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The doue: or Passages of cosmography. By Richard Zouche ciuillian, of New Colledge in Oxford
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Zouch, Richard, 1590-1661.
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with Ob nor Volga's floud People anew some new vnpeopled place In guilded sculs carowsing luke-warme bloud More happy yet in spoyling States well built Then in erecting where their force hath spilt As those hayle vollies which the VVhirle-winds cast Of leaden drops from some darke molten showres Beat downe the fruit and all the fields lay wast Led by great Tamberlaine those storming Powres Forc'd Asia's Tyrant with his prostrate troope Vnder their fearefull Armes to bend and stoope Southward from China doe confining lie The Easterne INDIES whose rich golden sands Vnder conduct of greedy tyranny Oft felt the violence of warlike bands VVhich hoping to proue rich with forreyne spoyle Forsooke the sweetnesse of their natiue soyle First Bacchus did this Country ouer-runne And set vp trophees in the conquer'd East Oh would he had gone on as he begunne And neuer turned to subdue the West Might Indus bancks haue bore his branching Vines Nor Europes streams bin stain'd with sweeter wines Great Alexander next wtth powerfull might VVithout resistance did these parts subdue VVhil'st the Inhabitants not vs'd to fight Away before his Armie trembling flew Since subiect vnto him whose spacious minde Not Gange nor once farthest Gades confinde Their state most slauish Fortune miserable Their life is painefull and vnpleasing to them They others making strong are made vnable And wealth which blesseth few did first vndoe them Which is no more then hath beene seene of old They most vnhappy who haue heapt most gold Their neighbour PERSIA tride this long before Greatly presuming on her mightie treasure But fill'd with much and euer crauing more Did surfet and grow sicke with too-much pleasure For whose disease the Fates did thinke it good The Prince of Macedon should let her bloud Cyrus with Natures rarest graces blest The type of vertue paragon of Honour Pluckt from Assyria's proud Imperiall crest A Monarchs Diadem and plac't it on her Which they who follow'd but with ill successe Vnhappy soone did lose or leaue much lesse Yet since those losses somewhat haue regain'd These sometimes onely expert carpet Knights That late in Champion Field their vertue train'd Countries farre of remote now oft affrights Their mighty Sophy to that strength is growne That fear'd of others he yet feareth none The west of Asia once Earths Paradice Since subiect to the TVRKS most slauish yoke Hath seene her Cedars reaching to the Skyes Layd low by his fierce sacrilegious stroke Her glorious Kingdomes of illustrous fame Being swallow'd in the deluge of that name Downe from ARMENIA'S ruder Mountaine tops This violent impetuous Torrent fell Whose stronger source impatient of stops Orewhelmed all th' Inhabitants that dwell Betwixt the greater Sea nere Trebizond And that which washeth rich Arabians strond The CASPIAN Sea which seemes on Ocean Within his Circuits is restraind and bound But this outragious race of Ottoman Which hath no end nor limits euer found Scorning with bancks or borders to be held Hath o're Euphrates and broad Tygris sweld Great Babylon sometimes ASSYRIA'S pride By their preuailing armies ouerthrowne Their fury and their fiercenesse hauing tride Now feeles by deere experience of her owne What griefe Iudaea captiue then sustain'd When by her Riuers weeping shee complain'd Yet now no comfort can IVDAEA take In this her Neighbour nations â—uster woe Her fellowship in miserie may make Her like distressed minde like passion show Yet not bewaile it sith her losse more neare May borrow many but not lend a teare This Country by the Midland Sea confin'd VVas once a happy and a HOLY LAND To Gods owne peoples heritage assign'd Manured onely by his royall hand Then Scaene of heau'nly fauour since the Stage Of most inhumane furious hellish rage Here HE who hath the highest Heau'n his Throne The Earth his foot-stoole did vouchsafe to make His regall Presence that thrice-sacred-ONE Whose mightie vertue Diu'lish forces brake In humane nature borne to vnder-goe Our most inhumane sinne-reuenging woe O blessed Loue of Iuda's blessed King O happy Mercy of that blessed Loue Let Quires of Angels to his glory sing Let Earth beneath let highest Heau'ns aboue Assist poore Man his soules best thoughts to raise To his distressed soules Redeemers praise Hierusalem thou Iuda's choysest Cittie Beholding all his wonderfull effects Wer 't chiefest obiect of his tender pittie But yet his kindnes cruelly neglects Which foule offence deseruing thy decay Iordan may witnesse but ne're wash away Thy glory since to desolation chang'd Thy Bulwarks and faire Buildings are defaced All fauours of the Heau'ns are quite estrang'd Thy people fleeing thee else-where disgraced And Sion which did Siluer drops distill Thy Vallyes with salt teares of griefe doth fill Aboue Iudaea bord'ring on the West Of great Armenia lesser ASIA lyes Which on three sides three famous Seas inuest Once knowne so many Kingdomes to comprise Now his entire whose Tyranny so farre Sworne foe to peace hath rauaged in warre His burthen stiffe-neckt Taurus vndergoes And slye Moeander by his winding shelfe Snake-like enwreathed which so doubtfull flowes Deludes obseruers and doth loose himselfe Vnwilling his strange cruelty to see Doth euer seeke but findes no corner free Betwixt the red Sea and the Persian bay From Palaestina to the Southern Maine Famous ARABIA doth at large display Her triple-folded thrice-illustrous traine Whose riches into diuers Countries brought Are with great trauell and much danger sought To those faire parts which being farthest plac't Doe serue as Spicery to other Lands A tedious fearefull iourney must be pac't Through Rocky desarts and Wind-driuen Sands Where many Merchants trading oft haue bin Lost in the spatious Wildernes of Sin Of Baulmes and Spices well this soyle may boast Whilst Mahomet from hence first issued forth VVe enuy not the fruit of this faire coast Nor ought that to despise the colder North VVhich so great distance from those parts remou'd Haue beene no lesse by bount'ous Heau'n belou'd Afrique AFRIQVE remoued to the Southern parts In forme resembling some well-shapen shield VVould ill resist the Sunnes more piercing darts But that her vncouth monster-bearing field To Phoebus angry fury most expos'd VVithin great Neptunes Bauldrick rests inclos'd Betwixt the Midland Sea and Sanguine bay Deuided by a little tract of ground Hither from out of Asia a way As o're a straight but strong-built Bridge is found VVhere Nilus streames like many branching vaines Doe feed with plenty AEGYPTS fruitfull plaines Nature dispos'd her selfe to recreate As in her fittest worke-house here doth vse VVhich Art may wonder at not imitate Life into new created shapes t'infuse The Sun-beames serue as fire the worke to make The slymy soyle as apt each forme to take Industrious Art lesse potent not lesse proud Enuying Natures vncompared power Hath there vprais'd outreaching eu'ry cloud Many a gallant and starre-threatning Tower Whose strange sky-piercing flame-resembling spires This age distrusts Antiquitie admires Next neere those Cynthia's-kisse-aspiring Hils Where profuse Nilus hides his Bankrupt-head Those tawny troopes whose
fame all Afrike fils Vnder great PRAESTER IOHNS conduct are led By whom the Christian ensignes are retain'd But with some blots of error fowly stain'd And least some corner more diuinely blest From strange Prodigious monsters should be free A late vsurped Kingdom 's here possest By that rude AMAZONIAN Anarchy Where they who should a distaff scepters sway And Men their Wiues imperious rules obay In ZANZIBAR neare to that Southern Cape Which lately from GOOD-HOPE deriu ' his name If not by Nature many an vgly shape Haue beene brought forth by Mâ—â—ster-maâ—ing Fame Such Creatures hardly could produced be But by th' assistance of her Midwifry There headlesse some are fram'd as Momus would With eyes and mouth like windowes in their breast Others as cast in Polyphemus mould Of one Light in their fore-head stand possest Some Pygmyes Men Diminutiues maintaine Like Pawnes tall squadrons â—n a chesse-boord plaine Hence turning Northward that great Kingdome lyes Now by the name of MANICONGO knowne And riâ—h GVYNAEA whose commodities The English to their Country oft haue showne Then NVBIA Eastward whose warme sands enfold Heapes of the purest best refined gold The Laâ—â— of NEGROES is not far from thence Nearer exended to th' Atlanticke Maine VVhereiâ— the Blacke-Prince keepes his residence Attended â—y his ietty coloured traine VVho in their natiue beautie most delight And in contempt doe print the Diuell white VVith wilde Arabia LYBIA may contend A field of dangers and vnheard of feares Her sands want number and her Desarts end Inhabited by Lyons Panthers Beares Such rough possessors of so rude a soyle That none of eyther eyther would despoyle Next these the Pastures of NVMIDIA lye VVhere with their easily-remouing tents The Princes of that wandring Policie Doe follow still their Grazing Regiments And sure those Troopes are worser taught then fed VVhere Rulers by the Multitude are led From Skye-prop Atlas to that watry Plaine VVhich doth twixt Africk and faire Europe runne Oppos'd to Italy to Fraunce and Spayne BARBARIA next enioyes a milder Sunne VVhose borders sundry kingdomes doe confine Fez with Marocco Tunes Telesine FEZ long since famous for her fruitfull Vines And rich MAROCCO which with Sugred Reedes Sweetens the relish of those sharper wines VVhich th' other Countryes bruised cluster bleedes Lye next those Island in the VVesterne maine Where Fortunes first since dwelt Actaeons trayne From Carthage ruines whose yet infant State Bathed in poore Queene Didoes wronged bloud Her most strange Loue turning to stronger Hate With Rome in long-fixt opposition stood TVNIS and TESELINE deriu'd doe grow In fast-bound Friendship with great Europes foe Europe THe Complement of this inferiour Globe Faire Amphitrite Natures chiefest pride Thrice glorious with her siluer-waued robe With Islands as with Iewels beautified Within her Armes enfolded sets apart EVROPE the Earths sure Head the Worlds sound Hart. Where swift Iberus with true lowlinesse Performes his dutie to the Midland mayne The great and lesser BALEARIDES First in the Streights doe guard the coasts of Spaine Whose expert Youth were wont the smallest thing To strike far distant with their well-rul'd sling Then as the Holmes two sturdy vmpires met Betwixt the quar'ling Welsh and English tydes In equall distance each from other set As both remoued from faire Seuernes sides SARDINIA next with CORSICA doth stand Twixt the fierce Roman and fell Punick Land Triangl'd SICILY some Authors say Was once one with th' Italian Continent Till working Neptune twixt them dig'd a way With force of his three forked Instrument Rebell to Heau'n here Aetna vpward casts To daunt the Lightning Sulphure-fuming blasts Little MELITA which Paules innocence Scaping the water at the fire did trie More to the South-coast scituate from hence Hath beene renowned for their Chiualry Who driu'n from Rhodes neere Caria here withstood The profuse wasters of poore Christians bloud Next CANDY Cradle of reputed Ioue With Nectar-dropping Vines is ouer-spread Whence Eastward sacred to the Nymph of Loue CYPRVS erects her Myrtle-crowned head Well twixt these two hath Neptue put some space Whose fruits once met in one marre any place The ARCH-SEA rowling from th'vnruly North Doth seeme to threaten Candyes ouer-throw But that the troopes of CYCLADES stand forth To breake the fiercenesse of his furious blow Like Xerxes fearefull Army Asia's wonder Cutting in broken streames his strength asunder Aboue that are those STREIGHTS so much renown'd Which Europe scarce from Asia separate VVhere Helle first Leander since was drown'd By them made famous though vnfortunate Yet so from smalnesse things to Greatnesse rise The GREATER-Sea beyond this passage lyes Such is that Channell by whose slender sides As through her Sluce the vast MAEOTIS Pond Charged with full fraught Greatnesse hardly slides From out her round shores close in circling bond VVhich TANAIS falling from the frozen Hils With his cold almost Chrystall current fils Neare Tanais with Tartary confin'd Along the Northerne Ocean doth lye With wast Liuonia in the West conioyn'd The spacious Empire of vast MVSCOVY Whose Duke like Boreas in his big-built Hall Doth foes at hand affright farre off appall SVVEDEN and NORVVAY in the same degree Saue what a narrow Isthmus doth retaine Quite from the Earth almost diuided be Pull'd by the strong Arme of the Baltick Mayne Which wrong peace making Winter doth preuent And them congeal'd bindes to the Continent Next POLAND Southward doth her bounds extend Downe from Muscouia towards Hungary Which diuers other Countries comprehend Whose confines round about her confines lye Pleasant Massouia rich and fruitfull Russia Cold Pomerania and much colder Prussia Within the compasse of two goodly Riuers Savâ—s and Teissa plowd with many a floud Which vp to Ister all his store deliuers Ister disperseth to the Countries good Vnhappy HVNGARY by Nature's blest Much good possessing by much ill possest Eastward enuirond round about with Hils As with the strongest Rampires of defence In peace her Valleyes TRANSYLVANIA tils Somewhat secur'd from Turkish violence So he who to that Empire hath giu'n way Hath also meanes and power to make it stay Beyond Danubius many branching streames Which through the East of Europe stately runne Reuiued by the more relieuing beames Of a directer and more Southern Sunne Illyricum Dalmatia and Thrace Changing their names retaine their antient place THRACE on three sides is washt with Neptunes waues Yet is no fruitfull nor delightsome soyle Her old Inhabitants were old Romes slaues Her new Rome now made new inuaders spoyle Where th' Orient Empires Seat by him 's aspir'd Whose rule like Phaëtons the world hath fir'd In equall parallell to Thrace confines Antient DALMATIA through well temp'red vaines Which once diffusing her rich golden Mines Now equall bondage with poore Thrace sustaines Her low-layd Temples sleeping in the dust And brightest glory quite ore-grown with rust Below it GREECE the dismall Sepulcher Of Learning Vertue Valour Pollicy Which once were flourishing and famous there Since in rude Barbarisme doe buried lye Seemes what she