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A new discouery by sea, with a vvherry from London to Salisbury. Or, a voyage to the West, the worst, or the best That e're was exprest. By Iohn Taylor.
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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Bognors fearefull Rockes which hidden lie Two miles into the Sea some wet some drie There we suppos'd our danger most of all If we on those remorcelesse Rockes should fall But by th' Almighties mercy and his might We Row'd to Selsey where we stay'd all night There our necessity could haue no Law For want of beds we made good vse of Straw Till Sol that olde continuall Trauailer From Thetis lap gan mount his flaming Car. The weather kept it's course and blow'd and rag'd Without appearance it would e're be swag'd Whilst we did passe those hills dales Downes That had deuour'd great Ships swallow'd Towns Thus after sixe or fiue houres toyle at least We past along by Wittering West and East Vpon the Lee shore still the winde full South We came neere Chichesters faire Hauens mouth And being then halfe sunk and all through wet More fear'd then hurt we did the Hauen get Thus in that harbour we our course did frame To Portsmouth where on Monday morne we came Then to the Royall Fleete we Row'd abord Where much good welcome they did vs afford To the Lord Generall first my thanks shall be His bounty did appeare in gold to me And euery one abord the Prince I found In sted of want to make their loues abound Captaine Penrudduck there amongst the rest His loue and bounty was to vs exprest Which to requite my thankfulnes I 'le showe And that I 'le euer pay and euer owe. On Tuesday morning we with maine and might From Portsmouth crost vnto the I le of Wight By Cowes stout Castle we to Yarmouth hasted And still the windes and Seas fierce fury lasted On Wedn'sday we to Hursts strong Castle crost Most dangerously sowsd turmoyl'd and tost Good harbour there we found and nothing deere I thank kinde M. Figge the Porter there He shew'd vs there a Castle of defence Most vsefull of a round circumference Of such command that none can passe those Seas Vnsunk or spoil'd except the Castle please On Thursday we our Boat row'd pull'd and hal'd Vnto a place which is Key Hauen call'd The winde still blowing and the Sea so high As if the losty waues would kisse the skie That many times I wish'd with all my hart My selfe my Boat and Crewe all in a Cart Or any where to keepe vs safe and dry The weather raged so outragiously For sure I thinke the memory of man Since windes and Seas to blowe or flowe began Cannot remember so stormy weather In such continuance held so long together For ten long weekes ere that t is manifest The winde had blowne at Sowth or west Southwest And rais'd the Seas to shew each others power That all this space calme weather not one hower That whether we did goe by Sunne or Moone At any time at midnight or at noone If we did launch or if to land we set We still were sure to be halfe sunk and wet Thus toyling of our weary time away That Thursday was our last long look'd for day For hauing past with perill and much paine And plow'd furrow'd o're the dangeroas maine O're depths and flats and many a ragged Rock We came to Christ-Church hau'n at fiue a clock Thus God in mercy his iust iudgement sparing Gainst our presumption ouer bold and daring Who made vs see his wonders in the deepe And that his power alone aloft did keepe Our weather-beaten Boate aboue the waues Each moment gaping to be all our Graues We sinking scap'd then not to vs to Him Be all the Glory for he caus'd vs swim And for his mercy was so much extended On me whose temptings had so farre offended Let me be made the scorne and scoffe of men If euer I attempt the like agen My loue my duty and my thankfulnesse To Sir George Hastings I must here expresse His deedes to me I must requite in words No other payment poore mens state affords With fruitlesse words I pay him for his cost With thanks to Mr. Templeman mine Host. So leauing Christ-Church and the Hauen there With such good friends as made vs welcome cheere Some serious matter now I must compile And thus from verse to prose I change my stile GOD who of his infinite wisedome made Man of his vnmeasurable mercy redeemed him of his boundlesse bounty immense power and eternall eye of watchfull prouidence releeues guards and conserues him It is necessary that euery man seriously consider ponder these things and in token of obedience and thankfulnesse say with Dauid What shall I render and the man hauing thus searched considerately the causer of his being then let him againe meditate for what cause hee hath a being indeede it may be obiected that almost euery thing hath a being as stones haue being trees hearbs and plants haue being and life Beasts fowles and fishes haue being life and sence but to man is giuen a Being life sence and reason and after a mortall an immortall euer being this consideration will make a man know that hee hath little part of himselfe which hee may iustly call his owne his body is Gods he made it his soule is his who bought it his goods are but lent him by him that will one day call him to a reckoning for the well or ill disposing of them so that man hauing nothing but what he hath receiued and receiued nothing but what is to be imployed in the seruice of God and consequently his Prince and Countrey it is plainely to be perceiued that euery man hath the least share or portion of himselfe to boast of I haue written this Preamble not onely to enforme such as know not these things already but also to such whose knowledge is as it were fallen into a dead sleepe who doe liue as though there were no other being then here and that their life and being was ordained onely of themselues neither God Prince or Countrey hauing no share or portion of them or of what they call theirs But oh you Inhabitans of Salisburie I hope there are no such crawling Cankerwormes or Common-wealth Caterpillers amongst you Nay I am assured of the contrary that there are many who with religious piety open hands and relenting hearts doe acknowledge that your goods are but lent in trust vnto you and doe patiently beare the ouer-burthensome relieuing of many hundreds of poore wretches which were it not for your charity would perish in your streetes This being entred into my consideration that your Citie is so much ouercharged with poore as hauing in three Parishes neere 3000. besides decayed men a great many and that those fewe which are of the wealthier sort are continually ouerpressed with sustaining the wants of the needy the Citie being as it were at the last gaspe the poore being like Pharaohs leane Kine euen ready to eate vp the fat ones I haue made bold to write this Treatise ensuing both to entreat a constant perseuerence in those who haue begun to doe good
is not second to any Noblemans in England Afterwards I went to the Stables and saw my Lords great Horses whom I saw such and so good that what my vntutour'd Pen cannot sufficiently commend I am forced with silence to ouerpasse But amongst the rest the paines and industrie of an ancient Gentleman Mr. Adrian Gilbert must not be forgotten for there hath he much to my Lords cost and his owne paines vsed such a deale of intricate Setting Grafting Planting inocculating Rayling hedging plashing turning winding and returning circular Trianguler Quadranguler Orbiculer Ouall and euery way curiously and chargeably conceited There hath he made Walkes hedges and Arbours of all manner of most delicate fruit Trees planting and placing them in such admirable Artlike fashions resembling both diuine and morrall remembrances as three Arbours standing in a Triangle hauing each a recourse to a greater Arbour in the midst resembleth three in one and one in three and he hath there planted certaine Walkes and Arbours all with Fruit trees so pleasing and rauishing to the sense that he calls it Paradise in which he plaies the part of a true Adamist continually toyling and tilling Moreouer he hath made his Walkes most rarely round and spacious one Walke without another as the rindes of an Onion are greatest without and lesse towards the Center and withall the hedges betwixt each Walke are so thickly set that one cannot see thorow from the one walke who walkes in the other that in conclusion the worke seemes endlesse and I thinke that in England it is not to be fellowed or will in hast be followed And in loue which I beare to the memory of so industrious and ingenious a Gentleman I haue written these following Annagrams Adryan Gilbert Annagrams Art redily began A breeding tryal Art redily began a breeding tryal When she inspir'd this worthy Gentleman For Natures eye of him tooke full espiall And taught him Art Art redily began That though Dame Nature was his Tuteresse he Out-workes her as his workes apparent be For Nature brings but earth and seeds and plants Which Art like Taylers cuts and puts in fashion As Nature rudely doth supply our wants Art is deformed Natures reformation So Adryan Gilbert mendeth Natures features By Art that what she makes doth seem his creatures THus with my humble thankes to Sir Thomas Morgan and my kinde remembrance to all the rest of my Lords Seruants there My legges and my labouring lynes returne againe to Salisbury and from the next day being Sunday to Langford to my Lord Gorge his house with whoÌ„ I dined left my humble thanks for the reckoning In briefe my fruitlesse and worthy lip-labour mixt with a deale of Ayrie and non-substantiall matter I gaue his Lordship and the like requitall I bestowed on the right Worshipfull M. Thomas Squibb Mayor of Sarum with M. Banes M. Iohn Iuy M. Windouer with all the rest and more then thankes and a gratefull remembrance of their Honourable Worshipfull and friendly fauours I know they expect not and lesse then such a common duty as Gratitude I must not or cannot pay To shut vp all in few words I know his Maiesties pious inclination is so ample that he will be graciously pleased with any of your laudable endeuours for your welfare and commodity if you take good and speedy aduice then no doubt but the effects will be according to your honest intendments So farewell Salisbury till we meete againe which I hope will be one day in the meane space I pray thee take this poore Pamphlet as a louing pledge of my returne Me thinks I see already Men Horses Carts Mattocks Shouels Spades Wheelebarrowes Handbarrowes and Baskets at worke for the clearing of your Riuer But if my thoughts doe deceiue me and my expectation faile I shall euer hereafter giue small credit to their intelligence So once more Salisbury I wish thee thankfully well to fare On Thursday the 21. of August I tooke Winchester in my way homewards where I saw an ancient Citie like a body without â— soule and I know not the reason of it but for aught which I perceiued there were almost as many Parishes as people I lodged at the signe of the Cock being recommended to the Host of the house by a token from Salisbury but mine Host dyed the night before I came and I being weary had more minde to goe to bed then to follow him so long a iourney to doe my messuage or deliuer any commendations but the whole Citie seemed almost as dead as mine Host and it may be they were all at Haruest worke but I am sure I walked from the one end of it to the other and saw not 30. people of all sorts So that I thinke if a man should goe to Winchester for a Goose he might lose his labour for a Trader cannot liue there by venting such commodities On Friday I gallop'd a foote pace one and twenty miles from Winchester to Farneham where I and one of my company hired a couple of Hampshiere Ienets with seauen legs and three eyes betwixt them vpon whom wee hobled seauenteene miles to Stanes whence on Saturday the 23. of August we footed it to Brentfoord and Boated it to LonDON Any Raâ— that eats Pye is a Pyâ—rat When past down the Riuer there was not any Post or Horne there buâ— since it is most worthily Repaired All estates or degrees doe either loue or feare this Hauen * His name is Arthur Bray a Waterman of Lambeth a good Markman * We were fiue men two of vs were afraid two were not afraid and I was halfe afraid The right Ho the Lo Zouch Lord Warden of the Cinque ports No dwelling within neere three miles of those Cottages The towns name is Lydd two miles from Rumney in Kent Our beds were Cables and Ropes euery feather at the least 20. fatham long I walk'd to Winchelsey where I thanke my Couzin Mr. Collins the Mayor there he made me kindely welcome The Mayors name was Mr. Richard Boyse a Gentleman whose laudable life and honest gouernment is much beloued and aprou'd * Mathew Figge a right good fellow * Men should consider why God hath giuen them a being in this life No man is owner of himselfe Here is an honest course set downe for the inriching of your rich and the relieuing of your poore His name is Gregory Bastable and his ordinary place where he plyes or attends his labour is at the Temple and there also plyes Thomas Estman another Wiltshire man which went with me Some make a profit of quarelling some picke their lyuings out of contentions debate some thriue and grow fat by gluttonie many are brauely maintained by Bribery theft cheating roguery villany but put all these together and ioyne to them all sorts of people else and they all in generall are drinkers and consequently the Brewers Clients and Customers Let these Lines be considered if I lye or not Let these Lines be considered if I lye or not Tobyah Arabians Amonites Not a Tree stands there but it beares one good or rare fruit or other A round worke is endlesse hauing no end I touch not the matchlesse adioyning wood and walkes of Rowlington here whose praises coÌ„sists in it selfe my pen being insufficient