The Second Week, Second Day, Part III: The Colonies

THE ARGUMENT.

To stop Ambition, Strife, and Auarice,
Into Three Parts the Earth diuided is:
To Sem the East, to Cham the South, the West
To Iapheth falls; their seuerall scopes exprest:
Their fruitfull Spawn did all the World supply:
Antiquites vncertain Search, and why:
Assyria sceptred first; and first imparts,
To all the rest, Wealth, Honour, Arms, and Arts:
The New-found World: Mens diuers humors strange:
The various World a mutuall Counter-change.

WHile through the Worlds vn-haunted wildernes
I, th' old, first Pilots wandring House address
While (Famous DRAKE-like), coasting euery strand
I do discouer many a New-foūd-Land:
And while, from Sea to Sea with curious pain
I plant great Noahs plentious Vine again:
What bright-brown cloud shall in the Day protect me?
What fiery Pillar shall by Night direct me
Toward each Peoples primer Residence,
Predestin'd in the Court of Prouidence.
Yer our bi-sexed Parents, free from sin,
In Eden did their double birth begin?

O sacred Lamp! that went'st so brightly burning
Before the Sages, from the spycie Morning,
To shew th' Almightie Infants humble Birth;
O! chace the thick Clouds, driue the darknes forth
Which blindeth me: that mine aduenturous Rime,
Circling the World, may search out euery Clime.
For, though my Wits, in this long Voyage shift
From side to side; yet is my speciall drift,
My gentle Readers by the hand to bring
To that deer Babe, the Man-God, Christ, our King.

As WHEN the lowring Heav'ns with loudest raps
Through Forrests thrill their roaring thunder-claps,
The shiuering Fowls do sodainly forgo
Their nests and perches, fluttering to and fro
Through the dark ayr, and round about there rings
A whistling murmur of their whisking wings;
The grissel Turtles (seldoom seen alone)
Dis-payer'd and parted, wander one by one;
And euen the feeble downie feathered Yong
Venter to flie, before their quils be strong:
Euen so, the Builders of that Babel-Wonder,
Hearing Gods voice a-loud to roar and thunder,
In their rude voices barbarous difference,
Take (all at once) their fearfull flight from thence
On either hand; and through th' Earth voidly-vast
Each packs a-part, where God would haue him plaç't.

For, Heav'ns great Monarch (yer the World began)
Hauing decreed to giue the World to man;
Would not, the same a nest of theeues should be,
That with the Sword should share his Legacie;
And (bruitly mixt) with mongrell stock to stoar
Our Elements, round, solid, slimie floar:
But rather, fire of Couetize to curb,
Into three Parts he parts he parts this spacious Orb,
'Twixt Sem and Cham, and Iapheth: Sem the East,
Cham South, and Iapheth doth obtain the West.

That large rich Country, from Perosite shoars
(Where stately Ob, the King of Riuers, roars,
In Scythian Seas voyding his violent load,
But little less then six dais sayling broad)
To Malaca: Moluques Iles, that bear
Cloues and Canele: well-tempered Sumater
Sub-equinoctiall: and the golden streams
Of Bisnagar, and Ze•lan bearing gemms:
From th' Euxin Sea and surge of Chaldean Twins
To th' Anian Streight: the sloathfull, slymy Fens
Where Quinzay stands; Chiorze, where Bulls as big
As Elephants are clad in silken shag,
Is great Sems Portion. For the Destinies
(Or rather Heav'ns immutable Decrees)
Assur t' Assyria send, that in short time
Chale and Rhesen to the Clouds might climbe,
And Niniue (more famous then the rest)
Aboue them raise her many-towred Crest:
The sceptred Elam chose the Persian Hills,
And those fat fields that swift Araxis fills;
Lud, Lydia: Aram all Armenia had:
And Chalde fell to learned Arphaxad.

Cham becam Souerain ouer all those Realms
South-bounded round with Sun-burnt Guinne streams,
Botangas, Benin, Cephal, Guaguametre,
Hot Concritan, too-full of poysony matter:
North-ward with narrow Mid'terranean Sea
Which from rich Europe parts poor Africa:
Towards where Titans Euening splendor sank,
With Seas of Fez, Cape-verde, and Cape-blanc:
And toward where Phoebus doth each morning wake,
With Adel Ocean, and the Crimsin Lake.
And further, all that lies between the steep
Mount Libanus, and the Arabian Deep,
Between th' Erythrean Sea, and Persian Sine,
He (mighty Prince) to's Afrik State doth ioine.
His Darling Canaan doth nigh Iordan dwell
(One-day ordain'd to harbour Israel):
Pheud peopled Lybia: Mizraim Egypt mann'd:
And's first-born Chus the Aethyopian strand.

Iapheth extends from struggling Hellespont,
The Tane and Euxin Sea, to th' double Mount
Of famous Gibraltar, and that deep Main,
Whose tumbling billows bathe the shoars of Spayn:
And from those Seas, where in the steed of Keels
Of winged Ships they roule their Chariot wheels,
To the Marsilian, Morean, and Thyrrhenian;
Ligurian Seas, and learned Sea Athenian,
Iust opposite to Asia rich in spice,
Pride of the World, and second Paradise:
And that large Country stretcht from Amana
To Tanais shoars, and to the source of Rha.

Forth of his Gomers loigns (they say) sprung all
The war-like Nations scattered ouer Gaul,
And Germans too (yerst called Gomerits):
From Tubal, Spaniards: and from Magog, Scythes:
From Madai, Medes: from Mesech, Mazacans:
From Iauan, Greeks: from Thyras, Thracians.

Heer, if I list, or lov'd I rouer-shooting,
Or would I follow the vncertain footing
Of false Berosus and such fond Deluders
(Their zealous Readers insolent Illuders)
I could deriue the lineal Descents
Of all our Sires; and name you euery Prince
Of euery Prouince, in his time and place
(Successiuely) through-out his Ancient Race:
Yea, sing the Worlds so diuers populations;
And of least Cities showe the first Foundations.
But, neuer will I so my sails abandon.
To euery blast, and rowing so at randon
(Without the bright light of that glorious Star
Which shines 'boue all the Heav'ns) venter so far
On th' vnknowne surges of so vast a Sea
So full of Rocks and dangers euery way;
Hauing no Pylot, saue som brain-sick Wrighters
Which coyn Kings names, vain fabulous Indighters:
Of their own fancies, who (affecting glory)
Vpon a Flyes foot build a goodly story.

Som words allusion is no certain ground
Whereon a lasting Monument to Found:
Sith fairest Riuers, Mountains strangely steep,
And largest Seas, neuer so vast and deep
(Though self-eternall, resting still the same)
Through sundry chances often change their name:
Sith it befalls not alwaies, that his seed
Who builds a Town, doth in the same succeed:
And (to conclude) sith vnder Heav'n, no Race
Perpetually possesseth any place:
But, as all Tenants at the High Lords will,
We hold a Field, a Forrest, or a Hill:
And (as when winde the angry Ocean moues)
Waue hunteth waue, and billow billow shoues;
So do all Nations iustle each the other,
And so one People doth pursue another;
And scarce the second hath a first vn-housed,
Before a third him thence again haue rowsed.

So, th' ancient Britain, by the Saxons chaç't
From's natiue Albion, soon the Gauls displaç't
From Armorik; and then victoriously
(After his name) surnam'd that Britannie.

So, when the Lombard had surrendered
Fair, double-named Isters flowrie-bed
To skar-faç't Hunnes; he hunteth furiously
The rest of Gauls from wealthy Insubrie,
Which, after fell in French-mens hands again,
Won by the sword of Worthy Charlemain.

So, th' Alain and North Vandal, beaten both
From Corduba and Seuil by the Goth,
Seiz'd Carthage straight; which after-ward they lost
To wise Iustinians valiant Roman Hoast:
And Romans, since, ioyn'd with the barbarous troop
Of curled Moors, vnto th' Arabians stoop.

The sacrilegious greedy appetite
Of Gold and Scepters glistering glorious bright,
The thirst of Vengeance, and that puffing breath
Of eluish Honour, built on blood and death,
On desolation, rapes, and robberies,
Flames, ruins, wracks, and brutish butcheries,
Vn-bound all Countries, making war-like Nations
Through euery Clymat seek new habitations.

I speak not heer of those Alarbian Rouers,
Numidian Shepheards or Tartarian Drouers,
Who shifting pastures, for their store of Cattle,
Do heer and there their hayrie Tents imbattle:
Like the black swarms of Swallows swiftly-light,
Which twice a-yeer cross with their nimble-flight
The Pine-plough'd Sea, and (pleas'd with purest ayr)
Seek euery Season for a fresh repair:
But other Nations fierce, who far and nigh
With their own bloods-price purchas't Victory;
Who, better knowing how to win, then wield;
Conquer, then keep; to batter, then to build;
And brauely choosing rather War then Peace,
Haue ouer-spread the World by Land and Seas.

Such was the Lombard, who in Schonland nurst,
On Rugeland and Liuonia seized first;
Then hauing well reueng'd on the Bulgarian
The death of Agilmont; the bold Barbarian
Surpriseth Poland; thence anon he presses
In Rhines fair streams to rense his Amber tresses:
Thence turning back, he seats him in Mora•ia;
After, at Buda; thence hee postes to Pauia;
There raigns 200. yeares: tryumphing so,
That royall Tesin might compare with Po.

Such was the Goth, who whilom issuing forth
From the cold, frozen Ilands of the North,
Incampt by Vistula: but th' ayr (almost)
Being there as cold as on the Baltick Coast,
He with victorious arms Sclauonia gains,
The Transyluanian and Valacchian Plains.
Thence plyes to Thracia: and then (leauing Greeks)
Greedie of spoyl, foure times he brauely seeks
To snatch from Rome (then, Mars his Minion)
The Palms which she o're all the World had won;
Guided by Rhadaguise, and Alaric,
And Vidimarius, and Theodoric:
Then coms to Gaul: and thence repul'st, his Legions
Rest euer since vpon the Spanish Regions.

Such th' antik Gaul: who rouing every way,
As far as Phoebus darts his golden ray,
Seiz'd Italy; the Worlds proud Mistress sackt
Which rather Mars then Romulus compackt:
Then pill'd Panonia: then with conquering ploughs
He furrows-vp cold Strymons slymy slows:
Wastes Macedonia: and (inclin'd to fleece)
Spares not to spoyl the greatest Gods of Greece:
Then (cloyd with Europ) th' Hellespont he past,
And there Mount Ida's neighbour world did waste:
Spoyleth Pisidia: Mysia doth inthrall:
And midst of Asia plants another Gaul.

Most famous Peoples dark Antiquitie,
Is as a Wood: where bold Temeritie
Stumbles each step; and learned Diligence,
It self intangles; and blinde Ignorance
(Groping about in such Cimmerian nights)
In pits and ponds, and boggs, and quag-mires lights.

It shall suffice me therefore (in this doubt)
But (as it were) to coast the same about:
And, rightly tun'd vnto the golden string
Of Amrams Son, in grauest verse to sing,
That Sem, and Cham, and Iapheth did re-plant
Th' vn-peopled World with new inhabitant:
And that again great Noahs wandring Boat
The second time o're all the World did float.

Not that I send Sem, at one flight vnceast,
From Babylon vnto the farthest East,
Tartarian Chorat's siluer waues t'essay,
And people China, Cambalu, Cathay,
Iapheth to Spayn: and that profanest Cham,
To thirstie Countries Meder' and Bigam,
To Cephala vpon Mount Zambrica,
And Cape of Hope, last coign of Africa.

For, as Hymetus and Mount Hybla were
Not ouer-spread and couered in one year
With busie Bees; but yearly twice or thrice
Each Hyve supplying new-com Colonies
(Heav'ns tender Nurcelings) to those fragrant Mountains,
At length their Rocks dissolv'd in Hony Fountains:
Or rather, as two fruitfull Elms that spred
Amidst a Cloase with brooks enuironed,
Ingender other Elms about their roots;
Those, other still; and still, new-springing shoots
So ouer-growe the ground, that in fewe yeers
The sometimes-Mead a greet thick Groue appears:
Euen so th' ambitious Babel-building rout,
Disperst, at first go seat themselues about
Mesopotamia: after (by degrees)
Their happy Spawn, in sundry Colonies
Crossing from Sea to Sea, from Land to Land,
All the green-mantled nether Globe hath mann'd:
So that, except th' Almighty (glorious Iudge
Of quick and dead) this World's ill dayes abbridge,
Ther shall no soyl so wilde and sauage be,
But shall be shadowed by great Adams Tree.

Therefore, those Countries neerest Tigris Spring,
In those first ages were most flourishing,
Most spoken-of, first Warriours, first that guide,
And giue the Law to all the Earth beside.

Babylon (liuing vnder th' awfull grace
Of Royall Greatnes) sway'd th' Imperiall Mace,
Before the Greeks had any Town at all,
Or warbling Lute had built the Dircean Wall:
Yer Gauls had houses, Latins Burgages,
Our Britains Tents, or Germans Cottages.

The Hebrews had with Angels Conuersation,
Held th' Idol-Altars in abhomination.
Knew the Vnknowen, with eyes of Faith they saw
Th' inuisible Messias, in the Law:
The Chaldees, Audit of the Stars had made,
Had measur'd Heav'n, conceiv'd how th' Earths thick shade
Eclipst the siluer brows of Cynthia bright,
And her brown shadow quencht her brothers light.

The Memphian Priests were deep Philosophers,
And curious gazers on the sacred Stars,
Searchers of Nature, and great Mathematicks;
Yer any Letter, knew the ancient'st Attiks.

Proud Aegypt glistred all with golden Plate,
Yer the lame Lemnian (vnder Aetna grate)
Had hammer'd yron; or the Vultur-rented
Prometheus, 'mong the Greeks had fire inuented.

Gauls were not yet; or, were they (at the least)
They were but wilde; their habit, plumes; their feast,
But Mast and Acorns, for the which they gap't
Vnder the Trees when any winde had hapt:
When the bold Tyrians (greedy after gain)
Durst rowe about the salt-blow Africk Main;
Traffikt abroad, in Scarlet Robs were drest,
And pomp and pleasure Euphrates possest.

For, as a stone, that midst a Pond yee fling,
About his fall first forms a little ring,
Wherin, new Circles one in other growing
(Through the smooth Waters gentle-gentle flowing)
Still one the other more and more compell
From the Ponds Centre, where the stone first fell;
Till at the last the largest of the Rounds
From side to side 'gainst euery bank rebounds:
So, from th' Earths Centre (which I heer suppose
About the Place where God did Tongues transpose)
Man (day by day his wit repolishing)
Makes all the Arts through all the Earth to spring,
As he doth spread, and shed in diuers shoals
His fruitfull Spawn, round vnder both the Poles.

Forth from Assyria, East-ward then they trauail
Towards rich Hytanis with the golden grauell:
Then people they the Persian Oroätis;
Then cleer Choaspis, which doth humbly kiss
The Walls of Susa; then the Vallies fat
Neer Caucasus, where yerst th' Arsaces sate:
Then mann they Media; then with humane seed,
Towards the Sea th' Hyrcania• Plain they speed.

The Sons of these (like flowing Waters) spred
O're all the Country which is bordered
With Chiesel Riuer, 'boue Thacalistan;
Gadel and Cabul, Bedan, Balestan.

Their off-spring then, with fruitfull stems doth stoar
Basinagar, Nayard, and either shoar
Of famous Ganges; Aua, Toloman,
The kingdom Mein, the Musky Charazan;
And round about the Desart Op, where oft
By strange Phantasmas Passengers are scoft.

Som Ages after, linkt in diuers knots,
Tipur they take, rich in Rhinocerots;
Caichin, in Aloes; Mangit, and the shoar
Of Quinz' and Anie lets them spread no more.

From that first Centre to the West-ward bending,
Old Noahs Nephews far and wide extending,
Seiz less Armenia; then, within Cilicia,
Possess the Ports of Tharsis and of Issea,
And the delicious strange Corycian Caue
(Which warbling sound of Cymballs seemes to haue)
•onia, Cappadocia, Taurus horns,
Bythinia, Troas, and Meanders turns.

Then passing Sestos Straights; of Strymon cold,
Herber and Nest they quaff; and pitch their Fold
In vales of Rhodopé, and plow the Plains
Where great Danubius neer his death complains.

Thrace, on the other side, subtle Greece beswarms;
Greece, Italy (famous for Art and Arms):
Italy, France; France, Spayn, and Germany
(Rhines fruitfull bed) and our Great Britanie.
On th' other side, it spreads about Moldauia,
Mare-Maìour, Podolìa, and Morauìa,
With Transyluania, Seruia, and Panonia,
The Prussian Plains, and ouer all Polonia:
The verge of Vistula, and farther forth
Beyond the Alman, drawing to the North.

Now turn thee South-ward: see, see how Chaldéa
Spews on Arabia, Phoenice, and Iudéa,
Chams cursed Ligne, which (ouer-fertill all)
Betweene two Seas doth into Aegypt fall;
Sowes all Cyrenia, and the famous Coast
Whereon the roaring Punik Sea is tost:
Fez, Dara, Argier, Galate, Guzol, Aden,
Terminan, Tombut, Melle, Gago, Gogden:
The sparkling Desarts of sad Libya,
Zeczec, Benin, Borno, Cano, Nubia,
And scalding quick-sands of those thirsty Plains
Where IESVS name (yet) in som reuerence raigns;
Where Prester Iohn (though part he Iudaïze)
Doth in somsort devoutly Christianize.

But would'st thou knowe, how that long Tract, that lies
Vnder Heav'ns starry Coach, covered with yce,
And round embraced in the winding arms
Of Cronian Seas (which Sol but seldom warms)
Came peopled first? suppose, that passing by
The Plains where Tigris twice keeps company
With the far-flowing silver Euphrates,
They lodg'd at foot of hoary Nyphates:
And from Armenia, then Iberia mann'd,
Albania, Colchis, and Bosphorian strand:
And then from thence toward the bright Leuant,
That vast Extent, where now fell Tartars hant
In wandring troops; and towards th' other side
Which (neer her source) long Volga doth divide,
Moscouy Coast, Permia, Liuonia, Prussia,
Biarmia, Scrisinia, White-Lake, Lappia, Russia.

But whence (say you) had that New-World his Guests,
Which Spain (like Delos floting on the Seas)
Late digg'd from darknes of Obliuions Graue,
And it vndoing, it new Essence gaue?
If long agoe; how should it hap that no-man
Knew it til now? no Persian, Greek, no Roman;
Whose glorious Peers, victorious Armies guiding
O're all the World, of this had never tyding?
If but of late; how swarm their Cities since
So full of Folk? how pass their Monuments
Th' Aegyptian Spires, Mausolus stately Toomb,
The Walls and Courts of Babylon and Rome?

Why! thinke yee (fond) those people fell from Heav'n
All-ready-made; as in a Sommer Ev'n
After a swelting Day, som sultry showr
Doth in the Marshes heaps of Tadpals pour,
Which in the ditches (chapt with parching weather)
Lie crusht and croaking in the Mud together?
Or else, that setting certain slips, that fixt
Their slender roots the tender mould betwixt,
They saw the light of Phoebus lyuening face;
Having, for milk, moist deaws; for Cradle, grass?
Or that they grew out of the fruitfull Earth,
As Toad-stools, Turneps, Leeks, and Beets haue birth?
Or (like the bones that Cadmus yerst did sowe)
Were brauely born armed from top toe?

That spacious Coast, now call'd America,
Was not so soon peopled as Africa;
(Th' ingenious, Towr-full, and Law-louing Soil,
Which, Ioue did with his Lemans name en-stile)
And that which from cold Bosphorus doth spread
To pearl'd Auroras Saffron-coloured Bed.
Because, they ly neerer the diapry verges
Of tear-bridge Tigris Swallow-swifter surges
Whence our amaz'd first Grand-sires faintly fled,
And like sprung Patridge euery-where did spred;
Except that World, where vnder Castiles King,
Famous Columbus Force and Faith did bring.

But the rich buildings rare magnificence,
Th' infinit Treasures, various Governments,
Showe that long since (although at sundry times)
'T had Colonies (although from sundry Climes):
Whether the violence of tempestuous weather
Som broken Vessels haue inforced thither;
Whether, som desperat, dire extremity
Of Plague, War, Famin; orth' Authority
Of som braue Typhis (in aduenture tost)
Brought weary Caruels on that Indian Coast.

Who maketh doubt but yerst the Quinzay Fraights
As well might venture through the Anian Straights,
And finde as easie and as short a way
From the East Indies to the Tolguage Bay,
As vsually the Asian Ships are wont
To pass to Greece a-cross the Hellespont:
Spaniards to Fez, a-thwart the Straight Abilia:
Through Messine stream th' Italians to Sicilia?

From Tolm and Quiuir's spacious Plains (wherein
Bunch-backed Calues, with Horse-like manes are seen,
And Sheep-like Fleece) they fill Azasia,
Toua, Topir, Canada, Cossia,
Mecchi, Avacal, Calicuaz, Bacalos,
Los Campos de Labor (where Floods are froze).

On th' other side, Xalisco soyl they Mann
(Now new Galizia) Cusule, Mechuacan:
And cunningly in Mexik Sea they pile
Another Uenice (or a City-Ile).
Strange things there see they (that amaze them much)
Green Trees to wither with their very touch;
And in Nicaragua, a Mountain top,
That (Aetna-like) bright Flashes belches vp.
Thence, reach they th' Isthmos of rich Panama,
And on their right hand build Oucanama,
With Cassamalca, Cusco, Quito: and
In famous Perv's very golden Strand
Admire the Lake that laueth Colle about,
Whose Waues be salt within, and fresh without:
And streams of Cinca, that with vertue strange,
To hardest stone, soft Mud and Chalk do change.

Then seiz they Chili, where all day the Deep
Runs roaring down, and all the night doth sleep:
Chinca, the Patagons, and all the shoar
Where th' azure Seas of Magellan do roor.
Left-ward, they spread them 'longst the Darians side;
Where through th' Vrabian Fields the Huo doth slide,
Neer Zenu's stream, which toward the Ocean drags,
Pure grains of Gold, as big as Pullets Eggs:
To new Granada, where the Mount embost.
With Emeralds doth shine; Cumanean Coast,
Where noysom vapours (like a dusky night)
Bedimms their eyes; and doth impair their sight:
Therefore som troops, from Cumana they carrie
To Caripana, Omagu, and Pari:
By Maragnon, all over fell Brasile,
And Plate's fat Plains, where flowes another Nile.

Ghesse too, that Grotland yerst did Picne store,
And Ireland fraught Los Campos de Labor;
As Tombut, Melli, Gago and Terminan,
Planted the Plains and shoars of Corican.

Yet (happily) thou'lt gladly grant me this,
That mans ambition ay so bound-les is,
That steepest Hills it over-climbs with ease,
And runs (as dry-shod) through the deepest Seas:
And (maugre meagre Thirst) her Carvells Lands,
On Afrik, Tolmon, and Arabian sands;
But hardly credit'st, that one Family,
Out of foure couples should so multiply,
That Asia, Europ, Africa, and All
Seems for their off-spring now too streight and small.

If thouset-light by th' everlasting Voyce,
Which now again re-blest the Loue-full Choyce
Of sacred Wedlocks secret-binding band;
Saying, Increase, Flourish and Fill the Land:

And if (profane) thou hold it for a Fiction,
That Seauenty Iews, in Aegypt (in affliction)
Within foure hundred yeers and half three-score,
Grew to fiue-hundred-thousand soules and more:

Consider yet, that being fed that while,
With holesom Fruits of an vn-forced soyl,
And kindely meats, not marred by the Book,
And wanton cunning of a sawcy Cook:
Waigh furthermore, that being not cut-down
With bloody swords when furious neighbours frown;
Nor worn with Trauail, nor infeebeled
With hatefull Sloath: Our Grand-sires flowrished
Hundreds of yeers in youth; and even in Age
Could render duly Venus Escuage:
And that Polygamy (in those dayes common)
Most Men vsurping more then one sole Woman,
Made then the World so mightily augment
In vpright Creatures; and (in continent)
From fruitfull Loigns of one old Father-stock,
So many branches of man-kinde to flock:
Even as an ear of Corn (if all the yield
Be yeerly sow'n still in a fertill Field)
Fills Barns at length; and spreads in spacious Plain
Millions of millions of like ears again.
Or, as two Fishes, cast into a Meer,
With fruitfull Spawn will furnish in fewe yeer
A Town with victuall, and serue (furthermore)
Their neighbour Waters with their Fry to store.

Haue not our Dayes a certain Father know'n,
Who with the fruit of his own body grow'n,
Peopled a Village of a hundred Fires,
And issue-blest (the Crown of Old Desires)
In his owne life-time, his owne off-spring saw
To wed each other, without breach of Law?
So far, the branches of his fruitfull Bed,
Past all the Names of Kindreds-Tree did spread.

'Tis know'n that fewe Arabian Families
New-planted Lybia with their Progenies,
In compass of three hundred yeers and less;
And Bugie, Argier, Oran, Thunis, Tez,
Fez, Melli, Gago, Tombut, Terminan
With hatefull Laws of Heathnish Alcoran.

If this, among the Africans we see,
Whom cor'ziue humour of Melancholy
Doth alwayes tickle with a wanton Lust,
Although less powr-full in the Paphian Ioust
For Propagation (for too-often Deed
Of Loues-Delight, enfeebles much their seed:
And inly, still they feel a Wintery Fever,
As outwardly, a scorching Sommer ever)
Ghess how much more, those, whose hoar heads approach
And see the turnings of Heav'ns flaming Coach,
Doe multiply; because they seldom venter,
And but in season, Uenus lists to enter.
And, the cold, resting (vnder th' Artick Star)
Still Master of the Field in champian War,
Makes Heat retire into the Bodies-Towr:
Which there vnited, giues them much more powr.

For thence indeed, Hunns, Herules, Franks, Bulgarians,
Circassyans, Sweues, Burgognians, Turks, Tartarians,
Dutch, Cimhers, Normans, Alains, Ostrogothes,
Tigurins, Lombards, Vandals, Visigothes,
Haue swarm'd (like Locusts) round about this Ball,
And spoyl'd the fairest Provinces of all:
While barren South had much a-doot' assemble
(In all) two Hoasts; that made the North to tremble:
Whereof; the One, that one-ey'd Champion led,
Who famous Carthage rais'd, and ruined:
Th' other (by Tours) Charles Martell martyr'd so;
That never since, could Afrik Army showe.

O! see, how full of Wonders strange is Nature:
Sith in each Climat, not alone in stature,
Strength, hair, and colour, that men differ doo,
But in their humours and their manners too.
Whether that, custom into Nature change:
Whether that, Youth to th' Elds example range.
Or divers Laws of divers Kingdoms, vary-vs:
Or th' influence of Heav'nly bodies cary-vs.

The Northern-man is fair, the Southern foul;
That's white, this black; that smiles, and this doth scoul:
Th' one's blythe and frolik, th' other dull and froward;
Th' one's full of courage, th' other fearfull coward:
Th' ones hair is harsh, big, curled, th' other's slender;
Th' one loveth Labour, th' other Books doth render:
Th' one's hot and moist, the other hot and dry;
Th' one's Voice is hoarce, the other's cleer and high:
Th' one's plain and honest th' other all deceipt;
Th' one's rough and rude, the other handsom neat:
Th' one (giddy-brain'd) is turn'd with every winde;
The other (constant) never changeth minde:
Th' one's loose and wanton, th' other continent;
Th' one thrift-less lavish, th' other provident:
Th' one milde Companion; th' other, stern and strange,
(Like a wilde Wolf) loues by himself to range:
Th' one's pleas'd with plainness, th' other pomp affects:
Th' one's born for Arms, the other Arts respects.
But middling folk, who their abiding make
Between these two, of either guise partake:
And such haue stronger limbs, but weaker wit,
Then those that neer Nyles fertill sides doo sit;
And (opposit) more wit, and lesser force
Then those that haunt Rhines and Danubius shoars.

For, in the Cirque of th' Vniversall City;
The Southern-man, who (quick and curious-witty)
Builds all on Dreams, deep Extasies, and Traunces,
Who measures Heav'ns eternall-mouing Daunces,
Whose searching soule can hardly besuffiz'd
With vulgar Knowledge, holds the Place of Priest.
The Northern-man, whose wit in's Fingers settles,
Who what him list can work in Wood and Mettles,
Who (Salmon-like) can thunder counterfait;
With men of Arms, and Artizans is set.
The Third (as knowing well to rule a State)
Holds, grauely-wise, the room of Magistrate.
Th' one (to be brief) loues studious Theory,
The other Trades, the third deep Policy.
Yet true it is, that since som later lustres,
Minerua, Themis, Hermes, and his Sisters
Haue set, as well, their Schools in th' Artick Parts,
As Mars his Lists, and Vulcan Shops of Arts.

Nay, see we not among ourselues, that liue
Mingled almost (to whom the Lord doth giue
But a small Turf of Earth to dwell-vpon)
This wondrous ods in our condition?
We finde the Alman, in his fight couragious,
But salable; th' Italian too-outragious;
Suddain the French, impatient of delay;
The Spaniard slowe, but subtle to hetray:
Th' Alman, in Counsail cold th' Italian quick,
The French inconstant, Spaniards politik:
Fine Feeds th' Italian, and the Spaniard spares;
Prince-like the French, Pig-like the Alman, fares:
Milde speaks the French, the Spaniard proud and brave,
Rudely the Alman, and th' Italian grave:
Th' Italian proud in tyre, French changing much,
Fit-clad the Spaniard, and vn-fit the Dutch:
The French-man braves his Fo, th' Italian cheers-him,
The Alman spoyls, the Spaniard never bears-him:
The French-man sings, th' Italian seems to bleat,
The Spaniard whines, the Alman howleth great:
Spaniards like Iugglers Iett; th' Almans like Cocks,
The French goes quick, th' Italian like an Ox:
Dutch Louers, proud; th' Italian envious,
Frolik the French, the Spaniard furious.

Yet would the Lord, that Noahs fruitfull Race
Should over-spread th' Earths vniversall Face:
That, drawing so his Children from the crimes
Which seem peculiar to their Native Climes,
He might reveal his grace: and that Heav'ns Lights
Might well incline (but not constrain) our sprights:
That over all the World, his Saints, alwayes
Might offer him sweet Sacrifice of Praise:
That from cold Scythia, his high Name as far
Might ay resound, as Sun-burnt Zanzibar:
And that the treasures which strange Soyls produce,
Might not seem worth-les, for the want of vse;
But that the In-land Lands might truck and barter
And vent their Wares about to every Quarter.

For, as in LONDON (stuft with euery sort)
Heer's the Kings Palace, there the Iunes of Court:
Heer (to the Thames-ward, all a-long the STRAND)
The stately Houses of the Nobles stand:
Heer dwell rich Merchants; there Artificers;
Heer Silk-men, Mercers, Gold-Smiths, Iewellers:
There's a Church-yard furnisht with choise of Books;
Heer stand the Shambles, there the Rowe of Cooks:
Heer wonn Vp-Holsters, Haberdashers, Horners;
There Pothecaries, Grocers, Taylours, Tourners:
Heer Shoo-makers; there Ioyners, Coopers, Coriers;
Here Browers, Bakers, Cutlers, Felters, Furriers:
This Street is full of DRAPERS, that of Diars:
This Shop with Tapers, that with Womens Tyars:
For costly Toys, Silk Stockings, Cambrick, Lawn,
Heer's choice-full Plenty in the curious PAWN:
And All's but an Exchange, where (brieflie) no-man
Keeps ought, as priuate. Trade makes all things common.

So com our Sugars from Canary Iles:
From Candy, Currance, Muskadels, and Oyls:
From the Moluques, Spices: Balsamum
From Egypt: Odours from Arabia com:
From India, Drugs, rich Gemms, and Iuorie:
From Syria, Mummie: black-red Ebonie,
From burning Chus: From Peru, Pearl and Gold:
From Russia, Furres (to keep the rich from cold):
From Florence, Silks: From Spayn, Fruit, Saffron, Sacks:
From Denmark, Amber, Cordage, Firres, and Flax:
From France and Flanders, Linnen, Woad, and Wine:
From Holland, Hops: Horse, from the banks of Rhine.
In brief, each Country (as pleas'd God distribute)
To the Worlds Treasure payes a sundry Tribute.

And, as sometimes that sumptuous Persian Dame
(Out of her Pride) accustomed to name
One Prouince for her Roab, her Rayl another,
Her Partlet this, her Pantofles the tother,
This her rich Mantle, that her royall Chain,
This her rare Bracelets, that her stately Train:
Euen so may Man; For, what wilde Hill so steep?
What so waste Desart? what so dangerous Deep?
What Scaso wrackfull? or so barren shoar
In all the World may be suppos'd so poor,
But yields him Rent: and free from enuious Spight,
Contributes frankly to his Lifes Delight?

Th' inammell'd Valleys, where the liquid glass
Of siluer Brooks in curled streams doth pass,
Serue vs for Gardens; and their flowerie Fleece
Affoords vs Sythe-work, yeerly twice or thrice:
The Plains for Corn: the swelling Downs for Sheep;
Small Hills for Vines: the Mountains strangely-steep
(Those Heav'n-climbe Ladders, Labyrinths of wonder,
Cellars of winde, and Shops of sulphury Thunder;
Where stormie Tempests haue their vgly birth;
Which thou mis-call'st the blemish of the Earth;
Thinking (profane) that God, or Fortune light
Made them of enuie or of ouersight)
Bound with eternall bounds proud Emperies;
Bear mighty Forrests, full of Timber-Trees
(Whereof thou buildest Ships and Houses fair,
To trade the Seas, and fence thee from the Ayr)
Spew spacious Riuers, full of fruitfull Breed,
Which neighbour-Peoples with their plenty feed;
Fatten the Earth with fresh, sweet, fertill mists;
Driue gainfull Mills; and serue for Forts and Lists
To stop the Furie of Warres waste-full hand;
And ioyn to th' Sea, the middle of the Land.
The Wyldes and Desarts, which so much amaze-thee,
Are goodly Pastures, that do daily graze-thee
Millions of Beasts for tillage, and (besides)
Store thee with flesh, with Fleeces, and with Hides.
Yea, the vast Sea (which seems but only good,
To drown the World; and couer with his Flood
So many Countries, where we else might hope
For thrifty pains to reape a thankfull Crop)
Is a large Lardar, that in brynie Deeps,
To nourish thee, a World of Creatures keeps:
A plentious Victualler, whose prouisions serue
Millions of Citties that else needs must starue
(Like half-dead Dolphins, which the Ebb lets lie
Gasping for thirst vpon the sand, a-drie):
'Tincreaseth Trade, Iournies abbreuiates,
The flitting Clouds it cease-les exhalates;
Which, cooling th' ayr, and gushing down in rain,
Make Ceres Sons (in sight) to mounta-main.

But, shall I still be Boreas Tennis-ball?
Shall I be still stern Neptunes tossed Thrall?
Shall I no more behold thy natiue smoak,
Deer Ithaca? Alas! my Barkis broak,
And leaks so fast, that I can rowe no more:
Help, help, (my Mates) make haste vnto the shoar.
O! we are lost; vnless som friendly banks
Quickly receiue our Tempest-beaten planks.

Ah, courteous ENGLAND, thy kinde arms I see
Wide-stretched out to saue and welcom me.
Thou (tender Mother) wilt not suffer Age
To snowe my locks in Forrein Pilgrimage:
That fel Bresile my breath-les Corps should shrowd,
Or golden Peru of my Praise be prowd,
Orrich Cathay to glory in my Verse:
Thou gav'st me Cradle, thou wilt giue me Herse.

All-haile (deer ALEION) Europ's Pearl of price,
The Worlds rich Garden, Earths rare Paradise:
Thrice-happy Mother, which ay bringest-forth
Such Chiualry as daunteth all the Earth
(Planting the Trophies of thy glorious Arms
By Sea and Land, where euer Titan warms):
Such Artizans as do wel-neer Eclipse
Fair Natures praise in peer-les Workmanships:
Such happy Wits, as Egypt, Greece and Rome
(At least) haue equall'd, if not ouer-com;
And shine among their (Modern) learned Fellows,
As Gold doth glister among paler Yellows:
Or as Apollo th' other Planets passes:
Or as His Flowr excels the Medow-grasses.

Thy Riuers, Seas; thy Cities, Shires do seem;
Ciuil in manners, as in buildings trim:
Sweet is thine Ayr, thy Soyl exceeding Fat,
Fenç't from the World (as better-worth then That)
With triple Wall (of Water, Wood, and Brass)
Which neuer Stranger yet had power to pass;
Saue when the Heav'ns haue for thy haynous Sin,
By som of Thine, with false Keys let them in.

About thy borders (O Heav'n-blessed ILE)
There neuer crawls the noy som Crocodile;
Nor Bane-breath'd Serpent, basking in thy sand,
Measures an Acre of thy flowry Land;
The swift foot Tiger, or fierce Lioness
Haunt not thy. Mountains, nor thy wilderness;
Nor rauening Wolues worry thy tender Lambs,
Bleating for help vnto their help-les Dams;
Nor subtle Sea-Horse, with deceiptfull Call,
Intice thy Children in thy Floods to fall.

What though thy Thames and Tweed haue neuer rowl'd,
Among their grauel, massie grains of Gold?
What though thy Mountains spew no Siluer-streams?
Though euery Hillock yield not pretious Gemms?
Though in thy Forrests hang no Silken Fleeces?
Nor sacred Incense, nor delicious Spices?
What though the clusters of thy colder Vines
Distill not Clarets, Sacks, nor Muscadines?
Yet are thy Wolls, thy Corn, thy Cloath, thy Tin,
Mines rich enough to make thee Europes Queen,
Yea Empress of the World; Yet not sufficient
To make thee thankfull to the Cause efficient
Of all thy Blessings: Who, besides all this,
Hath (now nine Lustres) lent thee greater Bliss;
His blessed Word (the witnes of his fauour)
To guide thy Sons vnto his Son (their Sauer)
With Peace and Plenty: while, from War and Want,
Thy neighbours Countries neuer breathed scant.
And last, not least (so far beyond the scope
Of Christians Fear, and Anti-Christians Hope)
When all, thy Fall seem'd to Prognosticate,
Hath higher rais'd the glory of thy State;
In raysing STVARDS to thy regal Throne,
To Rule (as Dauid and as Salomon)
With prudence, Prowess, Iustice, and Sobrietie,
Thy happy People in Religious Piety.
Otoo-too happy! too-too fortunate!
Knew'st thou thy Weal: or wert thou not ingrate.

But least (at last) Gods righteous wrath consume-vs
If on his patience still we thus presume-vs:
And least (at last) all Blessings had before
Double in Curses to torment-vs more:
Deer Mother ENGLAND, bend thine aged knee,
And to the Heav'ns lift vp thy hands with me;
Off with thy Pomp, hence with thy Pleasures past:
Thy Mirth be Mourning, and thy Feast a FAST:
And let thy soule, with my sad soule, confesse
Our former sins, and •oul vnthankefulnes.

Pray we the Father, through th' adopting Spirit,
Not measure vs according to our merit;
Nor strictly weigh, at his High Iustice Beam,
Our bold Rebellions, and our Pride extream:
But, for his Son (our deer Redeemer's) sake,
His Sacrifice, for our Sins Ransom, take;
And, looking on vs with milde Mercies Ey,
Forgiue our Past, our Future Sanctifie;
That neuer more, his Furie we incense
To strike (as Now) with raging Pestilence
(Much less prouoke him by our guilt so far,
To wound vs more, with Famine and with War).

Lord, cease thy wrath: Put vp into thy Quiuer
This dreadfull shaft: Deer Father vs deliuer:
And vnder wings of thy protection keep
Thy seruant IAMES, both waking and a-sleep:
And (furthermore) we (with the Psalmist) sing
Lord giue thy iudgements to (our Lord) the King,
And to his Son: and let there aye be one
Of his Male Seed to sit vpon his Throne,
To feed thy Folk in Iacob, and (aduance)
In Israel thy (deer) Inheritance,
And (long-long-liued) full of Faith and Zeal,
Reform (like Asa) Church and Common-weal;
Raysing poor Vertue, razing proudest Vice,
Without respect of Person or of Price;
That all bold Atheists, all Blasphemers, then,
All Popish Traytors may be weeded clean.
And, Curst, be All that say not heer, Amen.