Canto 10

But now the Larissean Lasses Frend
(Who for a wealthier Lover did foregoe
The God of Verse) his setting Steeds did bend
O're the great Lake of silver MEXICO;
SOL'S burning Rays FAVONIUS did suspend
With that cool breath which makes, where it doth blow,
Becalmed Jesamines erect their heads,
And naked Lillies sit up in their Beds:

When the fair Nymphs and Lovers, two abreast,
Now Frends and well contented, hand in hand
Towards the Palace bright their steps addrest,
Which upon Pillars of pure gold did stand;
To a most splendid and Opiperous Feast
All summon'd thither, by the Queen's command
Who had prepar'd it for them, to repaire
Consumptive Nature with delicious Fare.

There, in rich Chaires of substance crystalline
They sit by Two's and Two's, Gallant and dame.
At th'upper end, in other of gold fine,
Sits the fair GODDESSE with renown'd DE GAME.
With Viands delicate in sawce divine
(Such as to CLEOPATRA'S Board ne're came)
Are heapt the dishes of red burnisht gold:
Part of the Treasure which their Seas infold.

The fragrant Wines not onely are above
Faler•ian Liquor of Italian growth,
But that choice-Nectar sent about by JOVE
When Rebel Gyants felt IMMORTALS wroth.
In Di'mond-Cups (tempting to mirth, and love)
The Ruby sparckles: bubbles the curl'd froth
With the powr'd spring. Thus, of their Lovers true
The greatest F•e, the watry Nymphs subdue.

A thousand pleasant Arguments they touch,
Still-laughters pass, quick witty Repartees,
'Twixt dish and dish; whereby, without too much
Of Those, to whet the appetite to These.
Musical Instruments not wanting (such,
As to the damned spirits once gave ease
In the dark Vaults of the Infernal Hall)
Joyn'd with a SIREN'S Voice Angelical:

The fair MUSE sang, and with her shrill Accents
(Which from the lofty Battlement rebound)
In equal harmony the Instruments,
Keeping just time, their softer Notes confound.
A suddain Silence curbs the Winds, ind•nts
With the hoarse waves to whisper under ground.
And the bruit Creatures in their Houses (made
By Nature's hand) asleep are sung and playd.

With a sweet Voyce she raises to the skies
Rare men to come into the world; whose cleare
Ideas were beheld by PROTHEU s wise
In a Diaphane and Phantastick Sphere,
Which in a Dream JOVE shew'd to his shut Eyes;
And after, He, by Prophecy appeare
Made it humid Realms: where this Nymph (took
Therewith) got the brave story without book

Matter for Buskin 'tis, and not for Sock,
In the VAST LAKE that which the Mermaid heard;
Beyond what POPAS knew, or […]:
This King ALCINOO'S, That Queen DIDO'S Bard
Now, my CALIOPE, I Thee invoke
To my last Labour: begging, for reward
Of all I write (which I in vain pretend)
I may come off with a good tang ith' end:

I sink into the Vale of years; and, past
My Summer's pride, to Autumn speed amain.
And my Wit (more then years) MISFORTUNES blast;
Which Wit I own not now, nor boast my Vein.
Sighs blow me to that Port, where all must cast
The Anchor never to be weigh'd again.
Yet, great Queen of the MUSES grant that I
May close my NATION'S Poem e're I dye.

The SIREN sang, how from the Tagan shore,
Through Seas first open'd by De Gama, now
Should Navies come; which all within the Rore
Of Indian Seas shall to that Empire bow:
And how each Pagan King, who the sweet Lore
And yoak those Guests will bring, shall from them throw;
With fire and sword by their brave Arm so bit
Shall be, that they shall yield to Death, or It.

She sang of One, who (being dignify'd,
With the High-Priesthood of all MALAEAR)
Because, the knots of Friendship he had ty'd,
He would not break with men so singular;
Shall let his Fields and Cities be destroy'd
With fire and sword, and all the rage of war,
Before him, By the potent SAMORIM:
So hateful shall those strangers be to Him.

And sings, in BETHL•M there, how shipt shall be
The Sov'raign remedie of this Disease;
The great PACHECO knowing not, that He
Carries with Him the Pelian Lance through Seas.
But the Sea shall; when, to such great Guests she
Unus'd, shall feel his weight: The groaning Trees
Of his prowd ship shall know't, which two foot more
Shall draw of water, then it did before.

But, treading now the Oriental Strand,
And left, the Pagan King of spoyld COCHIM
To•yd, of PORTINGALS with a small Band,
Upon the salt and crooked River's Brim;
Rout shall he, at the pass of CAMBALAND,
Th'infernal NAYRES, That there set on Him:
Turning with fear the burning ORIENT cold,
So much done with so little to behold.

The SAMORIM shall raise an Army new;
The Kings shall come of BIPUR and TANORE
From Highlands of NARSINGA; what they'll do
For their chief Lord, making large Brags before.
All the arm'd NORTH he shall assemble too,
Which lyes 'twixt CALICUT and CANANORE,
Of both Religions, 'gainst the True that band,
The MOORS by Sea, the PAGAN POWR'S by Land.

And once more All defeats on Land and May•
The bold PACHECO, Thunderbolt of War;
The multitude unnumberd of the slain
Amazing all the Realms of MALABAR.
The undespairing Emperor again
Shall hast to try his Fortune militar;
Rating his Men, pouring vain pray'rs and tears
To his vain Gods That have nor eyes nor ears.

Your Troops shall passes now no more defend,
But burn the PAGA•'S Houses, Towns, and Fanes.
The Dog (inrag'd to see they make no end
Of laying flat his goodly Towns) ordains
His Men, whom he doth prodigally spend,
PACHECO'S then divided in two Lanes,
To charge between them. He together brings
His Jaws, and makes two Pincers of his Wings.

In person then the SAMORIM shall come
To see what's done, and reinforce his men.
Dasht (by a shot which through the Aire doth humme)
In his high Chair with blood he shall be then.
That Force, nor Policy can overcome
This Warriour; now he shall to see begin.
Treasons, and Poisons base he shall invent;
Which Heav'n (PACHECO'S keeper) wi• prevent.

That a sev'nth time he shall return, she sings,
To fight the brave unconquer'd PORTINGALL;
Whom no Toyls tyre, who dreads no dreadfull Things,
Yet this a little discompose him shall.
To horrid battail the fell Tyrant brings
Engines of Wood, dire and unusuall,
To board the Caravels upon the Mayn,
Which he till then shall have assay'd in v•in.

Mountains of Fire shall on the water float
The little Navy to consume with flame.
The great PACHECO (like himself) this hot
And fierce Bravade shall in a trice make vain.
No Master in the Art of War (That got
Never so high upon the wings of Fame)
With all his Palms can neer this WORTHY come:
Pardon me noble […], and nobler ROME.

For with a hundred men, or little more,
Unto the end so many Battails fought;
With such high Stratagems unseen before,
On Warlike-Hoasts so many wonders wrought;
Seem either Fables dreamt by men that snore,
Or that celestial Quires (with Pray'rs down brought)
Their Champion in those Exigencies Ayd
With Wit, Sleight, Force, and courage undismayd.

He, who in Marathonian Fields of old
O're vast DARIUS'S pow'rs victorious was;
Nor He, who, with three hundred SPARTANS bold,
Of fam'd THERMOPILEE maintain'd the Pass;
Nor ROME'S young COCLES, who at bay did hold
All the prowd Tuscan pow'r, till cut he has
The Bridge behind him: nor old FABIUS is
Or wise, or valiant, when compar'd with This.

But at this point, her high and ratling tone
The Nymph abasing, made it hoarse and sad;
And with low Voyce (drown'd in her Tears did moan
Of so strange Valour a Requital bad.
O BELISARIUS (said she) That art One
Who by the MUS• will still in price be had;
If MARS himself affronted were in Thee,
Here is a man that may thy Comfort be.

Here thou a Rival hast, as in thy Deeds,
So in their cruel and unjust return;
In Thee, and Him, misused VERTUE bleeds:
In Thee, and Him, doth begging VALOUR mourn:
Both Bulwarks of your KINGS, Both of your […]:
Both dye in HOSPITALS ragged and torn.
This those Kings do, whose justice is their will;
Their Evidence what MALICE shall instill.

This those Kings do, who (with smooth Tales misled
Of Flatterers, by whom asleep th'are sung,
Give the Rewards by AJAX merited
Unto the fraudulent ULYSSES'S tongue.
But 'tis reveng'd at full, when, hand o'rehead,
They deal their B•ns those SYCOPHANTS among:
By whom, of their ill choice they will be made
Ashamed first, and afterwards betraid.

But Thou, That such a man couldst leave, to SCORN
And WANT, O KING unjust in this alone!
If Thou, to build his Fortunes were't, not born;
He was, to give to Thee a potent Throne.
And (credit me) whilst PH•US'S locks unshorn
To light the Earth and Heaven shall be known,
Like that Sun glorious shall PACHECO be,
And Thou in this Eclipse thy Majestie.

Another, loe! (proceeding in her Song)
Comes, with a Regal Title, and his Son;
Who, on the Sea shall do such things e're long,
As by no antient ROMAN were out-done.
They Both, shall win by armed Hand and strong
Wealthy QUILOA, and shall sack it, won:
Placing therein a mild and loyal King
For a false Tyrant, whom they out shall fling.

Also, the City of MOMBASSA (Crown'd
With sumptuous Houses, and aerial Spires)
Shall by them Both be levell'd with the ground,
For an •ld fault which a new r•d requires.
But, afterwards, upon the INDIAN SOUND
(Cover'd with Ships and Artificial Fires
T'o'rewhelm the PORTINGALLS) with Oare, and Sayle,
Alone the young LORENZO shall prevaile.

The CARACKS of the potent EMPERORE
(Peopling the scorched Ayre with Iron Ball
Which from the burning Brass, like Thunder, roare)
Tear shall he, Canvas, Rudder, Mast and all.
His grappling-hooks thrown resolutely o're
Her lofty Decks, Himself their Admiral
Shall enter first; and cleer, with Lance and Sword
Four hundred MOORS she will have then aboard.

But GOD (whose secret doom is over All:
Best judge, of what's his service, and Man's good)
Shall bring him then, where Wit nor Prowess shall
Have pow'r to stop his Foes prevailing Flood.
Neer CHOUL (where cheaply yet he shall not fall:
The purpled Sea there boyling o're with blood)
He will be forc't, to leave his life behind,
By Fleets of EGYPT and CAM•AYA joyn'd.

There shall ennumerable Enemies
(Who, with great force alone, great […] […])
The Wind that fails, Danger that multiplyes,
Upon the Sea; against him All conspire.
Now from their Graves let all the Antients rise,
A pattern to behold of noble Ire:
They shall behold another SCEVA, s•ill'd
How to dye piece-meal, but not how to yield.

Rob'd of a Thigh (which an unlucky shot
In splinters with it through the ayre shall beare)
Still does he use his Arms; These fail him not,
Nor his great Heart, uncapable of Feare:
Until another Bullet breaks the knot
Wherewith his Soul and Body marryed were.
The prison open, she escapes: and straight
Doth find her self in a triumphant state.

SOULE, go in Peace; from furious War retire,
In midst of which Thou inward Peace shalt find.
The BODY, Him who got it will inspire
With high revenge, when he shall see't disjoyn'd.
I hear a rumbling storm, I see the fire
Of Sacres, Drakes, and Basilisks, combin'd
With fell and home-destruction to rebuke
The fierce CAM•AYAN and black […].

Behold! the Father comes a mad man like,
In whom for ma st'ry Grief with Fury vy•s;
Whilst at one time paternal love doth strike
Fire on his Heart, pumps water from his Eyes.
A noble Anger whispers him, his Pyke
Shall blood his Foes, so that the Tyde shall rise
In their drown'd Decks knee-deep: […] sh•ll be•,
INDUS shall see his Blows, and […] •ar.

As a Corrival'd Bull, That (practising
For a fierce duel) fences with the Oakes;
Or, at the Trunck of a broad Beech, doth fling
In Thrusts, and with his Horns the Ayre provokes:
So DON FRANCISCO (e're his Fleet he bring
In swoln CAMBAYA'S Gulph to desp'rate strokes)
On DA•UL'S wealthy City whets his Blade,
The Mountain of her Pride a Level made.

Then enters (horrid with her blood) the Ba•
Of DIO: fam'd for Sieges, and pitcht-Fields.
The great but Coward-Fleet his lo•k doth fray
Of CALICUT: which Oars for Lances weilds.
That of […] YAZ (which makes away
More slow) with Bolts of VULCAN he unbuilds;
To the low bottom of the OCEAN sent:
Cold mattrice, of the humid Element.

•ut that of MIR HOZEM (which with close bords
The rowzed wrath of the Avenger stands)
Shall swimming see, ith'Ocean of their Lords,
Hands without Bodies, Bodies without Hands.
The rage-blind Victors, waving their bright Swords,
Shall seem to toss so many flaming Brands.
What there shall be perceiv'd by Ears, and Eyes,
Will be Smoke onely, Iron, Fire, and Cryes.

But ah! Of a defeat great MARS might boast
(Bound for his Native-Tagus back again)
The Fame and glory shall he lose almost
By a sad traverse I foresee too plain.
The CAPE OF STORMS (which in it's Desert Coast
His Bo•s and Memory shall ay retain)
Shames not to ravish from the world a Soule
Whole INDIA could not, and EGYPT whole.

By savage CA•RES, there, shall that be done
Which dext'rous Enemies could not perform:
And by rude Clubbs (hardned with fire) alone,
What Arrows S•ow'r could not, Bullet's storm.
GOD'S secret judgements are not to be known.
Vain GENTIL•S (being a •ook above their f•rm)
Call it ill Fate, cross Fortune, star maline;
Being solely, purely, […] DIVIN•.

O! What new light beginneth there to bud
(The SIREN said, and rais'd her Voyce thereat)
From the Melindian Sea, dy'd with the blood
Of LAMO, OC•A, BRAVA, all laid flat
By great DE CUNIA; who through all the Flood
Which laves the Southern-Isles and Shores (but That
Of MADAGASCAR chiefly) the wide mouth
Of FAME shall fill, and threat the unknown South.

This light is of those flames and glitt'ring Arms
Wherewith the stubborn PERSIANS of ORMUZE,
Spu•ning the yoake, and valiant to their harms,
Fierce ALBURQUERQUE afterwards subdues.
There shall the hissing Shafts (like living swarms)
Turn'd in the Ayre, their shooters Helmets bruize;
That they may see, with Eyes though ne're so dim,
How GOD will fight for Them, that fight for Him.

The MOUNTAINS then of SALT will not be able
To keep those Bodies from corruption
Which on the Coasts shall lye out (miserable)
Of CALAYAT, MASCATE, and GERUN;
Until the easie yoake and honorable
They learn (with all their fierceness) to put on:
Forc't by the Conquerours, to pay to Them,
Rich Tribute of their Pearles of BAHEREM,

What glorious Palms do I see weaving There,
With which his forehead VICTORY will crown
When without shadow or least touch of fear
He shall win GOA'S Isle of bright renown!
But then (the Storm obeying) will not bear
So great a Sayle, and takes that Bonet down:
To reattempt the thing in fitter season.
"FORTUNE and MARS fear Valour joyn'd with Reason.

And (see) he does it; charges undismay'd
Through walls, through Pykes, through Bullets, and through fire:
Opens the quilted Squadrons with his Blade
Of MOORS and PAGANS knit in Leagues intire!
His gallant Soldiers in more blood shall wade
Then Lyons pin'd, Bulls prickt with love and Ire;
Upon the Feast (as pat as by designe)
Of EGYPT'S Virgin Martyr, KATHERIN•.

Nor Him shalt Thou (though potent) scape, and flye,
(Though sheltred in the Bosome of the Morn)
MALACCA (and the Apple of her Eye)
Prowd of thy wealthy Dow'r as her first-born.
Thy poyson'd Arrows, those Auxiliary
CRYSES I see (thy Pay That do not scorn)
MALACCANS amorous, valiant JAVANS,
Shall all obey the LUSITANIANS.

More Stanza's had the SIREN in the praise
Of the illustrious ALBULQUERQUE sung;
But she remembers one harsh Act, which weighs
Him down, though through the world his Fame be rung.
"A great Commander (whom to crop bright Bays
"On precipitious Cliffs his Fate hath hung)
"Should to his Men a Camrade rather be,
"Then a Judge made up of Severitie.

But in a time of Famine, and hard Toyle,
Of Sickness, Arrows, and of thund'ring Ball,
Of Season sad, of discommodious soyle,
And the poor Soldier patient under All;
It seems to me of Savage Breasts the style,
Of an in humane and insulting Gall,
To make a Man for such a fault to dye
As Love and humane frailty qualifie.

Incest's detested Brand it shall not be,
Nor boyst'rous Rape upon a Virgin pure,
Nor blot injurious of Adulterie,
But with a Slave lascivious and obscure.
Then whether fir'd with Zeale, or jealousie,
Or else to keep his bloody hands in Ure,
Against his own he give his rage the reins,
With a black Action his white Fame he stains.

With his CAMPASPE ALEXANDER spy'd
[…] took, and upon Him bestows
Her cheerfully: being not his Soldier try'd
Nor serving at a Sage of desp'rate Foes.
That sowr ARASPAS in the Rays is fride
Of his fair Charge PANTH•A, CYRUS knows;
Having profest to be her G•rdian true,
And that no ill desire should Him subdue.

But the illustrious PERSIAN, seeing love
Is in the fault ('gainst whom there's no defence)
Acquits him streight, and onely dot• remove,
Where he may serve him well in recompence.
The Iron BALDWIN (much his Rank above)
By stealth Espouses JUDITH; yet th'offence
Her great Sire pardons (needing such a man)
And gives them FLANDERS, whence those Earls began.

But her long Song the Nymph continuing,
Of SUAREZ (who his Standard doth display
On the red coast of ARABIE) did sing:
ABASIAS hindmost shore, and BAR•ORA
(Neighb'ring ZEYLA'S Emporium) fear the Thing
She feels; nor less then Mecha, and GIDDA,
Filthy MEDINA quakes, where MAHOMET
In his Steel-Hamac lies in a cold swet.

Also the noble Isle of TAPOBRANE:
For by that name it was as fam'd of yore
As by another now 'tis Soveraign
Of the hot fragrant Barke, of which 't has store.
Of which, she to the STANDART LUSIANE
Shall pay sweet Tribute: when (percht prowdly o're
COLUMBO'S highest steeple) that shall be
More fear'd by Her, then by her Neighbours, she.

Through the Red-Sea SEQUEYRA a new way
To Thee, vast Land of PRESTER JOHN, shall show;
CANDACE'S Nest, and Her's, who, to survay
The Wisdome of great SOLOMON, did go.
From Cisterns water'd, He, shall see MACUA:
Shall see her neighb'ring Port of ARCHICE:
And cause new Isles to be discover'd, which
With Modern wonders shall the World inrich.

MENESES comes the next, whose sword shall serve
In AFFRICK for the wreaths he here shall weare.
He prowd ORMOOZ (That from her faith will swerve)
A double Tribute shall constrain to beare.
Thou GAMA too (who wilt it well deserve
Which two exiles) the third time thou com'st there
(An Earl, Vice-Roy, and Admiral) the Land,
Which thou hast now discover'd, shalt command.

But then that rude Necessitie (which none
Can scape, who from a humane womb doth spring)
Arrests thee in thy Robes, and painted Throne,
Where thou shalt out the person of thy King.
Streight will another MENNES (old alone
In wisdome) have the Sov'raign managing
Of t•e Affairs: (And Happy HENRY shall
Behind him leave a name perpetual.

For he shall quell not onely MALABARS,
Razing PANANE and COULET'S walls,
Incountring Cannon, clapping on Petars,
And hurling wild-fire in sulphureous Balls;
But (arm'd with Vertues past the Sphere of MARS,
Quell the SOULE'S Enemie's sev'n Generals
Quell Avarice, quell foul Incontinence,
In a young man the sum of excellence.

His Stars now calling Him to tread on Them,
Thou, valiant MASKARENIAS shouldst succeed:
But (if usurpt on) know, a Diadem
It self, thy brighter honor will not need.
Thy courage, Admiration and Esteem
(Although not love) ev'n in thy Foes shall breed,
If unjust FORTUNE shall deny the might,
VERTUE will give the merit, LAW the Right.

Great Actions in the Kingdom of BINTAN
Thou shalt perform, MALACCA'S Foe: her score
Of Ills in one day paying, which That ran
Into, for many a hundred year before.
With patient courage, more then of a man,
Dangers, and Toyles, sharp Spikes, Hills always hoare,
Spears, Arrows, Trenches, Bulwarks, Fire and Sword,
That thou shalt break, and quell, I pass my word.

Meane while Ambition, Avarice to boot,
In INDIA setting up with open face
Against GOD, and his justice, are a Root
Of discontent to thee, but not disgrace.
"To trample on weak Right with a prowd Foot,
"Presuming on the pow'r, and upper place,
"No Conquest is: He conquers with Renown
"Who dares be just ev'n though it lose a CROWN.

Yet I deny not, but SAMPAYO shall
Be of rare Valour for all this; on Seas
Shewing himself a thund'ring GENERALL,
Which he shall people with Foes Carcasses.
In BACANORE begins he to appall
The MALABAR, that he may after tease
(Prepar'd with that rough Prologue to submit)
Bold CUTI•LE, and his num'rous Fleet

Ev'n that of DIO (so resolv'd and great
That his at CHOUL will give it self for lost)
By HECTOR OF SILVEYRA shall he beate,
And to peccavi turn their furious boast.
The LUSITANIAN HECTOR: who shall get,
Upon the always-arm'd Cambayck Coast,
A name, that He doth GUZARATS annoy,
No less then GREEKS the HECTOR did of TROY.

CUNIA is fierce SAMPOYO'S successour.
The Ship of State he long doth wisely steer.
Of CHALE he erects the lofty Tower,
Whilst famous DIO quakes to be so neer.
The strong BAZAIN shall render to his pow'r,
But with much blood; MELIQUE groaning here
To see a way o're his prowd Rampire made
By the sole dint of Lusitanian Blade.

After Him comes NORONIA, whose good Star
From DIO the fierce RUMES packing sends:
DIO, which the through-practis'd Breast in War
Of ANTHONY SILVEYRA well defends.
Death's Writs upon NORONIA served are:
When a brave Branch of Thine (O GAMA!) bends
His shoulders to the Government; the fright
Of whose great name shall turn the red Sea white.

Out of thy STEPHEN'S hand shall take the rain
One in BRASILE before high fame that wan;
The great French Pyrat overcome and slain,
Who shall be terrour of that Ocean.
Made after Gen'ral of the INDIAN MAI•
The no less prowd, then fortifide DAMAN,
He enters first: where, having made a breach,
'Tis clos'd with Flames, and Shafts, his way t'impeach.

To Him CAMBAYA'S King, prowd above measure,
Of wealthy DIO gives the famous Fort;
Against the GREAT MAGUL, mighty in treasure,
To ayd him his Domini•ns to support.
Then doth he in his yet unquencht displeasure,
The Pagan King of CALICUT take short
That would have past him: with no little loss
Sending him home again by weeping cross.

Destroy shall He the City REPELIM
Making her King with many quit the place,
And after by the Cape of COMORIM
Perform a deed that shall the Nine disgrace.
The Navy Royal of the Samorim,
That thinks it may to all the world give chace,
With fire and sword he overcomes, and breaks.
In B•ADALA shall his Blade play Rex.

INDIA, thus weeded with his Sword of Foes,
He comes to rule with Scepter afterward;
Finds dangers none, finds none so bold t'oppose.
All hush, All tremble like a Lark that's dar'd.
Onely BATICALA a longing shows
To fare as well as BEADALA far'd.
She's fill'd with blood and Trunks in dead heaps cast:
With fire and Ball disfigur'd and defac't.

This shall be MARTIN, or a little MARS,
From whom his Deeds he'l take, as well as name:
As stout for execution in all wars,
As wise to play the fairest of his Game.
CA•TRO succeeds; advancing to the stars
Of PORTUGAL the Standart and the Fame.
Fit successour to MARTIN: DIO'S Fort
The one shall raise, the other shall support.

Fierce PERSIANS, Abassins, RUMES (who boast
Their name from ROME) complexions various,
And various M•des (for to this Leaguer post
A thousand Nations keen and furious)
Heav'n to the world accuse with labour lost,
That so few men should nestle in their House.
In blood of PORTUGALLS, by their n• faith
They swear, their turn'd up whiskers they wil bathe.

Drakes, horrid Basilisks, Engines of Wood
As bad as either, secret Mines and Plots,
Hath MASCARENIAS with his Men withstood,
Meeting their certain Deaths with willing Throats:
When, in the utmost stress of Flesh and Blood,
CASTRO (their Freer) his two Sons devotes,
That everlasting Honour they may gain,
And Sacrifices to their GOD be slain.

FERNAND (this lofty Cedar's highest Bough,
Where with a hideous crack a close Mine sprung
Th'unrooted Wall into the Ayre will blow)
Shall in a sheet of Fire to Heav'n be flung.
ALVAR, when Winter swathes the Earth in Snow,
And hath on humid Gates cold Padlocks hung;
These burst, through dangers to seek dangers goes,
And fights the Elements to fight the Foes.

Loe, now the Father follows with full sail,
And the Remainder of the Lusian force!
He with strong Hand and Head of more avail,
Gives a brave lucky Battail to the MORES.
Where no way is, he makes one with his Flail;
And where there is, the Rampires are his dores.
Such that day's Feates, so terrible the Blowes,
They will not stand in Verse, nor lye in Prose.

Then (loe!) he to the great CAMBAYAN KING
Presents himself a Victor in the Field:
Pale Fear into the Face of him doth fling,
And of his furious Horse, which ground shall yield.
Nor HYDALCAN shall from the Conquering
Army, with all his might, his Country sheild.
DABUL sack'd on the Coast; In•land PONDA
Scapes not it self, by being out of the way.

These, and the like, into all Quarters hurl'd,
(All worthy wonder, and Fame's strongest blast)
Making themselves brave MAR•S in the World,
The joyes of VENUS'S Isle shall fitly tast;
Trayling triumphant Standarts through the curl'd
Amphitheater of the Ocean vast:
And they shall find those Nymphs, these furnisht Bords,
Which are the Harvest of Victorious Swords.

Heer the NYMPH ended: And the others All
Give their applause with an Harmonious noyse;
Congratulating this grand Nuptiall:
Where, look how many Hearts, so many joys.
THOUGH FORTUNE STANDS UPON A TOTT'RING BAL•
(They all reiterate as with one Voyce)
RENOWNED PEOPLE YOU SHALL NEVER LACK,
WEALTH, VALOR, FAME, till the WORLDS HENGES CRACK:

When now Corporeall Necessity
Suffic'd with noble Nutriment they had;
And seen the Acts the Nymph did prophecy
In Musicall Poetick Raptures clad:
THETYS, adorn'd with grace and gravity,
(That she of glory may new quilats add
To the high bliss of that triumphant day)
Unto the Happy GAMA thus did say.

The SUPREME WISDOME hath vouchsaf'd thee, Knight,
The grace to see with thy corporeall Eyes
What the vain Science, what the erring Light,
Of miserable Man cannot comprize.
Thou, with the rest, up this dark Cops forth-right
Follow me, strong and constant, stout and wise.
This having said, shee hands him through a Wood,
Steep, thick with Thorns, and hard to flesh and blood.

They marcht not long, when of the arduous Hill
They gain the top; where an inameld Flat
(In a Field Em'rauld) powdred Rubies fill,
Making them think old PARADICE was That
Heer, in the Ayre a GLOBE, (by wondrous skill
So fram'd with Thorough Lights) they contemplat,
That th'unresisted Eye the Center sees,
As plainly as the superficies.

The matter of it did their Eye-sight pose:
That it consisted yet discern'd they well
Of Orbs, which the Divine Hand did compose,
And in the middle did the Center dwell.
Rouling, it sometimes fell, and sometimes rose,
And yet it never r•se, it never fell:
Throughout one Face, throughout its period,
Begins throughout. In fine, the Works of GOD.

Infinite, perfect, uniform, self-poiz'd;
Brief, like the […] that made the same.
Seeing this admirable Globe, surpriz'd
With wonder and desire was our D• GAM•.
To whom the GODD• thus; Epitomiz'd
I shew thee heer the UNIVERSALL FRAM•,
That thou maist read, in Print and Volume small,
Whether Thou goest, and shalt goe, and Thine shall,

The WORLD'S great Fabrick thou dost •eer descry
Heav'nly and Elementall: for just so
'Twas made, by that All-wisd•me, that All-eye,
Which no beginning knew, no end shall know:
Which interweaved in each part doth lye,
And round the fair Work like a Border goe:
'Tis GOD: But what GOD is, poses Man's wit,
Nor can short Line fathome the IN•INIT.

This, which is first, and doth (as in a Nest
Of Boxes) all the other Orbs comprize,
Darting such radiant Beames, as Mortall Brest
Cannot conceive, much less behold Mans Eyes;
Is call'd the EMPYREAN, where the blest
Enjoy that g•d, the World wants similies
To cast a shadow of, and which g•d None
Can understand, except it self alone.

There is no true, no glorious GOD, but There:
For SATURN, JANUS, JUNO, JOVE, and I,
Vain Creatures only, and blind Figments were
Betwixt Mans pride, and Mans Id•latry,
To stick as Stars in the Poetick Sphere:
From whence again w' are borrow'd, by and by,
For to distinguish the true Stars in Heav'n,
To which ASTRONOMERS our Names have giv'n.

As likewise because HOLY PROVIDENCE
(Which shadow'd is by JUPITER in Verse)
Doth by a thousand Ministers dispence
His Gifts to the supported UNIVERSE,
And sacred Prophets oft impart their sence
In mystick Parables which they reherse;
And tell us Men are favoured by the g•d,
By the ill spirits hurt, unless withstood:

Now comes THE POET, who would teaching please,
And pleasing teach, and mix variety;
And He the self-same Names bestows on These
The HEATHENS did upon their Genii
And feigned Gods; for I can shew with Ease,
That ANGELLS ev'n in holy Poetry
Are called Gods; nor Sacred Writ denyes
That even the Ill this glorious Name belyes.

In fine ALMIGHTY GOD (who rules the round
World, by his Second Causes) He commands.
But (to return to open the profound
And heav'nly Operations of his Hands)
Within this Spheare, where the pure Soules abound
In endless Bliss (which sphere unmoved stands)
Another runs so swiftly, and so still,
'Tis not perceiv'd: Tis the FIRST MOVABIL.

The motion rapt of this FIRST MOBIL draws
All the rest after, which with it are linkt.
The hurried Sun from his own bent and laws
Makes Night and day by this RAPT ORB'S instinct.
The NINTH moves next, so curb'd, with so great pawse,
That whilst SOL'S lamp (which never is extinct)
Ends it's true course about the ZODIAKE
Two hundred times, This but one step doth make.

Behold the EIGHTH goes under That, imbost
With Sleek and radiant Bodies! These •kewise
Besides the motion rapt with which they post.
Move on their proper Axe with twinckling Eyes.
See with how rich a Belt this Orb is crost!
How broad, how glitt'ring with Embroyderies!
Where the twelve Starry Animals do make
The Sun's twelve Houses in the ZODIAKE.

Behold in other Parts what knots of Gold
This FIRMAMENT displays! the DRAGON there
Behold! CHARLES-WAYN, and CYNOSURA cold!
ANDROM•DA, and her old Sire se•ere!
CASSIOPEA'S sparckling eyes behold!
And turbulent ORION, Sea mens feare!
Behold the SWAN, which dying is not mute,
The HARE, the DO•, the SHIP, and the sweet, LUTE.

Under this great and spangled Canopy,
Loe, in the SEV'NTH dull SATURN takes his place!
Propitious JOVE inthron'd in the SIXT sky:
Next (Foe to Man) MARS rides with fiery Face:
Plac't in the MIDDLE is the WORLD'S GREAT EYE:
The QUEEN OF BEAUTY the THIRD ORB doth grace:
Eloquent HERMES rules the SECOND SPHEAR:
Three-shapt DIANA marches in the Rear.

In all these PLANETS motions different
Thou maist perceive, some speedy, and some slow:
Now climbing nearer to the FIRMAMENT,
Now stooping closer to the Earth below,
As seemed best to the OMNIPOTENT,
Who made the Fire and Ayre, the Wind and Snow:
Those (clos'd within the Heav'ns) each other enter,
And both the Waves, and Earth: the common Center.

Upon this Center is the seat of MAN:
Who, not content in his presumptuous pride
T'expose to all Earth's Mischiefs his life's span,
Trusts it to the unconstant Ocean wide.
Behold the various Parts that Ocean
With interfused dangers doth divide!
Where various Nations dwell, various Kings raign,
Who various Worships, various Laws maintain.

See CHRISTIAN EUROPE, higher by the head
In Arms and civill Arts then all the rest!
See untill'd AFFRICK, covetous, ill-bred,
Wanting ev'n things whereof shee is possest,
With her great CAPE (by you discovered)
Which NATURE towards the South-Pole addre•0•
See all this Neck with People infinite
Almost, who neither doe nor know what's right!

See the great Empire of MONOMOTAPE,
With naked savage People black and grim;
In which the good GONSALVO shall not scape
A cruell death for CHRIST, who dy'd for Him!
In this blinde HEMISPHERE (short of the CAPE)
The Mettle grows for which pale Mortals swim
Through Seas of Sweat, and Blood. See that great Lake
From whence, with QUAMA, NYLE this way doth make!

Behold the NEGROES Houses, without doores,
Whom both the Poverty of their Straw-nests,
The Laws, and justice of their King secures,
And the black Candor of their Neighbours Brests.
Loe, a vast Army of these bruitish MOORES,
Like a dark Band of Stares (devouring Guests)
Against SOFALA'S batter'd Fort will bend
Their strength, which NAYA bravely shall defend.

See there the very Spring, and Head of NYLE,
Which fled (though dearly sought) the ANTIENTS eyes!
See how it laves (spawning the CROCODYLE)
The ABBASIN, who upon CHRIST relyes!
See where (a better Fence then Walls) a File
Of Hills they man against their Enemies!
See MEROE, an Isle of antient Fame:
Which now NOVA the Natives of it name!

In this In-land a Son of Thine great fame
Shall win against the proud CIRCASSIAN;
And DON CRISTOVAL shall be that Son's name:
But against Fate can stand no mortal man.
See, see, that way thy shatter'd Navy came
MELINDE'S dear and hospitable stran!
Mark well the RAPTO (Natives call't OBE)
Which at QUILMANC• rouls into the Sea.

See the Cape call'd of old AROMATA,
But GUARDAFU which now the Dwellers call;
Where the RED-SEA (so famous) doth Embay,
Dy'd with her Bottome's shade! This is the Wall
Or running Boundarie, which ASIA
Divides from AFFRICK: And the principal
Cities, that on the Affrick-side are seen,
Are ARCHICHO, MACUA, and (chief) SUANQUEN.

See farthest SUEZ, HEROPOLYS of old,
City of Heroes (so do some conceave)
Others, that this was the ARSION• hold:
But EGYPT'S Navies it doth now receave!
The very place great MOSES past, behold,
When with his R•d he did the Waters cleave!
ASIA begins. Her self she doth present
In limits vast, in Kingdoms opulen•.

Mount SINAI see, and tremble ev'ry •im,
From whence when MOSES came his face did s•ine!
See TORO, and GIDDA, in wealth that swim,
Yet want Spring-water pure and crystalline!
See the Streight's other jaw, having for Brim
The Realm of dry ADEN; which doth confine
With Mountains of ARZIRA, which (they tell)
Are all one Rock, whereon Raine never fell.

Behold the THREE ARA•IAS, so wide-spred,
All Tawny-Moors, All Thieves therein that dwell:
Whence come the Horses for the Warriour bred,
Of noble Race, Fleet, lasting, terrible.
Behold the Coast by which thine Eyes are led
T'another Gulph (the Persian) there to swell
Into a CAPE; which by FARTAQUE'S name
(Ow'd to the there known City) shuts the same

See famous DOFAR, which did ever boast
The sweetest smoke to make the Altar steam
Mark here (where ROSOLGAT your eye hath lost
And barren shores) begins ARMUZA'S Ream!
It lyes extended all on the Sea-Coast,
And shall fit FAME with an immortal Theam,
When TURKS'S fierce Fleet, and blushing Moons dismayd,
Shall see unsheathed CASTELBRANCO'S Blade.

Behold the CAPE OF ASA•OR, they call
At present MOSANDAN who sail that way;
At bottom of the Gulph, which hath for wall
Rich PERSIA here, There BLEST ARABIA!
Mark well BAREM, an Island bord'red all
With Pearls, whose colour mocks the springing day.
In the salt waves commanded by her eye
The famous TIGRIS and EUPRATES dye

The noble Empire of great PERSIA see,
Always on horse-back, always in the War:
Who think it base to have Artillerie,
Or Hands not hardned with the Cymetar!
But mark the Isle G•RUN, what a proof she
Is of the pow'r of TIME to make, and •ar!
Of ORMUZE City (which was once elsewhere)
She now the glory and the name doth beare.

Heer DON PHELIPH OF MENESES shall
Approve himself a glorious Man at Arms,
When with a very few of PORTUGALL
He shall at LA•A quell whole Persian swarms.
Likewise shall SOUSA on their Quarters fall,
Give them bold charges, give them sharp Allarms,
And the Reversio• of that Sword, whose dint
Struck fire before, on raz'd AMPAZA'S flin•.

But let us leave the Streight, and Cape well known
Of JASQUES (call'd CARPELLA anciently)
Wi•h all that Land (which Nature doth not own
By any Act of Liberality)
Whilom CARMANIA, Habitation
Of the old ITIOPHAGUES. Now wipe thine Ey,
And see fam'd INDUS, born in yonder Mountain,
Near which flows GANGES from a higher Fountain:

See heer, where Nature prodigall hath bin,
The Kingdom of ULCINDE; and the long
Bay of JAQUETE, where the Waves flow in
With speed incredible, as fast out-throng!
CAMBATA see, where this Gulph doth begin,
In wealth and people infinite and strong!
A thousand Cities here un-nam'd I leave,
Which shall the yoake of PORTUGALL receave.

See where the celebrated Indian shore
Runs Southward to the CAPE of COMOR•E
(Call'd in old time COREE) which lyes right ore
Against CEYLAN (TRAPROBANE anciently)
Along this Sea the LUSIAN (who, with more
Forces shall be dispatched after Thee)
Lands, Victories, and Cities shall obtain,
In which they many Ages shall remain.

Behold in various Countreys (plac'd betwixt
These Rivers) Nations almost infinite:
Some Pagans, some Mahumetans (well mixt)
To whom the Devil did their Laws indite!
Behold NARSING•'S Realm, to which is fixt
A holy Relique of a blessed Wight,
St THOMAS'S body, who was not deny'de
To thrust his Fingers into J•SUS'S side!

Heer stood the City call'd MELIOPOR•,
Beautifull, wealthy, and magnificent;
The Idols ancient she did adore
As still doe those of her prophane descent:
Farr was she seated then from the Sea-shore,
Whenas the Gospel through the whole world sent,
THOMAS came preaching there; and did the same
In all the Provinces through which he came.

Arrived preaching, and administring
Life to the dead, and health unto the sick;
The Sea chanc'd hither on a day to bring
A floating Tree, unmeasurably thick.
For a vast Pyle in hand desires the King
To frame a Beame of this prodigious stick;
And makes accompt on shore to drag it then,
By force of Engines, Elephants, and Men.

So heavy 'tis, All these have not the might
To stir the Log that on the Water lyes.
But the true CHRIST'S true Nuntio hath a slight
To doe it without trouble, without noyse.
He draws it to him like some Matter light
With a small Cord, which to the Trunk he tyes:
Wherewith a sumptuous House for GOD to raise,
To stand a pattern for succeeding days.

Full well he knew, with lively faith if Hee
Should say unto a Mountain deaf, Remove;
Ev'n that deaf Mountain would removed bee:
As CHRIST once said, and THOMAS now doth prove.
This doe the people stand aghast to see,
The BRAMENS know it must be from Above:
Seeing his Miracle, seeing his life,
These fear the fall of their prerogatife.

They are the HEATHENS PRIESTS, in whom alone
Envie the bowels of her Gall hath shed.
A thousand plots and Trains they think upon,
How THOMAS may be silenc'd, or be dead.
A horrid Act performs, as ere was known,
The Chief of These That wear the Triple-thred:
Which proves, "No Foe so bl•dy, so severe,
"As Hypocritick Ver•e to sincere.

He murthers his own Son, and charges it
Forthwith on THOMAS who was innocent:
False witness brings (There nothing hard to git)
Through which, the Man's condemn'd incontinent.
The Saint (having no way to be acquit,
But by Appeal to the OMNIPOTENT)
Resolves, in presence of the King and Court,
To work a Miracle of the great sort.

He bids the Corps be laid in view of All,
That it may rise and be examin'd There
Touching the question'd Fact, and whom that shall
Accuse, let him be held the murtherer.
In name of JESUS crucifi'd, i' th' Hall
They see the Youth stand up, record to bear:
Who (thanking THOMAS for his life) descride
His Father to have been the Homicide.

This struck such fear, that streight his Christendome
The King receives, and many with the King.
Some kiss the Hem of THOMAS garment, Some
The praises of the God of THOMAS sing.
The BRAMENS swell with such an odium,
Through Envy's now imposthumating sting,
That (thereunto perswading the blind Rout)
They vow to put so bright a Taper out.

One day, as preaching to the same he was,
They feign'd a quarrell'mongst the multitude
(For CHRIST himself hath sign'd him now his Pass
To climbe to Heav'n by way of Martyr-hood)
A showre of Stones, which GOD'S commission has,
Flyes in his Face: who all their Tempest stood.
One (whose Bloud-thirstiness could not abide
Delay) with cruell Spear did broach his side.

GANGES and INDUS did Thee, THOMAS, weep;
Wept thee the Countreys all which thou hadst trod:
But, holy Shepherd, wept thee most thy sheep,
Whom thou didst deck with Faith, (the Cloth of GOD).
Only the ANGELS holy-day did keep
For Thee, whom God did comfort with his Rod:
Laughing, and Singing, These thy Soule transport
With golden sailes to her celestiall Port.

You then, who claim the honor (like this Sain• )
To be the great Ambassadours of GOD;
(Pray give me leave) why are ye lame, and faint,
When with your Errand ye should go abroad •
If, y'are the Salt oth'Earth, and at home taint
(No Prophet being esteem'd in his Aboad)
Who now shall salt (I bayte you Paganism)
So much of Heresie, so much of Scism.

But tread we light a bog so dangerous,
Returning to the Coast from whence we stray'd.
With this great City and illustrious,
Begins the GULPH GANGETICK to be made;
NARSINGA, next, lies rich and populous;
Next ORYXA her cloth of gold doth lade;
Fam'd GANGES at the bottom of the Bay
To the Salt Realm doth Silver Tribute pay:

GANGES, in which his Borderers dye lav'd;
Holding it as a certain principle
That (be they ne're such Sinners) they are sav'd,
Bath'd in those streams that flow from Sacred Well.
The City CATHIGAN would not be wav d,
The fairest of BENGALA: who can tell
The plenty of this Province? but it's post
(Thou seest) is Eastern, turning the South-Coast.

The Realm of ARRACAN, That of PEGU
Behold, with Monsters first inhabited!
Monsters, which from a strange commixtion grew:
Such ill effects oft Solitude hath bred.
Here (though a barb'rous misbegotten Crew)
Into her way was erring Nature led
By an invention rare, which a Queen fram'd,
To cure the Sin, that is not to be nam'd.

Behold the City of TAVAY, with which
The spatious Empire of SIAN begins!
TENASSERI! QUEDA: with pepper rich
For which the praise she from all other wins!
MALACCA see before, where ye shall pitch
Your great Emporium, and your Magazins:
The Rendezvouz of all that Ocean round
For Merchandizes rich that there abound.

From this ('tis said) the Waves impetuous course;
Breaking a passage through, from Main to main,
SAMATRA'S noble Isle of old did force,
Which then a Neck of Land therewith did chain:
That this was CH•RSONESE till that divorce,
And from the wealthy mines, that there remain,
The Epithite of GOLDEN had annext:
Some think, it was the OPHYR in the Text.

But, at that Point doth CINGAPUX appeare:
Where the pincht Streight leaves Ships no room to play.
Heer the Coast, winding to the Northern Beare,
Faces the fair AURORA all the way.
See PAN, PATANE (ancient Realms that were)
And long SYAN, which These, and more, obay!
The copious River of MENAM behold,
And the great Lake CHIAMAY from whence 'tis roll'd!

In this vast Tract see an Infinitie
Of Names and Nations to your WORLD unknown!
LAOS, in Land and men That potent bee!
AVAS, BRAINAS, in those long Hills o'regrown!
In yon far MOUNTAINS other Nations see
(GUEOS they're call'd) and savage ev'ry one!
They eat Mans flesh, and paint their own in knots
With fire, as ye doe Rooms with watring-pots.

The River MECON (which they Captain style
Of Waters) see; CAMBOYA on his brink!
He overflows the Land for many a mile:
So many other Rivers doth he drink.
Set times he hath of flowing (like cool NYLE):
The near Inhabitants brutishly think,
That pain and glory, after this Life's end
Ev'n the brute Creatures of each kind attend.

Upon his soft and charitable Brim
The wet and ship-wrackt SONG receive shall Hee
Which in a lamentable plight shall swim
From sholes and Quicksands of tempestuous Sea,
(The dire effect of Exile) when on Him
Is executed the unjust Decree:
Whose repercussive LYRE shall have the Fate
To be renowned more then Fortunate.

Heer, (mark it!) runs the Coast that's call'd CHAMPA,
Whose Groves smell hot of Calambuc• wood:
Heer CAUCHINCHINA, and heer AYNAM'S Bay;
Both One and t'Other little understood.
Heer the great Empire (famous for large sway,
And its vast Wealth's unfathomable Flood)
Of CHINA runs: calling all this her Owne
From burning Cancer to the frozen Zone.

See the stupendious Monster of a WALL
'Twixt this and the TARTARIAN EMPIRE set:
A witness to the World perpetuall
Of Regall Pow'r immeasurably great!
The KING these have, was born no Prince; nor shall
Reign after him the Children he shall get:
But one chose by the People of Renown
For qualities proportion'd to a CROWN.

Much of the WORLD being now conceal'd from You
A time will come when it shall all be show'd.
But by all means the Islands thou must view,
Where Nature seems most cost to have bestow'd.
This, shadow'd half, which CHINA answers to,
(By which, at distance flanking it, 'tis Wood)
JAPAN is, yeelding the best Silver-mine:
Which th'Evangellick Furnace shall refine.

Through all these Orientall Seas behold,
Sown infinite of Isles that have no name!
TIDORE see! TERNATE, whence are roll'd
(Holding black Night a Torch) thick Plumes of Fame!
See Trees of burning Cloves, that shall be sold
For LUSIANS blood, and water'd with the same!
Heer are those golden Birds, which to the ground
Never descend, and only dead are found.

See BANDA'S Isles, inameld curiously
With various Colours which the red fruit paints;
With various Birds, from Tree to Tree that fly,
To take their tribute of the NUTMEG-PLANTS!
Behold BORNEO likewise, in which dry
Coagulated Liquor never wants
From a fat Tree which CAM•ORA they name,
For which this Isle is in the Book of FAME!

There (look you!) is TIMON, that •ends the Wood
Call'd Saunders, Physicall and Odorous.
See SUNDA, painted at half face, so broad
That the South-side lies now quite hid from Us!
The Natives here (and Those who from abroad
Travail the Land) of a miraculous
River report; which, where it slides alone,
The wood that falls therein, converts to Stone.

In that (which TIME, I told you, made an Isle;
Which likewise trembling flames with smoke expels)
Two wonders see, a Fountain that runs Oyle;
And Balsamum that from Another wels,
Sweeter then that, ADONIS Mother vile
Weeps in the BLEST ARABIA where she dwels.
And see, how having these (which none else have)
Shee with soft silk too, and fine Gold is brave!

See in CEYLAN a mountain whose proud Head
Above the Cloudy Region doth appear!
The Natives count it holy for the tr•ad
Of a Man's foot which on a Stone is there.
In the MALDIVA ISLES a Plant is bred
(Of vertue under-water) which doth bear
The COCO-APPLE, against working Bane,
An Antidote approved Soveraign.

Against the RED•SEA'S mouth SOCOTO•A
Fam'd for the bitter Aloes behold!
See other Isles of sandie AFFRICA,
Whose Coast too ye shall conquer! Hither roll'd
That Lump is, which Divine PANCHAYA
Out-smels: of unknown birth, more rare then Gold.
Behold St LAWRENCE his renowned Isle,
Which otherwise they MADAGASCAR stile!

Thus hast thou all the Regions of the EAST,
Which by Thee giv'n unto the WORLD is now:
Opening a way with an undaunted Brest
Through that vast Sea which none before did plough.
But it is likewise reason, in the WEST
That of a LUSIAN too one Action Thou
Shouldst understand; who (angry with his King)
Atchieves a great and memorable Thing.

See there another WORLD, […] from •he […]
Extends it self to the opposed •le,
And shall be one […] •oud •o have […] forth
The Ore, that imita•s the b•ms of SO•!
Your Friend CA•EEL (as […] of her worth)
Shall throw the Coll• on this ragged […]:
Where various […] dwell, various Kings raign,
Who various •rships, various Law• maintain.

But PORTUGALL shall have her sh•re there too,
Mark't with red wood, and •ANTACRUZ call'd th•n;
Descry'd by the first Fleet, she after you
Shall send, by Tempest thrown upon t•t […].
Alongst this Coast (to find out, and to view
The end thereof) shall wander MAG•LLAN;
Who in reality of Fact shall be
A PORTINGALL, but not in loyalti•.

When he shall thus have past above half way
Towards the POLE ANTARTICK from the LINE;
Men of Gigantick bulk he sell survay,
Inhabiting the parts which the•e adjoin;
And (farther on) that STREIGHT, which shall for ay
Be honor'd with his name. This leads in fine
T• a new Sea, and by a new Land btings,
Which the South-wind wi• hide with his cold wings.

Thus farr, O […] ye are allow'd
Your Nation's future Actions to survay,
Which through the Sea by you left ope, her prowd
And never wearied Ensigns shall display.
Now then, since ye have found not to be bow'd
Under Herculean labours, is the way
To please your Angell-Spouses bright and fair,
That knit immortall Garlands for your Hair.

Ye may embarque (for Wind and Weather fit,
And the Sea courts you) for your Countrey dear.
Thus said shee to them; and they forthwith quit
The Isle of Love, the Harbour of good chear.
Noble Provisions they take out of It;
Take their desir'd desirous […] to bear
Them company: Whom nothing shall divorce,
Whilst in the Heav'ns the Sun shall run his course.

Thus went They ploughing the appeased MAIN
With always prosp'rous Gale, and always fair;
Till sight long wisht, much long'd for, they obtain
Of that dear Earth where first they suck't the Air.
Sweet TAGUS'S Mouth they enter once again:
Where to their King, and Master (whom they fear
And love) for having sent them, the Renown
They give; and add new titles to his CROWN.

No more, my MUSE, no more; my Harp's ill strung,
Heavy, and out of tune, and my Voyce hoarse:
And, not with singing, but to see I've sung
To a deaf people and without remorse.
Favor (that wont t'inspire the POET'S tongue)
Our Countrey yeilds it not, she minds the Purse
Too much, exaling from her gilded Mud
Nothing but gross and melancholy blood.

Nor know I by what fate, or duller Chance,
Men have not now that life, and gen'rall gust,
Which made them with a cheerfull countenance
Themselves into perpetuall Action thrust.
You then, O KING! whom Heav'n reserv'd t'advance
At this time to the Throne to scoure our Rust;
Behold (mark else what other Nations doe)
The Best of Subjects doe belong to You!

Behold how cheerfully, a thousand ways,
Like fearlesse Lions and wilde Bulls they run;
Expos'd to watch whole Nights, to fast whole days,
To fire and sword, the Arrow and the Gun:
To torrid Regions, and to frozen Bays,
To MOORS, and People that adore the Sun;
To unknown perils a new World to find;
To Whales, to shipwracks, to tempestuous Wind!

To doe and suffer All for You prepar'd;
And to obey in the remotest Land
(Though ne'r so bitter, and though ne'r so hard,
Without Reply, or stop) what You command.
With You they'll charge the Devill and his Guard
Ev'n to the Gates of Hell, did You but stand
A meer Spectator by: and never feare
But they will make you too Victorious there.

Then warm and glad them with your present Rayes,
Sweetly majestick, and severely kind:
Their shoulders of their heavie Taxes ease:
Thus, thus, the path to Honour you shall find.
Men of Experience to your Councell raise,
If with Experience they have goodness joyn'd:
For such have a more certain Rule to tell
The How, the When, the Where to do things well.

In their respective PLACES count'nance All;
But choose Men rightly qualifi'd thereto.
Let REV'REND CHURCHMEN to their Prayers fall,
That GOD would bless the Government in you;
And (for the NATION'S sins in generall)
To Disciplines and Fastings: for the true
CHURCHMEN (exempted from Ambition's heat)
Seeks neither to be Rich, nor to be Great.

Your NOBLES and your GENTRY highly prize,
For they their boyling blood undaunted spend,
Thereby not only Christianitie's,
But ev'n your Empire's limits to extend:
And He who to a Clyme so distant flyes
Your Royall Service duely to attend,
O'recomes two Enemies; the Living first,
Excessive Toile the second and the worst.

Great Sir, let never the astonisht GALL,
The ENGLISH, GERMAN, and ITALIAN,
Have cause to say, the fainting PORTUGALL
Could not advance the GREAT WORK he began.
Let your ADVISERS be experienc'd All,
Such as have seen the World, and studied man.
For, though in SCIENCE much contained bee,
In speciall Cases PRACTICE more doth see.

PHORMIAN (an elegant Philosophar)
You may have read how HANNIBALL did foole;
When, in his presence, of the ART OF WAR
He made a long Discourse by Square and Rule.
No, no, the brave PROFESSION MILITAR
Is not learnt, SIR, by Fancy in the Schoole,
Dreaming, contemplating, to spelling held;
But seeing, sweating, fighting in the FEILD.

But I, who speak in rude and humble Ryme,
Not known nor dreamt of by my […] at all;
Know yet from mouths of little ones sometime
The praise of GREAT ONES doth compleatly fal.
I want not honest studies from my Prime;
Nor long Experience since to mix withal;
I want not Wit (such as in this you see)
Three things, which rarely in Conjunction be.

An Arm (to serve you) trayn'd in War have I,
A •oul (to sing you) to the Muses bent:
Onely I want acceptance in your Bye,
Who owe to VERTUE fair encouragement.
If HEAV'N afford me, This; and you, some high
And brave EXPLOYT; worthy a Monument
Of Verse, a• my prophetick Thoughts presage
By what I see now in your tender Age:

Making MOUNT-ATLAS tremble at your sight,
More then at that of dire MEDUSA'S Head;
Or putting in AMPLEUSIAN FIELDS to flight
The MOORS in FEZ and black MOROCCO bred;
I'l gage my MUSE (then in esteem and plight)
You in such manner through the WORLD shall spred,
That ALEXANDER shall in you respire,
Without envying the MEONIAN LYRE.