malâ gentibus intulit That is the bold sonne of Japhet brought fire by craft among the Nations Of this matter the Poets haue set forth many fables the true drift whereof our Author sheweth in a word Looke what I haue noted vpon the 707. verse of the sixt day of the first weeke The rest of this place is easie to be vnderstood 30. As is a pebble stone A fine similitude concerning the aforesaid matter to shew how all the Arts began from the plaine of Sennaar to spread by little and little ouer all the world 31. For from Assyria He beginneth here to treat of the more particular peoplings And first he sheweth how the posteritie of Sem began to fill Asla Their first oute-ease leauing the coast of Assyria bent toward the East Of this riuer Hytan Plinie saith 6.23 Carmaniae slumen Hytanis portuosum auro fertile Looke Solinus cha 67. They hauing peopled this quarter thrust on further toward Oroatis a riuer of Persia whereof Plinie faith in his 6. booke the 23. Flumen Oroatis oslio dissicili nisi peritis Insulae 2. paruae inde vadosa nauigatio palustri similis per curipos tamen quosdam peragitur and in the 25 chap. Persidis initium ad Flumen â—roatin quo diuiditur ab Elimaide Read also the 24. chapter of the said booke of Plinie for the better vnderstanding of their dwelling here Then they drew further forth into Persia towards the Citie of Susa close by the which Coaspis runneth such is the sweetnesse of that water that as Plinie Soline Plutarch and others record the Kings of Persia drinke of none other So they came into the valleys of the famous hill Caucasus where dwelt the Parthians whose Kings were commonly called Arsaces From hence into Medie and lastly vp higher toward the Hyrcanian or Caspian lake Looke Ptolomie in his first second and third table of Msia Mercater Ortelius Cellarius and Theuet All these remoues are contained within the compasse of fiue or six hundred leagues 32. These mens posteritie He setteth downe in foure verses the chiefe countries peopled by the second ouercrease of Sems Issue The land fronting Cheisel is a part of Tartarie not farre from the Caspian sea whereinto that riuer falleth and riseth neere the wildernesse of Lop aboue Tachaliston which is a great Countrey neighbour to the mountaine Imáus Charasse Charassan or Chorasan it is a Countrey that lies betweene Isligias Bedane and Tacalistan which I note more particularly then I finde in the French Commentary because there is so little difference of letters betweene that and the name of Carazan whereof the Poet speaketh in the fourth verse following This Charasse Gadel Cabul Bedane and Balistan are prouinces enclosed by the riuer Indus the mountaine Imaus the Caspian Sea and realme of Persia a circuit of land somewhat more then 600. leagues 33 Their of-spring afterward He commeth to the third ouercrease of the Semites who went forth Southward as well as North and Eastward The inhabitants of Cabul thrust forward their Issue toward Bisnagar a rich countrey of South Asia lying betweene the Persian sea and the Gulfe of Bengala Narfinga for so I haue translated the French Nayarde is a kingdome lying yet lower and very rich That plenteous land that Ganges thorow-flowes it containes the higher India where are many wealthy kingdomes set forth well at large in the Maps as Cambaie Decan Bengala Pedir c. Toloman is further vp toward the North. Aua is beyond the Gulfe of Bengala toward the East about Pegu and Siam countries of infinite wealth Mein on the West hath Ganges on the East Macin on the South Bengala and on the North Carazan which the Poet surnameth Muskey because there is great store of the best Muske Lop a Desert thirty dayes iourney ouer lying yet higher Northward It seemes the Roet followes the opinion of M. P. Venet who in the first booke of his Tartarian Historie chap. 35. makes very strange report of the fearefull sights that the poore passengers there meete with often to the losse of their liues Not vnlike it is that certaine legions of cuill Spirits there abiding haue had some speciall power giuen them so to punish the Idolatrous Mahometists who still inhabit those quarters The Poet saith all che countries marching this Wildernesse were peopled by this third outerease of the Semits It is an opinion somewhat likely and thereon I rest vntill I heare some other if it be possible giue more certaine intelligence of the matter 34. Long after sundry times He speaketh of the fourth and last ouercrease of Sem. Tipura a Countrey breeding many Rhrinocerots which according as the Greeke name signifieth I haue translated horny-snouted beasts read the description of them in the exposition of the fortieth verse of the sixt day of the first weeke this Tipura lieth Eastward aboue Toloman betwixt Carazan an Caichin or Gaucinchine for so I haue translated it hath on the West Tipura and Toloman on the South Campaa on the North China and Mein and on the East the East-Ocean a land very large and bearing great store of Aloës Mangit is farre vp in the North so is also Quinsai Ania and Tabin one aboue another euen vnto the Anien Straight and Seythicke Ocean By this description plaine to be seene in the Maps of Asia the Poet meant to shew vs all the seuerall remoues of Sems posteritie who not passing beyond the Anian Straight might long content themselues with â—o large a portion as Asia containing aboue foure thousand leagues of ground As for the particular description of these Countries their length breadth and commodities I neither dare nor will euer charge therewith my notes entenâ—ed for short Besides it was not the Poets minde to hold the Reader long with view and study of such matter and questions as may be had and plainly resoiled of the Card-men 35. Now from the center-point Out of Affyria 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 Maps of Asia and Europe I neede not mine 〈◊〉 euery word of the text Armenis is distinguished into the Great and Lesse it lieth neere the Caspian sea and coasteth toward Europe The sweete Corician caue it is in Cilicia and is described of Plinie in the 27. chapter of his 5. booke and Strabo in his 4. booke and Solinus in his 51. chapter Concerning the strange matters which the Poet reports of it read Pomponius Mela his description of Cilicia the first booke Besides many notable properties of the place he saith moreouer that when a man hath gone there a troublesome narrow way a mile and more he shall come through pleasant shades into certaine thicke 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 shadow 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 Cimbals These are his words Terret ingredientes sonitu Cimbalorum diuinitùs magno fragore crepitantium He sets downe also at large all 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 entting by a natrow 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 lostie 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 runneth thorow Hierapolis Pâ—sidia 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 Sin Sis hard by the Straight of Gallipolie where Abydos on Asia-side standeth 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 nuoucheth in the second booke and third chapter of his Singularities In times past there stood two towers one in Sest the other in Abyde in the tops whereof wont to be set great lights to waine the marrinets 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 first 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 neare is Constantinople vnto them Strimon Hebre and Nest are three great riuers passing thorow Thrace which is now called Romania and â—alling into the Aegean sea called now by some Archipelago and by the Turkes the white sea Looke the ninth table of Europe in Ptolomee The Rhodopean 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 Slauonia and other countries with them interlaced receiueth into it aboue fifty great Riuers and little ones an infinite sort so emptieth by six great mouthes into the Maior sea Moldauia Valachia and Bulgaria are the countries neare about the fall of Danubie 37 Thrace These countries neare 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 saith the Maps of Europe shew plainly the coasts he nameth for their chiefe seats 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 in Arabia Phaenicia and Chananaea which was after called Iudea the site of these countries wee know well they are easie to be found in the generall Maps and those of Europe beside the particulars in Ptolomce and other late Writers as namely in the Theater of Ortelius When the Chamites had ouerbred Arabia and the countries South from Chaldaea which lies betwixt the Arabian and Persian Gulfes they went at the second remoue downe into Aegypt betwixt the red and 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 consider that Affrick the fourth part of the world knowne is diuided into foure parts Barbaria Numidia Lybia and the Land of Negroes Barbaria containeth all the North coast from Alexandria in Aegypt to the Straight of Gibraltar along by the Midland sea and is diuided into foure Kingdomes Maâ—oco Fessa Tremisen and Tunis containing vnder them 21. Prouinces Vnder the same Southward lieth Numidia called of the Arabians Biledulgerid and hauing but few places habitable Next below that is Lybia called Sarra as much to say as Desert a countrie exceeding hot marching athonside vpon the Land of Negroes that the last and greatest part of Affricke reacheth South and Eastward very farre In the further coast thereof is the countrie of Zaâ—zibar certaine kingdomes and deserts neare the Cape of good hope which is the vtmost and Southerest peake of all Affrick Corâ—ne is neare Aegypt The Punick Sea the Sea of Carthage put for the Midland that parteth Europe and Affrick 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 neare the same Argin lieth neare the White Cape Gusola is one of the seuen Prouinces of Maroco in Barbarie Dara a country in the North-west of Numidia not farre from Gusola Tembuto agreat countrie in the West part of the Negroes neare about the Riuer Niger So is Gualata but somewhat higher and right against the Greene Cape Mansara which I haue put in for the verse sake as I left out Aden it lies neare Melli vpon the lowest mouth of Niger By Aden that the French hath I take to be meant Hoden which is betwixt Argin and Gualata or somewhat lower The Wildeâ—nesse of Lybie is surnamed Sparkling because the sands there ouerchafed with a burning heat of the Sunne flye vp and dazle mens eyes Cane Guber Amasen Born Zegzeg Nubie Benim all are easie to be found in the Mappe neare about the Riuer Niger sauing Benim which is lower by the Gulfe Royall and Nubie higher toward Nilus Amasâ—n which I haue added is a great countrie neare the place where Niger diueth vnder the Earth From these quarters South and Eastward lies the great Ethiopia a countrie exceeding hot sandie and in many places vnhabitable because of the sands which by the wind are so moued and remoued oftentimes that they ouer-heate and choke-vp diuers great countries that might otherwise be dwelt in There the great Negus called Prester-Ian raigneth farre and neare His Realmes Prouinces Customes Lawes Religion and the manner of his peoples liuing are set forth at large by Franciscus Aluares is his Historie of Ethiopia that is ioyned with Iohannes Leo his description of Affrick 39 If thou desire to know Hitherto the Poet hath told vs how Asia Europe and Affricke were peopled by the successours of Noe. But he hath not
it had a being So first the great Three-One with drift ingenious Diplaid of shining heau'n the curtaine precious And as vpon a slate or on a painters frame The shape of things to-be portrayed on the same Loe is not there the draught of some gold-sandy brooke On the beauens are the models of all on earth That on this azure ground glydes as it were acrooke There softly fannes a Rav'n here swiftly an Eagle driues There walloweth a Whale and here a Dolphin diues A Dragon glisters here a Bull there sweating frets Here runs the light-foot Rid and there the horse curuets What thing so goodly abides in ayre at sea aground But some right shape thereof in heau'n aloft is found Our ballances our crownes our arrowes darts and maulles What are they but estreats of those originals Whereof th' Almighty word engroue the portraiture Vpon the books of heau'n for euermore t' endure 28 But what quoth Phaleg Phaleg asketh Heber concerning the two Globes that Astronomic held in her hands Heber makes answer that in her right hand is the Globe of Sea and Earth and because there-ouer could not be painted the Elements of Aire and Fire nor ouer them the heauens of Starres wandring and fixed the Primum mobile and Empirean they are all here together tepresented by ten Circles whereof I shall speake hereafter but first concerning the Seas interlacement with the Earth to make on Globe 29 The Sea doth cou'r all eu'ry where But onely in certaine parts dâ—sparpled here and there All the points hence arising tò be considered may be drawne to eight Articles 1 Concerning the diuers names of the Sea 2. Concerning the place or Channell thereof 3. To shew the parts thereof and whether it composse the Earth and how 4. Why it is not encreased by the waters continually falling into it 5 Concerning the Ebbe and Flow. 6. Why the Sea-water is salt 7. Of the Enterlacement of the Sea with the Land 8. Whether the Earth be round or flat Of them all in order 1 For the Names of the Sea it is called of our Poet Th' Ocean Neptune Neree and La-Mer Some thinke this last was drawne from the Latine Amarum because the Sea-water is salt and bitter Why not rather of Mare which commeth of Marath signifying the same The word Ocean hath diuers Etymologies For Suidas holds the Sea so called of a priuatiue turned into 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 diuido because the waues thereof so follow one another as they cannot be seuered Others deriue it of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that signifies Swift because the Sea hath so quicke a continuall motion The other two names are meerely poeticall and vsed by a Metonymie 2 Now concerning the place or Channell of the Sea It is said in the 33. Psalme That God hath gathered the waters together as into a vessell and heaped them vp as a treasure Whereto not vnlike is the Philosophers opinion that the Earth is the Center of the world girt and compassed though here and there vncouered by the Sea which also falles-into and filles vp the hollow deepes thereof and so becomes a huge masse and treasure as it were of waters from whence the Diuine prouidence drawes innumerable Riuers to runne thorow the vaines and ouer the face of the Earth And further that the Sea is not only the receptacle of all riuers thereinto falling but is also the great store-house of waters both for the Earth and Sunne which haling-vp the steeme of waters from Sea to mid region of the Aire makes thereof diuers Meteors but most store of Raine Our Terrestriall Globes and the report of Pilots and Nauigators that within this hundred yeares haue tâ—auelled all Seas make-good that is said of the great bed or channell of the waters And thereto also accords that which Ouid hath 1. Metam Tum freta dissundit rapidisque tumescere ventis Iussit ambitae circundare littora terrae Then spred the Seas them bad with boistrous wind To swell and all the Shores of Earth imbind 3 Whereas it hath beene aforesaid in ordering the Elements that the Water is aboue the Earth this breeds a scarre to the third Article for if the Sea lye higher then the Land and doth the same round about enuiron how comes it to passe that the Land is not ouerflowed thereby Considering this Element is not easily kept within bounds but of a moist and flowing nature still running downward But this is before answered in the second Article where it is said that the Sea is gathered together on a heape to a large compasse so as the parts thereof next the land tending toward the proper Center of their whole masse draw not from but rather to the Sea which hath for maine bed or channell that large extent of the East West Oâ—ean where what doe we see to speake of but waters For a few Islands here and there scattered are nothing to the huge wasternes of the Sea And that is moued three kinde of waies One way as it is Water another way as it is the Sea the third as it is accidentally forced by the winds Of the later I will not here speake but of the two former together It is the nature indeed of all water to runne downwards but the Sea as well in proper channell where it is hoised farre aboue the land as also in the parts and armes thereof hath set-limits and bounds which it cannot passe For so Almightie God the Creator hath ordained who shut the Sea with doâ—res when it bâ—ake forth as if it had issâ—od out of the wombe Iob. 38.8 Who bound the Sea with Sand by a perpetuall decree which it cannot passe and though the waues thereof tosse themselues yet can they not preuaile though they roare yet can they not passe ouer it Ier. 5.22 and diuers like places there are in holy Scripture Now whereas the Sea and Land doe make one Globe together certaine it is that the highest part of the Land is commonly furthest from the sea as plainly appeares by the current of Riuers and the highest of Sea furthest from Land This also is proued by diuers of the learned and men expert in Nauigation who say that comming to land they perceiue the Sea still to decline and that vnder the Equator it is higher than in any place else the reason is I thinke because there it hath in furface the largest compasse and highest Arch of a Circle or Globe as appeares by the Card. How then doth the Sea compasse and enuno on the whole Earth First by the great body thereof which is the Ocean then by the Midland-sea the Sound and other like Bayes by the Cimbrian Arabian Persian Gulphes and many other little Seas and great Riuers which are to that bodie as armes legges vaines and haire whereby it is ioyned to the Earth The particulars of both are plainly set forth vnto vs both in our globy and flat Mappes of the world
that I need say no more of them 4 For the fourth Article we must consider this that the Earth so enuironed with Sea is a spongie poicus body full of channels conduit-pipes both neare her ouer-face and thorow her inner parts euery way whereby it comes to passe that all the great streams arising of little springs and fountaines farre from Sea and before they come there encountring and bearing with them an ininite company of land flouds brookes and small tides yet encrease not the Sea which affords so much water to the whole Earth by her secret waies afore-said As for the Snow and Raine which falleth sometime in great plentie to encrease the waters this is but an exchange that the Aire still makes in paying that againe which it borrowed of the Sea Yet aboue all is the power and wisdome of God the Creator to be thought-on who by his onely will and command keepes so the waters heapt-together in his great Magazin of the Sea which otherwise both by reason of their nature and daily encrease would ouerflow all as they did before God commanded the dry-land to shew it selfe then fled they at the voice of their Maker as it is said in the 104. Psalme And beholding the shore stopt their course there yea ran againe backward as fearing their Master 5 Hereupon it folleth out fit that I speake somewhat of the Seas Ebbe and Flow. This is the right and proper motion thereof considered not as water but as the Sea The Poet in the third day of his first weeke shewes diuers opinions concerning this Ebbe and Flow. Some thinke that when the waters were first commanded to retire and shew the dry-land God gaue them this perpetuall motion which as a ballance whereof the Equator is beame doth rise and fall without ceasing and hath this vertue from the Primouable and shall continue it to the worlds end But the learneder sort hold the Moone by her diuers apparitions of waxing and waining to cause this motion of the Sea Whereunto the Poet also in place aboue-quoted seemes to encline Some say also the Sunne helpes it forward and breeds great alteration in the masse of waters by his great heat and brightnesse because it is obserued that alwaies when the Sunne and Moone are in coniunction the Seas Ebbe and Flow is greatest but this also comes specially by the Moone as by some reasons here following shall further appeare The holy Scripture indeed here as all where else mining the wonderous order of Nature teacheth vs to lift vp our thoughts to God the Creator who stirres and stayes the Sea how and when it pleaseth him yet may we say neuerthelesse that herein he commonly doth vse the seruice of second causes though keeping still to himselfe the soueraigne authority ouer them all so as he can hinder change and vtterly destroy them at his pleasure With this acknowledgement consider we these Inseriour causes Plutarch in his third booke of the Philosophers Opinions Chap. 17. showes what they thought of old time concerning the Tâ—des and alterations of the Sea Some he saith ascribe the cause of them to the Sunne and Winds others to the Moone a third sort to the high-rising of waters in generall a fourth to the swelling of the Atlanticke Sea Now he distinguishes the motion into three kinds to wit the Streame and that is naturall the Floud and that is violent the Ebbe and that is extraordinarie As for the Floud it is a motion of the Sea water rising and falling twice in some and twentie houres whereby the Sea is purged and cleansed by certaine periods answerable to the rising and setting of the Moone It is in the nâ—ame Ocean open to the winds that the sloud is strongest but appears chiefeâ—y by the shore-side where it is not checkt or staid by some islaÌ„ds The Midland Sea hath not the Tide In the Adriatike and other like Bayes there is searse any The Baltique hath none at all because it is so straightned and bound with land euery way and is so full of Islands If the Moone be in the waine or past the first quaâ—ter the Tide is euery where weake but neare the new Moone or full it waxeth very strong and this is held to be the reason because this Planet being so neere vnto vs and hauing Domimon ouer all moisture encreaseth the waters and drawes them to and fro as she riseth or setteth for where she setteth vnto vs shee riseth vnto the other Hemisphere The Ebbe and Flow is sometime more slow and gentle sometime more swift and violent according as the Moone waineth or waxeth but herein must we note also the diuers seasons of the yeare together with the winds which helpe or hinder much the Tides and cause them to runne more swift or slow This power hath the Moone by motion of the Primouable which maketh her tise and set as the Sunne and other Starres doe in the space of a day When she riseth the sea begins to swell till shee come to the Medridian or Moone-line of any place and from thence abateth all the while she is tending to the set then the Sea descends with her till she come toward the Counter-Meridian where the water is againe at the highest and falles till she rise againe to this our Hemisphere So whereas the Tides keepe no certaine hower but are sometime sooner sometime later the cause is that though the Moone be whirled about with motion of the Primouable yet hauing proper motion in latitude of the Zodiacke thwarting that other she riseth not alwaies at the same time nor in the same Signe not with the same light and distance from the Sunne nor with the same coniunction and aspect of other Planets and fixed Stars all which cause a difference and are some more some lesse disposed to the encrease of waters And these Sea-waters doe also much differ in nature Some are cleare and purified and haue roome enough these flow moderately but higher others muddy thicke and kept-in with straights which runne with more violence though not with so high a Tide This hath God appointed to cleanse and preserue the waters for in time of calmes they grow ranke and the Sea sends-vp ill vapours being the great sinke as it were of corrupt matter which is to be scummed and cleansed by the Tides and winds These also doe serue for Nauigation but chiefly to magnifie the Creators wonderfull power when wee see thereby and consider how truly it is said in the Psalme 107.23 and 24. They that goe dawne to the Sea in shâ—ps and occupie their busiaesse in great waters doe see the workes of the Lord and his wonders in the deepe c. For that huge masse of salt-water yeelds it selfe captiue as it were to the Moone-beames and thereby is easily commanded I will enter no further into the cause of this Miracle but lest I be too long in these notes leaue those to search it deeper that are more able 6 Concerning
PART OF DV BARTAS ENGLISH AND FRENCH AND IN HIS OWNE KINDE OF Verse so neare the French Englished as may teach an English-man French or a French-man English Sequitur Victoria junctos With the Commentary of S. G. S. By WILLIAM L'ISLE of Wilburgham Esquier for the Kings Body Sufficit exiguâ fecisse in parte periclum Haec Regi placeant sic quoque caetera vertam LONDON Printed by IOHN HAVILAND M.DC.XXV A Pastorall Dedication to the King I Soong of late as time then gaue me scope Howbee't for other times a way left ope But now as now to th' end my Lord may heare My voice then hoars to day is waxen cleere My former Shepheards song deuised was To please great Scotus and his Lycidas But this for Galla whom th'All-mightie power Hath made a Lilly-Rose and double flower O Vally Lilly and Sharon-Rose her blesse Though this good speed preuēted hath my presse Else had I not this peece of booke alone But whole Du Bartas offred at your throne For either nation counterpaged thus T' acquaint more vs with them and them with vs. Yet o vouchsafe it thus and grant an eare To these two Swains whom I ore-heard whilcare As Shepheard Musidor sate on a balke Philemon commeth to him and they talke Least on quoth he my tongue ore-often run Thus each with oth'r I stay till they haue done Phi. Good day what not a word how dost thou fare Or art thou sicke or takest thou some care Mu. Care Shepheard yea to shew what ioy I can Ph. How that 's a riddle what 's thy meaning man Mu. For sith a Nymph a daught'r of Shepheards God Who rules a world of sheepe with golden rod From loftie shrine descending yet will daigne To stoope at this my cottage homely-plaine And of her fauour make herselfe the guage To me that ought her seeke on Pilgrimage Phi. Oh now I see whereon thy mind is bent How to prepare fit entertainement Mu. What shall behooue me do or how to looke For though I pawne my fairest pype and hooke That one which Damon gaue me by his will That other woon in game on Magog hill I le entertaine her She I pawne my life Will proue the greatest Kings child sister wife I le entertaine her If I not mistake Some Wheat-floure haue I for a bridall-cake And Abricots and Plums blacke red and white Preseru'd with hony cleere as chrysolite And nuts and peares and apples prety store My poultrie will affoord me somewhat more Except the Fox deceiue me Phi. Shame him take Oft hath he made our Chaunticleer to quake But Creame and Butt'r is skarce yet out of horn And all Achats this yeare apprize to corn Mu. I nothing buy nor haue I much to sell Store is no sore my house it finds full well For there is corne and milke and butt'r and cheese Thankes vnto Pales then if please my bees That waxen wasps when any shrews do fret them But if I may by gentlenesse entreat them To lend m' a combe as sweet as is my guest Enough it will be for a Sheepheards feast Phi. Thou mak'st me think of my great gransirs cheere That would but did not Ouid. 8. Mei de Philemone Baucide Vnius anser eral minuna cuslodi◠villae kill for Iupitere And that he would was but a single goose The Sentinell of that skant furnisht house Mu. I know the Gods do hart and welcome prize Aboue great store of cheere and sacrifize Phi. True and their cheere some more some lesse by rate Not of their owne but of their hosts estate Mu. I haue a flocke too Pan I praise therefore Though not so fat as hath beene heretofore But I le receiue this guest with such deuice As Shephard best becomes no Muse is nice They quickly yeeld to grace a Pastorall Vranie Thalie Calliop and all Such I prepare and they will all be here With all the musicke of their heauenly queere Phi. But how I pray thee as thou lou'st the kirke Wilt thou deuise to set them all awerke Mu. I haue a pricke-song for Calliope To trie her voice in euery moode and key And she shall sing the battell of those Rammes Who to th' affrighting of our tender lambes In riualling for Helens of the flocke Affront each other with a cannon knocke Some faire Ewes wool-lock wearing each in horn Or other fauour as they wont toforn At feast of Gor good Shepheard that of yore Embrew'd the Crosier-staffe with Dragons gore This order shall she sing of all most liefe Because my faire guest weds thereof the chiefe Ph. So for Calliope What for the rest Mu. In Orchard that my selfe with care haue drest My rarest tree it beares but only seau'n Hath apples streaked like the Globe of Heauen On one of them Vranie shall discourse Of euery starre the setting and the sourse And shew the Bride and Bridegroome all confines Of his and her land by the mid-day lines Ph. Were lines of length and breadth like-easly seen It were not heard Mu Then on the flowrie green Or in my garden shall Thalia sing How diuers waies dame Flora decks the Spring And how she smiles to see May after May Draw'n-out for her to tricke this Ladies way With diuers kinds of diuers-colour'd flow'rs Some strew'd aground soe hanging on the bow'rs As curious writers wont embraue their Text With new and gueason words Phi. On on to th' next Mu. Well-pleasing Euterp shall the next in order With gentle breath enwhisper my Recorder And after playing sing and after song Trull-on her fingers all the cane along High low amids now vp now downe the key With Re-Mi-Fa-Sol and Sol-Fa-Mi-Re Declaring how by foure the selfe-same notes Are set all tunes of Instruments and Throates Which are to sound the Queenes sweet harmonie Both of her minde and bodies Symetrie Ph. As I haue heard report such if it be Mu. Fy-on that If Ph. Deserues it only she Mu. But I proceed On harpe shall Polymnie Renew great Orpheus sacred memorie For louing only one and her so well That he assayd to fetch her out of Hell Phi. So Poets say but such come neuer there From death perhaps Mu. So would I do I sweare For such a wife Phi. So would not I for mine But now the rest for here 's but fiue of nine Mu. Sweet Erato that sets my guest a fire Shall play the romant of her hearts desire So bee 't her Grace it hold no disrepute To heare it charmy-quauerd on her lute Then shal the Bride-maids the Bride-men dance The Men of England with the Maids of France And sing with Venus Cupid Himene This Madrigall set by Terpsichore Spring-Quyristers record this merry lay For Galla faire to day Goes forth to gather May. Grow all the Ground but chiefely where she goes With White and Crimsin Rose Her Loue is both of those She shall him choose and take before the rest To decke her lockes and brest And both shall be
so blest That they and theirs shall golden Scepter weild Whereto must bow and yeild The proudest plant afeild Ph. So here is worke for Muses all but two What hast thou more Mu. Enough for them to do Ph. Nay vse but Clio leaue Melpomene Mu. Why leaue her out a stately Muse is she Ph. But still so sad with looke cast-downe on earth I doubt hir presence will defeat the myrth Mu. No no I will not part her from the Queere But fit her humor and to mend the cheere Out-set all other wofull destinie My fattest lambe shall make a Tragedie And sing the Muse will of no greater bug Then warre betwixt a yong child and his dug Controuling some though not of high degree As cause thereof ye Ladies pardon me The melancholie Muse yet saith not I All that your Sex dishonour I defie But your faire bottles Melpomen doth thinke Dame nature fill'd for your faire bab's to drinke Ph. Milke would she giue else only to the poore Not vnto such as drye't and spill'c a floore Mu. And this 't is like shee 'll adde vnto the rest That Ladies child deserues a Ladies brest That brauer spirit suckt shall more embraue him And make him man-grown like a knight behaue him P. Whē others make their gētle blod far-wors◠By sucking young the basenesse of their nurse Mu For as their Heathen gods the Heathen sayn No mortall blood had running in their vain But Venus wounded once by Diomed Ambrosian liquor at her finger shed Right so in blood of men there is great odds And such among them as are stiled Gods The finest haue to breed their children food Blood was late milk and milk will soone be blood Ph. And some loue more as cause of better luck Then wombe that bore them paps that gaue them luck What parent would not such a reason moue Drawne from the gain or losse of childrens loue Mu. I once beheld where Lady of high degree As with her Lord and others set was she In mids of dinner had her child brought-in And gaue it suck scarce shewing any skin Through ynch-board hole of silk pinn'd vp againe When child was fed without more taking paine Ph. And is not this instinct through all dyssown That eur'y femall hatcheth-vp her owne Well make an end Mu. How can I be too long When Muses beare the burden of my song But here 's a Trumpet Fame selfe hath no better And Clio sounds it well and I 'le entreat her Hereafter sing on high what foe shall bow To th' issues of this happie match but now To surd it as young trompeters are wont And lest it sound too lowd set stop vpon 't Yet first bid welcome with a cheerefull clank The French Deluce to Brytaines Rosy bank Phi. Well fare thine heart for thinking on these things To please the children of so mighty Kings My selfe though poore wil thereto ioine my myte On solemne day so leaue thee for to night Mu. And I so thee time is our sheepe were penn'd The Sunne is soonken at the Landskop end Then Musidor made haste home and began Take order for the busines with his man Wife had he none the more was he distrest See lad quoth he the house and garth well drest To morrow morn for then or soone at least The sweetest Nymph on earth will be my guest Without plash thistles and presumptuous thorns That neare the way grow-vp among the corns For feare they rase her hands more white thē milke Or teare her mantles windy-wauing silke Withìn if Spiders heretofore haue durst With cunning webs where through the stronger burst And weaker flies are caught presume to quyp The sacred lawes of men with besome stryp Both web and weauer downe be-rush the floore The porch and th'entries and about the doore Set eau'n the trestles and the tables wax And strew the windowes house that mistres lacks O how quoth he and deeply sigh'd therat 'T is out of order wants I know not what Haue care my lad and be as 't were my sonne He lowted low and said it should be don Much hereto more was written when the Queene Her beautie shat'd your sea and land betweene But after landing long will be my booke Held vnder presse on part then please you looke Till come the rest but ô with gratious eye And pardon for applying Maiestie To Shepherds stile so may you see conspire Th'English and French as no third tongue comes nigher No not the Greeke vnt ' either though Sir Stephen Hath made the same with French to march full As doth our English and it shall yet more Now heart and hand ye Princes ioyne wherefore eauen I pray and will with Hymen all mine houres That for the good successe of you and yours While earth stands Cent'r and Heau'n in circle goes Together spring French Lillie and English Rose Your Maiesties faithfull subiect and seruant W. L'isle To the Readers COnyes whom Salomon reckons among the wise Little-ones vpon earth do make many skraplets and profers on the ground before they dig earnestly for their neast or litter and writing-schollers draw first in blotting paper many a dash roundell and minime before they frame the perfect letters that shall stand to their coppie so entending some worke that may if I be so happie remain some while after me many waies do I essay and try first my stile and pen that according also to the wise rule of Horace I may thereby iudge my selfe and discerne quid valeant humeri quid ferre recusent Nor do I trust my owne iudgement herein so likely to be partiall but commonly present my worke in writing before it bee printed vnto some Quintilius or other whose noble disposition will authoritie may and learning is able to find fault and aduise me Yet among the sundrie versets or prosets which besides this I haue or shall set-out if you find some that sauour of my younger time passe by them I pray you or affoord them the fauour that my Quintilius doth to let them passe because they were the way that led me to a grauer kind as also the grauest of humain Poetrie brought me at last to the diuine whereof I haue many Essayes now almost readie for the presse This translation of Salust du Bartas what present occasion draweth from me you may well perceiue yet thinke me not herein Acta agere to do that which was before done and very well by Iosua Siluester for it is in a diuers kind and many yeares ere he began this had I lying by me yea partly published in print as Anno 1596 Anno 1598 and dedicated to the late Noble Charles Earle of Nottingham But now the cause why in this I beginne so abruptly is for that I was loth to come neere the booke next aforegoing which our late Soueraigne Lord King Iames in his youth so incomparably made English yet had I a desire to fall vpon that braue commendation of our late Soueraigne Ladie Queene Elizabeth
will sooner mount and light aire downward presse Then how thou'lt aske me come these huge and raging floods That spoile on Riphean hils the Boree-shakeÌ„ woods Drowne Libanus and shew their enuious desires To quench with tost-vp waue the highest heau'nly fires He aske thee Cham how Wolues Panthers from the Wild This refutes all the obiections of Atheists At time by Heau'n design'd before me came so mild How I keepe vnder yoke so many a fierce captiue Restored as I were to th' high prerogatiue From whence fath'r Adam fell how wild foule neuer mand From euery coast of Heau'n came flying to my hand How in these cabins darke so many a gluttonous head Is with so little meat or drinke or stouer fed Nor feares the Partridge here the Falcons beake pounces Nor shuns the light-foot Hare a Tygers looke or Ounces How th' Arch holds-out so long against the wauy shot How th' aire so close the breath and dong it choaks vs not Confused as it is and that we find no roome For life in all the world but as it were in toombe Ther 's not so many planks or boords or nailes i'th'arch As holy myracles and wonders which to marke Astonnes the wit of man God shew'th as well his might By thus preseruing all as bringing all to light O holy Syre appease appease thy wroth and land In hau'n our Sea-beat ship ô knit the waters band That we may sing-of now and ours in after age Thy mercie shew'd on vs as on the rest thy rage Annotations vpon the first Booke of Noe called the Arke 1 DIvine verse He complaines of the miseries of our time of his bodies crasinesse and care of houshold affaires which hinder his bold designes and make his Muse fall as it were from heauen to earth He calls the verse diuine because of the subiect matter which he handleth acknowledging withall that as Ouid saith Carmina proueniunt anime deducta sereno and this serenitie or quietnesse of spirit which is all in all for a Christian Poem is a gift from Heauen And therefore this our Poet In stead of calling vpon his Muse which is but himselfe or helpe of profane inuentions looketh vp rather vnto that power from whence commeth euery good and perfect gift that is the father of light 2 Oh rid me This is a zealous inuocation and well beseeming the Authors intent which also is enriched with a daintie comparison For verily the chiefe grace of a Poem is that the Poet begin not in a straine ouer high to continue and so grow worse and worse to the end but rather that he increase and aduance himselfe by little and little as Virgil among the Latin Poets most happily hath done Horace also willeth a good writer in a long-winded worke ex sumo dare lucem that is to goe-on and finish more happily then he began Who so doth otherwise like is to the blustring wind which the longer it continues growes lesse and lesse by degrees but the wise Poet will follow rather the example of Riuers which from a small spring the farther they run grow on still to more and more streame and greatnesse 3 As our foresire foretold Saint Peter in his 2. chapt of his 2. Ep. calls Noe the Herault or Preacher of righteousnesse and in the eleauenth chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrewes it is said that Noe being aduertised from God of things not yet seene conceined a reuerent seare and built the Arch for safegard of his familie through the which Arch he condemned the world and was made heire of the righteousnesse which is by saâ—th By these places may be gathered that Noe laying hold on the truth of Gods threats and promises as Moses also sheweth in the sixt of Gen. prepared materials for the Arch and in building the same did as well by worke as word of a Preacher condemne the impiety and wickednesse of men warning them of the iudgement which hung ouer their heads which also was put in execution at the very time appointed by the Almighty 4 When all were once i' th' Arke This historie of the Deluge our Poet had before touched in the end of the second day of his first weeke which passage I the Translator thought good here to insert that the description might be the fuller These verses and the rest to the end of this booke shew vs the fearefull iudgement of God vpon the sinnes of that former world set downe first by Moses in the 6.7 and 8. chapters of Genesis Were I to write a full commentary thereof I should discourse of Noes Arke and diuers questions which present themselues concerning that rare subiect with the precedents consequents and coincidents but I touch lightly these things to draw the Readers care and make still more and more knowne vnto him the great learning and Art shewed in this diuine Poem To see how our Author is his crafts-master let a man conferre this decription with that of Ouid in the first booke of his Metam concerning the Deluge of Deucalion Some of his verses I thought good here to set downe for encouragement of such as haue leysure more neerely to consider and compare the French with the Latine Protinus Aeolijs Aquilonem claudit in antris Et quaecunque fugant inductas flamina nubes Ennttitque Notum madidis Notus euolat alis Terribilem piceá tectus caligine vultum Barba grauts nimbis canis fluit vnda capillis Fronte sedent nobulae rorant pennaeque sinusque Vtqué manu latè pendentia nubila pressit Fit fragor densi sunduntur ab aethere nimbi Then speaking of the land and out-let of Riuers thus Intremuit motuque vias patesecit aquarum Eupatiata ruunt per apertos slumina campos Cwnque satis arbusla trabunt pecudesque virosque Tectaque cumque sais rapiunt penetralia sacris See the rest of Ouid who hath not so exactly described these things as our Poet. 5 Nereus By this word he means the Sea which at the Deluge ouerflowed the whole Earth because it was not then held within the proper bounds thereof by the powerfull goodnesse and prouidence of the Creator Ouid expresseth it thus Omnia pontus erant deerant quoquelittora ponto Virgil thus Spumeus atque imo Nereus ciet aequora sundo Natalis Comes in his Mythologie lib. 8. cap. 6. hath much of Nereus and the Nereides where also he giues a reason why the Poets so call the Sea 6 The Sea-Calues So I translate le Manat for the Veal-like flesh thereof though this be indeed a great Sea-fish described by Rondeletius in the 18. chapter of his sixt booke He is also like a young Bull with a broad backe and a very thicke skin they say he weigheth more then two oxen are well able to draw His flesh as I said before commeth neere the taste of Yeale but it is fatter and not so well relished he will be made as tame as a dog but hath a shrewd remembrance of
goes from hand to hand Vnto the baser sort of people through the land Who greatly bent to see the famous tower made Doe labour day and night in all and euery trade Some trip the speare-wood Ash with sharp-edg'd axes stroke And some the sailing Elme and some th'enduring Oke So they degrade the woods and shew vnto the Sunne The ground where his bright eye before had neuer shone Who euer did behold some forraine armie sacke A citie vanquished ther 's griefe and ioy no lacke Together hurly-burld he carts and he lays-hold He drags by force he leads and there the souldier bold Can finde no place too sure nor yet no locke too strong The whole towne in a day forth at the gates doth throng So quickly do these men pull-off with one assent From those Assyrian hills the shaking ornament The wildernesse of shade they take from off the rocks And sheare off albeswat the leuell countries locks The waynes and yoked Mules scarse one by the other wend A liuely description of a people busied about a great worke The groaning axeltrees with load surcharged bend Behold here one for mort'r is day and night abruing Of some thicke-slimic poole the water fatly gluing And here the Tyler bakes within his smoakie kell His clay to stone and here one hollows downe to hell So deep foundations that many a damned Spright Aggazeth once againe the Sunnes vnhoped light Heaâ—'n ecchoes out the sound of their mauls clitter-clatters And Tigris feeles his fish all trembling vnd'r his waters The ruddy-colourd walls in height and compasse grow They far-off cast a shade they far-off make a show The world 's all on toile and men borne all to die God being angry with the bold enterprise of Nimrod and his folowers determineth to breake of their enterprise by confounding their language Thinke at the first daies worke their hand shall reach the skie 6. Hereat began th'Lord to sowre his countenance And with dread thuÌ„ders sound that storm-wise wont to glance Athwart the clowdie racks that hills wont ouerthrow And make heau'ns steddy gates flash often too and fro See see quoth he these dwarfes see this same rascall people These children of the dust O what a goodly steeple What mighty walls they build Is this the Cittadell So recklesse of my shot that shakes the gates of Hell I sware an oath to them henceforth the fruitfull ground Should neuer stand in feare of waters breaking bound They doubting fence themselues I would by their extent Haue peopled all the world they by themselues are pent In prison-walls of brick I would haue beene for euer Their master their defence their shepherd their law-giuer And they haue chose for King a sauage Liue-by-spoile A Tyrant seeking gaine by their great losse and toile Who doth my force despise and with vaine-glory swone Attempts to scale the walls of my most holy throne Come let 's defeat their drift and sith the bond of tong Of blood of will of law doth egge on all day long And hearten them in sin to stop their hastie intent Among them let vs send the Spirit of dissent Their language to confound to make both one and other The father strange to sonne the brother deafe to brother 7. The execution of Gods sentence Thus had he said and straight confusedly there went I know not what a brute throughout the buyldiment None other like I guesse then drunken peasants make Where Bacchus doth his launce with Ivy garland shake One doth his language too the another nose his note Another frames his words vnseemly through the throte One howleth one doth hisse another stuttereth Each hath his babbl ' and each in vaine endeuoureth To finde those loued termes and tunes before exprest That in their cradle-bands they drew from mothers brest Goe get thee vp betimes and while the morning gay A sit comparison With rainbow-glosse bedecks the portaile of the day Giue eare a while and marke the disagreeing moods Of winged quiristers that sing amid the woods Good-morrow to their loues where each one in his fashion Is pearched on a bough and chaunteth his Oration Then shalt thou vnderstand what mingle-mangle of sounds Confusedly was heard among the Mason-lounds A Trowell ho saith one his mate a beetl'him heaues Cut me saith he this stone and he some timber cleaues Come ho corne ho saith one and winde me vp this rope Then one vnwinding striues to giue it all the scope This scaffold bourd saith one one makes it downe to fare Giue me the line saith one and one giues him the square He shouts he signes in vaine and he with anger boyles And looke what one hath made forth with another spoiles VVith such confused cries in vaine they spend their winde And all the more they chafe the lesse is knowne their minde At length as men that stand an arched bridge to build In riuers channell deepe that wont surround the field Another excellent comparison declaring how neither counsell art force diligence nor multitude is able to resist God And sodainly behold how vnexpected raine Hath sent a hundred floods that downhill stretch amaine Their yoake-refusing waues they leaue with one aduise Some hasting here some there their carnest enterprise So when these Architects perceiu'd the stormy smart Of Gods displeasure come they straight were out of heart And there they ceas'd their work with hands malecontent Rules mallets plomets lines all downe the towre they sent 4. Now he enthroned is This is the exposition of the words mightie hunter before the Lord to wit that Nimred Chams nephew did proudly lift himselfe vp against God and man His buildings and the beginning of his raigne could not haue beene such without offering violence to the peace and libertie of diuers families ouer whom hee bare rule and there is no shew to the contrary but that by diuers practises from time to time he got the Soueraigntie The holy Scripture oftentimes by the names of hunters and chasers meaneth God enemies and the persecutours of his Church Psa ' 91. 124. Ezech. 32. Lament 3. The seuentie Interpreters translate the Hebrue text after this manner This Nimrod began to be a Giant on the earth and a huntesman or leader of hounds before the Lord God By the hounds of Nimrod may be vnderstood his guards and the fauourers of his tyrannie Moses called him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Giâ—or isaid that is Iustie strong or great and mightie chaser Which noteth not only the stature and height of bodie but also might and authoritie ioyned with violence in all those that want the feare of God Now although Moses in the cleuenth Chapter of Genesis where he speaketh of the Citie and Tower of Babel make no mention of Nimrod yet hath the Poet aptly gathered out of the Chapter aforegoing that Nimrod was the author and promoter of those buildings in as much as Babel is called the beginning of his raigne who could not any waies
Patriarches The fift reason Had all their names impos'd as reasonable markes And such as fully shew'd with mightie consequent What was of all their time the rarest accident And thereto that we finde how eu'ry ancient name By writ by sound by sense from Hebrew language came As Eue is consterd Life Cain first of all begot 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Adam made of Clay and Abel profit not Seth set in others place and he surnamed Rest Who saw th'all-hurting flood below the ground supprest I cannot choose but grant though Greece with furie some Preeminence of age to th'Ebrewes I diome Great commendation of the Hebrew tongue Then thus I thee salute ô ouer-running spring Of vtterance of minde leide of th' eternall King Thou brightly-shining Pearle queene-mother of languages That spotlesse hast escap'd the dongeon of all ages Thou hast no word but wai'th thy simplest elements Are full of hidden sense thy points haue Sacraments O holy dialect in thee the proper names Of men townes countries are th'abridgements of their fames And memorable deeds the names of winged bands Of water-habitants and armies of the Lands Are open treatises whereout a man might gather Their natures historie before th'heau'n-rowling father By mans offence prouokt with flaming Symiteer The way of Eden caru'd from these base countries here Adam gaue Hebrew names to all creatures according to their nature For Adam when in tok'n of his prerogatiue He did in true Elise each creature title giue When as before his eyes in muster generall Two by two side by side in ranke they marched all He chose the names so fit that eu'ry learned eare Which vnderstood the sound might al 's the wonders heare Whereby th'alforming word did richly beautifie Or those that liue in wet or those that liue in dry He enriched the tongue with verbs and clauses And for each body must or suffer thing or doe When he the nownes had fram'd the verbs he ioyn'd thereto And more to beautifie this goodly ground of pleading He many tittles made that serue for knots in reading The parts of most account to ioyne as best it sits Right as a little glew two plankes of timber knits As eke for ornament like wauing plume of Feathers Which on the chamfred top of shining helmet weathers Or as Marbl ' Images their foot-stals haue and bases And siluer cups their cares and veluet robes their laces The Hebrew tougue continued generally spoken from Adam to Nimrod then it remained onely in the familie of Heber whence it was called Hebrew This tongue that Adam spake till in bad time arriu'd That heau'n assaulting Prince sincerely was deriu'd From Father vnto Sonne the worlds circumference Did throughly sound the tunes of her rich eloquence But after partiall woxe and quickly she retir'd To Hebers Family for either he was not hir'd Among the rebell crew or wisely did abide Farre from the Sennar plaine in so disaster tyde Or if he thither were with other moe constrained In corners worship'd God and secretly complained And so with slauish hand them holpe to build the wall Against his will and wisht it sodainly might fall Into the darkest hell as gally-slaue in guyues That combating the Sea most miserable striues Against his libertie and curseth in his heart The head for whom he toyles in such a painefull art Or beit th' eternall God with his hand euer-giuing Preuenting as it were the workes of men well liuing For his owne honours sake and of his onely grace This treasure least in trust with Hebers holy race While all th' vngodly rest of Masons ill-bested A hundred thousand wayes the same disfigured And eu'rychone dispers'd where destinie them taried Into their new-found land a new-made language caried 11. O fooles that little thought The first answer is that this word Bec that the children spoke was a confused found comming neare the crie of Goats And how could they aske bread seeing that they vnderstood it not neuer heard it spoken by any body neuer heard the meaning of it The second is that words are not borne with vs but that we learne them by haunt and long vsage If they were borne with vs doubtlesse these infants would haue spoken as well other words for the vnderstanding being moued the belly pinched with hunger would not content it selfe to expresse his passion in one syllable The third is that men are onely the right and proper speakers yet if they be not taught it and thereto fashioned but are brought vp among beasts in stead of a right and framed speech they shall make but a sound and crie confused like vnto beasts In a word 〈◊〉 take this discourse of Herodotus touching the two infants and their Bec to be but a tale made vpon pleasure and a very heard-say and there-against I oppose the antiquitie of the Hebrue tongue Yet if I were bound to beleeue Herodotus I would say the Phrygians Bec was drawne from the Hebrues 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lechem The disciples of Goropius will confesse that the Phrygians are come from the successours of Noe so can it not seeme strange vnto them that I say the Phrygians retaining some tokens of their grandfathers language haue like infinite others lengthned and shortned the most part of the words some whereof yet remaine whole to witnesse the antiquity and principalitie of the Hebrue tongue After this the Poet answereth those that build vpon the vnframed noise of beasts the chirping and chattering of birds and the babling of Parrets to proue the birth of speech with vs and cast a cloud ouer that perfection he granted only to the first language and so he saith that man only endued with reason is the only creature on earth capable of distinct ordered important and proper speech and further speaketh many seuerall tongues whereof he bringeth in for example the learned Scaliger Hence it ensueth that a man cannot learne to speake if he be brought vp among beasts that haue no reason whereby to deserue the name of a speech or to vse the same aright or if he be brought vp with such as are dombe of whom he can learne nothing but signes and confused sounds he will neuer speake treatably nor vnderstand any thing except another doe speake first vnto him and make him vnderstand the speech with often repeating As appeareth not onely in young children but in the oldest men also who learne as long as they liue the words and names of those very things which they haue oftentimes scene before It followeth then that all the discourse of the Phrygians Bec is a deuised tale and therefore vnworthy for them to build vpon that goe about to proue the Phrygian tongue or theirs that would draw their pedegree from the Phrygians to be the first language of the world Another man may finde in his owne tongue a many like words and draw thence as good conclusions as Goropius doth But a strange thing it is that the Heathen Authors
inuented and carried new words and language each to the place of their abode Mais l'âge doux-glissant Les premiers laÌ„gages diuisez en plusieurs parcelles gaste-tout enuicux Desfigura bien tost tous ces langages vieux Qui nez dessus les tigre au milieu du tonnerre Des ouuriers martelans parcoururent la terre Et pour rendre à iamais plus confus l'Vniuers Fendit le moindre d'eux en langages diuers Toutelangue se change D'ou procedeÌ„t les diuers chan gemens en vn mesme laÌ„gage ou soit que le commerce En nous communiquant de l'Amphitrite Perse Les thresors precieux ceux de terre au flots Heureusement hardi troque mots contro mots Soit que l'homme disert d'vne façon gentile Frisant sos mots dorez mignardant son stile De gloire desireux marque de nouueaux coins Les choses les faicts on donne pour le moins Cours aux noms descriez remet en nature Les sur-annez moisis gastez de vermoulure Comparaison Ilen est tout ainsi que des fueilles d'vn bois L'vne chaet l'autre naist Les mots qui d'autre fois Le temps chaÌ„ge le langage comme les autres choses Brilloient par-cy par-là dans l'oraison diserte Comme des fleurs de Lys dans le campaigne verte Ne sont plus ore en vogue ains bannis de la Cour Honteux font sous les toicts d'vn bas hameau sejour Et ceux qui du vieux temps la chagrine censure Auoit mis au billon sont de mise à ceste heure Vn bel esprit conduit d'heur L'Esprit humain peut enrichir vn langage de iugement Peut donner passe-port aux mots qui freschement Sortent de sa boutique adopter ler estranges Entre les sauuageons rendant par ces me slanges Son oraison plus riche d'vn esmail diuers Riolant sa parole ou sa prose ou ses vers L'vsage est la Loy des langages du monde quelle est la diuersité diceux Vn langage n'a point autre Loy que l'vsage Courant sans frein sans yeux oule peuple volage Le va precipitant l'autre courant enclos Dans les lices de l'art agence bien ces mots L'vn desia vieillissant sur l'huis de son enfance A le bers pour tombeau l'autre fait resistance Aux filiers des ans L'vn afaute de coeur Vit comme confiné dans vn valon obscur Lautre entre les sçauans hardi se fait entendre Duriuage de Fezà l'autel d'Alexandre Tels sont pour le iourd'huy l'Hebrieu Excellence de l'Hebrieu Grec Romain par dessus tous autres laÌ„gages Grec Romainâ— L'Hebrieu d'autant qu'encore nous tenons de sa main Du trois-fois eternel la sacree parole Et que du droict diuinil est le protecole Le Gregeois comme ayant dans ses doctes escris Tout genre de sçauoir disertement compris Et le masle Romain d'autant que sa faconde Fut par le for plantée en tous les coins du monde But softly sliding Age The first languages deriued from the Hebrew are each of them agaiâ—e diu ded into diuers others whose enuie all doth waste Those ancient languages soone eu'ry ' chone defac'd Which in the thunder-sound of Masons clattring hands On Tygris banke deuis'd had ouerspread the lands And that the world may be more out of order left Into a many tongues the least of them hath cleft Whence commeth the alteration of a tongue And language altereth by reason of Merchandise Which bringing vs to land the diuers treasuries Of azure Amphatrite and sending ours aboord With good successe assaies to change vs word for word Or when the learned man delightfully endighting With guilt and curled words attires his wanton writing And hunting after praise some stampe ne'r seene before Sets both on deedes and things or doth at least restore Disclaimed words to vse and makes anew be borne The same that ouer-age with rot and mould had worne For herein fals it out as with leaues in a wood One sheds another growes the words that once were good And like faire Lyllie-flowers in greenest Medow strew'd All ou'r a learned stile their glittring beauty shew'd Now are not in request but sith Court them exiles They blush and hide themselues eu'n vnder cottage tiles And such as long agoe were censur'd curiously For base and counterfeit now passe-on currently A well-esteemed wit discreet and fortunate May warrant words to passe albe they but of late His owne efforged ware he on the naturall May graffe some forraine impe his language therewithall Enriching more and more and with a diuers glosse Enameling his talke his Poetry or Prose Some language hath no Law but vse vntame and blinde That runneth wheresoe're the peopl ' as light as winde Goes headlong driuing it another closely running Within the bounds of Art her phrases fits with cunning Some one straight waxing old as soone as it is borne Is buried in the cradl ' anoth'r it is not worne With file of many yeeres some one faint-couraged Within a straight precinct liues euer prisoned Another boldly doth from Alexanders altar Among the learned reach vnto the Mount Gibraltar And such now th'Ebrew tongue Hebrew Greeke and Latine the best of al tongues the Greeke and Latine be For Hebrew still doth hold as by her hand doe we The sacred word of God eternall mak'r of all And was of Lawes diuine the true Originall The Greeke as one that hath within her learned writ Comprized all the skill of mans refined wit And Latine for the sword wherewith her eloquence Was planted through the worlds so wide circumference 17. But softly-sliding Age. The Poet here entreth into consideration of other tongues beside the Hebrew and saith these first tongues that begun in Babel being all as it were Meslins of Hebrew by tract of time are so worne out that each one of them hath engendred a many others as a man may quickly vndeâ—stand if he consider the great varietie of ancient people that were before the Greekes and Latines It shall suffise at this present thus to haue pointed hereat in a word Who so is desirous of more let him cast his eye vpon the three first and principall Monarchies and all the diuers Nations subiect vnto them and mentioned in the Chronicles of the world the Abridgement of all is to be found in the first Volumne of the Historicall librarie of N. Vignier 18. And language altereth He sheweth by diuers reasons whence commeth the change of tongues First the trafficke that one countrey people hath with another as well by sea which he calleth Th'azur'd Ampâ—â—â—â—â—e as also by land is cause why we learne some new words as if we made no lesse exchange of words than of wares Secondly a writer that dares
tongue should remaine entire and vncorrupt with such as had corrupted the seruice of God But the Lord being mercifull vnto Abraham restored to him againe and kept for his faithfull children the first Language which had not beene so much corrupted in the family of Sem who parted not so farre from his father La terre partagee entre les enfans de Noé Sem tire vers l'Orient Ce pays qui s'estend non moins riche que large Iusqu'au bord Perosite où reide se descharge L'Ob Roy des douces caux l'Ob au superbe cours Fleuue qu'a peine on peut trauerser en six iours Iusques à Malaca les Isles où s'amasse La Canelle le Clou Sumatre sur qui passe Le Cercle egale-nuicts iusqu'au slot encor De Zeilan porte-perle Binasgar porte-or Depuis la mer Euxine l'onde fraternelle Des fleuues Chaldeans iusqu ' à l'onde cruelle Du destroit Anien les paresseuses eaux Habitation des successeurs de Cham. Ou Quinzit est hasty Chiorze ou les Taureaux Aussi grands qu'Elephans son habillez de soye Est la part du grand Sem. Car le destin enuoye Assur en l'Assyrie à sin qu'en peu de iours Chalé Resen Niniue au ciel haussent leurs tours Le porte-scepre Elam saisit les monts de Perse Et les fertils guerets que l'Araxe trauerse Lut le champ Lydien Aram l'Aramean Et le docte Arphaxat le terroir Chaldean This countrry reaching forth as rich as it is large From Peake of Perosites Sem went toward the West where doth himselfe discharge The stately running Ob great Ob fresh waters King A riuer hardly crost in six daies trauelling To Malaca to th'Isles from whence are brought huge masses Of Calamus and Cloues Samotra whereon passes Heau'ns Equinoctiall line and to the waters far Of Pearly Zeilan Isle and goldie Bisnagar And from the Pont-Eusine and from the brother waues Of those two Chaldee streames vnto the Sea that raues With hideous noise about the Straight of Aniens To Quinsies moorie poole and to Chiorza whence Come Elephantick buls with silken-haired hides This hight the share of Sem for Gods decree it guides Ashur t'Assyriland that after some few daies How and what Nations came of Sem. Chal Rezen Niniué their tow'rs to heau'n may raise The Persian hilles possest great Elams kingly race And those fat lands where-through Araxes bont his pace Lud held the Lydian fields Aram th'Armenia And learned Arphaxad the quarter Chaldean 6. This Countrey He setteth downe the lots of Sem Cham and Iaphet first in generall after meaning to shew the particular Colonies of each So then to Sem he allotteth Asia The proofe of these seuerall shares may be gathered out of the tenth Chapter of Genesis It is not meant that Sem in his owne life-time tooke possession of this huge plot of groūd although he liued 600 yeers but the posteritie of his fiue sonnes ouer-spred it by succession of time as the Poet declares at large hereafter and a man may perceiue some token hereof in that Moses reckoneth in the foresaid Chapter the sonnes of Joktan the sonne of Heber peti-sonne of Arphaxad sonne of Sem. Now before I shew the bounds here noted by the Poet in this lot of Sem I will set downe the description and deuision of Asia as now it is The map-drawers of our time differ in their order some consider it by the whole masse others by the sea-borders and parts best knowne which they reckon to be nine and those particularly deciphered in the first chapter of the twentieth booke of the Portugall historie But this kinde of deuision because it is more obscure and farther from my purpose I leaue and rest on the other which deuides the masse of Asia into siue principall parts the first which is ouer-against Europe and vnder the Emperour of Moscouie is bounded with the frozen sea the riuer Ob or Oby the lake of Kittay and the land-straight that is betwixt the Caspian and Euxine sea The second is Tartary subiect to the great Cham which abutteth Southward on the Caspian sea the hill Imaus and the riuer Juxartes Northward and Eastward on the Ocean and Westward vpon Moscouie The third part is possessed by the Turke and containeth all that lyes betweene the Euxine Aegean and Midland seas and so further betwixt Egypt the Arabian and Persian Gulfes the riuer Tygris the Caspian sea and the land-straight there The fourth is the Kingdome of Persia abutting Westward on the Turke Northward on the great Cham Eastward on the riuer Indus and Southward on the Indian sea As for the fist part it is the same which we call the East-Indies so named of the riuer Indus and distinguished the higher from the lower by the famous riuer Ganges These Indies are very large Countries as the Maps declare and front out Southward as farre as Malaca hauing besides an infinite sort of Ilands great and small which the Card-men haue well set downe both in Maps and writing Now see we the manner how the Poet considereth Asia He takes it first by right line from North to South to wit from the Peake foreland or cape of Perosites as farre as Malaca where he taketh in the Moluckes and Taprobana and from thence riseth againe to Zeilan and Bisnagar Then draweth another line from the Maior or Euxine sea on the West to the straights of Anien Northeast and toucheth by the way some few Countries most note-worthy reseruing the rest vntill his particular description of the Colonies which followeth from the 297. verse vnto the 319. To make plaine some words in the text the Peake of Perosites is a promontory about the farthest part of Moscouy neare the Scythian sea where liueth as Cellarius reports of Asia in his great booke entituled Speculum orbis terrarum and Mercator in his world-map a certaine people which haue so small a vent for their mouth that they are nourished onely by the sauour and steeme of sodden flesh And about this promontory the Riuer Ob rising from the lake of Kythay groweth to an huge breadth and so emptieth into the Scythian or frozen sea The Baron of Herbestoin noteth it in his map of Moscouie and in his Historie saith as much as here followeth touching this riuer fol 82. They that haue beene thereon say they haue laboured a whole day without ceasse their vessell going very fast to passe the Riuer and that it is fourescore Italian miles broad Which ageeth well with that the Poet here saith and with report of Merator and Cellarius so that by good right it may be called rather then any other streame the king of all fiesh waters because in all the world besides there is none so large and this also is of a wonderfull great length for as the foresaid Baron affirmeth from the one end to the other to wit from the lake of Kythay to the frozen-sea it asketh
yeeres space were couered with Bees But first some little rock that swarmed eu'ry prime Two surcreases or three made on their tops to clime Aside and all about those nurslings of the Sun At length all o're the cliffes their hony-combs to run Or as two springing Elmes that grow amids a field With water compassed about their stocks doe yeeld A many younger trees and they againe shoot-out As many like themselues encroaching all about And gaining foot by foot so thriue that aft'r a while They for a shared mead a forrest make that Isle Accordinly the men who built th' Assyrian tower Were scattred all abroad though not all in an hower But first enhous'd themselues in Mesopotamie By processe then of time increasing happily They pass'd streame after streame and seizd land after land And were not th'age of all cut short by Gods command No country might be found so sauage or vnknow'n But by the stock of man had bin ere this o'regrown And this the cause is why the Tigre-abutting coast In all the former time of all did flourish most That first began to warre that only got a name And little knew the rest but learned of the same The cause why the first monarchic was in Assiria For Babylon betimes drawne vnd'r a kingly throne Th'emperiall scepter swaid before the Greeks were knowne To frame a politie before by charming tones Amphion walled Thebes of self-empyling stones Yer Latins had their townes yer Frenchmen houshold rents Or Dutchmen cottages or Englishmen their tents The Hebrues their neighbors were learned and religious before the Greeks knew any thing So Hebers sonnes had long abhorred Altars made For any heathen gods with Angels had their trade And knew the great Vnknowue yea ô most happy thing With eyes of faith beheld their vnbeholden king The learned Chaldee knew of stars the numb'r and lawes Had measured the skie and vnderstood the cause That muffleth vp the light of Cinthia's siluer lips And how her thwarting doth her brothers light eclips The Priest of Memphis knew the nature of the soule And straitly marked how the hean'nly flames doe roule Who that their faces might more flaming seeme and gay In Amphitrites poole once wash them euery day He physick also wrote and taught Geometree Before thar any Greeke had learn'd his A Be Cee The Egyptians Tyrians had all riches and delights before the Greeks and Ganles knew the world All Egypt ouershone with golden vtensils Before the limping smith by Aetnaes burning kills Had hammerd iron barrs before Prometheus found The fire and vse thereof vpon th'Argolian ground Alas we were not then or if we were at least We led an vnkouth life and like the sauage beast Our garments feathers were that birds in moulting cast We feasted vnder trees and gaped after mast VVhen as the men of Tyre already durst assay To raze the saltie Blew twixt them and Africa Aduentur'd merchandise with purpl'enguirt their flanks And pleasure kept her court about Euphrates banks For as a peble stone if thou on water fling Of any sleepie poole it frames a little ring First whereabout it fell then furth'r about doth rase The wauing marbl ' or eu'n the trembling Chrystall face VVith mouing paralels of many circles moe That reaching furth'r abroad together-waxing flow Vntill the round at length most outward and most large Strikes of the standing lake both one and other marge So from the Cent'r of All which here I meane to pitch Vpon the waters brinke where discord sproong of speech Man dressing day by day his knowledge more and more Makes arts and wisdome flow vnto the circle-shore As doth himselfe increase and as in diuers bands His fruitfull seed in time hath ouergrowne the lands The first Colonieâ— of Sem in the East From faire Assyriland the Semites gan to trauell Vnto the soile beguilt with glystring Hytan-grauell And peopling Persiland dronke Oroates iuyce And wat'r of cleare Coaspe that licks the walls of Suse So tooke the fruitfull dale and flow'r-embellyd plaines Betwixt high Caucase tops where shortly Arsace raignes And some in Medye dwelt and some began to make The fields abutting on the great Hircanian Lake The second These mens posteritie did like a flood surround And ouerflow in time the Cheisel-fronting ground They came in diuers troopes vpon Tachalistan Caras Gadel Chabul Bedane and Balistan â—he â—hiâ—d Their Of-spring afterward broke-vp with toyling hands Narzinga Bisnagar and all the plenteous lands That Ganges thorow flowes and peopled Toloman The realme of Mein and Aue and muskie Carazan They saw the fearefull sprights in wildernesse of Lop That maske in hundred shapes way fairing men to stop The fourth Long aft'r at sundry times this Race still coasting east Tipura seizd that breeds the horny-snowted beast Mangit and Gaucinchine that Aloes hath store And stopt at Anie straights and Cassagalie shore The first Celonies of Iaphet in the West Now from the Center-point in clining to the Set Far spred abroad themselues the children of Iaphet To Armenie the lesse and after to Cilice So got the hau'ns at length of Tarsis and of Ise The sweet Corician caue that neere to Parnas hill Delights the commers in with Cymball-sounding skill Huge Taure his loftie downes Ionie Cappadoce Meanders winding banks Bythinâ— and Illios The second Then boldly passing-o're the narrow cut of Sest They dronke the water chill of Strimon Heber and Nest The Rhodopean dales they graz'd and laid in swathes The leas that running-by Danubies water bathes The third parted into many câ—anches Thrace did a thonside fill the Grecian territorie Greece peopled Italie law-giuing louing-glory By Italie was France by France was filled Spaine The borderings of Rhine and all the Great Britaine Ath'otherside againe it sent a Colonie Both to the Pont-Eusine and toward Moldauie So raught Transyluanie Morauie Hungarie And Seruie farther-west and eastward Podolie Thence men to Prussie came and Wyxell borders ear'd Then that of Almanie that narre the Pole is râ—ar'd Now turning to the South The firsâ—â— of 〈◊〉 Souâ— consider how Chaldea Spewes-out in Arabie Phenice and Chananea The cursed line of Cham yet ne'rthelesse it growes The second And twixt Myd-sea and Red along int'Egypt goes So stores the towne Corene and that renowmed coast Whereon the Punick Seas are all to-froth betost Fesse Gogden Terminan Argin Gusola The third Dara Tombuto Gualata Melli Gago Mansara The sparkling wildernesse of Lybie breeding-venim Caun Guber Amasen Born Zegzeg Nubye The fourth Benim And of the droughtie soile those euer-moouing sands Where Iesus yet is known and Prestre Ian commands Who though in many points he commeth neere the Iew Yet hath a kind of Church not all vnlike the true How the North was peopled Here if thou meane to know whence all the land so large Which vnder-lies the draught of many a sliding barge All-ouer pau'd with Ise and of the sea
of Russe Enuironed about with surges mutinous Was come-vnto by men thinke after they forsooke The plaine where Tegil flood swift-running ouertooke Once and againe the streame of running-far Euphrates They lodged at the foot of hoary hill Nyphates So forth of Armenie the field Hiberian The Colchish th' Albanick and high Bospherian Might well be furnished and thence vnto th'Vprist Might come the Tartar fell who roameth where he list All on that circuit huge and thence accoast the Set Was stoard the land that Rha doth neere his rising fret The shore of Lyuonie the plaine of Moscouie Byarmie Permie Russe White-lake and Scrifinie 24 It shall suffice The Poet hath heretofore compared Antiquity chiefly concerning the Nations Out-roads vnto a great forrest wherein the cunningest guides haue often lost themselues Now therefore he saith it is the safer way to follow and keepe neare the verge of the forrest rather than venter too farre into it He shewes thereby that his meaning is to giue vs a generall view of these matters not curiously to minse the particulars as they haue done who vndertake to gather out of Authors and teach others the course of Noes posteritie euery mile as they haue runne vntill this present and pore still into the Arke to finde there the names of their Country-men and ancestors Therefore he voweth to rely wholly vpon the golden mouth of Moses which was the sonne of Amram as the Scripture witnesseth Numb 26.59 Now Moses saith Gen. 10. in the end of the Chapter That of the children of Noe were the Nations diuided on the earth after the Floud And before in 5.20 and 30. verses he sheweth plainly from whence they began to people the world and as it were to lead againe the Arke ouer the face of the earth in filling most countries of the world with their great posteritie encreased as it was by vertue of Gods wonderfull blessing Gen. 9.1 Encrease and multiply and fill the earth 25. Yet not as if Sems house He saith Sem peopled not the East all at once but by succession of time that Iaphet when he came out of the Arke did not forthwith runne to Spaine nor Cham to hide himselfe in the furthest part of Affrick but that by little and little and in processe of time their issues ranged so farre forth either way He speaketh of diuers Countries far vp in the East and farre downe Southward the site whereof appeareth plaine in the Mappes and to emich this true story he vseth two prettie comparisons of the rockes of Bees in Hybla and Elmes in an Island and as by their surci ease both places are by peecemeale at length quite ouergrowne so he saith the world by yearely encrease of Noes posteritie was part after part ouer-peopled as it is First after the confusion of tongues they lodged one behinde another about the coast of Mesopotamia afterward as they encreased in stocke their new families passed the riuers hilles and straights looking-out other dwelling places to their liking the prouidence of God directing all as appeares for the better grace and trimming of the earth and the commoditie of all manking 26. And hence it comes to passe This ensueth necessarily of that goes before Where the posteritie of Noe were most together in the beginning there we must confesse was the chiefe sway and greatnesse of mankind and that was in Assyria and Chaldea as Moses witnesseth Gen. 11. whereout the Poet concludeth as afore see further Gen. 14. Concerning the Kings wars that are there named with their countries marching vpon Tigris or there abouts and of Nymrod it is namely said that the beginning of his raigne was Babel c. in the Countrey of Sennaar marching vpon the riuer Tygris 27. For Babylon betimes Hauing spoken in generall of the first peoples greatnesse hee specifieth now the first Monarchie whereof it seemes Meses hath enough written in the tenth chapter aforesaid Now the best Authors many of these and the former times declare and proue by the account of yeares that the first Monarchie as in Babylon and Babylon was in Chaldâ—a whereupon some dispute for Nimnie and Assyrians and some because these two great Cities began about one time had seuerall Princes and raigned both many hundred yeares they make a double Monarchie of the first vntill such time as the Chaldean had swallowed the Assyrian I take not the word Monarchie too precisely as if in the time of the Babylonian there were none other in the world Aegypt began in good time to be of power and great Kings there were in the Land of Canaan and the countries adioyning But I vnderstand with our Poet that the first rule plainly appeared at Babylon euen in the time of Noe. Hee that would vpon this point compare prophane Histories with the Scripture might sinde matter for a long discourse the summe whereof may be seene in Funccius Carion Vignier and other Chroniclers To be short I say the raigne of Nymrod mentioned Gen. 10.10 many yeares fore-went all other wee reade of and especially those of the Greekes Romanes Gaules c. as is proued plainly by the account of time Thebes a Towne of Boeotia in Greece it hath a spring by it called Dirce whereof the Towne-selfe among the Poets is often surnamed Amphion a wise Polititian who by his eloquence and sleight perswaded the people of those times rude as they were and vnciuill to ioyne together in building the walles of Thebes whereupon the Poets to shew the force of eloquence faine that Amphion by the cunning stroakes of his Lute made the stones to come downe from the rockes and lay themselues together in order of a wall And thus saith Horace in his Epistle of Poetrie ad Pisones Dictus Ampbion Thebanae conditor vrbis Saxa mouere sono testudinis piece blanda Read more of him in Appollonius his Argonauticks 28. The sonnes Hâ—ber This proues againe that the neere successours of Noe silled not the world all at once but by succession of time So the true religion remained in the family of Sem The Chaldeans were excellent Astronomers and Philosophers the Egyptian Priests knew the secrets of Nature before there was any knowledge of letters in Greece which was not peopled so soone as the other by many yeeres as the histories euen of the Greekes themselues declare See the latter Chronicles 29. All Egypt ouershone Another proofe If the world had beene peopled all straight after the flood riches and dainties would haue beene found vsed in all countries at the same time But they were in Egypt and Tyre long before the Greekes and Gaules knew the world So it followes that Greece and Gaule were not so soone peopled as Egypt and Phaenicia By the limping Smith he meanes Vul an that first found out the vse and forging of Iron in Sicilie Prometheus was the first that found the vse of fire among the Argol ans or Greekes Of him saith Hor. 1. booke 2. Ode Audax Iapeti genus ignem sraude
of late from out the tombe of Leath And giu'n it as it were a liuing by a death How was 't inhabited if long agone The first obiection how is' t Nor Persians nor Greeks nor Romans euer wist Or inkling heard thereof whose euer conquering hosts Haue spred abroad so farre and troad so many coasts Or if it were of late The second obiection how could it swarme so thicke In euery towne and haue such workes of stone and bricke As passe the tow'rs of Rome th'antike Egyptian Pyramis The King Mausolus tombe the wals of Queene Semiramis How thinke you then Answer negatiue by an Ironie belike these men fell from the skie All ready-shap'd as doe the srogges rebounding frie That ast'r a sulty day about the sun-set houre Are powred on the meads by some warme Aprill-showre And entertouch themselues and swarme amid the dust All or'e the gaping clists that former drought had brust Or grew of tender slips and were in earthly lap Instead of cradle nurst and had for milke the sap Or as the Musherome the Sowbread and the Blite Among the fatter clods they start vp in a night Or as the Dragons teeth sow'n by the Duke of Thebes They brauely sprong all-arm'd from-out the fertill glebes Indeede this mighty ground The first earnest answer ycleaped Americke Was not enhabited so soone as Affericke Nor as that learned soyle tow'r-bearing louing-right Which after Iupiter his deare-beloued hight Nor as that other part which from cold Bosphers head Doth reach the pearly morne at Titons saffran bed For they much more approach the diaprized ridges And faire-endented bankes of Tegil bursting-bridges From whence our ancestors discamp'd astonished And like to Partridges were all-to-scattered Then doth that newfound world whereto Columbus bore First vnder Ferdinand the Castill armes and lore Generall But there the baildings are so huge and brauely dight So differing the states the wealth so infinite That long agone it seemes some people thither came Although not all atonce nor all by way the same For some by cloudy drift of tempest raging-sore Percase with broken barks were cast vpon the shore Some others much auoid with famine plague and warre Particular Their ancient seats forsooke and sought them new so farre Some by some Captaine led who bare a searching minde With weary ships arriu'd vpon the Westerne Inde Or could not long ere this The second the Quinsay vessels finde A way by th'Anien straight from th' one to th' other Inde As short a cut it is Colonies according to the cond Answer noting by the way certaine meruailes of the countrie as that of Hellespont From Asia to Greece or that where-ore they wont Saile from the Spanish hill vnto the Realme of Fesse Or into Sicilie from out the hau'n of Resse So from the Wastes of Tolme and Quiuer where the kine Bring calues with weathers fleece with Camels bunchie chine And haire as Genets slicke they peopled Azasie Cosse Toua Caliquas Topira Terlichie And Florida the faire Auacal Hochilega The frosen labour-Labour-lands Canada Norumbega They sow'd ath'other side the land of Xalisco Mechuacan Cusule and founded Mexico Like Venice o're a Lake and saw astonished The greenest budding trees become all withered As soone as euer touch'd and eke a mountaine found Vesevus-like enflam'd about Nicargua ground So passing forth along the straight of Panama Vpon the better hand they first Oucanama Then Quito then Cusco then Caxamalca built And in Peruuiland a country thorow-guilt They wondred at the Lake that waters Colochim All vnder-paued salt and fresh about the brim And at the springs of Chinke whose water strongly-good Makes pebble-stones of chalke and sandy stones of mood Then Chili they possest whose riuers cold and bright Run all the day apace and rest them all the night Quinteat Patagonie and all those lower seats Whereon the foamy bracke of Magellanus beats Vpon the left they spread along by Darien side Where Huo them refresh'd then in Vraba spide How Zenu's wealthie waves adowne to Neptune rould As bid as pullets egges the massie graines of gould A mount of Emeralds in Grenad saw they shine But on Cumana banks hoodwinked weare their eyne With shady night of mist so quickly from Cumane They on to Pary went Omagu and Caribane Then by Maragnon dwelt then entred fierce Bresile Then Plata's leauell fields where flowes another Nile Moreouer The third answer one may say that Picne by Grotland The land of Labour was by Brittish Iserland Replenished with men as eke by Terminan By Tombut and Melli the shore of Corican 40 But all this other world This is the first of the foresaid 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 India which is called another world or the new world for the hugenesse 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 laid together This quarter so great and full of kingdomes and people if it haue been long agone inhabited how hap saith our Poet the Perstans Greeks and Remans who vndertooke so many far voyages came neuer there nor once heard thereof For Ptolomee Strabo Mela and other ancient 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 thirtie or fortie yeares they haue slaine aboue twentie millions of people vndone and brought to great distresse as many or more and wasted and vnpeopled twice 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 wickednesse and villanie that mans heart or the deuils rage could imagine there are yet liuing many thousand Indians Concerning the ancient Monuments of this new world I will reckon at this time but one of them taken out of the fourth booke and 194. chapter of Gomara There are saith he in Peru two great high-wayes â—eaching the one thorow the hilles the other ouer the plaines from Quito to Cusco which is aboue fiue hundred leagues out-right a worke so great and chargeable that it is well worthy noting that ouer the plaines is 25. foot 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 thorow the rockes and filling vp the lower grounds with stone worke for they
little only moue but not o'resway our mindes That eu'n in further parts his seruants eu'ry chone A sacrifice of praise might offer to his throne And that his holy name from Isye Scythia Might sound vnto the sands of red-hot Africa Nor should his treasures hid in far-asunder lands Created seeme in vaine and neuer come to hands But that all country-coasts where Thetis enter-lyes The world compared to a great Citie Might trafficke one with oth'r and change commodities For as a Citie large containes within her wall Here th'Vniuersitie and there the Princes Hall Here men of handie-crafts there Merchant-venterers This lane all full of ware and shops of shoomakers That other changing coyne that other working gold Here silke there cloth here hats there leather to be sold Here furniture for beds there doublets ready made And each among themselues haue vse of others trade So from the Canar Isles the pleasant sugar comes And from Chaldea spice and from Arabia gums That stand vs much in stead both for perfume and plaster And Peru sends vs gold and Damaske Alabaster Our Saffron comes from Spaine our Ivory from Inde And out of Germanie our horse of largest kinde The scorched land of Chus brings Heben for our chamber The Northren Baltike Sound imparts her bleakish Amber The frostie coasts of Russe her Ermyns white as milke And Albion her Tynne and Italie her silke Thus eu'ry country payes her diuers tribute-rate Vnto the treasurie of th' vniuersall state Man Lord of the world And as the Persian Queene this prouince call'd her chains And that her stomachers her plate this that her traines So man may say for loe what desert so vntrad What hill so wilde and wafte what Region so bad Or what so wrackfull sea or what so barren shore From North to South appeares but payes him euermore Some kind of yearely rent and grudging not his glory Vnto his happy life becomes contributory A particular declaration of the great vse of some vnlâ—kely creatures against the Aâ—heist who saith they are to little vse or made by chance These moores enamelled where many purling brooks Enchase their winding wayes with glassie-wauing crooks They stand for garden plots their herbage ere it sades Twise yearely sets on worke our swapping two-hand blades The plaine field Ceres holds the stonie Bacchus fills These ladders of the skie the rough-aspiring hills The store-houses of stormes and forging-shops of thunders Which thou vntruly call'st th'erths faults shamfull wonders And thinkst the liuing God to say 't I am aserd Created them of spight or in creating err'd They bound the kingdoms out with euer-standing marks And for our shipping beare of timber goodly parks The same afford thee stuffe to build thy sumptuous Hold The same in winter-time defend thee from the cold They pow'r-out day and night the deep-enchaneld riuers Which breed beare on them to feed the neighbour-liuers They oft manure the lands with fruitfull clouds and showers They helpe the mylls to turne and stand in stead of towers And bulwarks to keepe-off Bellona's dreely stound They morter to the sea the mid-point of the ground The wasternesse of land that men so much amazeth Is like a common field where store of cattell grazeth And whence by thousand heads they come our tylth t'enrood To furnish vs with furre with leather wooll 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 roaring ouer-heales so many a mightie land Where in the waters stead much wauing corne might stand A mightie Stew it is or vnd'r a watry plame Flocks numberlesse it feeds to feed mankind againe For of the Cates thereof are thousand Cities saru'd Which could not otherwise but languish hunger-staru'd As doth a Dolphin whom vpon the shore halfe-dead The tide vntrustie left when backe againe it fled It shorter makes the wayes increases marchandise And causes day and night the reaking mysts arise That still refresh our ayre and downe in water flowing Set eu'n before our eyes the graynie pipe a growing The Poet as after a long voyage landeth in France But shall I still be tost with Boreas boysterous puffs Still subiect to the rage of Nere's counterbuffs And shall I neuer see my country-chimnies reake Alas I row no more my boat begins to leake I am vndone I am except some gentle banke Receiue and that with speed this wrack-reserued planke O France I ken thy shore thou reachest me thine arme Thou op'nest wide thy lap to shend thy sonne from harme Nor wilt I end my dayes from home so many a mile Nor o're my bones triumph the Caniball Bresile Nor Catay o're my fame nor Peru o're my verse As thou my cradle wert so wilt thou be mine herse The praise of France O thousand thousand times most happy land of price O Europes only pearle and earthly paradise All-haile renowmed France from thee sprong many a knight Which hath in former time his flag of triumph pight Vpon Euphrates banks and blood with Bylboâ— shed Both at the suns vprist and where he goes to bed Thou breedest many men which happy and boldly dare In works of handy-trade with Nature selfe compare And many wits that seeke out all the skill diuine From Egypt Greece and Rome and o're the learned shine As o're the paler hewes doe glister golden yellowes The Sun aboue the star's thy flow'r aboue the fellowes Thy riuers are like Seas thy Cities prouinces In building full of state and gentle in vsages Thine ayre is temperate thy soile yeelds good increase Thou hast for thy defence two mountaines and two seas Th'Egyptian Crocodile disquiets not thy banks Th' infectious kind of Snakes with poyson-spotted flanks Ne crawle not burst-in-plights vpon thy flowrie plaines Nor mete an ak'r of ground by length of dragling traines No Hircan Tygers flight boot-hailes thy vaulted hills Nor on thy scorched wasts th' Arcadian Lion kills Thy wandring habitants nor Cayrick water-horses Drag vnd'r vncertaine toombe thy childers tender corses And though like Indie streames thy fairest riuers driue not Among their pebbles gold although thy mountains riue not With veines of siluer Ore nor yet among they greet Carbuncles Granats Pearles lie scattred at our feet Thy cloth thy wooll thy woad thy salt thy corne thy wines More necessarie fruits are all sufficient mines T' entitle thee the queene of all this earthie scope Thy want is only peace Peace the onely want of France prayed-for in conclusion O God that holdest ope Alwaies thine eyes on vs we humbly thee desire Quench with thy mercy-drops the France-deuouring fire O calme our stormous ayre Deere Fath'r vs all deliuer And put thine angers shafts againe into thy quiuer 58 O world of sundry kindes Without this discourse all that went before concerning the worlds enpeopling were to lit'le purpose or none at all saue only to breed many doubts in the Readers vnderstanding For a man
all sorts of needfull instruments they may well be likened vnto the actiue and trading life and the middle sort vnto the ciuill gouernment and politicke life which is a meane betwixt the other two Yet this the Poet well restraineth saying that the northerne people also in these latter dayes haue beene renowmed for the Tongues the Lawes the Mathematicks Poesie Oratorie and all good learning as well as in times past they were and are still for warlike valour and cunning hand-works Not without cause for in England Scotland Polonie Denmarke and other such countries are and haue beene diuers very learned men flourishing and Germanie especially which is as it were Vuleans forge and the Campe of Mars hath brought forth many men excelent well seene in all kinde of learning it were needlesse to name them they are so well knowne 62 But eu'n among our selues The more to magnifie the vnsoundable wisdome of God appearing in the creation of so diuers-disposed people he noteth out many points of great difference euen among those Nations that liue neare together and are seuered only by certaine hilles riuers and forrests as the French Dutch Jtalian and Spanish He paints them out all in their kinde for such properties as are daily seene in them and may be easily gathered out of their owne Histories for there are not the like-differing neighbour-nations in all Europe no not in the world Let me consider and all my Countrey-men with me what he saith of the French the other three may doe the like by themselues if they list The French he saith is in Warre impatient in Counsaile wauering in Diet sumptuous gentle in Speech diuers in Apparell out-facing his Enemie a sweet Singer a swift Paser a merty Louer If any man can draw a righter counterfeit of our Nation let him take the pensill 63 Yet would the immortall God He shewes for what cause it pleased God the earth should be inhabited by men of so diuers natures As first to the end he might shew forth his mercy and louing kindnesse in raising his chosen out of the sincks of sinne wherewith each of their birth soiles were bestained Secondly That it might appeare how neither the soiles nor yet the heauenly Signes though they haue great power ouer earthly bodies can force the minds of men especially such as God himselfe hath blessed Thirdly That there might be some in all places of the world to acknowledge his manifold goodnesse and glorifie his Name And fourthly that whatsoeuer needfull things the earth any where by his gartious blessing bringeth forth proper and seuerally they might be enterchanged and carried from place to place for the vse of man 64 For as a Citie The last consideration giues the Author occasion to compare the world vnto a great Citie such as Paris Roan Tolouse Lyons or any other like where there are merchants and craftesmen for all kinde of wares each in their seuerall wards buying selling changing and trading one with another And euen so one Countrey affordeth Suger another Spice another Gummes and Gold Alabaster Iuory Heben-wood Horses Amber Furres Tynne and Silke they are brought from diuers coasts all the more to furnish with things necessary this great Citie of the world Whereby we may note that no Countrie be it neuer so well appointed can say that it needs not the commodities of another And againe that there is no Land so barren but hath some good thing or other which the rest want For euen in men we see the like there is none so poore but hath some speciall gift none so rich but hath need of the poorest Our Poet therefore hauing so fitly resembled the world by a great Citie he brings-in thereupon a sine example of the Persian Queene who as Herodotus Xenophon and Plutarch report called one Prouince her lewell-house another her Wardrope c. for euen so may euery man say that hath the true knowledge and feare of God such a man may say Peru brings forth Gold for me the Moluckes or Chaldea Spice Damaske Alabaster and Italy Silke Germany sends me great Horses Moscouie rich Furres Arabia sweet Parfumes Spaine Saffron Prusse Amber England Cloth and Tinne France Corne and Wine Yea more the childe of God may say the Earth the Sea the Aire and all that is therein the Sunne the Moone the Heauens are mine for he that needeth nothing made all things of nothing to serue me and mee to worship him But of this let the Diuines discourse more at large I will goe on with the Poet who saith further against the carping Atheist that nothing was created in vaine but euen the most vnlikely places bring forth many good fruits and very necessary for the life of Man And hee proues it plainly by some notable particulars that follow 65 The Moores enameled First The Fenny Valleyes though too moist they are and ouer-low for men to build and dwell vpon yet are they so beset with diuers harbes and flowers so lagged garded and enter-trailed with riuers that they are as it were the common gardens of the world as also the plaine fields are our seed-plots and the stony grounds our Vineyards Secondly The huge Mountaines about whose tops are engendred thunders lightnings and tempests for which cause the Atheists count them hurtfull or at least superfluous or made by chance and errour they are in truth cleane contrary as Thâ—odoret hath long agoe shewed in his Sermons of Gods Prouidence â—uen the sure standing Bounds and Land-markes of euery Kingdome and Countrie they beare great store of timber-trees for ships and houses and fuell to burne from them spring the great riners that breed much fish and helpe the conueyance of prouision and other merchandise vnto many people dwelling farre-off by them are stayed and gathered the clowdes and thicke mists that manure and fatten the lower grounds the Wind-milles are much helped by them as if they were the the store houses of winde like rampiers and bulwarkes they keepe-of the sudden force of warlike neighbours and to conclude they are as it were the very morter that ioynes Land and Sea together Thirdly The great Deserts and wast-grounds that are for men by reason of some wants searse habitable yet like huge Commons they feed an infinit sort of beasts great and small whereof we haue good vse and commoditie Fourthly The Sea it breeds fish maintaines many Cities encreases Trafficke and makes the wayes for trauell easier and shorter And lastly thereout the Sunne draweth vapours which after turned into raine doe refresh the Aire and make the ground fruitfull The like good vses may be found in all other the Creatures of God how vnlikely foeuer they seeme to wicked Atheists Looke more in S. Basil Chrysostome Ambrose and others who write of the Creation and at large haue declared what excellent commodities man may reape of euery creature 66 But shall I still be toss'd Fitly and in very good time the Poet hauing ouerslipt nothing worthy note in this discourse
iourney takes and doth more wightly flit Then any of all the rest who narre the Poles haue leasure Vnto the Lute of God to dance a slower measure And alway when the Sunne his giue day charrot guides Right vnder line thereof and rometh not besides The day and night goe euen and cunning Nature than In eu'ry country metes them out with equall span The Zodiacke 32 This other couched here next vnd'r it ouerth warr Whose poles doe from the poles of th'All warp-out apart Some twenty foure degrees is call'd the Zodiack The race of wandring flames here Phoebus keeps his track To bring-about the yeares and monthly changing Innes Procures the quarter-change of Seasons double twinnes The first Colure 33 This other passing-through the poles both of the world And of the foresaid wheele where Phoebus round is horld And framing angles euen on th'Equinoctiall rote A th'onside thwarts the Crab ath'otherside the Goat The Solsticial Colure is call'd for Phoebus there Runs slow as not along but ath'onside the Sphere The second Colure 34 And this here crossing that in spheryck angles eu'n And running by the Ram the Skoles and Axe of heau'n The second is and call'd the nigh-equall Colure The Meridian 35 And this the circle of Noone that neuer standeth sure But with our Zenith flits as also with our sight The Horizon Th'vnstedfast Horizon takes euery way his flight Now for the lesser foure aside th'Equator lie Foure lesse Circles 36 The winter Tropick low and summer Tropick high The Tropicks And higher then the high is 37 th'Artick circle pight And lower then the low th'Antartick out of sight The North Circle and the South These foure misse common Centr ' and wry-part heau'ns-high wheele Each to th'Equat'r and each vnt ' each is paralleel The Globe of heauen 38 The Ball shee beares in left the portrait is of heau'n For howbeit Arte we finde to Nature match vneuen Good wits yet ner'thelesse thus also take delight To view and maruaile-at the Vault so flamie-bright O what a pleasure 't is that turning softly about This starrie briefe of heau'n we see as 't were come out And with a stately traine before our eyes to coast The bands and banners bright of that all-conquering hoast One hath a quiu'r and bow Shapes giuen by diuers aspects with arrowes quick-to-strike Another swayes a Mace another shakes a pike One lies along anoth'r enthrond in stately chaire Rowles-ore the brasen blew of th'euer-shining Sphaire Behold some march afoot and some on horseback ride Some vp some downe and some before behind beside Her 's ord'r eu'n in disord'r and of this iarre doth come Both vnto Sea and Land a plenty-swelling wombe 39 I neuer see them looke one aft'r anoth'r askance In tryangl in quadrangle or in sextile agglance Sometime with gentle smile and sometime with a frowne But that me thinks I see the braue youth of a towne All dancing on a greene where each sex freely playes And one another leads to foot the country layes Where one darts as he go'th a looke of I elousie Another throwes his Lasse a louely glauncing eye 40 Then Phaleg said Phalegs obiection concerning the strange shapet giuen by the how is' t Sir that the Souerain-faire Who naught vnseemly makes in Sea in earth in ayre Yet on this heau'nly vault which doth all else containe Where ought delight her selfe and grace and beauty raigne Sets many a cruell beast and many a monster fell That meeter were t' abide among the fiends in hell Sonne answers Heb'r indeed the curious hand of God Makes all by rules of Art Astronomers and nothing gracelesse-odde And this especially the world doth beautifie Hebers answer That both aloft and here is such varietie Yet more our ancestors that wisely drew the lines And skoared first the Globe according to the Signes Gaue each a name and shape implying such effects Reason of the names giuen to the Signes As on all vnder-things they worke by their aspects For thy a Ram they made the Sunnes twyhorned Inne His curly-golden signe whereat the yeares begin 1. The Ramme Wherevnd'r is all the land lukewarmed peece by peece And puts on rich attire a flowrie-golden fleece The next they made a Bull 2. The Bull. for there they wont to yoke The softly-drawing steers that in a sweaty smoke Plow-vp the fallow grounds and turning-ore the mould Doe skowre the coult'r againe that rust before had fould Twinnes of the third they made 3. The Twinnes where Loue that angry-sweet The male and female makes in one together meet For eithers perfiture when fruit in cluster growes And all at once are seene both flowr ' and graynie rowes The fourth a Crab 4. The Crab. whereat this prince of wandring fires A coast the South againe vntireably retires And backward like a Crab the way before he trode Reprints with equall steps and keeps his beaten rode The fift a Lyon fierce 5. The Lion for as the Lyons are Of hot-infecting breath so vnder this same starre Our haruest glowes with heat yea on the Sea and streames The Lyon-maned Sun shoots-out his burning beames The sixt by their deuise the title hath of a maid 6. The Virgin Because th' Earth like a Girle therevnd'r is ill apaid To beare the loue-hot looks that Phoebus on her flings And then chast as a maid no fruit at all she brings The next hath of the Scoales 7. The Ballance because it seems to way The silence-louing night and labour-guiding day The Summer and the Wint'r and in the month of Wines Makes either side so eu'n as neither more declines The next because we feele then first the Summer gon And sting of Winter come 8. The Scorpion they call'd a Scorpion The next in name and shape an Archer bow in hand 9. The Archer He shooteth day and night vpon the witherd land Vpon th'embattled towrs vpon the tufted woods His arrowes fethered with Ise and snowie soods The next they made a Goat where as in shaggie locks 10. The Goat The Goat is wont to clime and countermount the rocks Our goldy-locked Sun the fairest wandring starre Remounting vp the Globe begins to come vs narre And in the latter signes because they saw a wet And euer-weeping heau'n our fathers wisely set 11. The Water-bearer One with a water-spout still running o're the brim 12 The Fishes And fishes there apaire which in the water swim But if-so this my sonne not satisfie thy minde Another more subtile reason A man may well thereof some other reason finde As that before the word of God made all of naught Before that breeding voice not only th'Infant wrought But euen the wombe of All th'eterne exampl ' and plot The wondrous print of things now being and then not On heau'nly manner lodg'd in th'Architects foreseeing And thus before it was the world