upon ones tail or muffling the face in the Hat or thrusting it in soâ—… hole or covering it with ones hand but with bended knee and an open confident face I fix my Eyes on the East part of the Church and Heaven I endeavour to apply evry tirâ—…le of the Service to my own Conscience and Occasions and I believe the want of this with the huddling up and careless reading of som Ministers with the commoness of it is the greatest cause that many do undervalue and take a Surfet of our public Service For the reading and singing Psalmes wheras most of them are either Petitions or Eucharisticall ejaculations I listen to them more attentively and make them mine own When I stand at the creed I think upon the custom they have in Poland and else-where for Gentlemen to draw their Swords all the while intimating therby that they will defend it with their lives and bloud And for the Decalog wheras others use to rise and sit I ever kneel at it in the humblest and trembling'st posture of all to crave remission for the breaches pass'd of any of Gods holy Commandments specially the week before and future grace to observe them I love a holy devout Sermon that first checks and then cheers the Conscience that begins with the Law and ends with the Gospell but I never prejudicat or censure any Preacher â—…aking him as I find him And now that we are not only Adulted but ancient Christians I beleeve the most acceptable Sacrifice we can send up to Heaven is prayer and praise and that Sermons are not so essentiall as either of them to the tru practice of devotion The rest of the holy Sabbath I sequester my body and mind as much as I can from worldly affairs Upon Monday morn as soon as the Cinq-ports are open I have a particular prayer of thanks that I am reprieved to the beginning of that week and evry day following I knock thrice at Heavens gate in the Morning in the Evening and at Night besides Prayers at Meals and som other occasionall ejaculations as upon the putting on of a clean Shirt washing my hands and at lighting of Candles which because they are sudden I do in the third person Tuesday morning I rise Winter and Summer as soon as I awake and send up a more particular sacrifice for som reasons and as I am dispos'd or have busines I go to bed again Upon Wensday night I always fast and perform also som extraordinary acts of Devotion as also upon Friday night and Saturday morning as soon as my senses are unlock'd I get up And in the Summer time I am oftentimes abroad in som privat field to attend the Sun-rising And as I pray thrice evry day so I fast thrice evry week at least I eat but one meal upon Wensdays Fridays and Saturdays in regard I am jealous with my self to have more infirmities to answer for than other Before I go to bed I make a scrutiny what peccant humors have reign'd in me that day and so I reconcile my self to my Creator and strike a tally in the Exchequer of Heaven for my quieâ—…us est ere I close my eyes and leave no burden upon my Conscience Before I presume to take the Holy Sacrament I use som extraordinary acts of Humiliation to prepare my self som days before and by doing som deeds of Charity and commonly I compose som new Prayers and divers of them written in my own bloud I use not to rush rashly into prayer without a trembling precedent Meditation and if any odd thoughts intervene and grow upon me I check my self and recommence and this is incident to long prayers which are more subject to mans weaknes and the devils malice I thank God I have this fruit of my forrain Travels that I can pray unto him evry day of the week in a severall Language and upon Sunday in seven which in Orisons of my own I punctually perform in my privat Pomeridian devotions Et sic aeternam contendo attingere vitam By these steps I strive to clime up to heaven and my soul prompts me I shall thither for ther is no object in the world delights me more than to cast up my eyes that way specially in a Star-light night and if my mind be overcast with any odd clouds of melancholly when I look up and behold that glorious Fabric which I hope shall be my Countrey heerafter ther are new spirits begot in me presently which make me scorn the World and the pleasures thereof considering the vanity of the one and the inanity of the other Thus my soul still moves East-ward as all the Heavenly bodies doe but I must tell you that as those bodies are over-master'd and snatch'd away to the West raptu primi mobilis by the generall motion of the tenth sphere so by those Epidemicall infirmities which are incident to man I am often snatch'd away a clean contrary cours yet my soul persists still in our own proper motion I am often at variance and angry with my self nor do I hold this anger to be any breach of charity when I consider That wheras my Creator intended this body of mine though â—… lump of Clay to be a Temple of his holy Spirit my affections should turn it often to a Brothell-house my passions to a Bedlam and my excesses to an Hospitall Being of a Lay profession I humbly conform to the Constitutions of the Church and my spirituall Superiors and I hold this obedience to be an acceptable Sacrifice to God Difference in opinion may work a disaffection in me but not a detestation I rather pity than hate Turk or Insidell for they are of the same metall and bear the same stamp as I do though the Inscriptions differ If I hate any 't is those Scismatics that puzzle the sweet peace of our Church so that I could bee content to see an Anabaptist go to Hell on a Brownists back Noble Knight now that I have thus eviscerated my self and dealt so clearly with you I desire by way of correspondence that you would tell me what way you take in your journey to Heaven for if my Brest lie so open to you 't is not sitting yours should bee shut up to mee therfore I pray let me hear from you when it may stand with your Convenience So I wish you your hearts desire here and Heaven hereafter because I am Yours in no vulgar way of friendship J. H. London 25 Iuly 1635. XXXIII To Simon Digby Esquire at Mosco the Emperor of Russia's Court. SIR I Received one of yours by Mr. Pickhurst and I am glad to find that the rough clime of Russia agrees so well with you so well as you write as the Catholic ayr of Madrid or the Imperiall ayr of Vienna where you had such honorable employments The greatest News we have heer is that we have a Bishop Lord Tresurer and 't is News indeed in these times though 't was no news you know in
subject to starving to diseases to the inclemency of the weather and to be far longer liv'd I then spyed a great stone and sitting a while upon 't I fell to weigh in my thoughts that that stone was in a happier condition in som respects than either those sensitive creatures or vegetables I saw before in regard that that stone which propagates by assimilation as the Philosophers say needed neither grass nor hay or any aliment for restauration of nature nor water to refresh its roots or the heat of the Sun to attract the moisture upwards to encrease growth as the other did As I directed my pace homeward I spyed a Kite soaâ—…ing high in the ayr and gently gliding up and down the clear Region so far above my head I fell to envy the Bird extremely and â—…epine at his happines that hee should have a privilege to make a nearer approach to heaven than I. Excuse me that I trouble you thus with these rambling meditations they are to correspond with you in som part for those accurat fancies of yours you lately sent me So I rest Holborn 17 Mar. 1639. Your entire and true Servitor J. H LII To master Sergeant D. at Lincolns Inn. SIR I Understand with a deep sense of sorrow of the indisposition of your son I fear he hath too much mind for his body and that he superabounds with fancy which brings him to these fits of distemper proceeding from the black humor of Melancholy Moreover I have observed that hee is too much given to his study and self-society specially to convers with dead men I mean Books you know any thing in excess is naught Now Sir wer I worthy to give you advice I could wish he wer well married and it may wean him from that bookish and thoughtfull humor women wer created for the comfort of men and I have known that to som they have prov'd the best Heleborum against Melancholy As this course may beget new spirits in him so it must needs ad also to your comfort I am thus bold with you because I love the Gentleman dearly well and honor you as being West 13 Iune 1632. Your humble obliged servant J. H. LIII To my noble Lady the Lady M. A. Madame THer is not any thing wherin I take more pleasure than in the accomplishment of your commands nor had ever any Queen more power o're her Vassalls than you have o're my intellectualls I find by my inclinations that it is as naturall for me to do your will as it is for fire to fly upward or any body els to rend to his center but touching the last command your Ladiship was pleased to lay upon me which is the following Hymne if I answer not the fulness of your expectation it must be imputed to the suddennes of the command and the shortnes of time A Hymne to the Blessed Trinity To the First Person To thee dread Soveraign and dear Lord Which out of nought didst me afford Essence and life who mad'st me man And oh much more a Christian Lo from the centre of my heart All laud and glory I impart Hallelujah To the Second To thee blessed Saviour who didst free My soul from Satans tyrannie And mad'st her capable to be An Angel of thy Hierarchy From the same centre I do raise All honor and immortall praise Hallelujah To the Third To thee sweet Spirit I return That love wherwith my heart doth burn And these bless'd notions of my brain I now breath up to thee again O let them redescend and still My soul with holy raptures fill Hallelujah They are of the same measure cadence and ayr as was that angelicall Hymne your Ladiship pleased to touch upon your instrument which as it so enchanted me then that my soul was ready to com out at my ears so your voice took such impressions in mee that me thinks the sound still remains fresh with Westm. 1 Apr. 1637. Your Ladiships most devoted Servitor J. H. XLIV To Master P. W. at Westminster SIR THe fear of God is the beginning of Wisdom and the Love of God is the end of the Law the former saying was spoke by no meaner man than Solomon but the latter hath no meaner Author than our Savior himself Touching this beginning and this end ther is a near relation between them so near that the one begets the tother a harsh mother may bring forth somtimes a mild daughter so fear begets love but it begets knowledg first for Ignâ—…ti nulla cupido we cannot love God unless we know him before both fear and love are necessary to bring us to heaven the one is the fruit of the Law the other of the Gospell when the clouds of fear are vanish'd the beams of love then begin to glance upon the heart and of all the members of the body which are in a maner numberless this is that which God desires because 't is the centre of Love the source of our affections and the cistern that holds the most illustrious bloud and in a sweet and well devoted harmonious soul cor is no other than Camera Omnipotentis Regis 't is one of Gods closets and indeed nothing can fill the heart of man whose desires are infinite but God who is infinity itself Love therfore must be a necessary attendant to bring us to him but besides Love ther must be two other guides that are requir'd in this journey which are Faith and Hope now that fear which the Law enjoyns us turns to faith in the Gospell and knowledg is the scope and subject of both yet these last two bring us onely towards the haven but love goes along with us to heaven and so remains an inseparable sempiternall companion of of the soul Love therfore is the most acceptable Sacrifice which we can offer our Creator and he who doth not study the Theory of it heer is never like to com to the Practise of it heerafter It was a high hyper physicall expression of St. Austustine when he fell into this rapture that if hee wer King of Heaven and God Almighty Bishop of Hippo he would exchange places with him because he lov'd him so well This Vote did so take me that I have turn'd it to a paraphrasticall Hymn which I send you for your Violl having observed often that you have a harmonious soul within you The Vote Oh God who can those passions tell Wherwith my heart to thee doth swell I cannot better them declare Than by the wish made by that rare Auâ—…elian Bishop who of old Thy Oracâ—…es in Hippo told If I were Thou and thou wert I I would resign the Deity Thou shouldst be God I would be man Is 't possible that love more can Oh pardon that my soul hath tane So high a flight and grows prophane For my self my dear Phil because I love you so dearly well I will display my very intrinsecalls to you in this point when I exmine the motions of my heart I find that I
you at this time I will defer that till I come to the Hague I am lodged here at one Mounsieur De la Cluze not far from the Exchange to make an Introduction into the French because I beleeve I shall steer my cours hence next to the Countrey where that Language is spoken but I think I shall sojourn here about two moneths longer therefore I pray direct your Letterâ—… accordingly or any other you have for me One of the prime comforts of a Traveller is to receive Letters from his friends they beget new spirits in him and present joyfull objects to his fancy when his mind is clouded sometimes with Fogs of melancholy therefore I pray make me happy as often as your conveniency will serve with yours You may send or deliver them to Captain Bacon at the Glasse house who will see them safely sent So my dear brother I pray God blesse us both and send us after this large distance a joyfull meeting Your loving brother J. H. Amsterdam April 1. 1617. VI. To Dan. Caldwall Esq. from Amsterdam My dear Dan. I Have made your friendship so necessary unto me for the contentment of my life that happinesse it self would be but a kind of infelicity without it It is as needfull to me as Fire and Water as the very Air I take in and breath out it is to me not onely neoessitudo but necessitas Therefore I pray let me injoy it in that fair proportion that I desire to return unto you by way of correspondencee and retaliation Our first ligue of love you know was contracted among the Muses in Oxford for no sooner was I matriculated to her but I was adopted to you I became her son and your friend at one time You know I followed you then to London where our love received confirmation in the Temple and else-where We are now far asunder for no lesse then a Sea severs us and that no narrow one but the German Ocean Distance sometimes endear's friendship and absence sweetneth it it much 〈◊〉 the value of it and makes it more precious Let this be verified in us Let that love which formerly used to be nourished by personall communication and the Lips be now fed by Letters let the Pen supply the Office of the Toung Letters have a strong operation they have a kind of art like embraces to mingle souls and make them meet though millions of paces asunder by them we may converse and know how it fares with each other as it were by entercours of spirits Therefore amongst your civill speculations I pray let your thoughts sometimes reflect off me your absent self and wrap those thoughts in Paper and so send them me over I promise you they shall be very welcome I shall embrace and hug them with my best affections Commend me to Tom Bowyer and enjoyn him the like I pray be no niggard in distributing my love plentifully amongst our friends at the Innes of Court Let Iack Toldervy have my kind commends with this caveat That the Pot which goes often to the water comes home crack'd at last therefore I hope he will be carefull how he makes the Fleece in Cornhill his thorowfare too often So may my dear Daniel live happy and love his J. H. From Amsterdam April the 10. 1619. VII To my Father from Amsterdam SIR I Am lately arrived in Holland in a good plight of health and continue yet in this Town of Amsterdam a Town I beleeve that there are few her fellows being from a mean Fishing Dorp come in a short revolution of time by a monstrous encrease of Comerce and Navigation to be one of the greatest Marts of Europ T is admirable to see what various sorts of Buildings and new Fabrics are now here erecting every where not in houses onely but in whole Streets and Suburbs so that t is thought she will in a short time double her proportion in bigness I am lodg'd in a French-mans house who is one of the Deacons of our English Brownists Church here 't is not far from the Synagog of Iews who have free and open exercise of their Religion here I beleeve in this Street where I lodg ther be well near as many Religions as there be houses for one Neighbour knows not nor cares not much what Religion the other is of so that the number of Conventicles exceeds the number of Churches here And let this Countrey call it self as long as it will the united Provinces one way I am perswaded in this point there 's no place so Disunited The Dog and Rag Market is hard by where every Sunday morning there is a kind of public Mart for those commodities notwithstanding their precise observance of the Sabbath Upon Saturday last I hapned to be in a Gentlemans company who shew'd me as I walk'd along in the Streets along Bearded old Iew of the Tribe of Aaron when the other Iews met him they fell down and kiss'd his Foot This was that Rabbi with whom our Countrey-man Broughton had such a dispute This City notwithstanding her huge Trade is far inferiour to London for populousnes and this I infer out of their weekly Bills of Mortalitie which come not at most but to fifty or thereabout whereas in London the ordinary number is twixt two and three hundred one week with another Nor are there such Wealthy-men in this Town as in London for by reason of the generality of Commerce the Banks Adventures the Common shares and stocks which most have in the Indian and other Companies the Wealth doth'diffuse it self here in a strange kind of equality not one of the Bourgers being exceeding rich or exceeding poor Insomuch that I beleeve our four and twenty Aldermen may buy a hundred of the richest men in Amsterdam It is a rare thing to meet with a Begger here as rare as to see a Horse they say upon the Streets of Venice this is held to be one of their best peeces of Government for besides the strictnes of their Laws against Mendicants they have Hospitals of all sorts for young and'old both for the relief of the one and the employment of the other so that there is no object here to exercise any act of charity upon They are here very neat though not so magnificent in their Buildings specially in their Frontispices and first Rooms and for cleanlines they may serve for a pattern to all People They will presently dresse half a dozen Dishes of Meat without any noise or shew at all for if one goes to the Kitchin ther will he scarce apparance of any thing but a few covered Pots upon a Turf-fire which is their prime fuell after dinner they fall a scowring of those Pots so that the outside will be as bright 〈◊〉 the inside and the Kitchin suddenly so clean as if no meat had bin dress'd there a month before They have neither Well or Fountain or any Spring of Fresh-water in or about all this City but their
unto your Ladyship and tell you that he was going to comfort your neece the Dutches as fast as he could and so I have sent the truth of this sad story to your Ladyship as fast as I could by this post because I cannot make that speed myself in regard of som busines I have to dispatch for my Lord in the way So I humbly take my leave and rest Stamford Aug. 5. 1628. Your Lapp s most dutifull Servant J. H. IX To the right Honble Sir Peter Wichts his Majesties Ambassador at Constantinople My Lord YOurs of the 2. of Iuly came to safe hand and I did all those particular recaudos you enjoyned me to do to som of your â—…ends here The Town of Rochell hath bin fatall and infortunat to England for this is the third time that we have attempted to releeve her but our fleets and forces returnd without doing any thing My Lord of Linsey went thither with the same Fleet the Duke intended to go on but he is returnd without doing any good he made som shots at the great Boom and other baricadoes at sea but at such a distance that they conld do no hurt Insomuch that the Town is now given for lost and to be passd cure and they cry out we have betrayd them At the return of this Fleet two of the Whelps were cast away and three ships more and som five ships who had som of those great stones that were brought to build Pauls for ballast and for other uses within them which could promise no good success for I never heard of any thing that prospered which being once designed for the honor of God was alienated from that use The Queen interposeth for the releasement of my Lord of Newport and others who are prisoners of War I hear that all the colours they took from us are hung up in the great Church Nostredame as tropkeys in Paris Since I began this letter ther is news brought that Rochell hath yeelded and that the King hath dismantled the Town and razd all the fortifications landward but leaves those standing which are toward the Sea It is a mighty exploit the French King hath don for Rochell was the cheifest propugnacle of the Protestants there and now questionles all the rest of their cautionary Towns which they kept for their own defence will yeeld so that they must depend hereafter upon the Kings meer mercy I hear of an overture of Peace twixt us and Spain and that my Lord Cottington is to go thither and Don Carlos Coloma to com to us God grant it for you know the saying in Spanish Nunca vi tan mala paz que no fuera mejor que la mejor guerra It was a bold thing in England to fall out with the two greatest Monarchs of Christendom and to have them both her enemies at one time aâ—…d as glorious a thing it was to bear up against them God turn all to the best and dispose of things to his glory So I rest London 1 Sept. 1628. Your Lordships ready Servitor J. H. X. To my Cosen Mr. Stgeon at Christ-Church College in Oxford COsen though you want no incitements to go on in that fair road of vertu wher you are now running your cours yet being lately in your noble Fathers company he did intimat unto me that any thing which cam from me would take with you very much I hear so well of your proceedings that I should rather commend than encourage you I know you wer remov'd to Oxford in full maturity you wer a good Orator a good Poet and a good Linguist for your time I would not have that fate light upon you which useth to befall som who from golden Students becom silver Bachelors and Leaden Masters I am far from entertaining any such thought of you that Logic with her quiddities and Quae la vel Hipps can any way unpolish your human studies As Logic is clubfisted and crabbed so she is terrible at first sight she is like a Gorgons head to a young student but after a twelve months constancy and patience this Gorgons head will prove a meer buggbear When you have devour'd the Organon you will find Philosophie far more delightfull and pleasing to your palat In feeding the soul with knowledge the understanding requireth the same consecutif acts which nature useth in nourishing the body To the nutrition of the body ther are two Essentiall conditions requir'd assumption and retention then ther follows two more 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 concoction and agglutination or adhaesion So in feeding your soule with Science you must first assume and sucâ—… in the matter into your apprehension then must the memory retain and keep it in afterwards by disputation discours and meditation it must be well concocted then must it be agglutinateâ—… and converted to nutriment All this may be reduc'd to these 〈◊〉 heads tencre fideliter uti faeliciter which are two of the happiest properties in a student ther is an other act requir'd to gooâ—… concoction call'd the act of Expulsion which puts off all that is unfound and noxious so in study ther must be an expulsive vertâ—… to shun all that is erroneous and ther is no science but is full 〈◊〉 such stuff which by direction of Tutor and choice of good Book must be excernd Do not confound your self with multiplicity of Authors two is enough upon any Science provided they be plenary and orthodox Philosphy should be your substantiall food Poetry your banqueting stuff Philosophy hath more of reality in it than any knowledge the Philosopher can fadom the deep measure Mountaines reach the Starrs with a staff and bless Heaven with a girdle But amongst these studies you must not forget the unicum necessarium on Sundaies and Holy-dayes let Divinity be the sole object of your speculation in comparison wherof all other knowledg is but cobweb learning prae qua quisquiliae coetera When you can make truce with study I should be glad you would employ som superfluous hour or other to write unto me for I much covet your good because I am London 25 Octob. 1627. Your affectionat Cosen J. H. XI To Sir Sackvill Trevor Knight Noble Onkle I Send you my humble thanks for the curious Sea-chest of glasses you pleas'd to bestow on me which I shal be very chary to keep as a Monument of your love I congratulat also the great honor you have got lately by taking away the Spirit of France I mean by taking the third great Vessell of her Sea-Trinity Her Holy Spirit which had bin built in the mouth of the Texell for the service of her King without complementing with you it was one of the best exploits that was perform'd since these warrs began and besides the renown you have purchas'd I hope your reward will be accordingly from his Majesty whom I remember you so happily preserv'd from drowning in all probability at St. Anderas road in Spain Though Princes
To D. C. Esqr. SIR IN my last I writ to you that Ch. Mor. was dead I meant in a morall sense Hee is now alive again for he hath abjur'd that Club which was used to knock him in the head so often and drown him commonly once a day I discover divers symptoms of regeneration in him for hee rayls bitterly against Bacchus and swears ther 's a devill in evry berry of his grape therfore he resolves hereafter though he may dabble a little somtimes he will bee never drown'd again you know Kit hath a Poetic fancy and no unhappy one as you find by his compositions you know also that Poets have lâ—…rge souls they have sociable free generous spirits and theâ—… are few who use to drink of Hâ—…licons waters but they love to mingle it with som of Lyaeus liquor to heighten their spirits Ther 's no Creature that 's kneaded of Clay but hath his frailties extravagancies and excesses som way or other for you must not think that man can be better out of Paradise than he was within 't Nemo fine crimine He that censures the good-fellow commonly makes no conscience of gluttony and gormandising at home and I believe more men do dig their graves with their teeth than with the tâ—…kard They who tax others of vanity and pride have commonly that fordid vice of covetousnes attends them and he who traduceth others of being a servant to Ladies doth baser things We are no Angels upon earth but we are transported with som infirmity or other and 't will be so while these frail fluxible humors reign within us while wee have â—…luces of warm bloud running through our veins ther must be ofttimes som irregular motions in us This as I conceiye is that black beane which the Turks Alchoran speaks of when they feign that Mahomet being asleep among the mountains of the Moon two Angels descended and ripping his brest they took his heart and washed it in snow and after pull'd out a black bean which was the portion of the devill and so replac'd the heart In your next you shall do well to congratulat his resurrection or regeneration or rather emergency from that course hee was plunged in formerly you know it as well as I and truly I beleeve hee will grow newer and newer evry day we find that a stumble makes one take firmer footing and the base suds which vice useth to leave behind it makes vertue afterward far more gustfull no knowledg is like that of contraries Kit hath now oâ—…e-com himself therfore I think he will be too hard for the Devill hereafter I pray hold on your resolution to be here the next Term that we may tattle a little of Tom Thumb mine Host of Andover or som such matters so I am West 15. Aug. 1636. Your most affectionate Servitor J. H. IV. To T. D. Esquire SIR I Had yours lately by a safehand wherin I find you open unto me all the boxes of your brest I perceive you are sorehurt and wheras all other creatures run away from the instrument and hand that wounds them you seem to make more and more towards bâ—…th I confess such is the nature of love and which is worse the nature of Women is such That like shadows the more you follow them the faster they flâ—… from you Nay some Femalls are of that od humor that to feed their pride they will famish affection they will starve those naturall passions which are owing from them to Man I confess coynes becoms som beauties if handsomly acted a frown from som faces penetrats more and makes deeper impression than the fawning and soft glances of a mincing smile yet if this coynes and these frowns savor of Pride they are odious and t is a rule that wher this kind of pride inhabits Honor sits not long Porter at the Gate Ther are som beauties so strong that they are leagerproof they are so barricadoed that no battery no Petard or any kind of Engin sapping or mining can do good upon them Ther are others that are tenable a good while and will endure the brunt of a siege but will incline to parley at last and you know that Fort and Femall which begins to parley is half won for my part I think of beauties as Philip King of Macedon thought of Cities ther is none so inexpugnable but an Asse laden with gold may enter into them you know what the Spaniard saith Dadivas quebrant anpeñas presents can rend rocks Pearl and golden bullets may do much upon the impregnablest beauty that is It must be partly your way I remember a great Lord of this Land sent a puppie with a rich coller of Diamonds to a rare French Lady Madam St. L. that had com over hither with an Ambassador she took the dog but returnd the coller I will not tell you what effect it wrought afterwards 'T is a powerfull sex they were too strong for the first the strongest and wisest man that was they must needs be strong when one hair of a woman can draw more then a hundred pair of oxen yet for all their strength in point of value if you will beleeve the Italian A man of straw is worth a woman of gold Therfore if you find the thing pervers rather then to undervalue your sex your manhood retire hansomly for ther is as much honor to be won as an hansom retrait as at a hot onset it being the difficultest peece of War by this retrait you will get a greater victory then you are aware of for therby you will over-com your self which is the greatest conquest that can be without seeking abroad wee have enemies enough within doors to practise our valour upon we have tumultuary and rebellious passions with whole hosts of humorâ—… within us He who can discomfit them is the greatest Captain and may defie the Devill I pray recollect your self and think on this advice of your true and most affectionat servitor Westm. 4 Decem. 1637. J. H. V. To G. G. Esq at Rome SIR I Have more thanks to give you then can be folded up in this narrow paper though it were all writ in the closest kind of Stenography for the rich and acurat account you please to give me of that renowned City wherin you now sojourn I find you have most iudiciously pryed into all matters both civill and clericall especially the latter by observing the poverty and penances of the Fryer the policy and power of the Iesuit the pomp of the Prelat and Cardinall Had it not bin for the two first I beleeve the two last and that See had bin at a low ebb by this time for the learning the prudentiall state knowledge and austerity of the one and the venerable opinion the peeple have of the abstenious and rigid condition of the other specially of the Mendicants seem to make som compensation for the lux and magnificence of the two last Besides they are more beholden to the Protestant then they are
by the next shipping besides she entreats you to send her a pot of the best mithridate and so much of treacle All your frends here are well and joviall T. T. drank your health yesternight and wish'd you could send him a handsome Venetiaâ—… Courâ—…isan inclos'd in a letter he would willingly be at the charge of the postage which he thinks would not be much for such a light commodity Farewell my dear Tom have a care of your courses and continue to love him who is Westmin 15 Ian. 1635. Yours to the altar J. H. XVIII To Mr. T. Jackson at Madrid SIR THough a great sea severs â—…s now yet 't is not all the water of the Ocean can drowne the remembrance of you in me but that it floats and flows daily in my brain I must confess for 't is impossible the mind of man should fix it self alwaies upon one object it hath somtimes its ebbs in me but 't is to rise up again with greater force At the writing heerof 't was floud 't was spring-tide which sweld so high that the thoughts of you overwhelm'd all others within me they ingross'd all my intellectualls for the time You write to me fearfull news â—…ouching the revolt of the Catalan from Castillia of the tragicall murthering of the Viceroy and the burning of his House Those mountaneers are mad Lads I fear the sparkles of this fire will fly further either to Portugall or to Sicilia and Italy all which Countries I observ'd the Spaniard holds as one would do a Woolf by the â—…ar fearing they should run aâ—…ay ever and anon from him The newes here is that Lambeth House beares all the sway at White-Hall and the Lord Deputy Kings it notably in Ireland som that love them best could wish them a little more moderation I pray buy Suarez works for me of the last edition Mr. William Pawley to whom I desire my most hearty commends may be presented will see it safely sent by way of Bilâ—…ao your frends here are all well as is thanks be to God Holborn 3 Mar. 1638. Your true friend to serve you J. H. XXIX To Sir Edward Sa. Knight Sir Edward I Had a shrewd disease hung lately upon mâ—… proceeding as the Physicians told me from this long reclused life and close restraint which had much wasted my spirits and brought me low when the Crisis was past I began to grow doubtfull that I had but a short time to breath in this elementary world my feaver still encreasing and finding my soule weary of this muddy mansion and me thought more weary of this prison of flesh than this flesh was of this prison of the Fleet. Therfore after som gentle slumbers and unusuall dreames about the dawnings of the day I had a lucid intervall and so I fell a thinking how to put my little house in order and to make my last will Heerupon my thoughts ran upon Grunnius sophista's last Testament who having nothing else to dispose of but his body he bequeathed all the parts therof in Legacies as his skin to the Tanners his bones to the Dice makers his guts to the Musitians his fingers to the Scriveners his toung to his fellow sophisters which were the Lawyers of those times and so forth as he thus dissected his body so I thought to divide my mind into legacies having as you know little of the outward pelf and gifts of fortune to dispose of for never any was less beholden to that blind baggage In the highest degree of Theoricall contemplation I made an entire sacrifice of my soul to her maker who by infusing created her and by creating infused her to actuate this small bulk of flâ—…sh with an unshakeâ—… confidence of the redemption of both in my Saviour and consequently of the salvation of the one and resurrection of the other my thoughts then reflected upon divers of my noble frends and I â—…ell to proportion unto them what Legacies I held most proper I thought to bequeath unto my Lord of Cherbery and Sir K. Digâ—…y that little Philosophy and knowledg I have in the Mathematicks My historicall observations and criticall researches I made into antiquity I thought to bequeath unto Dr. Vsher Lord Primate of Ireland My observations abroad and inspection into forrein States I thought to leave to my Lord G. D. My poetry such as it is to Mistress A. K. who I know is a great minion of the Muses School languages I thought to bequeath unto my dear mother the Vniversity of Oxford My Spanish to Sir Lewis Dives and Master Endimion Porter for though they are great masters of that language yet it may stead them somthing when they read la picara Iustina My Italian to the worthy company of Turky and Levantine Merchants from divers of whom I have received many noble favours My French to my most honoured lady the Lady Cor and it may help her somthing to understand Rablais The little smattering I have in the Dutch British and my English I did not esteem worth the bequeathing My love I had bequeathed to be dufâ—…'d among all my dear frends specially those that have stuck unto me this my long affliction My best naturall â—…ffections betwixt the Lord B of Br. my brother Howell my three dear Sisters to be transferr'd by them to my cousins their children This little sackfull of bones I thought to bequeath to Westminster Abbey to be interred in the cloyster within the Southside of the Garden close to the wall wher I would have desired Sir H. F. my dear Frend to have inlayed a small peece of black marble and caus'd this motto to have bin insculp'd upon it Huc usque peregrinus heic domi or this which I would have left to his choice Huc usque Erraticus beie fixus and instead of strewing my grave with flowers I would have desired him to have grafted theron som little Tree of what sort he pleas'd that might have taken root downward to my dust because I have bin alwaies naturally affected to woods and groves and those kind of vegetables insomuch that if ther wer any such thing as a Pythagorean Metempsuchosis I think my soul would transmigrat into som Tree when she bids this body farewell By these extravagancies and od Chimera's of my brain you may well perceive that I was notwell but distemper'd specially in my intellectualls according to the Spanish proverb siempre desvarios 〈◊〉 la calentura fevers have alwaies their fits of dotage Among those to whom I had bequeath'd my dearest love you wer one to whom I had intended a large proportion and that love which I would have left you then in legacy I send you now in this letter for it hath pleased God to reprieve me for a longer time to creep upon this earth and to see better daies I hope when this black dismall cloud is dispell'd but com foul or fair weather I shall be as formerly Fleet 26 Mar. 1643. Your most constant faithfull Servitor J.
shewn me am very covetous of the improvement of this acquaintance for I do not remember at home or abroad to have seen in the person of any a Gentleman and a Merchant so equally met as in your which makes me stile my self Fleet 3 May 1645. Your most affectionat frend to serve you J. H. XLIX To Dr. D. Featley SIR I Received your answer to that futilous pamphlet with your desire of my opinion touching it Truly Sir I must tell you that never poor Curr was toss'd in a blanquet as you have toss'd that poor coxcomb in the sheet you pleas'd to send me For wheras 〈◊〉 fillip might have fell'd him you have knock'd him down with a kind of Herculean club sans resource These times more 's the pitty labour with the same disease that France did during the Ligue 〈◊〉 a famous Author hath it prurigâ—… scripturiâ—…ntium erat scabies tempâ—…rum The itching of scriblers was the scab of the time It iâ—… just so now that any triobolary pasquiller evry trâ—…ssis agasâ—… any sterquilinious raskall is licenc'd to throw dirt in the faces 〈◊〉 Soveraign Pâ—…inces in open printed language But I hope tâ—… times will mend and your man also if he hath any grace you haâ—… so well corrected him So I rest Fleet 1 Aug. 1644. Yours to serve and reverence you J. H. L. To Captain T. L. in Westchester Captain L. I Could wish that I had the same advantage of speed to send unto you at this time that they have in Alexandreâ—…ia now call'd Scanderoon when upon the arrivall of any ships into the Bay or any other important occasion they use to send their Letters by Pigeons trained up purposely for that use to Aleppo and other places such an airy Messenger such a volatil postillon would I desire now to acquaint you with the sicknes of your mother in law who I beleeve will be in another world and I wish it may be heaven before this paper comes to your hands for the Physicians have forsaken her and Doctor Burton told me 't is a miracle if she lasts a naturall day to an end therfore you shall do well to post up as soon as you can to look to your own affairs for I beleeve you will be no more sick of the Mother Master Davies in the mean time told me he will be very carefull and circumspect that you be not wrong'd I receiv'd yours of the tenth current and I return a thousand thanks for the warm and melting sweet expressions you make of your respects unto me All that I can say at present in answer is that I extremely please my self in loving you and I like my own affections the better because they tell me that I am Westm. 10 Decem. 1631. Your entirely devoted frend J. H. LI. To my Honorable frend Sir C. C. SIR I Was upon point of going abroad to steal a solitary walk when yours of the twelfth current came to hand the high researches and choice abstracted Notions I found therin seem'd to heighten my Spirits and make my fancy fitter for my intended retirement and meditation ad heerunto that the countenance of the weather invited me for it was a still evening it was also a clear open sky not a speck or the least wrinkle appeard in the whole face of heaven 't was such a pure deep azur all the Hemisphere over that I wondred what was becom of the three Regions of the ayr with their Meteors So having got into a close field I cast my face upward and tell to consider what a rare prerogative the optic vertue of the eye hath much more the intutitive vertue of the thought that the one in a moment can reach heaven and the other go beyond it Therfore sure that Philosopher was but a kind of frantic fool that would have pluck'd out both his eys because they wer a hinderance to his speculations Moreover I began to contemplat as I was in this posture the vast magnitude of the Univers and what proportion this poor globe of earth might bear with it for if those numberless bodies which stick in the vast roof of heaven though they appear to us but as spangles be som of them thousands of times bigger than the earth take the sea with it to boot for they both make but one Sphear surely the Astronomers had reason to tearm this sphear an indivisible point and a thing of no dimension at all being compar'd to the whole world I fell then to think that at the second generall destruction it is no more for God Almighty to fire this earth than for us to blow up a small Squibb or rather one grain of Gun-powder As I was musing thus I spyed a swarm of Gnats waving up and down the ayr about me which I knew to be part of the Univers as well as I and me thought it was a strange opinion of our Aristotle to hold that the least of those small insected ephemerans should be more noble than the Sun because it had a sensitive soul in it I fell to think that the same proportion which those animalillios bore with me in point of bignes the same I held with those glorious Spirits which are near the Throne of the Almighty what then should we thinke of the magnitude of the Creator himself doubtles t is beyond the reach of any human immagination to conceive it In my privat devotions I presume to compare him to a great mountain of light and my soul seems to discern som glorious form therin but suddenly as she would fix her eyes upon the object her sight is presently dazled and disgregated with the â—…efulgency and coruscations therof Walking a little further I spyed a young boysterous Bull breaking over hedge and ditch to a heard of kine in the next pasture which made me think that if that fierce strong Animal with others of that kind knew their own strength they world never suffer man to be their Master Then looking upon them quietly grasing up and down I fell to consider that the flesh which is daily dish'd upon our Tables is but concocted grass which is recarnified in our stomacks and transmuted to another flesh I fell also to think what advantage those innocent Animalls had of man who as soon as nature casts them into the world find their meat dress'd the cloth laid and the table cover'd they find their drink brew'd and the buttery open their beds made and their cloaths ready And though man hath the faculty of reason to make him a compensation for the want of these advantages yet this reason brings with it a thousand perturbations of mind and perplexities of spirit griping cares and anguishes of thought which those harmles silly creatures were exempted from Going on I came to repose my self upon the trunk of a tree and I fell to consider further what advantage that dull vegetable had of those feeding Animalls as not to be so troublesom and beholding to nature nor to be so
para llegar al cielo No huuiera errado el camino Heer lies Iesabel heer lies the new Athalia the Hrapy of the Western gold the cruell firebrand of the Sea Heer lies a wit the most worthy of fame which the earth had if to arrive to heaven she had not mist her way You cannot blame the Spaniard to be Satyricall against Queen Elizabeth for he never speaks of her but he fetcheth a shrink in the thoulder since I have begun I will go on with as witty an Anagram as I have heard or read which a Gentleman lately made upon his own name Tomas and a Nun call'd Maria for she was his devota the occasion was that going one evening to discours with her at the grate he wrung her by the hand and joyn'd both their names in this Anagram To Maria mas I would take more I know I shall not need to expound it to you heer unto I will add a strong and deep fetch'd character as I think you will confess when you have read it that one made in this Court of a Courâ—…san Ere 's put a tan arteâ—â— Qu'en el vientre de tu madre Tu tuvistes de manera Que te cavalgue el padre To this I will joyn that which was made of de Vaca husband to Iusepe de Vaca the famous Comedian who came upon the Stage with a cloak lin'd with black plush and a great chain about his neck wherupon the Duke of Mediana broke into these witty lines Con tanta selpa en la Capa Y tanta cadena de oro El marido de la Vaca Que puede ser sino toro The conclusion of this rambling letter shall be a rime of certain hard throaty words which I was taught lately and they are accounted the difficulst in all the whole Castilian language insomuch that he who is able to pronounce them is accounted Buen Romancista a good speaker of Spanish Abcia y oueia y piedra que rabeia y pendola â—…as oreia y lugar en la ygreâ—…a dessea a su hijo la vieia A be and a sheep â—… mill a jewell in the eare and a place in the Church the old woman desires her son No more now but that I am and will ever be my noble Captain in the front of Madrid 1 Aug. 1622. Your most affectionat Servitors J. H. LXXIV To Sir Tho. Luke Knight SIR HAd you traversed all the world over specially those large continents and Christian Countries which you have so exactly surveyed and whence you have brought-over with you such usefull observations and languages you could not have lighted upon a choicer piece of womankind for your wife the earth could not have afforded a Lady that by her discretion and sweetnes could better quadrate with your disposition as I heartily congratulat your happines in this particular so I would desire you to know that I did no ill offices towards the advancement of the work upon occasion of som discours with my Lord George of Rutland not long before at Hambledon My thoughts are now puzzled about my voyage to the Baltie sea upon the Kings service otherwise I would have ventur'â—… upon an Epithalamium for ther is matter rich enough to work upon and now that you have made an end of wooing I could wish you had made an end of wrangling I mean of lawing specially with your mother who hath such resolutions wher she once takes law is not only a pickpurse but a Purgatory you know the saying they have in France les plaideurs sont les oyséaux le palais le Champ. les Iuges les rets les Advocats les Rats les procureurs les souris del ' estat The poor clients are the birds Westminster Hall the field the Judge the net the Lawyers the rats the Atturnies the mice of the common wealth I believe this saying was spoken by an angry clyent for my part I like his resolution who said he would never use Lawyer nor Physitian but upon urgent necessity I will conclude with this rime Puuvre playdeur jay gran pitie de ta douleur Westmin 1 May 1629. Your most affectionat Servitor J. H. LXXV To Mr. R. K. Dear Sir YOu and I are upon a journy though bound for severall places I for Hamborough you for your last home as I understand by Doctor Baskervill who tells me much to my grief that this hectieall disease will not suffer you to be long among us I know by som experiments which I have had of you you have such a noble soul within you that will not be daunted by those naturall apprehensions which death doth usually carry along with it among vulgar spirits I do not think that you fear death as much now though it be to som 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as you did to go into the dark when you wer a child you have had a fair time to prepare your self God give you a boon voyage to the haven you are bound for which I doubt not will be heaven and me the grace to follow when I have pass'd the boysterous sea and swelling billows of this tumultuary life wherin I have already shot divers dangerous gulfs pass'd o're som quick sands rocks and sundry ill favor'd reaches while others sail in the sleeve of fortune you and I have eaten a great deal of salt together and spent much oyl in the communication of our studies by literall correspondence and otherwise both in verse and prose therfore I will take my last leave of you now in these few stanza's 1. Weak crazy Mortall why dost fear To leave this earthly Hemisphear Where all delights away do pass Like thy effigies in a glass Each thing beneath the Moon is frayle and sickle Death sweeps away what time cuts with his sickle 2. This life at best is but an Inn And we the passengers wherin The cloth is layed to som before They peep out of dame nature's dore And warm lodgings left Others ther are Must trudg to find a room and shift for fare 3. This life's at longest but one day He who in youth posts hence away Leave 's us i'â—…h Morn He who hath run His race till Manhood part 's al noon And who at seventy odd forsakes this light He may be said to take his leave at night 4. One past makes up the Prince and peasan Though one eat roots the other seasan They nothing differ in the stuff But both extinguish like a snuff Why then fond man should thy soul take dismay To sally out of these gross walls of clay And now my dear frend adieu and live eternally in that world oâ—… endles bliss wher you shall have knowledg as well as all things els commensurat to your desires wher you shall cleerly see the reall causes and perfect truth of what we argue with that incertitude and beat our brains about heer below yet though you be gon hence you shall never die in the memory of Westmi 15 Aug. 1630. Your J. H.
LXXVI To Sir R. Gr. Knight and Bar. Noble Sir I Had yours upon Maunday Thursday late and the reason that I suspended my answer till now was that the season engaged me to sequester my thoughts from my wonted negotiations to contemplat the great work of mans Redemption so great that wer it cast in counterballance with his creation it would out-poyze it far I summond all my intellectuals to meditat upon those passions upon those pangs upon that despicable and most dolorous death upon that cross wheron my Saviour suffer'd which was the first Christian altar that ever was and I doubt that he will never have benefit of the sacrifice who hates the harmeles resemblance of the altar wheron it was offer'd I applied my memory to fasten upon 't my understanding to comprehend it my will to embrace it from these three faculties me thought I found by the mediation of the fancy som beames of love gently gliding down from the head to the heart and inflaming all my affections If the human soul had far more powers than the Philosophers afford her if she had as many faculties within the head as ther be hairs without the speculation of this mystery would find work enough for them all Truly the more I scrue up my spirits to reach it the more I am swallowed in a gulf of admiration and of a thousand imperfect notions which makes me ever and anon to quarrell my soul that she cannot lay hold on her Saviour much more my heart that my purest affections cannot hug him as much as I would They have a custom beyond the Seas and I could wish it wer the worst custom they had that during the passion week divers of their greatest Princes and Ladies will betake themselves to som covent or reclus'd house to wean themselves from all worldly encombrances and convers only with heaven with performance of som kind of penances all the week long A worthy Gentleman that came lately from Italy told me that the Count of Byren now Marshall of France having bin long persecuted by Cardinall Richelieu put himself so into a Monastery and the next day news was brought him of the Cardinalls death which I believe made him spend the rest of the week with the more devotion in that way France braggs that our Saviour had his face turnd towards her when he was upon the Cross ther is more cause to think that it was towards this Island in regard the rays of Christianity first reverberated upon her her King being Christian 400 yeers before him of France as all Historians concur notwithstanding that he arrogates to himself the title of the first Son of the Church Let this serve for part of my Apologie The day following my Saviour being in the grave I had no list to look much abroad but continued my retirednes ther was another reason also why because I intended to take the holy Sacrament the Sunday ensuing which is an act of the greatest consolation and consequence that possibly a Christian can be capable of it imports him so much that he is made or marr'd by it it tends to his damnation or salvation to help him up to heaven or tumble him down headlong to hell Therfore it behoves a man to prepare and recollect himself to winnow his thoughts from the chaff and tares of the world beforehand This then took up a good part of that day to provide my self a wedding garment that I might be a fit guest at so precious a banquet so precious that manna and angels food are but cours viands in comparison of it I hope that this excuse will be of such validity that it may procure my pardon for not corresponding with you this last week I am now as freely as formerly Fleet 30. Aprill 1647. Your most ready and humble Servitor J. H. LXXVII To Mr. R. Howard SIR THer is a saying that carrieth with it a great deal of caution from him whom I trust God defend me for from him whom I trust not I will defend my self Ther be sundry sorts of musts but that of a secret is one of the greatest I trusted T. P. with a weighty one conjuring him that it should not take air and go abroad which was not don according to the rules and religion of frendship but it went out of him the very next day Though the inconvenience may be mine yet the reproach is his nor would I exchange my dammage for his disgrace I would wish you take heed of him for he is such as the Comic Poet speaks of plenus rimarum he is full of Chinks he can hold nothing you know a secret is too much for one too little for three and enough for two but Tom must be none of those two unless ther wer a trick to sodder up his mouth If he had committed a secret to me and injoynd me silence and I had promis'd it though I had bin shut up in Perillus brasen Bull I should not have bellowed it out I find it now true that he who discovers his secrets to another sells him his Liberty and becoms his slave well I shall be warier heerafter and learn more wit In the interim the best satisfaction I can give my self is to expunge him quite ex albâ—… amicorum to raze him out of the catalogue of my frends though I cannot of my acquaintance wher your name is inserted in great golden Characters I will endeavour to lose the memory of him and that my thoughts may never run more upon the fashion of his face which you know he hath no cause to brag of I hate such blatâ—…roons Odi illos seu claustra Erebi I thought good to give you this little mot of advice because the times are ticklish of committing secrets to any though not to From the Fleet 14. Febr. 1647. Your most affectionat frend to serve you J. H. LXVIII To my Hon. frend Mr. E. P. at Paris SIR LEt me never sally hence from among these disconâ—…olat Walls if the literall correspondence you please to hold so punctually with me be not one of the greatest solaces I have had in this sad condition for I find so much salt such indearments and flourishes such a gallantry and neaâ—…nes in your lines that you may give the law of lettering to all the world I had this week a twin of yours of the 10 and 15 current I am sorry to hear of your achaques and so often indisposition there it may be very well as you say that the air of that dirty Town doth not agree with you because you speak Spanish which language you know is us'd to be breath'd out under a clearer clyme I am sure it agrees not with the sweet breezes of peace for 't is you there that would keep poor Christendom in perpetuall whirle-winds of war but I fear that while France sets all wheels a going and stirres all the Cacodaemons of hell to pull down the house of Austria shee may chance at last to
vaâ—…t bounds throughout An Academe of note I found not out But now I hope in a successfull proâ—…e The Fates have fix'd me on sweet Englands shore And by these various wandrings 〈◊〉 I found Earth is our comâ—…n Mother every ground Maâ—… be one's Countrey for by birth each man Is 〈◊〉 this world a Cosmopolitan A free-born Buâ—…gess and receives therby Hâ—… 〈◊〉 frâ—…m Nativety Nor is this lower world but a huge Inne And men the rambling pâ—…ssengers wherin Sâ—…m do warm lodgings find and that as soon As out of natures â—…lossets they see noon Anâ—… find the Table ready laid but som Must for their commons trot and trudg for room With easie pace som climb Promotions Hill Som in the Dale do what they can stick still Som through false glasses Fortune smiling spy Who still keeps off though she appears hard by Som like the Ostrich with their wings do flutter But cannot fly or soar above the gutter Som quickly fetch and double Good-Hopes Cape Som ne'r can do 't though the same cours they shape So that poor mortalls are so many balls Toss'd som o'r line som under fortun 's walls And it is Heavens high pleasure Man should ly Obnoxious to this partiality That by industrious ways he should contend Nature's short pittance to improve and menâ—… Now Industry ne'r fail'd at last t' advance Her patient sons above the reach of Chance Poet. But whither rov'st thou thus Well since I see thou art so strongly bent And of a gracious look so confident Go and throw down thy self at Caesars fâ—…et And in thy best attire thy Soveraign greet Go an auspicious and most blissefully yeer Wâ—…sh Him as e'r sh n'd o'r this Hemisphear Good may the Entrance better the middle be And the Conclusion best of all the three Of joy ungrudg'd may each day be a debter And evry morn still usher in a better May the soft gliding Nones and every Ide With all the Calends still som good betide May Cynthia with kind looks and 〈◊〉 rays One clear his nights the other gild his days Free limbs unpâ—…ysic'd health due appetite Which no sauce else but Hunger may excite Sound sleeps green dreams be his which represent Symptomes of health and the next days content Chearfull and vacant thoughts not always bound To counsell or in deep Idea's drown'd Though such late traverses and tumults might Turn to a lump of care the airiest wight And since while fragile flesh doth us array The humors stil are combating for sway Which wer they free of this reluctancie And counterpois'd Man would immortall be May sanguin o'r the rest predominate In Him and their malignant fiux abate May his great Queen in whose Imperious ey Reigns such a world of winning Majesty Like the rich Olive or Falernian Vine Swell with more gems of Cians masculine And as her fruit sprung from the Rose and Luce The best of stems Earth yet did e'r produce Is tied already by a Sanguin lace To all the Kings of Europe's high-born race So may they shoot their youthfull branches o'r The surging seas and graff with every Shore May home-commerce and trade encrease from far That both the Indies meet within his bars And bring in Mounts of Coin His Mints to feed And Banquers trafics chief suporters breed Which may enrich his Kingdoms Court and Town And ballast still the coffers of the Crown For Kingdoms are as ships the Prince his chests The ballast which if empty when distres't With storms their holds are lightly trimm'd the keel Can run no steedy cours but toss and reel May his Imperiall chamber always ply To his desires her wealth to multiply That she may prize his Royall favour more Than all the wares fetch'd from the great Mogor May the Grand Senate with the Subjects right Put in the Counter-scale the Regall might The flowrs o' th' Crown that they may prop each other And like the Grecians twin live love together For the chief glory of a people is The power of their King as theirs is His May He be still within himself at home That no just passion make the reason rome Yet passions have their turns to rouse the Soul And stir her slumbring spirits not controul For as the Ocean besides ebb and flood Which Nature 's greatest Clerk ne'r understood â—…s not for sail if an impregning wind Fill not the flagging canvas so a mind Too calm is not for Action if desire Heats not it self at passion's quickning fire For Nature is allow'd somtimes to muster Her passions so they only blow not bluster May Iustice still in her true scales appear And honour fix'd in no unworthy sphear Unto whose palace all access should have Through virtues Temple not through Plutos Cave May his tru subjects hearts be his chief Fort Their purse his tresure and their Love his Port Their prayers as sweet Incense to draw down Myriads of blessings on his Queen and Crown And now that his glad presence did asswage That fearfull tempest in the North did rage May those frog vapours in the Irish skie Be scatter'd by the beams of Majesty That the Hybernian lyre give such a sound May on our coasts with joyfull Ecchoes bound And when this fatall planet leaves to lowr Which too too long on Monarchies doth powr His direfull influence may Peace once more Descend from Heaven on our tottering shore And ride in triumph both on land and main And with her milk white steeds draw Charles his wain That so for those Saturnian times of old An Age of Pearl may com in lieu of Gold Virtu still guide his cours and if ther be A thing as Fortune Him accompanie May no ill genius haunt him but by 's side The best protecting Angell ever bide May He go on to vindicate the right Of holy things and make the Temple bright To keep that Faith that sacred Truth entire Which he receiv'd from Salomon his Sire And since we all must hence by th' Iron Decree Stamp'd in the black Records of Destinie Late may his life his Glory ne'r wear out Till the great year of Plato wheel about So Prayeth The worst of Poets to The best of Princes yet The most loyall of His Votaries and Vassalls JAMES HOVVILL FINIS Additionall LETTERS Of a fresher Date Never Publish'd before And Composed By the same AUTHOR Vt clavis portam sic pandit Epistola pectus LONDON Printed by W. H. for Humphrey Moseley and are to be sold at his Shop at the Princes Arms in St Pauls Church-yard 1650. To the Right Honorable EDVVARD Earl of DORSET c. My Lord THe two preceding Dedications being the one to a King the other to a Prince I hope this Third consisting all of new Matter will be the more excusable that I make to your Lpp who if ther were a generall Muster of Mankind and due regard had to Gallantry and worth would appear like a King among Princes and a Prince among Peers I humbly
Fancy drew on another towards the Evening as followeth As to the Pole the Lilly bends In a Sea-compas and still tends By a Magnetic Mystery Unto the Artic point in sky Wherby the wandring Piloteer His cours in gloomy nights doth steer So the small Needle of my heart Mov's to her Maker who doth dart Atomes of love and so attracks All my Affections which like Sparks Fly up and guid my soul by this To the tru centre of her bliss As one Taper lightneth another so were my spirits enlightned and heated by your late Meditations in this kind and well faâ—…e your soul with all her faculties for them I find you have a great care of her and of the main chance Prae quo quisquiliae caetera You shall hear further from me within a few days in the interim be pleas'd to reserve still in your thoughts som little room for Your most entirely affectionat Servitor J. H. From the Fleet 10 of Decemb 1647. V. To Mr. T. W. at P. Castle My precious Tom HEE is the happy man who can square his mind to his means and fit his fancy to his â—…ortune He who hath a competency 〈◊〉 live in the port of a gentleman and as he is free from being a 〈◊〉 Constable so he cares not for being a Justice of Peace or 〈◊〉 He who is before hand with the world and when he â—…oms to London can whet his knife at the Counter gate and needs â—…ot trudg either to a Lawyers stâ—…dy or Scriveners shop to pay fee 〈◊〉 squeez was 'T is conceit chiefly that gives contentment and 〈◊〉 is happy who thinks himself so in any condition though he have 〈◊〉 enough to keep the Wolf from the door Opinion is that great â—…ady which sways the world and according to the impressions 〈◊〉 makes in the mind renders one contented or discontented Now touching opinion so various are the intellectualls of human â—…reatures that one can hardly find out two who jump pat in â—…ne Witnes that Monster in Scotland in Iames the 4ths reign â—…ith two heads one opposit to the other and having but one bulk 〈◊〉 body throughout these two heads would often fall into alterâ—…ations pro con one with the other and seldom were they of one opinion but they would knock one against the other in eager disputes which shews that the judgement is seated in the animall parts not in the vitall which are lodg'd in the heart We are still in a turbulent sea of distractions nor as far as I see is ther yet any sight of shore M. T. M. hath had a great loss at sea lately which I fear will light heavily upon him when I consider his case I may say that as the Philosopher made a question whether the Marineâ—… be to be ranked among the number of the living or dead being but four inches distant from drowning only the thicknes of a plank so 't is a doubt whether the Merchant Adventurer be to be numbred twixt the rich or the poor his estate being in the mercy of that devouring element the Sea which hath so good a stomack that he seldom casts up what he hath once swallowed This City hath bred of late yeers men of monstrous strange opinions that as all other rich places besides she may be compar'd to a fat cheese which is most subject to engender 〈◊〉 gots God amend all and me first who am Fleet this St. Tho. day Yours most faithfully to serve you J. H. VI. To Mr. W Blois My worthy esteemed Nephew I Received thâ—…se rich nuptial favours you appointed me foâ—… hands and hat which I wear with very much contentment anâ—… respect most heartily wishing that this late double condition mâ—… multiply new blessings upon you that it may usher in fair and goâ—…den daies according to the colour and substance of your bridaâ—… riband that those daies may be perfum'd with delight and pleâ—…sure as the rich sented gloves I wear for your sake May sucâ—… benedictions attend you both as the Epithalamiums of Stellâ—… iâ—… Statius and Iulia in Catullus speak of I hope also to be marrieâ—… shortly to a lady whom I have wooed above these five years but â—… have found her â—…oy and dainty hitherto yet I am now like 〈◊〉 get her good will in part I mean the lady liberty When you see my N. Brownrigg I pray tell him that I did not think Suffolk waters had such a lethaean quality in them as to cause such an amnestia in him of his frends heer upon the Thames among whom for reality and seriousnes I may march among the foremost but I impute it to som new task that his Muse might haply impose upon him which hath ingross'd all his speculations I pray present my cordiall kind respects unto him So praying that a thousand blisses may attend this confarreation I rest my dear Nephew From the Fleet this 20 of March 1647. Yours most affectionately to love and serve you J. H. VII To Henry Hopkins Esq â—…IR TO usher in again old Ianus I send you a parcell of Indian perfume which the Spaniard calls the Holy â—…erb in regard â—… the various virtues it hath but we call it Tobacco I will not â—…y it grew under the King of Spains window but I am told it â—…as gather'd neer his Gold-mines of Potosi where they report â—…hat in som places ther is more of that oar than earth therfore it â—…ust needs be precious stuff If moderately and seasonably taâ—…en as I find you alwaies do 't is good for many things it helps digeâ—…ion taken a while after meat it makes one void â—…heum break â—…ind it keeps the body open A leaf or two being steept ore-nighâ—…â—…n a little white wine is a vomit that never fails in its operation â—…t is a good companion to one that converseth with dead â—…en for â—…f one hath bin poring long upon a book or is toild with the pen â—…nd stupified with study it quickneth him and dispels those clouds that usually oreset the brain The smoak of it is one of the wholesomest sents that is against all contagious airâ—… for it oremasters all other smells as King Iames they say found true when being once a hunting a showr of rain drave him into a pigstie for shelter wher he caus'd a pipe full to be taken of purpose It cannot endure a Spider or a flea with such like vermin and if your Hawk be troubled with any such being blown into his feathers it frees him It is good to fortifie and preserve the fight the smoak being let in round about the balls of the eyes once a week and frees them from all â—…heums driving them back by way of repercussion being taken backward t is excellent good against the cholique and taken into the stomack 't will heac and cleanse it for I could instance in a great Lord my Lord of Sunderland President of York who told me that he taking it downward into his stomack it made him cast up an
their heads with their heels upwards nay 't was adjudged to be so dangerous a Tenet that you know well the Bishops name who in the Primitive Church was by senâ—…ned of condemnation sent out of this world without a Head to go and dwell amongst his Antipodes because he first haten'd and held that opinion But new our late Navigators and East-India Mariners who use to cross the Equator and Tropiques so often will tell you that it is as gross a Paradox to hold ther are no Antipodes and that the negative is now as absurd as the affirmative seem'd at first For man to walk upon the Ocean when the Surges were at the highest and to make a heavy dull peece of wood to swim nay fly upon the water was held as impossible a thing at first as it is now thought impossible for man to fly in the aire sails were held then as uncouth as if one should attempt to make himself wings to mount up to heaven a la volee Two hundred and od yeers agoe he would have been taken for som frantic fool that would undertake to batter and blow up a Castle with a few barrellâ—… of a small contemptible black powder The great Architect of the world hath been observ'd not to throw down all gifts and knowledg to man-kind consusedly at once but in a regular parsimonious method to disperse them by certain degrees periods and progress of time leaving man to make industrious researches and investigations after truth He left the world to the disputations of men as the wisest of men saith who in acquiâ—…ition of naturall truths went from the Hysope to the Cedar One day certifieth another and one age rectifieth another The morrow hath more experience than the precedent day and is oft-times able to be his School-master The Granchild laughs at some things that were don in his Gransires dayes Insomuch that hence it may well be inferr'd that naturall humane knowledg is not yet mounted to its Meridian and highest point of elevation I confess it cannot be denyed without gross ingratitude but we are infinitely obliged to our fore-fathers for the fundamentalls of Sciences and as the Herald hath a Rule mallem cum patribus quà m cum fratribus errare I had rather erre with my Fathers than brothers so it holds in other kinds of knowledg But those times which we term vulgarly the old world was indeed the youth or Adolescence of it and though if respect be had to the particular and personall acts of generation and to the relation of father and Son they who fore-liv'd and preceded us may be called our Ancestors yet if you go to the age of the world in general and to the tru length and longaeuiâ—…y of things We are more properly the older Cosmopolites In this respect the Cadet may be term'd more ancient than his elder brother because the world was older when he entred into it Moreover besides Truth Time hath also another daughter which is Experience who holds in her hands the great Looking-glass of Wisdom and Knowledg But now to the intended task touching an habitable World and a species of living Creatures in the Orb of the Moon which may hear som analogie with those of this Elementary world Although it be not my purpose to maintain and absolutely assert this Problem yet I will say this that whosoever cryeth it down for a new neotericall opinion as divers do commit a grosser error than the opinion may be in its own nature For 't is almost as ancient as Philosophy her self I am sure 't is as old as Orpheus who sings of divers fair Cities and Castles within the Circle of the Moon Moreover the profoundest Clerks and most renowned Philosophers in all ages have affirmed it Towards the first Age of learning among others Pythagoras and Plato avouch'd it the first of whom was pronounc'd the wisest of men by the Pagan Oracle as our Solomen is by holy Writ In the middle age of Learning Plutarch speaks of it and in these modern times the most speculative and scientificall'st men both in Germany and Italy seem to adhere to it subinnuating that not only the sphear of the Moon is peepled with Selenites or Lunary men but that likewise evry Star in Heaven is a peculiar world of it self which is Coloniz'd and replenish'd with Astrean Inhabitants as the Earth Sea and Air are with Elementary The body of the Sun not excepted who hath also his Solar Creatures and they are accounted the most sublime the most pure and perfectest of all The Elementary Creatures are held the grossest of all having more matter than form in them The Solar have more form than matter the Selenites with other Astraean Inhabitants are of a mix'd nature and the nearer they approach the body of the Sun the more pure and spirituall they are Were it so ther were som grounds for his speculation who thought that humane souls be they never so pious and pure ascend not immediatly after their dissolution from the corrupt Mass of flesh before the glorious presence of God presently to behold the Beatificall Vision but first into the body of the Moon or som other Star according to their degrees of goodnes and actuat som Bodies there of a purer composition when they are refind theie they ascend to som higher Star and so to som higher than that till at last by these degrees they be made capable to behold the lustre of that glorious Majesty in whose sight no impurity can stand This is illustrated by a comparison that if one after hee hath been kept close in a dark Dungeon a long time should be taken out and brought suddenly to look upon the Sun in the Miridian it would endanger him to be struck stark blind so no humane soul suddenly fallying out of a dirty prison as the body is would be possibly able to appear before the incomprehensible Majesty of God or be susceptible of the brightnes of his all-glorious countenance unless he be fitted therunto before hand by certain degrees which might be don by passing from one star to another who we are taught differ one from the other in glory and splendor Among our Modern Authors that would furbish this old opinion of lunary creatures and plant colonies in the orb of the Moon with the rest of the celestiall bodies Gasper Galileo Galilei is one who by artificiall prospectives hath brought us to a neerer commerce with Heaven by drawing it sixteen times nearer the earth then it was before in ocular appearance by the advantage of the said optic Instrument Among other arguments which the Assertors of Astrean Inhabitants do produce for proof of this high point one is that it is neither repugnant to Reason or Religion to think that the Allmighty Fabricator of the Univers who doth nothing in vain nor suffers his handmaid Nature to do so when he created the Erratic and fixed stars he did not make those huge immense bodies wherof most are
which should distinguish the rationall Creature from other Animalls have been lost heer a good while Nay besides this Cinicall ther â—…s a kind of Wolvish humor hath seizd upon most of this peeple a â—…u lycanthropy they so worry and seek to devour one another so â—…hat the wild Arab and fiercest Tartar may be call'd civill men in comparison of us therfore he is happiest who is furthest off from this wofull Island The King is streightned of that liberty he formerly had in the Isle of Wight and as far as I see may make up the number of Nebuchadnezzars yeers before he be restored The Parlement persists in their first Propositions and will go nothing less This is all I have to send at this time only I will adjoyn the tru respects of From the Fleet this 5 of May 1647. Your most faithfull humble Servitor J. H. XVI To Mr. W Blois in Suffolk SIR YOurs of the seventeenth current came safely to hand and 〈◊〉 kiss your hands for it you mention there two others that cannot which makes me condole the loss of such jewells for I esteem all your Letters so being the precious effects of your love which I value at a high rate and please my self much in the contemplation of it as also in the continuance of this Letter-correspondence which is perform'd on your part with such ingenuous expressions and embroder'd still with new florishes of invention I am stil under hold in this fatall Fleet and like one in a tempest aâ—… Sea who hath been often near the shoar yet is still toss'd back by contrary winds so I have had frequent hopes of freedom but som cross accident or other always intervened insomuch that I am now in half despair of an absolut release till a generall Gaoâ—… delivery yet notwithstanding this outward captivity I have inward liberty still I thank God for it The greatest News is that between twenty and thirty thousand well-armed Scots have been utterly routed riffed and all taken prisoners by less than 8000 English I must confess 't was a great exploit wherof I am not sorry in regard that the English have regain'd hereby the honor which they had lost abroad of late yeers in the opinion of the world ever since the Pacification at Berwick and divers traverses of War since What Hamiltons design was is a mystery most think that he intended no good either to King or Parlement So with my dayly more and more endeared affections unto you I rest Yours ever to love and serve you J. H. Fleet 7 May. 1647. XVII To Mr. R. Baron in Paris Gentle Sir I Receiv'd and presently ran over your Cyprian Academy with much greedines and no vulgar delight and Sir I hold my self much honor'd for the Dedication you have been pleas'd to make thereof to me for it deserv'd a far higher Patronage Truly I must tell you without any Complement that I have seldom met with such an ingenuous mixture of Prose Verse interwoven with such varieties of fancy charming strains of amorous Passions which have made all the Ladies of the land in love with you If you begin already to court the Muses so hansomly and have got such footing on Parnassus you may in time be Lord of the whole Hill and those nice Girles because Apollo is now grown unweldy and old may make choice of you to officiat in his room and preside over them I much thank you for the punctuall narration you pleas'd to send me of those commotions in Paris I believe France will never be in perfect repose while a Spaniard sits at the Stern and an Italian steers the Rudder In my opinion Mazirini should do wisely now that he hath feather'd his nest so well to truss up his Baggage and make over the Alps to his own Countrey lest the same Fate betide him as did the Marquis of Ancre his Compatriot I am glad the Treaty goes on 'twixt Spain and France for nothing can portâ—…nd a greater good to Christendom than a Conjunction of those two great Luminaries which if it please God to bring about I hope the Stars will change their Aspects and we shall see better days I send heer inclosed a second Bill of Exchange in case the first I sent you in my last hath miscarried So my dear Nephew I embrace you with both my Arms and rest Fleet this 20 of Iune 1647. Yours most entirely to love and serve you while Jam. Howell XVIII To Mr. Tho. More at York SIR I Have often partak'd of that pleasure which Letters use to carry along with them but I do not remember to have found a greater proportion of delight than yours afford me your last of the fourth current came to safe hand wherin me thought each line each word each syllable breath'd out the Passions oâ—… a cleer and candid soul of a vertuous and gentle spirit Truly Sir as I might perceive by your ingenious and patheticall expressions therin that you were transported with the heat of tru affection towards me in the writing so was I in the reading which wrought upon me with such an Energy that a kind of extasie possesâ—…'d me for tho time I pray Sir go on in this correspondence you shall find that your lines will not be ill bestowed upon me for I love and respect you dearly well nor is this love grounded upon vulgar Principles but upon those extraordinary parts of virtu and worth which I have discover'd in you and such a love is the most permanent as you shall find in Fleet 1 of Sep. 1647. Your most affectionat Oncle J. H. XIX To Mr. W. B. 3º Maii. SIR YOur last Lines to me were as delightfull as the Season they were as sweet as Flowers in May nay they were far more dragrant than those fading Vegetalls they did cast a greater suarity than the Arabian Spices use to do in the gran Cayro where when the wind is Southward they say the ayr is as 〈◊〉 as a persum'd Spanish Glove The air of this City is not so specially in the heart of the City in and about Pauls Church where Horse-dung is a yard deep insomuch that to cleanse it would be aâ—… hard a task as it was for Hercules to cleanse the Augean Stable by drawing a great River through it which was accounted one of his twelve labors but it was a bitter taunt of the Italian who passing by Pauls Church and seeing it full of Horses Now I perceive said he that in England Men and Beasts serve God alike No more now but that I am Your most faithfull Servant J. H. XXI To Sir Paul Pindar Knight upon the version of aâ—… Italian peece into English call'd St. Pauls Progress upon earth a new and a notable kind of Satyr SIR ST Paul having descended lately to view Italy and other placeâ—…â—…s you may trace him in the following Discours he would noâ—… take Wing back to Heaven before he had given you a speciall visit who have