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<P>A WINTER DREAME.</P>
<Q>Quae me &s;u&s;pen&s;um <HI>In&s;omnia</HI> terrent? <HI>Virg.</HI></Q>
<Q>Saepe futurarum prae&s;agia <HI>Somnia</HI> Rerum.</Q>
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<FIGDESC>emblems of England, Scotland and Wales</FIGDESC>
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<P>Printed <HI>Anno Domini</HI> QuanDo ReX AngLoruM <HI>VectI</HI> vIctItabat CaptIvus, 1649.</P>
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<HEAD>The Printer to the Reader.</HEAD>
<P>BEcau&s;e the Interpretation of this Dream may be obvious to all pacities, I have pre&s;umed, with the Authors leave, to prefix here the names of tho&s;e Countreys he hints at.</P>
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<ITEM>1. The States of Holland.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. High Germany.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. The Kingdom of Naples.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. The Republic of Venice.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. The Kingdoms of Spain.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6. The Kingdom of France.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7. The Kingdoms of England, and the confu&s;ions thereof by way of Apolog.</ITEM>
<ITEM>8. The Scots.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>A Winter Dream.</HEAD>
<P>IT was in the dead of a long Winter night, when no eyes were open but Watchmen, and Centinell's, that I was fallen &s;oundly a&s;leep, the Cinq out-Ports were &s;hut up clo&s;er then u&s;ually, and my &s;ences &s;o treble lock'd, that the Moon, had &s;he de&s;cended from her watry Orb, might have don much more to me then &s;he did to <HI>Endymion</HI> when he lay &s;noaring upon the brow of <HI>Latmus</HI> Hill; nay, (be it &s;poken without prophane|ne&s;&s;e) if a rib had bin taken out of me that night, to have made a new model of a woman, I &s;hold hardly have felt it.</P>
<P>Yet, though the Cou&s;in-german of Death had &s;o &s;trongly &s;eiz'd thus upon the exterior parts of this poore Tabernacle of fle&s;h, my inward were never more actif, and fuller of employ|ments then they were that night.</P>
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<L>Pictus imaginibus, formi&s;&abque; fugacibus ad&s;tat</L>
<L><HI>Morpheus,</HI> &amp; variis fingit nova vultibus ora.</L>
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<P>Me thought my &s;oul made a &s;allie abroad into the world, and fetch'd a va&s;t compas; &s;he &s;eem'd to &s;oar up and &s;lice the air, to cro&s;&s;e &s;eas, clammer up huge Hills, and never re&s;ted till &s;he had arriv'd at the <HI>Antipodes:</HI> Now &s;om of the mo&s;t judicious Geometricians and Chorographers hold, that the whole Ma&s;&s;e of the Earth being round like the re&s;t of her fellow Elements, ther be places, and poizing parts of the Continent, there be
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Penin&s;ulas, Promontories and Ilands upon the other face of the Earth that corre&s;pond and concenter with all tho&s;e Regi|ons and Iles that are upon this &s;uperficies which we tread; Countries that &s;ymbolize with them in qualities, in tempera|ture of air and clime, as well as in nature of &s;oile; The Inhabi|tants al&s;o of tho&s;e places which are &s;o perpendicularly oppo&s;it, do &s;ympathize one with another in di&s;po&s;ition, complexions and humors, though the A&s;tronomers wold have their Ea&s;t to be our We&s;t, and &s;o all things <HI>vice ver&s;a</HI> in point of po&s;ition, which divi&s;ion of the Heaven is only mans in&s;titution.</P>
<P>But to give an account of the &s;trange progres my &s;oule made that night; the fir&s;t Country &s;he lighted on was a very low flat Countrey, and it was &s;uch an odd amphibious Countrey, being &s;o indented up and down with Rivers and armes of the &s;ea, that I made a que&s;tion whither I &s;hold call it Water or Land; yet though the <HI>Sea</HI> be invited and u&s;her'd in into &s;om places, he is churli&s;tly pen'd out in &s;om other: &s;o that though he foam and &s;well, and appeer as high Walls hard by, yet they keep him out, maugre all his roaring and &s;welling.</P>
<P>As I wandred up and down in this Watry Region, I might behold from a &s;treight long Dike whereon I &s;tood, a &s;trange kind of Forre&s;t, for the trees mov'd up and down; they look'd afar off as if they had bin bla&s;ted by thunder; for they had no leafs at all; but making a neerer approach unto them, I found they were a nomberle&s;&s;e company of Ship Ma&s;ts, and before them appeer'd a great Town incorporated up and down with<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">msterdam.</NOTE> Water; As I mu&s;'d with my &s;elf upon the &s;ight of all this, I concluded, that the Inhabitants of that Countrey were notable indu&s;trious peeple, who could give Law &s;o to the angry <HI>Ocean,</HI> and occupie tho&s;e places where the great <HI>Leviathan</HI> &s;hould tum|ble and take his pa&s;time in; As my thought ran thus, I met with a man, whom I conjectur'd to be 'twixt a Marchant and a Mariner, his &s;alutation was &s;o homely; the air al&s;o was &s;o foggie that me thought it &s;tuck like cobbwebs in his Mu&s;tachos; &amp; he
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was &s;o dull in point of motion, as if his veines had bin filld with buttermilk in lieu of blood: I began to mingle words with him, and to expo&s;tulate &s;omthing about that Coun|trey and peeple; and then I found a great deal of downright ci|vilities in him: He told me that <HI>They</HI> were the only men who did miracles of late yeers; Tho&s;e innumerable piles of &s;tones you &s;ee before you in &s;uch comely neat fabriques, is a place (&s;aid he) that from a Fi&s;h <HI>Market</HI> in effect is com to be one of the greate&s;t <HI>Marts</HI> in this part of the world, which hath made her &s;well thrice bigger then &s;he was 50. yeers ago; and as you be|hold this floating Forre&s;t of Ma&s;ts before her mole, &s;o if you could &s;ee the foundations of her hou&s;es, you &s;hold &s;ee another great Forre&s;t, being rear'd from under ground upon fair piles of timber, which if they chance to &s;ink in this Mar&s;hy &s;oyl, we have an art to &s;crue them up again. We have for 70. yeers and above without any intermi&s;&s;ion, except a &s;hort-liv'd truce that once was made, wra&s;tled with one of the greate&s;t Potentates up|on Earth, and born up &s;toutly again&s;t him, gramercy our two next neighbour Kings, and their <HI>Rea&s;on of State,</HI> with the advan|tage of our &s;ituation. We have <HI>fought</HI> our &s;elfs into a free State, and now quite out of that ancient alleageance we ow'd him; and though we pay 20. times more in taxes of all &s;orts then we did to him, yet we are contented: We have turn'd <HI>War</HI> into a <HI>trade,</HI> and that which u&s;eth to <HI>beggar</HI> others, hath <HI>benefited</HI> us: Be|&s;ides, we have bin and are &s;till the rendevous of mo&s;t di&s;conten|ted Subjects, when by the motions of unquiet con&s;ciences in points of Religion, or by the fury of the &s;word, they are forc'd to quit their own Countreys, who bring their arts of Manufa|cture, and moveables, hither; In &s;o much that our Lombards are full of their goods, and our banks &s;uperabound with their <HI>gold</HI> and &s;ilver which they bring hither in <HI>&s;pecie.</HI> To &s;ecure our &s;elfs, and cut the Enemy more work, and to engage our Confiderats in a war with him, we have kindled fires in evry corner; and now that they are together by the Eares, we have bin content
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lately, being long woo'd thereunto, to make a peace with that King to whom we once acknowledged va&s;&s;alage; which King out of a height of &s;pirit, hath &s;pent 500. times more upon us for our reduction, then all our Countrey is worth; But now he hath bin well contented to renounce and abjure all claimes and rights of Soverainty over us; In &s;o much, that being now without an Enemy, we hope in a &s;hort time to be ma&s;ters of all the comerce in this part of the world, and to eat our Neighbours out of trade in their own Comodities: We fear nothing but that exces of Wealth, and a &s;urfet of ea&s;e may make us careles and breed quarrells among our &s;elfs, and that our Generall, be|ing married to a great Kings daughter, may&mdash;</P>
<P>Here he &s;uddenly broke the threed of his di&s;cour&s;e, and got ha&s;tily away, being hal'd by a &s;hip that was &s;ailing hard by.</P>
<P>Hereupon my &s;oul took wing again, and cut her way through that foggy condens'd aire, till &s;he lighted on a fair, &s;pacious, cleare Continent, a generous and rich Soile mantled up and downe with large woods, where, as I rang'd to and fro, I might &s;ee divers faire Hou&s;es, Townes, Palaces and Ca&s;tles, looking like &s;o many <HI>Carka&s;es,</HI> for no humane &s;oule appear'd in them; me thought I felt my heart melting within me in a &s;oft re&s;entment of the ca&s;e of &s;o gallant a Countrey, and as I &s;tood at amaze, and in a kind of a&s;toni&s;hment, a goodly per&s;o|nage makes towards me, whom both for his comportment, and countenance, I perceiv'd to be of a finer mould then that companion I had met withall before: by the trace of his looks I gue&s;&s;ed he might be &s;om Nobleman that had bin ruin'd by &s;om di&s;a&s;ter: having aco&s;ted him with a fitting di&s;tance, he be|gan in a Ma&s;culin &s;trong winded language full of a&s;pirations and tough colli&s;ion of Con&s;onants, to tell me as followeth: Sir, I find you are a &s;tranger in this Countrey, becau&s;e you &s;tand &s;o aga&s;t at the deva&s;tations of &s;uch a fair piece of the Con|tinent, then know Sir, becau&s;e I beleeve you are curious to carry away with you the cau&s;es thereof, that the&s;e ruthfull ob|jects
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which you behold, are the effects of a long lingring war, and of the fury of the Sword, a cruentous civill War that hath rag'd here ubove 30. yeares: one of the grounds of it was the infortunate undertaking of a Prince, who liv'd not far off in an affluence of all earthly felicity; he had the greate&s;t Lady to his wife, the be&s;t pur&s;e of money, the faire&s;t Stable of hor&s;e, and choice&s;t Library of books of any other of his neighbour Princes. But being by de&s;perate and a&s;piring coun|&s;ells put upon a Kingdome, while he was catching at the &s;ha|dow of a Crowne, he lo&s;t the &s;ub&s;tance of all his own ancient po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions: by the many powerfull alliances he had (which was the cau&s;e he was pitched upon) the feud continued long; for among others a <HI>Northern</HI> King took advantage to ru&s;h in, who did a world of mi&s;chiefs, but in a few yeers that King and he found their graves in their own ruins neer upon the &s;ome time; but now, may heaven have due thanks for it, there is a peace concluded, a peace which hath bin 14. long yeers a moulding, and will I hope, be &s;hortly put in execution; yet 'tis with this fatall di&s;advantage, that the &s;aid Northerne people, be&s;ides a ma&s;&s;e of ready money we are to give them, are to have firme footing, and a warm ne&s;t ever in this Countrey hereafter, &s;o that I fear we &s;hall hear from them too often: upon the&s;e words this noble per&s;onage fetch'd a deep &s;igh, but in &s;uch a ge<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">erous manner, that he &s;eem'd to breake and check it before it came halfe forth.</P>
<P>Thence my &s;oule taking her flight o're divers huge and hor|rid cacuminous mountaines, at la&s;t I found my &s;elfe in a great populous Towne, but her buildings were mi&s;erably battered up and downe, &s;he had a world of Palaces, Ca&s;tles, Convents and goodly Churches: as I &s;tepped out of curio&s;ity into one of them, upon the We&s;t &s;ide there was a huge Grate, where a creature all in white beckned at me, making my approach to the Grate, I found her to be a Nun, a lovely creature &s;he was, for I could not di&s;tingui&s;h which was whiter, her <HI>hue</HI> or her
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<HI>habit,</HI> her vaile o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> her face, it made me remember (though in a dream my &s;elf) that &s;aying, <HI>If Dreams and wi&s;hes had been tru, there had not been found a tru maid to make a Nun of ever &s;ince a Cloyster'd life began fir&s;t among women;</HI> I asked her the rea&s;on how &s;o many ugly deva&s;tations &s;hould befall &s;o beautifull a City, &s;he in a dolorous gentle tone, and ruthfull accents, the tears trickling down her cheeks like &s;o many pearles, (&s;uch pearly teares that wold have di&s;&s;olv'd a Diamond) &s;obb'd out unto me this &s;peech: Gentle Sir, 'tis far beyond any expre&s;&s;i|ons of mine, and indeed beyond humane imagination to con|ceive the late calamities which have befallen this faire though infortunate City, a pernicious popular Rebellion broke out here upon a &s;udden into mo&s;t horrid barbari&s;mes, a Fate that hangs over mo&s;t rich popular places that &s;wim in luxe and plen|ty; but touching the grounds thereof, one may &s;ay that rebel|lion entred into this City, as &s;in fir&s;t entred into the world by an <HI>apple:</HI> For our King now in his great extremities having almo&s;t halfe the world banding again&s;t him, and putting but a &s;mall tax upon a basket of fruit to la&s;t only for a time, this <HI>fruit-tax</HI> did put the peeples teeth &s;o on edge, that it made them gna&s;h again&s;t the Government, and ru&s;h into Armes; but they are &s;en&s;ible now of their own follies, for I thinke never any place &s;uffered more in &s;o &s;hort a time: the civill combu&s;tions abroad in other Kingdomes may be &s;aid to be but &s;mall &s;quibs compar'd to tho&s;e horrid flakes of fire which have rag'd here, and much adoe we had to keep our <HI>Ve&s;tall fire</HI> free from the fu|ry of it: in le&s;&s;e then the revolution of a yeer it con&s;um'd a|bove four&s;core thou&s;and &s;oules within the walls of this Ci|ty; But 'tis not the fir&s;t time of forty, that this luxurious foo|li&s;h peeple hath &s;ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ted for their in&s;urrections and in&s;olencies, and that this mad <HI>hor&s;e</HI> hath o'rethrowne his Rider, and drawn a wor&s;e upon his back; who in&s;tead of a &s;addle, put a pack|&s;addle and Panniers upon him: but indeed the voluptuou&s;ne&s;&s;e of this peeple was growne ripe for the judgement of heaven;
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&s;he was then beginning to expo&s;tulat with me about the &s;tate of my Countrey, and I had a mighty mind to &s;atisfie her, for I could have corre&s;ponded with her in the relation of as &s;trange things, but the Lady <HI>Abade&s;&s;e</HI> calling her away, &s;he departed in an in&s;tant, obedience &s;eem'd to be there &s;o preci&s;e and punctuall.</P>
<P>I &s;teer'd my cour&s;e thence through a mo&s;t delicious Countrey to another City that lay in the very bo&s;ome of the Sea, &s;he was at fir&s;t nothing els but a kind of po&s;ie made up of dainty green hillocks, tied together by above 400. bridges, and &s;o coagulated into a curious Citie; though &s;he be e&s;pous'd to <HI>Neptune</HI> very &s;olemnly once evry yeer, yet &s;he &s;till re&s;erves her maydenhead, and beares the title of the <HI>Virgin Citie</HI> in that part of the world; But I found her tug|ging mainly with a huge Giant that wold ravi&s;h her; He hath &s;hrewdly &s;et on her skirts, and a great &s;hame it is, that &s;he is not now a&s;&s;i&s;ted by her Neighbours, &amp; that they &s;hold be together by the eares when they &s;hold do &s;o nece&s;&s;ary a work, con&s;idering how that great Giant is their common E|nemy; and hath lately vow'd <HI>&s;even yeers</HI> warrs again&s;t her; &s;pecially con&s;idering, that if he comes once to <HI>ravi&s;h</HI> her, he will quickly <HI>ruin</HI> them; She to her high honor be it &s;poken) being their only rampart again&s;t the incur&s;ion of the &s;aid Giant, and by con&s;equence their greate&s;t &s;ecurity.</P>
<P>From this <HI>Maiden</HI> Citie, mee thought, I was in a trice carried over a long gulf, and &s;o through a Midland Sea, into another Kingdome, where I felt the Clime hotter by &s;ome Degrees; a rough hew'n &s;oile, for the mo&s;t part, it was, full of craggie barren hills; but where there were valleys and water enough, the countrey was extraor|dinarily fruitfull, whereby nature (it &s;eems) made her a com|pen&s;ation for the &s;terility of the re&s;t. Yet notwith&s;tanding the hard&s;hip of the &s;oyl, I found her full of Abbeys, Mona|&s;teries, Hermitages, Convents, Churches, and other places of devotion; As I rov'd there a while, I encountred a grave
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man in a long black cloak, by the fa&s;hion whereof, and by the brimms of his hat, I perceived him to be a Je&s;uit; I clos'd with him, and que&s;tion'd with him about that Coun|trey: He told me the King of that Countrey was the great|e&s;t Potentat of that part of the world; and, to draw power to a greater unitie, they of our <HI>Order</HI> could be well conten|ted, that he were univer&s;all Head over Temporalls, becau&s;e 'tis mo&s;t probable to be effected by him, as we have already one univer&s;all Head over Spiritualls: This is the Monark of the Mines, I mean of Gold and Silver, who furni&s;hes all the world, but mo&s;t of all his own Enemies with money, which money foments all the warrs in this part of the world: Never did any earthly Monark thrive &s;o much in &s;o &s;hort a tract of time; But of late yeers he hath bin illfavou|redly &s;haken by the revolt and utter defection of two &s;orts of Subjects, who are now in actuall armes again&s;t him on both &s;ides of him at his own doors. There hath bin al&s;o a long deadly feud 'twixt the next tramontan Kingdom and him, though the Queen that rules there be his own &s;i&s;ter, an unnaturall odious thing: But it &s;eems God Almighty hath a quarrell of late yeers with all earthly Potentats; for in &s;o &s;hort a time there never happen'd &s;uch &s;trange &s;hocks and revolutions: The great Emperour of <HI>Ethiopia</HI> hath bin outed, he and all his children by a petty companion: The King of <HI>China</HI> a greater Emperour then he, hath lo&s;t almo&s;t all that huge Monarchy by the incur&s;ion of the <HI>Tartar,</HI> who broke ore the Wall upon him; The grand <HI>Turk</HI> hath bin &s;trangled, with 30. of his Concubines; The Emperur of <HI>Mu&s;|covy</HI> hath bin content to beg his life of his own va&s;&s;alls, &amp; to &s;ee before his face divers of his chief Officers hack'd to pee|ces, &amp; their heads cut off &amp; &s;teep'd in &s;trong water, to make them burn more bright in the market place. Be&s;ides the above mentioned, this King hath al&s;o divers Enemies more, yet he bears up again&s;t them all indifferently well, though with
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infinite expence of trea&s;ure: and the Church, &s;pecially our Society, hath &s;tuck clo&s;e unto him in the&s;e his exigents: whence may be inferr'd, that let men repine as long as they will at the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions of the Church, <HI>they are the be&s;t anchors to a State in a &s;torme,</HI> and in time of need to pre&s;erve it from &s;inking; be&s;ides acts of charity wold be quite lo&s;t among men, did not the wealth of the Church keep life in them: Hereupon drawing a huge paire of Beads from under his cloak, he began to aske me of my Religion; I told him I had a long journey to go, &s;o that I could not &s;tay to wait on him longer; &s;o we parted, and me thought I was very glad, to be rid of him &s;o well.</P>
<P>My &s;oule then made another flight over an A&s;&s;embly of hideous high hills, and lighted under another Clyme, on a rich and copious Countrey re&s;embling the form of a Lo|&s;enge, but me thought, I never &s;aw &s;o many poor peeple in my life; I encountred a Pea&s;an, and asked him what the rea&s;on was, that there &s;hold be &s;o much poverty in a Coun|trey where there was &s;o much plenty: Sir, they keep the Commonalty poor in pure policy here; for being a peeple, as the world ob&s;erves us to be, that are more humerous then others, and that love variety and change, if we were &s;uffered to be pamper'd with wealth, we wold ever and anon ri&s;e up in tumults, and &s;o this Kingdome &s;hold never be quiet, but &s;ubject to inte&s;tine broyles, and &s;o to the hazard of any inva&s;ion: But there was of late a devilli&s;h Cardinall, who&s;e <HI>humour</HI> being as &s;anguin as his <HI>habit,</HI> and working upon the weaknes of his Ma&s;ter, hath made us not onely poore, but &s;tark beggars, and we are like to continue &s;o by an eternall war, wherein he hath plung'd this poore Kingdom, which war mu&s;t be maintained with our very vi|tall &s;pirits: but as dejected and indigent as we are, yet upon the death of that ambitious Cardinall, we had ri&s;en up a|gain&s;t this, who hath the Vogue now, (with whom he hath
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left his principles) had not the fearfull example of our next tran&s;marin We&s;tern neighbours, and the knowledge we have of a wor&s;e kind of &s;lavery, of tho&s;e endles arbitrary taxes, and horrid confu&s;ions they have fool'd them&s;elfs lately into, utterly deterr'd us, though we have twenty times more rea&s;on to ri&s;e then ever they had: yet our great City hath &s;hew'd her teeth, and gna&s;h'd them ilfavouredly of late, but we find &s;he hath drawn water only for her owne Mill, we fare little the better, yet we hope it will conduce to peace, which hath been &s;o long in agitation. I cannot remember how I parted with that Pea&s;an, but in an in&s;tant I was landed upon a large I&s;land, and me thought, 'twas the temperat'&s;t Region I had been in all the while; the <HI>heat</HI> of the Sun there is as harmles as his <HI>light,</HI> the evening <HI>&s;erenes</HI> are as whol&s;ome there, as the morning <HI>dew;</HI> the <HI>Dog-daies</HI> as innocuous as any of the two <HI>Equinoxes.</HI> As I rang'd to and fro that fair Iland, I &s;pied a huge City who&s;e length did far exceed her latitude, but neither for length or latitude did &s;he &s;eem to beare any politicall proportion with that Iland: &s;he look'd, me thought, like the Je&s;uits hat whom I had met withall before, who&s;e brimms were bigger then the crowne, or like a petticoat, who&s;e fringe was longer then the body. As I did ca&s;t my eyes upwards, me thought I di&s;cern'd a &s;trange In&s;cription in the aire which hung ju&s;t over the mid&s;t of that Citie written in &s;uch huge vi&s;ible characters, that any one might have read it, which was this: <HI>Woe be to the bloody City.</HI></P>
<P>Hereupon a reverend Bi&s;hop pre&s;ented him&s;elfe to my view, his gray haires, and grave a&s;pect &s;truck in mee an extraordinary reverence of him: &s;o performing tho&s;e com|plements which were fitting, I asked him of the condition of the pla<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">e, he in a &s;ubmi&s;&s;e &s;ad tone, with clouds of me|lancholy waving up and downe his lookes, told me; Sir, this Iland was reputed few years &s;ince to have been in the
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complete&s;t condition of happine&s;&s;e of any part on earth, in&s;omuch that &s;he was repin'd at for her pro&s;perity and peace by all her neighbours, who were plung'd in warre round about her, but now &s;he is fallen into as deep a gulf of mi&s;ery, and &s;ervitude, as &s;he was in a height of felicity and freedom before: Touching the grounds of this change, I cannot impute it to any other then to a &s;urfet of happine&s;&s;e; now <HI>there is no &s;urfet &s;o dangerous as that of happines:</HI> There are &s;uch horrid divi&s;ions here, that if they were a foot in hell, they were able to de&s;troy the Kingdom of Satan: truly Sir, there are crep'd in more opinions among us about mat|ters of Religion, then the Pagans had of old of the <HI>Summum bonum,</HI> which <HI>Varro</HI> &s;aith were 300. the under&s;tandings of poor men were never &s;o puzzled &amp; di&s;tracted; a great while there were two oppo&s;it powers who &s;wayed here in a kind of equality that people knew not whom to obey, many thou|&s;ands complied with both, as the men of <HI>Calecut</HI> who adore God and the Devill, (<HI>Tantum Squantum,</HI> as it is in the Indian language) the one for love, the other for feare: there is a mon&s;trous kind of wild liberty here that ever was upon earth; that which was complained of as a &s;talking hor&s;e to draw on our mi&s;eries at fir&s;t, is now only in practice, which is meer <HI>arbitrary rule;</HI> for now both <HI>Law, Religion,</HI> and <HI>Allegiance</HI> are here arbitrary: Touching the la&s;t, 'tis quite lo&s;t, 'tis per|mitted that any one may prate, preach, or print what they will in derogation of their anointed King: which word <HI>King</HI> was once a Mono&s;yllable of &s;ome weight in this Ile, but 'tis as little regarded now as the word <HI>Pope</HI> (among &s;om) which was al&s;o a mighty Mono&s;yllable once among us: the rule of the Law is, that the King can <HI>do</HI> no wrong, there is a contrary rule now crept in, that the King can <HI>receive</HI> no wrong; and truly Sir, 'tis a great judgement both upon Prince and peeple, upon the one, that the love of his va&s;&s;alls &s;hold be &s;o alienated from him; upon the other, that their
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hearts &s;hold be &s;o poy&s;ond, and certainly 'tis the effects of an ill &s;pirit; both the one and the other in all probability tend to the ruine of this Kingdom. I will illu&s;trat this unto you, Sir, by an Apologue as followeth.</P>
<P>There happen'd a &s;hrewd commotion &amp; di&s;temper in the Body Naturall 'twixt the <HI>Head</HI> and the <HI>Members;</HI> not one|ly the <HI>Noble</HI> parts (&s;om of them) but the common inferior organs al&s;o banded again&s;t him in a high way of unnaturall pre&s;umption; The heart, which is the &s;ource of life, with the <HI>Pericardiu~</HI> about it, did &s;well again&s;t him; the <HI>Liver,</HI> which is the &s;hop of &s;anguification, gather'd ill blood&punc; all the humors turn'd to <HI>Choler</HI> again&s;t him; The Arms lift up them&s;elfs again&s;t him, neither back, hams or knees wold bow to him, nay the very feet offer'd to kick him; The foure and twenty ribs, the reines, the <HI>Hypocondrium,</HI> the <HI>Diaphragma,</HI> the <HI>Mi&s;e|raie,</HI> &amp; <HI>Emulgent</HI> veins were fil'd with corrupt blood again&s;t him: yea the <HI>Hypoga&s;trium</HI> and the bowells made an <HI>inte&s;tin</HI> war again&s;t him. While the feud la&s;ted, it hapned that the&s;e tumultuary Members fell out among them&s;elfs; The <HI>Hand</HI> wold have all the fingers equall, nay the <HI>toes</HI> wold be of even length, &amp; the re&s;t of the &s;ub&s;ervient members wold be independent: They grew &s;o fooli&s;h, that they wold have the <HI>fondament</HI> to be where the <HI>mouth</HI> is, the <HI>bre&s;t</HI> where the <HI>back,</HI> the <HI>belly</HI> where the <HI>braine,</HI> and the <HI>yard</HI> where the <HI>no&s;e,</HI> the <HI>&s;holders</HI> &s;hold be no more &s;aid to be backwards, nor the <HI>leggs</HI> downwards; A bloody quarrell fell 'twixt the <HI>Heart</HI> and <HI>Liver,</HI> which of them receiv'd the fir&s;t formation, and whither of the two be the chiefe&s;t officine of &s;anguificati|on; which que&s;tion bred &s;o much <HI>gaul</HI> 'twixt the <HI>Ari&s;totelians</HI> &amp; the <HI>Galeni&s;ts;</HI> While this <HI>Spleen</HI> &amp; &s;trange <HI>tympany</HI> of pride la&s;ted, it cau'sd &s;uch an ebullition and heat in the ma&s;&s;e of <HI>bloud,</HI> that it put the Microco&s;m, the whole Body in a high burning Feaver or Frenzy rather, which in a very &s;hort time grew to be a <HI>Heptic,</HI> and &s;o all peri&s;h'd by a fatall con&s;ump|tion.</P>
<P><PB N="13" REF="8">I fear the &s;ame fate attends this infortunate Iland, for &s;uch as was the condition of that naturall head, this Apolog &s;peaks of, the &s;ame is the ca&s;e of the politic Head and Body of this Iland; Never was Soverain Prince &s;o banded again&s;t by his own Subjects, never was the patience of a Prince &s;o put upon the tenter; He is &s;till no le&s;&s;e then a Captif, his children are in bani&s;hment in one Countrey, his Queen in another, the greate&s;t Queen of bloud upon earth; a Queen that brought with her the greate&s;t portion that ever Queen did in trea&s;ure; yet in twenty yeers and upwards, her join|ture hath not bin &s;etled as it &s;hold be; nor hath &s;he bin crown'd all this while according to matrimoniall Articles; notwith&s;tanding that, for the comfort of this Nation, and the e&s;tabli&s;hment of the Throne, &s;he hath brought forth &s;o many hopefull Princes.</P>
<P>But now Sir; becau&s;e I &s;ee you are &s;o attentive, and &s;eem to be much mov'd at this Di&s;cour&s;e, as I have di&s;cover'd un|to you the generall cau&s;e of our calamities, which was not onely a &s;atiety, but a &s;urfeit of happine&s;&s;e, &s;o I will de|&s;cend now to a more particular cau&s;e of them; it was a Nor|thern Nation that brought the&s;e cataracts of mi&s;chief: upon us; and you know the old &s;aying,</P>
<LG>
<L>Out of the North</L>
<L>All ill comes forth.</L>
</LG>
<P>Far be it from me to charge the whole Nation herewith; no, but onely &s;ome pernicious In&s;truments that had in&s;inu|ated them&s;elfs, and incorporated among us, and &s;way'd both in our Court and Coun&s;ells: They had a hand in eve|ry Monopoly; they had out of our Exchequer, and Cu|&s;toms neer upon 400000. Crowns in yeerly Pen&s;ions, <HI>viis &amp; modis;</HI> yet they could not be content, but they mu&s;t puzzle the peace and policy of this Church and State: and though they are people of differing Intellectualls, differing Lawes, Cu&s;tomes, and Manners unto us, yet for matter of con&s;ci|ence
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they wold bring our necks into their yoak, as if they had a greater talent of rea&s;on, &amp; cleerer illuminations, as if they under&s;tood Scripture better, and were better acquain|ted with God Almighty then we, who brought them fir&s;t from Pagani&s;me to Chri&s;tianity, and al&s;o to be reformed Chri&s;tians: but it &s;eems, matters have little thriven with them; nay the vi&s;ible hand of heaven hath bin heavily up|on them divers wayes &s;ince they did lift <HI>their</HI> hands again&s;t their <HI>native King;</HI> For notwith&s;tanding the va&s;t &s;umms they had hence, yet is the generality of them as beggarly as ever they were; be&s;ides, the Civill Sword hath rag'd there as furiou&s;ly as here, and did as much execution a|mong them. Moreover the Pe&s;tilence hath beene more violent, and &s;weeping in their chief Town then ever it was &s;ince they were a peeple. And now lately ther's the notable&s;t di&s;honour befaln them that po&s;&s;ibly could light upon a Nation, in that 7000. of ours&punc; &s;hold upon eeven ground encounter, kill, &s;lay, rout and utterly di&s;comfit thrice as many of theirs, though as well appointed and arm'd as men could be: And truly Sir, the advantages that accru to this Nation are not a few by that exploit; For of late yeers that Nation was cried up abroad to be a more Mar|tiall peeple then we, and to have baffled us in open field in divers traver&s;es: be&s;ides, I hope a &s;mall matter will pay now their Arrerages here, and el&s;where; but principally, I hope they will not be &s;o bu&s;ie hereafter in our Court and Coun&s;ell, as they have been formerly.</P>
<P>Another cau&s;e of our calamity is a &s;trange race of peeple &s;prung up among our &s;elfs, who were confederat with tho&s;e of the North; they wold make Gods Hou&s;e cleane, and put out the candle of all ancient learning &amp; knowledg; they would &s;weep it only by the light of an <HI>Ignis fatuus:</HI> but 'tis vi&s;ibly found that they have brought much more rubbage into it; and wheras in reforming this hou&s;e, they &s;hold ra|ther find out the <HI>gr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters"></HI> that is lo&s;t, they go about to take away
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the <HI>mite</HI> that's left, and &s;o put <HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> Spou&s;e to live on meer almes: true it is, there is a kind of <HI>Zeal</HI> that burns in them, (&amp; I could wi&s;h there were &s;o much <HI>piety</HI>) but this zeal burns with too much violence and pre&s;umption, which is no good &s;ymptom of &s;pirituall health, it being a rule, that as the naturall heat, &s;o the &s;pirituall &s;hold be moderat, els it commonly turns to a frenzy: and that is the thing which cau&s;eth &s;uch a giddines and di&s;traction in their braines; This (proceeding from the &s;ugge&s;tions of an ill &s;pirit) puffs them up with &s;o much mentall pride; for the Devill is &s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">nning a Wra&s;tler, that he oftentimes lifts men up to give them the greater fall: they think they have an inerring &s;pirit, and that their <HI>Diall</HI> mu&s;t needs go tru, how&s;oever the Sun goes: they wold make the <HI>Go&s;pell,</HI> as the <HI>Caddies</HI> make the <HI>Alchoran,</HI> to decide all civill temporall matters under the large notion of <HI>&s;lander,</HI> whereof <HI>they</HI> to be the Judges, and &s;o in time to hook in all things to their <HI>Cla&s;sis:</HI> I believe if the&s;e men were di&s;&s;ected when they are dead, there would be a great deale of Quick-&s;ilver found in their braines.</P>
<LG>
<L>Proh Superi, quantum mortalia pectora caecae</L>
<L>Noctis habent!&mdash;</L>
</LG>
<P>But I could pitty the <HI>giddine&s;&s;e of their braines,</HI> had they not &s;o much <HI>gaules in their brea&s;ts,</HI> were they not &s;o thir|&s;ting after blood, &s;o full of poi&s;on and irreconcileable ma|lice; in &s;o much that it may be very well thought, the&s;e men are a kin to that race which &s;prung out of the Serpents teeth: the&s;e are they which have &s;educed our great Coun|&s;ell, and led this fooli&s;h City by the no&s;e to begin and fo|ment this ugly War, in&s;omuch that if tho&s;e numberle&s;&s;e bo|dies which have peri&s;h'd in the&s;e commotions, were ca&s;t in|to her &s;treets, and before her doores, many thou&s;and Citi|zens no&s;es wold bleed of pure guilt.</P>
<P>Not to hold you long, the&s;e are the men, who have baf|fled
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common <HI>&s;en&s;e,</HI> bla&s;ted the beams of <HI>nature,</HI> and offered violence to <HI>rea&s;on;</HI> the&s;e are they who have infatuated mo&s;t of the peeple of this Iland; &s;o that whereas in times pa&s;t, Tom call'd her the Ile of <HI>Angells,</HI> &s;he may be term'd now the Ile of <HI>Gulls,</HI> or more properly the Ile of <HI>Doggs,</HI> or ra|ther indeed the Ile of <HI>Wolfs,</HI> there is &s;uch a true <HI>Lycanthropy</HI> com in among us: I am loth to call her the Iland of <HI>Devills,</HI> though &s;he hath bin branded &s;o abroad.</P>
<P>To conclude Sir, the glory of this I&s;le is quite bla&s;ted; 'tis tru they &s;peake of peace, but <HI>while the King &s;peakes to them of it, they make them&s;elfs ready for battell;</HI> I much fear, that <HI>Ixion</HI>-like, we imbrace a cloud for peace, out of which ther will i&s;&s;ue out <HI>Centaures,</HI> and <HI>Mon&s;ters,</HI> as &s;prung out of that cloud.</P>
<P>Touching that ancient'&s;t holy <HI>Order</HI> whereof you &s;ee me to be; I well hoped, that in regard they pretended to <HI>reform</HI> things only, they wold not have quite extirpated, but <HI>regu|lated</HI> only this <HI>Order:</HI> it had bin enough to <HI>brayle</HI> our wings, not to have &s;ear'd them: to have lopp'd &amp; prun'd, not to have de&s;troid root &amp; branch of that ancient tree which was plan|ted by the hands of the Apo&s;tles them&s;elfs: In fine Sir, we are a lo&s;t peeple, 'tis no other <HI>Daedalus,</HI> but the high Deity of hea|ven can clue us out of this labyrinth of confu&s;ions, can extri|cat us out of this maze of mi&s;eries: the Philo&s;opher &s;aith, 'tis impo&s;&s;ible for man to quadrat a <HI>Circle;</HI> &s;o 'tis not in the power of man, but of God alone, to make a loyall Subject of a Roundhead: Among other things that &s;trangers report of this Iland, they &s;ay that <HI>Winter here hath too many teares in his eyes:</HI> Helas Sir, 'tis impo&s;&s;ible he &s;hold have too many now, to bewaile the lamentable ba&s;e &s;lavery, that a free-born peeple is com to: and though they are grown &s;o tame as to ki&s;&s;e the rod that whips them, yet their Taskma&s;ters wil not throw it into the fire.</P>
<P>Truly Sir, as my tongue is too feeble to expre&s;&s;e our mi&s;e|ries,
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&s;o the plummet of the be&s;t under&s;tanding is too &s;hort to fadom the depth of them.</P>
<P>With this, the grave Venerable Bi&s;hop giving me his be|nediction, fetcht &s;uch a &s;igh, that wold have rended a rock a&s;under; and &s;uddenly vani&s;h'd (me thought) out of my &s;ight up towards Heaven. I pre&s;ently after awoke about the dawnings of the day, when one could hardly di&s;cern Dog from Wolf; and my &s;oule, my <HI>Animula-vagula blan|dula,</HI> being re-entred through the Horn gate of &s;leep into her former man&s;ion, half tyr'd after &s;o long a Peregrination; and having rub'd my eyes, di&s;tended my limms, and return'd to a full expergefaction, I began to call my &s;elf to account touching tho&s;e world of objects my fancy had repre&s;ented unto me that night; and when by way of remini&s;ence I fell to examine and ruminate upon them; Lord, what a ma&s;&s;e of <HI>Ideas</HI> ran in my head! but when I call'd to mind the la&s;t Countrey my &s;oule wandred in, me thought I felt my heart like a lump of lead within me, when I con&s;iderd how pat every circum&s;tance might be applied to the pre&s;ent con|dition of <HI>England:</HI> I was meditating with my &s;elf what kind of dream this might be; whereupon I thought upon the common divi&s;ion that Philo&s;ophers make of dreames, that they are either<LIST>
<ITEM>Divine,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Diabolicall,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Naturall, or</ITEM>
<ITEM>Humane.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>For the fir&s;t, they are <HI>Vi&s;ions</HI> more properly or <HI>Revelations,</HI> whereof there are divers examples in the holy Oracles of God, but the puddled cranies of my brain are not roomes clean enough to entertain &s;uch: Touching the &s;econd kind, which com by the impul&s;es of the Devill, I have heard of divers of them, as when one did ri&s;e up out of his &s;leep, and fetcht a poyniard to &s;tab his bedfellow, which he had don,
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had he not bin awake; Another went to the next chamber abed to his mother, and wold have ravi&s;h'd her; but I thank God this dream of mine was not of that kind? Touching the third &s;pecies of dreames; which are <HI>naturall</HI> dreames, they are according to the humor which predominats; if Melancholy &s;way, we dream of black dark&s;om devious pla|ces; if Phlegm, of waters; if Choler, of frayes, fightings and troubles; if Sanguin predominat, we dream of green fields, gardens, and other plea&s;ant repre&s;entations; and the Phy&s;itian comes often to know the quality of a di&s;ea&s;e by the nocturnall objects of the patients fancy.</P>
<P><HI>Humane</HI> dreams relate to the actions of the day pa&s;t, or of the day following, &amp; &s;om repre&s;entations are clear &amp; even; others are amphibious, mongrell, di&s;torted and &s;qualid ob|jects, according to the &s;pecies of things in troubled matters; and the object is cleer or otherwi&s;e, according to the tenui|ty or the gro&s;&s;nes of the vapors which a&s;cend from the ven|tricle up to the brain.</P>
<P>Touching my dream, I think it was of this la&s;t kind; for I was di&s;cour&s;ing of, and condoling the &s;ad di&s;tempers of our times the day before: I pray God &s;om part of it prove not propheticall; for, although the Frenchman &s;ayeth, <HI>Son|ges &s;ont Men&s;onges,</HI> dreames are delu&s;ions, and that they turn to contraries, yet the Spaniard hath a &s;aying,</P>
<LG>
<L>Et ciego &s;onnavaque via,</L>
<L>Yera lo que querria.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The blind man dreamt he did &s;ee light,</L>
<L>The thing he wi&s;h'd for happen'd right.</L>
</LG>
<P>In&s;omuch that &s;ome Dreams oftentimes prove tru; as S. <HI>Au|&s;tin</HI> makes mention of a rich Merchant in <HI>Milan,</HI> who being dead, one of his Creditors comes to his &s;on to demand &s;uch a &s;um of money which he had lent his father; the &s;on was confident 'twas paid, but not finding the Creditors Receipt, he was impleaded and like to be ca&s;t in the Sute, had not his
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fathers Gho&s;t appeared to him, and directed him to the place where the Acquittance was, which he found the next day accordingly. <HI>Galen</HI> &s;peaks of one that dreamt he had a wooden leg, and the next day he was taken with a dead Pal|&s;ie in one whole &s;ide. Such a Dream was that of <HI>William Rufus,</HI> when he thought he had felt a cold gu&s;t pa&s;&s;ing through his bowells; and the next day he was &s;lain in the guts, by the glance of an arrow, in new Forre&s;t, a place where he and his Father had committed &s;o many Sacrile|ges. I have read in <HI>Artimed<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">rus,</HI> of a woman that dreamt &s;he had &s;een the pictures of three faces in the Moone like her &s;elf, and &s;he was brought to bed of three daughters a little after, who all died within the compas of a moneth. Ano|ther dreamt, that <HI>Xanthus</HI> water ran red, and the next day he fell a &s;pitting of blood.</P>
<P>To this I will add another fore-telling Dream, whereof I have read, which was thus: two young Gentlemen be|ing travelling abroad in &s;trange Countreyes, and being come to a great towne, the one lay far in the Citie, the o|ther in an Ho&s;try without the walls in the Suburbs: he in the City did dream in the dead of night, that his friend which he had left in the Suburbs ru&s;h'd into his chamber panting and blowing, being pur&s;ued by others; he dreamt &s;o againe, and the third time he might &s;ee his friends Gho&s;t appeering at his beds &s;ide with blood trickling down his throat, and a Poyniard in his bre&s;t, telling him; Dear friend, I am come now to take my la&s;t farewell of thee, and if thou ri&s;e be|times, thou &s;halt meet me in the way going to be buried; the next morning his friend going with his Ho&s;t towards the Inn in the Suburbs where he left his friend, they met with a Cart laden with dung in the way, which being &s;taid and &s;earch'd, the dead body was found naked in the dung.</P>
<P>I will conclude with a notable Dreame that <HI>O&s;man</HI> the great Turk had, not many yeers &s;ince, a few dayes before the
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was murthered by his Janizaries, 1623. He dreamt, that be|ing mounted upon a huge Camell, he could not make him go, though he &s;witch'd and &s;pur'd him never &s;o much; at la&s;t the Camell overthrew him, and being upon the ground, onely the bridle was left in his hand, but the body of the Camell was vani&s;hed: the <HI>Mufti</HI> not being illuminated e|nough to interpret this Dream, a <HI>Santon</HI> who was a kind of Idiot, told him, the Camell repre&s;ented the <HI>Ottoman Empire,</HI> which he not being able to govern, he &s;hould be o'erthrown, which two dayes after proved tru.</P>
<P>By the&s;e, and a cloud of examples more, we may con|clude, that Dreams are not altogether impertinent, but &s;om|thing may be gathered out of them; though the application and meaning of them be denied to man, unle&s;&s;e by &s;peciall illumination.</P>
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<L>Somnia <HI>venturi &s;unt prae&s;cia &s;aepe diei.</HI></L>
<L>By Dreames we oft may gue&s;&s;e</L>
<L>At the next dayes &s;ucce&s;&s;e.</L>
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<P>THus have you a rough account of a rambling <HI>Noctiva|gation</HI> up &amp; down the world: I may boldly &s;ay, that nei|ther Sir <HI>John Mandevile,</HI> or <HI>Coryat</HI> him&s;elf travell'd more in &s;o &s;hort a time: whence you &s;ee what nimble Po&s;tillions the <HI>Animal Spirits</HI> are; and with what incredible celerity the <HI>imagination</HI> can cro&s;&s;e the <HI>Line,</HI> cut the <HI>Tropiques,</HI> and pa&s;&s;e to the other <HI>Hemi&s;phere</HI> of the world; which &s;hewes, that humane &s;oules have &s;omthing in them of the Almigh|ty, that their faculties have a kind of ubiquitary freedom, though the body be never &s;o under re&s;traint, as the Au|thors is.</P>
<P>The la&s;t Countrey that's here aim'd at is knowne alrea|dy; I leave the application of the re&s;t to the <HI>di&s;cerning</HI> Reader, to whom only this Dream is addre&s;s'd.</P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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