppose His Son was LUSITANIA'S name deriv'd When in that Countrey his Plantation thriv'd 22. Here was that Shepherd born who in his Name As well as in his Actions did write MAN Whom none must hope to equal in his Fame Since that of ROME he to eclipse began This Spot through shuffling of light Fortune's Game TIME who devours his children saw Anan On the WORLD'S Theater a great Part play Rays'd to a Kingdom and it was this way 23. There was in SPAIN a King ALPHONSO hight Who made so
close a War upon the MORE That what with policy and what with might Many he slew and many a Town he bore This KING' 's sublime Renown taking her flight From Streights Herculean to the Caspian Shore Diverse affecting an immortal name To Him and Death to offer themselves came 24. Others more fir'd with an intrinsick love Of Christian Faith then Honour popular Flock from all Corners willing to remove Both from sweet Countrey and from private Lar. But when their names by Actions rais'd above The vulgar pitch they All advanc't in War The fam'd ALPHONSO for such gallant deeds Would have them reap proportionable meeds 25. Amongst These HENRY saith the History A younger son of FRANCE and a brave Prince Had PORTUGAL in lot in the World's eye Not then so glorious nor so large as since And the same KING did his own daughter tye To Him in Wedlock to infer from thence His firmer love as giving in her hand The Livery and Seisin of that LAND 26. He when against the Off-spring of the Hand Maid HAGAR mighty Conquests he had won Gaining in much of the adjacent LAND And doing what was comely to be done Obtains from Him who doth high Heav'n command In a short time to guerdon All a Son Who adding to his Father's worth his owne Shall first erect the LUSITANIAN THRONE 27. HENRY was now come from the HOLY LAND And Conquest of enslav'd IERUSALEM Having seen consecrated IORDAN'S Strand That saw the flesh of GOD bath'd in his stream For GODFREY finding nothing could withstand After IUDEA was subdu'd by Him Many who in that War had giv'n him Ayd Their wisht return to their Dominions made 28. When come to the last Exit of his Age The famous FRENCH-MAN to a wonder brave Pull'd by DEATH'S hand down from this mortal Stage His Spirit unto Him that gave it gave His Son remain'd in tender â—…upillage True Copy of his Sire that 's in the Grave Then whom more excellent the world had none For such a Father must have such a Son 29. But old Report how true I cannot say For things so distant with much night are spred Tells how the Mother taking all the sway Scorn'd not to stoop unto a second Bed And for herself an After-Game to play Her Fatherless-Son disinherited Claiming for Hers the Land and Princely Pow're As giv'n her by her Father for a dow're 30. Then young ALPHONSO so the Prince they call Inheriting his Grandsire in his Name Despairing by fair means of PORTUGALL For that the Mother and her Groom the same Usurp and mean from Him to give it All His bosom boyling with a Martial flame By force to seize it in his mind revolves As briskly executes what he resolves 31. The blushing Plains of ARADUCA groan With one-same blood of War intestine dide In which the Mother whose deeds spake her none The Son her love and his own LAND deny'de Now stands against him in battalion And cannot see being blinded with her pride How much she sins 'gainst HEAV'N and natural Love But in her Breast the sensual swims above 32. O Witch MEDEA PROGNE with blood-stain If for their Fathers not their own misdeeds By you your children in Revenge were slain Behold TERESA'S Sin ev'n yours exceeds Incontinence the sacred Thirst of Raign These are the Causes whence her Crime proceeds SCYLLA her aged Father slew through one Through Both TERESA goes against her Son 33 But the brave Prince a perfect conquest had O're an ill mother and a Father-in-Law Forthwith the Victor all the LAND obay'd That did before their swords against him draw Then by his Wrath his judgement oversway'd Fast laid in Irons he his Mother saw Which GOD' 's avenging Hand did soon pursue Such Reverence is to all Parents due 34. Loe proud CASTEEL unites her Forces all To be reveng'd for sad TERESA'S wrong Against the few-in-People PORTINGALL But though his Troops be weake his Heart is strong His mortal Head with Shield Angelical Hid in the day of Battail from a throng Of falling darts not onely firm he stands Their shock but routs the formidable Bands 35. Yet not long after was this valiant Prince In the same ARADUCA his chief Nest Blockt up with avast Army to which since Their late defeat the angred Foes increast But by his faithful Tutor EGAS thence Offring himself to death he was releast Else of all needful matter ill bested He in that streight had surely perished 36 But the best Servant ever Master found Seeing his rince can no resistance make That he should hold of Him the Countrey round To the CASTILIAN KING did undertake He having honest EGAS MONIZ bound The dreadful siege did presently forsake But the Illustrious youth cannot afford To pay low Homage to another Lord. 37. The time prefixed was arrived now When the CASTILIAN MONARCH made account To do him homage that the Prince would bow As to his Founder and Lord Paramount EGAS who knew that would not be and how Because of Him CASTEEL rely'de upon 't Resolves his broken promise at the rate Of his sweet life's expence to expiate 38. And with his children and dear Wife he went T'unpawn and to redeem his morgag'd Faith Barefoot and bareleg'd and with eyes so bent To th' Earth as would move pity more then wrath If my rash confidence thou have intent To scourge as it deserves O KING he saith Loe here I bring thee of mine own accord A life in lieu of ill-accomplisht word 39. Loe here to piece out mine the innocent Lives of my Wife and Babes before thy Eyes If Bosoms generous and excellent Accept so frail and dire a Sacrifice Loe here the guilty Hands and Tongue invent All sorts of pains and deaths to exercise On These such as may prove fierce SCINIS dull In mischief and out-roare 〈◊〉 'S Bull. 40. Just as before the Heads-man one condemn'd Who doth in life his death anticipate And now upon the Block his Neck extend For the fear d stroak which must dispatch him straight So EGAS look't expecting the worst end Could be pronounc't by KING'S deserved Hate But the KING seeing such stupendious Faith Mercy at length could more with him then Wrath. 41. O great and Portingal-Fidelitie Payd by a Subject to his Prince What more Perform'd the PERSIAN in that Project high When Nose and Face he carbonado'd o're Which made the great DARIUS sighing cry His brave ZOPYRUS such as he was once H 'had rather have then twenty BAEILONS 42. But now the Prince ALFONSO did provide The happy Hoast of LUSITANIA Against the MOORS who on the other side Of TAGUS'S delectable River lay Now in the fam'd ORIQUE'S Champion wide The proud and warlike Troops he doth aray Just in the beard of the confronted MOOR As rich in couraege as in numbers poor 43. His Trust is not in Flesh but placed all In the eternal GOD That Heav'n doth steer For the baptized Army was so small To his one man an hundred MOORS there were
doe For meek and soft as his wings down is LOVE And fury ill beseems a Lover true Either this madness from thy mind remove What shall I say couldst thou indure a shrew I shall be frighted with it wee must sever Feare choler may ingender but love never 90. Fayre Galatea likewise lays the case To blustring NOTUS who full well she knows Hath many a long sigh fetcht for that sweet Face And is at her devotion doth suppose The Raunter scarce believing such a grace His heart too ample for his bosome grows The pleasure of his Mistresse to fullfill He thinks it a cheap bargain to sit still 91. The others take the other winds aside And her too boystrous lover each reproves They give them to the Queen of Beautie tyde Calme as the Lambs and gentle as her doves She gives them back to them and their faith tryde Promis'd return eternall of their loves Worn on the Nymphs's white hands e're thence they stir In the whole voyage to be true to Hir. 92. Now rising SOL with gold those Mountayns lips Which GANGES murmuring washes when a Boy From the tall Am'rall's scuttle shews the shipps LAND to the prow with that late storm 's Annoy And halfe their Voyage over each heart skips Repriev'd from its vain fears For now with joy The Pilot whom MELINDIANS to them put Cryes if I err not LAND of CALICUT 93. This is that Land I 'm sure for which y' are bound This the true INDIA which we see before Then if your vast desires one world can bound Quiet your Hearts ye have what ye explore Now GAMA could not hold when as he found To his high joy the â—…ilot knew the shore With Knees sticht to the decks Hands spread to Heaven Eternall thanks by him to GOD are given 94. Thanks he did give to GOD and well he might Who was not onely pleas'd to Him to show That LAND which he had sought through so great â—…ight And for the same such shocks did undergo But snatcht him with strong Hand that very night From watry Grave through winds that raged so Through Thunder's stroke through blasting Lightning's beame As one awak't out of some horrid dreame 95. By dreadful dangers by such Brunts as these By such Herculean labours and vast toyles They That in GLORIE'S Schools take their degrees Acquire immortal Lawrels and fat spoyls Not wholly leaning against rotten Trees Of ancient Houses not on empty Styles Not on rich Couches wrapt in Sables soft Of the Muscovy Merchant dearly bought 96. Not by new-fangled dishes exquisite Not by eternal Visits tedious Not by successive pleasures infinite Effeminating Bosomes generous Not by a never quenched Appetite Whereby old Wantons FORTUNE makes of us To that degree We know not how to rise Or step to any Vertuous Enterprise 97. No but by tearing out of Horror's mouth Honours which we may truely call our owne By cloathing Steel incountring Hunger Drowth VVatchings high winds and Billows overgrown Conqu'ring dull cold in Bosome of the South T'other extreme of the inflamed Zone Gulleting in corrupt and putrid meat The Spice and Sawce with which the Valiant â—…t 98. And by accustoming a Face where doubt Sate once secure serene fearless of Harm To march through Bullets whizzing round about And taking here a leg and there an Arm. These HONOUR'S Brawn make a man proof throughoâ—… Make him scorn Mony and false Honour's charm Money and Honours which light FORTUNE made Not VERTUE who is just solid and stayd 99. SHEE shapes an understanding round and cleer EXPERIENCE the Hammer and the File SHEE constant sits as in a Throne or Spheare Regarding busie Mortalls with a smyle SHEE where discretion doth a Kingdom steer Nor partiall Favour merit doth beguile Is suddainly caught up High Rooms to fill Not by her seeking but against her will End of the sixth Canto Seventh Canto STANZA 1. VVEllcom O wellcom Friends to that good LAND Which by so many hath been coveted 'Twixt INDUS and the silver GANGES'S strand In the Terrestriall Heav'n that hides his head Valiant and Happy men put forth a Hand To crop the Lawrells which from others fled For loe ye see before your faces loe The Territory where all Riches flow 2. To you I speake ye sons of LUSUS old Who of the world compose so small a stake What talk I of the world of that small fold Belov'd by him who the round world did make You whom from conquering of Nations rold In Vice not only dangers did not take But neither Avarice or want of love To Holy CHURCH whose Head is crown'd Above 3. You PORTINGALLS as stout as ye are Few Who never care how small your numbers be You who are Usurers of losses you Who frayle life chaffer for eternitie Thus PROVIDENCE was pleas'd That him who drew The shortest lott we of more use should see T' extend the Fayth then all the CHRISTIAN KINGS So much thou CHRIST exaltest little Things 4. The haughtie GERMANS a great Flock behold In a large pasture into Fastïons broke Who not to be râ—…strayn'd within one Fold Nor yet content to justify with stroke Of Argument what sevâ—…rally they hold Some for and some against the Roman Yoke Their fatall pistols in that Quarrell span Which should be all discharg'd at OTTAMAN 5. See ENGLAND'S Monarch styling himself yit For deeds long past KING of the HOLY TOVVNE The filthy ISMAELITE possessing it What a reproaching Title to a CROVVNE How in his frozen Confines he doth sit Feeding on empty smoake of old Renown Or gets him new on Christian Foes alone Not by recov'ring what was once his own 6. Meane time an UNâ—…ELEIVER is for Him Head of IERUSALEM on earth whilst love Of â—…arth hath made him an unusefull lim Of the IERUSALEM which is Above Oâ—… the FRâ—…NCH then what shall we say or deem Who call d MOST CHRISTIAN doth his style disprove â—…ho doth not only â—…n her Ayd not come But ev n invites the scourge of CHRISTENDOME 7. To CHRISTIAN' 's Lands findst thou thy Title good Having so fayre a Kingdom of thine own Not to CYNIFIUS and NYLE'S sev'n fold Flood Old Enemies to true Religion There shouldst thou vent the heate of thy French blood 'Gainst the Rejectors of the Corner-stone LEVVIS and CHARLES left thee their Name and seat Not that which styl'd one SAINT the other GREAT 8. In the last place what shall we judge of Them Who by base sloath and Ryot rather Rot Shorten their days drown'd in their own wealth's stream Their ancient Valour buried and forgot From Lux Oppression springing from this stem Dissensions in a people giv'n to plot I speake to Thee O ITALIE brought loe With thousand Vices and thine own worst Foe 9. Ah foolish CHRISTIANS are you happilie Those Teeth which CADMUS did to Earth commit Self-Bane for Children of one wombe ye bee And All one heav'nly Father did begit The HOLY SEPULCHER do ye not see Possest by dogs how Those themselves can
2. These FIGURES all which moving seem alive As fierce and warlike as they show for here By the bright fame that doth of them survive In truth and Fact more fierce and warlike were They stand far off in time Through perspective Of cleer WITS yet they â—…oom boâ—…h great and neer This thou now seest is LUSUS from whom Fame Gives to our Kingdom LUSITANIA'S name 3. He was that THEBAN'S Son or else Camrade Who in so many Lands did Lawrels gaine Following the Wars which he did make his Trade This LUSUS built at length a Nest in SPAINE With those delicious Fields so well apaid Th' Elysian once 'twixt DWERE and GUADIANâ—… That there he set up his long Rest. He gave A Name to Those and Those to Him a Grave 4 The leavy staffe he bears for his Device The Thyrsus is That BACCHUS self did beare Which is to Us a letter of Advice And this was his own Son or Friend as deare Seest Thou Another who long Seas did slice With wand ring Keele and Lands by TAGUS there Where he a Fane to PALLAS sacred calls And is the Author of eternal Walls 5. It is Ulysses who that Temple founded For Her with Eloquence his Tongue that guilded If he in ASIA here fair TROY confounded In EUROPE there great LISBâ—…N hath he builded Who may this other be which dead and wounded That sows the â—…ield his sword with both hands weilded Death and Destruâ—…ion on great Hoasts that flings Where painted Eagles flye with true ones wings 6. Thus said the Pagan Thus replyes DE GAME This thou now seest a keeper was of Ewes And know that VIRIATUS was his name But better then a Hook a Sword could use With this he did affront the Roman Fame Invincible nor Fame once got did loose No ROME had ne re with Him nor shall that 's more That luck with PYRRHUS which she had before 7. By Valour not but creeping trechery They rob'd him of his life Why doest thou wonder In desp'rate Cases MAGNANIMITY It self doth teare it's proper laws in sunder Behold Another for Indignity Receiv d with Us that did his Countrey thunder To gain immortal Honour he chose well With whom to do it if he must rebell 8. With Us behold He likewise puts to flight Those Birds that are the Favourites of JOVE So long ago Nations of greatest might Knew how to yield when against ours they strove See with what wyle and artificial Slight Our People he to fight his Quarrel drove Th' inspiring Hind that helpt him with Advice He is SERTORIUS she is his DEVICâ—… 9. Behold that other Flag There painted see Of our first Kings the great Progenitor We make him an HUNGARIAN but there bee That do affirm he was a LORRAIGNOR After that overcome the MOORS had he GALLEGOS and the LEON-WARRIOR Went holy HENRY to the Holy War To sanctifie the Trunk whence our Kings aâ—…e 10. Surpriz'd with wonder who is this demands Tell me who this is cryes the CATUALL That doth so many â—…roops so many Bands Destroy and scatter with a Force so small So many Battailes strikes with his own hands With whose fierce Râ—…ms so many strong Tow'rs fall That fights in blood up to the Saddle-bow Whilst Flags and CROWNS fall at his feet like snow 11. 'T is first ALPHONSO doth DE GAME return Who from the MOOR all PORTUGALL did take FAME by the waters of black STYX hath sworn Ne re more to sing of ROMAN for his sake He lov'd of Heav'n with love of Heav'n did burn Whom GOD the scourge of MOORS his Foes did make Their Throne and Walls broke down to let CHRIST in And nothing left there for his Heyrs to win 12. Had CAESAR fought had ALEXANDER GREAT With such thin Troops so slender and so short Against such num'rous Armies as were beat By this brave King of every kind and sort Believe t nor He nor He with JOVE had eat Nor their proud Fames made such a lowd report But leave his Acts too glorious to unfold His Vassails deeds are worthy to be told 13. This whom thou seest upon his pupil broke All patience lost casting an angry Face Bidding him rally up his scatt'red Folke And turn again to justifie the place Turns the young man turns the old man That spoke And turns with them the day in a small space EGAS the name which the brave old man hath Tutor of MARS myrrour of Subjects faith 14. There how he marcheth with his children look Barefoot and Ropes about their Necks t' his end Because the young man as he undertook To pay CASTEEL low Homage could not bend He rays'd the Seige with Craft and Oaths he took When vain were Arms the Rampire to defend He pays the forfeit with his Babes and Wife And to preserve his Master gives his life 15 Less did that CONSULL who through folly was Caught at the CAUDINE GALLOWS in a Trap When Him insulting Samnites forc't to pass Under that shameful yoak they there did clap He brave and constant did himself disgrace To save his Army in so sad mishap This gives to shame and death himself his deer Chilâ—…ren and guiltless Spouse the last goes neer 16. Seest thou this man who from an Ambuscade Beats up a King besieging a strong Town The Leaguer's rays'd the King his pris'ner made A deed great MARS could wish had been his own See him again now Head of an Armade Massacring MOORS upon the watry Down Boarding their Galleys carrying cleer away PORTUGAL'S mayden Victory at Sea 17. It is DON FUAS ROUPINIO on the Land And on the Ocean gaining equal Fame Which from the fired Galleys neer the Strand Of AVILA shines glorious in their flame See how content he faâ—…ls by the same Hand The Fortune alter'd but the Cause the same Like Palme deprest in vain through shafts of MORâ—… His happy Soule to Heav'n triumphant soares 18. Seest thou not landing there in strange Attire From a great Navy Troops Aâ—…xiliar Not without which our first King did acquire LISBON their Prologue to the Holy-War Of these did HENRY famous Knight expire Behold Palms sprouting from his Tomb They are CHRIST'S supernatural Badge for Him to weare Who born a GERMAN dyed a Martyr there 19. See a Priest brandish not in vain his Blade Against ARRONCHEZ with revenge sharp whet To quit for LEYRIA which They taken had Who couch the Speare in Rest for MAHOMET 'T is PRIOR TEUTON But a Seige is laid To SANTAREN Look how Secure and Great That FIGURE plants upon her scaled wall The ever-winning Cinques of PORTUGAâ—…L 20. Behold once more where SANCHO overthrows In a fierce war the ANDALUSIAN MOORE He kills th' Alferez charging through the Foes And makes SEVILIA'S Standard mat the floore MEM MONIZ 't is How like his Sire he shows The Phenix of his Ashes worthy sure The Royal Flag and This who his did put Up with his Hand the Foe 's feld at his foot 21. See Him that by his
ye are allow'd Your Nation 's future Actions to survay Which through the Sea by you left ope her prowd And never wearied Ensigns shall display Now then since ye have found not to be bow'd Under Herculean labours is the way To please your Angell-Spouses bright and fair That knit immortall Garlands for your Hair 143. Ye may embarque for Wind and Weather fit And the Sea courts you for your Countrey dear Thus said shee to them and they forthwith quâ—…t The Isle of Love the Harbour of good chear Noble Provisions they take out of It Take their desir'd desirous 〈◊〉 to bear Them company Whom nothing shall divorce Whilst in the Heav'ns the Sun shall run his course 144. Thus went They ploughing the appeâ—…sed MAIN With always prosp'rous Gale and always fair Till sight long wishâ—… much long'd for they obtain Of that dear Earth where first they suck't the Aâ—…r Sweet TAGUS'S Mouth they enter once again Where to their King and Master whom they fear And love for having sent them the Renown They give and add new titles to his CROWN 145. No more my MUSE no more my Harp's ill strung Heavy and out of tune and my Voyce hoarse And not with singing but to see I 've sung To a deaf people and without remorse Favor that wont t' inspire the POET'S tâ—…ngue Our Countrey yeilds it not she minds the Purse Too much exaling from her gilded Mud Nothing but gross and melancholy blood 146. Nor know I by what fate or duller Chance Men have not now that life and gen'rall gust Which made them with a cheerfull countenance Themselves into perpetuall Action thrust You then O KING whom Heav'n reserv'd t' advance At this time to the Throne to scoure our Rust Behold mark else what other Nations doe The Best of Subjects doe belong to You 147. Behold how cheerfully a thousand ways Like fearlesse Lions and wilde Bulls they run Expos'd to watch whole Nights to fast whole days To fire and sword the Arrow and the Gun To torrid Regions and to frozen Bays To MOORS and People that adore the Sun To unknown perils a new World to find To Whales to shipwracks to tempestuous Wind 148. To doe and suffer All for You prepar'd And to obey in the remotest Land Though ne'r so bitter and though ne'r so hard Without Reply or stop what You command With You they 'll charge the Devill and his Guard Ev'n to the Gates of Hell did You but stand A meer Spectator by and never feare But they will make you too Victorious there 149. Then warm and glad them with your present Rayes Sweetly majestick and severely kind Their shoulders of their heavie Taxes ease Thus thus the path to Honour you shall find Men of Experience to your Councell raise If with Experience they have goodness joyn'd For such have a more certain Rule to tell The How the When the Where to do things well 150. In their respective PLACES count'nance All But choose Men rightly qualifi'd thereto Let REV'REND CHURCHMEN to their Prayers fall That GOD would bless the Government in you And for the NATION' 's sins in generall To Disciplines and Fastings for the true CHURCHMEN exempted from Ambition's heat Seeks neither to be Rich nor to be Great 151. Your NOBLES and your GENTRY highly prize For they their boyling blood undaunted spend Thereby not only Christianitie's But ev'n your Empire 's limits to extend And He who to a Clyme so distant flyes Your Royall Service duely to attend O'recomes two Enemies the Living first Excessive Toile the second and the worst 152. Great Sir let never the astonisht GALL The ENGLISH GERMAN and ITALIAN Have cause to say the fainting PORTUGALL Could not advance the GREAT WORK he began Let your ADVISERS be experienc'd All Such as have seen the World and studied man For though in SCIENCE much contained bee In speciall Cases PRACTICE more doth see 153 PHORMIAN an elegant Philosophar You may have read how HANNIBALL did foole When in his presence of the ART OF WAR He made a long Discourse by Square and Rule No no the brave PROFESSION MILITAR Is not learnt SIR by Fancy in the Schoole Dreaming contemplating to spelling held But seeing sweating fighting in the FEILD 154 But I who speak in rude and humble Rymâ—… Not known nor dreamt of by my 〈◊〉 at all Know yet from mouths of little ones sometime The praise of GREAT ONES doth compleatly fal I want not honest studies from my Prime Nor long Experience since to mix withal I want not Wit such as in this you see Three things which rarely in Conjunction be 155. An Arm to serve you trayn'd in War have I A â—…oul to sing you to the Muses bent Onely I want acceptance in your Bye Who owe to VERTUâ—… fair encouragement If HEAV'N afford me This and you some high And brave EXPLOYT worthy a Monument Of Verse aâ—… my prophetick Thoughts presage By what I see now in your tender Age 156. Making MOUNT-ATLAS tremble at your sight More then at that of dire MEDUSA'S Head Or putting in AMPLEUSIAN FIELDS to flight The MOORS in FEZ and black MOROCCO bred I 'l gage my MUSE then in esteem and plight You in such manner through the WORLD shall spred That ALEXANDER shall in you respire Without envying the MEONIAN LYRE FINIS
bend their purpose and their forces turn To win the Cradle of the budding MORN 28. To Them is promis'd by eternal FATE Whose high decrees no Power can ere revoke To be perpetual Porters of that Gate Through which the Sun first guides his silver spoke They 've spent at Sea the bitter Winter s date The men are harast and with Travaile broke 'T is now high time as it appears to me To shew them that new Land where they would be 29 And therefore since they have as you have seen So many dangers in this Voyage past Tost through so many Seas and Clymates been Of so sharp adverse Winds felt many a Blast I purpose now they shall as friends be in The AFFRICK Land refresh't with some Repast And having victual d there their wearied Fleet Proceed in their long course as it is meet 20. Thus JOVE when in their course of Parliament The Gods reply'd in order as they Sate And to and fro by way of Argument Upon the matter calmly did debate Then FATHER BACCHUS stiffly did dissent From what great JOVE propos'd As knowing that His Fame i th' EAST must suffer an eclipse Should there arive the Lusitanian-ships 31. He of the FATES had understood from SPAIN How that a warlike People was to come Thorough the middle of the OCEAN Which all the Indian-Coast should overcome And which with modern Victories should stain All old ones whether forraign or their own It griev'd him sore those Actions should be drown'd Which still in NYSA made his name resound 32. He looks on INDIA as his old Acquest From whom nor Time nor deeds by others don Had rob d the stile of CONQ'ROUR OF THE EAST By All That taste the streams of Helicon But now he fears that Glorie 's neer it's West In the black Water of Oblivion To set should their desired Port obtain The valiant PORTINGALLS That Plough the Main 33. Fair VENUS holds up the contrary Theam Affected to the Lusitanian-Nation For the much likeness she observ'd in Them To her old ROME for which she had such passion In their great hearts in the propitious beam Of their to-AFFRICK-fatal constellation And in the charming musick of their Tongue Which she thinks Latine with small dross among 34 These things did CYTHEREA move But more Because from FATE of truth she heard it sed That at those LANDS her Altars should adore Where this Victorious People should be spred So one to keep what was his own before T'other to gain new honors to her head Contest and stickle for their sev'ral ends And Both are backt and favour'd by their Frends 35. As when the fierce South-wind and fiercer North Have got into the thickest of a WOOD Breaking the Boughs to force a passage forth Through matted shades impetuous and wood The Air that yells and all the mountain roar'th The Leaves are scattred and the strong Rocks mov'd Such was the tumult which amongst the GODS Was raised then in the Supream Aboads 36. But MARS who with more cordialness did take Then any of the rest the GODDES'S part Whether it were for old Affection-sake Or for this valiant People's own desart His look confest him vext before he spake Amongst the GODS upon his feet did start His heavy Target at his shoulder hung Displeas'd and dreadful he behind him flung 37. Lifting a little up his Helmet-sight T was Adamant with confidence enough To give his Vote himself he placed right Before the Throne of JOVE arm'd valiant tough And giving with the butt end of his Pyke A great thump on the floor of purest stuffe The Heav'ns did tremble and APOLLO'S light It went and came like colour in a fright 38. And thus he said O Sire whose will whate're All which thou hast created must obay If These who seek another Hemisphere Thou wouldst not have to perish in the way Whose deeds and Valour once thou heldst so deare And did'st of old ordain what they assay Then hear no more since thou' rt a Judge upright Reasons from one who sees by a false light 39. For if sound Reason did not plainly show It self here vanquisht by excess of Feare 'T were prop rer BACCHUS should his pains bestow For LUSUS'S Race who was his Minion deare But let this spleen of his at present goe T is an ill stomach rising at good cheare And envy never found the way in fine To do Man right or what the GOD'S designe 40. And Thou the Father of great Constancy From the determination thou hast tooke Recoyle not It is imbecility When once a Thing 's begun then back to looke But â—…ince in speed the winged MERCURY Outstrips the Winds a Shaft the swiftest Brooke Let Him now shew them to some Countrey where They may refresh and news of INDIA heare 41. The pow'rful Father having said the same Gave with a nod the SOVERAIGN Assent To that which MARS said here with greater flame And over All his holy Nectar sprent Streight through the milky way by which they came The GODS to their respective Stations went Making a low obeysance to the Throne As they past by in Order one by one 42. Whilst this in the HIGH-COURT is passing now And beautiful OF HEAV'N Omnipotent The warlike People the salt Ocean plough Leaving the South and face the Orient 'Twixt MADAGASCAR'S Isle where all things flow And ETHIOPIA'S barren Continent 'T was in that month when SOL the Fishes fryes To which fear'd BRONTES turn'd two DEITIES 43 So pleasantly they went before a Wind As those That now had got the Heav'n to frend Serene the Ayre was and the Weather kind No Clowd nor ought that danger might portend The PROMONTORY PRASSUS left behind Which antient ETHIOPIA doth defend NEPTUNE disclos'd new Isles which he did play About and with his billows danc't the Hay 44. VASCO DE GAMA a most valiant Guide Born and pick't out for that great Enterprise Of a high Soul and strongly fortify'de Who FORTUNE to him by his Boldness tyes Stands off to leave this Land upon one side Thinking that uninhabited it lies And on his course determines to proceed But otherwise the matter did succeed 45. For streight out of that Isle which seem'd most neer Unto the Continent Behold a number Of little Boats in companie appeer Which clapping all wings on the long Sea sunder The men are rapt with joy and with the meer Excess of it can onely look and wonder What Nation 's this within themselves they say What Rites what Laws what King do they obay 46. Their coming thus in Boats with finns nor flat But apt t'o're-set as being pincht and long And then they 'd swim like Rats The Sayles of Mat Made of Palm-leaves wove curiously and strong The Mens Complexion the self-same with that HEE gave the Earth's burnt parts from Heaven flung Who was more brave then wise That this is True The Po doth know and LAMPETUSA rue 47 The Cloaths they came in were a Cotton Plad With divers Colours
From the Armada in his Boats doth dance To meet Him of MELINDâ—… with a Train Whom much their cloaths but more their deeds advance GAMA comes clad after the use of SPAIN But wears a Cassock ala mode de France The Stuff a Florence-Satin and the dye A perfect Crimson glorious in their Eye 98. The Sleeves have golden Loops which the Sun-shine Makes too too bright and slippry for the Eyes His close Camp-Trowzes lac't with the same myne Which Fortune to so many men denyes Poynts likewise of the same and Tagging fine With which his Doublet to his Hose he tyes A Sword of massive Gold in Hanger tyde A Cap and Plume the Cap set a toe side 99. Mong'st his Camrades the noble Tyrian dye Not liv'ry-wise but sparcled here and there The sev'ral Colours recreate the Eye So do the diff'rent Fashions which they weare Such their inamel'd Cloathes Varietie Compriz'd in one survey as doth appear The painted Bow in water-colours laid Of JUNOS Minion the Thaumantian Mayd 100. The ratling Trumpets now their joy augment As other times they had their courage done The Moorish Boats cover'd the Sea and went Sweeping the Water with their silks Anon. The Clowds of HEAV'N the thund'ring Cannon rent And with new Clowds of Smoak put out the Sun Before the Blow the winged lightning flies The MOORS'S hands stop their Eares the lids their Eyes 101. Into the Captain's Boate the KING doth come Folding him in his Arms And He agin With such respect and rev'rence as become Doth both receive and speak unto the KING A while with wonder and Amazement dumb The MOOR on GAMA stands considering As He That highly doth esteem the Man Who came so far to seek the Indian Stran. 102. Then makes him a large proffer of whate're To do him good his Kingdom can afford And that he freely would demand it there As his own goods if ought he lackt aboard Adds though till now he saw the LUSIANS ne're Yet he from FAME had heard much of their SWORD And how in other Parts of AFFRICA They have had wars with People of his way 103. And how through all that spacious LAND resown The glorious Actions of that NATION When they therein did gain that Kingdom 's Crown Where the HESPERIDES of old did won And most of That which to the KING was known Although the least the PORTINGALLS had done He spread out thin in words and magnifide But to the KING de GAMA thus reply'de 104. O great and gracious KING who dost alone The Lusitanian People's sad estate By NEPTUNE'S rage and adverse Fortune thrown Into so many streights Commiserate The KING OF KINGS who from th' eternal Throne Turning HEAV'N round did the round Earth create Since Mercy is his chiefest Attribute Reward thee for it for We cannot do 't 105. Thou onely of all Those APOLLO blacks In peace receiv'st us from the Ocean vast In Thee from peril of Eolian Wracks We find a Refuge kind syncere and fast Whilst the Sun lights whilst Night his presence lacks In HEAV'N'S blew Meade whilst Stars take their repast Where re I go in either Hemisphere Thy Name and Praises shall be â—…ounded there 106. This humbly said towards the Fleet they row The KING requesting that he now may see 't Ship after Ship about it round they go That he of All may note all he thiâ—…ks meet Lame VULCAN walks on â—…ynstocks to and fro With which the Guns salute him from the Fleet. The Trumpets play unto him in shril notes The MOORS with Cornets answer from the Boates 107. But when the gen'rous King had ceast to Noate All That he would nor heard with little wonder Th' unusual Instrument with the wide Throate That speaks so big and tears the Clowds in sunder He bids them in the Sea anch'ring the Boate Suspend their 〈◊〉 as they had done their thunder That he may know at large of brave DE GAME Those things which lightly he had heard from FAME 108. The MOOR doth into sev'ral questions run With gust inquiring sometimes of the great And famous Wars between our NATION And Those who do believe in MAHOMET Now of the LAND we dwell in which the Sun Bids last good night when he makes hast to set Now of the NATIONS which therewith confine Now of his ploughing through the Gulphs of Brine 109. But rather valiant Captain quoth the KING Make us a full and orderly narration Under what Part of the Câ—…LESTIAL RING Under what Clyme ye have your Habitation Also your ancient Generation's spring And of a REALM so potent the Foundation With the successes of your Warrs For though I know them not that they were vast I know 110 Tell us besides of all that tedious maze Through which thon hast been tost with angry flaws On the salt Seas observing the strange ways Of our rude AFFRICK and the barb'rous Laws Tell For the Horse of the new Sun the DAY' 's Imbroydered Coasts with golden traces draws Postilion'd by the MORN The Wind 's asleep And the curst Billowes couch upon the DEEP 111. And if the Winds and Seas are husht to hear The story thou shalt tell no less are Wee Who would not lend your Acts a greedy Eare Who hath not heard of LUSUS'S Progenie SOL who the Brain of man doth purge and cleer Drives not his Coach thus nigh us as you see To have MELINDIANS thought so dull a Breed As not to value an Heroick deed 112. A daring War the haughty GYANTS made Upon OLYMPUS permanent and pure Rash THESEUS and PERITHOUS did invade Grim PLUTO'S Kingdom horrid and obscure If such high Boys as these the world hath had 'T is not less hard nor will less Fame procure Then the attempting HEAV'N and Hell by Them That others should attempt the Watry Ream 113. DIANA'S Templebuilt by TESIPHON Rare Architect HOROSTRATUS burnt down To be talkt of though for a Thing ill done And dye defam'd rather then live unknown If on so false and vile Foundation The sweet desire deceives us of Renown How much more lawful is' t to seek a name By deeds deserving everlasting FAME End of the second Canto Third Canto STANZA 1. Now what illustrious GAMA neer the Line Inform'd that KING report CALIOPE Breathe an immortal Song and voice divine Into this mortal Breast thaâ—…'s big with Thee So never the great God of Medicine To whom thou ORPHEUS bar'st love CLYCIE Court DAPHNE more or call LEUCOTHOE Frend Since Thou in Beauty doest them All transcend 2. Thou Nymph promote my pious just desire To pay my Country what to It I owe That the whole world may listen and admire To see from Tagus AGANIPPE flowe Leave PINDUS'S flow'rs For Loe the MUSES'S Sire Bathes me in Sacred dew from top to toe If not I swear thou hast some jealousie ORPHEUS thy joy should be eclyps'd by me 3. To hear the noble GAMA In a Ring Gather'd was all th'attentive Companie When having sat a while considering Raising his manly
to be slain 40. Many are posted to the Stygian Wave Into whose Bodies entred Steel and death Of St. IA GO there the MASTER brave Dyes fighting stoutly to his last of breath Another MASTER dire of CALATRAVE Pulls Troops down with him to the shades beneath The Renegade PEREYRAS likewise dye Reneaguing HEAVEN and their Destiny 41. Went thousands of the Vulgar without noat And nobles too unenter'd in FAME'S rolls Where that lean dog still gapes with triple throat Which never can be fill'd with humane souls And more to humble them who when on float Thought the whole World must stoop to their controlls The high Castilian Standart now doth fall And kiss the foot of that of PORTUGALL 42. With deaths with groans with blood with gashes dire The battail cruel above measure grows The multitude of men that here expire Makes all the Flow'rs in colour like the Rose All fly or dye Now out of breath was Ire Now Valour lost an Arm for want of Foes Now routed sees himself CASTILIA'S King And quits the purpose he from home did bring 43. The Field he leaves unto the Conquerer Glad that he did leave him his life too The poor remainder follow To whom Feare Gave wings not Feet nor did they run but flew The loss of so much men and Treasure there Profoundly in their silent hearts they rue Hiding the smart the sorrow and the soyle To have Another triumph in their spoyle 44. Some Him with open mouth blaspheam'd and curst Who first invented War mankind to quell In whose obdurate Breast Ambition first And Covetise of others goods did dwell Nor car'd for feeding his hydropick Thirst How many silly soules were pack't to Hell Who taught the way to shorten humane lives To orphan Children and to widow Wives 45. Victorious JOHN upon the place stays out In martial glory the accustom'd days With Offrings then and Pilgrimage devout To Him That gave the Conquest gives the Praise But NUNIO minding what he was about As He That knows a lasting Fame to raise No way like Arms which all the world command Passes his Troops to the Trans-Tagan Land 46. To Him his stars so favourable were That the success applauded the designe For he both conquers and the spoyls doth weare Of Andalusian Countreys That confine The Betick Standard of SEVILIA there Under which divers neighb'ring great ones joyn With small resistance at his feet soon falls Quell'd by the force and name of PORTINGALS 47. With these and other Victories opprest A tedious while were the CASTILIANS brave When Peace and now by both desired Rest The vanquisht People from the Victors have After the KING OF HEAV'N for ever blest To the Foe-Kings in holy marriage gave Of ENGLISH SISTERS the unequall'd pair Illustrious lovely beautiful and Fair. 48. But long that Breast inur'd to bloody Broile To live without a Foe could not sustain So having none upon the Land to toyle Goes to extend his Conquests ore the Maine This is our first of Kings who doth exile Himself from SPAIN to make the AFFRICANE By force of Arms perceive the diff'rence great Betwixt CHRIST's Law and that of MAHOMET 49. Behold on curled THETYS'S silver flood Their wings a thousand swimming Eagles beat To catch the swelling wind a moving wood Where the World 's utmost bounds ALCIDES set MOUNT AVILA he takes and the Walls good Of noble CEUTA outing MAHOMET With his blind Worship and secures all SPAINE From Treason of another JULIANE 50. Death envies so great Bliss to PORTUGALL As to injoy the Ages it desires This worthy Prince and takes him from Earth's Ball To add a new Voice to the Angells's Quires But that GOOD POW'R which Him to Heav'n did call Left his large off-spring to supply their Sire's Lamented want PRINCES who shall command Augment and with new Vertues deck the Land 51. King EDWARD was not of the happiest though The while that He the Regal Throne did fill For moody TIME goes blending joy with woe And with alternate Hand gives good for Ill. Who ever Happiness did constant know Or FORTUNE with one face continue still Yet to this KINGDOM she and ev'n this KING More of her honey gave then of her sting 52 He saw his Brother Captive good FERNAND Who had a Soul so publike and so brave That for his Troops distrest in AFFRICK-LAND Himself a Pawn unto the MOORS he gave Where when his ransome was in his own Hand He born a Prince would rather dye a slave Then that for Him we CEUTA should restore Freedom he lovd but lov'd his Countrey more 53. CODRUS because the Foe should not o'recome Deviz'd a noble Stratagem to dye To save the martial discipline of ROME Did RFGULUS to Death with Torments flye Ours distant fear to keep his Countrey from Invites himself to endless slavery CODRUS nor CURTIUS so much wonder'd at Nor loyal DECII did so much as That 54. But EDWARD'S onely Son ALPHONSO hight A lucky Name to our HESPERIA Who the prowd threatnings of Barbarian night In bord'ring Lands low as the dust did lay Would have been doubtless an unconquer'd Knight Had he forborn t' invade IBERIA AFFRICK will tell you 't was impossible To overcome a King so terrible 55. To pull the golden Apples was his hap Which none before him but ALCIDES bit On the feirce MOOR he such a Yoake did clap From which they cannot rest their Necks out yit The Palme and Lawrell green his Temples wrap Of Victories he at the Seige did git Of Pop'lous TANCER Strong ALAGER'S Towers And tough ARZILA o're the Barb'rous Powers 56. Infine the ever-conqu'ring PORTINCALL'S The succours beaten entring These by force Threw to the ground the adamantine walls And All that thwarted their Victorious course Wonders deserving Pens whence liquor falls Immortalizing with it's Nectar source Wrought private Swords in this Exployt of fame Exalting more the Lusitanian name 57. But after taynted with Ambition And Rule 's sweet Thirst though soure to Him at last FERNANDO he invades of ARRAGON About the Kingdom of CASTILIA vast Of the proud NATIONS which depend thereon A num'rous Hoast t' oppose him is a masst From CADIZ to the lofty PERYNEE All which the King FERNANDO did obey 58. The young PRINCE IOHN disdayns it should be said Hee is the only idle Man in SPAINE And therefore his ambitious Sire to ayd Resolves forth with nor is his Ayd in vaine The Battayle's bloody period undismayd Hee sees and with a brow serene and plaine The warlike Father put to totall Rout Yet leaves the Son the Victory in doubt 59. For the sublime and truly Royall son Gay Knight undaunted consident and high Having vast spoyle to the Adversary done Stays one whole day the Field to justify Thus was OCTAUIUS CAESAR overthrowne And Victor his companion ANTHONY When They or Those who noble IULIUS kil'd Reveng'd themselves in the Philippick Feild 60. ALPHONS o mounted to high Heav'n serene The Prince That then the Scepter swayd of right Was
glaze 50. Now they approach with slow and solemn pace The beautiful and oderiferous Bow'rs Which barr'd the prospect of the Royal Place In structure sumptuous though not high in Tow'rs For They their nobler Buildings interlace With fanning Groves and aromatick Flow'rs Thus liv'd enjoying that rude â—…eople's King In City Countrey and in Winter Spring 51. On the fair Frontispieces Ours descry The subtlety of a Daedalian Hand Fig'ring the most remote Antiquity In lasting Sculpture of the INDIAN-LAND So lively are presented to the Eye Those Ancient Times That They who understand From learned Writers what the Actions were May read the Substance in the Shadow There 52. Appears a copious Army which doth tread The Oriental Land HYDASPES laves By a sleek ruddy Warriour was it led Fighting with leavy Javelins curl'd in waves NYSA stood by her Founder by Her slid The River's self washing her winy Caves So right the God that THEBAN-SEMâ—…LE Had she been present would have cry'de ' T is Hâ—…E 53. Farther a vast Assyrian multitude That drank whole Rivers e're they quencht their thurst A Woman Captain with rare Form indude And of a Valour great as was her Lust. By her side never cold her Palfrey chew'd The foaming Bit and fiery paw'd the â—…ust Her NINUS'S Rival with whom yet 't was done More innocently then she lov'd her Son 53. Yet farther trembled in the fancied wind The glorious Ensignes GREECE triumphant bore The worlds THIRD MONARCHY spreading from YND One con'qur'ing wing to the Gangetick shore A young man led them of a boundless mind From head to foot wiâ—…h Lawrells cover'd ore Who would not bee so high his Thoughts did rove The son of PHILIP but the son of IOVE 54. The LUSIANS feasting with these Acts their eyes The CATUAL unto the Captaine sayd The time draws neer when oâ—…her Victoryâ—…s Shall blot these out which thou hast now survayd Heer shall be graven modern Histories Of a strange people that shall us invade Such our deep Sages find to be our doom Poring into the things which are to come 55. By the black Art they doe moreover tell That to prevent so great approaching Ill By humane wisdome t is impossibel ' For vaine is earthly wit against Heav'n's will But say withall Those strangers shall excell So much in Martiall and in civill skill Thâ—…t through the World it will in after story Be sed The Conqu'rers are the Conquerds glory 56. Discoursing thus they enter the gilt Hall â—…here leanes that EMPEROR magnificent On the rich Cowch which take it worke and all Could not be matcht beneath the Firmament His Face and posture that Majesticall And this secure his Fortune represent His Robes are cloth of gold A diadem Upon his head with many a flaming gem 57. An old man at his elbow with grave meen Upon the knee did ever and anon Of a hot plant present him a leaf green Which as of custome he would chaw upon Then did a Bramen of no mean esteem Approach DE GAMA with slow motion To presant Him unto the MONARCH great Who there before him nods him to a seate 59. DE GAMA seated neer to the rich Bed His Eyes keeping off with quick and hungry The SAMORIM upon the Habit fed Of his new Guests their uncouth hew and Guyse With an emphatick Voyce fâ—…om a deep head Which much his embassie did authorize Both with the King and all the People there The Captain thus accosts the Royall eare 60. A potent King who governs yonder where Hev'n s ever-rolling wheeles the day adjourn Benighting earth with earth that Hemisphere Which the sun leaves mourning till his Return Hearing from FAME which makes an Ecchoâ—… there How this IMPERIALL CROVVN by Thee is worn The sum'd up Majestie of INDIAN LAND Would enter with thee into Friendship 's Band. 61. And through long windings to thy COURT send me To let the know that whatsoever stores Goe on the Land or goe upon the sea From TAGUS there to NYLâ—…'S inriched shores All that by Zeland Merchants laden be By tributary Ethiopian-MORES From seething River or from frozen Barr Heapt up and centerd in his Kingdom are 62. Then if thou wilt with leagues and mutuall Tyes Of Peace and Freindship stable and divine Allow commerce of superfluities Which bounteous NATURE gave his Realms anâ—… Thine For Trade brings Opâ—…lence and Rarieties For which the Poor doe sweat the Rich doe Pine Of two great fruits which will from thence redound His shall the glory thine the Gain be sound 63. And if it so fall out that this fast knot Of Amitie be knit between you two He will assist thee in all adverse lot Of Warr which in thy Kingdom may insue With Soldiers Arms and Shipps and coldly not But as a Brother in that case would doe It rests that thou resolve me in the close What he may trust to touching this propose 64 This was the Errand of the Captain bold To whom the Pagan Monareh answer'd thus Ambassadours from such farr parts we hold No little honour to our Crown and Us Yet shall not in this case our will unfold Till with our COUNCELL we the thing discuss What this King is informing our self well The people and the Land whereof you tell 65. In the mean time repose you from the Quoyle Of labour past and nauseating Seas Whom we will back dispatch within a while With such an answear as shall not displease Now Night Task mistresse of all earthly Toyle Gives humane labours wonted stint to ease Exhausted lims with sweet Vicissitude Eyes with the leaden Hand of sleep subdude 66. In the most noble lodgings of the Court The PRIMERE MINISTER of INDIAN LAND With the Applause of people of each sort Did feast DE GAMA and his valiant Band The CATUALL that he may make report To his dread Leige who gave him in command To find it out which way the strangers came What Laws what Faith what Countrey and what name 67. Soon as he spyes the fired Axel-tree Of the fayre Delian youth the day renew Sends for MONSAYDE upon Thorns to bee At large informed of this NATION new Prompt and inquisitive he asks if Hee Can give him full Intelligence and trew What thâ—…se strange people are for he did heare That to his Country they are neighbours neer 68. A punctuall accompt of every thing He knew of them he charg'd him to afford As that which was a service to the King Whereby to judge of the propos'd accord MONSAâ—…DE answers That which I can bring Of light thereto is spoken in a Word Thus much I know they are of yond same SPAâ—…N Where PHEâ—…US and my Nest bathe in the Mayn 69. By them a certain Prophet is ador'd Born of a pure and incorrupted Mayd Conceiving by the Spirit of the Lord The Lord of life by whom the world is swayd Of them that which my Parents did Record Was that of bloody Warr the noble Trade To it's full pitch by their strong Arm is wound Which
sake For GOD this Antichimist doth debase To vilest mettle with this Diffrence though That still These glister with a holy shâ—…w End of the eighth Canto Ninth Canto STANZA 1. LOng in the City the Two Factors lay Without dispatching off the Merchandize So many rubbs are scatter'd in their way By the false INFIDELS that no man buyes All These design thereby is to delay INDIA'S Discov'rers There whom they call spyes Arriv'd till they the Fleet of MECMA see With which this other overwhelm'd may be 2. At the far end o'th'ERITHREAN SEA Where calling it by his dear Sister's name The goodly City of ARSINOâ—… Which afterwards to be call'd SUâ—…Z came Was founded by EGYPTIAN PTOLOME The Port of Mâ—…CHA lyes which hath it's fame From MAHOM'S superstitious Lavatory Promising Heav'n through watry Purgatory 3. GIDDA the Port is call'd in which did meet The Trade of that RED SEA and flourisht most The Gain whereof was not a little sweet To EGYPT'S Soldan who then rul d that Câ—…ast From hence to MALAâ—…AR a warlike Fleet Of INFIDELLâ—… the Indian Ocean crost Each yeer in that EMPORIUM to find Health-giving Drugs and Spices of each kind 4 The Ships expected by the MOORS are These With which not onely great but built for Fight Them who supplant their Traffick in those Seas To wrap and burn in crackling flames and bright In this Sure Card themselves they so much please That all they wish to gorge their Appetite Is that the Strangers will but stay so long Till from fam'd Mâ—…CHA come this Navy strong 5. But the GREAT GOVERNOR of Heav'n and Earth Who for what He before all Time did doom Likewise decreed fit means which to the birth Should bring the same when the full Time should come Kindled unlikely love on the cold Hearth Of a MOOR'S breast MONâ—…AYDES sending whom Before He to DE GAMA gave advice Of All and for his payns had PARADICE 6. This man of whom the MOORS had no suspition Being one himself but on the contrary To all their secret junta's gave admission Did to the Captain this foule play descry He visits oft the Fleet and repetition Makes of his visits oft though far it lye To heart he lays the danger it is in Through the black Project of the SARACIN 7. He tells the cautious GAMA of the Fleet. Which from ARAâ—…IAN MECHA comes each yeere And how those Counâ—…rey men do thirst to see t As a sure Engin to destroy him there That it comes stuft with Soldiers and in It Doth horrid Thunderbolts of VULCAN beare So that consid'ring how his own is brusht It may thereby be overpowr'd and crusht 8 DE GAMA besides this considering That now the time it self calls him away And that for better answer from the King Who loves the MOORS he may till doomsday stay Sends one ashore the Factors summoning To come aboard forthwith and lest that They Be stopt if their intent perceiv'd should be Commands them do it with all secresie 9. But long it was not e're a rumour went And it fell out to be a rumour true That the two Factâ—…rs were to prison sent 'Cause from the City they by stealth withdrew The Captain seeing which way the world went Seiz'd by Reprisal without more ado Some That were then aboard his ship lin'd well With Preciâ—…us Stones which they desir'd to sell. 10. Grave Citizens and wealthy were These all Well known and well allide in CALICUT Therefore to see them bound for PORTUGALI Into an uproare did the City put For streight to work the sturdy Sea-men fall The Capstone roles their sâ—…v'ral strengths set to 't In sev'ral manners some the Cable halling With the Bar others their hard bosoms galling 11 This hangs by the main-yard and now untyes The flowing Saile with a great cry displayd When to the SAMORIM with greater cryes Is told how hastily the CAPTAIN waigh'd Their Wives and Children trust up in this wise That are a noyse as they were murther'd made In the KING' 's hearing screaming they should lose These their dear Fathers their deare Husbandâ—… Those 12. The Lusitanian Merchants with the Ware There 's no delaying freely he remands Although thereat the MOORS do stamp and stare Or else his own must visit uncouth Lands With all excuses to make things look faire Sends to his King DE GAME who understands The Restitution better then the Cringe Returns some BLACKS and gives the ships their swinge 13. He coasts it homewards fully satisfy'de That he in vain solicits with that King A peace and friendship to be ratify'de By mutual Trade as he propos'd the thing But having now that noble Land descry'de Which lay much hid under the Morning's wing For his deare Countrey with this news is bound Carrying sure signes of that which he hath found 14. He carries MALABARS retain'd by Him Perforce of Those who the stopt Factors brought Aboard from the inforced SAMORIM He carries burning Pepper which he brought Nutmegs the whichtheâ—…r own dry'de flow'rs up trim From BANDA the black Clove for which is sought MOLUCO'S ISLE and Cinnamon through which Câ—…YLAN is noble beautiful and rich 15. All these provided by the diligence Of good MONSAYDE whom he carries too Who fir'd with Evangelick influence To have his name writ in CHRIST'S book doth sue O happy AFFRICAN whom PROVIDENCE DIVINE out of infernal darkness drew And so far from thy Countrey found a way To thy true Câ—…untrey to reduce thee stray 16. Thus vanish from the spicy Territory The happy ships whose Prows directly stand OF GOOD HOPâ—… pointing at THE PROMONTORY South-Bound of NATURE fixt by her own Hand Bearing the evidence and welcom story TO LISBON of the Oriental Land Once more committed to the rude annoy Of Seas uncertain betwixt fear and joy 17. That they are going to their Countrey deare To their dear Parents and Aboads at last To tell their wond'rous Navigation there The various Nations seen and Dangers past That now the Harvest of their Toyles is neare The Fruits of their Adventure ripe to tast Is such a joy as cannot be exprest By their faint Tongue pent in their narrow Brest 18. But CYPRUS'S Queen who by the King of HEAV'N Was made the LUSITANIANS'S Patroness And for a Guardian Angel to them giv'n To whom she many yeers hath prov'd no less Glory for which they have so bravely striv'n Amends for their so well indur'd distress Means them by way of earnest beforehand And in sad Seas the Pleasures of the Land 19. Having a while revolved in her thought The world of Sea which they have back to pass The world of Woes that God on them had brought In AMPHIONIAN THEBES twice-born that was It is her purpose joys so dearly bought With Griefs to fill them in an ample glass To cook them some delights find them some nest Where in the rolling Empire they may rest 20. In fine an Inn of pleasure by the way To bait and strengthen tyr'd Humanity To give her
gallant Sea-men not their Pay But the use here of fair ETâ—…RNITY She means to tell 't her Son and well she may For with his shafts it is she makes the high GODS stoop to the base ground and with â—…is fire Unworthy mortals to bright Heav'n aspire 21. This well digested she resolves in fine There in the middle of the briny frost To have in readiness an Isle Divine With flow'rs on green inameld and imbost For she hath many in those Seas which joyne To that blest Land which our first mother lost Besides those sweet ones in the Midland Seas Impounded by the Gates of HERCULES 22 There will she have th' Aquatick maids prepare To these rare men their graces to impart All that are honor'd with the name of Faire The glory of the Eye Bane of the Heart With Balls and Banquets blithe and debonayre For she inspires into their brests the dart Of secret love that they with all their might Of their Gallants may study the delight 23 Such once her Project for the man she bare To TROY'S ANCHISES neer to SIMOIS'S flood To get him welcome in that City fair Which in the compass of an Oxe-hide stood Her boy she seeks for without Him her rare Beauty is nothing CUPID giv'n to blood That as to Him of yore she recommends Her sayling son so now her sayling Frends 24. She yoaks those Birds unto her Coach of gold Which sing their own sad Dirge with long white necks And those into the which was turn'd of old PERISTERA That gather'd flow'rs by pecks The flying Goddess These in Rings enfold Exchanging kisses with lascivious Beaks She where she passes makes the Wind to lye With gentle motion and serenes the skye 25. Over Idalian Mountains now she hung The winged Boy residing in that Land To get an Army up of Bow-men young For a great War which he hath then in hand Against the rebel WORLD where late have sprung Much Weeds as he is giv'n to understand Loving those things wherewith 't is richly stor'd To be made use of not to be ador'd 26. He sees ACTEON hunting so inclin'd To that mad sport and brutal exercise That a deform'd wild-beast to follow blind The Beauty of a humane Face he flyes And to torment him with a Fair Unkind Shews stript DIANA to his gazing eyes Now let him take good heed he do not prove A Prey ev'n to those Hounds he doth so love 27. He sees the great ones of each Land that none Have Publike Good so much as in their Eye Sees they love nothing but themselves alone Which is part Intrest and part Philautye Courtiers he sees men That besiege a Throne How for true Doctrine they vent Flattery 'T is husbandry these like not in a King To weed the Flow'rs out of his Corn in Spring 28. He sees how Those that owe a vâ—…wed love To Povertie and Charitie to Men Love Riches onely and to floate Above Pretending justice and a Conscience clean They tell the People what doth Them behove OBEDIENCE in the deed the Tongue the Pen. Laws they set up in favour of the CROWN Laws in the People's favour they pull down 29. He sees in fine none love that which they should But onely what complies with some vain lust Therefore his hands can he no longer hold From punishments that may be sharp yet just His Captains prickt his Soldiers are inrol'd Fit for a War which undertake he must With the misgovern'd World whereby to quell All that persist against him to rebel 30. Swarms of these little Hov'rers newly flown At sevâ—…ral works busie as Bees are all Some whetting Arrow-Heads on bloâ—…dy Hone Others the shafts of Arrows shaving small Working they sing and sing of love alone And then that Love it is Seraphical In Parts and in the burtheâ—… all do joyne The Ditty excellent the Tune Divine 31. On the immortal Anviles where their Arts They use the steeled points to forge and fit Instead of Embers there are burning Hearts Which bring their Bellows with them panting yit The streams with which they temper their steel'd dâ—…rts Tears which from miserable LOVERS flit The sparckling flame the neverâ—…quenched fire Which burns and not consumes them is desire 32. Some of these Archers exercise their Hand On the hard Bosomes of the Vulgar rude The bor'd Ayre hiss't by this we understand The sighings of the wounded multitude For Sugeons Nymphs to Curâ—… them ready stand With Sov'raign Vertue to this end indu'd Who to the Hurt not onely life can give But make ev'n them that ne're were born to live 33. Some of these Nymphs are faire and some are not According to the Nature of the Wound Into the blood if once the Taint be got Oft ugly Treacle gives the Patient sound There are whom Spells and Philters do besot Nayl'd to their Seates they wiss not how and bâ—…und Where this is LOVE hath us'd against fraile Hearts Unlawful weapons shooting poyson'd darts 34. From these raw Soldiers out of ranke and life A thousand rash and senceless Darts are sped A thousand senceless loves are born the while In the low People to be pittied Ev'n amongst Those in highest Forms of vile And horrid Love are thousand 〈◊〉 read BIBLIS and MYRRA for one sex for t'other Th'ASSYRIAN SON and the JUDEAN BROTHER 35. And you Great Lords by shepherdesses meane Under the yoke of LOVE have oft been brought And you great Ladies with rude Clowns uncleane In VULCAN'S subtle Nets have oft been caught Some watching the dim fall of the Serene Some pitchie Night o re Tiles or Walls to vaut Though for these sordid fires if right we did More then the Son the Mother should be chid 36. But the swift Coach now softly on the Green The white Swans ballanc't in their Harness put On which DIONE in whose Cheek is seen The Snow-mixt Rose sets light her milky foot The Archer meets her with a jocund meen Who shoots at HEAV'N and doth not miss the But. With Him in Squadron his SUB-CUPIDS move To do their Homage to the QUEâ—…N OF LOVE 37. She not to spend the pretious time in vain Snatching her Child up confidently said Dear Son in whom and whose strong Arm I raign And the Foundations of my Pow'r are laid Son in whom all my strengths always remain Who feard st not Them That made great JOVE afraid I have a special buis'ness to be done In which I greatly need thy pow'r my Son 38. The LUSITANIANS harast out behold Who are my Care of long Antiquity Because my Friends the Fates to me had told Wheree're They go my worshipt name should fly And for they imitate my ROMANS old In all Heroick Actions therefore I Resolve for them to do a Guardian â—…s duty And raise the Posse of the Realm of Beauty 39. And since the malice of the God of Wine Spun them new troubles upon Indian-ground When from the furies of the swelling Brine They crope out weather-beaten and half-drownâ—…d Therefore
But at this point her high and ratling tone The Nymph abasing made it hoarse and sad And with low Voyce drown'd in her Tears did moan Of so strange Valâ—…ur a Requital bad O BELISARIUS said she That art One Who by the MUSâ—… will still in price be had If MARS himself affronted were in Thee Here is a man that may thy Comfort be 23. Here thou a Rival hast as in thy Deeds So in their cruel and unjust return In Thee and Him misused VERTUE bleeds In Thee and Him doth begging VALOUR mourn Both Bulwarks of your KINGS Both of your 〈◊〉 Both dye in HOSPITALS ragged and torn This those Kings do whose justice is their will Their Evidence what MALICâ—… shall instill 24. This those Kings do who with smooth Tales misled Of Flatterers by whom asleep th' are sung Give the Rewards by AJAX merited Unto the fraudulent ULYSSES'S tongue But 't is reveng'd at full when hand o'rehead They deal their Bâ—…ns those SYCOPHANTS among By whom of their ill choice they will be made Ashamed first and afterwards betraid 25. But Thou That such a man couldst leave to SCORN And WANT O KING unjust in this alone If Thou to build his Fortunes were 't not born He was to give to Thee a potent Throne And credit me whilst PHâ—…US'S locks unshorn To light the Earth and Heaven shall be known Like that Sun glorious shall PACHECO be And Thou in this Eclipse thy Majestie 26. Another loe proceeding in her Song Comes with a Regal Title and his Son Who on the Sea shall do such things e're long As by no antient ROMAN were out-done They Both shall win by armed Hand and strong Wealthy QUILOA and shall sack it won Placing therein a mild and loyal King For a false Tyrant whom they out shall fling 27. Also the City of MOMBASSA Crown'd With sumptuous Houses and aerial Spires Shall by them Both be levell'd with the ground For an â—…ld fault which a new râ—…d requires But afterwards upon the INDIAN SOUND Cover'd with Ships and Artificial Fires T'o'rewhelm the PORTINGALLS with Oare and Sayle Alâ—…ne the young LORENZO shall prevaile 28. The CARACKS of the potent EMPERORE Peopling the scorched Ayre with Iron Ball Which from the burning Brass like Thunder roare Tear shall he Canvas Rudder Mast and all His grappling-hooks thrown resolutely o're Her lofty Decks Himself their Admiral Shall enter first and cleer with Lance and Sword Four hundred MOORS she will have then aboard 29. But GOD whose secret doom is over All Best judge of what 's his service and Man's good Shall bring him then where Wit nor Prâ—…wess shall Have pow'r to stop his Foes prevailing Flood Neer CHOUL where cheaply yet he shall not fall The purpled Sea there boyling o're with blood He will be forc't to leave his life behind By Fleets of EGYPT and CAMâ—…AYA joyn'd 30 There shall ennumerable Enemies Who with great force alone great 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Wind that fails Danger that multiplyes Upon the Sea against him All conspire Now from their Graves let all the Antients rise A pattern to behold of noble Ire They shall behold aâ—…other SCEVA sâ—…ill'd How to dye piece-meal but not how to yiâ—…ld 31. Rob'd of a Thigh which an unlucky shot In splinters with it through the ayre shall beare Still does he use his Arms These fail him not Nor his great Heart uncapable of Feare Until another Bullet breaks the knot Wherewith his Soul and Body marryed were The prison open she escapes and straight Doth find her self in a triumphant state 32. SOULE go in Peace from furious War retire In midst of which Thou inward Peace shalt find The BODY Him who got it will inspire With high revenge when he shall see 't disjoyn'd I hear a rumbling storm I see the fire Of Sacres Drakes and Basilisks combin'd With fell and home-destruction to rebuke The fierce CAMâ—…AYAN and black 〈◊〉 33. Behold the Father comes a mad man like In whom for ma st'ry Grief with Fury vyâ—…s Whilst at one time paternal love doth strike Fire on his Heart pumps water from his Eyes A noble Anger whispers him his Pyke Shall blood his Foes so that the Tyde shall rise In their drown'd Decks knee-deep 〈◊〉 shâ—…ll beâ—… INDUS shall see his Blâ—…ws and 〈◊〉 â—…ar 34. As a Corrival'd Bull That practising For a fierce duel fences with the Oakes Or at the Trunck of a broad Beech doth fling In Thrusts and with his Horns the Ayre provokes So DON FRANCISCO e're his Fleet he bring In swoln CAMBAYA'S Gulph to desp'rate strokes On DAâ—…UL'S wealthy City whets his Blade The Mountain of her Pride a Level made 35. Then enters horrid with her blood the Baâ—… Of DIO fam'd for Sieges and pitcht-Fields The great but Coward-Fleet his loâ—…k doth fray Of CALICUT which Oars for Lances weilds That of 〈◊〉 YAZ which makes away More slow with Bolts of VULCAâ—… he unbuilds To the low bâ—…ttom of the OCEAN sent Cold mattrice of the humid Element 36. â—…ut that of MIR HOZEM which with close bords The rowzed wrath of the Avenger stands Shall swimming see i th' Ocean of their Lords Hands without Bodies Bodies without Hands The rage-blind Victors waving their bright Swords Shall seem to toss so many flaming Brands What there shall be perceiv'd by Ears and Eyes Will be Smoke onely Iron Fire and Cryes 37. But ah Of a defeat great MARS might boast Bound for his Native Tagus back again The Fame and glory shall he lose almosâ—… By a sad traverse I foresee too plain The CAPâ—… OF STORMS which in it's Desert Coast His Boâ—…s and Memory shall ay retain Shames not to ravish from the world a Soule Whole INDIA could not and EGYPT whole 38. By savage CAâ—…RES there shall that be done Which dext'rous Enemies could not perform And by rude Clubbs hardned with fire alone What Arrows Sâ—…ow'r could not Bullet's storm GOD'S secret judgements are not to be known Vain GENTILâ—…S being a â—…ook above their fâ—…rm Call it ill Fate cross Fortâ—…ne star maline Being solely purely 〈◊〉 DIVINâ—… 39. O! What new light beginneth there to bud The SIREN said and rais'd her Voyce thereat From the Melindian Sea dy'd with the blood Of LAMO OCâ—…A BRAVA all laid flat By great DE CUNIA who through all the Flood Which laves the Southern-Isles and Shores but That Of MADAGASCAR chiefly the wide mouth Of FAME shall fill and threat the unknown South 40. This light is of those flames and glitt'ring Arms Wherewith the stubborn PERSIANS of ORMUZE Spuâ—…ning the yoake and valiant to their harms Fierce ALBURQUERQUE afterwards subdues There shall the hissing Shafts like living swarms Turn'd in the Ayre their shooters Helmets bruize That they may see with Eyes though ne're so dim How GOD will fight for Them that fight for Him 41. The MOUNTAINS then of SALT will not be able To keep those Bodies from corruption Which on the Coasts shall lye out miserable Of CALAYAT MASCATE and GERUN Until the