nose toes cheeke and hands we see they loose See then proportion heerein is too be chose Let nobler natures places nobler trace For thers accord twixt natures place and place Hott natures actiue bent and passiue too Able t' inuent and iudgements scann to doo The could are meerly patients practizing Alike it is in place in time in thing The rarest fruites I know take putrifaction The ablest parts worst chiefely in ill action And as t was iudgd Themistocles would proue Worst if ill nurtured best by good improue So may we censure of complexions power In trauaile bent to much gaine or deuoure Climes their complexions haue in each degree To which in trauaile men haue simpathy The tozzid zones one sort of rule command A differents cald for in the frigidd land The obseruation trauailers daily vse Makes mee no further now hearein peruse As persons thus must be the places meete So some proportion due in parts discreete Twixt him now trauailes and his way of trade For triall heereof must at home be made Wherein respectiuely difference is requird According to the state of that desird Some generall parts as strength and languages According to the clime all must haue these Particular notions as now interest If as in publike or his owne invest I cannot stand to point at each mans way The wiâ—e may see the whole by what I say And application proper to the thing Can on ly sollid satisiaction bring He must haue tongues each way bownd out to treate Else shall he be a pray to mens deceit Each aiming at his properends availe And ioyes to see the sortish stranger faile When ignorant to make his sales or buy Or if abused vnderstands not why If souldiour merchant greater strangers raise For what they point to he constrained paies If a mechanicke hoodwinkt walkes all mumm A meete allusion for all cheates to come If on his way ambitious to see rares In high way errours ignorantly shares And what hee sees or where not say where now But what 's a guide to strangers strangers know Chancing on sales turnes now knaue brokers ape For as the Dauus wills 't must rise or bate Yea if more noble in a treaty sent If ere state sent out such an imnecent The tearmes appeare in writing as if there A scipher sent and no Embassage weare In short send any meere vnletterd out And hee s a nose of wax made out of doubt T is true times short and many cannot haue Paris for each place where tranaile passage craue But let vs note language collatrall mixt Vnder both Poles by prouidence is fixt And generall tongues for generalls lead way Which generals each way specials ouer sway Ould Roman Latin in the westerne lands Italian Spanish French and vs commands Ould Greeke the spacious Adriaticke climes Hebrue the East honourd in first of times High Dutch the danish pole and Northerne tracke So hauing one we cannot wholly Lacke And by the generall language that way vsd Perticulars will more easily be infusd Since a propensitions causd in tongues confusion Many as members haue to one head allusion Then fit thy selfe such specialles to collect And lazinesse worths canker worme reiect The many parts each state of way requires Causing succesfull progresse in desires Are in such speciall mannor suting it So as no parts but such in that place fit In all a search is easily made Let those Who passe themselues it to themselues disclose The fourth and last attending the persons grace I hould propertion â—n Estate to place Assighning period to the three before The rudder steareth steadily to shore Monâ—es Great Traian tearmes trades nerues to be This we in daily course of traficke see When language natures worth mens bredings faile Now meanes in trauaile seeme to strike their saile Yea in the merchanicke how beit their hands Seeme to supply this want in trackt of landes A small t is true accomodates his place When higher steps ascend a higher race Which as it must of force in vse be had So like wise corespond the place to trade I say no more let specials be applyed The merchants this way chiefly dignified Where many lands and rarityes are eyed As a meere oreplus to the gaine of trade Which to aduantage is in forraines made Plessures attending profits euery way Others conditions costlier are to stray For trades encrease and minds contents concure Accomodating each by trading fuir The fashionists expences buy his humour The nouellists paies dearely for a rumour The Noble gallant spends no substance gaines The aiery Camelion only feeds his braines Meanes is the matter formd by all the rest But their effects it wanting all supprest Yet as the little puffe makes small barkes fly When greater Caricks wind bound grouling lye So smailer meanes a mâ—aner way well serues When wanting sustenance a greater sterues Or Comes confounded in his crossed wits This of the foure the persons selfe befits Subiects that haue good adiuncts their attendants Well grace their owne worths mutuall defendants Two sorts of wayes one method hath proposd What way man goes in as his cause disclosd Whereto or which way and the clime that 's next The time and these kept trauaile's vnperplext The way or state man passes in is tryed And by this touchstone needfully discried If consonant not crosse to pious life Nor cause of countries or religions strife And honest iust and voyd of fraud and guile Causing thy owne weale too this good way stile Which foure though foure are linkt in vnity And handmaids to our christan trauailes bee For christian trauaile it all trauailes blesses If not besure thy harboures in distresses For us not for vs christianst ' vnderstand As heathens do al 's good to take in hand After we once from natiue Climate goe As if the great God did not all lands know Hee sees in secret as wise Dauid sayes As seend I to the Heauens Heauen he suruayes Decend I downe to Hell he noteth me And in the midd of darknesse he can see Yea should I say I le hence to sea al 's one Or to the outmost I le he there 's well knowne T is therefore meeâ—e we Christians stand in awe Forming our trauailes to Iehouahs law Well may we then expect great happinesse And in most aduers times desire successe Alas what 's Earth as sea vs mortall tofses Sometimes in sunny calmes and then in crosses Our destinies our ships transports vs ore Times trimmer of the sailes and hies to shore What men all men are passengers therin Some trauaile in gods siruice some in sinne Gods hand it steares yet none the hand can see Nor yet fates fleets wherein we sayling bee Some sport some sleepe some worke the voyage hies Youth midage dotage posting through he flies Our harbour Earth graues houses welcome death By sortowes sicknesses when losse of breath
various euery where Now red then blacke then yellow greenish cleare Now hot and seethes there ice mountes her couer Wonders best knowne by such as trauaile ouer Fiue zones earths guards the Equinoctiall girt Which vnder Climes still as they are Conuert Two frigid one fire hot two temporate Gouernd by the high Celaestiall fate the differing seas and seasons vnder each How ere knowne part by speculationes reach Yet sights the sure and teitruth of a notion Not subiect to the pennes vnsure deuotion Trauailes adiacents more miraculous Inable man to presse seas reaches thus The compasse by his loadstone wonders chiefe Yeilds in vnknownest pathes a knowne reliefe Teaching the steareman how to runn his way And midest of Rockey billowes take survay Now sunn and starres are hid not to digresse In nauall calculations more or lesse In course to Cape I le harbour stranger nation But find the true rowmb in winds variation In midd of misty fogges secure to runn Although in darknesse and defect of sunn Knowing and surely too each Cape and Cliffes where slatts sands shoules safe harbours rockes or riffes That Ephimerian callender a wonder There astrolab Crosstaff viewd asunder Whose issues and effects pâ—sse home Conceits Wherewith our seamen act admired seates The Compas Card scale limbes of euery shipp That plannifp heere and tranfames so be fit In rarest art sunnes horall height to know And the altitude of euery starre to show Northeasting aud Northweasting by a line What way is made which way the length the time The North starre where aboue tho pole or not Skilles wherein euery home bredd proues a sott My relation Hebrue he athen Greeke yet know T is now my talke sea miracles to showe Sunnes surgere gresse in euery latitude Harden then heera at home ar to conclude Each lands dimension length and square and site The solar progresse euery where his height Tides in all countries by the moone to find Their flux and reflux and the depth they wind Timly meridian solles true Declinations The North starres power Globes rule in Nauigations The pillotts art his Chanall sownds quicke viewe Lo from these fruits our voyages accrue Amazing earth in great discoueties made Inriching Europ with a potent trade Thus euery way at sea are wonders showne I will not name discoueries well vnknowne Those new found Gulphes exacter reuolutions Collumbus Drakes or candishes conclusions Vesputius Norts or Dauis nouigatianes For earths pacts latly rowue by many nations The thorow lights by trauell made are cleare Through which our new world doth to the ould appeare Amerricca her sisters three scarce knew While trauell brought them to an enter view And now acquainted both in admiration Honour and vse as briges Nauigation Thence to the skies high wonders travaile sees Cosmographies the plott discouers theese The leuen heauens Circular effects Trauail in all her wondros dessects That Zodiacke his twelue parts operation Discrepant to the subdependent nation The Equinoctiall change earths axaltree Embraces differently her orb ye see Heere starres both fixt and motiue alter Case Wonderous in act according to the place The foure winds Rhouts and thirty two partitions Eclipses solar lunar such positions As these are plainely writ I neede not say The worths in sight its sure beyond denay For so much as the thing is fancies better View passesse reading its contents are greater The heauens declare Gods glory Heauens power Is picturd in earths woundrous parts each houre Earths miracles in trauelling are more Since the Almighty formd heere greater store That so the sonnes of men in admiration Might passe to view from nation to nation Varieties still added to desire Filling the greedy stranger with admire The men townes frutes riuers and brutes all Change Turne any way in trauaile things are strange Geography treats most of arts hearin But trauaile only sweet of sence doth winn Earths sipherall orbe both ile and continent According to their sits are different Complexions to the Climes do beare relation So is in men a diuers propagation How full of miracles is nature now Which euery way such difference can allow Mens statutes colloures haire much different In humours and in manners diuers bent Our Northern cleare the Southern swarty browne That 's merry plaine this cunning bent to frowne On s frolicke other sad and dull of spirit Thus diuers Climes their diuerse breed inheritt Europe the Queene though least of sisters foure Greatest in fame in arts in wits in power In wines and mines high Garmany exceedes As Mosco Beauers and the rich furr breeds The Belgick fish and linen a iarring nation Yet much suprasseth most in nauigation The french her wines and silkes of Itally Spaines fruits rich ores and Irons raise her high The Danish tackle skinnes and whales suplie The Norway plankes firres furies and fishery The polish flaxes Sweadish Brasse and mast The Turkey stuffes Hungarian coppers Cast The florence silke Beames Buffe moluccoes spice The Brittish wooltrin lead corn cole of price Sicillian Coralls sugaries Candie wines Zauts Corrants and the venice Muskadines The Chinaes gould pearle muske and Iuory The Indian silke and mines of ores supply Behould the diuerse store each land affordes The wonders in creations due the Lordes Each land in worths to wonder disagreing In nature colour quantity and being Hence may wee wondering in a higher straine On trauells stage admiring mount againe Scorning the least of lying wonders tould By sicophants to obiect basenesse sould Telling of foothigh pigmeyes doggeard men Blue blacke and yellow collored cald by them Out scoggin skinke and like to these in credit Fables ales hate trauailes eiection merit What need fond men the vulgar bee deluded Or yet the Lord of nature be abused His names almighty in true wondrous things And truth alone sound satisfaction bringes Hee s truly great in all abhorres all glozing Dishonourd much by each false tales composing Yet wants no fame the little ants a wonder Much more those many thousands all out number See but some rares in fabrickes admiration Duly attends on some in euery nation That Chinan wall twelue hundred miles in length Their mighty citties and vnuoted strength Those Piramids of Aegypt twelue miles rownd And fiftie cubitts mounted from the grownd The tower and walles of mighty Babilon The Capitall and ruind worths of Roome The venice fabricks Cayroes circle stronge The spannish bridge admired three leagues long As these the creatures vegetiue excell And sensitiue their alterations tell That Indian figtrees an admired thing Whose touch to earth causeth a world of spring Breeding a long atracke of mighty store Ones brood oft Carreyeth a furlong ore Those siluer sands and peatlie vaines distilling The spanish with their matchlesse treasures filling The oliue nutmegg and the cloues are rare And may with Mirch and lemond well compare Land Creatures wonders in the Ellephant He most for massy fortitude doth vaunt Able to tuggship laden in a
in venture more Some vse them as supports in a relation On to the other mutuall propagation Defensiue potence makes trade better thriue As trade preserues a potency aliue No in stance but the Netherlands and hantz A mutuall knot their welfares to aduance Trafickes true nerues armistically mixt And twixt marine and land ende avoures fixt No way mechannieke for a boore to know Nor mind I merchants misteries to showe Yet who Denies those mistery of exchange If able to be sounded shew how strange The proper subiects are themselues should know Nor any else how goes it high or low How rich to states ye nether Nobles say Who her with can Spaines magnitude or sway And Countercharme his indies by your traâ—le And the victorious fleets by flemings maâ—â—e Nor dare I banke our eighty eights defence Though primely due to high omnipotence The Noblemeane weare ships of victory Mixt with aduentures ost tryed vâ—liancie What agents he who trauaile neuer knew Wanting such parts as tradings worths a true But by a broker in a forraine soile Become meere slaue to forrainers beguile See citties clad with shipping as a robe Whose natiues send to search about the globe How fraught with riches both of soule and minde He that perceius not this is wilfull blind Sugars and wines we from caunaries haue From Florence silkes from Naples satens braue From Candy Currants Oyle and muskadine From Indies East store of all spices fine Arabian odoures swete and â—ubaes ore From the Could russe fine furres and fishes store From Newfoundland the norway firr and flax The swedish Coppers Cordage ambers wax The flemish hope his linen flanders say Our brittish stores wee know no more suruay The sea winde weather shippings stores and saile All iump the worthes of trauaile to availe So that in short it serues the sones of men No more of trauails profits needfull then Now forits pleasures pleasure t is to tell Those multitude that do in trauaile dwell Both soule and senses mutually fild A secret solace in them both distild Christs crosse a modellis of what we say T is a meere trauaile passing all denay Wherein as Paule the christian is assaild With many woes to vertues lot intayld Yet Lo as he in all becomes victorious And ioyes in sorrow by abasment glorious Tramples on sin and sorrow by an ayd Which makes the fell infernall curres affrayd Of this to come as man all for content Poore man his curses bitter would preuent By various obiects relishing his toyle Whereof he findes out some in euery soyle His sences seruants to his will desire Nothing so much as noueltie require Wise Solomon saw this when once he sayd My eyes with seeing is not satisfied Nor tongue by taste nor eares with hearing fild Nor nose by sents nor hands by touching stild Yet is mens solace heere below quoth hee To proue what pleasure may procured bee And as a creature consolate the mind While he in heauen comforts period find To this end weare those rares of nature framd Where by creation god great power proclamd Diuersities each clime and country spreading Diuersities of creatures diuerse breeding That as the temple made by Solomon Was framd of forraine rares as well as stone From Sheba some from Ophr others sent The Fabricke fmisht bredd a stâ—ueshment So we the temples reasonable soule The temple it earths wonders to enrowle And view the totall or iudge by a part Each Creatures rarenesse the Creators art Our passiue humors proue not halfe so well The actiue chiefly to delight excell The sight the taste and touch and actions like Those at the ground of noble solace strike When hearing reading and dull absence go Void of delight or certainely to know On others pennes or lipps t is to relie Onth only organs of vncertainty When thou dost see and seeing vnderstand The various obiects in a foraine land The men in habit and condition strange Their Citties sites and forme of stru ures change Religion differre men of sauage breed The rarity in cloth and what they feed There speech and paradox themselues and all Nothing but what thou different maist call Much inward Cheere the sences will surprise Tast touching smelling seeing eares and eyes T is not for vnexperience to expresse Such as haue tasted will auouch nolesse Thout blesse thy God for thy Religion pure And all will in thee thankfulnesse procure And much contentment in thie course of trade How ere it with a forrainer be made When thou shalt tast from tree the forraine rare Vine iuyce the mirch and such spics are Viewing the Cloue and cinamonds delight And worldes of such a stonishing the sight Supose the pleasure and the contentation Attend the florehouses of euery nation When thou shalt saile the Course in surges high Noting thy ship mount proudly to the skie Then delue the deepe then tosse thee vp againe And curtey sporting with thee through the maine By ayd of card and compasse strangly guided And by her way those Labyrinths diuided The dolphin and huge whale swim tumbling by The mariners their trickes to gore them trie These wonders shall surpasse thy admiration Yet cleare thee with a world of contentation We speake as men conceiue vs as we say The soule we know suffied another way In midd of these shee s actiue by a hope Surmounts wide oceans in their largest scope And by a ioy in praise of God Creatour Extolling thanfully his wondrs power Lo landed now thou canst not turne thy head But cause is giuen to bee astonished To view in East the Beare and Lyon strong The Vnicorne or Elaphant high and long The heards of wilds Ele beeuer ernim Fox Such stores of treasures deluued out the rockes Those many models of ancient ruind things The rare Erections of our moderne Kings Thy eye will fixe thy heart one pleasures midd Nor wouldest thou for a world haue any hid But be spectatour t was thewisests wish Who spent much time although a prince in this And from the Cedar to the Shrub did goe The rares in stature amplier to know Yet thousands haue more pleasures vnderstood Who haue in larger trauailes bin improud T was that thy spirit shebaes queene thee blest When thou by hearing hadst bin now possest And seeing of his worthy gouernement Raised her strangely to astonishment To cry thy witt o King exceeds report Blessed was I to Iury to resort A like the sonnes of forraine trauailes cry When they the wonders where they passe suruay T was of a truth O King of Kings we said Thy wonders each way sure weare vndenayd But now behold aboue conceit we finde Fair more then could while now possesse our minde O! all thy workes great god thee each way praise Both sea and thy fame to heauen raise Our factour who in youth full dayes is sene The Merchants goods by enter cource to vent When seated in the
any growth is Egyps hate Ioseph now gone the blood hound of her fate The bondage noted and theit cryes come vp Moises is raised to beget a hope Lo hee at first saued among the reedes And mid wiues knife him there his mother feeds By pharaohs daughter fownd pitty preserud Nurst him and so 's in Pharaohs Court preserd Where he in state did forty yeares abide Whence in greate feare he downe to Midan hied Kept sheepe a while there married alterd thus The Lord accommpanies him in a Bush Sends him to court thence to redeme his land Where hee with wonders doth before Pharaoh stand Turnes waters blood brings frogs and flies and lice Murren sores thunders grashopers and nightes Instead of dayes next are there males destroyd In trauails thus is Moises now imployd Is pharoahs god the socerers Admiration Egyps scourge but deliuerer of his nation Bring Israel safe through the sea when foes are drownd Six hundred thousand strong the church is found And is to Canaan promisd traueling Hauing bene foure hundred yeares flaues to that king forty yeares trauaile hath now ere they rest Being in their trauailes wonderfully blest Apparell weares not nor dare foe withstand Pillar of fire their day stare cloud on land Forty and two great iorneyes in the wild The Rocks yeild waters are with manna fild And with all dainties still their iorneys flowe Their foes the heathen haue the ouerthrowe In view of Canaan come now Moises dies And with the rule God Iosua dignfies Who Ierico then Ay quite ouerthrowes And flayes both prince and people of their foes Thirty and one lands they in trauaile got So now the Church parts Canaan by lot Triumphs in Rule of iudges would ye know The case more cleare behold the scriptures show Nor can we christians sure be ignorant Of what the Iewes of trauaile vse to vaunt This onely this may serue to shadow foorth The Patriarckes Churches both their trauails worth About this time was holy Iob in east In mortall trauaile oh so much opprest Bereft of Children goods and freinds turne foes Be guirt by sathan round and round in woes Yet Lo when patience had her perfect aime Hee s easd of trauaile and releast of paine Come on to ruth a woman trauailer You l finde it will that weaker sex prefer From Israelles famine shee to Moab goes Where for a wife her wealthy Boaz Chose Renowned Hester of a Captine Queene Though poore remaâ—ning as a iemm vnseene Empresse of thirty two great prouinces Prouing the Churches fauster dame in these Hamans confusion Mordecayes sole raise One woman all the Churches foes ore swaies All telling plaine gods blessings where meanes want Whose loues in trauailes are the iust to plant I need not name great Dauids trauelling Before nor after he was anointed King Though as a flea by saule in trauaile chast Sauls flaine and Dauid Lord of Israell graet But to that antitipe of our redemption Ionah from plague for sin had no exemption Cast into sea the waues deny receite The whale may swallow but he may not eate But from his vaste chest cast him one the sand And after three dayes postage comes to land So now le ts hence to the churches head away Behold how he in trauailes heere doth stray While he on earth our shape did vnder goe For of his life himselfe confesseth so The foules they haue their hooles a nest each bird But I poore I no hole to hide my head His mates to trauaile chose he trauellers Ship men and fishers these our Lord preferes At Beathlem born hies to Ierusalem Taking a iorney downe to Egypt then In feare of Herods cruell bloody aime But Herod dead retireth backe againe To Gallile and Nazaret to teach And thence to Capernauum there to preach Much cares and crosses euery way enduring Yet euer teaching doing good and curing And Lo at last our Lord is first betrayd Next by another of his owne denayd Araind whipt scorned spitted and despisd And at Golgotha after crucified Our Lord and King thus trauailed below Waies of earths trauailes to vs all to shew Now out of sea in middest of many stormes And then on land in middest of many harmes In hunger thirst wants woes and trauails tryed And now with heauens high honoures dignified To tell vs all and giue vs this to know Our rest is vp aboue and not below Which apprehension moues by faith our minde To spend our trauailes heere that rest to find That graue forrunner of our Sauiour Iohn In wandring through the wildernesses knowne Hard bred with locusts and wild hony there Rough skinn and Camels haire his softest weare After all trauailes by a virgins hand Is sent to heauen the forexpected land Now Paul and Peter trauaile Christ to preach And middst the gentils Christ ascended teach In Selench Cipres Lystra Pergamus Antioch Paphos Derb and Ephesus Troas Cilicia Creet Neapolis Athens Cesarea Spain Amphipolis Macedon Tyre Samos and Milletum Phenicia Ptolomais Trogillium These for a mapp of cuntries Paul did see And lastly suffered Roman tyranny Wee l Close with Iohn to Pathmos banished So rownd about it by the spirit ledd Much wonders to him in his trauailes tould Prophesies ages since each day vn fould And hauing much foretould of Church and nations With heauens description ends his relations I my relation too of persons worth Who haue the way of christians life chalkt forth Closing as paul these clouds of witnesses Our passag cleard by worthies worlds of these Let 's arme our feble ioynts with faith passe one In trauaile to that high Imperiall throne Now that the matter each way plaine appeare Let Ciuill cases see themselues as cleare Tell of Aâ—â—illes valloures victories Aeneas great sea trauails noble prize The worthy Curios winning worlds of grownd And by partition sighing each his bownd Those three rare Decij vowd to countries good In trauaile and feirce battaile venturd blood Hectoreroy hope renowned Sceâ—uola High Pompey braue victorious sway these may With Fablos and Marcellios Roomes support And lofty Scipios valours well report Much to haue done in trauaile to regaine Their countries freedome friends and houses name Now should I downe to moderne times retire To tell the tith would Illiads require That Cordeliew his trauailes in the East And Edwards too thence Saladine supprest Wann much of that ould holy land againe Wherein both trauaild vndergoing paine Our blacke prince battailes in the spanish warr And conquests poicters tell his fathers share Henry of Monmouth rare victorious actes Our Glousters Warwicks Huntingtons high facts In trauaile eâ—ch for countrie to proceed Eliza was victorious indeed Much of her father Henries fame france sayes Both sure a spurr to our declining daies Forhish braue Drake and Candish hand in hand With Willowbeys high ventures grast our land But now by trippletye our peace combind Elizaes second