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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72942	Svvethland and Poland vvarres A souldiers returne out of Sweden, and his newes from the warres: or, Sweden and Poland vp in armes. And the entertainement of English souldiers there: with the fortunes and successe of those 1200. men that lately went thither.	Nixon, Anthony.	1610 (1610)	STC 18596; ESTC S125498	19,552	37

SVVETHLAND and Poland VVarres A Souldiers returne out of Sweden and his Newes from the Warres OR Sweden and Poland vp in Armes And the entertainement of English Souldiers there with the fortunes and successe of those 1200. men that lately went thither At London printed for Nathaniell Butter 1610. To the Reader COuntrymen I haue for your sakes drawne a Picture both of my owne and other Englishmens miseries You may in halfe an hower runne ouer these afflictions which I and the rest that smarted by them were many months enduring I know it shall be a pleasure to you to reade what wee haue selt and as great a happinesse to me who haue published this if the Story of a poore Souldiers trauels can bring you any contentment let me finde at your handes I intreate you the selfe same loue which Sicke-men receiue from their friendes when they begin to recouer And that is a kinde visitation and reioycing to see a crazed and weake body reduced to his former strength Mine I thanke God is now so and shall grow more and more into health by how much the more you pittie my misfortunes you cannot pittie them vnlesse you know them you cannot know them vnlesse you reade this ouer which I sende you and I would not willingly haue you read vnlesse you buy because you should pay for the Warres somewhat as well as I not doubting therefore of the one because I hope you desire the other I wish your owne wishes to you and so farewell A Souldiers Returne out of Sweden and his Newes from the Warres THe Oliue Tree of Peace vpon which groweth the happinesse wealth and prosperitie of euerie Kingdome hath flourished euen vp to his full height so long in England that other Countries and Kingdomes neighbouring by her beholding the blessings benefits and contentation which England hath gathered by tasting the fruites of Peace haue gotten some braunches of that Tree and by our example planted the same in their owne Dominions In doing of which the French haue filled their Coffers with Treasures which before were opened by violence empried by seditious Leagues and wasted to nothing by the miseries of a tedious and intestine warre the Spanish haue likewise with the same streame safely returned from the Mines of both Indies and richly vnladed their Argozies of Indian golde vpon their owne shoares of which golde before Peace inhabited amongst them they were euer least saue when they approached nearest home as the bringers of it from thence hither and the loosers of it there did in those times the one with ioy the other with madnes and sorrow openly testifie So that these fires whether of Ambition of Zeale or of Rage I knowe not which for many late yéeres haue named in the Low Countries had not bin kindled there I thinke the very name of Warre had bin almost forgotten and the right pronunciation of it vnknowne to these parts of christendome The violent heate of which Belgicke fires was so lasting and burned so high that it serued as a Beacon on the top of a hill to call vnto their help other forren nations who before were but lookers on and inticed them through the thirst of glory honour and fame which are gotten in the fires to become partners and sharers in the variable fortunes of those Battelles of the Dutch and Spanish Insomuch that the Drumme being vnbraced héere and hung vp by the walls as hauing no vse of such thunder amongst vs vnlesse it were for pleasure and most of our men of Action and of the Sword hearing the sound of theirs and being drawne thither I thinke it was then and is now stil possible to call together 20000. of our english nation into one place and amongst them all not to find or picke out one Souldier when in other forren realmes vext continually with vproares it hath hin and to this day is hard to call together 100000. and to cull out of them any other person but a Souldier The Schoole of Warre decaying and being throwne downe in one kingdome hath from time to time bin exected in another And as men who professe other Arts and Sciences will if they loue them truely trauell ouer the world to enrich their bosomes with the perfit knowledge of those things with which their soules are inflamed So the militarie Scholler whose best learning is Practise accounteth euery Land his owne country where this profession of Armes is held in honor and no loue of parents wife children kinred or friends hath power to kéepe him from those glorious paths of danger By this meanes many Englishmen that were borne obscurely and might otherwise haue died forgotten haue by their noble aduentures and seruices in forren realmes farre hence remoted not onely won eternall honours to their owne names but also crowned their nation and natiue country with neuer dying glories And in despite of Enuy Obliuion sworne enemies to virtue who would beat downe the memorie of such high spirits by throwing them into base and vnknowne graues Fame does euermore build vp tombs for them in her immortal chronicles Whilest all men here at home sate playing with the Sun-beames of Quietnes and that all the low Country storms began likewise to be laid downe calme so that the English souldier had no place to retire to but to come and lie idlely on the bosome of his own country behold a fresh Allarum awakes and calls him from hence into Sweden In the warres of which kingdome what hath bin done lately I meane only forsomuch as I who was a seruitor in them and am now the trumpet to proclaime mine own fortunes there haue had triall you shall now déere countrimen receiue afaithfull and honest relation Wherein I vow by the honor of a souldier and by the loue obedience and loyaltie which I owe to no other than my owne natiue countrey I will set downe nothing but that of which for the most part I haue bin Oculatus testis an eie-witnes And albeit in this relation the truth must compell me to deliuer such matter as happily may terrifie those that neuer bare Armes nor followed the fortunes of a Souldier from euer going into Sweden and to serue in those warres farre are my thoughts God beares record of them from any such disswasion sithence all men that know what belongs to the field can tell that he who vndertakes the life and condition of a Souldier must endure worse and greater miseries than I or any Englishman sent thither can vndergo in Sweden Omitting therfore the ground of their quarrell and not so much as once touching the fire that hath now so sately kindled warres betwéene the kings of Sweden and Poland because the hearthurnings of kingdomes one against an other are diseases of State and not fit to be medled with by me being beyond my cure I will write a Storie of my owne fortunes there only which begins as followeth About a fortnight before Midsomer which was 1609. a company of Voluntaries