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<HEAD> M^r. Christopher, Loue Aetat 35 1652</HEAD>
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<P>THE CERTAIN TRAVAILES of an uncertain JOURNEY, Begun on Tue&s;day the 9. of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and ended on Saturday the 3. of <HI>September</HI> following, 1653.</P>
<P>Wherein the Readers may take notice, that the Authors purpo&s;e was to Travell, and Write this following Relation, for no other intent or purpo&s;e, but to plea&s;ure him&s;elf, and to plea&s;e his Friends in the fir&s;t place.</P>
<P>By <HI>JOHN TAYLOR,</HI> at the Signe of the Poets Head, in Phoeniz Alley, near the Globe Tavern, in the middle of Long-Acre, nigh the Covent-Garden.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e twelve following lines I gave to divers Gentlemen and Friends, before I went, and as they have kindly &s;ub&s;cribed to my Bill, I <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o humbly expect their courteous acceptation of this Booke.</P>
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<HEAD>A merry Bill of an uncertaine Journey, to bee performed by <HI>John Taylor,</HI> by Land, with his <HI>Aqua Mu&s;a.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>TO all my Friends, and courteous Gentlemen,</L>
<L>Know, that my journey is, I know not when:</L>
<L>Unto the parts I goe, I know not where,</L>
<L>Or of my entertainement far or neare;</L>
<L>Thus neither knowing when, or where, or whether,</L>
<L>Begun, or done, or both ends brought together,</L>
<L>When I this unknowne Walke have put in print,</L>
<L>Each man to's pocket, put your fingers in't,</L>
<L>And, for my Booke then give me what you li&s;t,</L>
<L>To which end, to this Bill, take pen in fi&s;t,</L>
<L>And write your names and habitations down,</L>
<L>I'le finde you when againe I come to Towne.</L>
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<HEAD><HI>The certainty of the uncertaine Travels of</HI> John Taylor, <HI>performed in this yeere</HI> 1653.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>TIs laudable to read well pen'd Relations</L>
<L>Of foreign Countries, &amp; their &s;ituations,</L>
<L>That by the judgement of the eie &amp; brain</L>
<L>Some knowledge to di&s;cour&s;e we may attain.</L>
<L>For Hi&s;tories, and learn'd Co&s;mographers,</L>
<L>And diligent acute Geographers;</L>
<L>One hath &s;urvay'd cele&s;tiall lofty &s;phears,</L>
<L>How all the Planets run in their carriers:</L>
<L>The &s;tars, the &s;ignes, and every influence</L>
<L>In every Heavenly Orbs circumference,</L>
<L>And were it not for high A&s;tronomy</L>
<L>(Who&s;e lofty painfull &s;teps have &s;cal'd the sky)</L>
<L>For times and &s;ea&s;ons we might grope and &s;eek,</L>
<L>Not knowing yeers, or quarters, month, or week,</L>
<L>Or houres, or minutes, nor the Sabbath day,</L>
<L>Nor when to eat, or &s;leep, or debts to pay.</L>
<L>Millions of people would this knowledge lack</L>
<L>Except directed from the Almanack.</L>
<L>Thus Art, (with pains and travell of the mind)</L>
<L>Taught mean capacities, the&s;e things to find.</L>
<PB N="8" REF="5">
<L>He travels far that goes beyond the Moone,</L>
<L>Or thinks this skill may be attayned &s;oone.</L>
<L>Their overweening thoughts flie high and quick</L>
<L>But &s;uch mad fooles are only lunatick.</L>
<L>Geographers have travel'd land and &s;eas</L>
<L>Each coa&s;t, and oppo&s;ite Antipodes;</L>
<L>And the de&s;cription of all lands and parts</L>
<L>De&s;cribed are, in &s;everall Maps and Charts.</L>
<L>The Sun &amp; Moon have &s;eldom &s;hewd their faces</L>
<L>On any Empire, Kingdom, place, or places,</L>
<L>Which Travellers have not viewd and &s;urvayd,</L>
<L>And by rare Geographique Art di&s;playd.</L>
<L>By either &s;ea or land, by night or day,</L>
<L>Geography hath chalk'd us out the way:</L>
<L>That with Maps, Compas, &amp; indifferent weather</L>
<L>True men or Thieves may travell any whither.</L>
<L>And thus throgh thick &amp; thin, ways hard or &s;oft,</L>
<L>Thou&s;and and thou&s;and miles I travel'd oft.</L>
<L>Some men do travell in their contemplations,</L>
<L>In reading Hi&s;tories and &s;trange Relations:</L>
<L>Some few do travell in the wayes Divine,</L>
<L>Some wander wildly with the Mu&s;es nine;</L>
<L>For every man would be a Poet gladly,</L>
<L>Although he write and Rime but badly madly.</L>
<L>Sometimes the wits and tongues do, mo&s;t unfit,</L>
<L>Travell, when tongues do run before the wit.</L>
<L>But if they both keep company together,</L>
<L>Delight and profit is in both, or eyther.</L>
<PB N="9" REF="5">
<L>Di&s;cretion gravely goes a gentle pace,</L>
<L>When &s;peech, a gallop, runs a heedles race:</L>
<L>Mans earthly portion 's travell, paine, and care,</L>
<L>(Of which I make a &s;hift to get my &s;hare.)</L>
<L>Some do di&s;dain, and hold it in high &s;corn</L>
<L>To know thatcht cottages where they were born</L>
<L>Some cro&s;&s;e the &s;ea to &s;ee &s;trange lands unknown</L>
<L>And heer, like &s;trangers, do not know their own.</L>
<L>Their own, 'tis fit work for a golden pen</L>
<L>To write the names down of &s;uch knowing men:</L>
<L>Should ech on know &amp; have his own, 'twere rare</L>
<L>Right owners wold be rich, &amp; knaves &s;tark bare.</L>
<L>Hee's counted wi&s;e, with the Italians,</L>
<L>That knows his own wife from another mans.</L>
<L>But hee's more wi&s;e that knows him&s;elfe to be</L>
<L>Fraile, mortall, and a map of Mi&s;ery.</L>
<L>But wi&s;e&s;t he, that patient takes his lot,</L>
<L>And u&s;e the world as if he us'd it not.</L>
<L>Some &s;eem to know mo&s;t, yet know almo&s;t no|thing,</L>
<L>For man, in knowledge, is a very &s;low thing.</L>
<L><HI>No&s;ce teip&s;um,</HI> Know thy &s;elfe, and then</L>
<L>Each one will know him&s;elfe the wor&s;t of men.</L>
<L>Many of forreign travels boa&s;t and vant,</L>
<L>When they, of <HI>England,</HI> are mo&s;t ignorant.</L>
<L>But yeerly I &s;urvey my Country Native,</L>
<L>And, mong&s;t 6. ca&s;es, live upon the <HI>Dative.</HI></L>
<L>I travell hard, and for my lifes &s;upply,</L>
<L>I every yeere receive a Sub&s;idie.</L>
<PB N="10" REF="6">
<L>(Or el&s;e to come more neer unto the &s;ence)</L>
<L>'Tis fit to call it a Benevolence.</L>
<L>Thus (travelling) a toyling trade I drive,</L>
<L>By rea&s;on of mine age, neer &s;eventy five:</L>
<L>It is my earthly portion and my lot,</L>
<L>(The Proverb &s;ays, <HI>Need makes the old wife trot.</HI>)</L>
<L>Seven times at &s;ea I &s;erv'd <HI>Elizabeth,</HI></L>
<L>And 2. Kings forty five yeers, untill death</L>
<L>Of both my Royall Ma&s;ters quite bereft me,</L>
<L>That nothing now but age and want is left me.</L>
<L>This makes me travell, and my friends to trie,</L>
<L>El&s;e I might (like my fellowes) &s;terve and die.</L>
<L>Had the la&s;t State, had con&s;ciences &s;o tender</L>
<L>To think on Oxford &s;iedge, with that &s;urrender,</L>
<L>Had they kept Articles and Covenants,</L>
<L>In &s;ome &s;ort, then they had releev'd our wants.</L>
<L>But they were in the land of Promi&s;e borne,</L>
<L>Perform'd, and paid us nothing, but their &s;corn.</L>
<L><HI>Camelion</HI> like we had <HI>Ayre, Words,</HI> and <HI>Wind,</HI></L>
<L>With the&s;e three empty di&s;hes oft we din'd.</L>
<L>And with light Suppers, and &s;uch breaking Fa&s;t,</L>
<L>With meagre Famine, many breath'd their la&s;t.</L>
<L>we nere bare arms, but hou&s;hold &s;ervants menial</L>
<L>We waited, if 'twere &s;in, it was but veniall.</L>
<L>The&s;e thirteen yeers no wages I could get,</L>
<L>Which makes me thus to try my friends &amp; wit.</L>
<L>Unto the Kings Revenews great Committee</L>
<L>We oft Petitiond, and implor'd their pitty;</L>
<PB N="11" REF="6">
<L>And fir&s;t and la&s;t, we gave Petitions plenty,</L>
<L>I'm &s;ure, in number, neer two hundred twenty.</L>
<L>Two thou&s;and Books &amp; Bils then printed were,</L>
<L>Wherein our woes and wants wee did declare:</L>
<L>Lord <HI>Fairfax</HI> was him&s;elfe Lord Generall then,</L>
<L>He pitied us (poor mi&s;erable men;)</L>
<L>And he in per&s;on, more then one time went</L>
<L>And told our griefes unto the Parliament.</L>
<L>Be&s;ides, for us, to them he Letters wrot,</L>
<L>For all which, only, promi&s;es we got.</L>
<L>I will not cur&s;e tho&s;e men, but this I &s;ay,</L>
<L>If need and want afflict them, I doe pray</L>
<L>They may be comforted, and fed, and clad</L>
<L>With promi&s;es, as we from them have had.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>TH' yeer &s;ixteen hundred fifty, with 3. added,</L>
<L>Old <HI>Tib</HI> my Mare, and I, a journy gadded:</L>
<L>I <HI>London</HI> left, the 9. day I remember</L>
<L>Of Augu&s;t, neer 3. weeks before September.</L>
<L>In 4. houres riding Po&s;t I got to <HI>Croydon,</HI></L>
<L>And &s;o hath many a man, and many a boy done.</L>
<L>There was the George a hor&s;eback day &amp; night,</L>
<L>And there I, from my mares back did alight.</L>
<L>At Water there wine was, but that's a Riddle,</L>
<L>At <HI>Croydon,</HI> you may know both ends &amp; middle.</L>
<L>To <HI>Micham,</HI> from my way full 3. miles wide,</L>
<L>A Gentleman, I thank him, was my guide.</L>
<PB N="12" REF="7">
<L>Holland my &s;heets, and <HI>Holland</HI> was mine Ho&s;t,</L>
<L>My entertainment good for little co&s;t,</L>
<L>Augu&s;t the tenth, my bonny Bea&s;t and I,</L>
<L>From Surrey traveld to South Saxony,</L>
<L>Now called Su&s;&s;ex, where at <HI>Bellin&s;hur&s;t</HI></L>
<L>Six dayes I felt no hunger, cold, or thir&s;t.</L>
<L>There at a &s;ign, and no &s;ign but a Frame,</L>
<L>Twas the Kings arms, but &s;hatering &s;hot &amp; flame</L>
<L>Did beat them down, as u&s;eles, of &s;mall &s;tead,</L>
<L>For armes are of no u&s;e without a Head.</L>
<L>Mine Ho&s;t was mighty good, and great withall,</L>
<L>And, among&s;t Ho&s;ts, may be a Generall.</L>
<L>Hee's friendly, curteous, although big and burly,</L>
<L>A right good fellow, no way proud or &s;urly.</L>
<L>Six nights at <HI>Bellin&s;hur&s;t</HI> I freely &s;tayd,</L>
<L>And all the charge of mare and man was payd</L>
<L>By a Gentleman, to name whom Ile refrain,</L>
<L>Who&s;e love, my thankfull mind &s;hall &s;til retain.</L>
<L>Thus in one week I rode Po&s;t 30. mile,</L>
<L>And neither man or mare tyr'd all that while.</L>
<L>A Reverend Preacher preach'd on Sunday twice</L>
<L>Directing &s;ouls to th' Heavenly Paradice.</L>
<L>And if we could but do as he did &s;ay,</L>
<L>His Doctrine told us all the ready way.</L>
<L>Thus <HI>Billin&s;hur&s;t</HI> thy bounty I extoll,</L>
<L>Thou fea&s;ted&s;t me in body and in &s;oule.</L>
<L>There was rare Mu&s;ick, &s;weet and gentile <HI>Ayres,</HI></L>
<L>For unde&s;erved favours, <HI>I am theirs.</HI></L>
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<L>My love to Mr. <HI>Fi&s;t,</HI> and to mine Ho&s;t,</L>
<L>But love and thanks <HI>T. H.</HI> de&s;erveth mo&s;t.</L>
<L>From <HI>Billin&s;hur&s;t,</HI> Augu&s;t the &s;ixteenth day,</L>
<L>I took my leave, before I took my way.</L>
<L>The way indifferent good, the welk in &s;miles,</L>
<L>I rode to <HI>Petworth,</HI> 7. good Su&s;&s;ex miles.</L>
<L>To &s;et forth <HI>Petworth,</HI> its worth more worth is,</L>
<L>Then I am worth, or worthy; but know this,</L>
<L><HI>Northumberland</HI> the Noble, there doth dwell,</L>
<L>Who&s;e good hou&s;ekeeping, few Lords parallell.</L>
<L>There Honourable bounty is expre&s;t,</L>
<L>With daily charity to th' poor di&s;tre&s;t.</L>
<L>I &s;peak not this for any thing I got</L>
<L>Of that great Lord, I felt or &s;aw him not:</L>
<L>For had I &s;een him, my beliefe is &s;uch,</L>
<L>I &s;hould have felt and found his bounties tutch:</L>
<L>But I, for my part, never was &s;o rude</L>
<L>To flatter, fawn, or ba&s;ely to intrude,</L>
<L>Yet I declare him liberall, Honourable,</L>
<L>And there I din'd well, at his Stewards Table.</L>
<L>Thanks Mr. <HI>Williams</HI> there, the Cook exact</L>
<L>By his good friend&s;hip there, I nothing lackd.</L>
<L>Thanks to my Ho&s;te&s;&s;e kind, good Mrs. <HI>Martin,</HI></L>
<L>who welcom'd me with good whit wine a quart in.</L>
<L>And la&s;t of all, but not of all the lea&s;t,</L>
<L>I was kind Mr. <HI>Barnards</HI> co&s;tly Gue&s;t:</L>
<L>To me he &s;hew'd his bounty from the Mint,</L>
<L>For which I give him heer my thanks in Print.</L>
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<L>He payd the chinque, and freely gave me drink,</L>
<L>And I returne my gratitude with Inke.</L>
<L><HI>Augu&s;t</HI> the 18. twelve long miles to <HI>Stenning</HI></L>
<L>I rode, and nothing &s;aw there worth the kenning,</L>
<L>But that mine Ho&s;t there was a joviall Wight,</L>
<L>My Ho&s;te&s;s fat and fair; a goodly &s;ight:</L>
<L>The &s;igne the Chequer, eighteen pence to pay;</L>
<L>My Mare eat mortal meat, good Oats and Hay.</L>
<L>Twelve miles from <HI>Stenning</HI> I jogd on to <HI>Lewes,</HI></L>
<L>And there I found no Beggars, Scolds, or Shrews;</L>
<L><HI>Lewes</HI> hath no Bayliff, Mayor, or Magi&s;trate,</L>
<L>For every one there lives in quiet &s;tate:</L>
<L>They quarrell not for wagging of a &s;traw,</L>
<L>For each man is unto him&s;elfe a Law;</L>
<L>They need no bridle (like the Hor&s;e or Mule)</L>
<L>Where every one him&s;elfe can wi&s;ely rule.</L>
<L>At the terre&s;triall Star (a gli&s;tring Signe)</L>
<L>I lodg'd, and found good Diet, and good Wine;</L>
<L>Mine Ho&s;t and Ho&s;te&s;s courteous, free, and kind,</L>
<L>And there I &s;ip'd and &s;up'd, but &s;eldom din'd:</L>
<L><HI>Lewes</HI> is an ancient Town, as may be &s;een</L>
<L>In <HI>Cambden,</HI> page three hundred and thirteen:</L>
<L>Twelve men they chu&s;e, the mo&s;t &s;ub&s;tantialle&s;t,</L>
<L>Mo&s;t rich and wi&s;e, to govern all the re&s;t;</L>
<L>And out of that di&s;creet and hone&s;t dozen,</L>
<L>Two (as it were) high Con&s;tables are cho&s;en:</L>
<L>The&s;e have no pow'r them&s;elvs to hang or draw,</L>
<L>Or on offendors to inflict the Law;</L>
<PB N="15" REF="8">
<L>But to a Ju&s;tice of the Peace, or <HI>Coram</HI></L>
<L>They bring the parties, &amp; their cau&s;e before am.</L>
<L>From Friday unto Friday I did &s;tay,</L>
<L>But in the mean time I did take my way</L>
<L>Five miles to <HI>Torring</HI> where my old friend there,</L>
<L>The Par&s;on welcom'd me with Country cheer;</L>
<L>His name is <HI>John,</HI> or hone&s;t Ma&s;ter <HI>Rice,</HI></L>
<L>Six meals he meated me, and lodgd me thrice.</L>
<L>He Preachd on Sunday, <HI>Augu&s;ts</HI> twenty one,</L>
<L>Two Sermons, tending to &s;alvation:</L>
<L>His Doctrine's good, &amp; he him&s;elfe doth frame</L>
<L>To live in conver&s;ation like the &s;ame.</L>
<L>I thank him, and his Wife and Family,</L>
<L>For making of &s;o much (too much) of me:</L>
<L>Thus when he could no longer me retaine,</L>
<L>With love and thanks, I rode to <HI>Lewes</HI> againe.</L>
<L>This Town contains &s;ix Churches, and at lea&s;t</L>
<L>It is a mile in length from We&s;t to Ea&s;t:</L>
<L>A &s;trong and &s;pacious Ca&s;tle there hath been,</L>
<L>As by its moldred ruines may be &s;ee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e.</L>
<L>Thence 12 miles I was on my female bea&s;t born,</L>
<L>T'an unknown fea&s;t born, at a Towne cal'd Ea&s;t <HI>Bourne;</HI></L>
<L>I at an Inne alighted, and found there</L>
<L>Unlook'd for welcome, and good <HI>Su&s;&s;ex</HI> cheer:</L>
<L>Sir <HI>Thomas Dike,</HI> Sir <HI>Thomas Parker,</HI> Knights,</L>
<L>With kinde E&s;quires, who&s;e names &amp; Epithites</L>
<L>I mention not, becau&s;e I know them not;</L>
<L>But to them all my thanks is unforgot,</L>
<PB N="16" REF="9">
<L>For unde&s;erv'd, unlook'd for, and unthought,</L>
<L>From the~ my pur&s;e &amp; per&s;on both were fraught;</L>
<L>This was on <HI>Augu&s;ts</HI> twenty &s;ixt, a Friday,</L>
<L>Near <HI>Dog dayes end,</HI> a very fair and drie day.</L>
<L>The next day, and the next I felt the bounty</L>
<L>Of the high Sheriff of <HI>Su&s;&s;ex</HI> famous County;</L>
<L>He entertain'd me Saturday and Sunday,</L>
<L>And would have kept me 20 dayes pa&s;t Monday.</L>
<L>There was a high and mighty drink call'd <HI>Rug,</HI></L>
<L>Sure &s;ince the Reigne of great King <HI>Gorbodug</HI></L>
<L>Was never &s;uch a rare infus'd confection,</L>
<L>Injection, operation, and ejection,</L>
<L>Are <HI>Hogen Mogen Rugs,</HI> great influences</L>
<L>To provoke &s;leep, and &s;tupifie the &s;ences.</L>
<L>No cold can ever pierce his fle&s;h or skin</L>
<L>Of him who is well lin'd with <HI>Rug</HI> within:</L>
<L><HI>Rug</HI> is a Lord beyond the Rules of Law;</L>
<L>It conquers hunger in the greedy maw:</L>
<L>And (in a word) of all the drinks potable,</L>
<L><HI>Rug</HI> is mo&s;t pui&s;ant, potent, notable.</L>
<L><HI>Rug</HI> was the Capitall Commander there,</L>
<L>And his Lievtenant Generall was &s;trong Beere.</L>
<L>Wine plenteous both in Bottles and in flaggons.</L>
<L>who&s;e &s;tre~gth would quel S. <HI>George</HI> &amp; 20 draggo~s</L>
<L>But <HI>A&s;shuerus</HI> Laws were there inrol'd,</L>
<L>No man was forc'd to drink more then he would.</L>
<L>There was good <HI>Will,</HI> good <HI>Wills &s;on,</HI> &amp; good <HI>Willia~</HI></L>
<L>As free as was the Emp'rour <HI>Maximilian:</HI></L>
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<L>Bea&s;ts, fowls and fi&s;h, from earth, &amp; &s;ea &amp; ayre</L>
<L>Unto the Table, well Cook'd, did repair,</L>
<L>There were rare Birds I never &s;aw before</L>
<L>The like of them, I think to &s;ee no more:</L>
<L>Th'are called <HI>Wheat ears,</HI> le&s;s then Lark or Spar|row,</L>
<L>Wel roa&s;ted, in the mouth they ta&s;t like marow.</L>
<L>When once tis in the teeth it is involv'd,</L>
<L>Bones, fle&s;h, and all, is lu&s;hiou&s;ly di&s;&s;olv'd.</L>
<L>The name of <HI>Wheat ears,</HI> on them is ycleap'd,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e they come when wheat is yeerly reap'd.</L>
<L>Six weeks, or therabouts, they are catch'd there,</L>
<L>And are welnigh 11. months, God knows where.</L>
<L>My humble gratitude is heer expre&s;t</L>
<L>To Mr. Sheriffe, and his beloved be&s;t;</L>
<L>His kindnes joind with hers, and hers with his,</L>
<L>Doth merit my unfaigned thankfulnes.</L>
<L>Unto my Cozen <HI>Thomas Taylor</HI> there</L>
<L>My love remembred, and for my Samphiere</L>
<L>He promis'd me, I thank't him thrice before,</L>
<L>And when I have it, I will thank him more.</L>
<L>Twelve miles on Augu&s;ts 9. and 20. day,</L>
<L>From <HI>Bourne</HI> to <HI>Battell,</HI> 4. miles on my way</L>
<L>At <HI>Pem&s;ey</HI> doth a ruin'd Ca&s;tle &s;tand,</L>
<L>And there the Norman Conqueror did land.</L>
<L>Since his invading power arived there,</L>
<L>'Tis <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ow 500, 60, and 6. yeere.</L>
<L>Eight miles from thence, the Battel fierce was &s;trook</L>
<L>Where bloud of 70000, like a Brook,</L>
<PB N="18" REF="10">
<L>Or rather I may &s;ay like <HI>Sanguin</HI> Rivers</L>
<L>Which down hills, it impetuou&s;ly delivers</L>
<L>Into the Vales: and where that bloud was &s;pilt</L>
<L>The Conqueror caus'd an Abbey to be built</L>
<L>Of &s;tately &s;tructure, and what it hath been,</L>
<L>By great extended ruines may be &s;een.</L>
<L>VVhen Norman forces <HI>England</HI> overcame,</L>
<L>From bloudy Battell, <HI>Battell</HI> had its name.</L>
<L>This Abbey now is kept, by right and due,</L>
<L>By the Honourable Vi&s;count <HI>Montague.</HI></L>
<L>That Lord repair'd &s;ome part magnificent,</L>
<L>And ther's good hou&s;e kept, when hees re&s;ident.</L>
<L>That noble Lord is, in account mo&s;t famous,</L>
<L>Though many mi&s;erable Lords doe &s;hame us.</L>
<L>At th' Empereall cre&s;t, or Eagle &s;pred,</L>
<L>My &s;elfe and mare, were &s;tabled, lodg'd and fed.</L>
<L>About the reckoning I did not contend,</L>
<L>My friend <HI>T. H.</HI> paid all, and ther's an end.</L>
<L>Augu&s;t the thirtith, I rode on to <HI>Ha&s;tings,</HI></L>
<L>Wher was relief for men of &s;everall ta&s;tings,</L>
<L>Or &s;undry pallats, put them altogether,</L>
<L>Or reli&s;ht appetites, take all or neither.</L>
<L>At <HI>Ha&s;tings</HI> I &s;taid not, but ha&s;tily</L>
<L>I ambled 6. miles unto <HI>Winchel&s;ey:</HI></L>
<L>Which hath been counted in the dayes of yore,</L>
<L>(Untill the &s;eas contended with the &s;hore)</L>
<L>A famous &s;ea Town, rich in merchandi&s;e,</L>
<L>But buried in the Ocean now it lies.</L>
<PB N="19" REF="10">
<L>A Ca&s;tle &s;tands i'th &s;ands, enduring flawes,</L>
<L>Gu&s;ts, tempe&s;ts, &s;torms, &amp; times devouring jaws:</L>
<L>In twice twelve hours, 'tis twice embraced round</L>
<L>In th' arms of <HI>Neptune,</HI> &s;eeming to be drownd:</L>
<L>And when the flouds are eb'd into the main,</L>
<L>Three miles in &s;ands 'tis compa&s;t round again.</L>
<L>In <HI>Winchel&s;ey</HI> that now is I could ken</L>
<L>Nothing worth ob&s;ervation of my pen.</L>
<L>Two miles from thence, upon a hill, &s;tands <HI>Rye,</HI></L>
<L>And there I, at the Star, did lodge and lie:</L>
<L>More ods there is 'twixt &s;inging &s;ongs and crying</L>
<L>Then was betwixt my lodging, and my lying.</L>
<L>I lodg'd by night, and I did lie by day,</L>
<L>And as upon a bed I mu&s;ing lay,</L>
<L>The chamber hang'd with painted cloth, I found</L>
<L>My &s;elfe with &s;entences beleaguerd round.</L>
<L>There was Philo&s;ophy and Hi&s;tory,</L>
<L>Poetry Aenigmatick my&s;tery.</L>
<L>I know not what the Town in wealth may be,</L>
<L>But &s;ure, I on that chambers walls did &s;ee</L>
<L>More wit then al the town had, and more worth</L>
<L>Then my unlearned Mu&s;e can well &s;et forth.</L>
<L>I will not hold my Reader in dilemma,</L>
<L>Thus truly, lying, I tran&s;cribed them a.</L>
</LG>
<PB N="20" REF="11">
<LG>
<L><HI>NO flower &s;o fre&s;h, but fro&s;t may it deface,</HI></L>
<L><HI>None fits &s;o fa&s;t, but hee may lo&s;e his place:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Tis Concord keeps a Realme in Stable &s;tay,</HI></L>
<L><HI>But Di&s;cord brings all Kingdomes to decay.</HI></L>
<L><HI>No Subject ought (for any kinde of Cau&s;e)</HI></L>
<L><HI>Re&s;i&s;t his Prince, but yeeld him to the Lawes.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Sure God is ju&s;t, who&s;e &s;troake, delayed long,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Doth light at la&s;t, with paine more &s;harp, and &s;trong</HI></L>
<L><HI>Time never was, nor n'ere I thinke &s;hall be,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That Truth (un&s;hent) might &s;peake, in all things free.</HI></L>
</LG>
<PB N="21" REF="11">
<LG>
<L>This is the Sum, the Marrow and the Pith</L>
<L>My lying Chamber was Adorned with:</L>
<L>And 'tis &s;uppo&s;ed, tho&s;e lines written there</L>
<L>Have in that Roome bin, more then 40 yeare.</L>
<L>Now, Reader take this notice more of <HI>Rye,</HI></L>
<L>'Tis worth Remembring, and I'le tell you why:</L>
<L>If to unloade your Bellies, Nature drive ye,</L>
<L>In all the Towne you'&s;e &s;carcely finde a Privie.</L>
<L>For as our Sectaries, in Tubbs preach heere,</L>
<L>They make (Sir Reverence) Reverend Iake&s;es there,</L>
<L>Of Pulpets of Prophanity, and the&s;e</L>
<L>When they are full, are empti'd in the Seas.</L>
<L>My fare was good at <HI>Rye,</HI> my Reck'ning &s;mall,</L>
<L>I thanke my noble friend, that payd for all,</L>
<L>Neete unto <HI>Rye,</HI> 2 dirty Ferryes bee</L>
<L>So Muddy, that they mir'de my Mare and mee:</L>
<L>I pa&s;t them, And on <HI>vltima Augu&s;ti,</HI></L>
<L>well meated, Mounted, man and bea&s;t both lu&s;ty;</L>
<L>I cro&s;&s;'d or'e <HI>Gulford</HI> ferry, and I went</L>
<L>From <HI>Rye</HI> in <HI>Su&s;&s;ex</HI> unto <HI>Hide</HI> in <HI>Kent;</HI></L>
<L>Septembers fir&s;t day, <HI>Sol,</HI> with golden eye</L>
<L>Gilt <HI>Neptune</HI> with cele&s;tiall Alcaymie:</L>
<L>With &s;overeign &s;plendor, ki&s;&s;ing medows green,</L>
<L>And mantled hills tops were coru&s;cant &s;een.</L>
<L>VVhen <HI>Phoebus</HI> mounted was in glorious pride,</L>
<L>I mounted too, and rode away from <HI>Hide.</HI></L>
<L>Still as I pa&s;t through &s;ea Towns fir&s;t and la&s;t,</L>
<L>I did enquire how bu&s;ine&s;&s;es had pa&s;t.</L>
<PB N="22" REF="12">
<L>The people &s;aid that Guns did bounce &amp; thump,</L>
<L>Betwixt our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> &s;hips, and Dutch <HI>Van Trump.</HI></L>
<L>At <HI>Rumney,</HI> and at <HI>Hide,</HI> they were in &s;ight,</L>
<L>Folks heard the drums to beat, and &s;aw the fight.</L>
<L>Thus, little was the newes from &s;ea or &s;hore,</L>
<L>Our weekly News books will tel 3. times more.</L>
<L>From <HI>Hide</HI> to <HI>Dover,</HI> and to <HI>Canterbury</HI></L>
<L>Full 25. miles, dirty, wet and weary,</L>
<L>I took my lodging up, and down I lay</L>
<L>Till Friday came, Septembers &s;econd day.</L>
<L>Then with the Lamb I aro&s;e, and with the Lark</L>
<L>I got to <HI>Grave&s;end</HI> when 'twas almo&s;t dark;</L>
<L>But I mi&s;take, from &s;leep I rowz'd my head,</L>
<L>And ro&s;e with th'Lark, but went with Lamb to bed.</L>
<L>On th' way I was not vext with Gates or Stiles,</L>
<L>But three and thirty dirty Kenti&s;h miles,</L>
<L>With wa&s;hing da&s;hing ways, &amp; rain wel &s;ous'd,</L>
<L>It made my Mare and I glad to be hous'd:</L>
<L>The &s;igne was <HI>Wel&s;h</HI> his pie-bald engli&s;h <HI>Bull;</HI></L>
<L>I there was welcome empty, welcome full:</L>
<L>But at the high and mighty <HI>Grave&s;end Whale,</HI></L>
<L>I found mo&s;t potent admirable Ale,</L>
<L>'Tis &s;econd to no drink, but <HI>Ea&s;t-Bourne Rug,</HI></L>
<L>Put it in Pot or Flaggon, Can or Jug;</L>
<L>You'le finde it is the grand Ale, and you'l grant,</L>
<L>That 'tis Ale Parramount, Predominant:</L>
<L>'Twas given me by a Friend; but let him end</L>
<L>With hanging, that loves <HI>Ale</HI> more then his frie~d</L>
<PB N="23" REF="12">
<L>From <HI>Grave&s;end</HI> (Satudray <HI>Septembers</HI> third)</L>
<L>I rode without &s;puts, as I had been &s;purr'd:</L>
<L>I came to <HI>London</HI> when the Clock &s;truck one;</L>
<L>And &s;o my Journey and my Booke is <HI>DONE.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG REND="italic" TYPE="envoy">
<L>Among&s;t the Mu&s;es where the number Nine is,</L>
<L>The learned Poets end their Works with <HI>Finis:</HI></L>
<L>But when unlearned I have Volumes pen'd,</L>
<L><HI>Finis</HI> is Latine, Engli&s;h Done's an End.</L>
</LG>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="postscript">
<PB REF="13">
<PB N="25" REF="13">
<HEAD><HI>A POSTSCRIPT, Of &s;ome parts of</HI> SUSSEX <HI>and</HI> KENT <HI>that I Travelled, which I have borrowed out of Mr.</HI> SPEED.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>SUSSEX</HEAD>
<P>_THE North part of this Shire confronts upon Surrey, and Kent: the We&s;t but|teth upon Ham&s;hire; and all the re&s;t of the County lieth &s;tretched along the Briti&s;h &s;ea. The City of mo&s;t account within this County is Chiche&s;ter, a beautifull, and large Towne; yet for the &s;tateline&s;&s;e of buildings <HI>Lewes</HI> doth &s;eeme to contend with it, where <HI>William de Warron</HI> built a &s;trong Ca&s;tle, whereun|to the Barons, in time of tho&s;e civill brotles re&s;orted in warlike manner, and fought a great Battell again&s;t their Soveraigne and his &s;onne, wherein the King,
<PB N="26" REF="14"><HI>Henry</HI> the third, had his hor&s;e &s;laine under him; Rich|ard King of the <HI>Romans</HI> the Kings Brother was &s;ur|prized, and taken in a Wind-mill; and Prince Edward (who was after that King <HI>Edward</HI> the fir&s;t, or Long|&s;hankes) delivered vnto them upon unequall termes of peace.</P>
<P>Places of other note are the&s;e. Shore whence King <HI>Harold</HI> going upon the Sea for his plea&s;ure in a &s;mall boate was driven upon the Coa&s;t of <HI>Normandy,</HI> where, by Duke <HI>William</HI> he was &s;urprized, and re|tained, untill he &s;wore to make him King after Ed|ward the Confe&s;&s;or his death. We&s;t-Wittering where Ella the Saxon Landed when he came to conquer tho&s;e partes, and gave the name to the Shoare from Cimen his Sonne. Finally <HI>Gromebridge</HI> where <HI>Charles</HI> Duke of <HI>Orleance</HI> father to Lewis the twelfth King of <HI>Fraunce,</HI> was long detained, being taken Pri&s;oner at Agincourt. Yet I have beene in the Ca&s;tle of Star|borough where I was &s;hewed the &s;aid Dukes Chamber, in <HI>Kent</HI> or the edge of Surrey.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="27" REF="14">
<HEAD>KENT.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_THis is the fir&s;t Province that appeareth in the South of this Kingdome, and is bounded upon the North with the famous River</HI> Thami&s;is: <HI>on the Ea&s;t with the</HI> German <HI>&s;ea, and Ocean: on the &s;outh with</HI> Su&s;sex <HI>and the narrowe &s;eas: and upon the We&s;t with</HI> Su&s;sex <HI>and</HI> Surrey.</P>
<P><HI>The cheife&s;t City within this County is</HI> Canterbury <HI>which became famous, both for the conver&s;ion of the Saxons by St.</HI> Augu&s;tine, <HI>whereof eight of their Kings were there inter'd; as al&s;o was</HI> Thomas Becket <HI>Arch-Bi&s;hop of</HI> Canterbury.</P>
<P><HI>The invincible Ca&s;tle of Dover is a place of the grea|te&s;t &s;trength not onely of this County, but of the whole Kingdome, being the Key of the Realme; and as</HI> Iohn Ro&s;&s;e, <HI>and</HI> Lidgate <HI>affirme, was built by</HI> Julius Ce&s;ar. <HI>The chiefe&s;t and onely thing of admiration in this &s;hire is a hole at Mottingame eight yards about, and a line of fiftie &s;adomes plummed into it, doth finde
<PB N="28" REF="15">no bottome, where &s;uddenly the ground &s;unke, and three greate Elmes therein growing, were &s;wallowed vp into the earth. This &s;hire claimeth the preeminence of Chri&s;|tianity before all places of</HI> England: <HI>for</HI> Lucius <HI>the fir&s;t</HI> Chri&s;tian Briti&s;h <HI>King in this Jland, built a Church within the Ca&s;tle of Dover.</HI></P>
<P><HI>There is no other memory or token of the great Bat|tell, which was fought at Ailesford, betweene</HI> Hengi&s;t <HI>the ambitious</HI> Saxon, <HI>and</HI> Vortimer <HI>the valiant</HI> Bri|taine, <HI>wherein</HI> Hor&s;a, <HI>and</HI> Catigern, <HI>brethren to both Generalls were &s;laine, then a monument of</HI> Catigern, <HI>which is nothing el&s;e but foure &s;tones pitched in the man|ner of the</HI> Stone henge, <HI>on Salsbury Plaine, and is vul|garly called</HI> Ci&s;coatehou&s;e <HI>which is upon the plaine there.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Englands Kings have had two &s;eats in this County, wherein they were went to make &s;ome aboade, in the Summer time: the one for their Court which is</HI> Green|witch, <HI>the other for their plea&s;ure, which is Eltham, ve|ry convenient for pa&s;times, and game for hunting.</HI></P>
<P><HI>There is al&s;o a place in this Shire called</HI> Tunbridge <HI>whither there is great concour&s;e of infirms people, who finde pre&s;ent remedy for their maladies, by vertue of &s;ome</HI> Wells <HI>lately found out, which prove verie &s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e|raigne.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="verse acknowledgment">
<PB N="29" REF="15">
<HEAD>To all my Friends that have &s;ub&s;cribed their Names and dwellings to my Bill.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>ACcording as you pay, or pay me not;</L>
<L>So is my lucky or unlucky Lot:</L>
<L>I have made u&s;e of many friends before</L>
<L>Age tels me now I &s;hall do &s;o no more.</L>
<L>Some friends I have, and &s;ome &s;mall &s;hare of wit,</L>
<L>And want hath forc'd me to v&s;e them, and it.</L>
<L>I, in my be&s;t of wi&s;hes will include</L>
<L>Their kindne&s;&s;e, and my humble gratitude.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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