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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16489	Relations of the most famous kingdomes and common-wealths thorowout the world discoursing of their situations, religions, languages, manners, customes, strengths, greatnesse, and policies. Translated out of the best Italian impression of Boterus. And since the last edition by R.I. now once againe inlarged according to moderne observation; with addition of new estates and countries. Wherein many of the oversights both of the author and translator, are amended. And unto which, a mappe of the whole world, with a table of the countries, are now newly added.; Relazioni universali. English	Botero, Giovanni, 1540-1617.; Johnson, Robert, fl. 1586-1626.	1630 (1630)	STC 3404; ESTC S106541	447,019	654

command all So that Adams wisdome gave them titles and his superioritie prescribed subjection but how to mans use for mans sustenance for mans necessitie and lastly for mans delight Thus doth oile make a cheerefull countenance and wine a gladsome heart Thus did the Kings table furnish it selfe in this sense the songs of David praise God for his many blessings Thus were incense and odours provided and the love of brethren compared to the dew of Hermon and the costly ointment on Aarons vestures which blessed allowances make mee to remember a speech of Sir Roger Williams to an idle Spaniard boasting of his country citrons orenges olives and such like Why saith he in England wee have good surloines of beefe and daintie capons to eat with your sauce with all meat worthy the name of sustenance but you have sauce and no sustenance and so mich God dich you with your sustenancelesse sauce Canaan had neighbourly meetings feasts of triumphs and times of private rejoycings Spaine dares not nor can bid you welcome Idle jelousies private hate or hatefull pride feare of expences and vaine-glorious speeches will quickly debarre you from the pleasure of invitation from the freedome of conversing one with another which cannot savour the noble entercourses of mutuall amitie Canaan had the Temple furnished as God commanded the Priest obedient to the King the Prophets in estimation and the Feasts orderly celebrated Spaine is polluted with worse severitie than Paganisme hath invented viz. the cruell Office of Inquisition wherewith the Kings themselves have beene so over-awed by the insolence of the Clergie that some of them have not spared to commit repentant error to please the Pope Canaan was a receptacle of strangers and Princely solemnities Spaine hateth all men commits them to fire and sword and cannot order one solemne Festivall unlesse at a Kings Coronation a Princes mariage or a Cardinals jollitie where yet an Italian invention shall fill a table with painted trenchers and dishes of China but a hungry belly may call for more meat and he never the neerer Canaan had cities of refuge cities of store cities of strength cities for horses and all for the Kings magnificence to all which the wayes lay ordered and men passed to and fro without danger and want In Spaine you must have a guide yea sometime a guard and are so farre from expecting releefe after your dayes travels that if you have not a Borachio before your saddle and made your provision on the backe of an Asse you may happen to be tired for want of sustenance and faint with Ismael for lack of water Canaan had beautifull women and the Scripture sets it downe as a blessing of God But Spaine must mourne for strange disparity and either lament that her women are painted like the images of the grove or sit in the high-way as Thamar did to deceive Iuda For in truth they are for the most part unpleasing swartish or else by comming to be Curtizans dangerous and impudent Thus as yet Salomon must sit without compare and his kingdome unmatchably triumph with a noble prerogative But what must we thinke of France sayes one is not your breath now almost spent and will you not be satisfied with the goodliest kingdome of the world The answer shall not be peremptory nor derogate from the merit of its least worth of vertue yet are they traduced for many defects and I beleeve will fall short to our expectation at least I am sure dare not abide the touch of triall In Salomons Court the Queene of Saba commended the obedience of the Princes the sitting of the Kings servants the ordering of the Palace and the multitude of the provisions daily brought in In France the Princes contest with the King the Clergie affront the Princes beare downe the States the Pages mocke the Gentlemen and the Gentlemen are proud of nothing but slovennesse unbeseeming familiarity and disorder So that with much adoe the mechanicall man stands bare to the King and the Princes sit at meat like Carriers in an Hostry without reverence silence or observation and a vile custome having got the upper hand hath depressed the Majestie of such a place which indeed reduced to uniformity would much augment the glory of Europe A wise State and potent Kings have built Navies and travelled themselves in person to view them raising customes from their Merchants loving and maintaining good Mariners and Pilots contracting leagues with remote Princes and making the confirmation of them honourable and advantagious But France wanteth shipping is carelesse of Navigation can raise no good Sailers seldome attempteth voyages or discoveries and consequently hath its Cities and Merchants conversing without forme or noble condition For in Paris they dare talke of the Kings mistresses intermeddle with all tractates of Parliaments and State call any Prince Hugonet who dares onely say That Nostre Dame is but a darke melancholike Church and finally justifie very monstrous and abusive actions So that to tell you of their inconstant and refractorie dispositions at all times would sooner discover their loathsome effusions of Christian bloud than prevent the customary and mischievous practices of this people As for the Court by reason of inveterate disorders it is a meere map of confusion and exposeth many actions more ridiculous than worthy of imitation The Husbandman he is termed a Peasant disparaged in his drudgery and servile toilsomnesse liveth poore and beastly is afraid of his owne shadow and cannot free the Vineyards from theeves and destroyers Yea all the Countrey swarmeth with Rogues and Vagabonds whose desperate wants drive them to perpetrate many hainous murthers although for the most part the Provosts of every government are very diligent The cause as I conjecture for that the passages are toylesome and disordered yea many times dangerous to which may be added the much connivencie at notorious crimes with many particulars choaking the breath of happinesse from giving life to a glorious kingdome indeed if the reciprocall duties betweene Prince and Subject were but moderately extended But now to produce England shall we say that it is matchlesse or faultlesse Surely no we have no doubt our imperfections as well as other Nations But certainly by that time the Reader in the ballance of judgement hath poysed the differences of plenty and scarcity of necessaries and abilities for Peace and Warre the one for life the other for defence I make no question but for the first when he hath read the censure of the Pope how that England was verè hortus delictarum vere puteus inexhaustus his Holinesse if he might have it for catching had no reason but to conclude Ergò ubi multa abundant de multis multa possunt extorqueri For the second how ever France and Spaine have beene alwayes accounted the ballances of Europe yet hath England stood as the beame to turne the Scale which particularly to prove I will never goe about by recitall of our Ancestors

there to have entertained the enemie if hee had kept his resolution which was by the Thames mouth to have assailed London upon the sudden For the guard of Her person under the command of the Lord Hunsdon she levied out of the Inland shires fioure and thirty thousand footmen and two thousand horse besides those goodly troops which the Nobility and Gentry presented unto her Majesties view to their meere love and zeale to Prince and Country For neighbourhood in France it may be supposed that the Princes of the reformed Religion will be alwayes glad to finde good correspondency from those who are interessed in like disadvantages as themselves What may be done by the perswasions of the pestiferous Iesuites God onely knoweth But this is certaine that betweene nations ingaged in ancient quarrels and both aspiring to one and the same greatnesse Alliances may easily be made friendship never At worst the Frenchman is a tolerable friend though a doubtfull neighbour Francum amicum habe sed non vicinum The like saith He for us As for the Spaniard it is a proverbe of his owne That the Lion is not so fierce as in printed His forces in all parts of the world except those in the Low-countries are farre under fame And if the late Queene would have beleeved her men of warre as she did some others addicted to peacefull courses she might peradventure have broken that great Empire in peeces and made their Kings as in old times Kings onely of home-bred commodities Well was it for them that her Majesty alwayes inclinable to peace did all by the halfes and petty invasions which indeed was her onely errour for future to teach the Spaniard how to defend himselfe and to see his owne weaknesse which till her attempts had taught him was hardly knowne to himselfe foure thousand men would have made a shrewd adventure to have taken his Indies from him I meane all the ports by which his treasure passeth wherein he is more hated by the natives than the English are by the Irish. And then what shall his Low-countrie Armies doe if the Indies pay them not nothing but mutinie and spoile their owne territories as they have often done and that of late yeares almost to the ruine of the Archduke So againe in 88. if that Queene would have hearkned to hazard yet not without reason we had burnt all his ships and preparations in his owne ports as we did afterwards upon the same grounds and intelligence in Cadiz He that knowes him not feares him but excepting his Low-countrie army as aforesaid which hath continued in discipline since Charles the fifth his time he is no where strong they are but follies that are spoken of him elsewhere Hee knoweth that we are too strong for him at Sea and have the Hollanders to helpe who are now by their industries in way to be strongest of all They are a wise people and tooke it somewhat in ill part that we made peace without them which in truth forced them to conclude their long truce They were the last that put downe armes and though they compounded upon the greatest disadvantage France and England having first capitulated yet they made a farre more noble peace than their associates did Since that time we finde the people to be more provident and by degrees lesse respective of their neighbors All histories will tell you it is a point worth the looking unto For unto whom they fasten themselves he that enjoyeth them will be the greatest and give law to the rest If any man doubt it he knowes not much all nations have their imperfections and so have we faults have at all times troubled the eye of understanding For whereas in her Majesties time it is well knowne that one of her ships hath commanded forty of theirs to strike saile they will now undertake us one to one and but for the jealousies of time scant vouchsafe us a good word But Kings are not like private men they forsake not one another in adversity though not alwayes for their sakes who are oppressed but for their owne securities because they watch and reason good the surmounting power of confining neighbourhood These are the greatest States to bee looked after As for the Archdukes these united Provinces for their particular interests will well enough attend him Let us no more therefore be frighted with the Spaniards greatnesse the Venetians wealth and Arsenall the confederacie of Florence Malta Genoa the Pope Naples and Sicil yea worst of all with report of the Mahumetan invincible fleet Let none save fooles admire wonders without knowledge Why Ward and the rest of the Pyrats who at their first comming into the Seas might easily have beene choked from becomming a terrour to all the Levant let wise men judge for my part I can give no other ghesse but the president of that admirable fight which Captaine Iohn King when he was Master of the Merchant Royall made against three great ships and fifteene gallies layed purposely in wait in the mouth of the Straits to intercept all English passengers And surely some Sea-men have beene of opinion with twenty good men of warre in contempt of the proudest Armada or frie of Gallies as they have termed them that those Seas can afford to performe actions beyond credit Neither let fugitives flatter themselves with conceits of forren greatnesse No people were more beholding to Tyrone and Terconnel than the Spanish in their miserable shipwracke upon the Irish coast No men received larger promises The great King should remember his humanity and noble respect The Pope himselfe shall gratifie him with a Phenix plume as he did King Iohn with a crowne of Peacocks feathers yea they can complement with him that he is more worthy of a Diadem than a subjects prostitution But is Tyrone in distresse and after shipwracke of his loyalty driven to make triall of his Spanish and Romish requitall At Millan hee is like to lie without doores if his stomacke cannot brooke the entertainment of a common Inne and at Rome bee welcomed with the allowance of a subject of charity As for defamations breathed from the poyson of malice I make no question but by the generous disposition of noble Governours they will returne to the disgrace of the brocheri As it fell out to Captaine R. Yorke by the worthinesse of an honourable enemy Count Mansfield who hearing this traiterous Captaine to transgresse the bounds of patience in undecent railing upon the government of England and the life of the late Queene Sir Rowland quoth he in plaine termes I assure you that the custome of my table will allow of no such irregular behaviour Thus have I shewed you the love of some and the malice of others abroad with our owne happinesse at home if we can be thankfull for it Amongst the which as last but not least I account the continued tranquillitie of England especially to consist in the moderate yet