LVIS DE CAMOENS   

SPAIN gave me noble Birth: Coimbra, Arts:  
LISBON, a high-placed love, and Courtly parts:  
AFRICA, a Refuge when the Court did frown:  
WAR, at an Eye's expense, a fair renown  
TRAVAIL, experience, with no short sight  
Of India, and the World; both which I writ  
INDIA a life, which I gave there for Lost  
On Mecons waves (a wreck and Exile) tossed  
To boot, this POEM, held up in one hand  
Whilst with the other I swum safe to land:  
TASSO, a sonnet; and (what's greater yet)  
The honour to give Hints to such a wit  
PHILIP a Cordial, (the ill Fortune see!)  
To cure my Wants when those had new killed me  
My Country (Nothing— yes) Immortal Praise  
(so did I, Her) Beasts cannot browse on Bays.    

THE LUSIAD, OR, PORTUGAL'S Historical Poem: WRITTEN In the PORTUGAL Language BY LUIS DE CAMOENS; AND Now newly put into ENGLISH BY RICHARD FANSHAW Esq;  HORAT. 

Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori;  
Carmen amat quisquis, Carmine digna facit.   
LONDON, Printed for Humphrey Moseley, at the Prince's-Arms in St Paul's Churchyard, M. DC. LV.   

To the Right Honourable WILLIAM EARL of STRAFFORD, etc.  
My good Lord,  
I Can not tell how your Lordship may take it, that in so uncourted a language, as that of PORTUGAL, should be found extant a Poet to rival your beloved TASSO, How himself took it, I can; for he was heard to say (his great JERUSALEM being then an Embryo) HE FEARED NO MAN BUT CAMOENS: Notwithstanding which, he bestowed a Sonnet in his praise. But, admitting the TUSCAN SUM. periour; yet, as He (with ●…ome anger) of GUARINI, when he saw, by the unquestionable Verdict of all ITALY, so famous a LAUREATE as himself by that man's PASTOR FIDO outstripped in the Dramatic way of Po●…try; SE NON HAVUTO VISTO IL MIO AMINTA— (because indeed the younger, for a Lift in this kind, was beholding to the Elder): So, and for the same cause, might my PORTUGAL have retorted upon Him with reference to his own Epic way; IF HE HAD NOT SEEN MY LUSIAD, HE HAD NOT EXCELLED IT.  
Since than I find, HORACE, in the days of old, held himself accountable to his potent friend LOLLIO for the profits of those vacant hours, which he passed in his proper Villa, whilst LOLLIO lay Ledger in ROME about that which was the great Domestic glory of the ROMAN NOBILITY of those Times;  

Trojani belli Scriptorem, maxim Lolli, 
Hor. lib. 3. Epist. 2.   
Dum Tu declamas Romae, Praeneste relegi:   

Whilst thou (Great LOLLIO) in ROME dost plead,  
I, in PRAENESTE, have all HOMER Read:   
How much more obliged am I to bring unto your Lordship this TREASURE-TROVE, which (as to the second life, or rather Being, it hath from me in the English-Tongue) is so truly a Native of YORKSHIRE, and holding of your Lordship, that, from the hour I began it, to the end thereof, I slept not once out of these Walls?  
And, if the same HORACE proceed;  

Qui, quid sit pul●…hrum, quid Turpe, quid utile, quid non,  
Plenius ac melius Chrysippo & Crantore, dicit:   

Who, what is Right, what not, what brave, what base,  
Clearer and better than the STOICS, says:)   
Whether this Poet also (however disfigured in the translating, yet still retaining the old materials, both Political and Moral, on a truer and more Modern Frame of Story and Geography then that of HOMER  

— Et, quamvis plebeio tectus Amictu,  
Indocilis privata loqui)   
shall not be valuable upon the like account, I appeal to your Lordship, whose devoted (since he turned Englishman) he is, by the title I have already mentioned, and by as many more, as I am  
From your Lordship's Park of Tankersley May 1. 1655. MY LORD, Your Lordship's humble servant RICHARD FANSHAW.   

Petronii Arbitri SATYRICON: pag. 48.  
MUltos, inquit Eumolpus, O juvenes, carmen decepit. Nam ut quisque versum pedibus instruxit, sensumque teneriorem verborum ambitu intexuit, putavit se continuò in Helliconem venisse. Sic forensibus Ministeriis excercitati, frequenter ad carminis tranquillitatem, tanquam ad portum faciliorem refugerunt: credentes faciliùs Poema extrui posse, quam controversiam sententiolis vibrantibus pictam. Caeterum neque generosior spiritus vanitatem amat, neque concipere aut edere partum mens potest, nisi ingenti flumine literarum inundata. Effugiendum est ab omni verborum (ut ita dicam) utilitate, & sumendae voces à plebe summotae, ut fiat, Odi profanum vulgus & arceo. Praeterea curandum est, ne sententiae emineant extra corpus rationis expressae, sed intexto Vestibus colore niteant. HOMERUS testis, & Lyric●…, Romanusque VIRGILIUS, & HORATIJ curiosa faelicitas. Caeteri enim aut non viderunt viam quâ iretur ad carmen, aut versum timuerunt calcare. Ecce belli civilis ingens opus! quisquis attigerit, nisi plenus literis, sub onere labetur. Non enim res gestae versibus comprehendendae sunt (quod longè melius historici faciunt) sed per ambages Deorumque ministeria, & fabulosum sententiarum tormentum praecipitandus est liber spiritus: ut potiùs furentis animi vaticinatio appareat, quam religiosae orationis sub testibus fides: Tanquam si placet hic impetus etsi nondum recepit ultimam manum.  

Orbem jam totum victor Romanus habebat:  
Qua mare, qua terrae, qua sidus currit utrumque:  
Nec satiatus erat. Gravidis freta pulsa carinis  
Jam peragrabantur. Siquis Sinus abditus ultra,  
Siqua foret tellus quae fulvum mitteret aurum,  
Hostis erat: fatisque in tristia bella paratis  
Quaerebantur opes. Non vulgò nota placebant  
Gaudia: non usu plebeio trita voluptas.  
Aes Ephyraeum laudabat miles: in udâ  
Quaesitus tellure nitor certaverat ostro:  
Hinc Numidae lapides illinc nova vellera seres,  
Atque Arabum populus sua despohaverat arva.  
Ecce aliae clades, & laesae vulnera pacis.  
Quaeritur in Sylvis Mauris fera: & ultimus Hammon  
Afrorum excutitur: ne desit bellua dente  
Ad mortes pretiosa: fames premit advena classes:  
Tigris, & auratâ gradiens vectatur in aulâ,  
Ut bibat humanum (populo plaudente) cruorem.  
Heu pudet effari, perituraque prodere fata!  
Persarum ritu male pubescentibus annis  
Sur●…ipuêre viros, exectaque viscera ferro  
In venerem fregêre: atque ut fuga mobilis aevi  
Circumscripta mora properantes differat annos:  
Quaerit se natura, nec invenit: omnibus ergo  
Scorta placent, fractique enervi corpore gressus  
Et laxi crines, & tot nova nomina vestis,  
Quaeque virum quaerunt. Ecce Afris eruta terris  
Citrea mensa, greges servorum, ostrumque renidens  
Ponitur, ac maculis imitatur vilibus aurum:  
Quae turbant censum, hostile, ac male nobile lignum  
Turba sepulta mero circumvenit, omniaque orbis  
Praemia correptis miles vagus extruit armis.  
Ingeniosa gula est: Siculo scarus aequore mersus  
Ad mensam vivus perducitur: inde Lucrinis  
Eruta littoribus condunt conchylia caenas:  
Ut renovent per damna famem: jam Phasidos unda  
Orbata est avibus, multoque in littore cantum  
Solae desertis aspirant frondibus aurae.  
Nec minor in campo furor est: emptique Quirites  
Ad praedam strepitumque lucri suffragia vertunt.  
Venalis populus: venalis curia Patrum:  
Est savor in pretio: senibus quoque libera virtus  
Exciderat: sparsisque opibus conversa potestatas:  
Ipsaque majestas auro corrupta jacebat.  
Pellitur à populo victus Cato: tristior ille est  
Qui vicit, fascesque pudet rapuisse Catoni.  
Namque hoc dedecus est populi, morumque ruina.  
Non homo pulsus erat, sed in uno victa potestas,  
Romanumque decus: quare tam perdita Roma  
Ipsa sui merces erat, & sine vindice praeda.  
Praeterea gemino deprensam gurgite praedam,  
Faenoris ingluvies, ususque exederat aeris.  
Nulla est certa domus: nullum sine pignore corpus:  
Sed veluti tabes tacitis concepta medullis,  
Intra membra furens, hiris latrantibus errat.  
Arma placent miseris; detritaque commodo luxu  
Vulneribus reparantur: inops audacia tuta est.  
Hoc mersam caeno Romam, somnoque jacentem  
Quae poterant artes sanâ ratione movere,  
Ni furor, & bellum, furoque excita libido?   

Tres tulerat fortuna duces, quos obruit omnes  
Armorum strue diversâ feralis Enyo.  
Crassum Parthus habet: Libyoo jacet aequore Magnus:  
Julius ingratam perfudit sanguine Romam.  
Et, quasi non posset tot Tellus ferre Sepulchra,  
Divicit cineres: hos gloria reddit honores.   

Est locus exciso penitùs demersus hiatu,  
Parthenopen inter, magnaeque Dicharchidos arva,  
Cocytâ perfusus aquâ, nam spiritus extra  
Qui furit effusus funesto spargitur aestu.  
Non haec Autumno tellus viret, aut alit herbas  
Cespite laetus ager: non verno persona cantu  
Mollia discordi strepitu virgulta loquuntur:  
Sed chaos, & nigro squallentia pumice saxa  
Gaudent ferali circumtumulata cupressu;  
Has inter sedes Ditis pater extulit ora,  
Bustorum flammis & canâ sparsa favillâ:  
Ac tali volucrem Fortunam voce lacessit.   

Rerum humanarum, divinarumque potestas,  
Fors cui nulla placet nimium secura potestas,  
Quae nova semper amas & mox possessa relinquis:  
Ecquid Romano sentis te pondere victam?  
N●…c posse ulteriùs perituram extollere molem?  
Ipsa suas vires odit Romana juventus,  
Et quas struxit opes, male sustinet, aspice latè  
Luxuriam spoliorum & censum in damna furentem.  
Aedificant auro sedesque ad sydera mittunt.  
Expelluntur aquae saxis: mare nascitur arvis,  
Et permutatâ rerum statione rebellant.  
En etiam mea regna petunt, professa dehiscit  
Molibus insanis tellus, jam montibus haustis  
Antra gemunt: & dum varios lapis invenit usus,  
Inferni manes coelum sperare jubentur.  
Quare age, Fors, muta pacatum in praelia vultum  
Romanosque cie, ac nostris da funera regnis,  
Jampridem nullo perfundimus ora cruore,  
Nec mea Tisiphone sitientes perluit artus,  
Ex quo sullanus bibit ensis & horrida tellus  
Extulit in lucem nutritas sanguine fruges.   

Haec ubi dicta dedit dextrae conjungere dextram  
Conatus, rupto tellurem solvit hiatu.  
Tunc Fortuna levi defudit pectore voces:   

O genitor, cui Cocyti, penetralia parent  
Si modo vera mihi fas est impune profari,  
Vota tibi cedent, nec enim minor ira rebellat  
Pectore in hoc, leviorque exurit flamma medullas.  
Omnia quae tribui Romanis arcibus, odi;  
Muneribusque meis irascor: destruet istas  
Idem, qui posuit moles Deus, & mihi cordi  
Quippe cremare viros, & sanguine pascere luxum.  
Cerno equidem geminâ jam stratos morte Philippos,  
Thessaliaeque rogos, & funera gentis Iberae.  
Jam fragor armorum trepidantes personat aures.  
Et Libyae cerno tua Nile gementia claustra  
Actiacosque Sinus, & Apollonis arma frementis.  
Pande age terrarum sitientia regna tuarum;  
Atque animas arcesse novas. Vix navita Porthmeus  
Sufficiet simulacra virum traducere cimba,  
Classe opus est. Tuque ingenti satiare ruina  
Pallida Tisiphone, consisaque vulnera mande.  
Ad Stygios manes laceratus ducitur orbis.   

Vix dum finierat, quum fulgure rupta corusco  
Intremuit nubes, elisosque abscidit ignes.  
Subsedit pater umbrarum, gremioque reducto  
Telluris, pavitans fraternos palluit ictus.  
Continuo clades hominum venturaque damna  
Auspiciis patuere Deum, namque ora crueuto  
Deformis Titan vultus caligine texit.  
Civiles acies jam tum spirare putares.  
Parte alia plenos extinxit Cynthia vultus,  
Et lucem sceleri subduxit. rupta tonabant  
Verticibus lassis montis juga, nec vaga passim  
Flumina per notas ibant morientia ripas.  
Armorum strepitu coelum furit & tuba Martem  
Sideribus transmissa ciet; jamque Aetna voratur  
Ignibus insolitis, & in aethera fulmina mittit.  
Ecce inter tumulos atque ossa carentia bustis  
Vmbrarum facies diro stridore minatur.  
Fax stellis comitata novis incendia ducit;  
Sanguineoque recens descendit Juppiter imbre.  
Haec ostenta brevi solvit Deus. Exuit omnes  
Quippe moras Caesar, vindictaeque actus amore  
Gallica projecit, civilia sustulit arma.   

Alpibus aeriis, ubi Graio nomine pulsae  
Descendunt rupes, & se patiuntur adiri,  
Est locus Herculeis aris sacer; hunc nive dura  
Claudit hiems, canoque ad sydera vertice tollit:  
Coelum illinc cecidisse putes. non solis adulti  
Mansuescit radiis, non verni temporis aura:  
Sed glacie concreta rigens, hiemisque pruinis  
Totum ferre potest humeris minitantibus orbem.  
Haec ubi calcavit Caesar juga milite laeto,  
Optavitque locum, summo de vertice montis  
Hesperiae campos late prospexit, & ambas  
Intentans cum voce manus ad sidera, dixit:   

Juppiter omnipotens, & tu Saturnia Tellus  
Armis laeta meis, olimque onerara triumphis:  
Testor ad has acies invitum arcessere Martem,  
Invitas me ferre manus, sed vulnere cogor,  
Pulsus ab urbe mea, dum Rhenum sanguine vinco,  
Dum Gallos iterum Capitolia nostra petentes  
Alpibus excludo: vincendo, certior exul:  
Sanguine Germano, sexagintaque triumphis,  
Esse nocens coepi, quanquam quos gloria terret,  
Aut qui sunt, qui bella volunt? merc●…dibus emptae,  
Ac viles operae; quorum est mea Roma noverca,  
Ut reor, haud impune; nec hanc sine vindice dextram  
Vinciet ignavus. victores ite ferentes,  
Ite mei comites, & causam dicite ferro.  
Namque omnes unum crimen vocat, omnibus una  
Impendet clades. reddenda est gratia vobis:  
Non solus vici. quare, quia poena trophaeis  
Imminet, & sordes meruit victoria nostra,  
Judice fortuna cadat alea sumite bellum,  
Et tentate manus, certe mea caussa peracta est.  
Inter tot fortes armatus nescio vinci.   

Haec ubi personuit, de coelo Delphicus al●…s  
Omnia laeta dedit, pepulitque meatibus auras.  
Nec non horrendi nemoris de parte sinistra  
Insolita voces flamma sonuere sequenti.  
Ipse nitor Phoebi vulgato laetior orbe  
Crevit & aurato praecinxit fulgure vultus.  
Fortior ominibus movit Mavortia signa  
Caesar; & insolito gressu, prior occupat haustus.  
Prima quidem glacies, & cana juncta pruina  
Non pugnavit humus, mitique horrore quievit:  
Sed postquam turmae nimbos fregere ligatos,  
Et pavidus quadrupes undarum vincula rupit,  
Incaluere nives, mox flumina montibus altis  
Vndabant modo nata: sed haec quoque jussa putares.  
Stabant & vincta fluctus stupuere pruina:  
Et paulo ante lues jam concidenda jacebat.  
Tum vero malefida prius vestigia lusit,  
Decepitque pedes. passim turmaeque virique,  
Armaque congesta strue deplorata jacebant.  
Ecce etiam rigido concussae flamine nubes  
Exonerabantur, nec rupti turbine venti  
Deerant aut tumida confractum grandine coelum:  
Ipsae jam nubes ruptae super arma cadebant,  
Et concreta gelu Ponti velut unda ruebat.  
Victa erat ingenti Tellus nive, victaque coeli  
Sidera, victa suis haerentia flumina ripis:  
Nondum Caesar erat: sed magnam nixus in hastam  
Horrida securis frangebat gressibus arva:  
Qualis Caucasea decurrens arduus arce  
Amphitryoniades, aut torvo Juppiter ore,  
Quum se verticibus magni demisit Olympi,  
Et periturorum disjecit tela Gigantum.  
Dum Caesar tumidas iratus deprimit arces:  
Interea volucer motis conterrita pennis  
Fama volat, summique petit juga celsa Palati:  
Atque hoc Romano attonito fert omnia signa:  
Jam classes fluitare mari, totasque per Alps  
Fervere Germano perfusas sanguine turmas.  
Arma cruor, caedes, incendia, totaque bella  
Ante oculos volitant, ergo pulsata tumultu  
Pectora per dub●…as scinduntur territa causas.  
Huic fuga per terras illi magis unda probatur.  
Et patria est Pontus; jam tutior est magis arma  
Qui tentata velit: fatisque jubentibus actus.  
Quantum quisque timet, tantum fugit: ocyor ipse  
Hos inter motus populus, miserabile visu,  
Quo mens icta jubet, desertâ ducitur urbe.  
Gaudet Roma fugâ, debillatique Quirites  
Rumoris sonitu maerentia tecta relinquunt  
Ille manu trepidâ natos tenet, ille penates  
Occultat gremio, deploratumque relinquit.  
Limen, & absentem votis interficit hostem.  
Sunt qui conjugibus maerentia pectora jungant,  
Grandevosque patres: onerisque ignara juventus  
Id pro quo metuit tantum trahit omnia secum  
Hic vehit imprudens, praedamque in praelia ducit.   

Ac velut ex alto quum magnus inhorruit Auster,  
Et pulsas evertit aquas non arma ministris,  
Non regimen prodest: ligat alter pondera pinûs,  
Alter tuta sinu tranquillaque littora quaerit:  
Hic dat vela fugae Fortunaeque omnia credit.  
Quid tam parva queror? Gemino cum consule Magnus  
Ille tremor Ponti, saevi quoque terror Hydaspis  
Et piratarum scopulus: modo quem ter ovantem  
Juppiter horruerat; quem fracto in gurgite Pontus,  
Et veneratus erat submissâ Bosphorus undâ  
Proh pudor! Imperii deserto nomine fugit,  
Ut Fortuna levis Magni quoque terga videret.   

Tergo tanta lues Diuûm quoque numina vidit;  
Consensitque fugae caeli timor, Ecce per orbem  
Mitis turba Deûm, terras exosa furentes  
Deserit; atque hominum damnatum avertitur agmen  
Pax prima ante alias niveos pulsata lacertos  
Abscondit galeâ victum caput, atque relicto  
Orbe fugax Ditis petit implacabile regnum.  
Huic comes it syncera Fides, & crine soluto  
Justitia, & maerens lacera Concordia palla.  
At contra, sedes Erebi quà rupta dehiscit,  
Emergit latè Ditis chorus horrida Erynnys,  
Et Bellona minax, facibusque armata Megaera:  
Laethumque Insidiaeque, & lurida mortis imago.  
Quas inter Furor, abruptis ceu liber habenis  
Sanguineum latè tollit caput, oraque mille  
Vulneribus confossa cruentâ casside velat.  
Haeret detritus laeuâ Mavortius umbo,  
Innumerabilibus telis gravis: atque flagranti  
Stipite dextra minax terris incendia portat.  
Sentit terra Deos, mirataque sydera pondus  
Quaesiuêre suum, namque omnis regia caeli  
In partes diducta ruit: primumque Dione  
Caesaris acta sui ducit. comes additur illi  
Pallas, & ingentem quatiens Mavortius hastam:  
Magnaque cum Phoebo soror, & Cyllenia proles  
Excipit, ac totis similis Tyrinthius actis.  
Infremuere tubae, ac scisso Discordia crine  
Extulit ad superos Stygium caput. hujus in ore  
Concretus sanguis, contusaque lumina flebant.  
Stabant aerati scabra rubigine dentes;  
Tabo lingua fluens, obsessa draconibus ora  
Atque intertorto laceratam pectore vestem  
Sanguineam tremula quatiebat lampada dextra.  
Haec ut Cocyti tenebras, & Tartara liquit,  
Alta petit gradiens juga nobilis Apennini,  
Unde omnes terras, atque omnia littora posset  
Aspicere, ac toto fluitantes orbe catervas:  
Atque has erumpit furibundo pectore voces:   

Sumite nunc gentes accensis mentibus arma;  
Sumite, & in medias immittite lampadas urbes.  
Vincetur quicunque latet; non foemina cesset,  
Non puer, aut aevo jam desolata senectus.  
Ipsa tremat Tellus, lacerataque tecta rebellent.  
Tu legem Marcelle tene: tu concute plebem  
Curio, tu fortem ne supprime Lentule Martem.  
Quid porro tu Dive tuis cunctaris in armis?  
Non frangis portas? non muris oppida solvis,  
Thesaurosque rapis? nescis tu Magne tueri  
Romanas acies? Epidauria moenia quaere,  
Thessalicosque sinus humano sanguine tingue.  
Factum est in terris, quicquid Discordia jussit.    

Out of the satire of Petronius Arbiter, pag 48.  
YOung men, young men, (said Eumolpus) this same thing called Poetry hath deceived many: for if a man have but set a Verse upon its feet, and swathed his weaker matter with a winding about of words, he thinks himself presently over head and ears in Helicon▪ Therefore, those who have got the practice of pleading or declaiming in public, have frequently fled to the tranquillity of versifying, as to a gentler port: believing it easier to compile a Poem, than an Argument embellished with little sparkling Sentences. But neither doth a more generous spirit affect a tympany, nor a mind conceive, or can be delivered of this birth, that overflows not with a mighty torrent of learning: There must be a flying all cheapness (as I may say) of words, and such language culled out as is above the common people. This is to hate the lay vulgar, and to make them know their distance. Moreover there must be a Care that the Sentences do not hang on't like tassels from the body of the matter, but shine woven thereinto like gold into a silken-garment; witness HOMER, and the Lyrics, and Roman VIRGIL, and HORACE his curious felicity. For others either saw not the way of Poetry, or (seeing) feared to tread it. Behold a great Task, THE CIVIL WAR? Whoever will touch that burden (unless abounding with letters) shall sink under it. For not things done should be comprehended in verse, (which is much better performed by Historians) but the free spirit must throw itself headlong in digressions, and in personating of Gods, and in fabulous ornaments upon the rack of invention: that it may seem rather an ebullition of some prophetic truths, amidst a world of pleasant extravagancies, from a breast inflamed with fury; than a deposition, as of sworn witnesses to tell the truth, all the truth, and nothing but the truth: As for example, this rapture, though it have not received the last hand.  

Now conquering Rome did all the world control,  
From East to West, from one to th' other pole:  
Yet was not satisfied. The plough'd-up Sea  
With brazen keels, was made her common way.  
If any nook were hid, if any Land  
(Which yellow Gold afforded) lay beyand,  
It was a foe, and covetous anger seized  
Whatever wealth. No vulgar pleasure pleased:  
No worn plebeian joy. The Soldiers disht  
Their meat in Silver: and (from Rivers fished)  
The Purple of the Land rivalled the Sea's.  
Here Lybian stones, there silks (the new disease)  
And their perfumed fields, ARABIANS fleece.  
Lo other spoils and wounds of injured Peace!  
In woods is sought the Mauritanian beast,  
And 〈◊〉 farthest Hammon hunted, lest  
That Monster should be wanting, which is slain  
Because his tooth sells dear, instead of Grain.  
Armenian Tigers our Corn-fleets import,  
To be led stalking in a gilded Court:  
And quaff (the people clapping) humane blood.  
I blush to speak, and broach Fates violent flood.  
In Persian guise (years ripening to their harm)  
They grub man up, and with a knife disarm  
The apt for Venus' wars: and, whiles this checks  
Time's horse in his full speed, lost nature seeks  
And cannot find herself: so all approve  
Male Concubines, and which, like Geldings move  
Broke to a pace: Lovelocks and clothes which speak  
All Countries, and no man. Behold they break  
Numidian ground! a Citrian board comes out  
On painted Carpets placed, and round about  
A Troop of waiters stand: and, drowned in wine,  
Upon the floor wallows an herd of Swine.  
A Tree which did a Patrimony cost,  
Fetched (for the ruin of a Land) to boast  
A new Nobility, did counterfeit  
With spots the cheaper gold: On which were set  
By the Earth-rounding- Soldier (that now hurled  
His Arms aside) the spoils of all the world.  
His throat had wit. A Terbot, that did dive  
In Corsic Seas, risen at his Board alive;  
There Oysters pulled out of the Lucrine lake,  
Only for Sauce to lure his hunger back.  
Now Phasian waves are of their birds bereft:  
And the dumb banks (save winds) have nothing left  
To sing amongst the widowed leaves: As dire  
Is the field's fury: The base Romans hire  
Their votes out for the chime, and touch of Gold:  
A venal people: venal Senate sold  
Favour: even Age let her free virtue fall,  
And right by bribes was justled to the wall?  
And Majesty lay flat, with gold sought out,  
Cato himself repulsed was by the rout.  
He that o'ercome more sad, who blushed to see  
That Cato should have fewer votes than he.  
For 'twas the people's, and the time's disgrace:  
'Twas not a man, but virtue lost the place,  
And the old Roman honour: here than lies  
Rome her own Merchant, and own merchandise.  
Besides now use on use, men's principals  
So swelled, it overwhelmed them. No man calls  
His house his own. None uningaged: but debt  
Like to a linger disease, doth fret  
Into their barking bowels, being pained  
They cry to Arms: and wealth with riot drained  
Must heal with wounds: safe WANT sets on fire.  
Cast in this sleep, and rolling in this mire  
What reasons can make Rome, but war and blood?  
Which till theyare felt, are never understood.   

Fortune had raised three Captains, all which feel  
In several ways Enyo's mortal steel.  
In Asia Crassus; Africa Pompey slain:  
Ungrateful Rome great Julius' blood did slain  
And Earth, to poise her load by portions just,  
(Greatness found this respect) divides their dust.   

A wide-mouthed vault descends to Hell's black-hall,  
'Twixt great Dicarchis fields, and Naples wall,  
Laved with Cocytus' streams, whence all the heath  
About is blasted with a Sulphurous breath:  
Where Autumn is the mother of no fruits,  
Out of the Summer's Turf no glad herb shoots,  
No tender sprigs, inspired by vernal songs,  
Are heard to warble with melodious tongues:  
But Chaos, and rocks sweeting with black dew,  
Delight in Canopies of fatal hue.  
Here Pluto risen in funeral flames and smoke,  
And with these words light Fortune did provoke;   

Divine-and- humane-things-commanding- Power,  
Fortune, that likest no height that's too secure,  
That lov'st new things, and (gained) discard'st them strait,  
Shrinkest thou not yet beneath the Roman weight,  
Unable longer to support the Tower  
Of Rome's recoiling Greatness? Their own Power  
The Roman youth abhor, nor bear the piles  
Of wealth they raised. See their vast Lux of spoils,  
And riches cursed into a punishment!  
They build in Gold, and to the Firmament  
Exalt their seats. Here Seas with stones expel,  
There let them in with Sluices, and rebel  
Against inverted Nature. Not I'scape:  
The earth delved through for their wild Heaps doth gape;  
The Mountains shovelled down: the caves now groan  
There, whilst for several uses they dig stone.  
Th' Infernal Ghosts are bid to hope for day:  
Then Fortune turn thy smiles to dreadful fray:  
Possess with rage the Roman breasts, and throng  
Our Realms with funerals. Methinks 'tis long  
Since these black jaws have been with Gore embrued,  
Since my Tisiphone hath bathed in blood  
Her thirsty limbs: since Sylla's sword was drunk,  
And horrid Earth nursed fruits from humane trunk.   

This said, and striving to give her his hand,  
With reaching up he broke the cleaving Land:  
Then Fortune thus from fickle bosom says,   

O Sire, whom all on that side Styx obeys,  
If without danger I the truth may tell,  
Thy wish is granted thee: nor to rebel  
Have I less mind than thou: or boyles my womb  
With a less rage. All I bestowed on Rome  
I hate, and am fallen out with my delight:  
The God that raised these walls, the same shall slight.  
The sweet of burning Towns, of sucking blood,  
Is by me also fully understood.  
I see Philippi with two Chiefs there slain:  
Thessalian tombs: and funerals of Spain.  
The clash of Arms now strikes my trembling ear:  
The groans of Libya: and her Nile I hear:  
And Actium waves: and SOL cry, on. Expand  
The thirsty Kingdoms of thy silent Land:  
And get more Furies help. A boat's too small  
For Charon to waft o'er his souls withal:  
It asks a FLEET: and pale Tisiphone  
With the great ruin do thou gorged be:  
With ragged tusks chaw the tender wounds:  
The mangled world descend●… to Stygian sounds:   

Scarce had she spoke, when (cleft with lightning sheen)  
Trembles a cloud, and darts squeezed, fire between.  
The King of Shades into earth's bosom sunk:  
And from his Brother's thunder frighted, shrunk.  
Forthwith the fates of men, and ills to come  
Heaven shows by signs: for the deformed Sun.  
Veils with a mist his blushing face, as far  
From giving countenance to a civil war.  
The Moon at full (to leave them groping) pops  
Her light out too. The palseyed Mountain-tops  
(Supported with weak necks) come thund ring down.  
Nor wandering Rivers run in channels known,  
To die a natural death. Armies appear  
In th' Air, and Trumpets (even in his own sphere)  
Alarm Mars. Now hotter Aetna burns,  
And thunderbolts for thunderbolts returns.  
Lo! Amongst the Tombs and disinterred bones,  
The Ghastly shadows send up baleful groans!  
A blazing-Star draws an unusual train:  
And a new Jove descends in bloody rain:  
Heaven soon these signs expounds: for Caesar drove  
With his own speed, and sweet revenges love,  
Threw down the gallic, Civil Arms took up.   

On cloudy Alps, where, winding to the top,  
The rocks made passable by Grecian hands,  
A Temple sacred to Alcides stands.  
'Tis thatched with crusted Snow, and blends its grey  
Head to the Stars: how like the milky way!  
It thaws not with the Sun's Meridian rays,  
Nor with the Spring's warm breath: but paved with lays  
Of Ice and feathered Rain, the Heaven it bears:  
For it both threatens and supports the spheres.  
When He (the Soldier glad) these cliffs did tread,  
And touched his wishes, from the Mountain's head  
Stretching his voice, (the Latian fields surveyed)  
And both his hands to Heaven, thus Caesar said.   

All powerful Jove, and thou Saturnian Land  
Triumphant oft, safe always by my hand,  
Witness I come unwilling to this war,  
Unwilling Clash: but such my proud wrongs are,  
Expulsed my Country, whilst I paint with blood  
The Rhine, whilst I the Galls the Alps exclude,  
threatening again the Capitol. Exiled  
Farther by conquering more: the Germans foiled,  
And sixty triumphs are my crime. But who  
Denounce this war? Blind with our beams a crew  
Of trading Souls stepchilds to my Rome,  
But they (I think) shall know too upon whom  
Nor shall mechanic hands bind these with cords.  
Go mine: Go victors: plead the Cause with Swords.  
We all are in one fault: one shame threats all:  
You c●…nquer'd too. If punishment must fall  
On them that beat, if this our triumph be,  
Let the die fall, and Fortune judge for me.  
Take up the war they throw you: try your force:  
If overcome, my case can be no worse.  
But armed, and with such men, that ne'er can hap:   

This said, the Delphic bird her wings did clap,  
(An Omen good) and in a wood beside  
A Bay-tree crackling in strange fire was ' spied.  
APOLLO'S self shone brighter than he used,  
And had a golden glory circumfused.  
Stronger than Omens, Caesar did advance,  
And with unwonted pace first snatched a Lance.  
First bound with ice, and candyed with the driffe  
The earth was quiet with dull horror stiff:  
But when the Troops the clouds gives off, did take,  
And trembling horses the waves fetters broke,  
The heat snows melted; straight new rivers burst  
Out of the hills: these also straight were forced  
To make a stand: whilst (lo) new ice appears,  
And liquid late make work for Pioners.  
Then first deceived the feet the slippery ground,  
And tripped them up, Men, Arms, and wohle Ranks, (round,)  
In heaps deplored? big clouds with tempest's stroke,  
Their burdens threw. Nor blasts with whirlwinds broke,  
Were wanting there, or volleys of gross hail.  
The concrete rain fell rattling on the Mail,  
Like showers of Arrows from a Parthian bow:  
The Earth was overcome with a deep snow:  
The Lamps of heaven o'ercome; with Crystal bitten  
The Rivers overcome; Caesar not yet:  
But leaning on his spear, that would not yield,  
With secure steps he broke the horrid field:  
As when Alcmena's son marched apace,  
Down Caucasus: or with an angry face  
When Jove descended the Olympian hill,  
With Giants blood Phlegraean plains to fill.  
‛ Mean while swift Fame is born with frighted wings,  
And perching on the Capitol, sad things  
Tells the affrighted Romans: that the Main  
Is swarmed with ships: The Alps of a light flame  
With Troops, yet reeking with Sicambrian gore,  
Arms, Blood, Death, Fire, and War is drawn before  
Their eyes from head to foot: which makes them err,  
And see their danger double through their fear.  
This flies by land, this by, and that to Sea,  
So for no land his native changes he.  
He's safest now, the Chance of war that tries,  
And follows fates instinct: He farthest flies  
Whose fear is longest winged: (A grief to say!)  
The people led by wild amazement, stray  
They know not whither: Rome delights in flight,  
And scared Quirites their sad mansions quite;  
At the bare rumour of approaching Arms,  
Those clasp with trembling hand their tender barns:  
These in their bosoms hold their Houshould-Gods:  
And hurry from their desolate abodes:  
And in their prayers kill the absent Foe:  
There are that to their wives sad bosoms grow,  
And bedrid parents: youths impatient heat  
Takes only her, on whom his soul is set.  
Some all, and to the war unwisely sweep  
The prey, for which 'tis made.—   

— As when the deep  
Is ploughed up by Northwinds, and her roul'd hills  
Are knocked together: And the Seamen's skills  
Avail not now, one binds the splitting mast,  
Another to the quiet shore doth haste,  
A third to Sea and Fortune trusts with all.  
What talk I of small things? the General  
With both the Consuls The great Pompey, He  
Terror of dire Hydaspes, and the Sea,  
The Pirates rock, whom (thrice triumphing late)  
Jove trembled at, lest he should shake his state:  
Whom Pontus (having crushed it's watery braves)  
And Bosphorus adored with crouching waves:  
(Oh shame) deserting the State's rudder, fled:  
That fickle Fortune might t'have seen be said  
Even Pompey's back. A flight authorised so,  
Involved the Gods, and Heaven his back did show▪  
See a mild troop of Gods (loathing the rage  
That regins in mortals) take a pilgrimage,  
From a damned crew of Earthlings: And first Peace  
(Beating her snowy Arms) her vanquished face  
Hides with a cask, and flying from the light,  
Seeks the hushed mansions of eternal Night:  
With Her pure FAITH, and JUSTICE, (her sword br●…ke)  
And CONCORD in a rent and mourning Cloak.  
On th'other side where Hell's wide jaws respire,  
Grim Pluto's train springs rife: Erinnys dire,  
And fierce Bellona, and flame-girt Megeare,  
And Death, and Fraud, and multiplying Fear.  
Amongst whom Rage, like Bacchus (his reins broke)  
Runs headlong, and with bloody helm doth Cloak  
A thousand ugly faces digged with wounds  
With heavy shafts: a Martial Target sounds  
Worn with his left, and from his right hand hurled  
A blazing firebrand terrifies the world.  
The stars are posed: lightheaded Atlas reels;  
Wondering to miss the weight that poised heaven's wheels.  
The factious Gods come down on earth to side.  
And Venus first her Caesar justify'de,  
Pallas with her, and Mars that shakes a whol●…  
Oak for a spear●…; and with his Sister, SOL:  
And ATLAS GRANDSON and Alcides (found  
Like him in all his acts) The trumpets sound,  
And DISCORD with torn hair, her Stygian head  
Advances from a dell, her dim dies shed  
Instead of tears a blotted shower of blood:  
Two tire of brazen grinders rusty stood:  
Her tongue overflows with gore: her snaky locks  
Hang down over her face: and through her Frocks  
Wide-gaping Rent, thrusting a bloody hand  
About her head she tossed a flaming brand.  
She leaving Hell, and where sad rivers join,  
Touched the high top of noble Apennine:  
From whence each realm and sea she might command,  
And view the Troops that roll on every Land:  
Then burst into these words, with fury warm,   

Arm all the world with fell intentions: arm:  
Sho●…t flames in midst of Towns (who e'er he be  
That stands a Neuter, is the Victor's fee.)  
Fight Boys, fight Maids, fight Old men near your end.  
Quake Earth, and shattered stones rebel.— Defend  
The laws Marcellus.— Do thou Curio preach  
Up tumults.— Lentulus do not impeach  
Thy Martial spirits working.— What makest thou  
Julius the while freezing in Armour? now  
Enter the gates, or scale the walls, and break  
The Roman Fisk.— Pompey art thou too weak  
To keep Rome's Towers? to EPIDAMNUM pass  
The Ominous Scene, and die Thessalian grass  
With Roman blood. To all that DISCORD said,  
EARTH cried 'Tis done: and her command obeyed.    

The Translator's POSTSCRIPT.  
HEre PETRONIUS breaks off abruptly, thereby as well as in many imperfect places of his own Copy, proving as good as his word, that he had not added thereto the last hand. In which thing alone I have translated him to the life, for neither have I added mine to the English: only making so much use thereof, as to show the Rule and Model, which (indubitably) guided our CAMOENS in the raising his GREAT BUILDING, and which (excep●… himself) that I know of, no POET ever followed that wrought in great, whether ancient, or modern. For (to name no more) the Greek HOMER, the Latin VIRGIL, our SPENCER, and even the Italian TASSO (who had a true, a great, and no obsolete story, to work upon) are in effect wholly fabulous: and LUCAN (though worthily admired) is as much censured by some on the other side, for sticking too close to truth. As FABIUS for one;— LUCAN full of flame and vigour, and most perspicuous in his Sentences: yet (that I may speak what I think) rather to be reckoned amongst the ORATORS than the POETS. And SERVIUS for another, with less manners in his expression; That which I said, that the Art of Poetry is forlidden to set down a naked story, is certain: for LUCAN deserved not to be in the number of POETS, because he seems to have compiled a HISTORY, rather than a POEM. Amounting to the same which is objected above in the Introduction to this Essay (which glanceth particularly at LUCAN) and mended (as the Author thereof conceived) by the Essay itself, which is of a mixed nature between Fable and History.   

TORQUATO TASSO. in his 6 Part. fol. 47.  

VASCO, te cui felici ardite Antenne  
Incontro all Sol, che ne riporta il giorno,  
Spiegar le vele, e fer colà Ritorno,  
Dove egIi par che di cadere accenne:   

Non piu di Te per aspro mar sostenne  
Quell, i fece a CICLOPE oltraggio, & scorno:  
Ne chi turbo l'Arpie nel suo soggiorno,  
Ne diè piu bell Subjetto. a Colt pen.   

Ft hor quella del colto, e buon LUIGI  
Tant' oltre stende il glorioso volo  
Che j tuoi spalmati Legni andar men lung.   

Ond' a quelli, a cui S'alza il nostro polo,  
Et a chi ferina incontra j suoi vestigi,  
Per lui del corso tuo la fama aggiunge.   

VASCO, whose bold and happy ships against  
The Rising Sun (who fraights them home with day)  
Displayed their wings, and back again advanced  
To where in Seas all Night he steeps his Ray:   

Not more than Thou on rugged Billows felt,  
He that bored out the Eye of POLYPHEME;  
Nor He that spoiled the HARPIES where they dwelled,  
Afforded Learned Pens a fairer Theme.   

And this of Learned and honest CAMOENS  
So far beyond now takes its glorious flight,  
That thy breathed Sails went a less Journey, Whence  
To Those on whom the Northern Pole shines bright,   

And Those who set their feet to ours, The boast  
Of thy Long Voyage Travails at his Cost.    

 
  

THE LUSIAD OF Lewis Camoens.  
First Canto.  

STANZA. 1.  
Arms, and the Men above the vulgar File,  
Who from the Western Lusitanian shore  
Past even beyond the Trapobanian-Isle,  
Through Seas which never Ship had sailed before;  
Who (brave in action, patiented in long Toil,  
Beyond what strength of humane nature bore.)  
Mongst Nations, under other Stars, acquired  
A modern Sceptre which to Heaven aspired.   

2.  
Likewise those Kings of glorious memory,  
Who sowed and propagated where they passed  
The Faith with the new Empire (making dry  
The Breasts of ASIA, and laying waste  
Black AFRICA'S vicious Glebe; And Those who by  
Their deeds at home left not their names defaced,  
My Song shall spread where ever there are Men,  
If Wit and Art will so much guide my Pen.   

3.  
Cease man of TROY, and cease thou Sage of GREECE,  
To boast the Navigations great ye made;  
Let the high Fame of ALEXANDER cease,  
And TRAIAN'S Banners in the EAST displayed:  
For to a Man recorded in this Piece  
NEPTUNE his Trident yielded, MARS his Blade.  
Cease All, whose Actions ancient Bards expressed:  
A brighter Valour rises in the West:   

4.  
And you (my TAGUS' Nymphs) since ye did raise  
My Wit t'a more then ordinary flame;  
If I in low, yet tuneful Verse, the praise  
Of your sweet River always did proclaim:  
Inspire me now with high and thundering lays;  
Give me them clear and flowing like his stream:  
That to your Waters PHOEBUS may ordain  
They do not envy those of HIPPOCRENE.   

5.  
Give me a mighty Fury, Nor rude Reeds  
Or rustic Bagpipes sound, But such as War's  
Loud Instrument (the noble Trumpet) breeds,  
Which fires the Breast, and stirs the blood to jars.  
Give me a Poem equal to the deeds  
Of your brave Servitors (Rivals of MARS)  
That I may sing them through the UNIVERSE,  
If, whom That held not, can be held in Verse.   

6.  
And you, a present Pawn to PORTUGAL  
Of the old Lusitanian-Libertie;  
Nor the less certain Hope t'extend the Pale  
One day, of narrow CHRISTIANITY:  
New Terror of the moorish Arsenal:  
The foretold Wonder of our Centurie:  
Given to the World by GOD, the World to win,  
To give to GOD much of the World again.   

7.  
You, fair and tender Blossom of that Tree  
Beloved by Him, who died on One for Man,  
More than whatever Western MAJESTY  
Is styled MOST CHRISTIAN, or CAESAREAN.  
Behold it in your Shield! where you may see  
ORIQUE'S Battle, which ALPHONSO won,  
In which CHRIST gave for Arms, for you t▪ emboss,  
The same which He himself bore on the Cross.   

8.  
You (powerful King), whose Empire vast the Sun  
Visits the first as soon as he is born,  
And eyes it when his Race is halfway run,  
And leaves it loathe when his tired Steeds adjourn.  
You, who we look should clap a yoke upon  
The brutish ISHMAELITE, become your scorn;  
On th' Eastern TURK, and GENTIL who still lies  
Sucking the stream which watered PARADISE.   

9  
That Majesty which in th'▪ s Brow appears  
(This tender one) suspend for a small time,  
Already such, as in your perfect years  
When FAME'S immortal Temple you shall climb  
Those milder eyes, with which you banish Fears,  
bend to the ground: on which, by numerous Rhyme,  
You'll see in me a Passion overgrown,  
To make the Portugal-Atchievemenes known.   

10.  
You'll see a strange love to my Native-soyle,  
Not moved with Vile but high immortal Meed:  
For, to be counted is a Meed not vile  
The Trumpet of the Nest where I was bred.  
By That, their names drawn great, and laid in oil  
You'll see, of whom you are the sovereign Head:  
And judge, which is the greater Honour Then  
To be King of the World, or of such Men.   

11.  
Hear me, I say, for not for Actions vain,  
Fantastic, Fabulous, shall you behold  
Yours praised, though foreign Muses (to obtain  
Name to themselves) have even feigned names extolled.  
Your Subjects true Acts are so great, they stain  
And credit all the Lies of others told.  
Slain RHODOMONT, that puff ROGERO too,  
And MAD ORLANDO, grant their deeds were true.   

12.  
For These, I give you a fierce NUNNIO  
Who King and Country propped, almost alone.  
An EGAS, a Don FUAS, whose worths to show  
I wish my Voice could reach great HOMER'S tone.  
For the twelve Peers, I other twelve bestow  
That past to ENGLAND, and MAGRIZZO one.  
Th' illustrious GANIA in the Rear I name,  
Who robbed the wand'ring Trojan of his Fame.   

13.  
Then (if to Match with CHARLES THE GREAT of FRANCE,  
Or one you seek to rival CAESAR'S name)  
The first ALPHONSO see, who with his Lance  
Eclipses whatsoever outlandish Fame!  
And Him, who by successful Valiance  
Rescued and snatched his Realm from civil Flame!  
The second JOHN, unconquered by the sword!  
The Fourth and Fift ALPHONSO, and the Third!   

14.  
Nor shall my Verses in Oblivion leave  
Those CHIEFS, who, in the Kingdoms of the Morn,  
Their name in Arms unto the stars did heave,  
By whom your ever-conqu'ring Flag was born:  
Matchless PACHECO: Two ALMEYDAS brave,  
Whom weeping TAGUS will for ever mourn:  
Terrible ALBURQUERQUE: CASTRO bold:  
And more, whom death had not the power to hold.   

15.  
And whilst I These do sing, and dare not you,  
Great King (for I aspire not to that height)  
Take you your Kingdom's reins your Hand into,  
And furnish matter for a loftier flight,  
Whilst your new worth may meet a Vein as new.  
Your numerous Fleets, and Armies ponderous weight,  
Let the World groan with, and their terrour ●…eize  
The AFRICA- LandsLands, and ORIENTAL- Seas.   

16.  
On you with fixed eyes looks the cold MOOR,  
In whom he reads his ruin prophecy'de:  
The barbarous GENTILE (viewing you) is sure  
You'll yoke his neck, and bows it to be tied.  
The silver THETYS' offers you in dow're  
All her blue Realm, and doth the same provide.  
Took with your Face (where love is mixed with Awe)  
She seeks to buy you for her Son-in-Law.   

17.  
In you, out of their Blissful Bowers Above  
Your Grandsire's souls (both famous in their way,  
The one in golden peace, which Angels love,  
Tother in bloody War) themselves survey.  
In you they hope their glories shall improve,  
Their Virtues be recoynd with less Alloy:  
And wide they sit, to keep for you a room  
In heavens eternal Temple against you come.   

18.  
But now, because your time creeps slowly an  
To rule your People, who much wish it so;  
Play with the new Attempt of a bold man,  
That up with you this Infant- muse may grow;  
And you shall spy ploughing the Ocean  
Your ARGONAUTS, that they may also know  
You see them tossed upon the angry Brine:  
And use yourself to be invoked betime.   

19  
They now went sailing in the OCEAN vast,  
Parting the snarling Waves with crooked Bills:  
The whispering Zephyre breathed a gentle Blast,  
Which stealingly she spreading Canvas fills:  
With a white foam the Seas were overcast,  
The dancing Vessels cutting with their Keels  
The Waters of the Consecrated DEEP,  
Where PROTHEUS' Flocks their Rendezvouses keep.   

20.  
When in the HEAVEN OF heavens the Deities,  
That have of humane things the Government,  
Convene in glorious Council, to advise  
On future matters of the ORIENT.  
Treading in Clusters the Diaphane skies  
Through the Milky way their course they bent,  
Assembled at the THUNDERER'S command  
By Him That bears the Caduceian Wand.   

21.  
They leave the patronage of the seven spheres  
Which by the HIGHEST POWER to them was given:  
The HIGHEST POWER, who with an eyebrow steers  
The Earth, the raging Ocean, and the Heaven.  
There, in a moment, every one appears;  
Those, where Bootes' wain is slowly driven,  
Those, who inhabit South, and where the Sun  
Is born, and where his golden Race is done.   

22.  
With an austere and high Majestic grace  
Upon a Crystal Throne, with stars embossed,  
Sublime THE FATHER ●…ate (worthy that place)  
By whom the Bolts, dire VULCAN forged, are tossed.  
An Odoriferous Air blew from his face,  
Able to breathe new life in a pale Ghost:  
A Sceptre in his Hand, and his Head crowned  
With one stone, brighter than a Dia●…ownd.   

23.  
On glittering chairs (imbroyd'red richly o'er  
With infinite of Pearls and finest Gould)  
The other Deities were placed lower,  
As Reason and the Herald Order would:  
The Seniors first, to honour them the more,  
And after them those who were not so old:  
When thus the most high JOVE the silence broke,  
With such a voice as made OLYMPUS shake.   

24  
Eternal dwellers of the Tower divine,  
And Impirean-Hall with starred Vault;  
If the much Virtue of the valiant Line,  
Of LUTUS be not worn out of your Thought;  
You needs must know what the great FATES design  
To crown the former Wonders Those have wrought,  
That they shall darken with their evening-Glory  
Th' ●…ssyrian, Persian, Greek, and Roman story.   

25.  
Yourselves were witnesses, with what a poor.  
And naked Army it was given to Them  
To take from the well-fixed, and numerous MOOR  
All that sweet TAGUS' waters with his stream.  
Then against the stout Castilian-Warriour  
Heaven still beheld them with a favouring beam:  
And still in fine with glory and Renown  
The hanging Trophies did their Church's crown.   

26.  
I speak not (Gods) of that more ancient name  
Which with the Queen of Nations they did get  
When (led by VIRIATUS) so great fame  
They won, whilst They and hostile ROME were met.  
I pass their other Clash with that proud Dame  
(Which 'tis impossible you should forget)  
When a Bandito did their Truncheon bear,  
Who feigned himself inspired by a tame Dear:   

27.  
See now, how trusting to uncertain Waves  
In a frail Bark, through ways untrod before  
(Fearless of horrid Boreas, and the Braves  
Of the fierce Southern wind) they throw at more!  
How (having yoked before that Sea which laves  
AFRICA'S North-side, and yoked her Southern-shore)  
They bend their purpose and their forces turn  
To win the Cradle of the budding MORN.   

28.  
To Them is promised by eternal FATE  
(Whose high decrees no Power can ere revoke)  
To be perpetual Porters of that Gate  
Through which the Sun first guides his silver spoke.  
They've spent at Sea the bitter Winter s date;  
The men are harast, and with Travail broke.  
'Tis now high time (as it appears to me)  
To show them that new Land where they would be.   

29  
And therefore, since they have (as you have seen)  
So many dangers in this Voyage past;  
Tossed through so many Seas and Climates been;  
Of so sharp adverse Winds felt many a Blast;  
I purpose now they shall as friends be in  
The AFRICA- Land refreshed with some Repast;  
And, having victual d there their wearied Fleet,  
Proceed in their long course as it is meet.   

20.  
Thus JOVE: when in their course of Parliament  
The Gods replied in order as they Sat,  
And to and fro by way of Argument  
Upon the matter calmly did debate.  
Then FATHER BACCHUS stiffly did descent  
From what great JOVE proposed; As knowing, that  
His Fame i'th' EAST must suffer an eclipse  
Should there arrive the Lusitanian-ships.   

31.  
He of the FATES had understood, from SPAIN  
How that a warlike People was to come  
Through the middle of the OCEAN,  
Which all the Indian-Coast should overcome,  
And which, with modern Victories, should slain  
All old ones, whether foreign, or their own.  
It grieved him sore, those Actions should be drowned  
Which still in NYSA made his name resound.   

32.  
He looks on INDIA as his old Acquest,  
From whom nor Time, nor deeds by others done,  
Had rob d the stile of conqueror OF THE EAST,  
By All That taste the streams of Helicon.  
But now he fears that glory's near its West,  
In the black Water of Oblivion  
To set, should their desired Port obtain  
The valiant PORTINGALLS That Plough the Main.   

33.  
Fair VENUS holds up the contrary Theme  
Affected to the Lusitanian-Nation,  
For the much likeness she observed in Them  
To her old ROME, for which she had such passion,  
In their great hearts, in the propitious beam  
Of their to-AFFRICK-fatal constellation,  
And in the charming music of their Tongue,  
Which she thinks Latin with small dross among.   

34  
These things did CYTHEREA move: But more  
Because from FATE of truth she heard it said  
That at those LANDS her Altars should adore  
Where this Victorious People should be spread.  
So one, to keep what was his own before,  
Tother, to gain new honours to her head,  
Contest and stickle for their several ends,  
And Both are backed and favoured by their Friends.   

35.  
As when the fierce Southwind, and fiercer North,  
Have got into the thickest of a WOOD,  
Breaking the Boughs to force a passage forth  
Through matted shades, impetuous and wood;  
The Air that yells, and all the mountain roar'th,  
The Leaves are scattered, and the strong Rocks moved:  
Such was the tumult which amongst the GOD'S  
Was raised then in the Supreme Abodes.   

36.  
But MARS, who, with more cordialness did take  
Then any of the rest, the GODDES' part;  
Whether it were for old Affection-sake,  
Or for this valiant People's own desert  
(His look confessed him vexed before he spoke)  
Amongst the GOD'S upon his feet did start.  
His heavy Target, at his shoulder hung,  
(Displeased▪ and dreadful) he behind him fling.   

37.  
Lifting a little up his Helmet-sight  
('twas Adamant) with confidence enough  
To give his Vote himself he placed right  
Before the Throne of JOVE, armed, valiant, tough:  
And (giving with the butt end of his Pike  
A great thump on the floor of purest stuff)  
The heavens did tremble, and APOLLO'S light  
It went, and came, like colour in a fright.   

38.  
And thus he said; O Sire, whose will (whate'er)  
All which thou hast created must obey:  
If These, who seek another Hemisphere,  
Thou wouldst not have to perish in the way,  
Whose deeds and Valour once thou heldst so dear,  
And didst of old ordain what they assay:  
Then hear no more (since thou'rt a Judge upright)  
Reasons, from one who sees by a false light.   

39  
For if sound Reason did not plainly show  
Itself here vanquished by excess of Fear,  
'Twere prop▪ rer BACCHUS should his pains bestow  
For LUSUS' Race, who was his Minion dear.  
But let this spleen of his at present go;  
" 'tis an ill stomach rising at good cheer:  
" And envy never found the way in fine  
" To do Man right, or what the GOD'S design.   

40.  
And Thou (the Father of great Constancy)  
From the determination thou hast taken  
Recoil not." It is imbecility  
" When once a Thing's begun, then back to look.  
But ●…ince in speed the winged MERCURY  
Outstrips the Winds, a Shaft, the swiftest Brook.  
Let Him now show them to some Country, where  
They may refresh, and news of INDIA hear.   

41.  
The powerful Father having said the same,  
Gave with a nod the SOVEREIGN Assent  
To that which MARS said here with greater flame,  
And over All his holy Nectar sprent.  
Straight through the milky way, by which they came,  
The GOD'S to their respective Stations went,  
Making a low obeisance to the Throne  
As they passed by in Order one by one.   

42.  
Whilst this in the HIGH-COURT is passing now  
And beautiful OF HEAVEN Omnipotent;  
The warlike People the salt Ocean plough  
Leaving the South, and face the Orient,  
'Twixt MADAGASCAR'S Isle, where all things flow,  
And ETHIOPIA'S barren Continent.  
'Twas in that month, when SOL the Fishes fries  
To which feared BRONTES turned two DEITIES.   

43  
So pleasantly they went before a Wind  
As those That now had got the Heaven to friend.  
Serene the Air was, and the Wether kind:  
No Cloud, nor aught that danger might portend.  
The PROMONTORY PRASSUS left behind,  
Which ancient ETHIOPIA doth defend,  
NEPTUNE disclosed new Isles which he did play  
About, and with his billows danced the Hay.   

44.  
VASCO DE GAMA (a most valiant Guide,  
Born and picked out for that great Enterprise,  
Of a high Soul, and strongly fortify'de,  
Who FORTUNE to him by his Boldness ties)  
Stands off, to leave this Land upon one side,  
Thinking, that uninhabited it lies;  
And on his course determines to proceed:  
But otherwise the matter did succeed.   

45.  
For straight, out of that Isle which seemed most near  
Unto the Continent, Behold a number  
Of little Boats in company appear,  
Which (clapping all wings on) the long Sea sunder!  
The men are rapt with joy, and, with the mere  
Excess of it, can only look, and wonder.  
What Nation's this (within themselves they say)?  
What Rites? what Laws? what King do they obey?   

46.  
Their coming, thus: in Boats, with fins; nor flat,  
But apt t'o're-set (as being pinched and long)  
And then they'd swim like Rats. The Sails, of Mat  
Made of Palm-leaves, wove curiously and strong.  
The men's Complexion, the selfsame with that  
HE gave the Earth's burnt parts (from Heaven fling,)  
Who was more brave, then wise; That this is True  
The Po doth know, and LAMPETUSA rue.   

47  
The clothes, they came in, were a Cotton- Plad  
With divers Colours stripd, and white the ground;  
Which some cast quaintly under one arm, had;  
Others, about their Middles straight bound;  
All else from the waste up remained unclad:  
Their weapons, Skeyns, and crooked Falchions: Round  
Terbants upon their heads; and, as they rowed,  
Resounded Timbrels in an antic Mode.   

48.  
Waving their hands and kerchers, These made sign  
To those of LUSITANIA to stay:  
But the swift Prows already did incline  
To come to Anchor in the Island's Bay.  
Land-men, and Seamen in this work All join,  
As all their labours should have end that day.  
They haule the Ropes; strike, strike, the crew resounds:  
The salt Sea (stricken with the Anchor) bounds.   

49.  
They were not Anchored, when the uncouth Folk  
Already by the Cordage did ascend.  
Their jovial countenances welcome spoke,  
To whom the Lordly Chief did (courteous) bend.  
Bids straight the Board's be spread, the Bottles smoke,  
With that rich juice which is the Poet's friend.  
Ours power it into Bowls, and All They fill  
The burnt by PHAETHON spare not to swill.   

50.  
They ask (and still the cheerie Bowl goes round)  
In the Arabick-language, WHENCE THE FLEET?  
Who, and of whence, the men; and WHITHER BOUND,  
And through what Seas It came where now they see't?  
Hereto the valiant LUSITANIANS found  
Such answers as were proper, and discreet:  
We are the PORTUGHESES of the WEST,  
We go to seek the Countries of the EAST.   

51.  
All the great OCEAN have we sailed, and crossed,  
To the Antarctic from the Arctic Strand  
Gone all the Round of AFRICA'S spacious Coast;  
We have felt many a Clime, seen many a Land.  
We serve a potent King, who hath engrossed  
His People's loves so, that, at his command,  
With cheerful faces, not vast Seas alone,  
But we would pass the Lake of ACHERON.   

52.  
And 'tis by that command we travel now  
To seek the Eastern Land which INDIES laves:  
By that this distant Ocean-Sea we plough,  
Where none but Monsters sailed the horrid Waves.  
But now 'tis reason, We should likewise know  
(If Truth have found a Harbour in your Caves)  
Who you are? what this Land in which you dwell?  
Or, if of INDIA you can Tidings tell?   

53  
We are (one of the Isle replying said)  
Strangers unto this People, Law, and Place;  
The Natives being such, as Heaven hath made  
Without the light of Reason, or of Grace.  
We have a Law of TRUTH, which was conveyed  
To Us from that New-light of ABRAMS Race,  
Who holds the World now in subjection due,  
By Father, GENTILE; and, by Mother, JEW.   

54.  
This little Isle (a barren healthless Nook)  
Of all these Parts is the most noted Scale  
For such as at QUILOA'S Traffic look,  
Or to MOMBASSA, and SOFALA, sail.  
Which makes Us here some inconvenience brook,  
To gather, for a mortal life, and frail:  
And (to inform you in one word of All)  
This little Isle Men MOZAMBIQUE call.   

55.  
And now (since you come seeking through long toil  
INDIAN-HYDASPES, and the Spicy Strand)  
You shall have such a Pilot from this Isle,  
As through the waves the way doth understand.  
'Twere also good, you here reposed a while,  
And took in fresh provisions from the Land;  
And that our Governor did come Aboard,  
To see what else may need for Him t'afford.   

56.  
This the Barbarian, and retreated then  
Into his Boats with all his company,  
Departing from the Captain, and his Men,  
With demonstrations of due Courtesy.  
Mean time APOLLO in the Sea did pen  
The golden day, and down to sleep doth lie  
Leaving his Sister so much Torch to burn  
As may suffice the World till he return.   

57  
With unexpected joy their hearts on float,  
Blithely they pass the Night in the tired Fleet;  
To think that in a Country so remote  
The news so long desired they should meet.  
Within themselves they ruminate, and note  
The men's odd fashion, and admire to see't,  
Or how a People of their damned way  
Can take such root, and bear so vast a sway.   

58.  
The silver Moon's reverberated Ray  
Trembled upon the Crystal Element;  
Like Flowers in a great Mead, at middle May,  
The stars were in the azure Firmament.  
The furious Winds all hushed and sleeping lay  
In drowsy Hyperborean Caves dark-pent  
Yet those of the Armada do not sleep,  
But in their turns accustomed watches keep.   

59  
And when AURORA left her Spicy Bed,  
Shaking her dewy locks the Earth upon;  
And drawing, with a lilly-hand, the red  
Transparent Curtains of the waking Sun,  
To work go All; over the Decks to spread  
The shadowing Sails, and all their Streamers d▪ on,  
To entertain with feasting and with joy  
(Advancing in his Barge) the Isle's VICEROY.   

60.  
Merrily sailing he advanced, to see  
The Lusitanian-Frigates in the Road,  
With fresh provisions from the Land: For He  
Still hopes, they are of that inhuman Brood,  
Which, from their mountains near the CASPIAN SEA,  
The fruitful Lands of ASIA overflowed;  
And, by permission of the POWER DIVINE,  
Usurped the Empire of GREAT CONSTANTINE.   

61.  
The Captain, with a mien benevolent,  
Receives the MOOR, and all his company.  
Things of great price he doth to Him present,  
For such Occasions carried purposely:  
Gives him Preserves, and gives him of that quaint  
Unusual liquor which gives jollity.  
The MOOR receives it all in courteous part,  
But what he Eats and Drinks most glads his heart.   

62.  
The nimble Lusitanian Mariners  
Upon the shrowds in admiration hung,  
To see a mode so different from theirs,  
And barbarous gibberish of that broken Tongue.  
No less confused the subtle MOOR appears,  
Eyeing their colour, habit, and ships strong.  
Then, ask all things; This, amongst the rest,  
If happily they came from TURKEY, pressed.   

63.  
Moreover, to behold desireth He  
The Books of their Religion, Law, and Faith:  
To see, if with his own the same agree  
Or that of CHRIST (as he suspects) he saith.  
And (that he All may note, and All may see)  
He prays the Captain, show him what he hath  
Of Arms, which by his Nation used are  
When with their Enemies they go to War.   

64.  
To whom the valiant Captain made reply  
By one well ver●…ed in that Bastard-Tongue:  
Illustrious Lord, I shall to thee descry  
My Self, my Faith, and th' Arms I bring along.  
Neither of Turkish-blood nor breed, am I;  
Nor of a Country that delights in wrong.  
In fair and warlike EUROPE was I born,  
I seek the famous Kingdoms of the MORN.   

65.  
We worship HIM, who is by every Nature,  
(Invisible, and visible) obeyed,  
HIM, who the Hemispheres, and every Creature,  
(Insensible, and sensible) hath made:  
Who gave Us his, and took on Him our feature:  
Whom to a shameful death his own betrayed:  
And who from HEAVEN to Earth came down in fine,  
That Man, by HIM from Earth to HEAVEN might climb.   

66.  
Of this GOD-MAN sublime, and infinite,  
The Books which thou desirst I have not brought,  
For that in Books we need not bring that Writ,  
Which (written in our Hearts) we have by rote.  
For th' Arms, whereof thou hast desired to get  
A sight, with all my heart I do allowed,  
To see them as a Friend; For well I know,  
Thou ne'er wilt wish to see them as a Foe.   

67.  
This having said, the ready- Officers  
He doth command to show the Magazeen.  
Out come the Backs, and Breasts, glittering and terse;  
Fine mails, safe Coats, with quilted plates between;  
Bucklers, where various Imagery appears;  
Ball, Led, and Iron; Muskets of Steel sheen;  
Strong Bows, and Quivers with barbd Arrows wedged;  
Sharp Partesans; and Halberds double edged.   

68  
The morter-pieces come; and with them came  
(Confounding where they light) Granades dire;  
Yet would he not permit the sons of Flame  
Unto the dreadful Cannon to give fire.  
For valiant spirits (which are still the same  
With generous) to boast their utmost Ire,  
To few, and timid souls, cannot endure  
" To be a LYON among Sheep, 'tis poor.   

69.  
But now the MOOR from what he heard and viewed,  
(All which he did observe attentively)  
Conceived within his Breast a certain feud,  
A root of Envy, and Malignity;  
Yet no such thing his outward gestures showed:  
But, with a smiling hollow Courtesy,  
He with himself resolves to treat them fair,  
Till he his purpose may by deeds declare.   

70.  
Pilots the Captain at his hands doth pray,  
His Ships as far as INDIA to guide:  
Assuring him they shall with ample pay  
For all their pains therein be satisfy'de.  
The MOOR consents; but still the poison lay  
Close, where it was, invenoming his side:  
For, had he power of blasting with his breath,  
Instead of Pilots, he would give him death.   

71.  
So great the hate was, and so great the spite,  
Which to the strangers suddenly he took;  
Knowing they follow that unerring light,  
The SON OF DAVID holds out in his BOOK.  
" O the deep secrets of that INFINITE  
" Into the which no mortal eye can look!  
" That They, whom THOU to be thy friends hast chose  
" Should never be without perfidious Foes.   

72.  
The treacherous MOOR, when he his fill had seen,  
Departeth from the Frigates with his Crew  
(As false in heart, as flattering in his mien)  
And feigned Regards on all the Seamen threw.  
Through the short Traverse of the humid Green  
The Boats had quickly cut, when, welcomed to  
The shore, and met by an obsequious Train,  
To his known House they wait him back again.   

73.  
The famous THEBAN from th' aethereal Hall  
(He, in his Thigh, whom JOVE his Father bore)  
Seeing this meeting with the PORTUGAL  
Is an abomination to the MORE;  
Hath in his Brain a Stratagem, which shall  
(He hopes) destroy him quite upon that score.  
Now whilst this plot is forging in his head,  
Unto himself these angry words he said;   

74.  
Is it already then by FATE ordained,  
That so great Victories, and so renowned,  
Shall by the men of PORTUGAL be gained  
On warlike People, and on Indian Ground?  
And I (son of the HIGHEST, unprofaned  
With carnal mixture, and in whom are found  
Such rare Endowments) must I suffer FATE  
To a mere man my honours to translate?   

75.  
Unto the son of PHILIP it is true  
Such power the GOD'S did in those parts afford,  
'Twas one with Him, to See, and to subdue,  
And MARS himself did homage to his Sword.  
But can it be endured, that to so Few  
FATE such stupendious puissance should accord,  
That that of MACEDON, of ROME, and MINE,  
The LUSITANIAN GLORY should outshine?   

76.  
It must not, nor it shall not. For before  
This Swabber shall arrive the wished Land,  
I'll spin him such a Webb on yonder shore,  
That he shall never see the Eastern-strand.  
I'll down to Earth, and spur th'enraged MORE:  
" The Iron cools that suffered is to stand.  
" And who so means a business sure to make,  
" He by the foretop must occasion take.   

77.  
Thus saying (vexed, and little less than mad)  
Upon the Affrick-shore he did descend,  
Where, in a humane shape and visage clad,  
To neighbouring PRASSUS he his course doth bend.  
The shape he took on him (thereby his bad  
And false design the better to commend)  
Was of a MOOR in MOZAMBIQUE known,  
Old, wise, and with the GOVERNOR all one.   

78.  
And (entering to his Patron when he spied  
The fittest season to infuse his guile)  
He tells him; These, who in the Harbour ride,  
Are men That live by robbery and spoil:  
That Fame, from Nations ranged on the Seaside,  
With hue and cry pursued them to their Isle,  
Of whom these Vagabonds a Booty made  
When they had anchored with pretence of Trade.   

79.  
Moreover I would have thee know (quoth He)  
These bloody CHRISTIANS (as I understand)  
With Flames and Piracies have filled the Sea,  
As well as with their Robberies the Land;  
And that they have it in design, how We  
May be reduced too to their proud command:  
How they may rob us of our goods, and lives,  
And take for Slaves our children, and our Wives.   

80.  
And this I know, to morrow by daybreak  
To come on shore for water they intent,  
Armed, with their Captain: Can Men plainer speak?  
" They mischief mean, to fear it, who pretend.  
Thou, armed with thine, the same advantage take;  
Them in close ambush quietly attend:  
Who, thinking to catch thee at unawares,  
Will come with ease to fall into thy snares.   

81.  
And, should it so fall out, that by this feat  
They should not wholly be destroyed, and slain;  
Another Plot (the which will give thee great  
Content, I'm sure) I have within this Brain.  
Send them a Pilot, skill d so in deceit,  
And how to lay an undiscerned Train,  
That he may lead them blinded, where they may  
Be killed, wrecked, severed, or quite lose their way.   

82.  
This said by Him, who played so well the MOOR  
Whom years and Fraud made wise to obviate Harms;  
Thanking him much for his advice mature,  
About his Neck the ZEQUE throws his arms.  
And from that instant bids his Bands be sure  
To be all ready for the Morn's Alarms.  
That so, when land the LUSITANIAN should,  
He may convert their water into blood.   

83.  
Farther (t'effect that other false device)  
A Moorish Pilot he did ready git,  
Subtle, dissembling, and in mischief wise,  
To whom so great a Trust he might commit.  
Him, through such Seas, where such and such Coast lies,  
He bids to guide the Lusitanian Fleet,  
That, should the danger in one place be past,  
It may be sure to perish at the last.   

84  
Now visited th' Apollinean Ray.  
The Nabathêan mountains with a smile,  
When GAMA with his men themselves array  
To go and fetch freshwater from the Isle.  
Placed with good order in the Boats are They,  
As he had known of the intended guile;  
And in a sort he did so:" For the Wise  
" Have a divining soul that never lies.   

85.  
Moreover for the Pilot he had sent  
To land before, in need whereof he stood;  
To which the sound of Warlike Instrument  
Was all the answer he had understood.  
For this, As likewise, to be confident  
Of a false Nation being never good,  
He went as well provided as he could  
With no more people than three Boats could hold.   

86.  
But the keen MOORS (pickeering on the Strand  
To keep them from the Fountain's thirsted draught,  
With Buckler on one Arm, and dart in hand,  
Another with bend Bow, and poisoned Shaft)  
Stay for the valiant PORTINGALLS to land,  
In secret Ambush others hid with craft:  
And send (to make them think the business sure)  
A small Forlorn, as Falconers throw their Lure.   

87.  
On the white Beaches the black Warriors prance,  
Waving and vapouring all the Level o'er;  
And with heaved Target, and with threatened Lance,  
Dare the bold PORTINGALLS to come on shore.  
The noble people have not patience  
To see the dogs grin at them any more.  
But spring in Covey, with such equal haste  
One could not say which landed first, or last.   

88  
So a brisk Lover in the bloody PLACE  
(His beauteous Mistress by in a Balcon)  
Seeks out the Bull, and (planted face to face)  
Curvets, runs, whistles, waves, and toll him on;  
But the stern Bruit, even in a moment's space  
(His horned Brow lowed to the Earth) doth run  
Bellowing about like mad; and (his eyes shut)  
Dismounts, strikes, kills, and tramples underfoot.   

89.  
Lo, from the ships the Flames out of the hard  
And furious Cannon rolled, to Heaven rise!  
The Bullets murder, whom the Sound but scared:  
The hissing Air, struck, bandies back the noise.  
The MOORS hearts melt in them, they are so feared;  
And the same passion chills their blood to Ice.  
Now He, That lay in hidden ambush, flies:  
And He, That ventured the Encounter, dies.   

90.  
The Lusitanian People rest not here:  
But, following their success, destroy and slay.  
The Wall-less-Town, and timber-Houses there,  
They waste with fire, and flat with Cannon lay.  
His sally now the MOOR reputes full deer,  
For which he thought a cheaper price to pay.  
Now he blasphemes the War, curses ill luck,  
Th'old devil, and the dam that gave him suck.   

91.  
The flying MOOR their Javelins backward threw  
Faintly, through fear, and haste of their Retreat.  
The Flint, the Stake, the Stone in folio flew.  
" Anger makes all things weapons, when 'tis heat.  
Now, to the Victor leaving the Isle too,  
Unto the Continent they frighted get.  
The Sea's small Arm, that doth their Isle embrace,  
They cut and traverse in a little space.   

92.  
Some leap with their best goods into the Boats;  
Some with their natural Oars swim to the shore;  
This sinks into the crooked waves, then floats;  
That puffs the Sea out, he new drank before.  
The ●…owred Bullets from the Cannon-Throats  
The brutish people's brittle Vessels tore.  
Thus did the PORTINGALLS in fine chastise  
The falshoodof malicious Enemies.   

93.  
To the Armada Victors they return  
With the rich spoils and booty of the War.  
Water they may have now to serve their turn  
At their own time without control, or bar.  
The MOORS (fresh smarting with their losses) burn  
With greater malice than before by far:  
And, seeing so much unrevenged shame,  
Set their whole Rest upon the Aftergame.   

94.  
The Governor of that infamous Land  
To sue for Peace (as if repenting) sent.  
Nor do the LUSITANIANS understand  
That, under show of peace, worse war is meant:  
For the desired Pilot (underhand  
Instructed in his treacherous intent)  
In token of the Peace which he did crave  
He sends to be their Pilot to the Grave.   

95.  
The Captain (who already understood  
▪ 'twas time to go his discontinued way,  
And that the weather and the wind are good  
To carry him for wished INDIA)  
Receives the Pilot with a cheerful mood:  
And th' Envoyé, who did his answer stay,  
Dispatched in haste (his mind is in the sky)  
To the large Wind lets all the Canvas fly.   

96.  
Departed in this wise, the azure Waters  
Of AMPHITRITE cuts the warlike Fleet,  
Attended by a Troop of NEREUS' daughters  
(sweet Friends, and no less constant, then theyare sweet)  
The Captain (thought-less of those devilish matters  
Which in his Brain the subtle MOOR doth knit)  
Touching all INDIA, and the Coasts they passed,  
Informs himself by Him from first to last.   

97.  
But the MOOR well instructed in deceit  
(To whom his lesson spiteful BACCHUS gave)  
Prepares for Him, ere he to INDIA get,  
New Ills, either of Thraldom, or a Grave.  
Giving account of Indian Harbours yet,  
He shows him All that ever he did crave;  
That (judging Truth what he in that confessed)  
The valiant People may not doubt the rest   

98.  
And then he tells him (with the same intent  
With which false SINON witched the men of TROY)  
There is an Isle, not far from where they went,  
Which ancient CHRISTIANS from all times enjoy.  
The Captain (who to all he told him lent  
Attentive Ear) at this so sprang with joy,  
That he conjured him with a golden spell  
To guide him speedy where those CHRISTIANS dwell.   

99  
This very thing the treacherous MOOR designed  
Which the deluded CHRISTIAN doth entreat,  
Those, who possessed this Isle, being ●…he blind  
Disciples of the filthy MAHOMET.  
Here death, and certain Ruin, he shall find  
(As he believes) for a far more strong and great,  
Then MOZAMBIQUE, is this Isle; by name  
QUILOA: frequent in the mouth of Fame.   

100  
To It the joyful Fleet he did incline.  
But She, whose Altars in CYTHERA steam,  
(Seeing him go astray from his right line,  
To meet a death of which he doth not dream)  
Permits not those in so remote a Clime  
To perish, whom she doth so much esteem:  
And puts them, with contrary winds, besides  
The Place to which the traitorous Pilot guides.   

101.  
Then the base MOOR, when he did plainly find  
He could not work the Villainy he meant;  
Spawning another mischief in his mind,  
And always constant to his black intent:  
Tells him, that, since the waves are so unkind  
To put them by the Port to which they bent,  
There lies another Island hard before,  
Where mixed live the CHRISTIAN, and the MORE.   

102.  
Likewise in this the shameless Villain lied  
(As his Instructions were in fine to do)  
For not a Christian-Soul did there reside  
But All of MAHOMET'S detested Crew.  
The Captain (who in all believed his Guide)  
Made a short task to bring his ships thereto:  
But (his protecting Angel saying, nay)  
Past not the Bar, and anchors in the Bay.   

103.  
This Isle lay to the Continent so near  
That a small Channel only ran between:  
In front thereof a City did appear  
Upon the Margin of the OCEAN green:  
Fair and Majestical the Buildings were,  
At a far distance plainly to be seen:  
Ruled by an aged King. MOMBASSA, all  
The Isle; the Town too they MOMBASSA call.   

104.  
And near the same the Captain being come  
Is much rejoiced: There looking to behold  
People, That had received their Christendom,  
As the false Pilot promised him he should.  
When lo, Boats coming from the King, with some  
Provisions to the ships! For He was told  
Of such a Fleet by BACCHUS long before  
Taking the figure of another More.   

105.  
Such the Provisions were, as Friends send Friends,  
But there is poison hidden in the Bait.  
Of Enemies their thoughts are and their ends,  
As will be too much manifested strait.  
" O the perpetual danger which attends  
" The lot of Mortals! O uncertain State!  
" That, where our trust seems to be anchored sure,  
" We are not safe, although we are secure.   

106.  
" By Sea; how many Storms, how many Harms,  
" Death in how many several fashions dressed!  
" By Land; how many Frauds, how many Alarms,  
" Under how many wants sunk, and oppressed!  
" Where may a frail man hid him? in what Arms  
" May a short life enjoy a little Rest?  
" Where Sea, and Land, where Guile, the Sword, and Dearth,  
" Will not all arm against the least worm o'th' Earth?   
End of the first Canto.   

Second Canto.  

STANZA. 1.  
NOw was the glorious Guilder of the Pole,  
Who into hours distinguishes the DAY,  
Come to his temperate and desired Goal,  
From Mortals hiding his celestial Ray;  
And GOD NOCTURNUS to descending SOL  
Of THETIES private Chamber turned the Key:  
When to the ships the faithless People rowed  
Which were new-anchored in MOMBASSA'S Road.   

2.  
Amongst them One (who had it in command  
To Sugar o'er the poison) thus began.  
Undaunted Captain, That with Keel hast spanned  
The spaces of the briny OCEAN;  
The noble King of this renowned Land  
At thy arrival is an o'erjoyed Man:  
The sum and height of whose Ambition is,  
But to behold and serve thee with what's his.   

3.  
And, for he longs indeed thy Face to see,  
As One's, whose name Fame glories to repeat;  
Within the Bar, without suspicion, Thee  
With all thy ships to come; he doth entreat.  
Also, because thy Men must wearied be  
Through so long Toil, and so excessive great,  
He says, thou mayst refresh them on the shore  
Which humane Nature doth delight in more.   

4.  
Moreover, if thou seek for Merchandise  
Produced by the Auriferous LEVANT;  
Cloves, Cinnamon, and other burning spice;  
Or any good or salutiferous Plant;  
Or, if thou seek bright Stones of endless price,  
The flaming Ruby, and hard Adamant:  
Hence thou may'st All in such abundance bear,  
That thou may'st bond thy wish and Voyage Here.   

5.  
The Captain by the Bearer did return  
His humble thanks unto the King, and said;  
Because the Sun already did adjourn  
His Royal pleasure was not straight obeyed:  
But at the first disclosing of the Morn,  
Whereby the Anchors might be safely weighed,  
With all assurance he would Enter, since  
He was obliged to more for such a Prince.   

6.  
He asks him afterward, if in the Isle  
Are CHRISTIANS, as the Pilot certify'de;  
The subtle Messenger, (who smelled the Wile)  
Most of the Isle believe in CHRIST, replied.  
With this, all jealousy he did exile,  
And wise suggestion of the soul decride  
In the strange Captain; Resting now secure,  
In a false Nation, and a Sect impure.   

7.  
Yet, out of such as (having been condemned  
For faults and horrid mischiefs done at home)  
Had their lives given them only to the end  
For desp rate services with Him to come,  
Two of the prime and craftiest Heads, to send  
With the deceitful MOORS, he picked▪ By whom  
To spy the Town, and what their strength might be,  
And note those CHRISTIANS, whom he yearns to-see.   

8.  
And He by them sent presents to the King,  
Through which the Friendship to himself pretended  
Might be soft, pure, and without wavering,  
Nothing of which was by the King intended.  
Now was the wicked and perfidious Ging.  
Gone from the ships, and through the waves contended.  
The two of the Armada, with a feign▪ d  
Alacrity, on shore were entertained.   

9  
And when they had delivered to the King  
The Presents, with the message, which they brought,  
They walked the Town: But no discovering  
The half of what to have observed they thought▪  
For the suspicious Moors, not every thing  
Would show to them, which They to see besought.  
" Where malice reigns, there Jealousy doth nest,  
" Which doth suppose it in Another's Breast.   

10.  
But He, who hath perpetual Youth, and Mirth  
In his plump Cheeks, ruddy with blood and wine,  
And from two mothers took his wondrous birth;  
Who for the ships spun all this snare so fine;  
Disguised into a Creature of the Earth,  
Was in a House within the City's line,  
Feigning himself a man of Christian lore,  
And decked an Altar where he did adore.   

11.  
On It, the picture of that Shape he placed  
In which the HOLY SPIRIT did alight:  
The picture of the Dove (so white, so chaste)  
On the BLESSED VIRGIN'S head, so chaste, so white.  
The SACRED TWELVE sat figured all aghast,  
More wondering at themselves, then at the sight;  
As Those, who knew, what only did inspire  
Their various Tongues, was those fallen TONGUES OF FIRE.   

12.  
The two Companions (carried by design  
Where BACCHUS was in this deceitful guise)  
Their knees devoutly to the Earth incline,  
And raise their hearts to Him That's in the skies.  
Gums of the odoriferous and divine  
PANCHAYA; Gums, in which the PHOENIX dies,  
LYEUS burned: from whence it doth ensue,  
That the false God came to adore the true.   

13.  
Here entertained and carest that night,  
With all good Treatment, and Reception fair,  
Were the two Christians: heedless of the slight  
By which with holy show deceived they were.  
But when the Sun displayed his glorious light  
(Having dispatched before him through the Air  
Old TYTHON'S youthful Consort, to proclaim  
With Blushes to the world her Gallant came.)   

14.  
The MOORS return, who to the City went,  
With Orders from the King for entering There:  
With them, the Couple whom the Captain sent,  
To whom the King appeared a Friend sincere.  
So that (assured there is no Evil meant  
To PORTINGALLS, which he should need to fear,  
And that CHRIST hath some Sheep amongst those Wolv●…s)  
To enter the salt River he resolves.   

15.  
His own ENVOYEES say, they saw on shore  
Religious Altars, and a holy Priest;  
That they were nobly treated, and did snore  
Till fair AURORA left her rosy nest,  
Nor ought but joy, and welcome more, and more,  
By King, or People, could they see expressed:  
So that to doubt a thing so fair, and clear,  
No ground of reason did to them appear.   

16.  
Therefore the noble GAMA did receive  
With open arms the MOORS That came aboard:  
For wariest minds 'tis easy to deceive  
When words and deeds so seemingly accord.  
His Ship is crammed with faithless folk, who leave  
The Boats which brought them, tied to't with long Cord.  
Blithe they are all, as Those that understand  
They have the Prey as sure as in their hand.   

17.  
Weapons, and Ammunition of the War,  
They have on Land prepared secretly;  
That, when the Ships are anchored past the Bar,  
They may invade them, bold, and suddenly,  
And, by this treachery, resolved they are  
To ruin Those of LUSUS totally;  
Making them (unexpected) to pay, so,  
The score which they in MOZAMBIQUE owe.   

18.  
Hoisting the holding Anchors, the ships Men  
In the accustomed Nautick clamour joined.  
To third the Barr's Landmark they board it then,  
Giving the fore-sails only to the Wind.  
But fair DIONE (never absent, when  
The gallant Folk need her in any kind)  
Seeing so near so cruel a surprise,  
From HEAVEN to th'OCEAN like an Arrow flies.   

19  
She calls together NEREUS' snowy daughters,  
With all the azure Flock That haunts the deeps;  
(For, being born from the salt-Sea, the Waters  
In her obedience as their Queen she keeps)  
And, telling them the Cause that thither brought her,  
With all in Squadrons to that part she sweeps  
Where the ships are, to warn them come, no nigh,  
Or they shall perish fundamentally.   

20.  
Now through the Ocean in great haste they flunder,  
Raising the white foam with their silver Tails.  
CLOTO with bosom breaks the waves in sunder,  
And, with more fury than of custom, sails;  
NISE runs up an end, NERINE (younger)▪  
Leaps o'er them, frizzled with her touching Scales:  
The crooked Billows (yielding) make a lane  
For the feared NYMPHS to post it through the Main.   

21.  
Upon a TRITON'S back, with kindled Face,  
The beauteous ERICYNA furious road.  
He, to whose fortune fell so great a grace,  
Feels not the Rider, proud of his fair load▪  
Now were they almost come upon the place  
Where a stiff gale the warlike Navy blowed.  
Here they divide, and in an instant cast  
Themselves about the Ships advancing fast.   

22.  
The Goddess, with a party of the rest,  
Lays herself plum against the Am'ral's Prow,  
Stopping her progress with such main contest  
That the swollen sail the Wind in vain doth blow.  
To the hard Oak she rivets her soft Breast,  
Forcing the strong ship back again to go.  
Others (beleagu'ring) lift it from the Wave,  
It from the Bar of Enemies to save.   

23  
As to their Store-House when the Housewife Aunts,  
Carrying th'unequal Burdens placed with slight  
To their small shoulders (lest cold Winter's wants  
Surprise them helpless) exercise their might;  
This tugs, that shoves, one runs, another pants;  
Strength far above their size, they All unite:  
So toil the Nymphs, to snatch and to defend  
The men of LUSUS from a dismal end.   

24.  
The ship (enforced contre) goes back, back,  
In spite of those she carries, who with Cries  
Handle the Sails. They fume, their wits they lack;  
From side to side the shifted Rudder flies.  
The skilful Master from the Poop doth crack  
His Lungs in vain, for in the Sea he spies  
A horrid Rock just just before the Ship,  
Threatening a Wreck should she advance a step.   

25.  
Here the rude sailors raise a Cry indeed,  
As they are busy at their work. The MORE  
This hideous clamour strikes with such a dread,  
As when in horrid fight the Cannons roar.  
From them the cause of all this fury's hid:  
Nor whom t'approach know They, or what t'implore.  
They think their treachery is made appear,  
And that for it they must be punished here.   

26.  
Lo! in the twinkling of an Eye some dart  
Themselves into their speedy Boats again:  
Others betake them to their swimming Art,  
Making the Sea leap up as they plump in.  
They vault o'er the ship-sides from every part,  
So mainly are they frighted with the din:  
adventuring rather to the OCEAN, so,  
Then to the hands of a provoked Foe.   

27.  
As Frogs (in ancient Ages Lycian-Folkes,  
Confined to live in Water, they denied)  
If, basking heedless on the Banks, or Rocks,  
Some Person on the sudden they have spied,  
Skip back again, and fill the Pond with croaks,  
Flying the danger which they have descried;  
And (scaping to their Sanctuary known)  
Show above Water their black heads alone.   

28.  
So fly the MOORS. And so the Pilot (who  
To this great peril had misled the Ships)  
Thinking his Treason was discovered too,  
Into the briny water, flying, skips.  
But that fixed Rock to scape and to eschew,  
Which the sweet life might drive out of their lips,  
The Admiral threw straight an anchor out;  
And close to her the others likewise do't.   

29.  
Th'observing GAMA, seeing the great fright  
And unexpected of the MOORS; withal  
The Pilots sudden and accusing flight,  
Found what the brutish Folk hatched in their gall:  
And seeing, how in spite of wind, in spite  
Of Tide (both with him) and in spite of all  
Their Art, the Ship would not advance a head  
(Holding it for a miracle) thus said.   

30.  
O great, undreamt of, strange deliverance!  
O Miracle most clear and evident!  
O fraud discovered by blind Ignorance!  
O faithless Foes, and Men deulishly bend!  
" What Care, what Wisdom, is of suffisance  
" The stroke of Secret mischief to prevent,  
" Unless the sovereign GUARDIAN from on high  
" Supply the strength of frail Humanity?   

31.  
Well into Us hath PROVIDENCE infused  
What little safety in these Ports is known:  
Well have we found how much we were abused  
With shows of Friendship, and Religion.  
But since to humane Prudence is refused  
To pierce intents, and where such masks are on;  
O thou (GUARDIAN DIVINE) to guard Him deign,  
Who without Thee doth guard himself in vain.   

32.  
And since thy heart is touched with so great Ruth  
For a poor People wand'ring on the Seas,  
As of thy goodness (whence alone it doth  
Proceed) to save us from such Wolves as these;  
Unto some Haven now, where there is Truth,  
Resolve to lead us for a little Ease;  
Or show us to the long desired Coast,  
If for thy honour we desire it most.   

33.  
These pious words the fair DIONE heard  
And (to compassion being moved thereby)  
Goes from among the NYMPHS, who sad appeared  
That they must lose so soon her company.  
Now doth she pierce the Stars; now in the therd  
Sphere, she is entertained: whence by and by  
(Having reposed her) she doth forward move  
Towards the sixth, where is her Father JOVE.   

34.  
And (ruffled with her motion) now so fair,  
So fresh, so gay, so lovely is her look;  
That Stars, and Heaven, and circumfused Air,  
And All That see her are with passion took.  
Her Eyes (the Nests of CUPID whom she bore)  
Breathed such quick Spirits, and such fire they struck;  
They burn the World again like PHAETON,  
And to the torrid turn the frigid Zone.   

35.  
And (to bewitch her sovereign Sire the more,  
Whose darling she was always, and his joy.)  
She comes to JOVE, as she had done of yore  
In the Idean Grove to Him of TROY.  
The Huntsman who the Horns (transformed) wore,  
For seeing thus that other GODDESS coy;  
Had he seen this, had ne'er been torn asunder  
By his own dogs: But died of love, and wonder.   

36.  
The golden Tresses on her shoulders fell,  
Whose whiteness smuts the Fleece of nnfaln Snow:  
Her Breasts (and those even their own milk excel)  
Played with by unseen CUPID, trembling go:  
Her Cesto's white doth mounting flames expel,  
Which, that Boy kindling, those white bellows blow:  
Of this fair Pyle the Pillars smooth, and round,  
Desires, like Ivy, have about them wound▪   

37.  
Those parts, of which Shame is the natural Screen,  
In a thin Veil of Sarsenet she doth fold;  
Not wholly showed, nor wholly left unseen,  
Not Prodigal, nor niggard, of that Gold.  
But this transparent Curtain draws between,  
To double the desire, by being controlled.  
Now HEAVEN is filled with jealousy, and love:  
This moved in MARS, in VULCAN that did move.   

38  
And then, discovering in her Angel's face  
A Sadness tempered with a little smile,  
Like some nice Dame, who by the rude embrace  
Of heedless Lover got a bruise, or soil;  
She's pleased and angry in one instant space,  
And one while chides, and laughs another while:  
So spoke the GODDESS who admits no Peer  
Less sad, than Minion, to her Father deer.   

39  
O powerful Father, I had always thought  
That, for such things on which my heart were set,  
Kind I should find thee, affable, and soft,  
Though some opposer should the same regret.  
But since I see, without neglect, or fault  
Of mine, thy love is bated in the heat;  
What remedy? let BACCHUS have his will:  
In fine, his luck was good, and mine is ill.   

40.  
This People (who are mine, for whom I por●…  
These tears out, which I see in vain distil)  
The more I love, I seem to hate the more;  
Thou being resolved to break me of my will.  
For Them I weep to thee, for them implore,  
And against my Fate in fine am fight still.  
Well then, because I love them they re misused,  
I'll hate them, than they will be better used.   

41.  
But let them die by brutish People's hands;  
For since I was— and here with pearly drops  
(As when the morning's-dew on Roses stands)  
Making a salt Parenthesis, she stops:  
As if her words obeyed not her commands,  
Through melting pity of the men's mishaps.  
Then (going to proceed where she gave o'er)  
The mighty thunderer lets her say no more.   

42.  
And, moved by that dumb empiric (which would move  
A Tiger's flinty Breast) with the same Face  
Of cheerfulness, with which he doth remove  
The Clouds from that of HEAVEN, and Tempests chase,  
He wipes her Tears, and (kindling with new love)  
Kisses her Cheek, her white Neck doth embrace.  
Who, had he hated PORTUGAL before,  
Would now have loved it merely on her score.   

43.  
And (pressing her loved face with his) SHE burst  
Into fresh Tears, and faster than before:  
As when, a child being beat by mother cursed,  
The more one moans it, it will sob the more.  
Now, to allay this Passion, He is forced  
To tell her much which he till then forbore:  
And, with these words, out of the secret womb  
Of pregnant FATE, rips many things to come.   

44.  
Fair daughter mine, fear no adversity  
Which to thy LUSITANIANS may betid;  
Nor Any, to have greater pow're with me  
Then the sweet Tears which from these clear Springs glide  
For, let me tell thee (daughter) thou shalt see  
Both GREEKS and ROMANS (so much magnify'de)  
Forfeit their ancient Honours by the New  
Acts, which this People in the East shall do.   

45.  
For if the Eloquent ULYSSES fled,  
The SIRENS Song, and dire CALYPSO'S spell;  
And if ANTENOR with his ship did thread  
Th' Illyrian-Sleeve, and reached TIMAUUS' Well;  
And if 'twixt SCYLLA, and CHARIBDIS' dread,  
Pious AENEAS with his Navy fell:  
How much worse dangers pass Thine daily over,  
Who, sailing round the world, new worlds discover?   

46.  
Thou shalt see (daughter) Cities, and strong Ports,  
And lofty Walls, which These shall build, and found;  
Thou shalt see warlike TURKS, and their proud Forts,  
By These destroyed and levelled with the ground:  
The INDIAN KINGS (secure in their free Courts)  
By a more potent KING Thou shalt see bound.  
He, in conclusion holding All in awe,  
Unto that LAND shall give a better Law.   

47.  
This very Man, who now, through so much fright  
And misty Error, stumbles to the YND,  
Thou shalt see NEPTUNE tremble at his sight,  
Curling his waves without a breath of wind.  
O wonderful, nor seen by mortal Wight,  
The Winds locked up, and yet a Storm to find:  
O valiant People, and for great things made,  
Who makes the ELEMENTS themselves afraid.   

48.  
That LAND, which water late to Him denied,  
Thou shalt behold it a commodious Port,  
Where in their way to rest them shall abide  
The Ships that (weary) from the WEST resort.  
All this wyled Coast in fine (which now hath tried  
By wicked treachery to cut him short)  
Shall pay him Tribute; knowing they must down▪  
If they withstand the LUSITANIAN CROWN.   

49.  
And Thou shalt see the ERYTHRAEAN, lose  
It's native red, and pale with Terror look:  
And see the potent Kingdom of ORMUS▪ E  
Twice taken, twice subdued unto their yoke:  
And see the furious MOOR stand in a Muse  
With his reverberated Arrows struck:  
That he may learn, if against Thine he fight;  
His Treachery on his own pate shall light.   

50.  
The famous Fort of DIO Thou shalt see,  
Being twice besieged, thy People twice defend.  
T●…ere will their prowess manifested be,  
There will their name in Arms to HEAVEN extend,  
There will they bring great MARS under their Lee  
With deeds which, told, would set the Hair on end.  
There will the falling MOOR blaspheming ban,  
And dam with his last breath the ALCORAN.   

51.  
Thou shalt see GOA taken from the MOOR,  
GOA, That by her loss at last shall gain;  
When, on the wings of Conquest made to soar,  
She, as the QUEEN OF ALL THE EAST shall reign.  
The stubborn GENTILES (who the Sun adore)  
High and triumplant then, she shall restrain  
With a rough Bit, and All who in that LAND  
Against thy People dare to lift a Hand.   

52.  
Slenderly manned, and in poor order put;  
Thou shalt see held the Fort of CANANOWR;  
And shalt see won the City. CALICUT,  
In People infinite, boundless in pow▪ r;  
And in COCHIN shalt see such honour got  
By one, shall stand in battle like a Tower,  
That never Lyre a Victor did resound,  
Who so deserved to be with Laurel crowned.   

53.  
Never was so LEUCATE of a flame  
With shocking Fleets, when gilding with their Trim  
The Actium waves) Hence young OCTAVIUS came,  
Bringing Italian powers along with Him;  
Thence ANTHONY (with a fresh Victor's name  
Barbarians from the ORIENT, from NYLES brim,  
And from the farthest BACTRIA; and (the bane  
Of All!) th' Egyptian Mistress in the Train.   

54.  
As thou shalt see the Sea, and neighbouring Shores,  
Fire with thy People's Battles. Who, in bands  
Shall coupled lead IDOLATERS with Moors  
(Triumphing over many Tongues and Lands)  
And (GOLDEN CHERSONESUS' precious stores  
To farthest CHINA conquered by their hands  
With the EAST'S outmost Islands, in the end  
Make all the OCEAN to their TAOUS bend.   

55.  
In so much (daughter mine) that, at the rate  
This Nation's valour passes humane bound,  
The WORLD hath not to match them in debate,  
From silver GANGES, to th'HERCULEAN SOUND;  
Nor, from the Northern Ocean, to that strait  
Which the affronted LUSITANIAN found;  
Though all the ancient HERO'S (deified)  
Should rise again to have the mastery tried.   

56.  
This having said, his consecrated Post  
(The son of MAY) down to the Earth he sends,  
To find some peaceful Port upon that Coast  
Where the Armada may repose with Friends.  
And (lest the valiant Captain should be lost,  
If longer time he at MOMBASSA spends)  
He gives his Legate farther in command  
To show him in his sleep that friendly Land.   

57  
Now swift CYLLENIUS cuts it through the Air:  
Now to the Earth his winged feet declined.  
Badge of his office, the black Rod he bore:  
This HELL'S sad Prisoners doth release, and bind:  
This lays asleep the Eye oppressed with Care:  
Whisking with this he doth outstrip the Wind:  
His Hat of maintenance upon his Crown:  
And thus he comes into MELINDE's Town.   

58.  
With him he carries ' FAME, that she may tell  
The Lusitanian prowess, and rare parts:  
" For an illustrious Name is a strange Spell  
" To attract Love, and good Report hath darts.  
Thus he prepares their way with a sweet smell,  
And takes up lodgings in the People's hearts.  
Now all MELINDE is on fire, to see  
What kind of men these valiant souls should be.   

59  
From thence he parteth to MOMBASSA strait,  
Where, what to do, the Ships uncertain stand;  
To bid them, without question or debate,  
Leave that Foes Harbour, and suspected Land.  
" For wicked plottings of infernal hate  
" In vain are Force and Courage to withstand:  
" In vain, to extricate ourselves, is Wit,  
" If HEAVEN do not both prompt, and second, it.   

60.  
Now sable NIGHT had finished half her Race,  
And in the Heaven the Stars with borrowed light  
Supplied the Moon's, as She her Brother's, place;  
And sleeping now was Mortals wholedelight.  
Th'illustrious Captain (who had all that space  
Been kept awake about the last day's fright)  
Gave then to his tired Eyes a little sleep:  
The rest by Quarters did their Watches keep:   

61:  
When in a Vision he did HERMES see.  
And fly (he bid him) LUSITANIAN fly  
The Ambush of a wicked King, which He  
Hath laid, to make thee yet obscurely die:  
Fly, for the wind and Heaven Both favour Thee.  
Thou hast the Ocean calm, serene the sky,  
And not far of another King, to friend,  
On whose reality thou mayst depend.   

62.  
Look for no better entertainment here,  
Then what was given by THRACIAN DIOMEDES;  
Whose Horses (used to bloody Provendere)  
He with the Bodies of his strangers fed.  
Th'infamous Altars of BUSIRIS (where  
His Guests inhuman humane offerings bled)  
Unless thou quit it, look for in this place:  
Fly a perfidious and a cruel Race.   

63  
Steer strait alongst the Coast, and thou shalt light  
Upon a Country where more Truth resides;  
Close there, where burning SOL at constant height  
The night and day with equal line divides.  
Then shall a King receive with much delight  
Thee, and thy men; and give to you (besides  
Safety, and Treatment worthy of a King)  
One, who the Fleet shall unto INDIA bring.   

64.  
Thus HERMES; and the Captain (parting) work.  
He, roused out of his Nest in a great fright,  
Perceives the circumfused darkness broke  
With a shot Ray and stream of divine light.  
And (seeing it imports Him, and his Folk,  
From that infamous LAND to take their flight)  
Commands the Master, with a spirit new,  
To hoist the sails unto the Wind that blew.   

65.  
Set sail (he cried) set sail to the large Wind:  
Heaven is our Guide, and GOD our course directs.  
These Eyes saw the Express, he was so kind  
To send from his high Court to guard our steps:  
At this, the Mariners before, behind,  
As with one motion spring upon the Decks.  
They tow the Anchors in to the ship-side  
With that rude strength which is the Seaman's pride.   

66.  
The selfsame time they did their Anchors weigh,  
(Hid in the mask of night) the treacherous MORE  
Sawing their Cables hushed and silent lay,  
So to destroy them being run ashore.  
The CHRISTIANS (though there shone not the least Ray,  
Yet) in their heads the Eyes of Lynxes wore.  
The other, finding how they were awake,  
With Wings, and not with Oars, away did make.   

67.  
But now did the sharp Keels go cutting through  
The liquid Element of silver pure:  
The Wind ('twas a side-wind) gently it blew  
With motion calm, and steady, and secure.  
Discoursing, on their dangers passed they chew  
As they sail on: for 'tis not easy sure.  
To pass in silence a deliverance  
So great, and brought about as 'twere by chance.   

68  
The burning Sun had finished one Career,  
Began another, of his annual Race;  
When, as far off as they could ken, appear  
Two Vessels creeping on the Water's face.  
Knowing they must be MOORS, who coast it there,  
Forthwith ours veer their Sails to give those chase.  
One (as more nimble, or as frighted more)  
To save her People ran herself ashore.   

69.  
Her Fellow (not so light to make away)  
Into the hands of those of LUSUS falls,  
Without or MARS to board her; or, to play  
On her bruised sides black VULCAN'S horrid Balls:  
For (she being weakly man'd, nor built for Fray)  
At sight of his own Men the Master falls.  
His courage, and his sails (His wisest course)  
Had he resisted, he had fared the worse.   

70  
Then GAMA (who did this but to procure  
A Pilot for the INDIES so long sought)  
Amongst those MOORS thought to have found one sure,  
But found he was deceived in that thought.  
There's not a man of them, That can assure  
Under what part 'tis of the heav nly Vault.  
This All can tell him; That MELINDE'S nigh,  
Where he may find a Pilot certainly.   

71.  
The goodness of that KING the MOORS extol,  
His bounteous nature, and his Breast sincere,  
The greatness like the goodness of his Soul,  
With other parts, which win him love, and fear.  
The Captain easily believes the whole,  
Concurring with that very Charactere.  
HERMES had given in his sleep before:  
So goes, bid by the dream, and by the MORE.   

72.  
That gladsome season 'twas, in which returns  
Into EUROPA'S Ravisher the Sun;  
Putting new lights in both his gilded Horns  
Whilst FLORA pours out AMALTHEA'S one.  
And now that glorious Planet turned the Morn's  
Red finger, to that moving Feast; whereon  
HE, who was dead the soul-sick world to heal,  
To it's Redemption risen to put the Seal:   

73.  
When, to that distance from the which their Eyes  
Might reach MELINDE, the Armada came;  
Adorned with Tapestry triumphant-wise,  
As that day's holiness it well became.  
The Standart trembles, and the Streamer flies,  
The Scarlet- Wast-cloaths at a distance flame,  
The Drums and Timbrels sound. Thus they that BAR,  
Like CHRISTIANS enter, and like MEN OF WAR.   

74.  
With People hid is the Melindian shore,  
That come to see the joyful Fleet. More kind  
Are These, more humane, and of truth have more,  
Then Those of all the countries' left behind.  
The Lusitanian Navy drops, before,  
The heavy Anchors, which fast rooting find.  
One, of the MOORS they took, is sent on Land:  
To let the KING their coming understand.   

75.  
The KING (who was already by report  
Of those of LUSUS' gallantry possessed)  
The CaptainsCaptains so frank entry in his Port  
Takes as a favour from so brave a Guest:  
And with true heart, and in most courteous sort  
(Both individual from a noble Breast)  
Bids the man pray them much to come on Land,  
Where they shall have his Realms at their command.   

76.  
Th' offer as real is as it appears,  
The words full of unfeigned Sincerity,  
Which the KING sent the noble Cavaliers,  
Who had passed so much Land, and so much Sea.  
He sends them more, Live-sheep aboard, fat Steers,  
And Poultry crammed by Housewives industry,  
With all such Fruit as then in season was:  
And the good will the Present did surpass.   

77.  
The well-pleased Moor, who with this Errand went,  
The Captain pleased received, with what he brought;  
And instantly another Present sent  
Unto the KING, far fetched, and dearly bought:  
Illustrious Starlet (colour of content)  
Branched Coral fine, for Nobles greatly sought:  
Of double nature under water soft  
And velvet-horned, hard-pened when 'tis aloft.   

78  
Sends more, one dexterous in th' Arabick-Tongue,  
To treat a firm League with the ROYAL MORE,  
Excusing him he did not leave his strong  
And lofty Ships, to kiss his hand on shore.  
Unto the noble KING, led through a Throng  
Presents himself the fit Ambassadore;  
And with these words (which PALLAS herself dips  
In her own Nectar) disunites his lips.   

79.  
Most high and mighty King, to whom the pure  
And incorrupted JUSTICE from Above  
Gave, to restrain the rough and haughty MOOR;  
Nor more to force his Fear, then win his love:  
As to the strongest Port, and most secure  
Of all the EAST, Hither we fly; to prove  
What FAME reports, and find in It and Thee,  
A certain Port in our necessity.   

80.  
We are not Men, who, spying a weak Town  
Or careless, as we pass along the shore;  
Murder the Folks, and burn the Houses down,  
To make a booty of their thirsted store:  
But (by a KING we have, of high renown,  
Sent from fair EUROPE, never to give o'er  
Our compassing the World, till we have found  
The wealthy INDIA) thither are we bound.   

81.  
How stony yet some Race of People was!  
What barbarous guise! what stile of a Man-Hater!  
To bar not their Ports only (let that pass)  
But the cold Hospitality of Water!  
To whom have we done wrong? wherein (alas!)  
Have we discover d such a savage nature,  
To make so many of so few afraid?  
That Traps and Pitfalls should for us be made.   

82.  
But Thou (O gracious KING) from whom, to have  
True dealing we are sure; and hope, we may  
That certain help too, which ALCINOUS gave  
Unto the wand'ring Prince of ITHACA:  
To Thee secure we come, as boldly crave  
Of Thee, conducted by the Son of MAY:  
For, since JOVE'S Harbinger was ours; 'tis clear,  
Thy Heart is large, is humane, is sincere.   

83.  
Nor think (O KING) out noble Chief declined  
Coming, to see and serve thee persnally,  
For any thing he scrupled of unkind;  
Or hollow dealing possible in Thee:  
But the true reason, why he stayed behind,  
Was, that in all he might obedient be  
Unto his KING; who gave him this command  
In Port, or Road, never to go on Land.   

84.  
And, because subjects are the selfsame Thing  
With Members governed by the Head, or Crown;  
Thou, bearing here the Office of a KING,  
Wouldst not that Any disobeyed his own.  
But, he doth promise an acknowledging  
Of thy great Grace and favours now bestown,  
With all That can by Him and His be done,  
So long as Rivers to the Sea shall run.   

85.  
Thus He harangued: And, with one Voice, the whole  
Presence (comparing notes there where they stand)  
The matchless courage of the men extol,  
Who traverse so much Sea and so much Land.  
But the wise KING (revolving in his Soul  
The PORTINGALLS' obedience to command)  
In Scales of wonder and of reverence weighed  
A KING, who so far off could be obeyed.   

86.  
Then answers (gracious) with a Brow serene  
Th' Ambassador, to whom inclined he seemed.  
Wipe all suspicion from your Bosoms clean;  
Let no cold Fear be harbour▪ d there, or teemed:  
For such your worths are, and your deeds have been,  
To make you over all the world esteemed.  
And They who injured you, We will be bold,  
Know not what price Virtue and Hovor hold.   

87.  
That all your People do not come on shore  
Observing the respect due to our Port,  
Though in our own regard it grieve us sore,  
Yet our esteem of them is greater for't.  
For if your Rules permit it not, no more  
Shall we permit, that (only to comport  
With our desires) such loyal excellence  
Should lose itself, or suffer Violence.   

88  
But when to morrows light shall come, to greet  
And show, the WORLD; with our own Barges, We  
Shall go in person to the warlike Fleet,  
Which we so many days have longed to see.  
And, if it need any convenience meet,  
Through shatt'ring storms, and keeping long at Sea,  
A Pilot it may have, and Victnals here,  
●…nd Ammunition, with intention clear.   

89.  
This was his language, And LATONA'S Boy  
Into the Ocean dived. The Messenger  
(Returning with this Embassy of joy)  
To the Armada rows with merry cheer.  
Out of all Breasts is bavisht black Annoy,  
Seeing the proper remedy is here  
To find the Land whereof they sail in quest:  
So all that night they keep a double Feast.   

90.  
There wants not there the artificial star  
Like trembling Comet (nor less cause of wonder)  
The Gunners do their Part, making the Air,  
Water, and Earth, resound with Mortalls' Thunder.  
The CYCLOPPS (practising for t'other War  
On JOVE) with Bullets rend the Clouds in sunder.  
Others on lofty Cornets (singing) played:  
And These with Music did the SPHERES invade.   

91.  
They answer from the shore at the same time  
With Squibs that crack amongst the Rout: In gires  
The whizzing Vapours up to HEAVEN climb:  
Th'imprisoned Powder with a bounce expires:  
Heaven's brazen Vault echoes the Voyces' chime:  
The Sea's clear Glass reflects the joyful fires:  
The Earth is not behind them. In this sort  
Both sport in earnest, and Both fight in sport.   

92.  
But now the restless Heaven, wheeling about,  
To their day-labours mortals doth incite;  
And MEMNON'S mother (fair APOLLO'S scout)  
Sets bounds to sleep by her arriving light;  
With her approach dull shadows, Put to rout,  
In a cold sweat upon the Flowers light;  
When the MELINDIAN KING (embarked) plied  
To see the Ships That in his Harbour ride.   

93  
The shores are crowned with people (of a fire  
To be Spectators only of the show)  
The Scarlet Coats flame with the dye of TYRE:  
The glossie Silks with all May's flowers do blow.  
Instead of Arrows (part of War's Attire)  
And of the horned Moon-imitating Bow;  
Palm in their hands, in sign of Peace, they bear:  
Which on their Heads victorious HEROES wear.   

94.  
In a Canóe (which was both long and broad,  
And glissend in the Sun with coverings, made  
Of mixed Silks) MELINDE'S KING is rowed▪  
Wayted by Princes amongst their own obeyed.  
In rich Attire (according to the mode  
And custom of that Land) he comes arrayed.  
Upon his Head he wears a Terbant, rolled,  
Of silk and Cotton, with a CROWN of gold.   

95.  
A Robe, of Scarlet-damask, (high-extold  
By Them, and worth the wearing of a KING)  
About his Neck a Collar of pure gold:  
The work worth twice the substance of the Thing.  
A Velvet sheathe a dagger keen did hold,  
With Diamond-hilt, hanged by a golden string.  
Sandals of Velvet on his Feet he wore,  
With gold and pearl embroidered richly o'er.   

96.  
O'er Him a round Silk- Canopy he had  
Advanced aloft upon a gilded Pole;  
With which a Boy behind to burn forbade  
Or trouble the Great KING, the beams of SOL.  
Music ith'Prow, ●…o merry that 'twas mad,  
Grating the Ear with a harsh noise. The whole  
Consort, is only crooked Horns, wreathed round,  
Which keep no time, but make a dismal ●…ound.   

97.  
No less adorned, the LUSITANIAN  
From the Armada in his Boats doth dance,  
To meet Him of MELIND●… with a Train  
Whom much their clothes, but more their deeds advance:  
GAMA comes clad after the use of SPAIN,  
But wears a Cassock ala mode de France:  
The Stuff, a Florence-Satin; and the dye,  
A perfect Crimson, glorious in their Eye.   

98.  
The Sleeves have golden Loops, which the Sunshine  
Makes too too bright and slippery for the Eyes:  
His close Camp-Trowzes laced with the same mine,  
Which Fortune to so many men denies:  
Points likewise of the same, and Tagging fine,  
With which his Doublet to his Hose he ties.  
A Sword of massive Gold; in Hanger tied:  
A Cap and Plume; the Cap set a toe side.   

99  
'Mongst his Comrades, the noble Tyrian dye  
(Not liv'ry-wise, but) sparcled here, and there,  
The several Colours recreate the Eye:  
So do the different Fashions which they wear.  
Such their enameled clothes Variety  
(Comprised in one survey) as doth appear  
The painted Bow, in water-colours laid,  
Of JUNO'S Minion, the Thaumantian Maid.   

100  
The rattling Trumpets, now, their joy augment  
As, other times, they had their courage done.  
The Moorish Boats covered the Sea, and went  
Sweeping the Water with their silks Anon.  
The Clouds of HEAVEN the thundering Cannon rend,  
And with new Clouds of Smoak put out the Sun.  
Before the Blow the winged lightning flies:  
The MOORS' hands stop their Ears, the lids their Eyes.   

101.  
Into the Captains Boat the KING doth come  
(Folding him in his Arms) And He again  
With such respect and reverence, as become,  
Doth both receive, and speak unto, the KING.  
A while with wonder and Amazement, dumb,  
The MOOR on GAMA stands considering,  
As He That highly doth esteem the Man  
Who came so far to seek the Indian Stran.   

102.  
Then makes him a large proffer, of whate'er  
To do him good his Kingdom can afford;  
And that he freely would demand it there  
As his own goods, if ought he lacked aboard.  
Adds, though till now he saw the LUSIANS ne'er  
Yet he from FAME had heard much of their SWORD;  
And how, in other Parts of AFRICA▪  
They have had wars with People of his way.   

103.  
And how through all that spacious LAND resown  
The glorious Actions of that NATION,  
When they therein did gain that Kingdom's Crown,  
Where the HESPERIDES of old did won.  
And most of That, which to the KING was known  
(Although the least the PORTINGALLS had done)  
He spread out thin in words, and magnifide:  
But to the KING de GAMA thus replied.   

104.  
O great and gracious KING, who dost (alone)  
The Lusitanian People's sad estate,  
(By NEPTUNE'S rage, and adverse Fortune, thrown  
Into so many straits) Commiserate:  
The KING OF KINGS (who, from th'eternal Throne,  
Turning HEAVEN round, did the round Earth create,  
Since Mercy is his chiefest Attribute)  
Reward thee for it, for We cannot do't.   

105.  
Thou only, of all Those APOLLO blacks,  
In peace receiv'st us from the Ocean vast:  
In Thee, from peril of Eolian Wracks,  
We find a Refuge kind, sincere, and fast.  
Whilst the Sun lights, whilst Night his presence lacks,  
In heavens blue Mead whilst Stars take their repast,  
Where re I go, in either Hemisphere,  
Thy Name, and Praises, shall be ●…ounded there.   

106.  
This humbly said, towards the Fleet they row,  
(The KING requesting that he now may see't).  
Ship after Ship about it round they go:  
That he of All may note all he thi●…ks meet.  
Lame VULCAN walks on ●…ynstocks to and fro,  
With which the Guns salute him from the Fleet.  
The Trumpets play unto him in shrill notes:  
The MOORS with Cornets answer from the Boats▪   

107.  
But when the generous King had ceased to Note  
All That he would, nor heard with little wonder  
Th'unusual Instrument with the wide Throat  
That speaks so big, and tears the Clouds in sunder;  
He bids them (in the Sea anch'ring the Boat)  
Suspend their 〈◊〉, as they had done their thunder:  
That he may know at large of brave DE GAME  
Those things, which lightly he had heard from FAME.   

108.  
The MOOR doth into several questions run,  
With gust enquiring, sometimes of the great  
And famous Wars between our NATION,  
And Those who do believe in MAHOMET.  
Now of the LAND we dwell in, which the Sun  
Bids last good night, when he makes haste to set;  
Now, of the NATIONS which therewith confine;  
Now of his ploughing through the Gulfs of Brine.   

109.  
But rather, valiant Captain (quoth the KING)  
Make us a full and orderly narration  
Under what Part of the C●…LESTIAL RING,  
Under what Climb ye have your Habitation;  
Also your ancient Generation's spring,  
And, of a REALM so potent the Foundation;  
With the successes of your Wars: For (though  
I know them not) that they were vast I know.   

110  
Tell us besides, of all that tedious maze  
Through which thou hast been tossed with angry flaws  
On the salt Seas, observing the strange ways  
Of our rude AFRICA, and the barbarous Laws.  
Tell; For the Horse of the new Sun, the DAY'S  
Embroidered Coasts with golden traces draws,  
Postilioned by the MORN: The Wind's asleep,  
And the cursed Billows couch upon the DEEP.   

111.  
And if the Winds and Seas are hushed, to hear  
The story thou shalt tell: no less are We.  
Who would not lend your Acts a greedy Ear?  
Who hath not heard of LUSUS' Progeny?  
SOL (who the Brain of man doth purge and clear)  
Drives not his Coach thus nigh us as you see,  
To have MELINDIANS thought so dull a Breed,  
As not to value an Heroic deed.   

112.  
A daring War the haughty GIANTS made  
Upon OLYMPUS permanent and pure:  
Rash THESEUS, and PIRITHOUS, did invade  
Grim PLUTO'S Kingdom horrid and obscure.  
If such high Boys as these the world hath had,  
'Tis not less hard, nor will less Fame procure,  
Then the attempting HEAVEN and Hell by Them,  
That others should attempt the Watery Ream.   

113.  
DIANA'S Templebuilt by TISIPHONE  
(Rare Architect!) HOROSTRATUS burned down:  
To be talked of, though for a Thing ill done,  
And die defamed, rather than live unknown.  
If on so false, and vile Foundation,  
The sweet desire deceives us of Renown;  
How much more lawful is't to seek a name  
By deeds deserving everlasting FAME?   
End of the second Canto.   

Third Canto.  

STANZA. 1.  
Now what illustrious GAMA, near the Line,  
Informed that KING, report CALLIOPE:  
Breathe an immortal Song, and voice divine,  
Into this mortal Breast, tha●…'s big with Thee:  
So, never the great God of Medicine,  
(To whom thou ORPHEUS bar'st) love CLYCIE,  
Court DAPHNE more, or call LEUCOTHOE Friend,  
Since Thou in Beauty dost them All transcend.   

2.  
Thou, Nymph, promote my pious just desire  
To pay my Country what to It I own;  
That the whole world may listen, and admire  
To see from Tagus AGANIPPE flow.  
Leave PINDUS' flowers: For (Lo!) the MUSES' Sire  
Baths me in Sacred dew from top to toe.  
If not, I swear thou hast some jealousy  
ORPHEUS (thy joy) should be eclypsed by me.   

3.  
To hear the noble GAMA, In a Ring  
Gathered was all th'attentive Company;  
When (having sat a while considering)  
Raising his manly Visage, thus said Herald  
Thou dost command me to unfold (O KING)  
My noble NATION'S genealogy:  
Thou bid'st me not to tell a foreign story,  
But of my Own thou bid'st me tell the glory.   

4.  
Upon Another's Praises to dilate  
Is usual, and that which Friends doth raise:  
But of One's Own the Praises to relate,  
Will prove (I fear me) a suspected praise.  
Besides, to praise ours to the worth, the date  
Would first expire of six the longest days.  
But (to serve Thee) a double fault I'll do:  
I'll praise my own, and crop their praises too.   

5.  
Yet what in fine doth animate me, is,  
I'm sure of Lying I shall run no danger:  
For of such deeds say what I can, I wis  
I shall leave more to th'utterance of a stranger.  
But (to pursue that method in all this  
Thyself prescrib▪ d, nor seem in all a Ranger)  
First, of the Territory large I'll tell;  
Then, of the bloody Battles that befell.   

6  
Between the Zone where Cancer bends his clutch  
(To the bright Sun a Bound Septentrional)  
And that which for the Cold is shunned as much,  
As for the Heat the middle Zone of all,  
Proud EUROPE lies: whose North, and parts which touch  
Upon the Occident, have for their Wall  
The OCEAN; and, with unreturning Waves,  
Her South, the SEA-MEDITERRANEAN laves.   

7.  
Upon the East she neighbour's ASIA:  
But that cold River with the doubling stream  
(Which from Riphean Mountains plough his way  
To the Meotick Lake) divideth Them:  
So doth that furious and that horrid Sea  
Which with their Fleet th' incensed GREEKS did esteem;  
From whence the Sailor now with his mind's eye  
Sees the name only of once glorious TROY.   

8.  
Where she is most beneath the Arctic Pole  
The Hyperborean Mountains she doth see;  
And those, where EOL reigns without control,  
Owing to blustering their Nobility.  
The Sun, That spreads his lustre through the Whole,  
His rays have here such imbecility,  
That a deep snow is still upon the Mountains,  
The Sea still▪ frozen, frozen still the Fountains.   

9  
Here scythes, and TARTARS, in great numbers, live;  
Who were engaged in a sharp war of old,  
About their Pedigrees prerogative,  
With those who then th'EGYPTIAN-LAN●… did hold.  
But, where the justice of the Cause to give  
Being hard by erring Mortals to be told,  
To get more certain information, look  
In the Clay-Office from which Man was took.   

10.  
In that far Nook (to name of many some)  
Are the cold LAPLAND; NORWAY comfortless;  
SCANDIA that triumphed o'er triumphant ROME  
(Which her proud ruins to this day confess).  
Here, whilst the waters are not stiff, and numb,  
With Winter's Ice glazing the BALTICK-SEAS,  
That Arm of the SARMATICK ocean  
Sails the brave Swede, the Prussian, and the Dane.   

11.  
Betwixt this Sea, and TANAIS, live strange Nations:  
RUTHENI, frozen MUSCOVITES, LIVONIANS,  
That were in former Ages the SARMATIANS,  
And, in th'HERCINIAN FORESTE, the POLONIANS.  
Held of the GERMANE EMPIRE are ALSATIANS,  
SAXONS, BOHEMIANS, HUNGARS, or PANNONIANS:  
With divers other, whom the RHINE'S cold waves,  
The ELIVE, the MUZZLE, and the DANOW laves.   

12.  
'Twixt wand'ring ISTER, and that NARROW-SEA  
Where, with her life, fair HELLE left her name,  
The warlike THRACIANS dwell: who lay a plea  
To MARS his Sword, as from whose loins they came.  
Here HAEMUS, and ORPHEAN RHODOPE,  
Obey the OTTOMAN; and (to the shame  
Of Christendom) BYSANTIUM'S noble Seat,  
A proud affront to CONSTANTINE THE GREAT.   

13.  
The next in order MACEDONIA stands,  
Bathed with the Actium (now LEPANTO'S) Sea:  
And likewise you, O admirable LANDS,  
Where Wit, and Manners, were in high degree;  
Which bred those solid Heads, and valiant Hands,  
Those streams of Eloquence, and Poetry,  
With which Thou (famous GREECE) unto the skies  
As well by Letters, as by Arms didst rise.   

14.  
DALMATIANS follow Them: and, in that Bay  
ANTENOR chose for his new City's site,  
VENICE (like VENUS) rises from the Sea;  
From low beginnings swollen to that proud height.  
That Sea, an Arm of Land doth over lay,  
Which the whole WORLD subjected by its might.  
That Arm (no less than GREEC●…) to HEAVEN soared  
With the two wings of LEARNING, and THE SWORD.   

15.  
'Tis walled by nature, part, where it doth join  
Unto the ALPS thick shoulders: NEPTUNE bars  
The rest with his salt waves: The APENNINE  
Cuts ith'middle: where your LYBIAN MARS  
Won him such Fame. But now, since the divine  
Porter hath got it (impotent in Wars)  
'Tis stripped of the vast power it had before:  
" So much is GOD delighted with the poor.   

16.  
Pass we from thence to FRANCE, so much of old  
With CAESAR'S triumphs through the World renowned.  
'Tis watered with the ROYAL SEYN, the cold  
GAROON, the pleasant LOIRE, the RHINE profound.  
Now those high Mountains in the clouds behold  
Which still the lost PYRENE'S name resound:  
From which, being fired (as ancient Books have told)  
Rivers ran down of Silver, and of Gold.   

17.  
Lo! here displays itself illustrious SPAIN,  
As Head there of all EUROPE: In whose strange  
Successes of their Wars, and ways of reign,  
FATE'S wheel gave many a turn, wrought many a change.  
But never Force, or Fraud, shall fix a stain  
(Through Fortune's humour always given to range)  
But SPAIN will find a time to wipe it out,  
And make her blasted honours freshly sprout.   

18.  
She faces TING●…TANIA: and There  
(As if to make the Midland Sea an Isle)  
The well-known straits to close their jaws appear  
Ennobled with the THEBAN'S latest Toil.  
With diff▪ rent Nations she her head doth rear  
(Sea-girt three sides, the fourth with Hilly Pyle)  
Of such Nobility and Valour All,  
That each pretends to be the principal.   

19  
She has the ARRAGONIAN, so renowned  
For conquering twice stubborn PARTHENOPE:  
Those of NAVARRE: ASTURIANS, who did bound  
The MOORS, broke in upon us like a Sea.  
She has the shrewd GALLEGO, many-crownd  
CASTILIAN, whom his Star reserved to be  
SPAIN'S great Restorer and her Lord: SEVILIA,  
GRANADA, LEON, MURCIA, with CASTILIA.   

20.  
The LUSITANIAN KINGDOM here survey,  
Placed as the Crown upon fair EUROPE's Head:  
Where (the Land finishing) gins the Sea,  
And whence the Sun steps to his watery Bed.  
This, first in Arms (by gracious heavens decree)  
Against the filthy MAURITANIAN sped:  
Throwing him out of Her to his old Nest  
In burning AFRICA; nor there let him rest.   

21.  
That, That, the loved EARTH where I was born!  
To which if kinder HEAVEN do so dispose  
That I (this Task performed) alive return:  
With It, my dying Eyes, there let me close.  
From LYSUS (which the Latins LUSUS turn)  
Old BACCHUS'S Comrade, or (as some suppose)  
His Son, was LUSITANIA'S name derived,  
When in that Country his Plantation thrived,   

22.  
Here was that Shepherd born, who in his Name  
(As well as in his Actions) did write MAN:  
Whom none must hope to equal in his Fame  
Since that of ROME he to eclipse began.  
This Spot, through shuffling of light Fortune's Game,  
TIME (who devours his children) saw, Anan,  
On the WORLD'S Theatre a great Part play  
Raised to a Kingdom: and it was this way.   

23.  
There was in SPAIN a King (ALPHONSO height)  
Who made so close a War upon the MORE,  
That (what with policy, and what with might)  
Many he slew, and many a Town he bore.  
This KING'S sublime Renown taking her flight  
From Streights Herculean to the Caspian Shore,  
Divers (affecting an immortal name)  
To Him and Death to offer themselves came.   

24.  
Others (more fired with an intrinsic love  
Of Christian Faith, then Honour popular)  
Flock from all Corners: willing to remove  
Both from sweet Country, and from private Lar.  
But, when their names, by Actions raised above  
The vulgar pitch, they All advanced in War;  
The famed ALPHONSO, for such gallant deeds,  
Would have them reap proportionable meeds.   

25.  
Amongst These HENRY (saith the History)  
A younger son of FRANCE, and a brave Prince,  
Had PORTUGAL in lot, in the World's eye  
Not then so glorious, nor so large, as since.  
And the same KING did his own daughter tie  
To Him in Wedlock, to infer from thence  
His firmer love: as giving, in her hand,  
The Livery and Seisin of that LAND.   

26.  
He (when against the Offspring of the Hand-  
Maid HAGAR mighty Conquests he had won,  
Gaining in much of the adjacent LAND,  
And doing what was comely to be done)  
Obtains from Him, who doth high Heaven command  
In a short time (to guerdon All) a Son:  
Who (adding to his Father's worth, his own)  
Shall first erect the LUSITANIAN THRONE.   

27.  
HENRY was now come from the HOLY LAND,  
And Conquest of enslaved JERUSALEM;  
Having seen consecrated IORDAN'S Strand,  
That saw the flesh of GOD bathed in his stream;  
For, GODFREY finding nothing could withstand  
After JUDEA was subdued by Him,  
Many, who in that War had given him Aid,  
Their wished return to their Dominions made:   

28.  
When, come to the last Exit of his Age  
The famous FRENCHMAN (to a wonder brave)  
Pulled by DEATH'S hand down from this mortal Stage,  
His Spirit, unto Him, that gave it, gave.  
His Son remained in tender ●…upillage,  
True Copy of his Sire that's in the Grave:  
Then whom more excellent the world had none,  
For such a Father must have such a Son.   

29.  
But old Report (how true I cannot say:  
For things so distant with much night are spread)  
Tells, how the Mother, taking all the sway,  
Scorned not to stoop unto a second Bed:  
And, for herself an Aftergame to play,  
Her Fatherless-Son disinherited:  
Claiming for Hers the Land, and Princely Power,  
As given her by her Father for a dow're.   

30.  
Then young ALPHONSO (so the Prince they call,  
Inheriting his Grandsire in his Name)  
Despairing by fair means of PORTUGAL,  
For that the Mother, and her Groom, the same  
Usurp, and mean from Him to give it All:  
(His bosom boiling with a Martial flame)  
By force to seize it in his mind revolves,  
As briskly executes what he resolves.   

31.  
The blushing Plains of ARADUCA groan,  
With one-same blood of War intestine died;  
In which the Mother (whose deeds spoke her none)  
The Son her love, and his own LAND denied:  
Now stands against him in battalion,  
And cannot see (being blinded with her pride)  
How much she sins against HEAVEN, and natural Love:  
But in her Breast the sensual swims above.   

32.  
O Witch MEDEA! PROGNE, with blood-stain!  
If for their Fathers, not their own misdeeds,  
By you your children in Revenge were slain,  
Behold, TERESA'S Sin even yours exceeds!  
Incontinence, the sacred Thirst of Reign,  
These are the Causes whence her Crime proceeds.  
SCYLLA her aged Father slew through one:  
Through Both TERESA goes against her Son.   

33  
But the brave Prince a perfect conquest had  
O'er an ill mother, and a Father-in-Law.  
Forthwith, the Victor, all the LAND obeyed  
That did before their swords against him draw.  
Then (by his Wrath his judgement overswayed)  
Fast laid in Irons he his Mother saw:  
Which GOD'S avenging Hand did soon pursue.  
" Such Reverence is to all Parents due.   

34.  
Lo! proud CASTEEL unites her Forces all  
(To be revenged for sad TERESA'S wrong)  
Against the few-in-People PORTUGAL:  
But, though his Troops be weak, his Heart is strong.  
His mortal Head with Shield Angelical.  
Hid in the day of Battle from a throng  
Of falling darts, not only firm he stands  
Their shock, but routs the formidable Bands.   

35.  
Yet, not long after, was this valiant Prince  
In the same ARADUCA (his chief Nest)  
Blocked up with avast Army, to which, since  
Their late defeat, the angered Foes increased.  
But by his faithful Tutor EGAS, thence  
(Offering himself to death) he was released.  
Else (of all needful matter ill bestead)  
He in that straight had surely perished.   

36  
But the best Servant ever Master found,  
Seeing his rinse can no resistance make,  
That he should hold of Him the Country round  
To the CASTILIAN KING did undertake.  
He (having honest EGAS MONIZ bound)  
The dreadful siege did presently forsake.  
But the Illustrious youth cannot afford  
To pay low Homage to another Lord.   

37.  
The time prefixed was arrived now  
When the CASTILIAN MONARCH made account  
To do him homage that the Prince would bow  
As to his Founder, and Lord Paramount.  
EGAS (who knew that would not be, and how  
Because of Him CASTEEL rely'de upon't)  
Resolves his broken promise, at the rate  
Of his sweet life's expense to expiate.   

38.  
And, with his children, and dear Wife, he went  
T'unpawn and to redeem his mortgaged Faith,  
Barefoot and bareleged, and with eyes so bend  
To th'Earth, as would move pity more than wrath.  
If my rash confidence thou have intent  
To scourge as it deserves (O KING) he saith;  
Lo, here I bring thee of mine own accord  
A life, in lieu of ill-accomplisht word!   

39  
Lo here (to piece out mine) the innocent  
Lives, of my Wife and Babes, before thy Eyes!  
If Bosoms generous and excellent  
Accept so frail and dire a Sacrifice.  
Lo here the guilty Hands, and Tongue! invent  
All sorts of pains and deaths to exercise  
On These: such as may prove fierce SCINIS dull  
In mischief; and outroar 〈◊〉 'S Bull.   

40.  
Just as before the Headsman one condemned,  
Who doth in life his death anticipate,  
And now upon the Block his Neck extend,  
For the fear d stroke which must dispatch him strait:  
So EGAS looked, expecting the worst end  
Can be pronounced by KING'S deserved Hate.  
But the KING seeing such stupendious Faith,  
Mercy at length could more with him, than Wrath.   

41.  
O great, and Portingal-Fidelitie,  
Paid by a Subject to his Prince! What more  
Performed the PERSIAN in that Project high,  
When Nose and Face he carbonadoed o'er;  
Which made the great DARIUS (sighing) cry,  
His brave ZOPYRUS, such as he was once,  
H'had rather have, than twenty BAEILONS?   

42.  
But now the Prince ALFONSO did provide  
The happy Host of LUSITANIA  
Against the MOORS, who, on the other side  
Of TAGUS' delectable River, lay.  
Now in the famed ORIQUE'S Champion wide  
The proud and warlike Troops he doth array,  
Just in the beard of the confronted MOOR:  
As rich in couraege, as in numbers poor.   

43.  
His Trust is not in Flesh, but placed all  
In the eternal GOD, That Heaven doth steer:  
For the baptised Army was so small,  
To his one man an hundred MOORS there were.  
Those, who consider things by Reason, call  
It madness rather, than th'effect of clear  
And sober heat, on such vast Heaps to run,  
Where there's an hundred Horsemen to his one.   

44.  
Five MOORISH KINGS he hath that day defy'de  
Of whom the Chief hath ISMAR to his name:  
All with the style of SOLDIER dignify'de,  
By which is purchased immortal Fame.  
Each had his Mistress fight by his side,  
Like that, as beautiful, as warlike, DAME  
Who helped so long to prop up falling TROY;  
And Those, who streams of THERMODONT enjoy.   

45.  
Now did AURORA, beautiful and clear,  
Out of the Welkin chase the golden Fry:  
When MARY'S son, ALPHONSO'S heart to cheer,  
Appeared to him upon the Cross on high.  
Whom worshipping, That thus vouchsafed t'appeer,  
All of a fire with Faith) the Prince doth cry,  
Not to me LORD, but to the INFIDEL:  
Not unto me, who know thy power so well.   

46.  
This miracle of mercy so inflamed  
The POTINGALLS, and did their minds erect,  
That they the gallant Prince their KING acclamed,  
Whom with such cordial love they did affect;  
And (drawing up before the Foe) proclaimed  
To HEAVEN, and to the World, their new Elect:  
Crying aloud; THE ARMY, CROWN AND ALICE,  
FOR GREAT ALPHONSO KING OF PORTUGAL.   

47.  
As a fierce Mastiff in in the woody CHASE  
(Whom Shouts, and Hunter's Instruments incite)  
Attacks a Bull, the which his Trust doth place  
In his sharp Horns' irrefragable might;  
Now fastening on his flank, now on his Face,  
More nimble at the turn, then strong in fight;  
Till, tearing out his Throat, down falls the Beast,  
The groaning Mountain with his weight oppressed:   

48  
So the new KING (with courage no less new  
Inflamed by GOD, and by the People, Both)  
Upon the barbarous Host, before him, flew  
With his bold Troops, impetuous, and wroth.  
With this, the dogs take up a Howle and rue-  
Full Cry, the people rouse, th' Alarm goeth:  
They snatch their Spears, and Bows, the Trumpets sound;  
Loud Instruments of war go bellowing round.   

49.  
As when a fire in Stubble dry begun  
(The whistling Boreas happening then to blow)  
Fanned by the Bellows of the Wind, doth run  
To the next which Field, Furzes overgrow;  
And there a knot of Shepherds (who upon  
The grassy ground sweet slumbers undergo)  
Waked by the crackling flames in the thick Brake,  
Snatch up their Hooks, and to the Village make:   

50  
So the surprised MOORS, and thunderstruckk,  
Catch up their weapons, which lie round about.  
Yet fled not, these; but to their Arms they took,  
And spur d their warlike Barbs, resolved and stout▪  
The PORTUGAL encounters them unshook,  
He makes his Lances at their backs come out.  
Some drop half-dead, some tumble dead outright,  
Others invoke the ALCORAN, and fight.   

51.  
Most terrible Encounters, there, resound;  
Enough to shake in its firm seat a Rock:  
When those fierce Beasts, the Trident-strooken ground  
Produced (with their more furious Burdens) shock.  
No Nook exempt, the war is kindled round,  
Vast wounds are giv▪ n, Neither hath cause to mock:  
But those of LUSUS, Armours, Males, and all,  
Break, cut, hack, batter, penetrate, and maul.   

52.  
Heads from the shoulders leap about the Field;  
Arms, Legs, without or Sense, or Master, fly.  
Others (their panting entrails trailing) wheeled;  
Earth in their bloodless cheek, death in their Eye.  
Th' impious Army now the day doth yield:  
Rivers of Blood flow from their wounds, whereby  
The Field itself doth lose its colour too,  
And into Crimson turns the verdant hue.   

53.  
The PORTUGAL victorious doth remain,  
Reaping the Trophies and the wealthy Prey.  
Having discomfited the MOOR of SPAIN,  
Three days the GREAT KING on the place doth stay.  
In his broad Shield (which he till then bore plain)  
A Badge eternal of this glorious day,  
Five small Shields azure he doth now include,  
In sign of these five Kings by Him subdued.   

54.  
In these five Shields he paints the Recompense  
For which THE LORD was sold, in various Ink  
Writing his history, who did dispense  
Such favour to him, more than Heart could think.  
In every of the Five he paints Five-pences,  
So sums the Thirty by a Cinque-fold Cinque;  
Accounting that which is the Centre, twice,  
Of the five Cinques, which he doth place crosswise.   

55.  
Some time after he gave this grand defeat  
Th'illustrious KING (whose Thoughts to Heaven soar)  
To take in LEYRIA marched; which Those, He beat,  
Had took from Him a little while before.  
To boot, the strong ARRONCHEZ he doth get:  
And, with her pleasant Vale, the evermore  
Glorious SCABELICASTRO (Santaréne)  
Which Thou, sweet TAGUS, waterst so serene.   

56.  
Unto these noble Towns reduced, he soon  
Adds MAFRA, dared by his victorious Wings;  
Then, in the famous Mountains of the Moon  
Cold SYNTRA (forced) to his obedience brings:  
Syntra, in which the NAIADS do run  
From the sweet Snare, hiding themselves in Springs.  
But LOVE hath Nets will there too serve their turn:  
And in the water will his wild fire burn.   

57  
And Thou, fair LISBON (worthy to be crowned  
Of all the Cities of the WORLD the Queen)  
Which that great Prince of Eloquence did found,  
Who by his wit TROY-TOWN had ruin d seen;  
Thou (whom obeys the Ocean-Sea profound)  
By the brave PORTINGALLS were t taken in,  
Helped by a potent Fleet, which at that time  
Happened to come out of the Northern Clime:   

58.  
Thence, from the Germane ELVE, and from the RHINE,  
And from the Brittish-Sea-commanding THEMES,  
Sent to destroy th'usurping SARACEN,  
And free their sister JORDAN'S captive streams.  
These, entering TAGUS' pleasant mouth, and then  
With great ALPHONSO joined (whose Glory's beams  
Attract all Hearts, but those his name appalls)  
A Siege is laid to th'ULYSSEAN WALLS.   

59  
Five times the Moon did hid her horned head,  
And other five her face at full displayed;  
When by main force the City entered  
The will of the Beleaguerer obeyed.  
Fierce was the Battle, much the blood there shed,  
As needs they must be (circumstances weighed)  
Between rough Conquerors, That all things dare,  
And conquered People driven to despair.   

60.  
Thus She, was after some few Month's expense  
Compelled to stoop to this new Victor's law;  
Whom in old time to their obedience,  
With all their might cold Vandals could not draw:  
Whose power (which owned no bound, stuck at no Fence)  
EBRE, and GOLDEN TAGUS, trembling saw:  
And BETIS they did so entirely tame,  
They did that Land VANDALUSIA name.   

61.  
If noble LISBON could not stand it out,  
Where is that City so resolved, and strong,  
That can resistance make to such a stout  
And warlike people (FAME'S immortal song)  
Now all ESTREMADURA'S at his Foot,  
OBIDOS fair, ALENQUER proud (among  
Whose pleasant Groves runs many a River sweet,  
Murmuring, as if too good to wash their Feet)  
And TORRESUEDRAS.   

62.  
You likewise, O ye fair TRANS-TAGAN LANDS  
(Which golden CERES with her Bounty crowns)  
He, who brings more than Mortal strength, commands  
Out of your Forts, and Arms. And you (the Clowns  
Of AFRICA) who ploughed them with your hands,  
Hope not to reap the Fruits: For the good Towns▪  
Of MOURA, SERPA, YELVES, by assault  
Are taken, and ALCACER OF THE SALT.   

63.  
Lo! now that noble City (certain Seat  
Of the brave Rebel in old time, SERTORIUS;  
Where still his far-fetched Water pure and neat,  
To serve the place b'an act so meritorious  
Through Arches on Two hundred Pillars set  
Doth pass, with Royal restauration glorious)  
Even Her, the bold GERARDO'S prowess brings  
To own, and serve, the LUSITANIAN KINGS.   

64.  
Against the City now of BEYA,  
To take revenge for spoiled TRANCOSO'S Town,  
ALPHONSO goes; who cannot rest a Day  
For ymping a short life with long Renown.  
Before this City long he doth not stay;  
And (storming it b'a part that's beaten down)  
Enraged enters: where, of all that breathes,  
His hungry Steel he in the Bowels ●…heathes.   

65.  
Jointly with these, PALMELA doth he win;  
Fishy CIZIMBRA too: nor wins alone,  
But (his good star assisting him therein)  
A potent Army there hath overthrown.  
The Town saw his intent, so did her King:  
Nor was he backward to relieve the Town.  
Careless he marched along the Mountain-side,  
Little imagining what did betid.   

66.  
'Twas He of BADACHOZ (a haughty MORE)  
Four thousand furious Spirits were his HORSE,  
Of INFANTRY innumerable store,  
With gilded Arms (Gallant, and Warriors)  
But, as in May a jealous Bull (before  
He is perceived) rushes with all his force  
Upon a Traveller, and runs him over,  
(Twice mad, both as a Beast, and as a Lover):   

67.  
Just so ALPHONSO, from an Ambush close,  
Assaults the people that securely passed;  
Strikes, overturns, and kills; The Field he mows;  
The MOORISH KING flies for his life in haste.  
Struck with a Panic fear, the Remnant throws  
Away their Arms; and follows him as fast:  
They That made all this Havoc, being a Force  
(Good God) consisting but of sixty Horse.   

68  
The Victory without delay, the great  
And indefatigable KING pursues,  
Causing his Drums through all the Realm to beat  
(Conquering of LANDS he as his Trade doth use)  
Besiegeth BADACHOZ, and soon doth get  
The end of his desire: For there he shows  
So much of Soldier, and a Soul so high;  
That keep, It must the others company.   

69.  
But the great GOD (who keeps his Rods in store,  
For such as merit them, till his own time;  
Whether, for Sinners to amend, before  
They fall: or CAUSES, Man can not divine)  
If he, till now, the valiant KING forbore,  
And (through all dangers leading) gave him line:  
Yet now, he will no longer let him be,  
From his imprisoned MOTHER'S curses, free▪   

70.  
For lying in this City weakly man'd,  
The LEON-MEN besiege th'ill-guarded Walls,  
'Cause he that Conquest took out of their Hand,  
Being of LEON, and not PORTUGAL'S.  
Here dear did Him his Pertinacy stand,  
As in the World out oftentimes it falls:  
For in a furious Sally (his leg burst  
Against an IRON) he to yield was forced.   

71.  
O famous POMPEY! Be not Thou in pain  
To see thy Glories' sad Catastrophe;  
Or that just NEMESIS should pre-ordain  
Thy Father-in-Law to triumph over Thee;  
Though frozen PHASIS; and BOOTES' Wain;  
The Land under the BURNING AXLETREE;  
And strange SYENE, where no obliqne Sun  
A Shadow casts, and all the day is Noon;   

72.  
And ENI●…CHIANS fierce; and ARABS rich;  
And COLCHOS, famous for the Golden Sheep;  
And CAPPADOCEANS; and JUDEANS, which  
Abolished Rites so obstinately keep,  
And soft SOPHENA, scruft with pleasures Itch;  
And (with SILICIAN-ROBBERS on the DEEP)  
ARMENIA, That two Rivers boasts, which came  
From PARADISE; All trembled at thy name:   

73.  
And though, in fine, from the ATLANTICK-SEA  
To SCYTHIAN-TAURUS with erected Crown,  
Victorious: Wonder not, that thou shouldst be  
In the PHARSALIAN BATTLE overthrown.  
For high and great ALPHONSO thou shalt see  
Bear All before him, and at last bourn down.  
By a Cross-match of FATE were Both undone,  
Thou by a FATHER-IN-LAW, He by a SON-.   

74.  
The noble KING thus scourged by HEAVEN, at length  
Restored was to his PORTUGAL again.  
There (after he had been; by a vast strength  
Of MOORS, in SANTAREN besieged in vain;  
And, after that the Corpse of St. VINCENTH  
The Martyr, from that Head of Land in SPAIN  
Which by his name to all the world is known,  
Translated was to th'ULYSSEAN TOWN.)   

75.  
To carry on the Work by Him begun,  
The old man (weary) doth his Son command  
With men and warlike preparation  
To march into the ALENTEIAN-LAND.  
SANCHO (to prove himself his Father's Son)  
Like a strong stream let lose, passes beyand:  
And makes the River of GUADALQUIVEER  
Run Moorish blood, That wont to run so clear.   

76.  
Fleshed with his win, the young Gamester grows  
Now Covetous; and cannot rest, before  
He in a second Battle overthrows  
(In sight of BEIA) the beleagu'ring MORE.  
Nor long with this design in labour goes  
ere he the ●…ays by Him desired Wore.  
The MOOR (on both sides justled to the Wall)  
Resolves at once to be revenged for all.   

77.  
Now, from the Mountain which MEDUSA stared  
Out of that Body which the HEAVEN sustained,  
From AMPELUSA'S Promontory, hard  
They march; from TANGER, where ANTEUS reigned.  
Of AVILA the dwellers are not spared:  
Doth likewise march (well- armed, and choicely trained)  
At the harsh Mauritanian Trumpet's sound  
Of noble JUBA all the Kingdom round.   

78.  
With this huge mass of men his inroad made  
The great MIRAMOLIN in PORTUGAL.  
Twelve Moorish Kings he carried in his Aid,  
Amongst whom He wears the Crown Imperial.  
These, having in their march by Parties preyed,  
And, where they could, destroyed the Country all,  
In SANTAREN Don SANCHO close impound:  
But a sad Siege it will for them be found.   

79.  
Furious assaults th'incensed MOOR doth make:  
A thousand Stratagems in practice puts.  
In vain huge Stones from horrid Engines broke:  
In vain the Mine is hid, and the Ram butts.  
ALPHONSO'S Son is everywhere awake,  
Here his Care sheild's, and there his courage cuts.  
So what with these, and what with martial Art,  
Stopped is each Meuse, and guarded in each part.   

80.  
But the old man (whose burdened Limbs, and Head,  
With years, and Cares, obliged him to repose)  
Retired into that City, whose fair Mead  
To sweet MONDEGO'S streams its verdure owes;  
Hearing his Son is close beleaguered  
In SANTAREN by blind and barbarous Foes,  
Flies from that City to his Aid: For Age  
Cramps not his wont speed, nor cools his rage.   

81  
He, with his Troops inur'd to warlike Feats,  
Thund ring the Rear, and his Son sallying out;  
The PORTUGAL (who now of custom beats)  
In a short space the MOORS doth wholly rout.  
With Terbants, Cassocks, Falchions, Coverlets,  
Cloaks with wrought Capes, the Field is strewed about:  
Horses, and their Caparisons (rich Prey)  
And by the Horses their dead Masters lay.   

82.  
The Lusitanian Bounds the rest forego,  
Put to a hasty and disordered flight.  
The great MIRAMOLIN, he flies not though:  
For before he could fly, he fled the light.  
To HIM, who did this Victory bestow  
Are rendered thanks and Praises infinite:  
For in so great, and so apparent odds,  
The part man acts is the dumb show to GOD'S.   

83.  
This was the great ALPHONSO'S latest wreath  
Of Victory (a Prince of vast Renown)  
When He who forged it with his Sword (his breath  
Deserting him) exchanged his MORTAL CROWN.  
The hand of sickness ushering that of death,  
Touched his weak Body, and so pushed it down.  
Thus, whom so many had paid Tribute to,  
Paid the last tribute unto Nature due.   

84.  
Him did the lofty Promontories moan:  
With all their streams the widowed Rivers wept,  
And (overflowing the Fields, newly sown,  
With rueful Tears) the next years Harvest swept.  
But through the world his living FAME is blown:  
And, where he reigned, his name so fresh is kept;  
That there each Hill, and every echoing Plain,  
ALFONSO calls, ALPHONSO— But in vain.   

85.  
SANCHO succeeds (valiant, and in his Spring)  
True Copy of his Sire, examine d well  
By the Original, alive yet being  
When he with barbarous blood made BETIS swell;  
And overturned the Andalusian King  
Of the accursed Race of ISHMAEL:  
But better; when at BEJA'S siege he made  
Them feel the weight of his Victorious Blade.   

86.  
After he beware the LUSITANIAN CROWN  
(Some years elapsed since he to reign began)  
Before the City SILVES he sat down  
Then in possession of the AFRICAN▪  
Assisted was he to take in this Town  
By Strangers from the Northern Ocean,  
With Men, and Arms, for ASIA bound: to join  
In rescue of distressed PALESTINE.   

87.  
They sailed, to second in the Holy Cause  
RED FREDRICK; who with a potent Host  
To the defence of that plagued City draws,  
By which the LORD OF LIFE his own life lost:  
When GUIDA with his Troops (having their jaws  
Parched up with drought) to the GREAT SULTAN forced  
Were to surrender, where the Miscreants  
Have prepossessed the Springs which GUIDO wants.   

88  
But the fair Navy (forced upon our shore  
By adverse Winds, though SANCHO▪ s prosperous Star)  
Assists him willingly against the MORE,  
Since one and the other is a Holy War.  
As thy great Father, LISBON took before;  
Just so, and with the same Auxiliar,  
From the fierce dwellers tak'st Thou, SILVES: This  
Also, a noble Realm's METROPOLIS.   

89.  
And, if from the MAHOMETANS thou hast  
So many trophies; neither didst thou let  
The men of LEON (though in Mountains placed,  
And nursed in bloody Battle) quiet set:  
Till thou a Yoke upon the Neck hadst cast  
Of their proud TUI, adding a Coronet  
Of Towns her Neighbours, on which Thou did●…t pu●…  
(Renowned SANCHO) thy triumphant Foot.   

90.  
But death (like a bold Thief) did Him assault  
In his Career of glory. He was heyred  
B'a Son whom many Virtues did exalt:  
Second ALPHONSO, of our Kings the Therd.  
In his Reign was ALCACER OF THE SALT  
Subdued again in spite of the MOOR'S Beard;  
By whom late took, 'tis now retook, with great  
Destruction of them, and four Kings defeat.   

91.  
ALFONSO dead, The Second SANCHO came  
To hold the Sceptre; Tame, and negligent:  
To that degree both negligent, and tame,  
That for the shadow of Himself he went.  
Then did Another (fitter for the same)  
Wrist from his hands that pow r, he was content  
To delegate. And why? He having none  
Himself, his Minion's Crimes were called his own.   

92.  
No, no, our SANCHO was not of that mood  
Lewd NERO was, who married with a Boy;  
And after (with less guilt he shed her blood)  
His mother AGRIPPINA did enjoy:  
Nor (like the selfsame NERO) piping stood,  
Then clapped his hands to see his burning TROY:  
Nor did his daughter, like one King, devour:  
Nor change his Sex like t'other Emperor.   

93  
He did not o'er his People tyrannize,  
Like Those who Kings in SYRACUSE were:  
Nor hired he men, strange Tortures to devise,  
Like PHALARIS, one of the Tyrants there.  
But the proud Realm, which too indulgent skies  
Had used to Kings, who would endure no Peer;  
That likewise to such niceness did arrive  
T'indure no King, who had his Peer alive.   

94.  
Therefore BOLONIA'S Earl the Helm did guide:  
Which he did after in his own right hold,  
When his still-sloathful Brother (SANCHO) died.  
He (named ALPHONSO, and surnamed the Bold)  
After he had the Kingdom pacify▪ de;  
And all sharp humours settled, or control▪ d;  
Thinks, how he may enlarge it by his merit:  
Too small a Circle for so great a spirit.   

95.  
Of the ALGARVES' land (the conquering  
Whereof was given him with his Queen in dower)  
He gains in much, outing the Moorish King;  
On all whose Actions now cursed MARS did lower.  
But out of PORTUGAL did wholly fling  
(By Prudence part, and part by martial power.)  
That pertinacious People, and did chase  
From that good Land which LUSUS left his Race.   

96.  
Now, DENIS! worthy his own Parentage:  
And for whom such a Father should make room.  
DENIS! Who strikes (in the way of Patronage)  
The fa me of ALEXANDER'S bounty, dumb.  
The Land got breath, and flourished in that Age  
(Mild ●…eace, and, with peace, Justice from Heaven come)  
With Constitutions, Laws, and Customs right:  
Of a calm Kingdom LUMINARIES bright.   

97.  
He, was the first That made COYMBRA shine  
With Liberal Sciences which PALLAS taught;  
By Him, from HELICON the Muses Nine  
To bruise MONDEGO'S grassy brink were brought;  
Hither transferred APOLLO that rich Mine,  
Which the old GREEKS in learned ATHENS wrought;  
Here Ivy-Wreaths with Gold he interweaves,  
And the coy DAPHNE'S never-fading leaves.   

98  
Now noble Cities from the ground ascend,  
Castles, and warlike Fortresses secure;  
Scarce any Corner but this Prince doth mend:  
Convents he builds, and Towns he doth immure.  
But ATROPOS (the Best must have an End)  
Shearing his golden third in years mature,  
His Son succeeds; not dutiful (the Fourth  
ALPHONSE) but of high courage, and much worth.   

99  
On proud CASTEEL he still with Scorn did look:  
Yet free from malice as 'twas free from fears,  
Only men have a custom, in that Nook,  
To dread no power for being more than theirs.  
For when the MAURITANIAN undertook  
HESPERIA'S second Conquest; and appears  
Just ready now CASTILIANS to invade:  
The brave ALPHONSO powers in to their Aid:   

100  
Never SEMIRAMIS with such an Host  
Did swarm HYDASPES' banks, his Sands outnumber;  
Nor ATTILA (He, who Himself did boast  
The Scourge of GOD, and was the fright, and wonder  
Of ITALY) so many GOTHS engrossed  
And Northern People: As of MOORS were under  
The AFFRICK-MOOR (with Those GRANADA yields)  
At that time mustered in Tartessian Fields.   

101.  
Then the CASTILIAN KING (who saw so great  
And vast a pow r, against his Country bend;  
Nor weighed his life, but the entire defeat  
Of SPAIN itself (once lost) did apprehend)  
Help from the valiant PORTUGAL t'entreat,  
His dearest Consort to that Court did send:  
His Wife from whom the Embassy is sent,  
And his dear daughter▪ unto whom it went.   

102.  
Virtuous MARIA, and as fair as good,  
Enters her Father's Palace (glorious dame!)  
Lovely, in Grief; nor, though the water stood  
In her sweet eyes, did that suspend their flame.  
Her Angel's Tresses with a golden flood  
Covered her Ivory shoulders. When she came  
Before her Sire (He overjoyed and kind)  
It reigned down right, and thus she broke her mind.   

103.  
As many Nations as all AFRICA bred  
(A People barbarous and inhuman)  
Hath the great King of the MOROCCO'S led  
To take possession of illustrious SPAIN.  
So vast a power ne'er marched under one Head  
Since the dry Earth was compassed by the Main.  
It terrifies the living where it rolls,  
And even alarms their dead Father's Souls.   

104.  
His frighted subjects to protect and screen,  
He, whom thou hast my Lord and Husband made,  
Stands with small strength exposed to the keen  
And thirsty edges of the Moorish Blade;  
And I shall soon deprived of all be seen,  
If thou afford him not thy present aid:  
A sad and private Woman, Husbandless.  
Without a Crown, or Him, or Happiness.   

105.  
Therefore (O King) for very fear of whom  
The streams of hot MALUCO do congeal;  
Secure, O! quickly to the succour come  
Of miserable and despised CASTELE.  
If that dear smile be an assenting dumb,  
If that thy fatherly affection seal.  
Run Father; if thou do not, by the MORE  
I fear thou'lt find it overrun before.   

106.  
This with the selfsame tone MARIA said  
To King ALPHONSO on her trembling knees,  
With which sad VENUS once her Father prayed  
For her AENEAS tossed on Lybian Seas;  
At which, with sense of the deep moan she made,  
Such tender pity did JOVE'S bowels seize,  
(Indulgent Sire!) he let his Thunder fall,  
And (grieved she asked no more) granted her all.   

107.  
Straight armed Squadrons, glittering in the Sun,  
Are mustered in the Fields of EBORA:  
Scoured is the Sword, the Lance, the Murrain:  
In rich Caparisons the Horses neigh.  
The Trumpet shrill, with pendant Banner done,  
Rouses from peaces down (where long they lay)  
Their tickled Hearts to disaccustomed Arms;  
And concave Drums go thundering fresh Alarms.   

108.  
Amongst them and above them All appeers  
Higher by head and shoulders than the rest  
(And where He goes the Royal Standart veers)  
Valiant ALPHONSO with erected Crest.  
His very look, it animates and cheers  
(If there are any) even the Co●…ard's Breast.  
Into CASTEEL thus marching is he seen  
With his fair daughter, the Castilian Queen.   

109.  
The two ALPHONSO'S in conclusion joined,  
In wide TARYFA'S Fields confronting stood  
The endless numbers of the people blind  
For whom too narrow are both Plain and Wood  
Of ours not one so hardy, but did find  
Somewhat of cold and shivering in his blood,  
Save only such as clearly understands  
CHRIST fights the battle with his People's hands.   

110.  
Derided are the thin-spread Christian-Bands  
By Bond-Mayd HAGAR'S Progeny unclean;  
Who, by anticipation, all their lands  
Divide amongst the Army Hagarene,  
Which by false Title in possession stands  
Of the illustrious Name of Saracene:  
Just as Another's noble Land they boast  
Now, for their own; reckoning without their Host.   

111  
As that big-boned and barbarous Giant (whom  
King SAUL so feared, and all his Army worse)  
Seeing a simple Swain against him come,  
Only with Pebbles armed, and a clean force,  
With haughty language (arrogant and grum)  
Scorns the poor Boy, and sends him to his Nurse;  
Whom rounding with his sling, He taught at length  
The difference betwixt Faith, and humane strength.   

112.  
So the perfidious MOOR (advancing) cracks  
Over the Christian Host; nor understands  
What POWER it is that their weak Powers backs,  
Which Hell with all its Fiends in vain withstands.  
Helped by that POWER, He of CASTEEL attacks  
MOROCCO'S King, who there in Chief commands:  
The PORTUGAL (who sleights their whole Armada)  
He takes to Task the Kingdom of GRANADA.   

113.  
Now crack the Lances, and the Swords cry clink  
Upon the Armours, Powers encountering Powers;  
Invoking (when they stand on danger's brink)  
Theirs MAHOMET, and St. JAGO ours.  
The struck strike Heaven with Cries, making a sink  
And standing Pool with thick 〈◊〉 showers:  
Where some (half dead) lie drowning where they stood  
In too much n●…w, who fell for want of blood.   

114.  
With so great bloodshed did the PORTUGAL  
Make Spoil and Havoc of the GRANADINE,  
That in small space he kills, or routs, them All,  
' Spite of their mails and breastplates of steel 〈◊〉.  
His hungry Blade which will to supper fall  
In FEZ, if in th'ALHAMBRA it did dine)  
The brave CASTILIAN helps to end the Fray:  
Who hath the MAURITANIAN at a Bay.   

115.  
The burning Sun was making his retreat  
To THETIES grotts, and the bright Evening Star  
Drawing that glorious day to its red Set,  
Whose memory no time shall ever bar:  
When the two Kings consummate the defeat  
Of the MOORS' Powers assembled in this War,  
With so much Tragic slaughter, as no Age  
Beheld before, or since, on the World's Stage.   

116.  
Not a fourth part rough MARIUS slew, of Those  
That lost their lives in this day's Victory,  
When water dashed with blood of their dead Foes  
He made his Army drink, which then was dry:  
Nor He of CARTHAGE (sworn, a child, t'oppose  
With Fire and Sword the Pride of ITALY)  
When he so many Knights killed famous ROME,  
That their Rings ta'en did to three Bushels come.   

117.  
And if Thou (noble TITUS) couldst alone  
So many souls to black COCYTUS send,  
When thou the Holy City didst unstone  
Of that stiff People, never to be weaned  
From their abolished Rites: This GOD did own,  
And christened it his Act, that what was penned  
By the OLD PROPHETS might be verify'de,  
And JESUS said too, whom they Crucify'de.   

118.  
After this great and prosperous event  
(ALFONSO come to PORTUGAL again,  
There to enjoy in peace and sweet content  
The spreading Glories he in War did gain)  
A black and lamentable accident  
(Worthy in FAME'S Memorials to remain)  
Was on a miserable Lady seen,  
Who, after she was dead, was made a Queen.   

119.  
Thou, only Thou (pure LOVE) with bended bow,  
Against whose Force no breast whate'er can hold,  
As if thy perjured Subject, or Sworn Foe,  
Didst cause her death whom all the World condoled.  
If Tears (which from a troubled Fountain flow)  
Quench not thy Thirst, as hath been said of old;  
It is, that such is thy tyra●…nick mood,  
Thou lov'st thy Altars should be bathed in blood.   

120.  
Thou were't (fair YNES) in Repose, of LOVE'S  
Reflected Fires fost'ring the sweet heat, young;  
In that sweet Error, that worse Fates removes,  
Which Fortune never suffers to last long:  
In sweet MONDEGO'S solitary Groves,  
Whose streams no day but thou didst weep among:  
Teaching the lofty Trees▪ and humble Grass,  
That Name which printed in thy bosom was.   

121.  
Thy pensive Prince, with thine did sympathise  
Remembrances, which in his Soul did swim,  
Bringing thee always fresh before his Eyes,  
When, from thy fair ones, business banished Him:  
By night, in dreams; that cheat him with sweet lies:  
By day, in thoughts; that pencil thy each limb:  
And all he mused, and all he saw in fine,  
Were dear IDEAS of thy Form divine.   

122.  
Of other Lady's fair, and Princesses  
The tendered Matches he did vilify;  
For, of a Heart 'tis hard to dispossess  
True Love, that hath had time to fortify.  
Upon these highly amorous passages  
The Father looking with an old man's Eye  
(Enraged with what the common-people sed  
And his Son's resolution not to wed)   

123.  
YNES determines from the World to take,  
His Son from Her to take, and to remove:  
Believing, with her blood's ill let-out Lake,  
To quench the kindled flames of constant love.  
O! that sure Sword (which had the power to make  
The Moorish Rage strike sail) what Rage could move  
Thee, from the honoured Sheaths, where thou didst rest,  
To be new sheathed in Lady's gentle Breast?   

124.  
The horrid bloodhounds dragged her to the King:  
Whose bowels now to mercy stood inclined.  
But ill-Advisers with false reasoning  
To her destruction re-inflamed his mind.  
She (with Heart-breaking language which did spring  
Only from sense of Those she left behind  
In solitude, her Prince, and children dear,  
Whose Grief she more, than her own death did fear:)   

125.  
Lifting unto the azure Firmament  
Her Eyes, which in a Sea of Tears were drowned;  
Her Eyes, for one of those malevolent  
And bloody Instruments her hands had bound;  
And then, the same on her dear Infants bend,  
Who Them with smiling innocence surround  
By whom poor Orphans they will straight be made  
Unto their cruel Grandfather thus said.   

126.  
If Beasts themselves (wild Beasts) whose use, and way,  
By Nature's dire instinct, is not to spare;  
And vagrant Birds, whose business 'tis, to pray,  
And chase their Quarry through the yielding Air;  
The world hath seen take Babes exposed, and play  
The tender Nurses to them with their care,  
As NINUS' mother once it did befall,  
And the Twinn-Founders of the Roman Wall:   

127.  
O Thou, whose Superscription speaks thee, Man  
(That the Contents were suited to the Cover!  
A feeble Maid thou wouldst not murder than  
Only for loving Him, who first did love her)  
Pity these Babes (the babes about him ran)  
In thy hard doom since I am spot all over.  
Spare, for their sakes, their lives, and mine: And see  
Whiteness in Them, though thou wilt not in Me.   

128.  
And if (subduing the presumptuous MORE,  
How to give death with fire and sword thou knowst,  
Know, to give life too, to a damsel poor,  
Who hath done nothing why it should be lost.  
Let my hid Innocence thus much procure:  
Exile me to some sad intemperate Coast,  
Cold SCYTHIA, or burnt LYBIA, to remain  
A weeping Tomb, and never more see SPAIN.   

129.  
Plant me where nothing grows but Cruelty,  
Amongst Lions, Bears, and other Savage Beasts:  
To see, if They that mercy will deny  
Which I in vain implore from humane Breasts.  
There, in firm love to Him for whom I die,  
I'll breed his Pieces, thou here seest, their guests  
And my Companions; to slide off with Those  
Part of the burden of their mother's woes.   

130.  
Fain would have pardoned her the gracious King,  
Moved with these words, which made his Bowels yearn:  
But Fate, and whisp'rers (That fresh Fuel bring)  
They would not pardon. 'Tis those men's concern  
(Having begun) to perpetrate the Thing.  
They strip their steel out of the Scabbard (stern).  
Out Villains! Butchers! What? employ your spites,  
Your swords, against a Lady, and called Knights?   

131.  
As at the breast of fair POLIXENA  
Condemned to death by dire ACHILLES' shade  
(The last dear stake of Aged HECUEA)  
Revengeful PYRRHUS bent his cruel Blade;  
But with a look that drives ill Airs away  
(Patient, as any Lamb) The Royal Maid,  
On her mad Mother casting up her Eyes,  
Presents herself a Sacrifice, and dies:   

132.  
So gentle YNES' brutish Murderers,  
Even in that Neck (white ATLAS of that Head  
Whose stars, thought set, had influence o'er the powers  
Of Him, That crowued her after she was dead)  
Bathing their thirsty Swords, and all the flowers  
Which her fair Eyes had newly watered  
(Mindless of the ensuing Vengeance) stood  
Like crimsoned Hunters reeking with her blood.   

133.  
Well mightst Thou PHOEBUS from an Act so dire  
(PYROUS starting) have reversed thy look;  
As from THYESTES' Table, when the Sire  
Dined on the Son, the Uncle being the Cook.  
You, hollow Vales (which, when she did expire,  
From her cold lips the dying accentstook)  
Hearing her PEDRO named with her last breath,  
Formed PEDRO, PEDRO, after YNES' death.   

134.  
Like a sweet Rose (with party-colours fair)  
By Virgin's hand beheaded in the Bud  
To play withal, or prick into her Hair,  
When (severed from the stalk on which it stood)  
Both Scent and beauty vanish into Air:  
So lies the Damsel without breath, or Blood,  
Her Cheeks fresh Roses ravished from the Root  
Both red and white, and the sweet life to boot.   

135.  
This Act of horror, and black night obscure,  
MONDEGO'S daughters long resented deep;  
And, for a lasting Tomb, into a pure  
Fountain, transformed the Tears which they did weep.  
The name, they gave it (which doth still endure)  
Was YNES' loves, whom PEDRO there did keep.  
No wonder, such sweet Streams water those Flowers:  
TEARS, are the substance; and the Name, A-MOURS.   

136.  
It was not long ere PEDRO found the way  
To that Revenge which in his breast did boil;  
For, taking in his hands the Kingdom's sway  
He takes it on the Murderers (who changed soil)  
With licence of another PEDRO. They  
(Partners in mischief) having made that vile  
And bloody pact, AUGUSTUS did with those  
He was new Friends with, of exchanging Foes.   

137.  
A rigorous Chastiser was this King  
Of Thefts, of Murders, and Adultries blind,  
The Ill to condign punishment to bring  
Was the delight and banquet of his mind.  
Restraining Cities with rough discipline,  
From Vice and Insolence of every kind,  
He gave more Robbers their deserved meed  
Then wand'ring THESUS, or ALCIDES, did.   

138.  
From the just PEDRO, and severe (Behold  
How Nature sometimes can prevaricate!)  
Sprang the remiss, the Careless, the sheepsold  
FERNANDO: who set all of a Flame strait.  
Whence the CASTILIAN entering uncomptrold,  
Went wasting so the weak disnerved State,  
That at last gasp it lay: For it's seen oft,  
" A soft KING makes a valiant People, soft.   

139.  
Whether it were GOD'S Judgement, for his sin  
Of taking from her Husband LEONORE,  
And marrying Her; besotten with her win-  
Ning looks, and by his Flattering Casuists more;  
Or that faint Vice (through custom soaking in  
Into his Breast, thence breathing through each poor)  
Made him all Pap within: For, 'tis as true,  
" Unlawful fires make Valiant KING'S soft too.   

140.  
" Lust oft hath brought great men to great mishap:  
GOD that permitting, and ordaining thus.  
Witness th'ABETTORS of fair HELEN'S Rape:  
King-TARQUIN, and Triumvir-APPIUS.  
Why could not holy DAVID judgement scape?  
Why was destroyed the TRIBE illustrious  
OF BENJAMIN? DINAH cost SICHEM deer:  
Nor (SARAH only wished) went PHARAOH clear.   

141.  
Then, whether manly Bosoms melt, or not,  
With fires that are not kindled from Above;  
ALCMENA'S Son (who beware a Petticot  
To please OMPHALE) well may serve to prove:  
And ANTHONY, who lost the fame he got,  
And the World's Crown for CLEOPATRA'S love.  
And Thou of CARTHAGE, in full conquest stayed  
By stumbling on a mean Appulian maid.   

142.  
But who is privileged from the sweet snare  
Which Love so subtly weaves, and hides it (oh!)  
In Damask Roses, in bright auburn hair,  
Transparent alabaster, and warm Snow?  
Who, from the poisoned Arrows of the Fair?  
From a MEDUSA'S head (I term it so)  
That turns the hearts of them whom she doth tame,  
Not into Stone (than it were well) but flame?   

143.  
Who sees a crystal Brow, a piercing look,  
A luscious, and Seraphic excellence,  
(Transforming Souls into it) That can brook  
The object, or pretend the least defence?  
All That have swallowed LOVE'S bewitching Hook,  
With poor FERNANDO'S frailty will dispense:  
And some (as when MARS seen in courser snares  
The Gods did once) even wish his case were Theirs.   
End of the third Canto.   

Fourth Canto.  

STANZA. 1.  
AFter a pitchy, and a dripping night,  
Poor Travellers confounding in their way,  
A glorious Morn (succeeding) glads the sight;  
And, with the longed-for Sun, returns the day:  
After the whistling winds have spent their spite,  
On the calmed Sea the wanton Dolphin's play:  
So the afflicted Kingdom it befell  
When soft FERNANDO bade the world farewel.   

2.  
And if ours wished a Champion, to fulfil  
Their Vengeance upon Those, from whom alone  
(Using remiss FERNANDO'S favours ill)  
They make account that all their Ills are grown.  
Now they I have one according to their will,  
Putting illustrious JOHN into the Throne,  
As PEDRO'S only Son they could come at:  
And his true Son, though Illegitimat.   

3.  
That this was Heaven's Ordinance divine  
By most clear Tokens evident became,  
When a young girl, speaking before her time,  
In EBORA distinctly formed his name.  
And as a Herald-Angel sent in fine  
The Portugal Successor to proclaim  
Lifting i'th'Cradle Body, Hand, and Tone,  
Cried, PORTUGAL FOR THE NEW KING DON JOHN.   

4.  
Such, at this time, was the confused Estate  
Of the poor Realm, and the mad People's spleen;  
That (to disburden their conceived Hate)  
Flat Cruelties in every part were seen:  
Killing the Kin, and all that did relate  
To the adulterous Earl, and to the Queen,  
With whom her lewdness (they affirmed) was more  
In widowhood, than it had been before.   

5.  
But true, or false, the scandal which they gave  
Forfeits his Head (and rightly) to the Axe.  
He dies for't in her presence: Others have  
The selfsame sauce. It catches like fired flax.  
One, whom religious Orders could not save,  
Thrown from a Steeple like ASTYANAX:  
A Second, Orders, Sex, nor th' Altar's Horn:  
A third dragged naked, and to mammocks torn.   

6.  
In long forgetfulness may now be laid  
Those horrid Massacres, which ROME beheld,  
By bloody SCYLLA, and fierce MARIUS, made,  
When one another they by turns expelled.  
Then LEONÓRE (whom th'unrevenged shade  
Of her dear Count with open fury swelled)  
Invites CASTEEL, who did her daughter wed:  
Saying, the CROWN belongeth to her head.   

7.  
Her daughter BEATRICE was she, as due  
To whom, he of CASTEEL that Crown might claim:  
Reputed daughter of FERNANDO too,  
With the permission of her mother's Fame.  
Into the Field CASTILIA therefore drew,  
To seize the Kingdom in his Consort's name,  
Amassing men (our Spot to overwhelm)  
From every Province of his spacious Relm.   

8.  
Troops came (on this occasion) from that LAND  
To which one BRIGUS gave his name of yore:  
From Lands recovered (by their GREAT FERNAND,  
And greater CID) from the usurping MORE.  
Nor those, who high in MARS his favour stand,  
Who with their Ploughs (laborious) travail o'er  
The Hills of LEON, slowly did advance:  
The ancient Terror of the Moorish Lance.   

9  
The VANDALS came, who to this day confide  
In Valour which of old they made appear.  
SEVILIA came (ANDALUZIA'S Pride)  
So sweetly watered by GUADALQUIVEER.  
The noble ISLAND (which was colonied  
Sometime by TYRIANS) was not wanting here,  
Who, on their Banners in those days of yore  
The famous Pillars of ALCIDES bore.   

10.  
Came likewise Troops from old TOLEDO'S Ream,  
Whose nimble Tongue the neatest Spanish trolls:  
And TAGUS clasps her with his amorous stream,  
Which from the Hills of CUENCA sweetly rolls.  
Nor fear kept you from being joined to Them,  
Sordid GALLEGOS (refractory Souls!)  
That arm yourselves again, those swords t'oppose,  
Of which already ye have felt the blows.   

11.  
Likewise black Furies of the war drives an  
The BISKAYNER, A mortal enemy  
To Compliment; nor of a Heart, that can  
From any stranger brook an injury:  
He of GUIPUSCUA, and th'ASTURIAN:  
Famed for their Yron-Indies far and nigh:  
These (armed with their own Mines) conducted are  
To serve their LORD in the denounced War.   

12.  
JOHN, from whose manly Bosom's bristles, grew  
That courage, SAMSON borrowed of his hairs,  
Though all his men amount but to a Few,  
To play the best of a bad Game prepares.  
Nor, that he's unresolved what to do,  
Calls the chief Counsellors in his Affairs;  
But, to observe how every one inclines:  
" For among many there are many minds.   

13.  
There want no such, as, even against that Cause  
They follow, Reasons do insinuate:  
Whose sense with a Castilian Bias draws  
From all that's Portugal degenerate.  
Whom Fear so freezes, and so overaws,  
That natural love it doth exterminate.  
Their King, and Country, they deny: and would  
With PETER too, for fear deny their GOD.   

14.  
Don NUNIO (to be sure) was none of Those:  
But though his Brothers (whom he dear loved)  
Take t'other side, and big the danger grows,  
Them whose Faith staggers sharply he reproved;  
And at these People with their I's, and No's;  
Laying his Hand upon his Hilt (more moved  
Then Eloquent) these words abruptly hurled:  
Threatening the Earth, the Ocean, and the world.   

15.  
What? Amongst the Portingal-Nobility  
Shall there be any less than Sons of MARS?  
What? in this Realm (victorious far and nigh)  
Shall there be born, That eat defensive wars?  
That will their Hearts, their Hands, their Heads deny  
At such a pinch, their Fortunes, and their Stars?  
Or who, for any cause that can be thought,  
Will see their Country in subjection brought.   

16.  
What? Are not you then of those worthies bred,  
Who (fierce and valiant as the Swords they wore)  
Under the great HENRIQUEZ Standart led,  
O'erthrew this warlike Nation once before?  
When Them so many routed Squadrons fled,  
So many Flags, that (besides thousands more  
Of lesser Rank, amongst the opulent Pr●…y)  
seven potent Earls our Prisoners were that day?   

17.  
With whom, perpetually were trodden down  
These, That are now so dreadful in your view,  
By DENIS, and, his Son, of high Renown,  
But with your Sires, and Grandsires? and if you  
Were (by the Sins, or weakness, of the CROWN)  
Kept under, in FERNANDO'S days; Renew  
Your strength with the new King:" For 'tis not strange  
" (You see) for People with their Kings to change.   

18.  
Ye have one now, that, if your courage risen  
Equal with his You lifted to the Throne,  
Ye might o'erthrow the World, how much more Those,  
Whom ye have oft already overthrown?  
And if, in short, with Him ye cannot lose  
Those fears, that seem t'have turned you into stone;  
Stand but like stones (I ask you not one stroke)  
Whilst I alone resist a foreign yoke.   

19  
I only, with my Tenants, and with this—  
(And at that word he pulled out half his Blade)  
Will save from force, and all that shameful is,  
This Land, which hitherto hath lived a Maid.  
By the King's fire, and mine (lighted at his):  
Our Country's Tears: By Faith (by you not weighed):  
Not only These upon their knees I'll bring,  
But All that ever shall oppose my King.   

20.  
As when, despairing now, the Youth of ROME  
(All that survived CANNAE'S fatal Field)  
Stood ready (rallyed in CANUSIUM)  
Themselves unto the Conqueror to yield,  
But young CORNELIUS doth amongst them come,  
And swears them All upon his sword, compelled;  
That they the Roman wars shall never leave,  
Till life leave them, or Those their lives bereave:   

21.  
So NUNIO animates, whom he did force.  
Whose boisterous empiric such quick flame imparts,  
Chief the Tail and sting of his discourse,  
As thaws those fears that had congeal d their hearts.  
And presently they call to Horse, to Horse,  
Tossing about their heads Lances, and Darts.  
They run: and live (with open mouth they cry)  
The famous King that gives us Liberty!   

22.  
Amongst the fiercer Commons, some up-cry  
This war, by which their Country is assoiled:  
Others scour up their Armours, and supply  
What with the rust of peace was eat, and spoiled:  
These, stuff old Morions; Those, new breastplates try:  
Each takes those Arms, he hath most skill to wield.  
With several coloured Garments, others flaunt:  
Others, Love- Mottoes, and devices paint.   

23.  
With all this well-appointed Company,  
Doth valiant JOHN from fresh ABRANTES go:  
Abrantes, which enjoys abundantly  
The streams, from CUENCA'S frozen Caves that flow.  
The well-armed Vanguard is commanded by  
One, who was fit t have led against a Foe  
Those Oriental Forces without Compt,  
With which King XERXES past the HELLESPONT.   

24.  
DON NUNIO ALVAREZ, I mean: the true  
And fatal scourge of proud CASTILIANS,  
No less, than once the valiant HUN was to  
The ancient gauls, and the ITALIANS.  
Another Knight (to whom much praise is due)  
Leads the right wing of LUSITANIANS:  
As skilful to conduct, as bold in fight,  
OF VASCONCETOES MEM RODRIQUEZ, high●….   

25.  
The other wing, that corresponds with this,  
ANTONIO VASQUEZ of ALMAAD commands,  
Who after Conde of Abranchez is:  
And He comes up with the Sinestre Bands.  
In the R●…er-Gard the Standart none can miss,  
Where (Circling PORTUGAL) CASTILIA Stands;  
With JOHN, accomplished in every part:  
Who makes a dunce of MARS in his own Art.   

26.  
Trembling upon the Battlements, and e'en  
Cold (betwixt hope and fear suspended now)  
Wives, Mothers, Sisters, Mistresses, are seen.  
Prayers they prefer: Fasts, Pilgrimages, vow.  
Our Troops (advancing with undaunted mien)  
Down by the Foe they sit them, brow to brow;  
Received with shouts, which rock the Firmament:  
Yet one, & tother, doubted the event.   

27.  
The vocal Trumpets challenge, and accept:  
The Drums, and whistling Fifes in consort join.  
The dusty Field the s●…ourisht Ensigns swept,  
Where all the Colours of the Rainbow shine.  
It was the time, when, CERES' fruits being reaped,  
She lends her labourers to the God of Wine:  
When (into Libra entered August's Sun)  
Plump BACCHUS put sweet Must into the Tun.   

28.  
Castilian Trumpets did the Onset sound,  
Loud, furious dismal, terrible, and hoarse  
Herd it ARTABOR'S Mount, and underground  
Her way did frighted GUADIANA force:  
Herd it the DWERE, and ALENTECHO round:  
TAGUS looks back, then hastens on his course:  
And Mothers (who that baylefull noysedid hear)  
Clasp to their Breasts their tender Babes for fear.   

29.  
How many Cheeks were there discoloured seen,  
Whilst to the Heart the friendly blood repaired?  
" In great Encounters greater is I ween  
" The fear of danger, than the danger feared:  
" But, when the first brunts over, Rage, and Teen,  
" Desire of honour, and to Plume the Beard  
" Of a proud Foe; These take away the sense  
" Of losing limbs, or dearest life's expense.   

30.  
On either side the first Battalions move:  
The doubtful war on either side began:  
These fight for their Country, which they love;  
Those, to possess another's if they can.  
The great PEREYRA, first his force did prove:  
Summing an Army's valour in one Man.  
He shocks, strikes down, in fine he makes, their Grave,  
And with their Corpses sows the Land they crave.   

31.  
Now through the darkened Air barbd Arrows fleet,  
Javelins, with other shot, fly whizzing round;  
Under the fiery Coursers' iron Feet  
The Earth doth tremble, and the Vales resound:  
Lances are cracked, and (dropping thick as Sleet)  
The Horsemen armed come thundering to the ground.  
Upon fierce NUNIO'S Few, fresh Foes are pact:  
Their Art, to multiply; his, to abstract.   

32.  
Lo now his Brother's swords against him bend  
(Cruel, and ugly)! But He wonders not.  
For they, who'gainst their King, and Country went,  
Would never stick to cut a Brother's Throat.  
Of these Revolters many did present  
Themselves in the first Ranks: And who so hot  
To kill their Friends, as They? so kindred's Hosts  
Of yore encountered in Pharsalian Coasts.   

33.  
O CATILINE, and Thou Sertorius bold,  
Noble CORIOLANUS, with the rest,  
Who'gaynst your Country drew your swords of old  
From an Impious, though provoked, Breast!  
If in the dark Abyss of PLUTO'S Hold  
Ye find yourselves with FURIES' whips oppressed,  
Tell them (to cloak the horror of your sin)  
Some Portingalls sometimes have Traitors been.   

34.  
Over whelmed with growing Foes' impetuous flood,  
Now were the foremost of our Squadrons burst,  
There NUNIO, like a rampant Lion, stood,  
Whom in her neighb ring Mountains CEUTA nursed;  
But now he is environed with a wood  
Of HUNTER'S spears, o'er Tetuan plains that coursed;  
Those All are bend at Him, His Brows He draws,  
Nor is it Fear, but Anger makes him pause.   

35.  
Musty he looks, nought pleased with the sight,  
Yet (his wild Nature, and undaunted he art  
Incompetible with ignoble flight)  
Himself amongst the thickest he doth dart:  
So with the blood of Aliens dies our Knight  
The Lusitanian Grass. Some fall, some start  
Even of his own. For, where there is such odds,  
Strength often fails, and firmest Virtue nods.   

36.  
JOHN saw how hard brave NUNIO was put to't:  
(For, as a wise and careful General,  
His Eye was in all parts, in all his Foot,  
His Presence, and his words, gave life to All)  
As a She-Lyon, and a Nurse to boot,  
That finds, whilst Hunger, Her from home did call,  
(Leaving her whelps unto themselves) a bold  
Massylian shepherd lurcht them from her Hold;   

37.  
Raving she runs, and grinds her Teeth, and rends  
The SEVEN BROTHER MOUNTAINS with her Voice:  
So JOHN, so runs he (to assist his Friends)  
To the Head Squadrons with some soldiers choice.  
O brave Comrades, noble as are your Ends,  
(How in your matchless Valour I rejoice)!  
Defend your Country, and defend your Lands:  
The Hope of Freedom in your Lances stands.   

38.  
See me, your King, your Fellow, and your Head,  
Amongst Darts, amongst Arrows, and thick Pikes among,  
Rush on the Foe! Nor are you sent, but led.  
Show, fight, to what Country ye belong.  
The irrefragable Warrior said;  
Who, four times poysinga sharp Lance, and strong;  
Throws it with force: and through this Throw alone  
Many a Soul out of her House is thrown.   

39  
For (lo!) his men with honourable shame  
Are kindled new and with a noble Ire.  
Who shall bet most at MARS his bloody Game,  
Is th'only Thing to which they All aspire.  
They Vie, revy, and dip their steel in flame:  
Break stubborn mails, nor leave thick Plates entire.  
Thus wounds they give, and wounds they take again,  
Nor doth it grieve them, slaying, to be slain.   

40.  
Many are posted to the Stygian Wave,  
Into whose Bodies entered Steel, and death.  
Of St. IA GO there the MASTER brave  
Dies fight stoutly to his last of breath.  
Another MASTER dire of CALATRAVE  
Pulls Troops down with him to the shades beneath.  
The Renegade PEREYRAS likewise die  
Reneaguing HEAVEN and their Destiny.   

41.  
Went thousands of the Vulgar without note,  
And nobles too, unentered in FAME'S rolls,  
Where that lean dog still gapes with triple throat,  
Which never can be filled with humane souls.  
And (more to humble them, who, when on float,  
Thought the whole World must stoop to their controls)  
The high Castilian Standart now doth fall,  
And kiss the foot of that of PORTUGAL.   

42.  
With deaths, with groans, with blood, with gashes dire,  
The battle cruel above measure grows.  
The multitude of men, that here expire,  
Makes all the Flowers in colour like the Rose.  
All fly, or die: Now out of breath was Ire:  
Now Valour lost an Arm for want of Foes:  
Now routed sees himself CASTILIA'S King,  
And quits the purpose he from home did bring.   

43.  
The Field he leaves unto the Conqueror,  
Glad that he did leave him his life too.  
The poor remainder follow: To whom Fear  
Gave wings, not Feet: nor did they run, but flew.  
The loss of so much men, and Treasure there,  
Profoundly in their silent hearts they rue:  
Hiding the smart, the sorrow; and the soil,  
To have Another triumph in their spoil.   

44.  
Some Him with open mouth blasphemed, and cursed,  
Who first invented War mankind to quell;  
In whose obdurate Breast Ambition first,  
And Covetise of others goods did dwell;  
Nor cared for feeding his hydropic Thirst  
How many silly souls were packed to Hell;  
Who taught the way to shorten humane lives,  
To orphan Children, and to widow Wives.   

45.  
Victorious JOHN upon the place stays out  
In martial glory the accustomed days:  
With Offerings then, and Pilgrimage devout,  
To Him, That gave the Conquest, gives the Praise.  
But NUNIO (minding what he was about,  
As He That knows, a lasting Fame to raise,  
No way like Arms, which all the world command)  
Passes his Troops to the Trans-Tagan Land.   

46.  
To Him his stars so favourable were,  
That the success applauded the design:  
For he both conquers, and the spoils doth wear  
Of Andalusian Countries That confine.  
The Betick Standard of SEVILIA there,  
Under which divers neighbouring great ones join,  
With small resistance at his feet soon falls,  
Quelled by the force, and name, of PORTUGESES.   

47.  
With these, and other Victories oppressed  
A tedious while were the CASTILIANS brave,  
When Peace, and now by both desired Rest,  
The vanquished People from the Victors have:  
After the KING OF HEAVEN, for ever blest,  
To the Foe-Kings in holy marriage gave  
Of ENGLISH SISTERS the unequalled pair,  
Illustrious, lovely, beautiful, and Fair.   

48.  
But long that Breast, inur'd to bloody Broil,  
To live without a Foe, could not sustain;  
So (having none upon the Land to toil)  
Goes to extend his Conquests o'er the Main.  
This is our first of Kings, who doth exile  
Himself from SPAIN, to make the AFRICAN  
By force of Arms perceive the difference great  
Betwixt CHRIST's Law, and that of MAHOMET.   

49.  
Behold on curled THETIES silver flood  
Their wings a thousand swimming Eagles beat,  
To catch the swelling wind (a moving wood)  
Where the World's utmost bounds ALCIDES set,  
MOUNT AVILA he takes, and the Walls good  
Of noble CEUTA, outing MAHOMET  
With his blind Worship: and secures all SPAIN  
From Treason of another JULIANE.   

50.  
Death envies so great Bliss to PORTUGAL  
As to enjoy the Ages it desires  
This worthy Prince; and takes him from Earth's Ball,  
To add a new Voice to the Angells' Quires.  
But that GOOD POWER, which Him to Heaven did call,  
Left his large offspring to supply their Sire's  
Lamented want: PRINCES, who shall command,  
Augment, and with new Virtues deck the Land.   

51.  
King EDWARD was not of the happiest, though,  
The while that He the Regal Throne did fill:  
" For moody TIME goes blending joy with woe:  
" And with alternate Hand gives good for Ill  
" Who ever Happiness did constant know?  
" Or FORTUNE with one face continue still?  
Yet to this KINGDOM she, and even this KING,  
More of her honey gave, then of her sting.   

52  
He saw his Brother Captive (good FERNAND)  
Who had a Soul so public, and so brave,  
That, for his Troops, distressed in AFFRICK-LAND,  
Himself a Pawn unto the MOORS he gave.  
Where, when his ransom was in his own Hand,  
He (born a Prince) would rather die a slave:  
Then that for Him we CEUTA should restore  
Freedom he lovd, but loved his Country more.   

53.  
CODRUS, because the Foe should not o'ercome;  
Devised a noble Stratagem to die:  
To save the martial discipline of ROME  
Did RFGULUS to Death with Torments fly:  
Ours, distant fear to keep his Country from,  
Invites himself to endless slavery.  
CODRUS, nor CURTIUS (so much wondered at)  
Nor loyal DECII, did so much as That.   

54.  
But EDWARD'S only Son, ALPHONSO height,  
(A lucky Name to our HESPERIA)  
Who, the proud threaten of Barbarian night  
In bordering Lands, low as the dust did lay;  
Would have been doubtless an unconquered Knight,  
Had he forborn t'invade IBERIA.  
AFRICA will tell you, 'twas impossible  
To overcome a King so terrible.   

55.  
To pull the golden Apples was his hap,  
Which none before him, but ALCIDES bitten,  
On the fierce MOOR he such a Yoke did clap  
From which they cannot rest their Necks out yet.  
The Palm and Laurel green his Temples wrap,  
Of Victories, he at the Siege did get  
Of Pop'lous TANCER, Strong ALAGER'S Towers,  
And tough ARZILA, o'er the Barbarous Powers   

56.  
Infine, the ever-conqu'ring PORTINCALLS  
(The succours beaten) entering These by force,  
Threw to the ground the adamantine walls,  
And All that thwarted their Victorious course.  
Wonders (deserving Pens whence liquor falls  
Immortalising with its Nectar source)  
Wrought private Swords in this Exploit of fame:  
Exalting more the Lusitanian name.   

57  
But after tainted with Ambition,  
And Rule's sweet Thirst (though sour to Him at last)  
FERNANDO he invades of ARRAGON,  
About the Kingdom of CASTILIA vast.  
Of the proud NATIONS (which depend thereon)  
A numerous Host, t'oppose him, is a masst,  
From CADIZ to the lofty PERYNEE:  
All which the King FERNANDO did obey.   

58.  
The young PRINCE JOHN disdayns it should be said,  
He is the only idle Man in SPAIN;  
And therefore. his ambitious Sire to aid  
Resolves forth with: nor is his Aid in vain.  
The Battayles bloody period, undismayd,  
He sees; and with a brow serene and plain.  
The warlike Father put to total Rout,  
Yet leaves the Son the Victory in doubt.   

59  
For the sublime and truly Royal son  
(Gay Knight undaunted, confident, and high)  
Having vast spoil to the Adversary done,  
Stays one whole day the Field to justify.  
Thus was OCTAVIUS CAESAR overthrown,  
And Victor his companion ANTHONY:  
When They or Those, who noble JULIUS killed,  
Revenged themselves in the Philippick Field.   

60.  
ALPHONS o mounted to high Heaven serene;  
The Prince, That then the Sceptre swayed of right,  
Was Second JOHN, who made of KING'S fifteen  
He (to attain to Glory's utmost height)  
Began a Task, exceeding strength terrene  
(Whose weight is now by my weak shoulders born)  
To seek the Cradle of the purple MORN.   

61.  
He sends fit Messengers from his own Court  
Through SPAIN, FRANCE, celebrated ITALY:  
There to embark in that illustrious Port  
Where was interred, of old, PARTHE NOPE.  
NAPLES; which Fortune made her Tennis-Court,  
By several NATIONS held successively,  
To place it glorious (no more change to feel)  
In sovereign SPANIARDS, who can fix her wheel.   

62.  
Away they sail through the CALAERIAN DEUP;  
Pass by the RHODIAN ISLAND'S sandy Bay:  
Along the Coast of ALEXANDRIA keep,  
For POMPEY'S death infamous to this day.  
They travail MEMPHIS, and those Lands which steep  
Themselves in NILE. To ETHIOPIA  
They mount, which EGYPT'S upper part doth lock,  
Where CHRIST hath feeding an out-lying Flock.   

63.  
The ERYTHRAEAN SEA they likewise crossed:  
Which, dryfoot past the seed of ISRAEL.  
The NABATHEAN MOUNTAYN'S sight they lost,  
So named from the Son of ISHMAEL.  
The odoriferous SABEAN-COAST  
(Enriched with Tears which from the Mother fell  
Of fair ADONE.) and BLESSED ARABIA traced  
Throughout (the STONY balking; and the WASTE;)   

64.  
The PERSIAN GULF they enter. To This near,  
Great BABEL'S Ruins are yet visible.  
Swift TIGRIS mingles with EUFRATES here:  
Brothers, That with their Fountain's glory swell.  
Hence they proceed in quest of INDUS clear:  
From which great things Posterity shall tell,  
Of Troops, that through long Seas shall pass thereto:  
Which, even by Land nigh TRAIAN durst not do.   

65.  
Of INDIA, TARFE, and CARMANIAN HILLS,  
The strange and uncoth Nations they beheld:  
Noating the several Customs, several Skills,  
Which several Regions do produce, and yield.  
But from such Distant parts (joined to the Ills  
Of so rough journeys) Men return but seld.  
In fine, there did These dye; they stuck fast there:  
For back they come not to their Country dear.   

66.  
Seems, gracious HEAVEN reserved for Thee alone,  
EMANUEL, and for thy great desert  
So hard a work: For Thee with thoughts highflown  
Inspired, and cut out fit to act this part.  
MANUEL (succeeding JOHN, both in the Throne,  
And in the haughty purpose of his Heart)  
When first he took on Him the Kingdoms Charge,  
The Conquest undertook o'th' OCEAN large.   

67.  
He, as a person, whom the noble thought  
Of th' obligation he inherited  
From his Fore Fathers (who entirely sought  
The Realm's advancement) hourly combated;  
When PHOEBUS, quitting the supernal Vault,  
Unto the low ANTIPODES was fled,  
And setting stars (which in his place arose)  
With twinkling eyes invited to repose:   

68  
Extended now upon his golden Nest  
(Such are the Beds where thoughts tumultuous brood)  
And there revolving in his silent Breast  
The obligation of his place, and blood:  
Slumber possessed his Eyes, nor dispossessed  
His Heart of Cares, which made that station good:  
For his tired Lids whilst sleep (resisted) shuts,  
MORPHEUS a thousand shapes before him puts.   

69.  
So high above ground seems he lifted here,  
That his proud Crown the Firmament doth pierce:  
From whence new worlds before his eyes appear,  
Nations of numerous people strange and fierce:  
And yonder (to the springing MORNING near)  
As through the Air his visual Rays disperse,  
He sees, far off, from high and ancient Mountains,  
Melt down a pair of deep and crystal Fountains   

70.  
With Birds of monstrous Forms, wild-beasts and Flocks,  
One of those Mountains was inhabited;  
Where thousand savage Trees with leavy Locks  
The intercourse of people hindered  
The shaggy Forest, and the craggy Rocks'  
Inextricable Knots, demonstrated,  
That to those days of ours from ADAM'S sin,  
No humane Foot had ever trod therein.   

71.  
Out of these Waters (as to Him appears)  
Addressing towards him their hasty pace,  
Two Fathers rise, both wondrous struck in years,  
With Rustic both, yet venerable, Face.  
Their Snowy Curls distil in silver Tears  
Which bathe their Bodies down in every place.  
Tauned were their Skins, and rusty: Their Beards kept  
Rough and unshorn, with which the ground they swept.   

72.  
The Temples of their heads, were trimly bound  
With health-restoring Drugs, and Fruits unknown.  
The one looked weather-beaten and halfe-drownd,  
As if a longer voyage He had gone;  
And (fierce, even at his Fountain) underground  
Seemed to have stolen from a remoter one:  
As from Arcadian plains ALPHEO sly  
TO ARETHUSA'S bed in SICILY.   

72.  
This (as the more authorised of the Twain)  
Spoke thus (far off) unto the King▪ O Tho●…  
For whose high Crown, and Empire sovereign,  
Much World is kept, that's h●…d from the world, now.  
We (through the Earth so famed, whose Necks in vain,  
Strave others wholly to their yokes to bow)  
Are come to wish thee send some Men That may  
Receive large tributes, we to Thee must pay.   

74.  
I am illustrious GANGES: born and nursed  
In PARADISE: where is my mother-spring.  
My Mate (That from the Cliffs thou seest, doth burst;  
Nor other Cradle knows) is INDUS KING.  
Yet a severe War shall we cost thee first:  
But Thou (persisting) in the end shalt bring,  
By Victories prodigious, to the Bit,  
All these viewed Nations humbly to submit.   

35.  
The Holy and illustrious River, said  
No more: But in a moment vanished Both.  
EMANUEL wakes surprised with a strange dread,  
And earthquake in his Bosom. PHOEBUS goeth  
In the mean time his glittering Cloak to spread  
Over the WORLD, buried in down, and sloth.  
AURORA came: who, when she forth doth rush,  
striketh Lilies pale, and makes the Roses blush.   

36.  
The KING in haste to council calls his Lords,  
To them the figures of the Vision shows;  
To them repeats the Holy Elder's Words:  
Whence in them all great admiration grows.  
A NAVY is resolved on by the BOARD'S  
unanimous Voate: In which (magnanimous) Those,  
Whom he shall find to plough the OCEAN blew,  
Must seek new Nations out, and Climates new.   

37.  
I, who despaired to see put in effect  
What had so long been tumbling in my mind:  
(For my presaging Soul could ne'er be checked  
From prompting great things to me of this kind)  
Comprise not for what cause, for what respect,  
Or for what merit, he in me could find;  
But the good King was pleased to pick out me  
To be this weighty enterprize's Key.   

38.  
And with Entreaties, and with sugard phrase  
(Which are the pow'rfullest commands of KINGS)  
He said to me." Through deep, and rugged ways,  
" VIRTUE attains the best and noblest things.  
" A Life well lost, or hazarded, to Bays  
" Of everlasting Honour persons brings:  
" For (if to sordid Fear it never bends)  
" The shorter 'tis, the Farther it extends.   

39  
You have I chose (and all the rest set by)  
To a Task fit for you to undergo:  
A Task Heroick, difficult and high,  
Which (for my sake) you will think light, I know.  
I could not suffer more: but thus reply,  
O my dread LIEGE! through swords, through fir●…, through snow,  
For Thee to venture, only is Annoy  
When I consider life is such a Toy.   

90.  
One, following, Cries: O Son! (the only gage,  
The prop, the stay, the comfort and the joy,  
Of this my weak unprofitable Age,  
Which Floods of bitter Tears drown in Annoy)  
Why leav'st thou me in this sad equipage?  
Why wilt thou go, and leave me (my dear Boy!)  
To make the greedy Seas thy Sepulchre,  
And Fishes feed That take their pastime there?   

91.  
Another (with lose Hair) O my dear Mate,  
Without whom Love tells me my root must pine!  
Why wilt thou go, and venture at this rate  
That life to GULFS, which is not thine but mine?  
How canst thou change, for so uncertain Fate,  
The chaste embraces of thy constant Vine?  
Our loves, our joys (in vain how sweet!) must They  
To Sea? and with this wind be blown away:   

92.  
In these and other speeches of this kind  
(Which from dear love, and soft compassion risen)  
Old men and children (to like Ruth inclined  
By different Ages) imitated Those  
The neigbring mountains in dull consort join:  
And, melting, bore the burden of their woes.  
The golden Sands the Silver Tears bedewed:  
Which seemed to strive with them in multitude.   

93.  
WE (not so much as lifting once our Eyes  
On Wife, or Mother: though our Souls it grinds)  
Whereby in vain laments to Sympathise,  
Or change the purpose of our fixed minds)  
T'embarque ourselves, conceived it was most wise,  
Without those Farewells to which custom binds:  
Which (though it be Love's most endearing way)  
Galls more, both Those That go: and Those that stay.   

94.  
But an Old man of Venerable look  
(Standing upon the shore amongst the Crowds)  
His Eyes fixed upon us (on shipboard) shook,  
His head three times over cast with sorrows clouds:  
And (streining his Voice more, than well could brook  
His aged lungs: It rattled in our shrow'ds)  
Out of a science practice did Attest,  
Let fly these words from an oraculou's Breast.   

80.  
Put me on Tasks as great as those of yore  
Suborned EURISTEUS to ALCIDES gave;  
The fruitful HYDRA, ERIMANTHIAN BOAR,  
The HARPIES dire, NEMEAN LYON brave.  
In short, to visit the infernal shore  
Where Styx moats PLUTO'S House with its black Wave:  
For Thee (O KING) worse dangers, and worse Toils,  
My Spirit leaps at, nor my Flesh recoils.   

81.  
With sumptuous Boons; and words, that those exceed;  
My good will He doth praise, and gratify:  
" For Virtue, spurred with praise, doubles her speed;  
" And is inflamed to Enterprises high.  
To second me in this Exploit, agreed  
(Obliged by Nature's, and by Frendship's Tie,  
Thirsty alike of Honour, and of Fame)  
My dear and loving Brother PAUL DE GAME.   

82.  
nicholas COELLIO makes a Third: for pains  
Most indefatigable. And These are  
My two Supporters strong of Hand, and Brains:  
Experienced both, both no less bold in war.  
I get me a young Crew of sturdy Swains,  
Whose budding Valour itched for martial jar:  
All mettled Lads; And so, it well appeers,  
That came to such a business Volunteers.   

83.  
These too have gifts from MANUEL'S hand, t'equip  
Themselves, and make the love they bear him more:  
And with the praising bounty of his Lip,  
Are armed against All, hard Fates can have in store.  
Thus man'd KING PELIAS that prophetic ship  
In which (through Euxine Seas, unsayl d before)  
With AESONS Heir the venturous youth of GREECE  
He sent to COLCOS' for the Golden Fleece.   

84.  
Now in the famous Port of LISBON-TOWN  
(Where golden TAGUS mingles his sweet Flood  
With the Salt OCEAN, and his Sands doth drown)  
With noble long, and transported mood,  
The SHIPS lie ready. There no sullen frown,  
No frosty Fear, benmms the youthful blood:  
For both the Seamen, and the Land-men there,  
Will go with me about the WORLD, they swear.   

85.  
Upon the shore the strutting soldiers sail  
In clothes of several colour, several cut,  
Their minds, more brave: bent to extend our pale,  
And plant in lands unknown their daring foot.  
The gentle wind breathing a tempting Gale,  
On the tall Ships the Standarts open and shut.  
The Ships expect, for this new Navigation,  
To be (like ARGO) made a Constellation.   

86.  
We (fitted and provided thus, with All  
That such a Voyage doth require and crave)  
To fit our souls for death devoutly fall:  
Which Sailors see in every rounding Wave.  
From Him, whose presence Beatifical  
Is all the Food that Saints and Angels have,  
Favour we beg, for to prepare our way,  
And to conduct us with his heavenly Ray.   

87.  
Thus of that Temple took we a long leave,  
Which (on the Margin of our Ocean placed)  
From the blessed City did its name receive  
Where GOD was born (a Gem in Clay enchased)  
I promise thee (O KING) how we did heave  
Our Anchors from that shore, when I recast;  
With doubt of ever seeing it again,  
Scarce can my bridled eyes from Tears refrain.   

88  
Th'Inhabitants of LIS●…ON, that sad day  
(For Friendship some, and some for Kindred's Ties)  
Others, as mere spectators, flocked: dismay,  
And solitariness, writ in their Eyes.  
And we (whom thousand Priests upon our way  
Did bring with Psalms, and all solemnities  
Of grave procession) praying to our GOD,  
Went to take shipping in the Noble Road.   

89.  
In so long Voyage, and so doubtful ways,  
The gazing people give us All for lost,  
This, by their ●…eares the softer sex bewrays:  
The Men by Sighs, as they would yield the Ghost,  
Sisters, and Mothers; And poor Wives (always  
Where there is most of love, there fear reigns most.)  
Increase the doubt upon the general score,  
That she shall never see our Faces more.   

95.  
O Glory of commanding! O vain Thirst  
Of that same empty nothing, we call Fame!  
O Ignis fatuus, kindled and nursed  
With vulgar breath (and this we Honour name)!  
What Plagues, what stings, what secret scourges cursed,  
Torment those Bosoms which thou dost inflame!  
What deaths! what dangers! what impetuous storms!  
What cruelties on them thy Hand performs!   

96.  
Fell Tyrant of the souls! life's swallowing Wave!  
Mother of Plunders, and black Rapes unchaste!  
The secret miner, and the open Grave,  
Of Patrimonies, Kingdoms, Empire's vast!  
They call thee noble, and they call thee Brave:  
(Worthy t'have other names upon thee cast!)  
They call thee Fame, and Glory sovereign:  
Titles, with which the foolish Rout is ta'en.   

97.  
What new disaster dire intendest Thou  
To lead these Kingdoms, and these Folk into?  
What deaths, what Horrors must they swallow now,  
Under pretence to spread Religion true?  
What holdings forth of golden Mines, and how  
Great Kingdoms shall be conquered by a Few?  
What Fames dost thou advance? what Histories?  
What Palms? what Triumphs? and what Victories.   

98.  
But Thou (the lineage of that Fool, who twice  
Undid thee by his disobedience:  
Not only when he lost thee PARADISE,  
Into this Vale of Tears exiled from thence;  
But when by growth of his infectious Vice  
He forfeited thy second Innocence,  
And Thee, out of a golden exile hurled  
Into an Iron and contentious world.)   

99  
Since with this sweet and pleasing vanity  
Thy giddy Brain is so bewitched, and drowned;  
Since bloody Rage and Inhumanity,  
Valour, and Brav'rie, in thy language sound;  
Since thou dost value, and esteem so high,  
The disesteem of life, which we are bound  
To cherish, and in great account to have it:  
(Since so much fea●…'d to lose it, He who gave it)   

100  
Hast thou not, close at hand, the ISHMAELITE  
To cut thee work out, more than thou canst do?  
If for the sacred Law of CHRIST thou fight,  
Th' ARABIAN'S false one does not He pursue?  
Hath He not thousand Cities, Infinite  
Of Land, if Power's avail, if Wealth's one too?  
Hath not He got in Arms a mighty Name,  
If Honour, and not Booty be thy Aim?   

101.  
Leav'st thou a growing Foe just at thy door,  
To go and seek another Foe so far,  
Dispeopling an old Realm, wasting her store,  
Quitting thy Country, and thy private LAR?  
That flattering Fame to Heaven may make thee soar,  
Through waves uncertain seek'st thou certain war?  
In thy swollen Style in words at length to find,  
ARABIA, PERSIA, ETHIOPIA, YNED?   

102.  
Accursed be He, who first sorsook the Ground,  
And fastened canvas wings to a dry Tree!  
Worthy, in endless darkness to be bound;  
If that, which I was taught, RELIGION be.  
May never Judgement, solid and profound,  
May never Happy Veyn in Poetry,  
Retrieve his memory, adorn his Fame:  
But die, with Him, his Glory, and his Name.   

103.  
The son of JAPET stole from PHEBUS' Carr  
Fire, which in humane Breast he did infuse;  
Fire, which the world did kindle into War,  
Plagues, and debaucheries (a great abuse!)  
PROMETHEUS, had it not been better far  
For Us, and for the world (which we misuse)  
Thy noble Statute had excused that fire,  
Which made it with Ambition's wings aspire?   

104.  
Then had not the much pitied youth been driving  
His Sire's gilt chariot; nor that great contriver  
Through th'empty Air sailed with his Son (This giving  
The sea a name, He Fame unto a River)  
Nothing so high, nothing so barred the living,  
Through Fire, Sword, Water, Calm and Cold: what ever:  
Which MAN projecteth, and attempteth not,  
A strange Condition! an unquiet Lot!   
End of the fourth Canto.   

Fifth Canto.  

STANZA. 1.  
THe reverend Father stood inculcating  
These Sentences; when We to a serene  
And gentle Gale expand our Canvas wing:  
When from the loved Port ourselves we reane:  
And sails unfurling make the Welkin ring  
(After the manner of Sea- faring Men)  
With BOON VOYAGE. Immediately the Wind  
Does on the Trunks his Office and his kind.   

2.  
The ever burning Lamp, that rules the day,  
In the Nemean Bruit began to rage;  
And the great world (which doth with time decay)  
Limpt in his sixth infirm, and crooked Age:  
Thereof (accounting in the CHURCH ' is way)  
Of Sol's incessant Race the THOUSAND stage  
Four hundred, Ninety seventh, was running when,  
In all their trim the Ships to sail began.   

3.  
Now by degrees out of our sight did glide  
Parts of our Co●…ntrey, which abode behind.  
Abode deer TAGUS: and we then did hid  
Fresh SYNTRA (About this our eyes did wind)  
In the loved Kingdom likewise did abide  
Our Hearts, whose st●…ings could not be thence untwind,  
And, when as all the Land did now with draw,  
The sea and Firmament was all we saw.   

4  
Thus went we opening those seas, which (save  
Our own) no Nation opened ere before:  
See those new Isles, and climates near; which brave  
PRINCE HENRY showed unto the world before  
The Mauritanian Hills, and Strand, which gave,  
ANTEUS birth, who there was King of yore,  
Upon the left hand left (for there is none  
Upon the right, though now suspected, known)   

5.  
We the great Island of MADERA pass,  
Which from its Wood's abundance took the name;  
The first, which planted by our Nation was,  
Of which the worth is more than the great fame:  
Nor (though the last place in the world it has)  
Doth any, VENUS loves, excel the same:  
Who (rather) were it Hers, would lay aside  
For This, CYTHERA, CYPRUS, PAPHOS, GNIDE.   

6.  
We leave adust M SSILIAS barren Coast,  
Where AZENEGUES' lean Herds take their repast:  
A People, That want water to their Roast;  
Nor Herbs itself in any plenty taste:  
A LAND in fine, to bear no Fruit disposed▪  
Where Birds in their hot stomaches Iron waste:  
Suffering of all things great Necessity:  
Which ETHIOPIA parts from BARBARY.   

7.  
We pass the Bound that hedges out the Sun  
When to the frozen North he bends his way:  
Where people dwell, whom CLYMENE'S rash Son  
Denied the sweet Complexion of the day.  
Here NATIONS strange are watered one by one  
With the fresh Currents of black SENEGA.  
Here ARSINARIUS Aloof is seen,  
That lost his name: confirmed by Us CAPE GREEN.   

8.  
CANARIAN ISLES (the same men called of old  
THE FORTUNATE) declined: After These  
Among the Daughter-Islands we did fall  
Of aged HESPER, termed HESPERIDES.  
Locks, in the which the Fleets of PORTUGAL  
To wonders new before had turned the Keys.  
There did we touch with favourable wind,  
Some fresh provisions for our Ships to find.   

9  
It's Name the Isle on which we Anchor cast  
Did from the warlike St. JAGO take.  
The Saint That holp the SPANIARD in times past  
Such cruel havoc of the MOORS to make.  
Thence, when the North renewed his kinder blast,  
We cut again the circumfused Lake  
Of the salt Ocean; And that Store-House: leave,  
From which Refreshment sweet we did receive.   

10.  
Winding withal about your Africa shore,  
Where to the EAST (like a halfmoon) it bends;  
About JALOFO'S Province (which doth store  
The world with BLACKS, whom, forced Aboard, it sends.)  
The large MANDINGA that affords the o'er  
The which doth make Friends Foes, and of Foes Friends;  
(Which sucked GA●…MEA'S crooked water laves  
That disimbogues in the Atlantic Waves)   

11.  
We pass the GORGADES, peopled by fair  
Sisters, in ancient time residing there:  
Who (robbed of seeing) did amongst them share  
One only Eye, which they by turns did wear.  
Thou only, Thou (the Net of whose curl d Hair  
Caught NEPTUNE, like a Fish, in his own Were)  
Turn d of them all at last the ugliest Lout,  
With Vipers sow'dst the burning sands about.   

12.  
Ploughing in fine before a Northern Wind  
In that vast GULF the Navy went embayd;  
LEONA'S craggy mountains left behind,  
The CAPE OF PALMS (so called from Palmie shade)  
And that great RIVER, where the Sea (confined)  
Against the shores, which we had planted, brayed:  
With th' Isle that boasts his name, who would not trust  
Till in the side of GOD his Hand he thrust.   

13.  
There lies of CONGO the wide-spreading Ream,  
By Us (before) converted to CHRIST'S Law;  
Through which long ZAYRE glides with crystal stream:  
A River, this, the Ancients never saw.  
In fine through this vast Ocean from the Team  
Of known BOOTS I apace withdraw;  
Having already past upon the Main  
The BURNING LINE that parts the World in twain.   

14.  
There we before us saw by its own light  
In this new EPICICLE a Star new:  
Of which the other Nations ne'er had sight,  
And (long in darkness) not such matter knew,  
The world's Antarctic Hinge (less gilded, less bright,  
For want of Stars, than th' Arctic) we did view:  
Beneath the which, a question yet depends,  
Whether more Land gins, and the Se●… ends.   

15.  
Past in this sort those equinoxial climes  
By which his steeds twice yearly drives the sun;  
Making two Summers, Winter's, Autumns, Primes,  
Whilst he from one to tother Pole doth run:  
Now tossed, now calmed (A sufferer in all Times:  
By want, and plenty, equally undone.)  
I saw both BEARS (the little and the Great)  
Despite of JUNO in the Ocean set.   

16.  
To tell thee all the dangers of the DEEP  
(Which humane Judgement cannot comprehend)  
Sudden and fearful storms, the Air that sweep;  
Lightnings, that with the Air the Fire do blend;  
Black HURRACANS; thick Nights; THUNDERS, that keep  
The World alarmed, and threaten the last End:  
Would be too tedious: indeed vain and mad,  
Though a brass Tongue, and Iron lungs I had.   

17.  
I saw those things, which the rude Mariner  
(Who hath no Mistress, but Experience)  
Doth for unquestionable Truths aver,  
Guided belike by his external sense:  
But ACADEMICS (who can never err,  
Who by pure Wit and LEARNING'S quintessence,  
Into all NATURES secrets dive and pry)  
Count either Lies, or coznings of the Eye.   

18.  
I saw (as plain as the sun's midday light)  
That fire the Seaman saints (shining out fair  
In time of Tempest, of fierce winds despite,  
Of overclouded Heaven's. and black despair:)  
Nor did we all less wonder (and well might,  
For 'twas a sight to bristle up the Hair)  
To see a sea-born Cloud with a long Cane  
Suck in the sea, and spout it out again.   

19  
I saw with these two eyes) nor can presume  
That these deceived me) from the Ocean breathed  
A little Vapour, or a eriall Fume,  
With the curled wind (as by a Turnor) wreathed.  
I saw it reach to Heaven from the salt spume,  
In such thin Pipe, as those where springs are shea●…hed;  
That by the Eye it hardly could be deemed:  
Of the same substance which the Clouds it seemed.   

20.  
By little this and little did augment,  
And swelled beyond the Bulk of a thick Mast.  
straightening and widening (like a Throat) it went,  
To gulp into itself the water fast.  
It waved upon the wavy Element.  
The top thereof (impregnated at last  
Into a Cloud) expanded more, and more,  
With the great load of Water which it bore.   

21.  
As a black Horseleech (mark it in some Pool!)  
Got to the Lip of an unwary Beast,  
Which (drinking) sucked it from the water cool,  
Upon another's blood itself to feast;  
It swells and swells, and feeds beyond all Rule,  
And stuffs the paunch; a rude, unsober, Guest:  
So svvelled the Pillar (with a hideous Crop)  
Itself, and the black Cloud which it did prop.   

22.  
But, when that now 'tis full, the Pedestal  
Draws to itself, which in the Sea was set;  
And (fluttering through the Air) in show'rs doth fall:  
The couchant Water with new water wet.  
It pays the waves the borrowed Waves, but all  
The Salt thereout did first extract and get.  
Now tell me, SCHOLARS, by your Books; what skill,  
Dame NATURE used these waters to distil?   

23.  
If old PHILOSOPHERS (who travayld through  
So many Lands, her secrets out to spy)  
Had viewed the Miracles which I did view,  
Had sailed with so many winds as I;  
What writings had they left behind! what new,  
Both Stars, and Signs, bequeathed to Us! What high  
And strong Influxes! What hide Qualities!  
And all pure Truths, without allay of Lies!   

24  
But when that Planet (which her Court doth keep  
In the first sphere) five times with speedy Race  
Had, since our Fleet was wand'ring on the DEEP,  
Showed sometimes half, and sometimes all her Face:  
A quick-eyd Lynx cries, from the Scuttle steep,  
LAND! LAND! with that, upon the decks apace  
Leaps the transported Crew: their Eyes, intent  
On the Horizon of the ORIENT.   

25.  
At first the dusky Mountains (of the Land  
We made) like congregated Clouds did look:  
Seen plain, the heavy Anchors out of hand  
We ready make: Approached, our sails we struck,  
And (that we might more clearly understand  
The parts remote in which we were I took  
The ASTROLABE, a modern Instrument:  
Which with sharp Judgement SAGES did invent:   

26.  
We disembarke in the most open space:  
From whence, themselves the rasher Land-men spread  
(Greedy of Novelties!) through the wild Place:  
Which never Stranger's Foot before did tread.  
But O (not passing the Land's sandy Face)  
To find out where we are, with Seamen bred  
Stay taking the Sun's height by th' OCEAN curled;  
And with my Compass trace the painted World.   

27.  
We found, we had already wholly passed  
Of the halfe-Goate, half Fish, the noted Goal:  
Between the same, and that cold Country placed  
(If such there be beneath the SOUTHERN Pole.  
When, lo! (locked in with my Companions fast)  
I see a NATIVE come, black as the Coal:  
Whom they had took perforce, as in the Wood  
Getting out Honey from the Comb he stood.   

28.  
He comes with borrour in his looks: as He  
Who of a snare, like this, could never dream.  
He understood not Us, neither Him We:  
More savage than the brutish POLYPHEME.  
Of COLCOS' glistering Fleece I let him see  
The mettle which of mettles is supreme:  
Pure Silver; sparkling stones (continuing suit;)  
But in all these was unconcerned the Bruit.   

29.  
I bid them show him lower prized Things  
Beads of transformed crystal; a fine noise  
Of little Bells, thridded on tawdry strings,  
A red Cap, Colour which Contents, and joys.  
Straight saw I by his looks and beckoning,  
That he was wondrous taken with these Toys.  
Therewith I bid them they should set him free:  
So to the Village nigh away went He.   

30.  
But the next morn (whilst yet the skies were dim)  
All naked, and in colour like the shades,  
To seek such Knacks as had been given to Him,  
Lo, by the Craggs descending his Comrades!  
Where now their carriage to us is so trim,  
So tractable, and pliant; as persuades  
VELOSE with them to venture through the Cover,  
The Fashions of the Country to discover.   

31.  
VELOSO says, his pledge shall be his Blade,  
And walks secure in his own Arrogance,  
But, having now away a good while stayed  
And, I out-prolling with my countenance.  
To see what signs for our Advent'rer made,  
Behold him coming with a vengeance  
Down from the Mountain-top towards the ships!  
And faster homeward, than he went, he skips.   

32.  
The longboat of COELLIO made haste  
To take him in: but, ere arrive that could,  
An ETHIOPIAN bold his weapon past  
Full at his bosom, lest escape he should.  
Another, and Another too: Thus chac▪ t  
VELOSE and those far off That help him would,  
I run, when (just as I an Oar lift up)  
A Troop of Negroes hides the mountain-top.   

33.  
A Cloud of Arrows, and sharp stones they rain,  
And hail upon us without any stint:  
Nor were These uttered to the Air in vain,  
For in this leg I there received a dint.  
But we (as pricked with smart, and with disdain)  
Made them a ready answer, so in print,  
That (I believe in earnest) with our Raps  
We made their Heads as crimson as their caps.   

34.  
And now (VELOSO, off, with safety brought)  
Forthwith repair we to the Fleet again,  
Seeing the ugly Malice, the base Thought,  
This false and brutish people hid within:  
From whom of INDIA (so desired) nought  
Of Information could we pick, or win,  
But that it is remote, So once more I  
Unto the Wind let all the Canvas ●…ly.   

35.  
Then to VELOSO said a Jybing lad  
(The rest all laughing in their sleeves) Ho! Friend  
VELOSE: the Hill (it seems) was not so bad  
And hard to be come down, as 'twas t'ascend.  
True (quoth th' Advent'rer bold) Howe'er, I had  
Not made such haste, but that the DOGS did be●…d  
Against the Fleet: And I began to doubt me  
It might go ill, that you were here without me.   

36.  
He tells us then, he passed no sooner was  
The Mountain's top, but that the people black  
Forbidden him any farther on to pass  
And threat to kill him if he turn not back;  
And (turned) they lay them down upon the grass  
In Ambuscade, whereby they Us might pack  
To the dark Realm, when we in haste should sally  
To rescue Him, before we well could rally.   

37.  
The Sun five times the Earth had compassed  
Since We (from thence departed) Seas did plough  
Where never Canvas wing before was spread,  
A prosperous Gale making the top-yards bow:  
When on a night (without suspect, or dread,  
Chatting together in the cutting Prow)  
Over our Heads appeared a sable Cloud,  
Which in thick darkness did the Welki●… shroud.   

38.  
So big it looked, such stern Grimaces made,  
As filled our Hearts with horror, and appall,  
Black was the Sea, and at long distance brayed  
As if it roared through Rocks, down Rocks did fall.  
O Power inhabiting the Heav'●…s, I said!  
What divine threat is? What mystical  
Imparting of thy will in so new form,  
For this is a Thing greater than a Storm▪   

39  
I had not ended, when a humane Feature  
Appear d to us i'th' Air, Robustious, r●…lli'd  
Of Heterogeneal parts, of boundless Statu●…e,  
A Cloud in's Face, a Beard prolix and squalid:  
Cave-Eyes, a gesture that betrayed ill nature,  
And a worse mood, a clay complexion p●…llid:  
His crisped Hair filled with ●…arth, and hard ●…s 〈◊〉,  
A mouth coal-black, of T●…eth two yellow Tyre.   

40.  
Of such p●…rtentous Bulk was this COLOSSE,  
That I may tell thee (and not tell amiss)  
Of that of RHODES it might supply the loss  
(One of the WORLD'S seven Wonders) out of this  
A Voice speaks to us: so profound, and gross,  
It seems even torn out of the vast ABYSS.  
The Hair with horror stands on end, of me  
And all of us, at what we hear, and see.   

41.  
And this it spoke. O you, the boldest Folk  
That ever in the world great things assayed;  
Whom such dire Wars, and infinite, the smoke  
And Toil of GLORY have not weary made;  
Since these forbidden bounds by you are broke,  
And my large Seas your daring keels invade,  
Which I so long enjoyed, and kept alone,  
Unploughed by foreign Vessel, or our own.   

42.  
Since the hid secrets you are come to spy  
Of NATURE and the humid Element;  
Never revealed to any MORTAL'S Eye  
Noble, or Heroes, that before you went:  
Hear from my mouth, for your presumption high  
What losses are in store, what Plagues are meant,  
All the wide OCEAN over, and the LAND,  
Which with hard War shall bow to your command.   

43.  
This know; As many Ships as shall persever  
Boldly to make the Voyage you make now,  
Shall find this POINT their enemy for ever  
With winds and tempests that no bound shall know:  
And the first FLEET OF WAR that shall indeaver  
Through these inextricable Waves to go,  
So fearfulan example will I make,  
That men shall say I did more than I spoke.   

44.  
Here I expect (unless my hopes have lied)  
On my discov'rer full Revenge to have;  
Nor shall He (only) all the Ills abide,  
Your pertinacious confidences crave:  
But to your Vessels yearly shall betid  
(Unless provoked, I in vain do rave)  
Shipwrecks, and losses of each kind and Race;  
Amongst which, death shall have the lowest place.   

45.  
And of the first that comes this way (in whom  
With height of Fortune, height of Fame shall meet)  
I'll be a new, and everlasting Tomb,  
Through GOD'S unfathomed judgement. At these Feet  
He shall drop all his Glories, and inhume  
The glittering Trophies a Turkish Fleet.  
With me conspire his Ruin, and his Fall,  
Destroyed QUILOA, and MOMBASSA'S Wall.   

46.  
Another shall come after, of good fame,  
A Knight, a Lover, and a liberal Hand;  
And with him bring a fair and gentle dame,  
Knit his by LOVE, and HYMEN'S sacred Bond.  
In an ill hour, and to your loss and shame,  
Ye come within the Purlieuses of my land;  
Which (kindly cruel) from the sea shall free you,  
Drowned in a sea of miseries to see you.   

47.  
Starved shall they see to death their Children dear;  
Be Got, and reared, in so great love. The black  
Rude CAFRES' (out of Avarice) shall tear  
The clothes from the Angellick Lady's back.  
Her dainty limbs of Alabaster clear  
To Heat, to Cold, to Storm, to Eyes' worse Rack  
Shall be laid naked; after she hath trod▪  
(Long time) with her soft Feet the burning Clod.   

48.  
Besides all this; Their Eyes (whose happier lot  
Will be to scape from so much misery)  
This Yoke of LOVERS, out into the hot  
And unrelenting Thickets turned shall see.  
Even there (when Tears they shall have squeezed and got  
From Rocks and Deserts, where no waters be)  
Embracing (kind) their souls they shall exhale  
Out of the fair, but miserable, jail.   

49.  
The ugly Monster went to rake into  
More, of our Fate; when, starting on my feet,  
I ask him, Who art Thou? (for to say true  
Thy hideous Bulk amazes me to see't)  
H●…E (wreathing his black mouth) about him threw  
His sawcer-eyes: And (as his soul would fleet)  
Fetching a dismal groan, replied (as sorry,  
Or vexed, or Both, at the Interrogatory.)   

50.  
I am that great and secret HEAD of LAND,  
Which you the CAPE OF TEMPESTS well did call;  
From STRABO, PTOLOMEE, POMPONIUS, And  
Grave PLINY hid, and from the ANCIENTS all.  
I the butt-end, that knits wide AFRICA'S strand;  
My Promontory is her Mouned and Wall,  
To the ANTARCTIC POLE: which (nevertheless)  
You, only, have the boldness to transgress.   

51.  
Of the rough son's oth'EARTH, was I: and Twin,  
Brother to Him, that had an hundred Hands,  
I was called ADAMASTOR, and was in  
The War against Him, That hurls hot VULCAN'S Brands.  
Yet Hills on Hills I heaped not: but (to win  
That Empire, which the SECOND JOVE commands)  
Was GENERAL at Sea; on which did sail  
The Fleet of NEPTUNE, which I was to quail.   

52.  
The love I bore to PELEUS' spouse divine  
Embarked me in so wild an Enterprise.  
The fairest GODDESS that the heavens enshrine  
I, for the Princess of the Waves despise.  
Upon a day when out the Sun did shine,  
With NEREUS' daughters (on the Beach) these eyes  
Beheld her naked: straight I felt a dart  
Which Time, nor scorns, can pull out of my Heart.   

53.  
I knew't impossible to gain her Love  
By reason of my great deformity  
What force can do I purpose then to prove:  
And, DORIS called, let Her my purpose see.  
The Goddess (out of fear) did THETYS' move  
On my behalf: but with a chaste smile she  
(As virtuous full, as she is fair) replied,  
What NYMPH can such a heavy love abide?   

54.  
How ever We (to save the sea a part  
In so dire War) will take it into thought  
How with our honour we may cure his smart.  
My Messenger to me thus answer brought.  
I, That suspect no stratagem, no Art,  
(How easily are purblind Lovers caught)  
Feel myself wondrous light with this Retur●…▪  
And fanned with Hopes, with fresh d●…sire do 〈◊〉.   

55.  
Thus fooled, thus cheated from the war begun,  
On a time (DORIS pointing where to meet)  
I spy the glittering form, i'th' evening dun,  
Of snowy THETYS' with the silver feet.  
With open Arms (far off) like mad I run  
To clip therein my joy, my Life, my Sweet:  
And (clipped) begin those orient Eyes to kiss,  
That Face, that Hair, that Neck, that All that is.   

56.  
O, how I choke in uttering my disgrace!  
Thinking I Her embraced whom I did seek,  
A Mountain hard I found I did embrace  
o'ergrown with Trees and Bushes nothing sleek.  
Thus (grappling with a Mountain face to face,  
Which I stood pressing for her Angel's cheek)  
I was no Man: No but a stupid Block  
And grew unto a Rock another Rock.   

57  
O Nymph (the fairest of the OCEAN'S Brood)!  
Since with my Features thou couldst not be caught,  
What had it cost to spare me that false good,  
Were it a Hill, a Cloud, a Dream, or Thought?  
Away fling I (with Anger almost wood,  
Nor less with shame of the Affront distraught)  
To seek another World: That I might live,  
Where none might laugh, to see me weep, and grieve.   

58.  
By this my Brethren on their Backs were cast,  
Reduced unto the depth of misery:  
And the vain Gods (all hopes to put them past)  
On Those, That Mountains piled, piled Mountains high.  
Nor I, that mourned far off my deep distaste,  
" (HEAVEN, HANDS in vain resist, in vain FEET fly.  
For my designed Rebellion, and Rape,  
The vengeance of pursuing Fate could scape.   

59  
My solid flesh converteth to tough Clay:  
My Bones to Rocks are metamorphosed:  
These legs, these thighs (behold how large are they!)  
O'er the long sea extended were and spread.  
In fine into this CAPE out of the way  
My monstrous Trunk, and high-erected Head,  
The GOD'S did turn: where (for my greater pain)  
THETYS' doth Tantalise me with the MAIN.   

60.  
Here ends. And (gushing out into a Well  
Of Tears) forthwith he vanish from our sight.  
The black Cloud melting, with a hideous yell  
The OCEAN sounded a long way forthright.  
I (in their p●…esence, who by miracle  
Had thus far brought us, even the ANGELS bright)  
Besought the LORD to shield his Heritage  
From all that ADAMASTOR did presage.   

61.  
Now PHLEGON and PYROUS pulling come  
(With other Two) the Chariot of the DAY:  
When that high LAND (to which this Giant grum  
Was turn▪ d) doth to our Eyes itself display.  
Doubling the point, we take another Rumb;  
And (coasting) plough the Oriental Sea.  
Nor had we ploughed it long, when underneath  
A little) in a Second Port we breathe.   

62.  
The People That this Country did possess  
(Though they were likewise ETHIOPIANS All)  
Did more of humane in their meens express,  
Then Those, into whose hands we late did fall.  
Upon the sandy Beach, with cheerfulness  
They meet us, and with Dances Festival.  
With them, their Wives: and their mild Flocks of Sheep  
Which fat and fair, and frisking they did keep.   

63.  
Their Wives upon straw-Pillions (black as Jet)  
Slow-paced Oxen (like EUROPA) ride:  
Beasts, upon which a higher price they set  
Then all the Cattle of the Field beside.  
Sweet madrigals (in Rhyme, or Prose complete,  
In their own Tongue) to rustick-Reed apply'de,  
They sing in Parts, as gentle Shepherds use,  
That imitate of TYTIRUS the Muse.   

64.  
These (and no less was written in their Faces)  
Love and Humanity to Us afford:  
Bringing us Hens, and Muttons, in the places  
Of Merchandizes which we had Aboard.  
But, for (in fine) our men could spy no traces  
(By any Sign they made, or any word  
From their dark Tongue) of what we wished to know:  
Our Anchors weighed, to Sea again we go.   

65.  
Now had we given the to●…her demi wheel  
About black AFRICA, And (the burning Hoop,  
That girts the World, enquiring with my Keel)  
To the ANTARCTIC POLE I turned my Poop●….  
By that small Isle (such emulous Thoughts we feel)  
Discovered by a former Fleet, we Soup;  
Which sought the CAPE OF TEMPESTS, and (●…hat found)  
Pitched here a CROSS▪ our than DISCOV'RIE●…'S Bound.   

66.  
Thence, many nights, and many sadder days,  
Betwixt rough Storms, and languid Calms, we grope  
Through the great Ocean, and explore, new ways:  
No Lantern to pursue, but our high Hope.  
One time above the rest (as danger Plays  
At Sea the PROTHEUS) with strange Waves we cope.  
So strong a Current in those parts we meet,  
As ev▪ n obstructs the passage of our Fleet.   

67.  
More violent without comparison  
(As our reculing Vessels plain did show)  
The Sea was, That did there against us run,  
Then the fresh Gale, that in our favour blue.  
NOTUS (disdaining much to be outdone  
By That; and, as he thought, on purpose too  
To affront Him) puffs, blusters, reinforces  
His angry Blasts: and so we pass THE COURSES.   

68  
The Sun, reduced the solemnised Feast,  
On which, a KING laid in a Cratch to find,  
Three Kings did come conducted from the EAST,  
In which ONE KING, three KINGS at once 〈◊〉 joined.  
That day took we another P●…rt (possessed  
By People, like to Those we left behind)  
In a great River: Giving it the Name  
Of that great-day when thereinto we came.   

69.  
Here fresh Provisions of the Folks we take:  
Freshwater from the River. But▪ in sum,  
No guess concerning INDIA could we make,  
By People, unto Us as good as dumb.  
See (King) how many Countries we did rake  
Without a door found out from that rude 〈◊〉,  
Without descrying the least Track, or 〈◊〉,  
Of the so much desired ORIENT!   

70.  
Imagine, Sir, in what distress of mind,  
How lost we went, how much perplexed with Cares,  
Broken with Storms, and All with Hunger pined,  
Through Seas unknown, through disagreeing Airs,  
(So far from hope, the wished LAND to find,  
As, even with hoping, plunged into despairs)  
Through Climates rul▪ d by other heavenly SIGNS;  
And where no Star, of our acquaintance, shines.   

71.  
The food we have too, spoiled; and what we crave  
As nutriment, even turned into our Bane:  
No Entregens, no news, to make us wave  
Our Griefs; or feed us with a hope, though vain.  
Thinkest Thou, if this choice band of soldiers brave  
Were other then of Lusitanian strain,  
They had obedient held to this degree  
Unto their King, and his Authority?   

72.  
Thinkest Thou, they had not risen long ago  
Against their GENERAL (cross to their desire)  
Turning Freebooters, forced to be so  
By black despair, by Hunger, and by Ire?  
If ever Men were tried, These are: since no  
Fatigue, no suff●…rings, were of force, to tire  
Their great and Lusitanian excellence  
Of loyalty, and firm Obedience.   

73.  
Leaving, in fine, the sweet freshwater Flood,  
And the salt Waves returning to divide;  
Off from the Land a pretty space we stood,  
Our whole Fleet bend into the Ocean wide:  
Lest the cold Southern wind (increasing) should  
Impound us in the Bay and furious Tide  
Made in that Quarter by the crooking shore,  
Which to SOFALA sends the golden Ore.   

74.  
This part (and the swift Rudder straight up resigned  
To good St. nicholas, as in case deplored)  
Towards that Part we steered, where the Wind-  
Possessed Waves against the Beaches roared:  
When the 'twixt hope and fear suspended mind,  
And which confided in a painted Board,  
(Fallen from small hope to absolute despair)  
Looked up by an Adventure rare.   

75.  
'Twas thus. When to the Coast so nigh we drew  
As to see plain the Country round about:  
A River broached into the Sea we view,  
Where Barks with Sails went passing in and out.  
To meet with Men, That Navigation knew  
Surprised us with great joy, thou canst not doubt:  
For amongst Them, of things from Us so hid,  
We hoped to hear some News: and so we did.   

76.  
These too are ETHIOPES: yet it should appear  
They had in better company been bred.  
Arabic words we picked out here and there,  
By which was reached the scope of what they said.  
A kind of Terbant each of them did wear,  
Of Cotton fine, presed close unto his head:  
Another Cotton-cloth (and this was blue)  
About those-parts that should be kept from view.   

77.  
In the Arabick-Tongue (which They speak ill,  
But FERNAND MARTIN understandeth though)  
They say; in Ships as great as these we fill,  
That Sea of theirs is traversed to and fro;  
Even from the rising of the Sun, until  
The Land makes Southward a FULL POINT, and so  
Back, from the South, to East: conveying, thus,  
Folks, of the colour of the DAY, like Vs.   

78.  
If with the sight of These so joyed we were,  
The news they give us makes us much more glad.  
This (for the signs by us collected there)  
We call THE RIVER OF GOOD SIGNS. We add  
The Landmark of A CROSS, the which we rear,  
Whereof some number in our Ships we had  
For such Intents: This bar the fair Guides' name  
Who, with TOBIAH unto GABAEL came.   

79.  
Of Slyme, scales, shellfish, and such filthy stuff,  
(The noisome Generation of the DEEP)  
The Ships (that come therewith sordid, and rough,  
Through so long Seas) there do we cleanse, and sweep.  
From our kind Hosts we, had supply'de, enough  
Of the Provisions usual (as sheep,  
And other things) with smooth, and jocund mien,  
And as clear hearts: which through their eyes were seen.   

80.  
But the high pregnant Hopes, we there embraced▪  
Bred not a joy unmixed with some Alloy.  
To ba lance it, in t'other scale was placed  
A new disaster by R●…AMNUSIA.  
" Thus gracious Heavens their Boons have interlaced:  
" These are the interfearing, This the way,  
" Of humane Things. Black sorrow holds the die:  
" Light joy fades in the twinkling of an Eye.   

81.  
And this it was. The loathsom'st, the most fell  
Disease, that ever these sad eyes beheld,  
Reft many a life, and left the Bones to dwell  
For everlasting in a foreign Field.  
Who will believe (unseen) what I shall tell?  
In such dire manner would the gums be swelled  
In our men's Mouths; that the black flesh thereby  
At once did grow, at once did putrify.   

82.  
With such a horrid stench it putrifide,  
That it the neighbouring Air infected round.  
We had no circumspect PHYSICIAN tried:  
No Lady-handed SURGEON was there found.  
But by a CARVER might have been supply'de  
The last. 'Twas handling of a dead-man's wound.  
The rawest NOVICE, with his Instrument  
Might cut, and never hurt the PATIENT.   

83.  
In fine, in this wild LAND, adieu we bade  
To our brave Friends (never to see them more)  
Who in such Ways, in such Adventures sad,  
With Us an equal burden ever bore.  
" How easily a burying place is had!  
" The least wave of the Sea, any strange shore,  
" Serve, as to put our Fellows' Relics in,  
" So of the bravest Men that e'er have been.   

84  
Thus, from this fatal Haven we disjoin  
With more of joy then what we brought, and less:  
And (coasting upward) seek some farther sign  
Of INDIA, to make out our present guess.  
At MOZAMBIQUE we arrived in fine;  
Of whose false dealing, and hard heartedness,  
Thou must have heard: as also of the Vile  
And barbarous dealing of MOMBA●…SA'S Isle.   

85  
Then to the Sanctuary of thy Port  
(Whose soft and Royal Treatment may suffice  
To heal the sick, to cheer the Alamort,)  
We were conducted by propitious Skies.  
Here sweet Repose, Here sovereign support,  
Here Quiet to our Breasts, Rest to our Eyes,  
Thou dost impart. Thus (if thou hast attended)  
Thou hast thy wish; my NARRATIVE is ended.   

86.  
Judge now (O King) if ever Mortals went  
Upon so long, upon so desperate ways.  
Thinkest Thou AENEAS, and the eloquent  
VLYSSFS travayl d so much World, as These?  
Durst either (of the watery ●…lement,  
For all the Verses written in their praise)  
See so much through his Prowese, through his Art,  
As I have seen, and shall, or the eighth part?   

87.  
THOU, who didst drink so deep of HELICONE,  
For whom seven Cities did contend in fine,  
Amongst themselves, RHODES, SMYRNA, COLOPHONE,  
Wise ATHENS, Chios, Argos, SALAMINE,  
And THOU, whom ITALY is proud to own,  
Whose Voice, first low, then high (always divine,  
And sweet) thy native MINCIUS (hearing) fell  
Asleep, but TIBER did with glory swell:   

88  
Sing, and advance with praises to the sky  
Your DEMIGODS, stretching your twanging lungs  
With WITCHES; CIRCE'S; GIANTS OF ONE EYE;  
SIRENS, to rock and charm them with their songs:  
More, give them (both with Sails, and Oars) to fly  
CICONIANS; and that Land, where there mates Tongues  
With LOTO touched, makes them forget they're slaves;  
Give them, to drop their pilot in the waves:   

89.  
Project them winds (carried in hags) to take  
Out, when they list, Amorous CALYPSOES' bold;  
HARPIES, their meat to force them to forsake;  
Hand them to the Elysian shadows cold:  
As fine, and as refined, as ye do make  
Your ales (so sweetly dreamt, and so well told)  
The pure and naked Truth, I tell, will git.  
The hand, of all the Fabrics of your Wit.   

90.  
Upon the CaptainsCaptains honeyed lips depends  
Each gaping Hearer with fresh Appetite;  
When his long Story he concludes and ends,  
Fraught with high deeds, with Horror, and delight.  
The vast Thoughts of our KINGS, the King commends▪  
And their Wars, known wherever the Sun gives light▪  
The NATION'S ancient V●…lour he extols:  
The loyalty, and Bravery, of their Souls.   

91.  
The PEOPLE tell (with admiration struck)  
To one another, what they noted most.  
Not one of them can off those People look,  
That came so far, That such dire Seas have crossed.  
But now the Youth of DELOS, who retook  
The reins, which LAMPETUSA'S Brother lost,  
Turns them, to sleep with THETYS' in the DEEP:  
The KING leaves that, in his own House to sleep.   

92.  
" How sweet is PRAISE, and justly purchased GLORY  
" By one's own Actions, when to Heaven they soar!  
" Each nobler Soul will strain, to have his story  
" Match, if not darken, All That went before.  
" Envy of other's Fame, not transitory,  
" Screws up illustrious Actions more, and more.  
" Such, as contend in honourable deeds,  
" The Spur of high Applaeuse incites their speeds.   

93.  
Those glorious Things ACHILLES did in War  
With ALEXANDER sank not half so deep,  
As the GREAT TRUMPET That proclaimed them, fat  
And near; He envies this, This makes him weep.  
The Marathonian Trophies Larums are,  
Which suffered not THEMISTOCLES to sleep:  
He said, no Music pleased his ear so well,  
As a good Voice, that did his praises tell.   

94.  
VASCO DE GAMA takes great pains, to show  
Those NAVIGATIONS which the World up-cryes  
Deserve not in such gorgeous Robes to go,  
As his, which doth astonish Earth, and Skies.  
True: But that WORTHY (who did foster so  
With Favours, Gifts Rewards, and Dignities  
The MANTUAN MUSE) made that AENEAS sing,  
And set the ROMAN GLORY on her wing.   

95.  
SCIPIOS, and CAESAR'S, Portugal doth yield;  
Yields ALEXANEDRS, and AUGUSTUSSES:  
But with those liberal Arts it doth not guiled  
Them though, which would file off their roughnesses.  
OCTAVIUS made count Verses in the Field,  
Fiillng up so the blanks of Business,  
Forsaken FULVIA will not let me lie  
Through CLEOPATRA'S charms on ANT●…ONY.   

96.  
Brave CESAR marches conquering all FRANCE;  
Nor was his Learning silenced by his drum:  
But (in this hand a Pen, in that a Lance)  
To th' eloquence of TULLY he did come.  
SCIPIO (whose Wit in other's Socks did dance)  
Wrote plays, even with that Hand, which had saved Rome.  
Our HOMER doted ALEXANDER so,  
That th'ILIAD was his constant Bedfellow.   

97.  
All, That have ere been famous for COMMAND,  
Were learned too; or loved the Learned All:  
In LATIUM, GREECE, or the most barbarous Land,  
But only in unhappy PORTUGAL.  
I speak it to our shame; the cause no grand  
POETS adorn our Country, is the small  
Encouragement to such: For how can He  
Esteem, That understands not POETRY?   

98.  
For This, and not for want of Ingeny,  
VIRGIL and HOMER, are not born with Us:  
Nor will AENEAS, and ACHILLES, be,  
(This fierce, He pious) if the World hold thus,  
But (which is worst of all) for aught I see,  
FORTUNE hath shaped our Lords, so boisterous,  
So rude, so careless to be kn●…wn, or know,  
That they like well enough it should be so.   

99  
Thanked let the Muses be, by our DE GAME,  
To my dear Country that my zeal was such,  
As to commend her noble Toils to FAME,  
And her great deeds with a bold hand to touch:  
For He, That's like him (only in his name)  
Deserves not of CALLIOPE so much,  
Or TAGUS' Nymphs; That They their golden Loom  
Should leave, to carve his ANCESTORS a Tomb.   

100  
Love to my Brethren, and to do things just,  
Giving all ●… ortingal-Exploits their deuce,  
To serve the Ladies, to procure their gusts,  
Are th'only spurr, and interest of the MUSE.  
Therefore, for fear of black Oblivion's Rust,  
Heroic Actions let no man refuse:  
For by my hand, or some more lofty strain,  
VIRTUE will lead him into HONOUR'S Fane.   
End of the fifth Canto.   

Sixth Canto.  

STANZA. 1.  
THe Pagan King could never entertain  
The NAVIGATORS well enough he thought,  
The friendship of the Christian King to gain  
Of men, whose courage had such wonders wrought.  
It troubled him, his lot should be, to reign  
So far from EUROPE, with all good things fraught:  
And that his happy Station had not been  
Where HERCULES the Mid-Land-Sea let in.   

2.  
With Games, Masks, Revels, Gambols on the Green;  
With Moorish-Dances (their sport natural);  
With jovial Fishings (such as EGIPT'S Queen  
Pleased the out-witted ANTHONY withal,  
When Carbonadoed Fish were hanged unseen  
On her dropped Hooks he treats the PORTUGAL  
Each day; with Bauquets, of unusual Fare;  
With Frits, with Foules, with Flesh, with Fishes rare.   

3.  
But now the Captain (seeing time spend fast,  
And that the fresh Wind woos him to be gone)  
From the indulgent Land taking in haste  
Th'appointed Pilots, and Provision,  
Resolves to quit it: of the Ocean vast  
Having no little Portion yet to run.  
His leave now takes he of the PAGAN free,  
W●…o prays from All a lasting Amity.   

4.  
He prays them more, that Port (such as it is)  
That all their Fleets would visit, when they pass:  
For, greater good he doth not wish, than this;  
To give such men his Realm, and all he has.  
And whilst he breathes, whilst, what he has, is his;  
Whilst the least sand is running in his Glass;  
He will be always ready to lay down  
For such a King, and People, Life, and Crown.   

5.  
GAMA went not behind, in Compliment;  
And, weighing Anchor without more delay,  
To the rich Kingdoms of the ORIENT  
(Which he so long had sought) pursues his way.  
Now a direct and certain Course he went:  
The Fleet, this Pilot means not, to betray.  
Which (therefore) from the hospitable shore  
Goes now securer, than it came before.   

6.  
The Oriental Billows they divide  
Now in the Indian Seas: and (spying than  
Th' Alcove, whence PHOEBUS risen as from a Bride)  
See their desires fulfilled within a span.  
But spiteful THYONEUS (grudging the Tide  
Of Happiness, which then to smile began  
On PORTUGESES, who well had earned the same)  
Repines, fumes, curses, and with Rage doth flame.   

7.  
He saw the Stars unanimous, to make  
Of LIS●…ON, a new ROME; and that in vain  
It was for Him to hope (alone) to shake  
That, which the SUPREME POWER did ordain.  
desperate, in fine, OLYMPUS doth forsake,  
To seek below what There he could not gain  
Enters the humid Realm; and to the Court  
Of Him, that bears the Trident, doth resort:   

8.  
In the abstrusest Grottoes of the DEEP,  
Where th'OCEAN hides his head far under ground;  
There, whence to play their pranks the Billows creep,  
When (mocking the loud Tempests) they resound,  
NEPTUNE resides. There, wanton Sea-Nymphs keep;  
And other Gods That haunt the Seas profound:  
Where arched Waves leave many City's dry,  
In which abides each watery Deity.   

9  
The never fathomed Bottom doth expand  
A Level, graveled o▪ re with Silver fine;  
Where lofty Turrets rise from drained Land,  
Of Massive stuff, Transparent, crystalline:  
To which, the nearer you shall hap to stand,  
The less will you be able to define  
If it be crystal which your Eye su●…vays,  
Or diamond, which cast such glorious Rays.   

10.  
The Gates are Massive Gold, richly embossed  
With ragged Pearlez in their Mother-shell;  
In goodly Sculpture wrought, of wondrous cost,  
On which vexed LIBER'S eyes did feed and dwell.  
Where first old CHAOS (in it own self lost)  
Varied with proper shadows, doth excel.  
Then the FOWR ELEMENTS (transcribed fair  
From that foul) Copy in their Colours are.   

11.  
There active FIRE got highest on the wing,  
Which without matter did itself sustain,  
Till (to give Soul to every living Thing)  
By bold PROMETHEUS from the Sun 'twas ta'en.  
Next subtle AIR with the invisible Ring,  
Gaping for places (importuning, vain)  
Now vacant in the world, which that doth not  
Step straight into, though ne'er so cold, or hot.   

12.  
Warted with Mountains (then) was the low EARTH  
In her green gown shadowed with fruitful Trees:  
Giving those Creatures, to which she gave hirth,  
Such sustenance as best with each agrees.  
The carved WATER serves her for a Girth,  
And branched (like Veins) o'er all her Body is:  
Innumerable sorts of Fishes breeding;  
Men with her Fish, Earth with her moysturc feeding.   

13.  
Another door upon it carved has  
The War, between the Gods, and Giants bold,  
Beneath great AETNA crushed TIPHOIUS was,  
Whence crackling flames in sulphur Ba●…ts are rolled.  
NEPTUNE himself stood here, of breathing Brass,  
Striking the ground, in that contention old,  
When the first Horse, to the rude world, gave He;  
And PALLAS the first peaceful olive-Tree.   

14.  
LYEU. s' Choler would not let him stay  
To view the rest; and, passing through this Gate,  
The GOD, who (told of his Approach) did stay  
At th'inner Court, receiv d him there in state:  
Accompanied with Nymphs in bright Array;  
Of whom, each seems to wonder, with her Mate,  
To see the Water's King, paid one in fine,  
Of many Visits made the King of Wine.   

15.  
NEPTUNE (quoth he) O! never think it strange,  
That BACCHUS comes thy succour to implore:  
" For highest powers, and most secure of change,  
" 'Tis envious FORTUNE'S pride, to triumph o'er.  
Call all thy Peers that in the Ocean range,  
Ere more I speak (if thou wilt hear me more)  
Down-weight of misery they shall discern.  
Let them All hear the wrongs which All concern.   

16.  
NEPTUNE (presuming it some hideous thing  
He would impart) doth TRITON straight command  
To call the DEITIES inhabiting  
The frigid Waves, on one; and t other hand.  
TRITON, who vaunts himself son of the King  
By SALACEE (adored in LUSUS' Land)  
Was a great nasty Clown with all that boast:  
His Father's Trumpet, and his Father's Post.   

17.  
His thick bush-beard, and his long hair (which hung  
Dangling upon his shoulders from his head)  
Were spongy Weeds; so wet; they might be wrung:  
Which never Comb seemed to have harrowed.  
The nitty points thereof, were tagged, were strung  
With dark blue Mussels, of their own filth bred.  
He had (for a Montera) on his Crown  
The shell of a red Lobster overgrown.   

18.  
His Body naked, and his genitals,  
That he might swim with greater speed, and ease:  
But with Maritine little Animals  
By Hundreds, covered, and all hid, were these;  
As Crayfish, Shrimps, and other Fish that crawls,  
(Receiving theirs from the pale Moon's increase)  
Oysters, and Periwinkles with their slime;  
Snails, with their Houses on their backs that climb.   

19  
His great wreathed Shell, to his black mouth apply'de,  
With all the might he had, he now did sound;  
Whose shrill and piercing noise (heard far and wide  
O'er all the Sea) from wave to wave did bound.  
Now all those Gods (without excuses) high d  
To the bright Palace, from their Quarters round,  
Of that moist God, who built the Walls of TROY,  
Which angry GREEKS did afterwards destroy.   

20.  
Old Father OCEAN first (with all the sons  
And Daughters, he begat, environed) went:  
NEREUS (That married was to DORIS) runs,  
Who peopled all the Crystal Element:  
The Prophet PROTHEUS (his Flocks left for once  
To range the bitter Mead at full content)  
He likewise came; but He already knew  
What, FATHER BACCHUS to the Ocean drew.   

21.  
Another way came NEPTUNE'S snowy Wife  
(URAN and VESTA'S daughter sovereign)  
Grave in her Gate (yet had her Graveness life)  
And with a Face, that calmed the wandering Main.  
A Robe of Lawn (whose Spinster had a strife  
With Her, That with MINERVA strove in vain)  
Of her bright limbs was the transparent Lid:  
For they had too much beauty to be hid.   

22.  
Fair AMPHITRITE (than the flowers in May  
Fresher, and sweeter) would not wanting be:  
The Dolphin (who advised her to obey  
The love of the Seas KING) with Her brought She.  
The Sun in all his glory, yields the Day  
To either's Eyes (more worth than all they see).  
They marched hand in hand (an equal pair)  
For Both, the Spouses of one Husband, are.   

23.  
That Queen (who, flying ATHAMAS run mad,  
Came so to compass an immortal State)  
Went; and with Her her pretty Infant had.  
(Him too, the Gods did to their Ranks translate)  
Toying before his Mother tripped the Lad  
With painted Cockles, which salt Seas create:  
Whom when the loser sand molests and harms;  
Fair PANOPEA bears him in her Arms.   

24.  
Likewise that God, who had been once a Man,  
And, though a powerful Herb he chanced to taste,  
Was changed t'a Fish; so from that loss began  
A glorious life, turned Deity at last;  
Came adding water to the Ocean,  
Still weeping the lewd Tricks by CIRCE past  
On his loved SCYLLA (He belov'd by This):  
" Hate, where it springs from love, so mortal is.   

25.  
Seated (in short) the Powers that rule the seas  
In the great Hall, majestic, and divine;  
On gorgeous Cushions first the Goddesses,  
The Gods in carved Chairs of crystal fine,  
The King with gracious gestures All did please;  
His Throne deviding with the King of Wine.  
The House is filled with that rich sea▪ bred mass,  
Which doth Arabian Frankincense surpass.   

26.  
When now the whisper of the Gods were ceased  
And ceremonies done between the Kings:  
Burst THYONEUS began from hidden Breast  
To pour the Cause out of his sufferings.  
Knitting his brow a little (which confessed  
His leaded Heart hung heavy on the strings)  
He, that with other's weapons he may slay  
The men of LUSUS, thus his cards did play.   

27.  
PRINCE, who (of right) from one to t'other pole  
The angry sea dost awe, and dost command,  
Thou that all earthly creatures dost control,  
And bridlest Nations with a rope of sand;  
And (Father OCEAN) Thou whose Billows roll  
About the world, and circumscribe the Land,  
Lest those meet Bounds which are for All decteed,  
It's proper dwellers should presume t'exceed.   

28.  
And you, SEA-GODS, that want not to permit  
Your Kingdom's high prerogatives be broke;  
But, whoso dared to trespass upon It,  
Felt, what it was, your vengeance to provoke:  
What tameness this? what dull lethargic Fit?  
Who had such power to stay your Anger's struck,  
Ready (with cause) upon mankind to fall,  
Frail as the Glass, yet venturing at All?   

29.  
You saw, with what unheard of Insolence  
The highest heavens they did invade of yore:  
You saw, how (against Reason, against sense)  
They did invade the SEA with Sail and Oar:  
Actions so Proud, so daring, so immense,  
You saw; and We see daily more, and more:  
That in few years (I fear) of Heaven and Sea,  
Men, will be called GOD'S; and but men, WE.   

30.  
You see a little Generation now  
(Called by the name of one that served me too)  
With haughty Bosom, with undaunted Brow,  
Both you, and me, and all the World subdue.  
You see, your Sea with winged Oak they Plough.  
Farther, than ROMAN EAGLES ever flew.  
You see, your Wealth how they propose to drain,  
Your Statutes cancel, and your walks profane.   

31.  
When first the MYNIAE went about (ye know)  
To cut a way through the forbidden Flood,  
How BOREAS, and his Fellow AQUILO,  
(With all the rest) the Trespass then withstood?  
If They so stormed, if they concerned were so,  
That, as their own, your wrong they understood;  
You (whom it touches in a nearer way)  
Why sit ye still? for what do ye delay?   

32.  
Nor think (O Gods) that, for your sole concern,  
And for the great Affront which put I see  
On you, I have forsaken the COURT SUPERN:  
But for That likewise which is offered me.  
For, all those Honours which my sword did earn,  
When (as the World, and you, can witness be)  
INDIA I quell▪ d, and quelled the ORIENT,  
I by this People see trod down, and rent.   

33.  
For the HIGH RULER, and his Fates (who deal  
The under-world, as pleases best their mood)  
Have marked these men for Glory, Power, and Weale,  
Greater than ever, in the Ocean-Flood.  
And (Gods) from you I must not now conceal,  
That they teach sorrow, even to Gods. 'Tis good:  
We too, are slaves to their preposterous Will;  
Which gives Ills to the Good, Goods to the iii.   

34.  
Now therefore from OLYMPUS am I tossed,  
To seek some Cure, some Balsam for my wound:  
To see, if that esteem, I there have lost,  
May happily within your Seas be found.  
More would have said: But Tears the passage crossed,  
Which (trickling down his Cheek in Ropes, that bound  
His words) with sudden fury did inspire  
And set the watery Deities on fire.   

35.  
So rough the billows of their Anger went,  
So swiftly and so high their rage did mount;  
That no mature advice it did consent,  
Permit no pause, no weighing, no discount.  
Orders from NEPTUNE are already sent  
To mighty AEOLUS, that without Count  
He slipped the struggling Winds from their strong Caves,  
And let no Vessel live upon the waves.   

36.  
PROTHEUS risen twice to speak, and went about  
His judgement in the matter to propound:  
Nor Any who were present, made a doubt  
But that it was some Prophecy profound.  
But still a rising tumult put him out,  
And in their sense the Gods did so abound,  
That THETYS' stuck not to exclaim; Will you  
Be teaching NEPTUNE what he hath to do?   

37.  
Then doth the proud HIPPOTADES enlarge  
From their close prison the enraged Winds;  
And them with animating words discharge  
Against the Men of never-daunted minds.  
For a thick cloud hides Heaven (as with a Targe)  
And ARGUS' hundred Eyes, that gild it, blinds.  
The swelling blasts have in a trice o'erthrown  
towers, Mountains, Houses.— But of that Anon.   

38.  
Whilst in the DEEP was held this Parliament,  
The wearied Fleet (yet free from sad dismay)  
Before a gentle Wind pursuing went  
Through the tranquil Ocean their long way.  
That Time it was, when from the ORIENT  
Removed is the Lamp that rules the Day:  
Those of the first did lay them down to sleep,  
And others come the second Watch to keep.   

39  
Conquered they come with sleep, and (ill awake)  
Repose their nodding heads against a sail.  
Their clothes (thin, thin) but weak resistance make  
To the Night's Air, which blows a nipping Gale.  
Yawning, they stretch their Limbs; themselves they shake;  
With their Sealed Eyes to open can scarce prevail.  
Cures against sleep they practise, they devise:  
Tell thousand Tales, tell thousand Histories.   

40.  
What better spur (said one) to post away,  
Or pastime to deceive the hours, that creep;  
Then by some pleasant Tale, wherewith we may  
Knock off the leaden shackles of dull sleep?  
Quoth LEONARDO then (who, whilst a day  
He hath to live, will faith to CUPID keep)  
A pleasant Tale? then what can do so well  
As one of Love? and That, myself will tell.   

41.  
replied VELOSO; 'tis not fit, not just,  
To treat soft subjects in so hard extremes.  
For a Sea-life (replenished with disgust)  
Permits not love, permits not melting Themes.  
Our Story be of WAR, bloody, Robust;  
For we (the Wefts, and Pilgrims of the streams)  
Are only born to horror, and distress:  
Our future dangers whisper me no less.   

42.  
To This they All agreed: and prayed VELOSE,  
What he commended, that himself would do.  
I shall (quoth He); then listen to my Prose:  
I promise you an old Tale, and a true.  
And (to incite, with apt examples, Those  
That hear me, great Beginnings to pursue)  
Of our own Countrymen shall treat my story:  
And let it be the Twelve of ENGLAND'S glory.   

43.  
When JOHN the son of PEDRO ruled our Land  
(Tempering his People's mouths with a soft Bit)  
After he had with a victorious Hand  
From potent neighbour's jaws delivered it;  
In merry ENGLAND (which, from Cliffs that stand  
Like Hills of snow) once ALBION'S name did git)  
ERYNNIS dire rank seeds of strife did sow,  
Whence Lusitanian Laurels chanced to grow.   

44.  
'Twixt the fair damsels of the ENGLISH COURT,  
And Barons bold That did attend the same,  
A hot dispute, beginning but in sport,  
To end at last in down-right-earnest came.  
The Courtiers (though the Courtship is but short  
That gives reproachful terms to any Dame)  
Said: They would prove, that such, and such of Them,  
Had been too lavish of their Honour's gem.   

45.  
And if with Lance in Rest, or Blade in Fist,  
To take their parts they had, or Knights, or Lords;  
That They, in open Field, or closed List,  
Would do them die, with Spears, or else with Swords.  
The weaker Sex (unable to resist  
With deeds, and less to swallow such base words)  
Condemning Nature, That denied them force,  
Unto their Kin, and servants, had recourse.   

46.  
But their Accusers (mark you?) being great  
And potent in the Kingdom; neither Kin,  
Nor humble servant, durst their Cause abet,  
As their Fame's Champions, which they should have been.  
With beauteous Tears (which, from their blissful seat,  
Might all the Gods to their assistance win)  
Distilling down each Alabaster Cheek,  
Unto the DUKE OF LANCASTER they seek.   

47.  
This puissant Branch, of ENGLAND'S royal Tree,  
Had warred against CASTEEL with PORTUGAL;  
Where his Camrades' great Hearts he tried did see,  
And their good stars which bore them out in All;  
Like proof of their respect to Dames had He,  
When to that Land his daughter he did call;  
With whose bright Beauty▪ s beams our Monarch struck,  
The virtuous Princess for his Consort took.   

48.  
He (loath to give them aid with his own Hand,  
Lest, so, he should foment a civil flame)  
Says: when I passed to the IBERIAN LAND,  
To the CASTILIAN CROWN to lay my claim;  
Such heavenly parts in PORTINGALLS I scanned,  
Such Courtship, Courage, such high thirst of Fame,  
That they alone (unless I much mistake)  
With fire and sword your just defence can make.   

49.  
To them then (injured Ladies) if you please  
Ambassadors from me (for you) shall go,  
Who, with meet Letters and smooth Sentences,  
The wrong which you sustain to them may show.  
Let Letters likewise from yourselves, your Seas  
Of ●…ears endear; and from your Pens let flow  
Nectar of Words, to charm them to your Aid:  
For there's your Tower, There all your hopes are laid.   

50.  
Th'experienced Duke the Dames this counsel gave,  
And straight to them Twelve valiant Knights did name;  
And, that each Dame may know her Champion brave,  
Bids them cast Lots, their number being the same:  
And, by this way of Lottry when they have  
Descry'de which Knight belongs unto which Dame;  
To her own Knight, in varied phrase, each writes;  
The King, to All; the Duke, to King, and Knights.   

51.  
The messenger arrives in Portugal:  
The Novelty doth ravish all that Court:  
The gallant King would be the first of All,  
Might it with Regal Majesty comport.  
Each Courtier longs, it to his chance would fall  
In such a brave Adventure to consort;  
And each one's glory doth in this consist,  
To hear his name from the Lancastrian List.   

52.  
In the old loyal City there, whence took  
Was the eternal name of PORTUGAL●…;  
He, to the Rudder who thereof did look,  
Bad fit a Frigate light, with Oar, and Sail.  
Armours and clothes (delays they cannot brook)  
All, of the fashion that did then prevail,  
The Twelve provide: Helms, Crests, Knots, Mottoes neat.  
Horses, and gay Caparisons complete.   

53.  
Leave from that King is had, their sails to losen  
And pass out of the celebrated DWERE,  
By Them that had the honour to be chosen  
Of famous JOHN OF GAUNT, who knew them there.  
A better, or a worse, in all the dozen  
(For skill, or force) there was not: Peers they were.  
But one (MAGRYS●…) in whom new thoughts did rise,  
Bespoke his valiant Fellows in this wise.   

54.  
Brothers in Arms, There hath been long in me  
A strong desire through foreign Lands to range;  
More Streams, then TEJO'S, and fresh DWERE'S, to see;  
Strange Nations, Cities, Laws, and Manners Strange.  
Since in the World than many Wonders be,  
And now I find this purpose cannot change;  
I'll go before by Land (with your good leave)  
To meet in ENGLAND, traversing the SL●….   

55.  
And if (arrested by his Iron Mace  
Who is the period of each mortal thing)  
I hap to fail th' appointed time and place;  
To you small damage can my failing bring.  
Fight for yourselves, and 〈◊〉 to, in that case.  
But in my aug'ring Ear a Bird doth sing;  
Chance, Rivers, Mo●…ntains (all their malice meeting)  
In LONDON-TOWN shall not prevent our greeting.   

56.  
This said, about his valiant Friends he cast  
(In fine) his Arms; and, licenc't, went his ways.  
He passed rough LEON: both CASTEELS he passed:  
Towns, won by Lusitanian Arms, survays:  
NAVARRE: With Pyrenean Mountains (placed  
'Twixt SPAIN, and France, as if to part their Frays):  
Survay'd (in fine) all that is rare in FRANC●…,  
To BELGIAS great Emporium doth advance.   

57  
Here (whether sickness 'twere, or fresh Adventure,  
Advancing n●…t) He many days did stay.  
But our lev'n Worthies the salt Ocean enter,  
And to the Northern Climate plough their way.  
Arrived in the first Port, to the great Centre  
Of populous ENGLAND (London) travailed They:  
Lodged by the Duke upon the Bank of THAMES;  
Eggd on, and complemented by the Dames.   

58.  
The day was come, and now the hour at hand,  
When with the dozen ENGLISH they must fight:  
The King secured the Lists with an armed Band:  
In complete Steel gins to clothe each Knight:  
Before each Dame (her Honour's Shield) did stand  
A SPANISH MARS in dazzling Armour bright:  
Themselves in Colours, and in Gold did shine,  
With thousand Jewels, joyful and divine.   

59  
But she, to whom MAGRISO (who was not  
Arrived) fell; in mourning Raiment came;  
Because to have, it was her hapless lot,  
No Knight, to be the Champion of her fame.  
Howe'er: th' Elv'n (before they leave the Spot)  
That they will so behave themselves, proclaim;  
As that the Ladies shall victorious be,  
Though of their number wanted two or three.   

60.  
Upon a high Tribunal took his place  
THE ENGLISH KING, with all his Court about.  
The Combatants by Three and ●…hree did face,  
And four, and four, their Foes; as it fell out.  
The Sun, from GA●…ES, till he ends his Race,  
Sees not another Twelve more strong, more stout,  
More highly daring, than ●…hose ENGLISH were,  
Who the lev'n PORTINGALLS confronted there.   

61.  
The golden Bits the foaming Palfreys champ:  
Upon the glitt ring Arms, the Sun curvets,  
As when rolled Cak●…s of Ice reflect his lamp,  
Or (mingling Rays) on Dan●…ers gems it beats.  
Now in the Ladyes' hearts some little damp  
(The Troops prepared to charge) the odds begets  
Of Twelve t elev n; when (Lo!) incontinent,  
A murmuring uproar round the Scaffolds went▪   

62.  
Unto that common Centre, where the Rout  
Began this tumult, every Face inclines.  
Enters a Knight on Horseback, armed throughout,  
As one, who battle presently designs:  
Salutes the King; the Dames; faceth about,  
And, with th' Elev'n, the great MAGRISO joins.  
His greedy Arms upon his Friends he throws  
(Sure Card) to lay them next upon his Foes.   

63.  
Then she that well perceiv▪ d this was the Knight  
Who came her honour to defend and raise,  
clothes too with Helle's Fleece; which (more than bright  
Virtue) the brutish soul loves, and obays.  
The signal given, the Trumpets blasts, incite  
The warlike minds, inflamed with rage and praise.  
Spurs are clapped to, Reyns slackened in a trice,  
Spears couched in Rest, Fire from the struck ground flies.   

64.  
The furious Genets seem, in their Career,  
To make an Earthquake with their thundering Hooves.  
The Shock, in All that then Spectators were,  
At once Fear, Pleasure, Admiration, moves.  
This, doth not fall, but fly (dismounted clear);  
That, Steed, and all (He better Horseman proves):  
One, his white Armour in vermilion washes:  
One, with his Helmet's plumes his horse-croop lashes.   

65.  
There fell asleep for ever, more than one▪  
And a short step from life to death did make▪  
Here, runs a Horse (the Man struck down) alone:  
There, stands a Man, whose Horse the Foe down strake.  
The English Honour tumbles from it s Throne:  
For two or three of them the Lists forsake.  
With Shields, Arms, Mail, Those who to Arms appeal,  
And Hearts of Spanish mettle, have to deal.   

66.  
To lay out words in counting every gash,  
Each cruel thrust in that most bloody Fight,  
Is of those Prodigals of Time, and Trash,  
That tell you stories which they dreamt last night.  
Suffice it, I inform you at one dash,  
Through courage high, through never-equalled might,  
The Victory went on the Ladies' side:  
Ours crop the Bays, and They are justifide.   

67.  
With Balls the Duke, with Feast, and with joy,  
Treats the twelve Victors in his Palace fair;  
With Cooks, the Bevy of bright Dames employ  
Nets, Hounds, and Haulks, in Water, Earth, and Air.  
For These, their brave Compurgators, would cloy  
Each day, and hour, with thousand banquets rare,  
Whilst they in E●…GLAND are content to roam,  
Without reverting to their dearest Home.   

68  
But great MAGRISO (if we trust reports)  
Great things abroad still greedy to behold,  
Clung to those parts: where at the gallic Courts  
Highly he served the Flandrian Countess bold.  
For there (as one unpractised in no sports,  
To which Thou MARS inur'st thy Scholars old)  
He, hand to hand a FRENCHMAN in the Field  
(Like ROM●…'S TORQUATUS, and CORVINU●…) killed.   

69.  
Another of the Twelve launched out, into  
HIGM GERMANY: where with an ALMAN He  
Had a fierce Combat, who by means undue  
Thought to have shorn his thread of destiny.  
VELOSO come to a full point; the Crew  
Pray him, he would not with such brevity  
Pass the French Duel, but be more exact  
Therein: as likewise, in the Germane Fact.   

70.  
Just here (to drink his words, they list▪ning All)  
The Master (Lo! (who in the Sky did peep)  
His whistle sounds. From every Corner crawl  
The Sailors, half-awake; and half-asleepe;  
And, for the wind augments, he bids them fall  
The top-sails, climbing to the Scuttle steep.  
Awake (he said) open, and unseal, your Eyes:  
From you black cloud, ye see, the Wind does rise.   

71.  
Not fully lored the windy top-sails were  
When a great Gust upon a sudden came.  
Strike, cried the Master, (so that all might hear)  
Strike, strike, the Main-sheet; thrice he did exclaim.  
The hasty winds (for Tyrants have no Ear)  
Ere struck it could be, rushing thwart the same,  
Rend it to rags, with such a hideous rash,  
As if (the World destroyed) the Poles did clash.   

72.  
Then did the Men strike HEAVEN with a joynt-groane,  
Themselves with horror struck, and pale dismay:  
For (the Sail split) the Vessel, hanging prone,  
A power of Water scoops up from the Sea.  
Lighten (the Master cries with mournful tone)  
Lighten the Ship: if ye would live, obey,  
Run others to the Pump (weare at the Brink  
Of perishing) unto the Pump: We sink:   

73.  
Unto the Pump th'▪ undaunted Soldiers ran:  
To which no sooner come, their parts to do:  
But the Ship (staggering like a drunken Man)  
Their heels tripped up, them to the Larbord threw.  
Not three the sturdiest of the Sayl●…rs can  
Manage the Helm, with all their strength put to.  
The Ship is bound with Ropes in every part:  
The Land-men lose their stre●…gth, Seamen their Art.   

74.  
Such the impetuous winds, that to have shown  
More force, and fury, they could not devise;  
Had they at once from all the Quarters blown  
To throw down BABELI, which did threat the skies.  
The AMMIRALL upon the overgrown  
Mountains of water, shrinks into the size  
Of her own cockboat: wondering herself, how  
She did to live in such a sea till now.   

75  
The second ship (in which was PAUL DE GAME)  
Had her main mast snapped in the midst and broke:  
The people in her (almost drowned) the name  
Of Him, that came to save the world invoke,  
With like vain Echoes to the Air, exclaim  
In the Third, all C●…ELLIOS daunted folk;  
Although that master so good order took,  
That, ere the storm arrived; her sails were struck.   

76.  
Now All to Heaven are hoisted by the fury  
And rage of NEPTUNE, terrible and fell:  
Now to the bottom of his waves All hurry,  
As if their keels would knock the Gates of Hell.  
The East, West, South, and Northern winds (to woory  
The wor d by turns) from every corner swell.  
Herself with Torches the deformed Night  
(With which the Pole is all on fire) doth light.   

77.  
The Haltion along the rattling shore  
With strained voice cries in a doleful Key,  
Rubbing with this the overplayst'red sore  
Of her own loss; by like tempestuous sea,  
The amorous Dolphins hid them, which before  
Did frisk and dance about the watery sea;  
Flying the cruel storm in Caves obscure,  
Nor in the very bottom are secure   

78.  
Never such red-hot Thunderbolts were made,  
Rebelling Giants to confound and awe,  
By that foul Smith, who (by his fair wife prayed)  
Forged a ri●…h Armour for his son in law:  
Nor ever (by the Thunderer displayed)  
That frighted pair such flakes of lightning saw  
In the great FLOOD (they only left to mourn)  
Who stones to people (a hard race) did turn.   

79.  
How many mountains did the waves uncrown,  
Bouncing against them like a battering Ram!  
How many aged Trees the wind rushed down,  
Which by the Cable-roots at once up came!  
Little thought They, the earth swept with their crown,  
To turn their Heel●…s to Heaven in the low dam,  
As little thought the sands, which there were hid,  
To float upon the top, as than they did.   

80.  
VASCO DE GAMA (seeing his Hopes crossed,  
Just at the Butt and end of h●…s desire,  
Seeing the Billows now to Hell go post,  
Now with fresh fury unto Heav'●… aspire:  
Confused with horror giving All for lost,  
Seeing no humane Fence against such Ire)  
To that HIGH POW'RE (who is the sov'rain Aid,  
And can Impossibilities (thus prayed.   

81.  
●…rotector of the Quires Angelical,  
Whom Heaven, and Earth, and angry seas obey;  
Thou, who the Read-sea mad'st a double wall,  
Through which thy flying ISR'ELL to convey;  
Thou, who didst keep and save thy servant PAUL  
From open Rocks, and Shelus that hidden lay.  
And savd'st (with His) from Cataracts down hurled  
The second PLANTER of the drowned WORLD:   

82.  
If we have passed new dangers numerous  
Of other SCYLLA'S and CHARIBDESSES;  
Other dire Syrts, and Quicksands, infamous  
ACROCER AUNIAN ROCKS in other seas;  
Why, in the Close, dost thou relinquish us?  
Why, throw us off, after such escapes a These,  
If with our labours thou art not offended,  
If thy sole service be thereby intended?   

83.  
O happy men, whose lot it was to die  
On whetted point of Mauritanian Lance;  
Whilst, smeared with beawteous dust of AFRICA  
The CHRISTIAN FAITH they (fight) did advance  
Whose glorious deeds remain in History,  
Or carved in everlasting Verse perchance,  
Who losing a short life; a long, did get:  
Death sweetened with the Fame attending it.   

84.  
Whilst this he says, contending Winds (that roar  
Like two wild Bulls when one with tother copes)  
Augment the horrid Tempest more and more,  
And (rattling) whistle through the Spiny Ropes.  
The flashing lightning never does give o'er;  
The thundering such, that there are now no hopes  
But that heavens Axles will be straight unbuilt:  
The ELEMENTS at one another tilt.   

85.  
But, see, the amorous star, with twinkling Ray,  
Conspicuous in the EASTERN HEMISPHERE!  
Fair Harbinger, and Usher of the Day,  
It visits Earth, and Sea, with forehead clear.  
She, from whom armed ORION slinks away,  
And who this Star sits guiding in her Sphere;  
Spying what Risk her dear Armada ran,  
At once with Anger, and with fear, grew wan   

86.  
Here hath been BACCHUS (says she) I am sure:  
Will he ne'er leave this rancour? but in vain.  
He shall not wag the Ruin to procure  
Of mine, but I will have him in the Train.  
She stoops like Lightning from OLYMPUS' pure  
Upon the troubled Kingdom of the MAIN;  
Her Nymphs to crown them (as for wagers) bids  
With waking ROSES that new open their lids.   

87.  
With thousand-colourd Garlands she commands  
Their flowing locks a little be comptrolled:  
(Who would not judge, LOVE there, with his own hands,  
Inamelled painted flowers upon true gold?)  
Her purpose is, to fetter in those ●…ands  
Th' enamoured Winds, where there they wander bold:  
The Faces of those loved Nymphs to show them  
(More fair than Stars) to charm and to subdue them.   

88  
And so it proved. For she no sooner did,  
But presently they faint, they die away.  
Under their wings their bashful heads they hide:  
In humble posture at those feet they lay.  
The slip, Those take them up in; is the third  
Of that bright Hair, which scorns the mid-day's Ray.  
Then, to her servant BOREAS, thus did say  
His sweet and bosom friend, ORYTHIA.   

89.  
Fierce BOREAS, This is not the way to prove  
That e'er thou lov'dst, as thou pretendest to do;  
For meek, and soft as his wings down, is LOVE:  
And fury ill beseems a Lover true,  
Either this madness from thy mind remove.  
(What shall I say? couldst thou endure a shrew?  
I shall be frighted with it, we must sever:  
" Fear choler may engender, but love never.   

90.  
Fair Galatea likewise lays the case  
To blustering NOTUS, who, full well she knows,  
Hath many a long sigh fetched for that sweet Face,  
And is at her devotion doth suppose.  
The Raunter (scarce believing such a grace)  
His heart, too ample for his bosom grows.  
The pleasure of his Mistress to fulfil,  
He thinks it a cheap bargain, to sit still.   

91.  
The others take the other winds aside,  
And her too boisterous lover each reproves.  
They give them to the Queen of Beauty, tide,  
Calm as the Lambs and gentle as her doves.  
She gives them back to them, and (their faith tried)  
Promised return eternal of their loves:  
Worn on the Nymphs' white hands, ere thence they stir,  
In the whole voyage to be true to Hir.   

92.  
Now rising SOL with gold those Mountains lips  
Which GANGES (murmuring) washes: when a Boy  
From the tall Am'rall's scuttle shows the ships  
LAND, to the prow; with that (late storm's Annoy,  
And half their Voyage, over (each heart skips,  
Reprieved from its vain fears. For now with joy,  
The Pilot (whom MELINDIANS to them put)  
Cries: if I err not, LAND of CALICUT.   

93.  
This is that Land (I'm sure) for which y'are bound:  
This, the true INDIA, which we see before:  
Then (if your vast desires one world can bound)  
Quiet your Hearts, ye have what ye explore.  
Now GAMA could not hold, when as he found  
(To his high joy) the ●…ilot knew the shore,  
With Knees stitched to the decks, Hands spread to Heaven,  
Eternal thanks by him to GOD are given.   

94.  
Thanks he did give to GOD (and well he might)  
Who was not only pleased, to Him to show  
That LAND, which he had sought through so great ●…ight,  
And for the same such shocks did undergo:  
But snatched him with strong Hand that very night  
From watery Grave, through winds that raged so,  
Through Thunder's stroke, through blasting Lightning's beam  
As one awaked out of some horrid dream.   

95.  
By dreadful dangers, by such Brunts as these,  
By such Herculean labours, and vast toils,  
They That in GLORY'S Schools take their degrees,  
Acquire immortal Laurels and fat spoils;  
Not wholly leaning, against rotten Trees  
Of ancient Houses, not, on empty Styles;  
Not, on rich Couches, wrapped in Sables soft,  
Of the Muscovy Merchant dearly bought.   

96.  
Not, by new-fangled dishes exquisite;  
Not, by eternal Visits tedious;  
Not, by successive pleasures infinite,  
Effeminating Bosoms generous;  
Not, by a never quenched Appetite:  
Whereby, old Wantoness FORTUNE makes of us  
To that degree, We know not how to rise,  
Or step, to any Virtuous Enterprise.   

97.  
No, but by tearing out of Horror's mouth  
Honours, which we may truly call our own;  
By clothing Steel, encountering Hunger, Drowth,  
Watch, high winds▪ and Billows overgrown;  
Conquering dull cold, in Bosom of the South,  
Tother extreme of the inflamed Zone;  
Gulleting in, corrupt and putrid meat,  
The Spice, and Sauce, with which the Valiant ●…t.   

98.  
And, by accustoming a Face (where doubt  
Sat once) secure, serene, fearless of Harm,  
To march through Bullets whizzing round about,  
And taking here a leg, and there an Arm.  
These (HONOUR'S Brawn) make a man proof througho●…,  
Make him scorn Money, and false Honour's charm:  
Money, and Honours, which light FORTUNE made;  
Not VIRTUE; who is just, solid, and stayed▪   

99  
SHE, shapes an understanding round, and clear,  
EXPERIENCE the Hammer and the File:  
SHE constant sits (as in a Throne or Sphere)  
Regarding busy Mortals with a smile:  
SHE (where discretion doth a Kingdom steer,  
Nor partial Favour merit doth beguile)  
Is suddenly caught up, High Rooms to fill:  
Not, by her seeking; but, against her will.   
End of the sixth Canto.   

Seventh Canto.  

STANZA. 1.  
Welcome, O welcome (Friends) to that good LAND  
Which by so many hath been coveted,  
'Twixt INDUS, and the silver GANGES' strand,  
In the Terrestrial Heaven that hides his head.  
Valiant and Happy men, put forth a Hand  
To crop the Laurels which from others fled:  
For (lo!) ye see; before your faces, lo!  
The Territory where all Riches flow.   

2.  
To you I speak, ye sons of LUSUS old;  
Who, of the world compose so small a stake.  
What talk I of the world? of that small fold  
Beloved by him, who the round world did make.  
You, whom from conquering of Nations rolled  
In Vice not only dangers did not take;  
But neither Avarice, or want of love  
To Holy CHURCH, whose Head is crowned Above.   

3.  
You (PORTINGALLS) as stout, as ye are Few;  
Who never care how small your numbers be:  
You, who are Usurers of losses: you,  
Who frail life chaffer for eternity  
Thus PROVIDENCE was pleased That him (who drew  
The shortest lot) we of more use should see  
T'extend the Faith, than all the CHRISTIAN KINGS:  
" So much thou (CHRIST) exaltest little Things!   

4.  
The haughty GERMANS, a great Flock (behold!  
In a large pasture, into Fastïons broke;  
Who (not to be r●…strayn'd within one Fold,  
Nor yet content to justify with stroke  
Of Argument what sev●…rally they hold)  
Some for, and some against the Roman Yoke,  
Their fatal pistols in that Quarrel span,  
Which should be all discharged at OTTOMAN.   

5.  
See ENGLAND'S Monarch, styling himself yet  
For deeds long past KING of the HOLY TOWN,  
The filthy ISMAELITE possessing it  
(What a reproaching Title to a CROWN!)  
How in his frozen Confines he doth sit,  
Feeding on empty smoke of old Renown;  
Or gets him new, on Christian Foes alone,  
Not, by recovering what was once his own!   

6.  
Mean time an UN●…ELEIVER is for Him  
Head of JERUSALEM on earth, whilst love  
Of ●…arth, hath made him an unuseful limb  
Of the JERUSALEM which is Above.  
O●… the FR●…NCH then, what shall we say, or deem,  
Who (call d MOST CHRISTIAN) doth his style disprove.  
●…ho doth not only ●…n her Aid not come:  
But ev n invites the scourge of CHRISTENDOM?   

7.  
To CHRISTIAN'S Lands findest thou thy Title good  
(Having so fair a Kingdom of thine own)  
Not, to CYNIFIUS, and NYLES seven fold Flood,  
Old Enemies to true Religion?  
There shouldst thou vent the heat of thy French blood,  
Against the Rejectors of the Cornerstone.  
LEWIS, and CHARLES, left thee their Name and seat:  
Not that which styled one SAINT; the other GREAT   

8.  
In the last place, what shall we judge of Them,  
Who by base sloth, and Riot (rather Rot)  
Shorten their days, drowned in their own wealth's stream,  
Their ancient Valour, buried, and forgot?  
From Lux, Oppression springing; from this stem,  
Dissensions in a people given to plot:  
I speak to Thee (O ITALY) brought lo  
With thousand Vices. and thine own worst Foe.   

9  
Ah, foolish CHRISTIANS! are you, happily,  
Those Teeth which CADMUS did to Earth commit,  
Self-Bane (for Children of one womb ye be,  
And All one heavenly Father did begit)?  
The HOLY SEPULCHRE do ye not see  
Possessed by dogs? how Those, themselves can knit,  
To wrest from you your old Inheritance,  
And on your shames their name in Arms advance?   

10.  
Ye see it is a principle of state,  
A rooted custom, in the HAGA●…ENE,  
Armies on Armies to accumulate  
Against the people That on CHRIST do lean●….  
But, amongst you, doth sow rank seeds of Hate,  
And Tares of strife, the Enemy unclean.  
How can ye sleep secure, how can ye close  
Your Eyes, having both them, and y●…u, your Foes?   

11.  
If love of power, and empire uncomptrolled.  
Set you a work to conquer others Lands;  
Both HERMUS and PACTOLU●…'S streams behold,  
Rolling into the Ocean golden sands!  
ASSYRIA spins, and LYDIA, thrids of gold;  
AFRICA'S rich Ours employ her Negro's hands.  
Against THE TURK let Booty league you all:  
If not, to see THE HOLY CITY Thrall,   

12.  
That Hellish project of the IRON AGE,  
Those Thunderbolts of War (the Cannon-Ball)  
At TURKISH GALLEYS let them spit their Rage,  
And batter prou▪ d CONST●…NTINOPLE'S Wall.  
Thence, to their Holes in Caspian Cliffs, engage  
The frighted monsters back again to craw'l,  
And Scythian Wains, that in your EUROPE build,  
With barbarous spawn her civil Countries filled.   

13.  
The THRACIAN, GEORGIAN, GREEK, ARM ENIAN,  
Cry out upon you, that ye let them pay  
(Sad Tribute!) to the brutish ALCORAN  
Their Christian-childrens, to be bred that way:  
To scourge the arrogant MAHOMETAN  
Your hands unite, your heads toge●…her lay.  
Unwise, ungodly, Glory; cease pursuing:  
By being valiant to your own undoing.   

14.  
But whilst (mad People) you refuse to see,  
Whilst thirst of your own blood diverts you All;  
Christian-Indeavours shall not wanting be  
In this same little House of PORTUGAL.  
Strong places upon AFFRICK's Coast has she;  
In ASIA a Style Monarchical;  
Dominions in AMERICA she has;  
And, were there more Worlds, Thither she would pass.   

15.  
And turn we to behold in the mean while,  
To our Seafaring Worthies what befell;  
After that gentle VENUS, with a File  
Of BEAUTI●…S, the enamoured Storm did quell:  
After they came in si●…ht of that vast soil,  
Sought with a purpose so unchangeable,  
The CHRISTIAN FAITH into the same to bring;  
To introduce new Laws, and a new King.   

16.  
No sooner come at that new Land, a sort  
Of little Fisher-barks they light among,  
Directing them the way into the Port  
Of CALICUT, whereto the same belong.  
Thither they bend their Prows (being the Court  
Of MALABAR) A City fair, and strong:  
In which a King his Residence did hold,  
Who, round about, a spacious LAND comptrold.   

17.  
On this side GANGES and the YND beyand  
A large and famous Province is marked forth;  
On the South bounded by the Ocean-Strand,  
By the Emodian Mountain on the North,  
Sundry both Laws and Kings obeyth this Land,  
Sundry pretended Deities ador'th:  
Some, beastly MAHOMET; some, Idols dead;  
Some, Living Creatures in that Region bred;   

18.  
In that long Mountain, which all ASIA laces  
(Running athwart so vast a Continent,  
And borrowing several names of several places  
Through which it runs) Two Fountains have their vent;  
Whence YND, and GANG●…S (starting for two Races  
At the same Post, and at the same length spent)  
Dye in the INDIAN SEA: Now This, and Ihey,  
Make the true INDIA a Pen-Insula.   

19  
'Twixt these expiring Rivers' Mouthez wide  
From the broad Country a long point extends,  
In fashion not unlike a Pyramid,  
Which (fronting CEYLAN'S Isle) in th'Ocean ends.  
And where (first thrust out of the Mountain-side)  
The great Gangetick Arm a Richness lends,  
Tradition says; the Folk, That there did dwell,  
Of dainty flowers were nourished with the smell.   

20.  
But the Inhabitants THat now are found  
(In names and manners differing from the old)  
Are DELIIS, the PATANS', who most abound  
In People, and in Countries which they hold;  
The DECANIES, the ORIAAS; That found  
Their hopes of being saved, in what theyare told  
Of sounding GANGES. Then, BENGALA'S Land;  
With which can none in Competition stand.   

21.  
CAMBAYA'S Warlike Kingdom (this of yore  
Held great KING PORUS, as the fame doth go):  
The Kingdom of NARSINGA; powerful more  
In Gold, and Jewels, then against a Foe.  
Here (from the INDIAN OC●…AN'S Billows whore)  
Discerned is of Mountains a long Row;  
Serving for Natural Walls to MALABAR,  
Inroads of those of CANARA to bar.   

22.  
GATE the Country's Natives call this Ridge:  
From foot whereof skirts out a narrow Down,  
Which (backed by that) is by a natural Siege  
Of angry Seas affronted. Here the Town  
Of C●…LICUT (undoubted Sev'raign Liege  
Of all her Neighbours) rears he●… lofty Crown:  
Seat of the EMPIRE, Fair, and Rich; and Him  
That's Lord thereof, they style the SAMORIM.   

23.  
The Fleet arriving close to that rich strand,  
A PORTUGAL is sent in a long-Boat●…  
To let the Pagan Monarch understand  
Their coming from a Regi●…n so remote.  
He (through the River entering the Land,  
Which enters there the Sea by a wide Throat)  
With his strange Colour, Physiognomy, Attire,  
Makes all the flocking Multitude admire.   

24.  
Amongst the Rout, which Him did swarm to see,  
Comes one, trained up in the ARABIAN'S Lore,  
Having been born in Land of BARBARY,  
There, where ANTEUS was obeyed of yore.  
Whether, the Lusitanian People, He  
Knew merely as a neighbour to that shore;  
Or (bitten with their Steel) was sent so far  
On FORTUNE'S errand by the chance of War:   

25.  
The Messenger with jocund Face survay'd,  
He, in plain Spanish gave him thus the Hail;  
How, to this World, in name of Heaven (Cam'rade)  
So distant from thy native Portugal!  
Opening a passage through rough Seas (he said)  
Which never mortal Wight before did sail,  
We come to seek of INDUS the great stream,  
Whereby to propagate the GOSPEL'S beam.   

26.  
Astonished at so great a Voyage stood  
The MOOR his name MONSAYDE) briefly told  
Their sad disasters on the azure Flood,  
And hairbreadth Scapes, by this same LUSIAN bold.  
But since, his main Affair (he understood)  
Unto the King alone he would unfold;  
He tel●…s Him▪ He at present is not there:  
Being retired into the Country near.   

27.  
So that (until the News at Court have been  
Of their prodigious passage through the MAIN)  
Please him, to make his homely Nest, his Inn;  
With Victuals of the Land he'll entertain  
Him There: and, being well refreshed therein,  
Himself will bring him to the Fleet again.  
For that, the World hath not a thing more sweet;  
Then in a distant Land when Neighbours meet.   

28  
The PORTUGAL with Bosom not ingrate  
Accepts the Offer, kind MONSAYDE made.  
As if their friendship were of ancient date,  
With Him, he eat, and drank, as he was prayed.  
Towards the Ships (that done) return they strait:  
Which the Moor knew, when he the Build survay'd.  
They climb the Am▪ ral: where both Man and Boy,  
Receive MON●…AYDE with a gen'ral joy.   

29.  
The Captain (rapt) Him in his Arms did squeeze,  
Hearing the Music of the Spanish Tongue;  
And (seated by him) Shreives him by degrees  
Touching the Land, and things thereto that long.  
But, as in THRACIAN RHODOPE the Trees,  
And Bruits, to hear his golden Lute did throng  
Who did his lost EURYDICE deplore:  
So thronged the common-men to hear the MORE.   

30.  
He thus gins. O men! whom NATURE placed  
Near to the Nest where I my birth did take;  
What Chance, or stronger Destiny, so vast  
So hard a Voyage, made you undertake?  
For some hid cause from TAGUS are ye past,  
And unknown MINIUS, through that horrid Lake  
On which no Bark before did ever float,  
To Kingdoms so concealed, and so remote.   

31.  
GOD, GOD hath brought you: He hath (sure) some grand  
And special buis'ness here for you to do.  
For this alone, he leads you by strong Hand  
Through Foes, Seas, Storms, and with a heavenly Clew.  
INDIA is this, with several Nations man'd:  
Great NATURE'S bounty All beholding to  
For glistering Gold, for sparkling Stones of price,  
For odoriferous Gums, for burning Spice.   

32.  
The Province ye are anchored now upon,  
Is called MALABAR. In the old way  
It worships Idols: The Religion  
That bears in all these parts the greatest sway,  
Held 'tis, by several Kings: yet only one  
Ruled it of old, as their Traditions say.  
The last King, was SARAMA PERIMAL,  
Who in one Monarchy possessed it All.   

33.  
But, certain strangers coming to this Ream  
From MECHA in the Gulf of ARABIA,  
Who brought the Law of MAHOMET with Them  
(In which my Parents educated me)  
It so befell, with their great skill, and stream  
Of Eloquence, These to that hot degree  
This PERIMAL unto their Faith did win,  
That he proposed to die a Saint therein.   

34.  
Ships he provides and therein (curious)  
For Off rings jades his richest Merchandise;  
To turn Monastic, and Religious,  
There, where our 〈◊〉 PROPH●…T lies.  
Having no Heir, left of the Royal House;  
Before he parted, he did cantonize  
His Realm. Those servants, he lov▪ d best, he bring●…  
From want, to wealth; from Subjects, to be Kings.   

35  
To one, COCHIN; t' another, CANANOUR;  
CHALE, t'a Third; t'a Fourth, the PEPPER-I●…LE;  
To This, COULAN; To That, gives CRANGANOUR;  
The rest, to them who most deserved his smile.  
One young m●…n only (who had mighty power  
On his Affections) was forgot the while.  
For whom was left poor CALICUT alone,  
A City since; Rich, great, by Traffic grown.   

36.  
This gives he Him: and (to eke out the same)  
A shining Title Paramount the Rest.  
That done, his Voyage takes; his life to frame  
So, as to reign hereafter with the Blessed.  
And hence remained of SAMORIM the name  
(By which imperial pow▪ r, and height▪ s expressed)  
To that young man and to his Heirs: from whom  
This (who the EMPIRE now enjoys) is come.   

37.  
The NATIVES' manners (poor, as well as rich)  
Are made up all of Lies, and vanity.  
Naked they go: only a Cloth they stitch  
About those Parts which must concealed be.  
Two Ranks they have, of People; Nobles, which  
Are NAYR●…S styled: and Those of bas●… degree  
Called POLEAS. To Both the Law prescribes  
They shall not marry out of their own Tribes.   

38.  
And Those That have been bred up to one Trade,  
Out of another may not take a Wife;  
Nor may their Children any thing be made,  
But what their Parents have been all their life▪  
To touch a NAYR●… with their Bodye's shade,  
A scandal is to his Prer●…gatife.  
If themselves chance to touch them as they meet,  
With thousand Rites himself he washes sweet▪   

39  
Just so the JEWISH PEOPLE did of yore  
The touch of a SAMARITAN Eschew.  
But, when ye come into the Country, more,  
And things of greater strangeness ye shall view.  
The NAYRES only go to war: Before  
Their King▪ they only stand a Rampire true  
Against his Foes. A Sword they always wield  
With their right-hand, and with the left a Sh●…ild.   

40.  
Their Prelates are called BRAMEN (an old name,  
And (amongst them) of great Pre-eminence):  
Of his famed Sect, who Wisdom did disclaim,  
And took a stile of a more modest sense.  
They kill no living thing, and highly blame  
All flesh to eat with wondrous abstinence:  
But other flesh their Law doth not forbid,  
Yet They as prone thereto, as if it did.   

41.  
Their Wives are common: but are so to none  
Save those, who of their Husbands' Kindred are.  
(O blessed lot, blessed Generation,  
On whom fierce jealousy doth wage no war!)  
These are the Customs, but not these alone,  
Which are received by Those of MALABAR.  
The LAND abounds in Trade of all things; Isle,  
Or firm-Land yields from CHINA unto NILE.   

42.  
Thus did the MOOR recount.▪ But Gossip FAME  
Crying the News about the City went  
Of a strange people come, with a strange name:  
To be informed the truth when the King sent.  
Now, through the gaping streets, environed came:  
With either Sex, and Ages different,  
The noble Men dispatched by the King  
The General of the Fleet to Him to bring.   

43.  
And He (thus licenc't by the SAMORIM  
To disembarque) departs without delay,  
The noblest of his LUSIANS' honouring Him  
As his bright Train (himself more bright than They)  
The sweet variety of colours trim  
Dazzles the ravished people all the way,  
The compassed Oar strikes, leisurely the water  
Of the Sea first; of the fresh River after.   

44.  
Upon the Key a potent Officere,  
Whom in their Tongue the CATUAL they call,  
Begirt with NAYRES, stood to welcome There  
The brave DE GAME with Pomp unusual:  
Whom in his Arms himself to land did bear,  
Then points him to a Couch Pontifical:  
On which (their custom of most ancient date)  
Upon men's shoulders he is born in state.   

45.  
Thus He of LUSUS, He of MALABAR,  
Move to the place where them expects the King.  
The other PORTINGALLS, and NARYES are  
Their Infantry advancing in a Ring.  
The multitudes (like Baggage in a War)  
Confused, pester one and t'other Wing.  
They would ask questions, but have not the power:  
Their mouths were stopped for that in BABEL'S Tower   

46.  
Ride talking GAMA, and the CATUAL,  
Of things which the Occasion ministered:  
MONSAYDE the Interpreter of All,  
As understanding what by each is said.  
Thus marching, and arriving where the tall  
And sumptuous Fabric did erect its head  
Of a rich TEMPLE in the city's Centre,  
At the large two leaved door abrest they enter.   

47▪  
There stand the Figures of their Deities  
Carved in cold stone, in dull and stupid wood:  
In various shapes presented to the Eyes,  
In various postures as the Fiend thought good.  
Some, in yet more abominable wise,  
(CHIMERA-like) with shapes repugnant stood.  
The CHRISTIAN●… (used t'adore GOD- Man) derid●…  
To see Men Beasts, and Monsters deified.   

48.  
One's humane Head a pair of Horns disgraces  
(JUPITER HAMON stood in LYBIA so):  
Another had one Body, and two Faces,  
(Thus the old ROMANS did old Janus show):  
A Third, with hundred Hands, fifty embraces  
(Like BRIAREUS) pretends at once to throw:  
A Fourth He grinns with a dog's Face (the plain.  
Adored ANUBI●… in M●…MPHITICK FANE).   

49.  
Here, by the barbarous people of that Sect  
Their Superstitious Worship being paid;  
Their course, without digression Both direct  
To where the King of these vain GENTILES stayed.  
The Train augments; through Those, who the aspect  
Of the strange Captain to behold, assayed.  
Women, and Boys, from all the Houses gaze:  
These tile the Roofs; Their Eyes, the Windows glaze.   

50.  
Now they approach with slow and solemn pace  
The beautiful and odoriferous Bowers,  
Which barred the prospect of the Royal Place;  
In structure sumptuous, though not high in towers.  
For They their nobler Buildings interlace  
With fanning Groves, and aromatic Flowers.  
Thus lived enjoying that rude ●…eople's King  
In City▪ Country; and in Winter, Spring.   

51.  
On the fair Frontispieces, Ours descry  
The subtlety of a Daedalian Hand,  
Fig'ring the most remote Antiquity  
In lasting Sculpture of the INDIAN-LAND.  
So lively are presented to the Eye  
Those Ancient Times; That They, who understand  
From learned Writers what the Actions were,  
May read the Substance in the Shadow There.   

52.  
Appears a copious Army, which doth tread  
The Oriental Land, HYDASPES laves.  
By a sleek ruddy Warrior was it led,  
Fight with levy Javelins curled in waves.  
NYSA stood by her Founder: by Her, slid  
The River's self,. washing her winy Caves.  
So right the God, that THEBAN-SEM●…LE  
(Had she been present) would have cried; 'Tis H●…E.   

53.  
Farther, a vast Assyrian multitude,  
That drank whole Rivers ere they quenched their thirst.  
A Woman Captain, with rare Form endued;  
And of a Valour, great, as was her Lust.  
By her side (never cold) her Palfrey chewed  
The foaming Bit, and (fiery) pawed the ●…ust,  
(Her NINUS' Rival) with whom yet 'twas done  
More innocently, than she loved her Son.   

53.  
Yet farther; trembled in the fancied wind  
The glorious Ensigns, GREECE triumphant bore  
(The world's THIRD MONARCHY) spreading from YND  
One con'qur'ing wing to the Gangetick shore.  
A young man led them, of a boundless mind,  
From head to foot wi●…h Laurels covered over:  
Who would not be (so high his Thoughts did rove)  
The son of PHILIP, but the son of JOVE.   

54.  
The LUSIANS feasting with these Acts their eyes,  
The CATUAL unto the Captain said,  
The time draws near, when o●…her Victory●…s,  
Shall blot these out, which thou hast now surveyed,  
Here shall be graven, modern Histories  
Of a strange people, that shall us invade.  
Such our deep Sages find to be our doom,  
Poring into the things which are to come▪   

55.  
By the black Art they do moreover tell;  
That, to prevent so great approaching Ill  
By humane wisdom, 'tis impossibel:  
‛ For vain, is earthly wit, against heavens will▪  
But, say withal; Those strangers shall excel  
So much in Marshal and in civil skill;  
Th●…t through the World it will in after story,  
Be said: The Conquerors are the Conquerds glory.   

56.  
Discoursing thus they enter the gilt Hall,  
●…here leans that EMPEROR magnificent  
On the rich Couch (which take it work, and all)  
Can not be matched beneath the Firmament.  
His Face and posture (that Majestical;  
And this secure) his Fortune represent:  
His Robes are cloth of gold: A diadem  
Upon his head, with many a flaming gem.   

57  
An old man (at his elbow) with grave mien  
Upon the knee did ever and anon  
Of a hot plant present him a leaf green;  
Which, as of custom, he would chaw upon.  
Then did a Bramen of no mean esteem,  
Approach DE GAMA with slow motion;  
To presant Him unto the MONARCH great:  
Who there before him, nods him to a seat.   

59  
DE GAMA seated near to the rich Bed  
(His Eyes keeping off) with quick and hungry,  
The SAMORIM upon the Habit fed  
Of his new Guests, their uncouth hue, and Guyse  
With an emphatic Voice f●…om a deep head  
(Which much his embassy did authorise  
Both with the King, and all the People there)  
The Captain thus accosts the Royal ear.   

60.  
A potent King (who governs yonder, where  
Hev'n s ever-rolling wheels the day adjourn▪  
Benighting earth with earth; that Hemisphere  
Which the sun leaves mourning till his Return)  
Hearing from FAME (which makes an Eccho●… there)  
How this IMPERIAL CROWN by Thee is worn.  
(The summed up Majesty of INDIAN LAND)  
Would enter with thee into Friendship's Band.   

61.  
And (through long wind) to thy COURT send me,  
To let the know; that whatsoever stores  
Go on the Land, or go upon the sea,  
From TAGUS there, to NYL●…'S enriched shores:  
All that by Zealand Merchants laden be:  
By tributary Ethiopian-MORES:  
From seething River, or from frozen Bar:  
Heaped up and centered in his Kingdom, are.   

62.  
Then if thou wilt, with leagues and mutual Ties  
Of Peace and Friendship (stable and divine)  
Allow commerce of superfluities,  
Which bounteous NATURE gave his Realms an●… Thine,  
(For Trade brings Op●…lence and Rarities,  
For which the Poor do sweat, the Rich do Pine)  
Of two great fruits, which will from thence redound,  
His shall the glory; thine, the Gain be sound.   

63.  
And (if it so fall out, that this fast knot  
Of Amity be knit between you two)  
He will assist thee in all adverse lot  
Of War, which in thy Kingdom may ensue,  
With Soldiers, Arms and Ships; and coldly, not,  
But as a Brother in that case would do,  
It rests, that thou resolve me in the close,  
What he may trust to touching this propose.   

64  
This was the Errand of the Captain bold,  
To whom the Pagan Monareh answered thus:  
Ambassadors from such far parts, we hold  
No little honour to our Crown, and Us,  
Yet shall not in this case our will unfold)  
Till with our COUNCIL we the thing discuss:  
What this King is, informing ourselves well,  
The people and the Land whereof you tell.   

65.  
In the mean time repose you from the quoil  
Of labour past, and nauseating Seas:  
Whom we will back dispatch, within a while,  
With such an answer as shall not displease.  
Now Night (Task mistress of all earthly Toil)  
Gives humane labours wont stint; to ease  
Exhausted limbs with sweet Vicissitude:  
Eyes, with the leaden Hand of sleep subdued   

66.  
In the most noble lodgings of the Court,  
The PRIMERO MINISTER of INDIAN LAND  
(With the Applause of people of each sort)  
Did feast DE GAMA, and his valiant Band:  
The CATUALL (that he may make report  
To his dread Liege, who gave him in command  
To find it out; which way the strangers came,  
What Laws, what Faith, what Country, and what name)   

67.  
Soon as he spies the fired Axletree  
Of the fair Delian youth the day renew,  
Sends for MONSAYDE; upon Thorns, to be▪  
At large informed of this NATION new.  
Prompt and inquisitive, he asks if He  
Can give him full Intelligence and true,  
What th●…se strange people are (for he did hear▪  
That to his Country they are neighbours near.)   

68  
A punctual account, of every thing  
He knew of them, he charged him to afford;  
As that which was a service to the King,  
Whereby to judge of the proposed accord.  
MONSA●…DE answers: That which I can bring  
Of light thereto, is spoken in a Word.  
Thus much I know; they are of yond same SPA●…N,  
Where PHE●…US, and my Nest, bathe in the Main.   

69.  
By them a certain Prophet is adored,  
Born of a pure and incorrupted Maid,  
Conceiving by the Spirit of the Lord,  
The Lord of life, by whom the world is swayed.  
Of them, that which my Parents did Record,  
Was that of bloody War the noble Trade  
To its full pitch by their strong Arm is wound:  
Which to our cost their predecessors found.   

70.  
Them (armed with virtue above humane strain)  
They threw out of their delectable Seats  
By golden TAGUS, and fresh GUADIANE,  
Through glorious and memorable Fea●…s:  
Nor so content (ploughing the stormy Main  
Tothth' Africa side) even in our own Retreats  
Let us not live secure: but pull us out  
From our Strong walls, and there our Army's rout.   

71.  
Nor have they shown less strength of Hand and Brayn,  
In whatsoever other wars did chance  
With many warlike Nations of their SPAIN,  
And some that fell down by the way of FRANCE.  
So that, in fine, no story doth remain,  
That ever they were quelld by foreign Lance;  
Nor for those HANNIBALS (I will be bound)  
As yet, was ever a MARCELLUS found.   

72.  
But if this Information (as I make  
Account it does) appear to Thee too short,  
Of them, let them inform thee. Thou mayst take  
(So do they hate a lie) their own report.  
Go view their Fleet, their Arms, and how they rake  
With founded Brass, which tames the strongest Fort:  
And it will please thee, of the PORTUGAL  
To see the civil Arts, and Martial.   

73.  
To see the things the MOOR exalted so,  
Now the IDOLATER is of a flame,  
Calls for his Barge in haste, for he will go  
To view the ships in which DE GAMA came.  
Together from the covered shore they row▪  
Covering the sea, the NAYNES do the same.  
They climb the strong and goodly Ammirall:  
By her long side aboard doth hand them PAUL.   

74.  
Her waste-cloaths Scarlet, and her Banners are  
Of the rich Fleece which by a worm is bred:  
In them are painted glorious deeds, in War  
Achieved by valiant Hands of WORTHIES dead.  
Here a pitcht-Field and there a single jar;  
Fierce one, and tother: Pictures full of dread!  
From which, since them the Pagan first did spy,  
He never could recall his greedy Eye.   

75  
To know, the Things he sees, he doth beseech.  
But first, DE GAMA prays him sit, and prove  
A little of those delicacies, which  
Those of the Sect of EPICURUS love.  
The foaming Goblets with the Liquor rich,  
Devised by NOAH, swell, their banks above.  
The Pagan sits; but cannot Eat (he saith)  
Truth is, it crossed a precept of his Faith.   

76.  
The Trumpet (which in Peace doth represent  
War, to the Fancy) rends the Air. In Thunder  
The fired Diabolick-Instrument  
Speaks audibly to it's infernal Founder.  
The Pagan obserus All: but (most intent  
On the Defunct) seems to confine his wonder.  
To those brave Deeds, which in a little Sphere  
Are by Mute Poetry described there.   

77.  
He starts upon his Feet; with Him (betwixt  
Whom, he was placed both the DE GAMES: and, from  
VASCOS ride side COELLIO. The MOOR fixed  
His Eyes, upon the warlike Transcript dumb  
Of an old man, who in his Face had mixed  
Something divine, nor, till the World's one Tomb,  
Shall ever die. Clad in the Greekish mode.  
A Bough in his right hand, what he was showed.   

78.  
His right hand held a Bough— But O blind man  
I! That (unwise, and rude) without your clew  
(Nymphs of MONDEGO, and the Tagan Stra●…)  
A course so long, so intricate, pursue.  
I launch into a boundless Ocean,  
With Wind so contrary; that, unless you  
Extend your favours, I have cause to think  
My brittle Bark will in a moment sink.   

79.  
Behold how long, whilst I strain all my powers  
Your TAGUS singing, and your PORTUGAL;  
FORTUNE (new Toils presenting, and new Sow'rs)  
Through the World drags me at her Charets-Tayle):  
Sometimes committed to Seas' rolling towers,  
Sometimes to bloody dangers Marteale!  
Thus I (like desperate CANACEE of old)  
My Pen in this, my Sword in that hand hold.   

80.  
Now by declined and scorned poverty  
Degraded, at Another's Board to eat.  
Now (in possession of a Fortune high)  
Thrown back again, farther than ever yet.  
Now scaped, with my life only, which hung by  
A single third (ev●…n that a load too great):  
That 'tis no less a wonder, I am here,  
Then JUDAS King's new lease of fifteen year.   

81.  
Nay more (my Nymphs) I thus being made an Isle  
And Rock of want (surunded by my Woes)  
The same, whom I swum singing all that while,  
Gave me, for all my Verses, but course Prose.  
Instead of hoped Rest for long Exile,  
Of Bays to thatch my head (which bald now grows):  
Unworthy scandals they therein did hail,  
Which laid me in a miserable Jail.   

82.  
See, Nymphs, what learned Lords your TAGUS breeds!  
What Patrons of good Arts we live among!  
Are these the favours, and are these the meeds,  
For Him That makes them glorious with his Song?  
What Precedents are these, what likely seeds  
To raise in future curious WITS and strong,  
To register the Acts of all those men,  
That merit Fame from an immortal Pen?   

83.  
Then in this Flood of Ills let it suffice  
That your sole grace and favour I obtain;  
And chief here, where such Varieties  
Of honourable deeds I must explain.  
Give it me only yo●…: For (by your Eyes)  
On any, that deserves it not, one grain  
I will not spend: not flatter DUXES, nor KINGS,  
Pain of ungrateful to your sacred springs.   

84.  
Nor think, O Nymphs, I'll waste your precious Fame  
On Him, who to his King and Country's weal  
Prefers h●…s private interest (The same  
Will from the Throne, yea from the Altar, steal).  
No, no Ambitious man shall hid his shame  
Under my leaves, who mounts, that he may deal  
More largely to his Lusts, and exercise  
His Office, not, but his impieties.   

85.  
No man, That stalks with popularity,  
Thereby to catch the Prey he hath designed:  
Who, with the erring Vulgar to comply,  
Changeth as oft as PROTHEUS, ●…or the Wind.  
Nor (MUSES) fear, that ever sing will I  
Whom, wi●…h grave Face, grave case, grave pace, I find  
(To please the King in the new Place he's in)  
Fleece the poor People to the very skin.   

86.  
Nor Him, who finds it just (and so it is)  
The King's Laws should be kept in every thing:  
But does not find it just (and that's amis)  
To pay the sweat of those that serve the King.  
Nor Him, who says his Book, and thinks with This  
(Though unexperienced) he hath wit to bring  
All to his Rules: and, with a niggard Hand,  
Rates services, he doth not understand.   

87.  
Those (and those WORTHIES only) will I sing,  
Who their dear lives have ventured and laid down,  
First for their GOD, and after for their KING;  
To be repaid with use in due renown.  
Help me APOLLO, and the Muses' Ring,  
With doubled Rage their Laurel d heads to crown:  
Whilst (almost tired) I here take breath a while,  
So with fresh Spirits to renew my Toil.   
End of the seventh Canto.   

Eighth Canto.  

STANZA. 1.  
ON the first Figure stuck the HAGARENE,  
Which in the waving Flag did come and go:  
Upon a leavy staff it seemed to lean,  
With a long combed Beard, white as the snow.  
Who this grave Warrior is, and what should mean  
That same device he bears, he longs to know.  
PAUL tells him: whose wise words which here ensue,  
MONSAYDE rendered, who both Idioms knew.   

2.  
These FIGURES all (which, moving, seem alive)  
As fierce and warlike as they show, for here;  
By the bright fame that doth of them survive,  
In truth, and Fact, more fierce and warlike were.  
They stand far off in time: Through perspective  
Of clear WITS yet, they ●…oom bo●…h great and near.  
This thou now seest, is LUSUS, from whom Fame  
Gives to our Kingdom LUSITANIA'S name.   

3.  
He was that THEBAN'S Son, or else Comrade,  
Who in so many Lands did Laurels gain.  
Following the Wars (which he did make his Trade)  
This LUSUS built at length a Nest in SPAIN,  
With those delicious Fields so well paid  
(Th' Elysian once) 'twixt DWERE, and GUADIAN●…;  
That there he set up his long Rest. He gave  
A Name, to Those; and Those, to Him, a Grave.   

4  
The levy staff (he bears for his Device)  
The Thyrsus is, That BACCHUS self did bear;  
Which is to Us, a letter of Advice  
And this was his own Son, or Friend as dear.  
Seest Thou Another, who long Seas did slice  
With wand▪ ring Keel, and Lands by TAGUS there,  
Where he a Fane to PALLAS sacred calls,  
And is the Author of eternal Walls?   

5.  
It is Ulysses: who that Temple founded  
For Her with Eloquence his Tongue that guilded.  
If he in ASIA here fair TROY confounded,  
In EUROPE there great LISB●…N hath he builded.  
Who may this other be, which dead and wounded  
That sows the ●…ield (his sword with both hands wielded)  
Death and Destru●…ion on great Hosts that flings;  
Where painted Eagles fly with true ones wings?   

6.  
Thus said the Pagan. Thus replies DE GAME.  
This, thou now seest, a keeper was of Ewes▪  
(And know, that VIRIATUS was his name)  
But, better than a Hook, a Sword could use.  
With this, he did affront the Roman Fame,  
Invincible: nor Fame once got, did lose.  
No, ROME had ne▪ re with Him, nor shall (that's more)  
That luck, with PYRRHUS which she had before.   

7.  
By Valour not, but creeping treachery,  
They robbed him of▪ his life. Why dost thou wonder?  
In desperate Cases MAGNANIMITY  
Itself, doth tear its proper laws in sunder.  
Behold Another (for Indignity  
Receiv▪ d) with Us that did his Country thunder!  
To gain immortal Honour he chose well  
With whom to do it, if he must rebel.   

8.  
With Us, behold, He likewise puts to flight  
Those Birds that are the Favourites of JOVE!  
So long ago, Nations of greatest might  
Knew how to yield, when against ours they strove.  
See with what wile, and artificial Slight,  
Our People he to fight his Quarrel drove,  
Th' inspiring Hind, that helped him with Advice!  
He, is SERTORIUS: she, is his DEVIC●….   

9  
Behold that other Flag! There painted, see,  
Of our first Kings the great Progenitor!  
We make him an HUNGARIAN; but, there be,  
That do affirm, he was a LORRAIGNOR.  
After that overcome the MOORS had he,  
GALLEGOS, and the LEON-WARRIOR,  
Went holy HENRY to the Holy War:  
To sanctify the Trunk whence our King's a●…e.   

10.  
Surprised with wonder, who is this (demands)  
Tell me, who this is (cries the CATUALL)  
That doth, so many ●…roops, so many Bands,  
Destroy and scatter with a Force so small?  
So many Battles strikes with his own hands?  
With whose fierce R●…ms so many strong towers fall?  
That fights in blood up to the Saddlebow,  
Whilst Flags and CROWNS fall at his feet like snow?   

11.  
'Tis first ALPHONSO (doth DE GAME return)  
Who from the MOOR all PORTUGAL did take.  
FAME by the waters of black STYX hath sworn  
Ne▪ re more to sing of ROMAN for his sake.  
He, loved of Heaven, with love of Heaven did burn;  
Whom GOD the scourge of MOORS (his Foes) did make:  
Their Throne and Walls broke down to let CHRIST in,  
And nothing left there for his Heirs to win.   

12.  
Had CAESAR fought, had ALEXANDER GREAT,  
With such thin Troops, so slender, and so short,  
Against such numerous Armies, as were beat  
By this brave King, of every kind, and sort:  
Believe▪ t nor He, nor He, with JOVE had eat;  
Nor their proud Fames made such a loud report.  
But leave his Acts (too glorious to unfold!)  
His Vassals deeds are worthy to be told.   

13.  
This, whom thou seest upon his pupil (broke)  
All patience lost, casting an angry Face;  
Bidding him rally up his scattered Folk,  
And turn again to justify the place;  
Turns the young man, turns the old man That spoke,  
And turns with, them the day in a small space:  
EGAS the name, which the brave old man hath,  
Tutor of MARS, mirror of Subjects faith.   

14.  
There, how he marcheth with his children, look,  
(Barefoot, and Ropes about their Necks) t'his end;  
Because the young man, as he undertook,  
To pay CASTEEL low Homage could not bend!  
He raised the Siege with Craft, and Oaths he took,  
When vain were Arms the Rampire to defend.  
He pays the forfeit with his Babes, and Wife:  
And, to preserve his Master, giveth his life.   

15  
Lesle did that CONSUL, who through folly was  
Caught at the CAUDINE GALLOWS in a Trap,  
When Him insulting Samnites forced to pass  
Under that shameful yoke they there did clap.  
He, (brave and constant) did himself disgrace,  
To save his Army in so sad mishap:  
This gives to shame, and death, himself, his dear  
Chil●…ren, and guiltless Spouse: the last goes near.   

16.  
Seest thou this man, who from an Ambuscade  
Beats up a King, besieging a strong Town,  
The Leaguer's raised, the King his prisoner made:  
A deed great MARS could wish had been his own!  
See him again (now Head of an Armade)  
Massacring MOORS upon the watery Down!  
Boarding their Galleys, carrying clear away  
PORTUGAL'S maiden Victory at Sea!   

17.  
It is DON FUAS ROUPINIO; on the Land,  
And on the Ocean, gaining equal Fame:  
Which from the fired Galleys (near the Strand  
Of AVILA) shines glorious in their flame.  
See, how content he fa●…ls by the same Hand,  
The Fortune altered, but the Cause the same!  
Like Palm (depressed in vain) through shafts of MOR●…  
His happy Soul to Heaven triumphant sores.   

18.  
Seest thou not, landing there in strange Attire  
From a great Navy, Troops A●…xiliar;  
Not without which, our first King did acquire  
LISBON (their Prologue to the Holy-War)!  
Of these, did HENRY (famous Knight▪) expire.  
Behold Palms sprouting from his Tomb! They are  
CHRIST'S supernatural Badge, for Him to wear  
Who, born a GERMANE, died a Martyr there.   

19  
See a Priest brandish (not in vain) his Blade  
Against ARRONCHEZ, with revenge sharp whet,  
To quit for LEYRIA, which They taken had  
Who couch the Spear in Rest for MAHOMET!  
'Tis PRIOR TEUTON.— But, a Siege is laid  
To SANTAREN. Look, how Secure, and Great,  
That FIGURE plants upon her scaled wall  
The ever-winning Cinques of PORTUGA●…L▪   

20.  
Behold once more (where SANCHO overthrows  
In a fierce war the ANDALUSIAN MOOR.)  
He kills th' Alferez charging through the Foes,  
And makes SEVILIA'S Standard mat the floor.  
MEM MONIZ 'tis; (How like his Sire he shows,  
The Phoenix of his Ashes?) worthy sure  
The Royal Flag, and This; who his, did put  
Up, with his Hand; the Foe's field at his foot.   

21.  
See Him, that by his Lance descending slid  
With the two Centenells' two heads by night,  
To where he hath his men in ambush hid,  
With whom he gains the Town by force and slight!  
That takes for Arms the Knight, who take that did,  
And the cold Heads in one hand of the Knight.  
He, That achieved this unexampled deed,  
His name, is GERRARD: Surname, without dread.   

22.  
Dost thou not see a wronged CASTILIAN  
By their ninth King ALPHONSO (for old gall  
To those of LARA) to the MOORS That ran,  
Making himself a Foe to PORTUGAL?  
ABRANTES with those Infidels he won  
With whom into our Country he did fall:  
But a bold PORTUGAL, with a small Force,  
Here takes him prisoner; routed Foot and Horse.   

23.  
DON MARTIN LOPEZ is the man, that crops  
The Laurels he was grasping. But behold  
An Apostolic Warrior, That chaps  
For Lance of Steel his Crosiers staff of gold!  
See, how erect the staggering minds he props!  
How hot to fight the MOOR, his men grown cold!  
Behold his Vision in auspicious skies,  
With which the few he has, he fortifies!   

24.  
Then SEVILL'S King, and He of CORDOVA,  
With other two, Lo routed! Nor alone  
Routed, but slain! The strength that got this Day,  
Was not of Man: GOD claimed it as his own.  
See now ALCACER hath no more to say,  
Though, lined with steel, her Battlements of stone.  
To MATTHEW (LISBON'S Bishop) she submits:  
Who Sprigs of Palm into his Mitre knits.   

29.  
Behold a Master poud'ring from CASTEEL  
(A PORTUGAL by Birth) ALGARVES Land  
How he does conquer, his devou●…ing Steel  
Incount'ring none that can the same withstand.  
Strong Towns (by broad day scaled) see, what they ●…eel:  
Such his good star, so certain is his Hand.  
Big with Revenge (Lo!) TAVILA he takes,  
And makes it smart for the seven HUNTERS' sake●….   

30.  
See, how of SYLVES' Master he became  
By Stratagem! (the MOOR paid dearer for't)  
CORREA DON PELAYO is his name,  
In whom (to envy) Wit and Force consort.  
But the PAYR-ROYAL thou o reseest of FAME,  
That did such Fears in French and Spanish Court.  
By Justs, and Tournaments, and Duels, there,  
Immortal Laurels they did win and wear.   

31.  
Lo, by the name of KNIGHTS ADVENTURER●…,  
Into the Kingdom of CASTEEL they come;  
Where, in BELLONA'S sports, not one but bears  
The prize away (they prove true jests to some)!  
See, dead, the prowed Castilian Cavaliers,  
That challenged one of them by sound of drum!  
RIVER'S GONZAGUE was Herald Propped with his Sword,  
His Gyant-Fame did LETHE'S River ford.   

32.  
Mark well that Knight, by FAME so loved and sung,  
That her old Themes are scorned, are out of date!  
Of his dear Country, by one third that hung,  
On his strong shoulders he sustained the weight.  
See, where (with Anger died) a peal he rung  
To a cowd People, and degenerate,  
That they a stranger's yoke might from them fli●…g,  
And take the sweet one of their native King.   

33.  
See, through this Counsel, and his prowes●… too,  
Guided by GOD, and his good star alone,  
What was imp●…ssible in humane view,  
The vast Castilian Army overthrown!  
See, through his Valour, f●…rce, and care, a new  
Clear Victory (inferior unto none)  
Over a People, fierce as numerous, Here  
'Twixt GUADOANA and 〈◊〉   

30.  
Seest thou not There how almost routed is  
The Lusitanian Host, through the retreat  
Of this Religious Leader (whom they miss)  
Th'assistance of the Lord of Hosts t'entreat?  
See, with pale haste he's now found out by his,  
Who tell him, there's no dealing with so great  
A Power; that he himself would look thereto,  
And with his presence cheer his fainting Crew!   

31.  
But see, with what a holy carelessness  
He answers them; 'Tis yet too soon to go:  
As who, by Faith, already did possess  
The Victory which GOD will straight bestow.  
POMPILIUS thus (his Kingdom in distress  
By sudden inroad of a potent Foe)  
To Them That bring him the ill News, replies;  
And I (ye see) am offering sacrifice.   

32.  
What his name is thou longest to know (I see)  
That with such boldness on his GOD did seize:  
The LUSITANIAN SCIPIO it should be,  
Were not a greater NUNIO ALVAREZ.  
O Country blest in such a Son as He,  
Indeed thy Father! whilst SOL compasses  
This Globe of NEPTUNE, and of CERES yellow,  
To mourn again, thou ne'er shalt own his fellow.   

33.  
Victorious, see, in the same war, and Cause,  
Another Captain of a Squadron small!  
He routs Commendumed Knights, and lays his paws  
On the great Prey they marched away withal.  
See where his reeking Blade again he draws,  
Rescuing his Friend from Foes That lead him Thrall:  
His Friend, a martyr for his loyalty!  
PEDRO RODRIGUEZ LANDROAL was He.   

34.  
See yond Faith-breaker, paying an old score  
And the base pelf he up at interest took!  
GIL-FERNAND-ELVAS plays his Auditore,  
And with the Debtor's death crosses the Book.  
Here drowns, in their Castilian Owners gore,  
The SHERREZ- Fields (their sacks they may go look).  
But see PEREYRA; who, like Lightning thrown  
Upon the Foe's Armada, shields his own!   

35.  
Behold, how poor sev'nteen of PORTUGAL  
(Upon a Mountain) brave resistance make  
Against four hundred of CASTEEL, That wall  
Them in on every side, to sweep the Stake!  
But (to their cost) these find a crew so small  
More than Defendants in that bloody Wake.  
A deed deserving everlasting Rhymes:  
Match it elsewhere, in old or modern Times.   

36.  
Of Ours (I grant) three hundred did engage  
And rout a thousand ROMANS, in that Time  
When VIRIATUS came upon the Stage,  
And his Fame lightened through each wondering Clime.  
Whence Those, who followed him in that brave Age,  
Left to their Race this Legacy sublime,  
Never to fear a Foe for multitude:  
Which, that we do not, pretty well w'have showed.   

37.  
Two Princes here (PEDRO, and HENRY) see  
Generous Progeny of our first JOHN!  
The one, sorced FAME into HIGH GERMANI●…  
To lackey him (defrauding death of one):  
Tother, to trumpet Him through the wide S●…A  
For its discov'rer; and (his Pen by thrown)  
Makes entered CEUTA see on t'other side  
His Lance can prick the bladder of her Pride.   

38.  
Behold the Earl DON PEDRO, holding out  
Two Seiges, against the power of BARBARY!  
Behold another Earl, as strong, as stout,  
As MARS himself, and fam●…d for Chivalry!  
Who, not content (with Foes clasped round about)  
ALCACER to defend most gallantly,  
Of his KING too the precious life defends;  
And (as his Bulwark there) his own expends.   

39  
Many a FIGURE, in these Flags that wants,  
The PAINTER (truly) ●…id to add intent,  
But Pencils he doth lack, lacks Oil, and Paints:  
" Meed, Honour, Favour, are Arts' Life, Nurse, Frend.  
The fault in our degenerating Plants  
From those high Trunks of which they do descend.  
Of Vanity we see sufficient Flowers:  
But where's the good Fruit of their Ancestors?   

40.  
Those truly noble Ancestors of theirs  
(From whom this swelling greatness had its Rise)  
For VERTUE'S love, digested bitter Cares,  
And of their Houses to enhance the Price.  
Blind! to entail (with wealth) sloth on their Heirs  
(VIRTUE supplying fuel unto Vice)  
Disfig'ring them to boot: For, in this case,  
" The Founder's Glory is his Seed's disgrace.   

41.  
Others there are, with wealth, and Power that flow  
Above their Banks; nor nobly born, nor fair.  
The fault of KINGS: who on one Minion throw  
(Sometimes) more than a thousand worthier share.  
Of These wouldst thou behold the Pictures? No:  
It is a vanity their Friends can spare.  
As monstrous Creatures MYRRORS fly, or break:  
So these men hate the PICTURE that doth speak.   

42.  
I not deny, but some (whom I could name)  
Derived from great and worthy Ancestry;  
By high and honourable Parts proclaim,  
And correspond with, their nobility:  
Who, if the light of their Forefathers Fame  
Their brighter Virtue do not clarify;  
Yet, keep it in they do. But, of this Crew,  
The PAINTER tells me there are very few.   

43.  
Thus PAUL DE GAMA blazons those great deeds  
Which there in various Ink are written fair;  
Which by a Master's hand (whose skill exceeds)  
In so clear Perspective there painted are.  
Th' intentive CATUAL distinctly reeds  
The History, as legible, as rare:  
A thousand times he asked, a thousand heard,  
The Battles delicate which there appeared.   

44.  
But cleft was now the Sun's ambiguous light  
Between the one and t'other Hemisphere;  
In neither was it day, in neither night,  
But morning's twilight here, and Evening's there:  
When, from the warlike Ship, the FAVOURITE  
And noble NAYRES, to the City steer  
To court dull sleep; which brood's all living Things  
Of sable Night under the downy wings.   

45  
Mean time the famous Augurs of the Land  
(Who falsely think, or so are thought at least,  
To see by magic all things beforehand  
In entrails of a sacrificed Beast)  
Do their black office, at the King's command,  
To scrutinize, what shall befall the EAST  
By the arrival through the handsel d Maine,  
Of these unheard of Guests from unknown SPAIN▪   

46.  
Of Lies the Father shows them here signs true;  
That a strong ●…oake, which they should ne'er remove,  
Their endless Bondage, shall, this People new,  
The●…r wealth s consumption, and their people's prove.  
The frighted AUGURS with pale horror flew  
To tell the KI●…G, that which infernal JOVE  
Made legible by their astonished Eyes  
In the red letters of the Sacrifice.   

47.  
Confirming This, T'a Priest (a zealous one,  
And p●…llar of the Law of 〈◊〉,  
Whose Bosom with that Gall did overrun  
Wherewith both Sects against CHRIST's Law are set,  
In that false Prophet s shape, who from the Son  
Of Bond-mayd HAGAR did descend) the yet  
Enraged BACCHUS, and who never clears  
His filthy stomach, in a Dream appeers.   

48.  
And, guard you, guard you, People mine (quoth He)  
From Ills provided for you by the Foe,  
That cuts a passage to you through the Sea:  
Guard you, before the danger nearer ●…row.  
Th amazed MOOR starts from his Rest, to see  
Who gave him this ●…larum. Thinking Thomas,  
'Tis but a Dream (like common Dreams, in deep  
Of Night) returns into the Arms of sleep.   

49.  
BACCHUS returns, and says. Know'st thou not (MORE)  
The great Law-Give●…, who the ALCORAN  
Showed thy Forefathers, without which Thy store  
Would fail, and half thy Flock be CHRISTIAN?  
Rude, do I watch for Thee, and dost thou snore?  
Well, those white Guests (I'●… have thee to know, than)  
Shall bring great damage to that Law, my Pen  
Delivered over unto stupid Men.   

50.  
Now whilst this People's strength is not yet knit,  
Think how ye may resist them by all ways.  
For, when the Sun is in his nonage yet,  
Upon his morning Beauty Men may gaze;  
But let him once up to his Zenith git,  
He strikes them blind with his Meridian Rays:  
So blind will ye be, if ye look not too▪ t,  
If ye permit these Cedars to take root.   

51.  
This said: both he, and sleep, vanish at once.  
The MOOR remains: rocked in his Bed with fright.  
Th'infused poison working in his sconce▪  
He starts, and to his servants cries a light.  
When the new light (which doth precede the Sun's)  
Disclosed itself Angelical, and white:  
The Chief of that vile SECT he did convoke,  
To whom his Dream in every point he spoke.   

52.  
Then several, and cross Reasons they discourse;  
As they from others, or themselves, dissent.  
Secret waylayings, open Fe●…d, and Force,  
And several ways of each they do invent.  
But, when those seemed too fine, and these too course,  
To take a middle way is their intent.  
To do their buis'ness with an●…ther's Hand,  
They mean to bribe the Grand●…s of the Land.   

53.  
With Gold, and other Presents underhand,  
The ruling men they to their Party gain;  
Giving them speciously to understand,  
These Guests will put a period to their Reign:  
That of lewd Vagabonds they are a Band,  
Who, plying to and fro the Western Main,  
Live on Piratic spoil, without (in fine)  
Or KING, or LAWS, or humane, or divine.   

54.  
O how a Perfect KING it doth behoove  
To choose his FAVOURITES and COUNCIL such  
As are lin▪ d through with VIRTUE, and her love;  
As feel of 〈◊〉 a true inward touch!  
For He (who in the highest Orb doth move)  
Of things remote can only have so much  
Intelligence, whereby to judge, as They  
That are his outward Organs will convey.   

55.  
Nor even on VIRTUE let him so much do●…e,  
T'adoreed in picture, or without Control  
T'imployed; as some, who in a simple Coat  
Have trust an Hypocrite (a preying F●…ule)  
And, if a Saint indeed, he'll speak by rote  
In worldly matters: For the D●…ve like soul  
Seeled with an ANGE●…L'S Quill, hath Eyes to find  
The way to Heaven, but to the Earth is blind.   

56.  
But here, these avaricious CATUAL●…,  
Who did that Pagan-Kingdom rule and sway,  
Bribed by infernal People to play false,  
The Portingal-Dispatches did delay.  
Now the wise Leader of the PORTUGESES,  
Of all the Indian Prince can do, or say,  
Caring for nothing back with him to bring  
But news of this discov'rie to the King:   

57  
In this alone takes pains. For well he knew,  
When he should carry back this news alone,  
That Navies, Arms, and soldiers would ensue  
From MANUEL, who fills the Regal Throne;  
With which to CHRIST, and Him, he would subdue  
The Globe of Earth, and Sea: That Himself s one  
Sent out but as a Dove, as a Line hurled,  
To spy, and sound, this OCEAN, and this WORL●….   

58.  
Resolved he is, the Pagan King to find,  
And pray dispatch, that he may take his leave;  
Which now he sees, those spiteful People mind  
(If they can help it) he shall ne'er receive.  
The King, who with suggestions of that kind  
Was shaken and startled you must needs conceive  
(Too credu●…ous to every AUGUR'S word,  
Much more to All, and when the MOORS concurred):   

59  
Freezed with this fear hath his ignoble Breast.  
On t'other side the sacred Thirst of Gain  
(A Vice in Him that's Paramount the r●…st)  
K●…ndles a fire which thaws that Frost again.  
For his advantage he sees manifest,  
If he with clear intentions entertain,  
●…nd with firm Acti●…ns cherish, and pursue,  
The League which PORTUGAL invites him to.   

60.  
His COUNCIL then commanded to attend,  
He found no One that did in this comply:  
Because on Those, who should their judgements spend,  
Money had done its office powerfully.  
For the magnanimous Captain he doth send.  
To whom (arrived) with a Majestic Eye;  
If, here, the pure and naked Truth, to me  
Thou wilt confess; I pardon thee (quoth He).   

61.  
I am assured, th' Ambassage thou hast done  
To me in thy King s name, is merely coined:  
For that, nor King, nor Country dost ●…hou own,  
But (vagabonding) sayl'dst with every wind.  
From farthest SPAIN'S remotest Region  
Would any King, or Prince (in his right mind)  
A single ship much less a Navy send,  
Through so inc●…rtain ways to the WORLD'S end?   

62.  
And, if thy King support his Majesty  
Which great and potent Realms, which he commands;  
Thy unknown Truth to prove and testify,  
What precious presents knit this friendship's bands?  
" In resents rich, in sumptuous Gifts and high,  
" Kings speak their loves: Their Rhet'rick's in their Hands.  
A Hand, that gives not Any falsifies:  
Nor will a Sea-man's testing it suffice.   

63.  
If banished from thy native soil thou be  
(As many a man hath been of great Renown)  
Welcome, by JOV●…, both to my Realms, and me:  
" For to the Valiant every LandsLands his own.  
Or if, a Pirate, thou infest the Sea;  
Spare not through fear, or shame, to make that known:  
" For in all times, a vital breath to draw,  
" NECESSITY hath been exempt from Law.   

64.  
He said. DE GAMA (finding this new Face  
Of Things, is from the greedy CATUALLS;  
Suborned, by ISHMAEL'S malicious Race,  
The Royal Ear to poison with things false)  
With such a high assurance, as the Case  
Requir d, instead of fresh Credentials,  
(Which VENUS ACIDALIA did inspire)  
To his wise Breast (surcharged) thus gave fire.   

65.  
If the gilt Cup of Lies (which MAN betrayed  
Out of his Paradise) had not pledged been  
By our first Parents, and by them conveyed  
From hand to hand through foul original sin;  
Till in the hand of MAHOMET it stayed,  
Who sucked the very dregs that were therein:  
Most mighty King, thou never hadst received  
This Calumny by that damned Sect conceived.   

66.  
But, in as much as there's no good that's great  
Done without great Contract; and Actions tall  
(For man his bread in his Brows sweat must eat.)  
That stand on tiptoe, are tripped at by All;  
Therefore they brand me for a Counterfeit,  
Therefore dost Thou my Truth in question call,  
Although so clear, that see it needs thou must,  
Didst thou not credit whom thou shouldst MISTRUST.   

67.  
For, if I lived by robbing on the Sea,  
Or (wreck of Fortune) banished my dear Home;  
What need I go so far to s●…ek my Prey?  
For unknown Mansions need I hither roam.  
What gain, what hopes, could make me in this way  
To tempt the fury of the waves that foam,  
Antarctic colds, Heats of the burning line,  
Where Aries hangs, the Equinoxial sign?   

68  
If on great Gifts of estimation high  
The credit due to me thou pin and cast;  
My coming now was only to descry  
Where NATURE hath thy ancient Kingdom place:  
But to my Country, and Dread Liege, if I  
Through Fortune's goodness get, long Seas repast;  
At my return I promise thee (O King)  
That such CREDENTIALS never man did bring.   

69.  
If unto Thee an uncouth thing it show,  
That, where her farthest Arm HESPERIA flings,  
A King should send me to thee, Thou shouldst know  
That nothing possible is hard to Kings.  
Then Kings of PORTUGAL●… (if this be so)  
May be allowed, for spreading of their wings,  
Something of greater, and of larger scope,  
Than what is given for common Kings to hope.   

70.  
Know, that for sev●…ral Generations past  
Our Kings have firmly purposed in their hearts,  
With all those Toils and Dangers to contrast  
Wherewith Heroic deeds whole NATURE thwarts:  
And (Enemies to sloth) of th'OCEAN vast  
Piercing into the undiscovered Parts,  
Aspired to know the end of it, and where  
The farthest Countries, which it washes, were.   

71  
The worthy Project of the learned Branch  
Of that victorious King, who, to displant  
From his dear Nest, did through the Sea first launch,  
Of AVILA the last Inhabitant  
He joining one unto another planch,  
(As far from Idle as from Ignorant.)  
Discovered all those Parts, which lighted are  
By Argo, Hydra, th' Altar, and the Hare.   

72.  
Gathering fresh courage then from the event,  
In that those first endeavours proved not vain,  
Discovering farther new Adventurers went  
Successively the secrets of the Main.  
Th' Inhabitants of AFRICA, That frequent  
Her SOUTHERN CAPE, and never saw CHARLSWAYN'S,  
Were seen by These: leaving behind each Isle,  
And Continent, which Both the Tropics broyle.   

73.  
With this so high Resolve, and fixed therein,  
Our Nation quelled, and triumphed over Chance:  
Till I, now ending what Those did begin,  
The farthest Pillar in thy Realm advance.  
Breaking the Element of molten Tyn,  
Through horrid storms I lead to thee the Dance;  
From whom (to carry to my King) I ask  
Only a sign that I have done my Task.   

74.  
This is Truth (King) For, for so doubtful gain  
So inconsiderable a Content,  
As (were it other) I could hope; so vain  
A lie, and formal, I would scorn t'invent.  
No, on the restless Bosom of the MAIN,  
To set my Rest up, I would first consent  
Forever; and by ●…yracy to get  
An unjust living out of others sweat.   

75.  
So that, O KING! if my great Verity  
Thou hold (as 'tis) for single and sincere;  
Dispatch me to my Prince with brevity,  
Hold me no longer from my C●…untry dear.  
But if the scruple still remain in thee,  
Ponder the Reasons I have rendered Here;  
I lay them in thy piercing judgements scale  
Secure:" For great is ●…ruth, and will prevail.   

76.  
The King marked all along the Confidence  
Which DE GAME even proved his discourse.  
A full assurance of h●…s Innocence,  
A perfect credit did this speech enforce.  
He weighs the copious Words' magnificence,  
Th'authority with which they fetch their source:  
Thinks now the CATUALL deceived is;  
But He is bribed: and so he thinks amiss,   

77.  
Added to this, his avaricious Eye  
Upon the gainful Trade of PORTUGAL  
Makes him obey; and rather to comply  
With the brave Captain, than the Moorish gall.  
In short, he bids DE GAMA presently  
Get him aboard his Fleet; and, without all  
Suspect of harm, whatever Merchandise  
To send ashore to sell, or truck for Spice.   

78.  
In fine, he bids him send of every thing  
That in Gangetick Kingdoms is not met;  
If aught that fits them from that Land he bring  
Where the Land ends gins the ●…cean great  
Now, from the awful presence of the King▪  
Illustrious GAMA parteth; to entreat  
The CATUALL, That of the Ports had charge,  
(His Own from shore) to order him a Barge.   

79.  
A Barge he prays from this illustrious Lord:  
But this is more, than he is well content  
(As ruminating mischief) to afford:  
Pretending this and that impediment.  
Yet (as in order to his going aboard)  
Far from the Royal Court with Him he went,  
Where he (unnoted by the King) may write,  
To Avarice what malice did indite.   

80.  
He tells him, yonder afar off, that He  
Hath imb●…rcation fit for his turn;  
Or that to morrow it may better be,  
If he till then his going will adjourn.  
Now did abused GAMA plainly see,  
By this put off unto another morn,  
The great one too is in the Moorish plot:  
Which t I that instant he suspected not.   

81.  
This CATUAL was one (and first) of Those  
That were corrupted by that crooked Sect:  
And whom the SAMORIM (that loved him) chose  
Th' Affairs of all his Empire to direct.  
In Him alone those devils now repose.  
To bring their plotted Treason to effect.  
He (who consents to break his Master's faith)  
Steps not an inch beside their chalked path.   

82.  
To be dispatched DE GAMA begs, and prays,  
But begs in vain, in vain he prayers lets fall:  
Protests th' Embargue; now will this please (he says)  
The noble Successor of PERIMAL.  
Why these Impediments, why these delays,  
When he should fetch the Goods of PORTUGAL?  
Since, what commands the sovereign of a Land,  
None hath authority to countermand.   

83  
The bribed CATUALL small reckoning made  
Of this Protest: rather in spiteful mood  
Some never-heard of Treason (to be weighed  
Out of the Stygian dam) within did brood.  
Or, how he may imbrue his cursed Blade  
In those detested veins, considering stood:  
Or, how the Ships he may blow up, or burn.  
That they may never into SPAINI return.   

84.  
That's it (even that they never see SPAIN more)  
For which the MOORS infernal Junta bribe:  
That so they may not wealthy INDIA'S shore  
Unto the Kiug of PORTUGAL describe.  
In fine DH GAME goes not: the REGIDORE  
Forbids, in favour of that barbarous Tribe.  
Nor without his permission can it be:  
For a stop laid on all the Boats had Herald   

85.  
To all the CaptainsCaptains importunities,  
The Pa●…an bids him in a word, command  
(For the more ready truck of Merchandise)  
To have his Ships brought close up to the Land.  
It is the way of Thiefs, and Enemies  
(He says) at distance with their Fleets to stand.  
" No sign so sure of one that Ill intends  
" As to suspect ill deal from his Friends.   

86.  
Wise GAMA understood by half a word,  
The Cause the CATUAL did ne'er desire  
To have the Ships, was, that with fire and Sword  
He openly might wreak on them his Ire.  
'Twas time (he thought) he now himself bestirred,  
That he assemble now his Wits entire.  
His Fancy musters, to defeat all plots:  
All things he fears, and all things counterplots.   

87.  
As of a Mirror, the reflected light,  
Of burnished Steel, or Crystal without stain,  
Which struck by SOL (as if in fell despite)  
Strikes the next man it meets, or Thing again:  
And (moved by nimble Hand of some young spirit  
About the House, who is in gamesome vain)  
Skips on the Floor, the Roof, the Wall, the Chair;  
And has you here, and There, and every where.   

88  
So shot the wav ring Fancy to and fro  
Of circumspect DE GAMA; imagining  
That possibly the Boats, COELLIO  
Might to the shore (as he had ordered) bring.  
Back to the Navy (if that were) to row,  
He sends to Him forthwith advertising;  
On Him, or That, lest aught attempted be  
By the MOORS cruel Infidelity.   

89.  
Such should be All, who in war's Trade profound  
Would imitate and match illustrious men;  
Fly like the Needle all the Compass round,  
First divine Dangers, and prevent them then,  
With martial skill try every depth, and ground,  
And for the Foe's one fence play show Him ten;  
Believe all is, that may be: For (in brief)  
" To say, I thought is ugly in a 〈◊〉.   

90.  
The MALABAR protests, that he shall rot  
In prison, if he send not for the Ships.  
He (constant, and with noble Anger hot)  
His haughty menace weighs not at two chips.  
All, that base malice dares or do, or plot,  
When her black trailing bowels forth she rips,  
A loan he'll bear, ere he will dis-ensure  
His King's Armada which he hath secure.   

91.  
All that long night, and part he there was held  
Of the next day, when to the SAMORIM  
He means again to go: but was withheld  
By a strong Guard placed in the entry dim.  
The Pagan (seeing how he still rebelled,  
And fearing lest the King should punish Him  
In case he knew, as know he must e'er long,  
If this restraint proceed, the barb rous wrong)   

92.  
Bids him then send for, and expose to sale,  
Not some, but all the Merchandise he brought▪  
That men may buy and truck in open scale:  
" For where free Trade is barred there war is sought,  
DE GAMA (though he pierce through this thin veil  
And plainly views the Evil of his Thought)  
Consents thereto: because he well doth see  
That with his Goods he buys his liberty.   

93.  
Th'agreement is, that Boats the Pagan find  
Such as are fit to Land the Merchandise,  
For to send his the Captain doth not mind  
To be embarked, or sunk by Enemies.  
To fetch such Spanish wares, as Vend in YND,  
Are soon dispatched, the Indian Almadies.  
The Captain to his Brother writes, to lad  
The Goods with which his Ransom must be paid.   

94.  
Landed they are: which wondrously doth please  
The CATUAL'S infamous Avarice.  
Therewith doth DIEGO stay, and ALVAREZ:  
With power to truck, or sell them at a price.  
That (more, then KING, Prayers, Hon●…r, or All these,  
Upon a soul infected with that Vice)  
A Bribe can do, the Pagan here doth show:  
Who, for the Goods did let DE GAMA go.   

95.  
For Those, he lets Him go: before he quit  
The Pawn, on which he now hath laid his hand,  
Meaning a better penny thence to get  
Then if he kept the Captain still on Land.  
He (scaped out of the Trap) thinks it no wit  
On t'other side, to come within command  
Again: but (safely got aboard his Fleet)  
In his own Nest takes sleeps secure, and sweet   

96.  
At leisure than he walks upon his Decks  
To see what Time and Patience will bring forth.  
No Ruler hath he there to make him vex:  
Imperious, bribed, without or shame, or worth.  
Now let the judging Reader mark what Rex  
The Idol Gold (which all the World ador'th)  
Plays both in ●…oor and Rich: by Money's Thrust  
All Laws and Ties (Divine, and Humane) burst.   

97.  
Slain by the Tracian King, to seize a vast  
Entrusted Treasure, POLIDORO was  
When stern ACRYSIUS thought his Daughter fast,  
A Shower of gold did pierce a Tower of Brass.  
The yellow Bracelets of the Foes, did cast  
Such tempting beams on the TARPEIAN LA●…S,  
That she, for Those, the Tower of ROM●… unbarred:  
Who brained her with the Bribe for a reward.   

98  
This strongest Forts subverts, and overth●…ows:  
Makes Kindred, Kindred; and Friends, Friends bet●…ay.  
This noblemen ignobly doth dispose:  
Delivers Captains to their Foes a Prey.  
This blasts of pure Virginity the Rose:  
Trampling on Fame and honour by the way.  
This bribes even LIBRALL ARTS (its power is such)  
Makes JUDGEMENT have no sight, CONSCIENC●… no touch.   

99  
This, in unheard of Senses Text doth take:  
This makes and unmakes Laws in the same case:  
This perjures Subjects, and This KING'S doth make  
Stoop to the Lure, like Eagles from their place.  
Even golden minds (of those That All fo●… sake  
For GOD) this Antichimist doth debase  
To vilest mettle: with this Difference though,  
That still These glister with a holy sh●…w.   
End of the eighth Canto.   

Ninth Canto.  

STANZA. 1.  
LOng in the City the Two Factors lay,  
Without dispatching off the Merchandise.  
So many rubs are scattered in their way  
By the false INFIDELS, that no man buys.  
All, These design thereby; is to delay  
INDIA'S Discov'rers There (whom they call spies)  
Arrived till they the Fleet of MECMA see,  
With which this other overwhelmed may be.   

2.  
At the far end o'th'ERITHREAN SEA  
Where (calling it by his dear Sister's name)  
The goodly City of ARSINO●…  
(Which afterwards to be called SU●…Z came)  
Was founded by EGYPTIAN PTOLEMY,  
The Port of M●…CHA lies: which hath its fame  
From MAHOM'S superstitious Lavatory,  
Promising Heaven through watery Purgatory.   

3.  
GIDDA the Port is called, in which did meet  
The Trade of that RED SEA and flourished most:  
The Gain whereof was not a little sweet  
To EGYPT'S Sultan who then rul d that C●…ast.  
From hence to MALA●…AR a warlike Fleet  
Of INFIDELL●… the Indian Ocean crossed  
Each year; in that EMPORIUM to find  
Health-giving Drugs, and Spices of each kind.   

4▪  
The Ships expected by the MOORS, are These,  
With which (not only great, but built for Fight)  
Them, who supplant their Traffic in those Seas,  
To wrap and burn in crackling flames and bright.  
In this Sure Card themselves they so much please,  
That, all they wish to gorge their Appetite,  
Is, that the Strangers will but stay so long  
Till from famed M●…CHA come this Navy strong.   

5.  
But the GREAT GOVERNOR of Heaven and Earth  
(Who, for what He before all Time did doom,  
Likewise decreed fit means, which to the birth  
Should bring the same when the full Time should come)  
Kindled unlikely love on the cold Hearth  
Of a MOOR'S breast (MON●…AYDES) sending whom  
Before, He to DE GAMA gave advice  
Of All, and for his pains had PARADISE.   

6.  
This man (of whom the MOORS had no suspicion,  
Being one himself, but on the contrary  
To all their secret juntas gave admission)  
Did to the Captain this foul play descry.  
He visits oft the Fleet, and repetition  
Makes of his visits oft, though far it lie:  
To heart he lays the danger it is in,  
Through the black Project of the SARACIN.   

7.  
He tells the cautious GAMA of the Fleet.  
Which from ARA●…IAN MECHA comes each year.  
And how those Coun●…rey men do thirst to see t,  
As a sure Engine to destroy him there.  
That it comes stuffed with Soldiers, and in It  
Doth horrid Thunderbolts of VULCAN bear:  
So that considering, how his own is brushed.  
It may thereby be overpowr'd and crushed.   

8▪  
DE GAMA, besides this, considering  
That now the time itself calls him away;  
And that for better answer from the King  
(Who loves the MOORS) he may till doomsday stay:  
Sends one ashore, the Factors summoning  
To come aboard forthwith; and, lest that They  
Be stopped, if their intent perceived should be;  
Commands them do it with all secrecy.   

9  
But long it was not e'er a rumour went  
(And it fell out to be a rumour true)  
That the two Fact●…rs were to prison sent,  
'Cause from the City they by stealth withdrew.  
The Captain, seeing which way the world went,  
Seized (by Reprisal) without more ado  
Some, That were then aboard his ship, lined well  
With Preci●…us Stones which they desired to sell.   

10.  
Grave Citizens, and wealthy were These all;  
Well known, and well allied in CALICUT:  
Therefore, to see them bound for PORTUGALI,  
Into an uproar did the City put.  
For straight to work the sturdy Seamen fall:  
The Capstone rolls, their s●…v'ral strengths set to't  
In several manners: some the Cable haling,  
With the Bar others their hard bosoms galling.   

11  
This, hangs by the main-yard; and now untyes  
The flowing Sail, with a great cry displayed:  
When to the SAMORIM with greater cries  
Is told how hastily the CAPTAIN weighed.  
Their Wives and Children (trust up in this wise  
That are) a noise, as they were murdered made  
In the KING'S hearing; screaming they should lose,  
These their dear Fathers: their dear Husband●…, Those.   

12.  
The Lusitanian Merchants; with the Ware,  
(There's no delaying) freely he remands,  
Although thereat the MOORS do stamp and stare,  
Or else his own must visit uncouth Lands.  
With all excuses, to make things look fair,  
Sends to his King. DE GAME (who understands  
The Restitution, better than the Cringe)  
Returns some BLACKS, and gives the ships their swinge.   

13.  
He coasts it homewards, fully satisfy'de  
That he in vain solicits with that King  
A peace and friendship, to be ratify'de  
By mutual Trade, as he proposed the thing.  
But, having now that noble Land descry'de  
Which lay much hid under the Morning's wing,  
For his dear Country with this news is bound:  
Carrying sure signs of that which he hath found.   

14.  
He carries MALABARS, retained by Him  
Perforce, of Those, who the stopped Factors brought  
Aboard from the enforced SAMORIM.  
He carries burning Pepper, which he brought;  
Nutmegs (the whichthe●…r own dry'de flowers up trim)  
From BANDA; the black Clove (for which is sought  
MOLUCO'S ISLE) and Cinnamon, through which  
C●…YLAN is noble, beautiful, and rich.   

15.  
All these provided by the diligence  
Of good MONSAYDE, whom he carries too:  
Who fired with Evangelick influence  
To have his name writ in CHRIST'S book doth sue.  
O happy AFRICAN! whom PROVIDENCE  
DIVINE, out of infernal darkness drew;  
And, so far from thy Country, found a way  
To thy true C●…untrey to reduce thee, stray.   

16.  
Thus vanish from the spicy Territory  
The happy ships, whose Prows directly stand  
OF GOOD HOP●… pointing at THE PROMONTORY  
(South-Bound of NATURE fixed by her own Hand);  
Bearing the evidence and welcome story  
TO LISBON of the Oriental Land:  
Once more committed to the rude annoy  
Of Seas uncertain betwixt fear and joy.   

17.  
That they are going to their Country dear,  
To their dear Parents, and Abodes at last,  
To tell their wondrous Navigation, there,  
The various Nations seen, and Dangers past;  
That now the Harvest of their Toils is near,  
The Fruits of their Adventure ripe to taste;  
Is such a joy as cannot be expressed  
By their faint Tongue penned in their narrow Breast.   

18.  
But CYPRUS' Queen, who by the King of HEAVEN  
Was made the LUSITANIANS' Patroness,  
And for a Guardian Angel to them given,  
To whom she many years hath proved no less;  
Glory, for which they have so bravely striv'n,  
Amends for their so well endured distress,  
Means them by way of earnest beforehand;  
And in sad Seas the Pleasures of the Land.   

19  
Having a while revolved in her thought  
The world of Sea which they have back to pass,  
The world of Woes, that God on them had brought  
In AMPHIONIAN THEBES twice-born that was▪  
It is her purpose, joys, so dearly bought  
With Griefs, to fill them in an ample glass;  
To cook them some delights, find them some nest,  
Where in the rolling Empire they may rest.   

20.  
In fine an Inn of pleasure by the way  
To bait and strengthen tired Humanity:  
To give her gallant Seamen (not their Pay,  
But) the use here of fair ET●…RNITY.  
She means to tell't her Son, and well she may;  
For, with his shafts it is, she makes the high  
GOD'S, stoop to the base ground: and, with ●…is fire,  
Unworthy mortals to bright Heaven aspire.   

21.  
This well digested, she resolves in fine  
There, in the middle of the briny frost,  
To have in readiness an Isle Divine,  
With flowers on green enameled and embossed:  
For she hath many in those Seas, which join  
To that blessed Land which our first mother lost;  
Besides those sweet ones in the Midland Seas,  
Impounded by the Gates of HERCULES.   

22  
There will she have th' Aquatic maids prepare  
To these rare men their graces to impart;  
All that are honoured with the name of Fair  
(The glory of the Eye, Bane of the Heart)  
With Balls, and Banquets blithe and debonaire:  
For she inspires into their breasts the dart  
Of secret love, that they with all their might  
Of their Gallants may study the delight.   

23  
Such once her Project, for the man she bore  
To TROY'S ANCHISESES near to SIMOIS' flood;  
To get him welcome in that City fair  
Which in the compass of an Oxhide stood.  
Her boy she seeks (for, without Him, her rare  
Beauty is nothing) CUPID given to blood:  
That, as to Him of yore she recommends  
Her sailing son, so now, her sailing Friends.   

24.  
She yokes those Birds unto her Coach of gold  
Which sing their own sad Dirge with long white necks:  
And those, into the which was turned of old  
PERISTERA, That gathered flowers by pecks.  
The flying Goddess These in Rings enfold,  
Exchanging kisses with lascivious Beaks.  
She, where she passes, makes the Wind to lie  
With gentle motion, and serenes the sky.   

25.  
Over Idalian Mountains now she hung,  
The winged Boy residing in that Land,  
To get an Army up of Bowmen young.  
For a great War which he hath then in hand  
Against the rebel WORLD; where late have sprung  
Much Weeds, as he is given to understand:  
Loving those things, wherewith 'tis richly stored,  
To be made use of, not to be adored.   

26.  
He sees ACTAEON hunting, so inclined  
To that mad sport, and brutal exercise,  
That a deformed wildbeast to follow (blind)  
The Beauty of a humane Face he flies:  
And (to torment him with a Fair Unkind)  
Shows stripped DIANA to his gazing eyes.  
Now, let him take good heed he do not prove  
A Prey, even to those Hounds he doth so love.   

27.  
He sees the great ones of each Land, that none  
Have Public Good so much as in their Eye:  
Sees they love nothing but themselves alone;  
Which is part Interest, and part Philautye.  
Courtiers he sees (men That besiege a Throne)  
How for true Doctrine they vent Flattery.  
'Tis husbandry these like not in a King  
To weed the Flowers out of his Corn in Spring.   

28.  
He sees, how Those that own a v●…wed love  
To Poverty, and Charity to Men,  
Love Riches only, and to float Above,  
Pretending justice, and a Conscience clean.  
They tell the People, what doth Them behoove;  
OBEDIENCE, in the deed, the Tongue, the Pen.  
Laws they set up in favour of the CROWN,  
Laws in the People's favour they pull down.   

29.  
He sees, in fine, none love that which they should  
But only what complies with some vain lust:  
Therefore his hands can he no longer hold  
From punishments that may be sharp, yet just.  
His Captains pricked, his Soldiers are enrolled  
Fit for a War which undertake he must,  
With the misgoverned World: whereby to quell  
All that persist against him to rebel.   

30.  
Swarms of these little Hov'rers (newly flown)  
At sev●…ral works, busy as Bees, are all:  
Some whetting Arrow-Heads on blo●…dy Hone,  
Others the shafts of Arrows shaving small.  
Working they sing, and sing of love alone,  
And then that Love it is Seraphical:  
In Parts; and in the burthe●… all do join;  
The Ditty excellent, the Tune Divine.   

31.  
On the immortal Anviles (where their Arts  
They use, the steeled points to forge, and fit)  
Instead of Embers there are burning Hearts,  
Which bring their Bellows with them (panting yet):  
The streams, with which they temper their steeled d●…rts,  
Tears, which from miserable LOVERS flit:  
The sparkling flame, the never●…quenched fire,  
(Which burns, and not consumes them) is desire.   

32.  
Some of these Archers exercise their Hand  
On the hard Bosoms of the Vulgar rude;  
The bored Air hissed (by this we understand  
The sigh of the wounded multitude▪);  
For Sugeons, Nymphs to Cur●… them ready stand,  
With sovereign Virtue to this end endued:  
Who, to the Hurt not only life can give,  
But make, even them that ne'er were born to live.   

33.  
Some of these Nymphs are fair, and some are not,  
According to the Nature of the Wound:  
Into the blood if once the Taint be got,  
Oft ugly Treacle gives the Patiented sound.  
There are, whom Spells and Philters do besot;  
Nailed to their Seats, they wiss not how and b●…und:  
Where this is, LOVE hath used against frail Hearts  
Unlawful weapons, shooting poisoned darts.   

34.  
From these raw Soldiers, out of rank and life,  
A thousand rash, and senseless Darts are sped:  
A thousand senseless loves are born the while  
In the low People, to be pitied.  
Even amongst Those in highest Forms, of vile  
And horrid Love are thousand 〈◊〉 read:  
BIBLIS, and MYRRA, for one sex; for t'other,  
Th'ASSYRIAN SON, and the JUDEAN BROTHER.   

35.  
And you (Great Lords) by shepherdesses mean  
Under the yoke of LOVE have oft been brought;  
And you (great Ladies) with rude Clowns unclean  
In VULCAN'S subtle Nets have oft been caught:  
Some, watching the dim fall of the Serene;  
Some, pitchy Night, o re Tiles, or Walls to vault.  
Though for these sordid fires (if right we did)  
More than the Son the Mother should be chid.   

36.  
But the swift Coach now softly on the Green  
The white Swans (balanced in their Harness) put;  
On which DIONE (in whose Cheek is seen  
The Snow-mixt Rose) sets light her milky foot.  
The Archer meets her with a jocund mien  
Who shoots at HEAVEN, and doth not miss the But.  
With Him in Squadron his SUB-CUPIDS' move,  
To do their Homage to the QUE●…N OF LOVE.   

37.  
She (not to spend the precious time in vain)  
Snatching her Child up, confidently said;  
Dear Son, in whom, and whose strong Arm, I reign;  
And the Foundations of my Power are laid;  
Son, in whom all my strengths always remain;  
Who feardst not Them; That made great JOVE afraid;  
I have a special buis'ness to be done,  
In which I greatly need thy power my Son.   

38.  
The LUSITANIANS, harast out, behold!  
Who are my Care of long Antiquity;  
Because my Friends (the Fates) to me had told,  
wherever They go, my worshipped name should fly.  
And, for they imitate my ROMANS old  
In all Heroic Actions, therefore I  
Resolve, for them to do a Guardian ●…s duty,  
And raise the Posse of the Realm of Beauty.   

39  
And, since the malice of the God of Wine  
Spun them new troubles upon Indian-ground,  
When from the furies of the swelling Brine  
They crope out weather-beaten, and half-drown●…d;  
Therefore in middle of the Sea (in fine)  
Which they their bitter enemies have found,  
And near that INDIA, I would have them breathe,  
And of their Labours the first-fruits ●…eceave.   

40.  
As wanton Fishes then therein are struck,  
So do Thou strike the fair NEREIDS;  
That on these LUSITANIANS they may look  
With amorous eyes, who carry home the Keys  
Of their discovered World. Sick with the Hook  
Let them on shore an Isle; an Isle (in Seas  
Immense) which I have decked with all the Flowers  
Or ZEPHYRUS breathes, out; or FLORA, powers.   

41.  
There with a thousand dishes delicate,  
With odoriferous Wines, and R●…ses sweet,  
In crystal Palaces immaculate,  
In lily sheets (they whiter than the sheet)  
In fine with thousand joys past Vulgar rate,  
Let the obliging Nymphs their Heroes meet  
(wounded with love) and yield up Nature's treasure,  
To be all ransacked at the Victor's pleasure.   

42.  
In NEPTUNE'S Realm (to which I own my birth)  
A fair and manly Offspring would I have;  
To serve for pattern to the Bastard-Earth,  
Which with rebellious Heart thy power doth brave:  
That men may know, From Thee, the Foe of mirth  
Hypocrisy, nor walls of brass can save.  
Ill can it be resisted on the Land,  
If in the Sea burn thy immortal Brand.   

43.  
She had not ended when the Wag her Son  
Prepares himself to do as he was told:  
Calls for his Ivory Bow, ingrav▪ d upon,  
Whose Arrow-points are tagged with heads of Gold.  
Ravished with joy the CYPHIAN PARAGON  
Sets the Boy by her, in her Coach, which trolled,  
The reins enlarged to those Birds, whose Song  
The death of PHA●…THON laments so long.   

44.  
But we do want a certain necessary  
Woman, to broke between them CUPID said;  
Whom, though to Him she had been oft contrary,  
Yet, of his side, he had as often made:  
Rash Boaster, who both Lies and Truths doth carry,  
Sister to Them that did the Gods invade,  
Who with a th●…usand Tongues spreads where she flies,  
That which she saw but with a hundred eyes.   

45.  
Her find they out, and make her go before:  
Who with a rattling Trumpet doth proclaim  
The Praises of the Navigators more  
Than of all else she e'er vouchsafed to name.  
Now in the hollows of the Rocks did roar,  
And the hoarse Waves, the piercing voice of FAM●….  
Truth she relates, and Truth esteemed to be,  
For with the Goddess went CREDULITY.   

46.  
Bribed with this Praise, this excellent Report,  
The Gods (whom BACCHUS so inflamed had erst  
Against these gallant men, in NEPTUNE'S Court)  
With passion for them are a little pierced.  
The female Breasts (that quit with less effort  
The prejudices they received at first)  
Now call it an ill Zeal, a cruel mind,  
Which to such Virtue made them prove unkind.   

47.  
The bloody Boy strikes while the Iron's hot.  
Shafts, follow shafs, the Sea roars with his shoots.  
Some, through the fickle Waves point blank are shot:  
Some, hit on Rocks; nor, to be rocks, it boots.  
Down drop the Nymphs, each hath her deaths wound got,  
All dart out burning sighs from their heart-Roots;  
No Face yet seen:" For Shafts, which LOV●… lets fly,  
" Kill in the Ear as sure as in the Eye.   

48.  
With doubled force the Lad, that tamed was never,  
Makes the two horns meet of his Ivory Mo●…n.  
More, then of All, he aims at THETIES Liver:  
For more than All hath she against him done.  
Now not ●…ne shaft is left in all his Quiver  
In all the Sea NYMPH left alive not one▪  
Or if (being hurt) they live, it is for This,  
That they may feel how sweet such dying is.   

49.  
Make room, ye azure Billows of the DEEP:  
Lo! VENU●… comes, and brings the Medicine with her!  
The pregnant Sails on NEPTUNE'S surface creep,  
Like her own Swans, in Gate, out-chest, and Fether.  
That their desires like equal pace may keep,  
And neither to great LOVE complain of either,  
The men's bold fires shall press chaste HYMEN'S bands;  
The Female-Blush do 〈◊〉 'S QUEENS commands.   

50.  
All the fair Choir of the NEREIDS  
Is now prepared, and in a lofty Dance  
(After their loving custom) through the Seas  
To th' Isle by VENUS showed, at once advance.  
The skilful Goddess there erudiates These  
In all she did, when LOVE her Breasts did lance.  
They, whom the Son had conquered, are not nice  
To listen to the Mother's sweet advice.   

51  
The lofty ships went cutting the vast Sea  
In their long Voyage to their Country dear,  
Lest that, they had, should fail them by the way,  
prowling about for water fresh, and clear.  
When (to their sudden joy) at break of day  
Th' enamoured Isle doth to them All appear.)  
Straight MEMNON'S mother, delicate and fair,  
Spread all her sweetness through the purged Air.   

52.  
They see Aloof the Island fresh, and green,  
Which VENUS carries floating on the Main,  
Just as the Wind does their white Sails; and seen  
The ships are from the Isle too, but not plain.  
For, lest by Them o'ershot it should have been,  
Making her Wish, and Preparations, vain;  
(What cannot VENUS ACIDALIA do?  
She moved it plum in the Armadas view.   

53.  
But fixed it; when she saw, They saw, and sought  
The Island with their Keels: so, on the Floods  
Was DELOS fixed, when forth LATONA brought  
APOLLO, and the GODDESS OF THE WOODS.  
Thither through sliced Seas their way they wrought  
Where a calm Bay the crooking shore includes,  
Whose gliss'ning Sands with interfused veins  
Of purple Cockles CYTHEREA stains.   

54.  
Three goodly Mountains with a graceful pride  
Thrust their majestic Heads into the Air  
(With green embroidered Hang beautify'de)  
In this gay Isle delicious, fresh, and fair.  
From their three Tops three crystal Springs did glide,  
Lacing the Liv'ry their rich Margins ware.  
Jumping on Pebbles while their Crystals broke:  
Such Music never Water-works did make.   

55.  
In a pure Valley which those Hills divides,  
As by appointment the three Currents meet,  
Shaping a Table with proportioned sides,  
Broad, and beyond imagination, sweet.  
A Frenge of Trees hangs over it, and prides  
Itself, in so clear Glass itself to greet:  
Now pranks its locks therein, and now retires;  
Now looks again, and its own form admires.   

56.  
A thousand gallant Trees to Heaven up-shoot  
With ●…pples, odoriferous, and fair:  
The Orange-tree hath in her sightly fruit  
The colour DAPHNE boasted in her Hair:  
The Citron-tree bends almost to her Root  
Under the yellow burden which she bore:  
The goodly Lemons with their button-Caps,  
Hang imitating Virgins fragrant Paps.   

57  
The savage-trees (That do the Forest there  
With leavie-Haire ennoble and adorn)  
Are, ●…oplars of ALCIDES; Laurels, dear  
In vain unto the GOLD●…N GOD UNSHORN;  
Myrtles of VENUS; the proud Pine severe,  
That CYBELE for meaner love did scorn.  
The speared Cypress, from this vale of Vice,  
Stands pointing at CELESTIAL PARADISE:   

58  
The fruit POMONA gives, NATU●… bestows  
Here liberally, and in the kinds all good;  
Better then elsewhere it in Gardens grows,  
'Tis here undressed, unplanted in the Wood;  
The Cherry, that begs outside from the Rose;  
The Mulberry, stained with true-Lovers blood;  
The Peach, translated from its Mother-soile  
In PERSIA, and made better by Exile.   

59  
Th'ingenuous Pomegranate shows his Heart,  
With which Thou, Ruby, losest thy esteem:  
From her loved Elm the Vine doth not departed,  
Her Clusters loading Him, some red, some green:  
And, Pear pyramidal, if loath thou art  
To die before thy time, hid thee between  
The Leaves; for to anticipate thy Fate  
Ten thousand feather'd-Minstrels lie in wait.   

60.  
The fine and noble Carpets then (which there  
Lie to be trod on by the meanest Plant)  
Make those of PERSIA, course; and pleasanter  
These of the gloomy Valley All will grant.  
NARCISSUS, there, over the water clear  
Hangs his sick head, who what he had, did want.  
There flaunts the Grand-child-Son of CYNARAS,  
For whom Thou, PAPHI●…N QUEEN, criest yet, alas!   

61.  
It was not easy to be understood  
(The selfsame colours seen in Skies, and Bowers)  
Whether AURORA lent the Flowers blood,  
Or borrowed complexi●…n of the Fl●…w'rs  
There, Z●…PHYRUS and FLORA painting stood  
The Vi'let, with the Pale of Paramo●…rs;  
The Flow'r-de-lis, with blue; the lovely Rose,  
Just such, as in a Virgin's cheek it blows.   

62.  
The Lily, white; in whose pure snow the print  
Sits of the Morning's Tears: and Marjor●…me:  
The doleful ay, read in the Hyacint;  
A Flower LATONA'S son loves for the name.  
FLORA bets high POMONA knows no stint,  
She Vies with Flowers, with fruits This sees the Game:  
Nor Flowers, and Fruits, are All that place affords;  
The Earth hath Beasts besides, and the Air Birds.   

63.  
Along the Lake the snowy Swan did sing,  
Him PHILOMELA answers from a Bough;  
ACTAEON drinks out of the crystal Spring,  
Nor fears the shadow of his horned Brow.  
Here the close Hare (to whom her fear gives wing)  
Starts from her Form; or, from a Broke the Row:  
The wanton Sparrow, there, to his dear Nest  
Bears in his Bill the little Chirps feast.   

64.  
The sec●…nd ARGONAUT●… now disembarke  
From the tall ships into an EDEN green.  
There, in this Isle, this Forest, or this Park,  
The fair Nymphs hid, with purpose to be seen.  
Some touch the grave Theorba in shades dark,  
Some the sweet Lute, and gentle Violeen:  
Others with golden Crossbows make a show  
To hunt the Bruits, but do not hunt them though.   

65.  
Thus counselled them their Mistress, and her Art's:  
That so, the more their own desires they Master,  
And seem a flying prey to their sweethearts,  
It might make them to follow on the faster.  
Some (who are Conscious that their skins have darts,  
And put their trust in naked Alabaster)  
bath in Diaphane streams, their Robes by-thrown,  
And ask no Ornament, but what's their own.   

66.  
But the bold Striplings setting on the sand  
Their nimble feet, which longed to touch the ground.  
(For not a man of them but came a land  
To see what Savage Game might there be found)  
Dreamt not to find Game ready to their hand,  
In that sweet Forest (without snare, or Hound)  
So Debonaire, so tender, so benign,  
As was there hurt by means of ERICINE.   

67.  
Some (who with Guns and Crossbows make account  
The Royal Stag, and Lordly Buck, to slay)  
Through the sharp Bushes resolutely mount,  
And lofty Forest; where no Footpath lay.  
Others in Shades (which PH●…BUS'S Arrows blunt)  
Walking, or resting, while the Heats away  
By those sweet Brooks, which (stumbling as they passed  
Over white Pebbles) to the Sea did haste.   

68  
When suddenly, thorough the Green-wood leaves,  
Variety of Colours they descry;  
Colours, which soon the judging eye perceives  
Are not of Roses, or fresh Flowers the dye:  
But, of fine wool; or That, the rich worm weaves:  
Of which LOV●… makes his Lure, and Sauces high;  
Of which their Garments Humane Roses make,  
To make the Bird sell for the Feathers sake.   

69.  
Amazed VELOSO with a loud voice cried;  
Strange Game (my masters) in this Forest rise:  
The ancient Poets Tales are verified,  
And this Isle s sacred to the D●…ITIES.  
Nay, what to humane-fancy is denied  
To hope, or comprehend, see with your Eyes!  
And see, what wonders, what great blessings then,  
The world and Nature hid from vulgar men!   

70.  
Chase we these Goddesses; it shall be seen  
If they be Real or Fantastical.  
This said (more swift than Bucks o'er Pastures green)  
Through the rough Brakes and Woods darted they All.  
The Nymphs went flying the thick boughs between,  
Yet not so Swift, as Artificial.  
Screeking, and laughing softly in the close,  
They let the Greyhounds gain upon the Does.   

71.  
One's golden Tresses up the wind did blow,  
The light coats of Another as she fled:  
The desire, kindled by the naked Snow,  
Upon the dainty Prospect (greedy) fed.  
This falls on purpose, and whilst she doth go  
To rise (with kindness, more than Anger, red)  
He that pursues, falls over her; like one  
That rubs the Mistress when his Bowl is gone.   

72.  
Others (who Game in other Parts did seek)  
Chop on the G●…ddesses that bathing were.  
These suddenly begin a fearful shriek  
As if they wondered to see Mortals there.  
Some (sliding through the Land their Bodies sleek,  
As who should say; shame less, then force We fear)  
Scud to the Copse, exposing to the Eye  
What to the greedy Hand they did deny.   

73.  
There is, That (hiding with a Veil of Glass  
(DIANA-like) if not her Limbs, her blushes)  
Sinks where she stands: There is, That (on the grass  
Snatching her clothes that lie) shoots through the Rushes.  
Amongst the Rest, an eager Lad there was,  
Raiments and all, into the Bath that brushes  
(For, whilst he stripped, he feared to lose the Game)  
To quench in water his tormenting flame.   

74.  
As a rough Water-dog, to fetch and seek  
That's us d, and wait upon his Master's gun,  
Seeing him lay the Steel-Cane to his Cheek,  
Aimed at a Duck, or Teal, to him well known;  
Before the blow, into the stream or creek  
(Sure of the Quarry) doth impatient rnn,  
And, barking, swims: The Lad so, from the shore  
Swum to the Nymph whom L●…ve had shot before.   

75.  
Another (LEONARD) whom Books adorn,  
Stout, noble, handsome, amorous, and young;  
On whom GOD CUPID had not cast one scorn,  
But all his gall into his potion wrung;  
So that he well might think, he was not born  
To any luck in loving; yet, among  
His faults, 'twas one, that on he still would play  
(As Gamesters use) in hope 'twould turn one day.   

76.  
'Twas here his fortune, in pursuit to fall  
Of fair EPHYRE (LOVE'S own sister-Twin)  
But one, who would give dearer than they All,  
What Nature gave to Her to give again.  
On Her, He (spent with running) loud doth call.  
O Cruelty, lodged in too fair an Inn,  
If to thy Shrine (quoth he) I'm vowed whole,  
Stay for my Body, since thou hast my soul!   

77.  
All (out of breath, and weary) Nymph divine,  
Are yielding to the pressing Enemy.  
Through Briers and Thorns Thou only still fliest Thine:  
Who told thee, I am I, that follow thee?  
If thou were't told it by that star of mine,  
Which, wheresoever I fly, shoots after me;  
Ah! do not credit That: For when as I  
Did so, thou canst think how it would lie.   

78.  
I tyre with tiring Thee, my spirits waste;  
And if thou fly, thereby to fly my touch,  
I can assure thee (fair one) stay thou may'st,  
And yet I ne'er the near, my star is such.  
Stay, if thou please; and see but (if thou stayest)  
The slight of hand, the which my Fate (so much  
In vain deplored) will find at last, to rear  
A Wall, between the Sickle and the Eare.   

79.  
O fly me not! So may Time never fly  
Thy Beauty out of sight. For, do but turn;  
Dashed with the beams of thy Majestic Eye,  
No saucy fire in me will dare to burn.  
What KING could break the force of destiny?  
What ARMY conquer it? and mine hath sworn  
To thwart me still. Yet stay: I'm happy than:  
And thou shalt do what KINGS, nor ARMI●… can.   

80.  
With my malignant star dost Thou take part?  
To help the stranger is not nobly done.  
Carriest Thou with thee my Grief-loaden heart?  
Send it me back, and thou wilt faster run.  
That Soul of mine, grown heavy with long smart,  
Hanged in those Tresses which outshine the Sun,  
Does it not clog them? Or, since it came there,  
Hath it changed mood, and weighs but for one Here?   

81.  
With this hope only thy white feet I trace,  
That either Thou her weight will not endure,  
Or she, by being in that heavenly place,  
Will change her luck, and better stars procure.  
And, if that change, fly never such a pace,  
LOVE can hit flying I am very sure;  
And, if he hit, Thou't stay; and, on this score,  
If thou do stay, of Heaven I ask no more.   

82.  
The fair Nymph now fled not so much to sell  
The Jewel dear, for which the Lad pursued her;  
As, the sweet Tunes to hear, that from him fell,  
And amorous laments with which he wooed her.  
Her Eyes (now bathed in smiles and tractabell)  
Turned upon Him, who with his charms subdued her;  
All melted in pure love, languidly sweet,  
She lets herself fall at the Victor's feet.   

83:  
O what devouring Kisses (multiplied)  
What pretty whimp'ring, did the Grove repeat!  
What flattering Force! What Anger which did chide  
Itself, and laughed when it began to threat!  
What more than this the blushing MORNING spied,  
And VENUS (adding Her's to the NOON'S heat)  
Is better tried, then guessed, I must confess:  
But Those who cannot try it, let them guests.   

84.  
For first with all the Rites of wedlock joined  
Were the loved Seamen to th'aquatic POWERS:  
What gentle Tongue, and what white Hand could bind,  
The Nymphs had added in those sacred Bowers.  
And now their Lovers heads they crowned (kind)  
With gold, and Laurel, and abounding Flowers:  
Promise, to keep them company for ever;  
Whom life, or death with honour, shall not sever.   

85.  
The Chief of them (whom all the rest went after,  
And did obey in all things her behest,  
Of URANUS and Holy VESTA Daughter,  
As by her Face was easy to be guest,  
Filling with wonderment both Earth, and Water)  
Th'illustrious Captain, worthy of the Best,  
With grave and Royal Ceremonies took:  
Showing her Greatness in her Pomp and Look.   

86.  
HIM (whom she first acquainted with her name,  
Then, in a kind exordium mixed with state,  
Gave him to understand she Thither came  
By the immutable decree of Fate;  
To Him of the promiscuous Globe and Frame  
Of the vast EARTH, and OCEAN, to relate  
Parts undiscovered, by Prophetic Spirit:  
Which He alone, and his brave SPANIARDS merit)   

87.  
Taking up with her by the hand, she led  
Unto a Mountain's top, high and divine;  
Where a rich Pyle erected the proud head,  
Of crystal all, with massive gold and fine.  
Here all the livelong day they rioted  
In full delight. and sports to sports that join.  
Within the Palace she enjoys her love:  
The others theirs within the flowery Grove.   

88:  
Thus, the fair Bevy, thus the Valiant Crew,  
Divide the Hours by innocent, by chaste  
Delights, and such as Mortals never knew,  
In recompense of so long labours past.  
And thus the meed, to such high Actions due  
Of noble Prowess; even the World at last  
Pays (in despite of Envy) with the sound  
Of a great Name; which Time, nor Place shall bond.   

89.  
For these fair Daughters of the OCEAN,  
THETYS', and the Angellick penciled ISLE,  
Are nothing, but sweet Honour, which These wan;  
With whatsoever makes a life not vile.  
The privileges of the MARTIAL MAN,  
The Palm, the Lawrelled Triumph, the rich spoil;  
The Admiration purchased by his sword;  
These are the joys, this Island doth afford.   

90.  
So those false Godships which ANTIQUITY,  
To all illustrious Men a zealous Friend,  
In Starry heavens created, to which she  
Made them on towering wings of Fame t'ascend,  
For honourable Acts they did, for free  
And noble Sufferings (virtue's path, the end  
Whereof, is smooth and pleasant like our Isle,  
Though itself craggy, steep, and full of toil.)   

91.  
What meant they, but an Immortality  
Given by the World for Actions Sovereign,  
To such as ARTS, or ARMS, advanced t'a high  
And heavenly pitch, being born of humane strain?  
For JOVE, APOLLO, MARS, and MERCURY,  
AENEAS, ROMULUS, the THEBANS TWAIN,  
JUNO, DIANA, CREES, PALLAS; All  
Dwell (as you do) in brittle Earthen Wall.   

92.  
But FAME (the Trumpet of deeds great and good)  
Gave them new Names and Titles on the Earth;  
GOD'S of the whole, and GOD'S of the half-blood,  
GOD'S by Adoption, and GOD'S by Birth.  
If ye love Fame then, if make These ye would,  
(As Men) your patterns, though (as Gods) your Mirth,  
Fly Sloth; by which the SOUL, which Heaven gave  
To be the BODY'S Queen, becomes its Slave.   

93.  
Curb, with a Bit of Iron, AVARICE;  
AMBITION curb, to which y'are too too prone;  
And kerb the black and detestable Vice  
Of TYRANNY, and base OPPRESSION.  
" For these vain Honours, this false Gold, give price  
" (Unless he have it in himself) to none,  
" Better deserve them, and to go without;  
" Then have them undeserved, without doubt.   

94.  
Either in peace promote impartial Laws,  
That so great Fish devour not the small Fry;  
Or (armed) tear out of the Great TURK'S jaws  
The Christians prey, on which he stretched doth lie.  
The Kingdom's greatness, by this means ye'll cause;  
Nor lessen, but augment, your own, thereby.  
In Riches merited ye will abound;  
And with true Honour have your Temples crowned.   

95.  
And to your KING ye so pretend to prize,  
Ye shall bring honour; now, with Counsels grave:  
Now, with your Swords, which will immortalize  
You, as they have done your Forefathers brave.  
I ask you not Impossibilities:  
" He That will, always can. Then, each shall have  
A HERO'S place: or (if that more may move)  
Be Denizened into this ISLE OF LOVE.   
End of the ninth Canto.   

Tenth Canto.  

STANZA. 1.  
BUt now the Larissean Lasses Friend  
(Who for a wealthier Lover did forego  
The God of Verse) his setting Steeds did bend  
O'er 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 Lilies sit up in their Beds:   

2.  
When the fair Nymphs and Lovers, two abreast,  
Now Friends and well contented, hand in hand  
Towards the Palace bright their steps addressed,  
Which upon Pillars of pure gold did stand;  
To a most splendid and Opiperous Feast  
All summoned thither, by the Queen's command  
Who had prepared it for them, to repair  
Consumptive Nature with delicious Fare.   

3.  
There, in rich Chairs 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 GODDESS with renowned DE GAME.  
With Viands delicate in sauce divine  
(Such as to CLEOPATRA'S Board ne'er came)  
Are heaped the dishes of red burnished gold:  
Part of the Treasure which their Seas enfold.   

4.  
The fragra●…t Wines not only are above  
Faler●…ian Liquor of Italian growth,  
But that choice-Nectar sent about by JOVE  
When Rebel Giants felt IMMORTALS wrath.  
In Di'mond-Cups (tempting to mirth, and love)  
The Ruby sparkles: bubbles the curled froth  
With the poured spring. Thus, of their L●…vers true  
The greatest F●…e, the watery Nymphs subdue.   

5.  
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 (s●…ch,  
As to the damned spirits once gave ease  
In the dark Vaults of the Infernal Hall)  
Joined with a SIREN'S Voice Angelical:   

6.  
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 sudden 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 played.   

7.  
With a sweet Voice she raises to the skies  
Rare men to come into the world; whose clear  
Ideas were beheld by PROTHEU s wise  
In a Diaphane and Fantastic Spher●…,  
Which in a Dream JOVE showed to his shut Eyes;  
And after, He, by Prophecy appear  
Made it humid Realms: where this Nymph (took  
Therewith) got the brave story without book▪   

8.  
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 CALIO●…E, I Thee invoke  
To my last Labour: begging, for reward  
Of all I writ (which I in vain pretend)  
I may come off with a good tang i'th' end:   

9  
I sink into the Vale of years; and, past  
My Summer's pride, to Autumn speed amain.  
And my Wit (more than years) MISFORTUNES blast;  
Which Wit I own not now, nor boast my Vein.  
Sighs blow me to that Port, where all must cast  
The Anch●…r never to be weighed again.  
Yet, great Queen of the MUSES grant that I  
May close my NATION'S Poem e'er I die.   

10.  
The SIR●…N sang, how from the Tagan shore,  
Through Seas first opened by De Gama, now  
Should Navies come; which all within the Roar  
Of Indian Seas shall to that Empire bow:  
And how ●…ach Pagan King, who the sweet Lore  
And yoke 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.   

11.  
She sang of One, who (being dignifyed,  
With the High-Priesthood of all MALAEAR)  
Because, the knots of Friendship he had tied,  
He would not break with men so singular;  
Shall let his Fields and Cities be destroyed  
With fire and sword, and all the rage of war,  
Before him, By the potent SAMORIM:  
So hateful shall those strangers be to Him.   

12.  
And sings, in BETHL●…M there, how shipped shall be  
The sovereign remedy of this Disease;  
The great PAC●…ECO knowing not, that He  
Carries with Him the Pelian Lance through Seas.  
But the Sea shall; when, to such great Guests she  
Unused, shall feel his weight: The groaning Trees  
Of his proud ship shall know't, which two foot more  
Shall draw of water, than it did before.   

13.  
But, treading now the Oriental Strand,  
And left, the Pag●…n King of spoilt COCHIM  
To●…yd, of PORTUGESES 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.   

14.  
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 armed NORTH he shall assemble too,  
Which lies 'twixt CALICUT and CANANORE,  
Of both Religions, against the True that band,  
The MOORS by Sea, the PAGAN POWERS by Land.   

15.  
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 military;  
Rating his Men, pouring vain prayers and tears  
To his vain Gods That have nor eyes nor ears.   

16.  
Your Troops shall passes now no more defend,  
But burn the PAGA●…'S Houses, Towns, and Fanes.  
The Dog (enraged 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.   

17.  
In person then the SAMORIM shall come  
To see what's done, and reinforce his men.  
Dashed (by a shot which through the Air doth hum)  
In his high Chair with blood he shall be then.  
That Force, nor Policy can overcome  
This Warrior; now he shall to see begin.  
Treasons, and Poisons base he shall invent;  
Which Heaven (PACHECO'S keeper) wi●… prevent.   

18.  
That a seventh time he shall return, she sings,  
To fight the brave unconquered PORTUGAL;  
Whom no Toils tire, who dreads no dreadfu●…l Things,  
Yet this a little discompose him shall.  
To horrid battle the fell Tyrant brings  
Engines of Wood, dire and unusual,  
To board the Caravels upon the Main,  
Which he till then shall have assayed in v●…in.   

19  
Mountains of Fire shall on the water float  
The little Navy to consume with flame.  
The great PACH●…CO (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 near this WORTHY come:  
Pardon me noble 〈◊〉, and nobler ROM●….   

20.  
For with a hundred men, or little more,  
Unto the end so many Battles fought;  
With such high Stratagems unseen before,  
On Warlike-Hoasts so many wonders wrought;  
Seem either Fables dreamt by men that snore,  
Or that cel●…stial Quires (with Prayers down brought)  
Their Champion in those Exigencies Aid  
With Wit, Sleight, Force, and courage undismayd.   

21.  
He, who in Marathonian Fields of old  
O'er vast DARIUS' powers victorious was;  
Nor He, who, with three hundred SPARTANS' bold,  
Of famed THERMOPILEE maintained the Pass;  
Nor ROME'S young COCLES, who at bay did hold  
All the proud Tuscan power, till cut he has  
The Bridge behind him: nor old FABIUS is  
Or wise, or valiant, when compared with This.   

22.  
But at this point, her high and rattling tone  
The Nymph abasing, made it hoarse and sad;  
And with low Voice (drowned in her Tears did moan  
Of so strange Val●…ur 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.   

23.  
Here thou a Rival hast, as in thy Deeds,  
So in their cruel and unjust return;  
In Thee, and Him, misused VIRTUE 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 MALIC●… shall instill.   

24.  
This those Kings do, who (with smooth Tales misled  
Of Flatterers, by whom asleep theyare sung,  
Give the Rewards by AJAX merited  
Unto the fraudulent ULYSSES' tongue.  
But 'tis revenged 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 betrayed.   

25.  
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 Majesty.   

26.  
Another, lo! (proceeding in her Song)  
Comes, with a Regal Title, and his Son;  
Who, on the Sea shall do such things e'er long,  
As by no ancient ROMAN were outdone.  
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.   

27.  
Also, the City of MOMBASSA (Crowned  
With sumptuous Houses, and aerial Spires)  
Shall by them Both be levelled with the ground,  
For an ●…ld fault which a new r●…d requires.  
But, afterwards, upon the INDIAN SOUND  
(Covered with Ships and Artificial Fires  
T'o'rewhelm the PORTINGALLS) with Oar, and Sail,  
Al●…ne the young LORENZO shall prevail.   

28.  
The CARACKS of the potent EMPERORE  
(Peopling the scorched Air with Iron Ball  
Which from the burning Brass, like Thunder, roar)  
Tear shall he, Canvas, Rudder, Mast and all.  
His grappling-hooks thrown resolutely o'er  
Her lofty Decks, Himself their Admiral  
Shall enter first; and clear, with Lance and Sword  
Four hundred MOORS she will have then aboard.   

29.  
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 Pr●…wess shall  
Have power to stop his Foes prevailing Flood.  
Near CHOUL (where cheaply yet he shall not fall:  
The purpled Sea there boiling o'er with blood)  
He will be forced, to leave his life behind,  
By Fleets of EGYPT and CAM●…AYA joined.   

30  
There shall ennumerable Enemies  
(Who, with great force alone, great 〈◊〉 〈◊〉)  
The Wind that fails, Danger that multiplies,  
Upon the Sea; against him All conspire.  
Now from their Graves let all the Ancients rise,  
A pattern to behold of noble Ire:  
They shall behold a●…other SCEVA, s●…ill'd  
How to die piece-meal, but not how to yi●…ld.   

31.  
Robbed of a Thigh (which an unlucky shot  
In splinters with it through the air shall bear)  
Still does he use his Arms; These fail him not,  
Nor his great Heart, uncapable of Fear:  
Until another Bullet breaks the knot  
Wherewith his Soul and Body married were.  
The prison open, she escapes: and strait  
Doth find herself in a triumphant state.   

32.  
SOUL, 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 disjoined.  
I hear a rumbling storm, I see the fire  
Of Sacres, Drakes, and Basilisks, combined  
With fell and home-destruction to rebuke  
The fierce CAM●…AYAN and black 〈◊〉.   

33.  
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 Pike  
Shall blood his Foes, so that the Tide shall rise  
In their drowned Decks knee-deep: 〈◊〉 sh●…ll be●…,  
INDUS shall see his Bl●…ws, and 〈◊〉 ●…ar.   

34.  
As a Corrivaled Bull, That (practising  
For a fierce duel) fences with the Oaks;  
Or, at the Trunk of a broad Beech, doth fling  
In Thrusts, and with his Horns the Air provokes:  
So DON FRANCISCO (ere his Fleet he bring  
In swollen CAMBAYA'S Gulf to desperate strokes)  
On DA●…UL'S wealthy City whets his Blade,  
The Mountain of her Pride a Level made.   

35.  
Then enters (horrid with her blood) the Ba●…  
Of DIO: famed for Sieges, and pitcht-Fields.  
The great but Coward-Fleet his lo●…k doth fray  
Of CALICUT: which Oars for Lances wields.  
That of 〈◊〉 YAZ (which makes away  
More slow) with Bolts of VULCA●… he unbuilds;  
To the low b●…ttom of the OCEAN sent:  
Cold mattress, of the humid Element.   

36.  
●…ut that of MIR HOZEM (which with close boards  
The roused wrath of the Avenger stands)  
Shall swimming see, i'th' 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 perceived by Ears, and Eyes,  
Will be Smoke only, Iron, Fire, and Cries.   

37.  
But ah! Of a defeat great MARS might boast  
(Bound for his Native- Tagus back again)  
The Fame and glory shall he lose almos●…  
By a sad traverse I foresee too plain.  
The CAP●… OF STORMS (which in its Desert Coast  
His Bo●…s and Memory shall ay retain)  
Shames not to ravish from the world a Soul  
Whole INDIA could not, and EGYPT whole.   

38.  
By savage CA●…RES, there, shall that be done  
Which dexterous Enemies could not perform:  
And by rude Clubbs (hardened 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 Fort●…ne, star maline;  
Being solely, purely, 〈◊〉 DIVIN●….   

39  
O! What new light beginneth there to bud  
(The SIREN said, and raised her Voice thereat)  
From the Melindian Sea, died 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.   

40.  
This light is of those flames and glittering Arms  
Wherewith the stubborn PERSIANS of ORMUZE,  
Spu●…ning the yoke, and valiant to their harms,  
Fierce ALBURQUERQUE afterwards subdues.  
There shall the hissing Shafts (like living swarms)  
Turned in the Air, their shooters Helmets bruise;  
That they may see, with Eyes though ne'er so dim,  
How GOD will fight for Them, that fight for Him.   

41.  
The MOUNTAINS then of SALT will not be able  
To keep those Bodies from corruption  
Which on the Coasts shall lie out (miserable)  
Of CALAYAT, MASCATE, and GERUN;  
Until the easy yoke and honourable  
They learn (with all their fierceness) to put on:  
Forced by the conquerors, to pay to Them,  
Rich Tribute of their Pearls of BAHEREM,   

42.  
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 Sail, and takes that Bonnet down:  
To reattempt the thing in fit season.  
" FORTUNE and MARS fear Valour joined with Reason.   

43.  
And (see) he does it; charges undismayed  
Through walls, through Pikes, through Bullets, and through fire:  
Opens the quilted Squadro●…s with his Blade  
Of MOORS and PAGANS knit in Leagues entire!  
His gallant Soldiers in more blood shall wade  
Then Lions pined, Bulls pricked with love and Ire;  
Upon the Feast (as pat as by design)  
Of EGYPT'S Virgin Martyr, KATHERIN●….   

44.  
Nor Him shalt Thou (though potent) scape, and fly,  
(Though sheltered in the Bosom of the Morn)  
MALACCA (and the Apple of her Eye)  
Proud of thy wealthy dower as her firstborn.  
Thy poisoned Arrows, those Auxiliary  
CRYSES I see (thy Pay That do not scorn)  
MALACCANS amorous, valiant JAVANS,  
Shall all obey the LUSITANIANS.   

45.  
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 Comrade rather be,  
" Then a Judge made up of Severity.   

46.  
But in a time of Famine, and hard Toil,  
Of Sickness, Arrows, and of thundering Ball,  
Of Season sad, of discommodious soil,  
And the poor Soldier patiented 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 die  
As Love and humane frailty qualify.   

47.  
Incest's detested Brand it shall not be,  
Nor boisterous Rape upon a Virgin pure,  
Nor blot injurious of Adultery,  
But with a Slave lascivious and obscure.  
Then whether fired with Zeal, or jealousy,  
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.   

48.  
With his CAMPASPE ALEXANDER spied  
〈◊〉 took, and upon Him bestows  
Her cheerfully: being not his Soldier tried  
Nor serving at a S●…ge of desperate Foes.  
That sour ARASPAS in the Rays is fried  
Of his fair Charge PANTH●…A, CYRUS knows;  
Having professed to be her G●…rdian true,  
And that no ill desire should Him subdue.   

49.  
But the illustrious PERSIAN, seeing love  
Is in the fault (against whom there's no defence)  
Acquits him straight, and only dot●… remove,  
Where he may serve him well in recompense.  
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.   

50.  
But her long Song the Nymph continuing,  
Of SUAREZ (who his Standard doth display  
On the red coast of ARABIA) did sing:  
ABASIAS' hindmost shore, and BAR●…ORA  
(Neighbouring ZEYLA'S Emporium) fear the Thing  
She feels; nor less than Mecha, and GIDDA,  
Filthy MEDINA quakes, where MAHOM●…T  
In his Steel-Hamac lies in a cold sweat.   

51.  
Also the noble Isle of TAPOBRANE:  
For by that name it was as famed of yore  
As by another now 'tis Sovereign  
Of the hot fragrant Bark, of which it has store.  
Of which, she to the STANDART LUSIANE  
Shall pay sweet Tribute: when (perched proudly o'er  
COLUMBO'S highest steeple) that shall be  
More feared by Her, then by her Neighbours, she.   

52.  
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 survey  
The Wisdom of great SOLOMON, did go.  
From Cisterns watered, He, shall see MACUA:  
Shall see her neighbouring Port of ARCHICE:  
And cause new Isles to be discovered, which  
With Modern wonders shall the World enrich.   

53.  
MENESES comes the next, whose sword shall serve  
In AFRICA for the wreaths he here shall wear.  
He proud ORMOOZ (That from her faith will swerve)  
A double Tribute shall constrain to bear.  
Thou GAMA too (who will't it well deserve  
Which two exiles) the third time thou comest there  
(An Earl, Viceroy, and Admiral) the Land,  
Which thou hast now discovered, shalt command.   

54.  
But then that rude Necessity (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.  
Straight will another MAN'S (old alone  
In wisdom) have the sovereign managing  
Of t●…e Affairs: (And Happy HENRY shall  
Behi●…d him leave a name perpetual.   

55.  
For he shall quell not only MALABARS,  
Razing PANANE and COULET'S walls,  
Encountering Cannon, clapping on Petards,  
And hurling wildfire in sulphureous Balls;  
But (armed with Virtues past the Sphere of MARS,  
Quell the SOULE'S enemy's seven Generals▪  
Quell Avarice, quell foul Incontinence,  
In a young man the sum of excellence.   

56.  
His Stars now calling Him to tread on Them,  
Thou, valiant MASKARENIAS shouldst succeed:  
But (if usurped on) know, a Diadem  
Itself, thy brighter honour will not need.  
Thy courage, Admiration and Esteem  
(Although not love) even in thy Foes shall breed,  
If unjust FORTUNE shall deny the might,  
VIRTUE will give the merit, LAW the Right.   

57  
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 patiented courage, more than of a man,  
Dangers, and Toils, sharp Spikes, Hills always whore,  
Spears, Arrows, Trenches, Bulwarks, Fire and Sword,  
That thou shalt break, and quell, I pass my word.   

58.  
Mean 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 proud Foot,  
" Presuming on the power, and upper place,  
" No Conquest is: He conquers with Renown  
" Who dares be just even though it lose a CROWN.   

59  
Yet I deny not, but SAMPAYO shall  
Be of rare Valour for all this; on Seas  
Showing himself a thundering GENERAL,  
Which he shall people with Foes Carcases.  
In BACANORE gins he to appall  
The MALABAR, that he may after tease  
(Prepared with that rough Prologue to submit)  
Bold CUTI●…LE, and his numerous Fleet▪   

40  
Even that of DIO (so resolved and great  
That his at CHOUL will give itself for lost)  
By HECTOR OF SILVEYRA shall he beat,  
And to peccavi turn their furious boast.  
The LUSITANIAN HECTOR: who shall get,  
Upon the always-armed Cambayck Coast,  
A name, that He doth GUZARATS' annoy,  
No less than GREEKS the HECTOR did of TROY.   

41.  
CUNIA is fierce SAMPOYO'S successor.  
The Ship of State he long doth wisely steer.  
Of CHALE he erects the lofty Tow▪ r,  
Whilst famous DIO quakes to be so near.  
The strong BAZAIN shall render to his power,  
But with much blood; MELIQUE groaning here  
To see a way o'er his proud Rampire made  
By the sole dint of Lusitanian Blade.   

42.  
After Him comes NORONIA, whose good Star  
From DIO the fierce RUMES packing sends:  
DIO, which the through-practised 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.   

43.  
Out of thy STEPHEN'S hand shall take the rain  
One in BRASILE before high fame that wan;  
The great French Pirate overcome and slain,  
Who shall be terror of that Ocean.  
Made after Gen'ral of the INDIAN MAI●…  
The no less proud, then fortified DAMAN,  
He enters first: where, having made a breach,  
'Tis closed with Flames, and Shafts, his way t'impeach.   

64.  
To Him CAMBAYA'S King, proud above measure,  
Of wealthy DIO gives the famous Fort;  
Against the GR●…AT MAGUL, mighty in treasure,  
To aid him his Domini●…ns to support.  
Then doth he in his yet unquenched displeasure,  
The Pagan King of CALICUT take short  
That would have passed him: with no little loss  
Sending him home again by weeping cross.   

65.  
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 chase,  
With fire and sword he overcomes, and breaks.  
In B●…ADALA shall his Blade play Rex.   

66.  
INDIA, thus weeded with his Sword of Foes,  
He comes to rule with Sceptre afterward;  
Finds dangers none, finds none so bold t'oppose.  
All hush, All tremble like a Lark that's dared.  
Only BATICALA a longing shows  
To far as well as BEADALA fared.  
She's filled with blood and Trunks in dead heaps cast:  
With fire and Ball disfigured and defaced.   

67.  
This shall be MARTIN, or a little MARS,  
From whom his Deeds he'll 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 successor to MARTIN: DIO'S Fort  
The ●…ne shall raise, the other shall support.   

68  
Fierce P●…RSIANS, Abassins', RUMES (who boast  
Their name from ROM●…) complexions various,  
And various M●…des (for to this Leaguer post  
A thousand Nations keen and furious)  
Heaven to the world accuse with labour lost,  
That so few men should nestle in their House.  
In blood of portugals, by their n●… faith  
They swear, their turned up whiskers they will bathe.   

69.  
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.   

70.  
FERNAND (this lofty Cedar's highest Bough,  
Where with a hideous crack a close Mine sprung  
Th'unrooted Wall into the Air will blow)  
Shall in a sheet of Fire to Heaven be fling.  
ALVAR, when Winter swaths 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.   

71.  
Lo, 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 Battle to the MOORS.  
Where no way is, he makes one with his Flail;  
And where there is, the Rampires are his doors.  
Such that day's Feats, so terrible the Blows,  
They will not stand in Verse, nor lie in Prose.   

72.  
Then (lo!) 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 shield.  
DABUL sacked on the Coast; In▪ land PONDA  
Scapes not itself, by being out of the way.   

73.  
These, and the like, into all Quarters hurled,  
(All worthy wonder, and Fame's strongest blast)  
Making themselves brave MAR●…S in the W●…rld,  
The joys of VENUS' Isle shall fitly taste;  
Trailing triumphant Standarts through the curled  
Amphitheatre of the Ocean vast:  
And they shall find those Nymphs, these f●…rnisht Boards,  
Which are the Harvest of Victorious Sword●….   

74.  
Here the NYMPH ended: And the others All  
Give their applause with an Harmonious noise;  
Congratulating this grand Nuptial:  
Where, look how many Hearts, so many joys.  
THOUGH FORTUNE STANDS UPON A TOTTERING BAL●…  
(They all reiterate as with one Voice)  
RENOWNED PEOPLE YOU SHALL NEVER LACK,  
WEALTH, VALOUR, FAME, till the WORLD'S HENGES CRACK:   

75.  
When now Corporeal Necessity  
Sufficed with noble Nutriment they had;  
And seen the Acts the Nymph did prophecy  
In Musical Poetic Raptures clad:  
THETYS', adorned 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.   

76.  
The SUPREME WISDOM hath vouchsafed thee, Knight,  
The grace to see with thy corporeal Eyes  
What the vain Science, what the erring Light,  
Of miserable Man cannot comprise.  
Thou, with the rest, up this dark Copse forthright  
Fellow me, strong and constant, stout and wise.  
This having said, she hands him through a Wood,  
Steep, thick with Thorns, and hard to flesh and blood.   

77.  
They marched not long, when of the arduous Hill  
They gain the top; where an enameled Flat  
(In a Field Em'rauld) powdered Rubies fill,  
Making them think old PARADIC●… was That  
Heer, in the Air a GLOBE, (by wondrous skill  
So framed with Through Lights) they contemplate,  
That th'unresisted Eye the Centre sees,  
As plainly as the superficies.   

78  
The matter of it did their Eyesight pose:  
That it consisted yet discerned they well  
Of Orbs, which the Divine Hand did compose,  
And in the middle did the Centre dwell.  
Rolling, it so●…etimes fell, and sometimes risen,  
And yet it never r●…se, it never fell:  
Throughout one Face, throughout its peri●…d,  
Gins throughout. In fine, the Works of GOD.   

79.  
Infinite, perfect, uniform, self-poized;  
Brief, like the 〈◊〉 that made the same.  
Seeing this admirable Globe, surprised  
With wonder and desire was our D●… GAM●….  
To whom the GODD●… thus; Epitomised  
I show thee here the UNIVERSAL FRAM●…,  
That thou mayst read, in Print and Vol●…me small,  
Whether Thou goest, and shalt go, and Thine shall,   

80.  
The WORLD'S great Fabric thou dost ●…eer descry  
Heavenly and Elemental: 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 lie,  
And round the fair Work like a B●…rder go:  
'Tis GOD: But what GOD is, poses Man's wit,  
Nor can short Line fathom the IN●…INIT.   

81.  
This, which is first, and doth (as in a Nest  
Of Boxes) all the other Orbs comprise,  
Darting such radiant Beams, as Mortal Breast  
Cannot conceive, much less behold Man's Eyes;  
Is called the EMPYREAN, where the blest  
Enjoy that g●…d, the World wants similes  
To cast a shadow of, and which g●…d None  
Can understand, except itself alone.   

82  
There is no true, no glorious GOD, but There:  
For SATURN, JANUS, JUNO, JOVE, and I,  
Vain Creatures only, and blind Figments were  
Betwixt Man's pride, and Man's Id●…latry,  
To stick as Stars in the Poetic Spher●…:  
From whence again w' are borrowed, by and by,  
For to distinguish the true Stars in Heaven,  
To which ASTRONOMERS our Names have given.   

83  
As likewise because HOLY PROVID●…NCE  
(Which shadowed is by JUPIT●…R in Verse)  
Doth by a thousand Ministers dispense  
His Gifts to the supported UNIVERSE,  
And sacred Prophets oft impart their sense  
In mystic Parables which they rehearse;  
And tell us Men are favoured by the g●…d,  
By the ill spirits hurt, unless withstood:   

84.  
Now comes THE POET, who would teaching please,  
And pleasing teach, and mix varie●…y;  
And He the selfsame Names bestows on These  
The HEATHENS did upon th●…ir Genii  
And feigned Gods; for I can show with Ease,  
That ANGELS even in holy Poet●…y  
Are called Gods; nor Sacred Writ denies  
That ev▪ n the Ill this glorious Name belies.   

85.  
In fine ALMIGHTY GOD (who rules the round  
World, by his Second Causes) He commands.  
But (to return to open the profound  
And heavenly Operations of his Hands)  
Within this Sphere, where the pure Souls abound  
In endless Bliss (which sphere unmoved stands)  
Another runs so s●…iftly, and so still,  
'Tis not perceived: 'tis the FIRST MOVABIL.   

86.  
The motion rapt of this FIRST MOBIL draws  
All the rest after, which with it are linked.  
The hurried Sun from his own bent and laws  
Makes Night and day by this RAPT ORB'S instinct.  
The NINTH moves next, so curbed, with so great pause,  
That whilst SOL'S lamp (which never is extinct)  
Ends its true course about the ZODIAC  
Two hundred times, This but one step doth make.   

87.  
Behold the EIGHTH goes under That, embossed  
With Sleek and radiant Bodies! These ●…kewise  
Besides the motion rapt with which they post.  
Move on their proper Axe with twinkling Eyes.  
See with how rich a Belt this Orb is crossed!  
How broad, how glittering with Embroideries!  
Where the twelve Starry Animals do make  
The S●…n's twelve Houses in the ZODIAC.   

88  
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 sparkling eyes behold!  
And turbulent ORION, Sea men's fear!  
Behold the SWAN, which dying is not mute,  
The HARE, the DO●…, the SHIP, and the sweet, LUTE.   

89.  
Under this great and spangled Canopy,  
Lo, in the seventh dull SATURN takes his place!  
Propitious JOVE enthroned in the sixth sky:  
Next (Foe to Man) MARS rides with fiery Face:  
Placed in the MIDDLE is the WORLD'S GREAT EYE:  
The QUEEN OF BEAUTY the THIRD ORB doth grace:  
Eloquent HERMES rules the SECOND SPHERE:  
Three-shapt DIANA marches in the Rear.   

90.  
In all these PLANETS motions different  
Thou mayst 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 Air, the Wind and Snow:  
Those (closed within the heavens) each other enter,  
And both the Waves, and Earth: the common Centre.   

91.  
Upon this Centre 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 reign,  
Who various Worships, various Laws maintain.   

92.  
See CHRISTIAN EUROPE, higher by the head  
In Arms and civil Arts than all the rest!  
See untilled AFRICA, covetous, ill-bred,  
Wanting even things whereof she is possessed,  
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 do nor know what's right!   

93.  
See the great Empire of MONOMOTAPE,  
With naked savage People black and grim;  
In which the good GONSALVO shall not scape  
A cruel death for CHRIST, who died for Him!  
In this blind 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, NILE this way doth make!   

94.  
Behold the NEGRO'S Houses, without doors,  
Whom both the Poverty of their Straw-nests,  
The Laws, and justice of their King secures,  
And the black Candour of their Neighbours Breasts.  
Lo, a vast Army of these brutish MOORS,  
Like a dark Band of Stairs (devouring Guests)  
Against SOFALA'S battered Fort will bend  
Their strength, which NAYA bravely shall defend.   

95.  
See there the very Spring, and Head of NILE,  
Which fled (though dearly sought) the ANCIENTS eyes!  
See how it laves (spawning the CROCODYLE)  
The ABBASIN, who upon CHRIST relies!  
See where (a better Fence than Walls) a File  
Of Hills they man against their Enemies!  
See MERO●…, an Isle of ancient Fame:  
Which now NOVA the Natives of it name!   

96.  
In this Inland 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 shattered Navy came  
MELINDE'S dear and hospitable stran!  
Mark well the RAPTO (Natives call't OBE)  
Which at QUILMANC●… rolls into the Sea.   

97:  
See the Cape called of old AROMATA,  
But GUARDAFU which now the Dwellers call;  
Where the RED-SEA (so famous) doth Embay,  
Died with her Bottome's shade! This is the Wall  
Or running boundary, which ASIA  
Divides from AFRICA: And the principal  
Cities, that on the Affrick-side are seen,  
Are ARCHICHO, MACUA, and (chief) SUANQUEN.   

98.  
See farthest SUEZ, HEROPOLYS of old,  
City of Heroes (so do some conceive)  
Others, that this was the ARSION●… hold:  
But EGYPT'S Navies it doth now receive!  
The very place great MOSES passed, behold,  
When with his R●…d he did the Waters cleave!  
ASIA gins. Herself she doth present  
In limits vast, in K●…ngdoms opulen●….   

99  
Mount SINAI see, and tremble every ●…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 B●…im  
The Realm of dry ADEN; which doth confine  
With Mountains of ARZIRA, which (they tell)  
Are all one Rock, whereon Rain never fell.   

100  
Behold the THREE ARA●…IAS, so wide-spred,  
All Tawny-Moors, All Thiefs therein that dwell:  
Whence come the Horses for the Warrior bred,  
Of noble Race, Fleet, lasting, terrible.  
Behold the Coast by which thine Eyes are led  
T'another Gulf (the Persian) there to swell  
Into a CAPE; which by FARTAQUE'S nam●…  
(Owed to the there known City) shuts the same▪   

111.  
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) gins ARMUZA'S Ream!  
It lies extended all on the Sea-Coast,  
And shall fit FAME with an immortal Theme,  
When TURKS' fierce Fleet, and blushing Moons dismayed,  
Shall see unsheathed CASTELBRANCO'S Blade.   

112▪  
Behold the CAPE OF ASA●…OR, they call  
At present MOSANDAN who sail that way;  
At bottom of the Gulf, which hath for wall  
Rich P●…RSIA 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 die▪   

113.  
The noble Empire of great P●…RSIA see,  
Always on horseback, always in the War:  
Who think it base to have Artillery,  
Or Hands not hardened with the Cymetar!  
But mark the Isle G●…RUN, what a proof she  
Is of the power of TIME to make, and ●…ar!  
Of ORMUZE City (which was o●…ce elsewhere)  
She now the glory and the name doth bear.   

104.  
Here DON PHELIPH OF MENESES shall  
Approve himself a glorious Man at Arms,  
When with a very few of PORTUGAL  
He shall at LA●…A quell whole Persian swarms.  
Likewise shall SOUSA on their Quarter's fall,  
Give them bold charges, give them sharp Alarms,  
And the Reversio●… of that Sword, whose dint  
Struck fire before, on razed AMPAZA'S flin●….   

105.  
But let us leave the Straight, and Cape well known  
Of JASQUES (called 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 famed INDUS, born in yonder Mountain,  
Near which flows GANGES from a higher Fountain:   

106.  
See here, where Nature prodigal hath been,  
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 Gulf doth begin,  
In wealth and people infinite and strong!  
A thousand Cities here unnamed I leave,  
Which shall the yoke of PORTUGAL receive.   

107.  
See where the celebrated Indian shore  
Runs Southward to the CAPE of COMOR●…E  
(Called in old time COREE) which lies right over  
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.   

108.  
Behold in various Countries (placed betwixt  
These Rivers) Nations almost infinite:  
Some Pagans, some Mahometans (well mixed)  
To whom the Devil did their Laws indite!  
Behold NARSING●…'S Realm, to which is fixed  
A holy Relic of a blessed Wight,  
St THOMAS' body, who was not denied  
To thrust his Fingers into J●…SUS'S side!   

109.  
Here stood the City called MELIOPOR●…,  
Beautiful, wealthy, and magnificent;  
The Idols ancient she did adore  
As still do those of her profane descent:  
Farr was she seated then from the Seashore,  
Whenas the Gospel through the whole world sent,  
THOMAS came preaching there; and did the same  
In all the Provinces through which he came.   

110.  
Arrived preaching, and administering  
Life to the dead, and health unto the sick;  
The Sea chanced hither on a day to bring  
A floating Tree, unmeasurably thick.  
For a vast Pyle in hand desires the King  
To frame a Beam of this prodigious stick;  
And makes account on shore to drag it then,  
By force of Engines, Elephants, and Men.   

111.  
So heavy 'tis, All these have not the might  
To stir the Log that on the Water lies.  
But the true CHRIST'S true Nuntio hath a slight  
To do it without trouble, without noise.  
He draws it to him like some Matter light  
With a small Cord, which to the Trunk he ties:  
Wherewith a sumptuous House for GOD to raise,  
To stand a pattern for succeeding days.   

112.  
Full well he knew, with lively faith if He  
Should say unto a Mountain deaf, Remove;  
Even that deaf Mountain would removed be:  
As CHRIST once said, and THOMAS now doth prove.  
This do the people stand aghast to see,  
The BRAMEN know it must be from Above:  
Seeing his Miracl●…, seeing his life,  
These fear the fall of their prerogative.   

113  
They are the HEATHENS PRI●…STS, in whom alone  
Envy the bowels of her Gall hath shed.  
A thousand plots and Tra●…ns they think upon,  
How THOMAS may be silenced, or be dead.  
A horrid Act performs, as ere was known,  
The Chief of These Th●…t wear the Triple-thred:  
Which proves," No Foe so bl●…dy, so sever●…,  
" As Hypocritick Ver●…e to sincere.   

114.  
He murders his own Son, and charges it  
Forthwith on THOMAS who was innocent:  
False witness brings (There nothing hard to get)  
Through which, the Man's condemned 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.   

115.  
He bids the Corpse be laid in view of All,  
That it may rise and be examined There  
Touching the questioned Fact, and whom that shall  
Accuse, let him be held the murderer.  
In name of JESUS crucified, i' th' Hall  
They see the Youth stand up, record to bear:  
Who (thanking THOMAS for his life) descried  
His Father to have been the Homicide.   

116.  
This struck such fear, that straight his Christendom  
The King receives, and many with the King.  
Some kiss the Him of THOMAS garment, Som●…  
The praises of the God of THOMAS sing.  
The BRAMEN swell with such an odium,  
Through Envy's now imposthumating sting,  
That (thereunto persuading the blind Rout)  
They vow to put so bright a Taper out.   

117.  
One day, as preaching to the same he was,  
They feigned a quarrell'mongst the multitude  
(For CHRIST himself hath signed him now his Pass  
To climb to Heaven by way of Martyr-hood)  
A shower of Stones, which GOD'S commission has,  
Flies in his Face: who all their Tempest stood.  
One (whose Bloud-thirstiness could not abide  
Delay) with cruel Spear did broach his side.   

118  
GANGES and INDUS did Thee, THOMAS, weep;  
Wept thee the countries' 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 ANGEL'S holiday did keep  
For Thee, whom God did comfort with his Rod:  
Laughing, and Singing, These thy Soul transport  
With golden sails to her celestial Port.   

119.  
You then, who claim the honour (like this Sain●…)  
To be the great Ambassadors 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 esteemed in his Abode)  
Who now shall salt (I bait you Paganism)  
So much of Heresy, so much of Scism.   

120.  
But tread we light a bog so dangerous,  
Returning to the Coast from whence we strayed.  
With this great City and illustrious,  
Gins the GULF GANGETICK to be made;  
NARSINGA, next, lies rich and populous;  
Next ORYXA her cloth of gold doth lad;  
Famed GANGES at the bottom of the Bay  
To the Salt Realm doth Silver Tribute pay:   

121.  
GANGES, in which his Borderers die laved;  
Holding it as a certain principle  
That (be they ne'er such Sinners) they are saved,  
Bathed 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.   

122.  
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 barbarous misbegotten Crew)  
Into her way was erring Nature led  
By an invention rare, which a Queen framed,  
To cure the Sin, that is not to be named.   

123.  
Behold the City of TAVAY, with which  
The spacious Empire of SIAN gins!  
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 Magazines:  
The Rendezvouz of all that Ocean round  
For Merchandizes rich that there abound.   

124.  
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 Epithet of GOLDEN had annexed:  
Some think, it was the OPHIR in the Text.   

125.  
But, at that Point doth CINGAPUX appear:  
Where the pinched Straight leaves Ships no room to play.  
Here the Coast, winding to the Northern Bear,  
F●…ces the fair AURORA all the way.  
See PAN, PATANE (ancient Realms that were)  
And long SYAN, which These, and more, obey!  
The copious River of MENAM behold,  
And the great Lake CHIAMAY from whence 'tis rolled!   

126.  
In this vast Tract see an infinity  
Of Names and Nations to your WORLD unknown!  
LAOS, in Land and men That potent bee!  
AVAS, BRAINAS, in those long Hills o'ergrown!  
In yond far MOUNTAINS other Nations see  
(GUEOS they're called) and savage every one!  
They eat Man's flesh, and paint their own in knots  
With fire, as ye do Rooms with watring-pots.   

127.  
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 NYL●…):  
The near Inhabitants brutishly think,  
That pain and glory, after this Life's end  
Even the brute Creatures of each kind attend.   

128.  
Upon his soft and charitable Brim  
The wet and shipwrecked SONG receive shall He  
Which in a lamentable plight shall swim  
From shoals and Quicksands of tempestuous Sea,  
(The dire effect of Exile) when on Him  
Is executed the unjust Decree:  
Whose repercussive LYR●… shall have the Fate  
To be renowned more than Fortunate.   

129.  
Heer, (mark it!) runs the Coast that's called CHAMPA,  
Whose Groves smell hot of Calambuc●… wood:  
Here CAUCHINCHINA, and here AYNAM'S Bay;  
Both One and t' Other little understood.  
Here the great Empire (famous for large sway,  
And its vast Wealth's unfathomable Flood)  
Of CHINA runs: calling all this her Own  
From burning Cancer to the frozen Zone.   

130.  
See the stupendious Monster of a WALL  
'Twixt this and the TARTARIAN EMPIR●… set:  
A witness to the World perpetual  
Of Regal Power 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 proportioned to a CROWN.   

131.  
Much of the WORLD being now concealed from Y●…u  
A time will come when it shall all be showed.  
But by all means the Islands thou must view,  
Where Nature seems most cost to have bestowed.  
This, shadowed half, which CHINA answers to,  
(By which, at distance flanking it, 'tis Wood)  
JAPAN is, yielding the best Silvermine:  
Which th' Evangellick Furnace shall refine.   

132.  
Through all these Oriental Seas behold,  
Sown infinite of Isles that have no name!  
TIDORE see! TERNATE, whence are rolled  
(Holding black Night a Torch) thick Plumes of Fame!  
See Trees of burning Cloves, that shall be sold  
For LUSIANS' blood, and watered with the same!  
Here are those golden Birds, which to the ground  
Never descend, and only dead are found.   

133.  
See BANDA'S Isles, enameled 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!   

134.  
There (look you!) is TIMO●…, that ●…ends the Wood  
Called Saunders, Physical and Od●…rous.  
See SUNDA, painted at half face, so broad  
That the Southside 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.   

135.  
In that (which TIME, I told you, made an Isle;  
Which likewise trembling flames with smoke expels)  
Two wonders see, a Fountain that runs Oil;  
And Balsamum that from Another wells,  
Sweeter than that, ADONIS' Mother vile  
Weeps in the BLESSED ARABIA where she dwells.  
And see, how having these (which none else have)  
She with soft silk too, and fine Gold is brave!   

136.  
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 ISL●…S a Plant is bred  
(Of virtue under-water) which doth bear  
The COCO-APPLE, against working Bane,  
An Antidote approved Sovereign.   

137.  
Against the RED●…SEA'S mouth SOCOTO●…A  
Famed for the bitter Aloes behold!  
See other Isles of sandy AFRICA,  
Whose Coast too ye shall conquer! Hither rolled  
That Lump is, which Divine PANCHAYA  
Out-smels: of unknown birth, more rare then Gold.  
Behold St LAURENCE his renowned Isle,  
Which otherwise they MADAGASCAR stile!   

138.  
Thus hast thou all the Regions of the EAST,  
Which by Thee given unto the WORLD is now:  
Opening a way with an undaunted Breast  
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)  
Achieves a great and memorable Thing.   

139  
See there another WORLD, 〈◊〉 from ●…he 〈◊〉  
Extends itself 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 ragg●…d 〈◊〉:  
Where various 〈◊〉 dwell, various Kings reign,  
Who various ●…rships, v●…rious Law●… maintain.   

140  
But PORTUGA●…L shall have her sh●…re there too,  
Marked with red wood, and ●…ANTACRUZ called th●…n;  
Descried 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 PORTUGAL, but not in loyalti●….   

141.  
When he shall thus have passed above half way  
Towards the POLE ANTARTIC●… from the LINE;  
Men of Gigantic bulk he s●…ll survey,  
Inhabiting the parts which the●…e adjoin;  
And (farther on) that STRAIGHT, which shall for ay  
Be honoured with his name. This leads in fine  
T●… a new Sea, and by a new Land btings,  
Which the Southwind wi●… hid with his cold wings.   

142.  
Thus far, O 〈◊〉 ye are allowed  
Your Nation's future Actions to survey,  
Which through the Sea by you left open, her proud  
And never wearied Ensigns shall display.  
Now then, since ye have found not to be bowed  
Under Herculean labours, is the way  
To please your Angell-Spouses bright and fair,  
That knit immortal Garlands for your Hair.   

143.  
Ye may embark (for Wind and Wether fit,  
And the Sea courts you) for your Country dear.  
Thus said she to them; and they forthwith qu●…t  
The Isle of Love, the Harbour of good cheer.  
Noble Provisions they take out of It;  
Take their desired desirous 〈◊〉 to bear  
Them company: Whom nothing shall divorce,  
Whilst in the heavens the Sun shall run his course.   

144.  
Thus went They ploughing the appe●…sed MAIN  
With always prosperous Gale, and always fair;  
Till sight long wish●…, much longed for, they obtain  
Of that dear Earth where first they sucked the A●…r.  
Sweet TAGUS' 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.   

145.  
No more, my MUSE, no more; my Harp's ill strung,  
Heavy, and out of tune, and my Voice 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 t●…ngue)  
Our Country yields it not, she minds the Purse  
Too much, exaling from her gilded Mud  
Nothing but gross and melancholy blood.   

146.  
Nor know I by what fate, or duller Chance,  
Men have not now that life, and general gust,  
Which made them with a cheerful countenance  
Themselves into perpetual Action thrust.  
You then, O KING! whom Heaven reserved t'advance  
At this time to the Throne to scour our Rust;  
Behold (mark else what other Nations do)  
The Best of Subjects do belong to You!   

147.  
Behold how cheerfully, a thousand ways,  
Like fearless Lions and wild Bulls they run;  
Exposed 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 shipwrecks, to tempestuous Wind!   

148.  
To do and suffer All for You prepared;  
And to obey in the remotest Land  
(Though ne'er so bitter, and though ne'er so hard,  
Without Reply, or stop) what You command.  
With You they'll charge the Devil and his Guard  
Even to the Gates of Hell, did You but stand  
A mere Spectator by: and never fear  
But they will make you too Victorious there.   

149.  
Then warm and glad them with your present Rays,  
Sweetly majestic, and severely kind:  
Their shoulders of their heavy Taxes ease:  
Thus, thus, the path to Honour you shall find.  
Men of Experience to your Council raise,  
If with Experience they have goodness joined:  
For such have a more certain Rule to tell  
The How, the When, the Where to do things well.   

150.  
In their respective PLACES countenance All;  
But choose Men rightly qualified thereto.  
Let REVEREND CHURCHMEN to their Prayers fall,  
That GOD would bless the Government in you;  
And (for the NATION'S sins in general)  
To Disciplines and Fast: for the true  
CHURCHMEN (exempted from Ambition's heat)  
Seeks neither to be Rich, nor to be Great.   

151.  
Your NOBLES and your GENTRY highly prize,  
For they their boiling blood undaunted spend,  
Thereby not only Christianitie's,  
But even your Empire's limits to extend:  
And He who to a Clime so distant flies  
Your Royal Service duly to attend,  
O'ercomes two Enemies; the Living first,  
Excessive Toil the second and the worst.   

152.  
Great Sir, let never the astonished GALL,  
The ENGLISH, GERMANE, and ITALIAN,  
Have cause to say, the fainting PORTUGAL  
Can not advance the GREAT WORK he began.  
Let your ADVISERS be experienced All,  
Such as have seen the World, and studied man.  
For, though in SCIENCE much contained be,  
In special Cases PRACTISE more doth see.   

153  
PHORMIAN (an elegant Philosophar)  
You may have read how HANNIBAL did fool;  
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 learned, SIR, by Fancy in the School,  
Dreaming, contemplating, to spelling held;  
But seeing, sweeting, fight in the FIELD.   

154  
But I, who speak in rude and humble Rym●…,  
Not known nor dreamt of by my 〈◊〉 at all;  
Know yet from mouths of little ones sometime  
The praise of GREAT ONES doth completely fall.  
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.   

155.  
An Arm (to serve you) trained in War have I,  
A ●…oul (to sing you) to the Muses bend:  
Only I want acceptance in your Buy,  
Who own to VERTU●… fair encouragement.  
If HEAVEN afford me, This; and you, some high  
And brave EXPLOIT; worthy a Monument  
Of Verse, a●… my prophetic Thoughts presage  
By what I see now in your tender Age:   

156.  
Making MOUNT-ATLAS tremble at your sight,  
More than at that of dire MEDUSA'S Head;  
Or putting in AMPLEUSIAN FIELDS to flight  
The MOORS in FEZ and black MOROCCO bred;  
I'll gauge my MUSE (than in esteem and plight)  
You in such manner through the WORLD shall spread,  
That ALEXANDER shall in you respire,  
Without envying the MEONIAN LYRE.   
FINIS.