Omagu Caribana Then by Maragnon dwelt then entred fierce Bresile Then Plata's leuell fields where flowes another Nile The third Answâ—re 48 Moreouer one may say that Picne by Gronland The Land of Labour was by Brittish Izerland Replenished with men as eck by Terminan By Tombut and Melli the shore of Corican 40 But all this other world This is the first of the foresayde questions how it came to passe that the new world discouered in these latter times could be so replenished with people as the Spaniards who haue thereof written very much did finde it He speaketh of the West Jndia which is called another world or the new world for the hugenes thereof being more then 9300. leagues about as Gomara saith in his Indian Historie 1. book 12. chap. it is longer then all the other three parts of the world and two or three waies as broad as Asia and Europe laide together This quarter so great and full of kingdomes and people if it haue been long agone inhabited how hap saith our Poet the Persians Greekes and Romans who vndertooke so many farre voyages came neuer there nor once heard thereof For Ptolomee Strabo Mela and other auncient writers make no mention of it and if it were peopled but of late yeares he asketh how came so many people there so many great cities and stately monuments as Gomara Benzo Cieque Ouiede Cortes and others write of Benzo and Barthelemi de las Casas doe report that in that little the Spaniards haue there gotten within these 30. or 40. yeres they haue slaine aboue twentie millions of people vndone and brought to great distresse as many or more and wasted and vnpeopled twise as much ground as is contained in Europe and a part of Asia to that Neuerthelesse in many places and euen in Mexico New Spaine and Peru where they haue vsed all the crueltie wickednes and villanie that mans heart or the diuels rage could imagine there are yet liuing many thousand Indians Concerning the auncient Monuments of this new world I will reckon at this time but one of theÌ„ taken out of the fourth booke and 194. chapter of Gomara there are saith hee in Peru two great high-waies reaching the one through the hilles the other ouer the plaines froÌ„ Quito to Cusco which is aboue 500. leagues out right a worke so great and chargeable that it is well worthie noting that ouer the plaines is 25. foote broad and walled on either side and hath little brookes running along in it with store of the trees called Molli planted on the bankes The other is of like breadth cutting thorough the rocks and filling vp the lower grounds with stone worke for they are both of them leuell without mounting or descending any hill straight without stopping at any lake or poole In a word whosoeuer hath seene either of them will say it is a work farre surpassing all the great buildings and paued causies of the Romanes or the walles of Babylon built by Queene Semyramis or those most wonderfull Pyramides of Aegypt Guaynacapa a certaine king of the Indians who liued about 100. yeares agoe caused these wayes to be repayred and enlarged but he was not the first beginner of them as some would make vs beleeue for he could not haue finished them in all his life time and the stone-worke seemes to be much more ancient There are built vpon them a dayes iourney asunder many goodly pallaces called Tambos wherein the Court and armies of the Princes wont to lodge But Gomara sayth our Spanyards haue by their ciuil warres vtterly destroyed these causies and cut them asunder in many places that they might not come one to the other yea the Indians themselues haue broke-off and seuered their parts in time of warre Now let vs heare the Poets answere 41 VVhat then alas belike His first answere is that the people of the West Indies fell not out of the ayre as many little frogges doe in a warme shower framed by the vertue of the Sunne of the dust or vapours arising out of the earth nor that they grew not out of the ground like rootes or plants nor by any straunge and vaine inchantment as of the Serpents teeth sowne by Cadmus the Poets faine grew souldiers in complet harnesse But these they are men well-featured stout and long-liuing chiefly in the North and South-parts of the countrie where both men and women in stature strength and continuance farre excell the people of Europe Asia and Affrick The coÌ„modities they haue for health their meat drink and dwelling their ceremonies ciuil gouernment other properties duly noted by the Historians make very good proofe of the Poets saying 42 Indeed this mightie ground This new-found world is called America of the name of Americus Vespusius a certaine famous Pilot of Florence one of the first discouerers of the countrie not much more then a hundred yeares agoe His second answere is that this part of the world could not bee so soone enhabited as the other three because it is discoasted further from the plaine of Sennaar for in Asia the plaine it selfe was And Arabia being peopled Affrick was very neere at hand and Europe from the lesser Asia is parted but with a narrow Phare whereas America is farre beyond all these which way soeuer we coast He calleth Europe a learned Soyle tow'r-bearing louing-right for the number of learned men and cunning Artisans of kingdoms and states well gouerned and Fortresses that are there That after Iupiter his deer-beloued hight to weet Europa that was the daughter of Agenor king of Phaenicia For the prophane Poets faine their great god being in loue with her to haue taken the shape of a Bull and on his backe to haue carried her ouer Hellespont and therefore the place where he first landed her was called by her name From this fable seemes to be drawne the name of Bosphore which is as much to say as Bull-ferrie Perhaps this Iupiter was some notable pyrate or tyrant thereabout raigning who in a Ship called the Bull stole away some yong Lady fled for safetie into Europe These words which from cold Bosphors head Doth reach the pearly dew of Tithons saffran bed set down the length of Asia that is from the Bosphore of Thrace vnto the East-Ocean The Castile armes and lore that is the Spanish Religion and forces which Christopher Columbus brought first into America and there planted in the name of the Spanish king 43 But there the buildings The third answere is that the stately buildings infinite treasures diuers gouernements that are there will witnes that the countrie hath been long enhabited although hard it is to learne how I haue alreadie spoke of the great Causeyes of Peru. Now the sumptuousnes of Themixtetan the great citie of the kingdome of Mexico and the kings Pallaces of Peru such they are described by the Spaniards make further proofe of the Poets saying As forth vncountable wealth of the Indies it plainely
Egypt had Chus Aethiopia 8 Cham. The share of Cham was Affrick which the Poet boundeth out as followeth It hath on the Southside the Aethiopicke Ocean or the sea of Guinea the land of Negres the realmes of Cefala which commeth neere the South Tropicke and 〈◊〉 right ouer against Madagascar or as the Spanish call it the Isle of S. Laurence Botongas lower and hard by the Cape of good hope Guagamet about the lake of Zembre from whence the riuer Nile springeth as Daniell Cellarius noteth in his Mappe of Affricke and Benin that lies aboue the Equator neere the great bay betwixt Meleget and Manicongo As for Concritan that is a great wildernesse betweene Cefala and Botongas which by reason of extreame heate brings forth great store of poisonous things Now the Northbound of Affricke is the Midland sea and on the West it shooteth out three capes or promontories named in the text all toward the Atlanticke Ocean but the greene cape which is more southward and pointeth more toward the Sea called in respect of the Antarticke pole the North Sea though it lie very neere the Equator on the east of Affricke plaies the Arabian Gulfe and the great red sea now called the Indicke Ocean and beyond these bounds the Poet saieth Cham also possest Arabia which is distinguished into three parts the Happy the Desert and the Stony all enclosed by the Mount Libanus and the Red and Persian Gulfes 9 Canan He setteth downe breefly and in foure verses the seuerall abodes of Chams foure sonnes according as they are named of Moses in the tenth chapter of Genesis Chus the eldest brother had Aethiopia which some take for that vnder Aegypt others for the land of Chus which is a part of Arabia the Happy as may bee gathered by many places of the old Testament well noted of M. Beroald in the sixt chapter of his fourth booke of Chronicles Mizraim peopled Aâ—gypt that of the Hebrewes was commonly called Mitzraym and long after Aegypt of the name of King Aegyptus who succeeded Belus in that kingdome and was brother to Danaue who came into Greece and was Author of that name generall to the Grecians which as Saint Augustine thinkes De Cus Dei the eighteenth booke and the tenth chapter happened about the time of Iosua Phut the third sonne of Cham gaue name sayeth Iosephus to the Phutaeans after called Lybians of one of the sonnes of Mesren or Mizrain named Lybis Hee addeth also that in Mauritania there is a certaine riuer and countrey called Phute Ezechiel 30.5 numbreth Phut among those that were in league with Chus and Lud which the Latine interpreter translateth Ethiopia Lydia and the Lydians so also did the 70. Interp. This I say to mooue the Reader that is so delighted vnto a further and more diligent search I thinke Phut was seated neere Arabia and Aegypt although Arias Montanus and others place him in the coast of Affricke now called Barbary about Tunis â—ugie Algeri and the Mountaines of Maroco Now of Canan or Chanaan the fourth sonne of Cham was called that Land of Promise which the twelue Tribes of Israell vnder the conduct of Iosua in due time entered and possessed The bounds thereof are plainly set down in the book of Exodus chap. 23 verse 31 and elsewhere I need not here discourse of them except I were to write a longer Commentary Japhet to the North and West 10 Now Iaphet spred along from th' Ellesponticke waters Th' Euxine and Tanais vnto the mount Gibratars Renoumed double top and that sune-setting Maine Which with his ebbe and flow plaies on the shore of Spaine And from that other sea vpon whose frozen allies Glide swiftly-teemed Carres instead of winged Gallies Vnto the sea Tyrrhene Ligusticke Prouençall Moreas waters and the learned Atticall Against the goodly coast of Asâ—a the lesse The second Paradise the worlds cheife happines And that great peece of ground that reacheth from Amane Vnto the springs of Rha and pleasant bankes of Tane Aâ—â— those braue men of war that France haue ouerspred How and what natiâ—ns came of Iaphet 11 Of Gomers fruitfull seed themselues professe are bred So are the Germaneseke once called Gomerites Of Tuball Spaniards came of Mosoch Muscouites Of Madai sprong the Medes of Magog Scythians Of Iauan rose the Greekes of Thyras Thracians 10 Now Iaphet Moses reciting Genesis 9.27 how Noe blessed his two children sets downe two notable points the one concerning the great and many countries which Iaphet and his posterity should possesse the other of the fauour that God should shew them by lodging them in the tents of Sem that is by receiuing them at length into his church which hath beene fulfilled in the calling of the Gentiles For the first poynt whereas hee sayth God enlarge Iaphet For so the Hebrew word signifieth although some translate it Persuade it is as much as if hee had said Let Iaphet and his race possesse the countries round about him farre and neere And this hath also beene accomplished in that so infinite a multitude of people hath issued out of the stocke of Iaphet and peopled Europe which though it appeare lesser then the other parts hath alwaies had more inhabitants and fewer void countries The Poet hath set downe so parfite a description thereof as it needs no further to bee opened if the Reader haue neuer so little beheld the Mappes On the East it is parted from the greater Asia by the Maior Sea the Meotis Lake called by Ortelius the Zabach sea the Riuer Tane or Don which voids into the Lake and the Spring-heads of Rha Edel or Volga running by Tartarie into the Caspian Sea and from Asia the lesse sometime the honour of the world and exceeding rich as still it hath sufficient it is deuided by the Straight of Gallipoli sometime called Hellespent On the West it hath the Straight of Gibraltar the Spanish and Brittish Oceans on the North the Frozen sea and on the South the Midland sea which is diuersly called to wit the Sea of Marseil by the coast of Genes the Adriaticke about Athens and Morea and otherwise according to the places adioyning This goodly part of the world beside the Romaine Empyre hath many great kingdomes full of people well set foorth by the Card-men Daniell Cellarius accounts it in length from Lisbon to Constantinople about sixe hundred leagues Almaine and very neere as much in breadth from Scrifinie to Sicily 11 Gomer Moses reckeneth seuen sonnes of Iaphet Genesis 10.2 So doth here the Poet notstanding much vpon the order of them to follow the verse of Gomer are come the Gomerites whom the Greekes called Galates Gaules of them came the people that spoiled Delphos and then sate downe about Troas in Asia and were called Gaule-Greekes or Asian Galates who afterward seized a good part of Phrygia The Lord threatning by Exechiel 38. chapter Gog cheife of the Princes of Mesech and Tubal sayth he will destroy him with this
their length bredth and commodities I neither dare nor wil euer charge therewith my notes entended for short Besides it was not the Poets minde to hold the reader long with view and studie of such matter and questions as may be had and plainly resoiled of the Card-men 35 Now from the center-point Out of Assyria and Mesopotamia Iaphet or the next race from him drew toward the West into those places that the Poet names set downe as they are in the ancient and later Mappes of Asia and Europe I neede not mince euery word of the text Armenie is distinguished into the Great and Lesse it lieth neere the Caspian sea and coasteth toward Europe The sweete Corician cave it is in Cilicia and is described of Plinie in the 27. chapter of his 5. booke and Strabo in his 4. book and Solinus in his 51. chap. Concerning the strange matters which the Poet reports of it reade Pomponius Mela his description of Cilicia the first booke Besides many notable properties of the place he sayth moreouer that when a man hath gone there a troublesome narrow way a mile and more he shall come through pleasant shades into certaine thick woods which make a sound no man can tell how of certaine country-songs and after he is passed thorow to the end thereof he shall enter another deeper shadowe which amazeth much all that come there by reason of a noise is heard loud and passing mans power to make as it were the sound of many Cimballes These are his words Terret ingredientes sonitis Cimbalorū diuinitùs magno fragore crepitantium He sets downe also at large al other the pleasant delights of the place Concerning this musicke some thinke it a fable Others ascribe it to a naturall cause as that the ayre entring by a narrow mouth into a vault of stone wide and very deepe soone growes thereby exceeding raw and so turnes into water then dropping still downe in many places and quantities somewhat proportionable vpon the sounding stone makes in those hollow rockie places a noyse as it were musicall Taure his loftie downes this great mountaine reacheth hence well toward Pisidia Westward and on the other side a great way into Asia as Ptolomee sheweth in his first table Meander a riuer arising out of the mountaines of Pelta and Totradium in Asia the lesse it runneth thorow Hierapolis Pisidia Licaonia Caria and other countries thereabouts into the Midland sea Illios or Troas Bithynia and the rest are higher toward Hellespont and the Maior sea 36 Then boldly passing ore He spake before of Illios which lies in low Phrigia vpon the shore of the Midland sea about the Sigean Peake and the riuer Simöis hard by the Straight of Gallipolie where Abydos on Asia-side stādeth and Sestos on the side of Europe now he saith the second ouercrease of Semites past the Straight it being in breadth but the fourth part of a league as Bellon auoucheth in the 2. booke and 3. chapter of his Singularities In times past there stood two towers one in Sest the other in Abyde in the toppes whereof wont to bee set great lights to waine the marriners by night Looke what we haue noted vpon the word Phare in the first day of the first weeke verse 448. and what vpon the word Leander 1. weeke fift day 912. verse At this time Sest and Abyde are two Castles where the Turke hath Garrisons and are the very keyes of Turkie in that quarter so neere is Constantinople vnto them Strimon Hebre and Nest are three great riuers passing thorow Thrace which is now called Remania and falling into the Aegean sea called now by some Archipelago and by the Turks the White sea Look the 9. table of Europe in Ptolomee The Rhodopeā dales Rhodope is a mountaine bounding Thrace in the dales thereof beside other townes are Philippoli and Hadrianopoli Danubie or Donaw is the greatest riuer of all Europe springing out of Arnobe hill which Ptolomee and Mercator puts for a bound betweene the Sweues and Grisons this Riuer running thorow Almaine Austria Hungaria Sclauonia and other countries with them interlaced receiueth into it aboue 50. great Riuers and little ones an infinite sort so emptieth by sixe great mouthes into the Maior sea Moldauia Valachia and Bulgaria are the countries neere about the fall of Danubie 37 Thrace These countries neere the Maior and Aegean Seas and the Thracian Bosphore thrust on the third ouercrease of people further West and Northward as the Poet very likely fayth the Mappes of Europe shew plainly the coasts he nameth for their chiefe seates But to shew how and when they changed and rechanged places and names of places driuing out one the other and remouing by diuers enterspaces it were the matter of a large booke 38 Now turning to the South He commeth now to handle the Colonies or ouercreases of Chams posteritie first into Arabia Phaenicia and Chananaea which was after called Indaea the site of these countries wee know well they are easie to bee found in the generall Mappes and those of Europe beside the particulars in Ptolomee and other late writers as namely in the Theater of Ortelius When the Chamites had ouerbred Arabia and the countrie south from Chaldaea which lies betwixt th' Arabian and Persian Gulfes they went at the second remoue down into Aegypt betwixt the red Midland seas thirdly they entred Affrick and by little and little filled it The Poet points-out many countries for better vnderstanding whereof wee must cōsider that Affrick the fourth part of the world knowne is diuided into foure parts Barbaria Numidia Lybia and the land of Negroes Barbaria conteineth al the North coast from Alexandria in Aegypt to the Straight of Gibraltar along by the Midland sea and is diuided into foure kingdomes Maroco Fessa Tremisen and Tunis conteining vnder them 21. Prouinces Vnder the same Southward lieth Numidia called of the Arabiās Biledulgerid and hauing but few places habitable Next below that is Lybia called Sarra as much to say as Desert a countrie exceeding hot and marching athonside vpon the land of Negroes that the last and greatest part of Affrick reacheth South and Eastward very farre In the further coast thereof is the countrie of Zanzibar certaine kingdomes and deserts neere the Cape of good hope which is the vtmost and Southerest peake of all Affrick Corene is neer Aegypt The Punick Sea the Sea of Carthage put for the Midland that parteth Europe and Affricke asunder Fesse is the name of the chiefe Citie of that Realme in Barbarie Gogden a Prouince of the Negroes as are also Terminan Gago and Melli neere the same Argin lieth neere the White Cape Gusola is one of the seuen Prouinces of Maroco in Barbarie Dara a countrie in the Northwest of Numidia not farre from Gusola Tombuto a great countrie in the West part of the Negroes neere aboue the riuer Niger So is Gualata but somewhat higher and right against the Greene Cape Mansara which I haue put in
appeares that aboue ten thousand Myllions of golde haue been brought thence into Europe beside heapes of Rubies Emeraudes and Pearle much wracked in the sea and much brought for a yearly tribute into Spaine Whereunto I will adde what Franciscus Lopes de Gomara saith concerning the vnualuable riches of Guainacapa the name signifieth young and rich the father of Antibalippa last king of Peru whom the Spaniards put to death All the furniture of his house table and kitchin saith hee in the 120. chapter of his fourth booke were of golde aend siluer and the meanest of siluer somewhat embased with copper for the more strength He had in his wardrop giant-like images of golde liuely featured as also all kinde of beasts foules trees herbes and flowers that the land there beareth and all kinde of fishes that either the Sea there or any fresh water of his kingdome breedeth in the said mettals well and proportionably resembled not so much as cordes paniers troughes billets and other such implements but were so to conclude there was nothing in his kingdome whereof he had not the counterfet in golde or siluer Jt is also said that the kings of Peru called Ingaes haue a garden in a certaine Isle neere Puna where they delight themselues when they list take the Sea that hath in golde and siluer all hearbes flowers and trees and other things whatsoeuer meet for a pleasant garden such a sumptuous deuise as neuer was heard-of or seene elsewhere Besides all this that king last but one had gathered into Cusco huge masses of golde and siluer vnfined which the Indians hid so secretly as the Spaniards could neuer come-by it there was also in and about Cusco great store of picture-tables and tombes all of fine siluer worth some thirtie some fifty some threescore thousand ducats a peece also dining-tables vessels and images a great number all of fine golde The Spaniards at the taking of Antibalippa found as good as 252000. poundes of siluer and of golde 1300265. pezoes euery pezo valued at a ducat and a halfe Besides the great golden table of Antibalippa worth nye 40000. Crownes Now for all this great spoyle that the Spaniards got and hauock that they made as well in Peru as other the Prouinces thereabout yet the Indians as Benzo reports who stayde there with the Spaniards foureteene yeares and wrote in three bookes worthy-reading that whole storie they sticke not to say they haue yet more remaining then all that the Spaniards euer had And to make their meaning plainer they will take out of a great vessell full of wheate one graine betwixt their fingers and say See you this the Viracochie so they call the Spaniards haue taken as it were this one graine away but thus much say they poynting to the rest in the vessel thus much and more haue they left behinde them Now the word Viracochie because it comes thus in my way Benzo himselfe in his third booke saith it signifies the frother scumme of the Sea and that the Peruvians so call the Spaniards for deepe hatred and abomination of them saying also sometimes one to another in their language The winde bears downe houses and trees and the fire burnes them but these Viracochie they doe worse then winde and fire They waste all they eate all they turne the earth and all vpsedowne they turne the course of riuers they are neuer at quiet they neuer cease ranging vp and downe to seeke golde and siluer and all they finde is too little for them When they haue it what doe they They take their pleasure they warre one with another rob one another kill one another they are euer giuen to lying blaspheming and denying the same God whom they professe and these men haue cruelly slaine without cause our fathers our children and kinsfolkes taken from vs contrarie to all right our goods our libertie and countrie Hauing thus commended the Spaniards they curse the Sea for vomiting on the Earth so cruell and wicked a people and often haue vpbrayded the Spaniards themselues with this notorious reproach that golde was the Christians God O how shall this people in the latter day condemne that euer-greedy couetousnes for which Europe nowadayes heareth so ill and is by the selfe-people thereof so wasted and vnpeopled But concerning the diuers gouernements of the West Indies seeing they are set downe so well at large by Lopes Ouiede Benzo and others it is too great a matter for mee to handle in this discourse which is I feare mee growne to long alreadie therefore will I draw to an ende The Poet at the 413. verse begins to shew some likely opinions how this new-founde worlde was peopled and first in generall that the people of countries enhabited exercising their ordinary trafficke one with another might sometimes be cast by force of tempest vpon the West-Indian shore and so be constrained their shippes being broken to remaine still there Others by plague warre or famine were driuen to leaue their countries seeke some quieter dwelling farther off and so haue lighted on these new Countries Or perhaps some great man of authoritie or cunning Pilot by ventring made a discouerie thereof and ledde the ouer-creases of some people thither As the Poet sheweth more particularly in the verses following 44 Nay could not long agoe He guesseth inspeciall and most likely that the inhabitants of the furthest Northeast shore of Asia to witte the men of Quinsay and other places there might haue emptied their ouer-peopled Citties by passing the Anien Straight a part of sea no broader as he saith then the Phare of Gallipoli Gibraltare or Messine and so frō the East Indies might they haue stoared first the lande of Tolguage which Theuet in his mappe of the new world placeth betwixt the Realmes of Anian Tolm and Quiuir within 15. degrees of the North-pole then the rest as followeth 45 So from the Wastes of Tolm Quiuir In all this huge Northen part of America few people there are especially toward the coast ouer-against Quinsay and th' other East-countries There are therefore great Waste-landes as the later Card-men haue noted about the kingdomes or countries of Anian Tolguage Quiuir and Tolm aboue 12000. leagues compasse So then the Poet holds opinion that some of Sems posteritie hauing once passed from the farthest East-point of Asia ouer to the West-Indian Coast thrust their of spring farther into the land The Countries here named by the Poet are to be found in the Sea-cards and Land-mappes betwixte New-Spaine and Estotilant as if he meant that the North-part of America was first inhabited concerning the properties particular descriptions of these places reade the thirde volume of the Spanish Nauigations the second Booke of the generall history of Lopez de Gomara Chap. 37. c. the History of Florida Benzo the Reportes of Iohann s Verazzanus laques Cartier and other French Captaines concerning their discouering of the Land of Labour where the sea is frozen Baccalos New-France Canada
Chaines And that her stomachers her plate this that her traines Man may the like professe what Desert so vntrad What Hill so wild and waste what Region so bad Or what so wrackefull Sea or what so barren Shore From North to South appeers but payes him euermore Some kinde of yearly rent and grudging not his glory Vnto his happy life becomes contributorie A particular declaration of the great vse of some vnlikely creatures against the Atheist who saith they are to 〈◊〉 vse or â—â—ade by chance 65 These moores enameled where many rooshing brookes Enchase their winding wayes with glassie wauing crookes They stand for Garden-plots their herbage ere it fades Twise yearely sets on worke our two-hand mowing blades The plaine feilde Ceres heales the stony Bacchus filles These ladders of the skie these rough-aspiring Hilles The stoarehouses of stormes the forging-shops of thunders Which thou vntruly cal'st th'earthes faults shameful wonders And think'st the liuing God to say 't I am aferd Created them of spight or in creating err'd They bound the kingdomes out with euer-standing markes And for our shipping beare of timber goodly parks The same affoord thee stuffe to build thy roofed holde The same in winter-time defend thee from the colde They powre-out day and night the deep-enchanel'd Riuers That breed and beare on them to feede the neighbour liuers They remanure the lands with fruitfull cloudes and showers They helpe the Milles to turne and stand instead of towers And bulwarkes to defend Bellonaes angry wound And morter to the sea the Center of the ground The Wasternes of land that men so much amazeth Is like a common feild where store of cattell grazeth And whence by thousand heads they come our tylth to rood To furnish vs with furre with leather wood and food The sea it selfe that seemes for nothing else to sarue But eu'n to drowne the world although it neuer swarue That rumbling ouer-heales so many a mighty land Wherein the waters stead much wauing might corne stand A great store-place it is and vnd'r a watry plaine Flocks numberles it feedes to feed mankind againe And of the cates thereof are thousand cities saru'd That could not otherwise but languish hunger staru'd As doth a Dolphin whom vpon the shore halfe-dead The tyde vntrusty left when back-againe it fled It shorter makes the wayes encreases marchandise And causes day and night the reaking mists arise That still refresh our ayre and downe in water flowing Set eu'n before our eyes the grainy pipe a growing The Poet as after a long voyage landeth in France 66 But shall I still be tost with Boreas boystrous puffes Still subiect to the rage of Neptunes counterbuffes And shall I neuer see my country-chimnies reake Alas my rowing failes my boate begins to leake I am vndone I am except some gentle banke Receaue and that right soone my wrack-reserued planke Ha France I ken thy shore thou reachest me thine arme Thou opnest wide thy lap to shend thy sonne from harme Nor wilt in stranger landes I roaming step in age Nor ore my bones triumphe Bresile anthropophage Nor Catay ore my fame nor Peru ere my verse As thou my cradle wert so wilt thou be my herse The prayse of France O thousand thousand times most happy land of price O Europes only pearle O earthly Paradise All-hayle renowned France from thee sprong many a Knight That hath in former times his triumph-laurels pight Vpon Euphrates bankes and blood with Bilbo shed Both at the sunnes vprist and where he goes to bed Thou breedest many men that bolde and happie dare In works of handy-craft with Nature selfe compare Thou breedest many wits that with a skill diuine Teach Aegypt Greece and Roome and ore the learned shine As ore the paler hewes doe glister golden yellowes The sunne aboue the starres his floure aboue the fellowes Thy streames are little seas thy Cyties Prouinces In building full of state and gentle in vsages Thy soyle yeeldes good encrease thine ayre is full of ease Thou hast for strong defence two mountaines and two Seas Th' Aegyptian Crocodile disquiets not thy bankes The plaguie Lybian snakes with poyson-spotted flankes Crawle not in broken pleights vpon thy slowry plaines Nor meats an aker out by length of dragling traines No Hyrcan Tigers slight boot-hails thy vaulted hilles Nor on thy skorched wastes th' Arcadian Lion killes Thy wandring habitants nor Cairik Water-horses Drag vnd'r arowling tombe thy childrens tender corses And though like Indy streames thy fairest riuers driue not Among their pebbles golde although thy mountaines riue not With vaines of siluer vre nor yet among thy greet Carbuncles Granats Pearles are scattred at our feet Thy Cloth thy Wooll thy Woade thy Salte thy Corne thy Wines More necessary fruits are well-sufficient mines T' entitle thee the Queene of all this earthly scope Peace the onely want of France prayed-for inconclusion Peace is our only want O God that holdest ope Alwaies thine eyes on vs we humbly thee desire Quench with thy mercy-drops this Fraunce-consuming fire O make our Aïer calme deere Father vs deliuer And put thine angry shaftes againe into thy quiuer 58 O world of sundry kindes Without this discourse all that went before concerning the worldes enpeopling were to little purpose or none at all saue onely to breede many doubts in the readers vnderstanding For a man may aske How falles it out that the nations of the world comming all of one father Noe doe varie so much one from another both in body and minde The Poet therefore making this obiection most worthie to be considered giueth also answere thereunto first in generall by way of exclamation and maruaile then in particular manner setting downe some speciall reasons of this wonderfull diuersitie that appeareth in the stature complexion strength colour and custome of people wheresoeuer dispersed ouer the face of the earth The first and principall cause is Nature it selfe that is the wise prouidence of God marueilous in all his workes If God had made the earth in all places alike all flowers of one colour and sauour all beastes fowles fishes and creeping things of one kind had he made the heauen without starres or the starres all of one bignesse men all of the same hew beautie feature strength and disposition as well of body as minde the diuers colours of his infinite wisedome had not so shined in them But as he is aboue all yea onely wise good and beautifull so would he in his workes keepe a certaine resemblance of his owne perfection prouoking vs thereby daily to aduaunce and rayse our thoughtes vnto the high consideration parfite loue due reuerence of himselfe Now if we consider all his workes the light of his wonderfull glory no where appeareth more then in the diligent view of Man who is very fitly called of the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the little world For in this little table hath he lymbed-out in orient colours for all that