Barbary
.
THis
is
a
story
(
like
a
briefe
Chronicle
)
conteining
various
and
much
matter
in
few
lines
:
It
is
but
a
little
bottom
of
Tyme
,
which
you
may
holde
and
hide
in
your
hand
,
yet
being
vnrolled
(
to
the
length
)
it
reacheth
to
the
beginning
of
many
yeares
past
.
A
word
now
must
stand
heare
(
as
in
a
Map
)
for
a
Citty
,
and
a
few
sheetes
for
the
Chart
of
a
spacious
Kingdome
.
Understand
therefore
that
Abdela
the
Emperor
being
dead
:
Muly
Mahamet
his
Brother
succeeded
,
and
was
crowned
King
of
Barbary
.
No
sooner
was
this
dignity
conferred
vppon
him
,
but
he
reuenged
himselfe
on
those
that
in
Abdelaes
raign
loued
him
not
,
and
therefore
by
their
counsels
did
what
in
them
lay
,
to
draw
his
Brothers
(
the
Emperors
affection
)
from
him
,
yea
so
far
that
they
perswaded
either
to
haue
his
eyes
put
out
,
or
bee
sent
to
death
:
of
these
counsellours
,
these
three
were
chiefe
,
Alcade
Azus
,
Alcade
Mussa
,
and
Alcade
Bardu
,
from
two
of
which
he
commaunded
their
liues
:
but
because
his
state
needed
the
heads
of
Wise-men
to
hold
it
vp
,
and
for
that
he
was
not
generally
beloued
of
the
Nobility
and
some
of
the
bloud
Royal
:
he
gaue
Alcade
Azus
his
life
,
and
of
a
prisoner
and
a
Man
in
disgrace
,
aduanced
him
vp
to
higher
honours
then
before
;
receiuing
him
euery
daie
into
his
bosome
for
his
counsell
:
which
he
did
the
rather
because
he
knew
that
Azus
would
bee
prouident
and
carefull
to
increase
the
Emperors
Bittelmell
(
that
is
to
say
)
his
treasury
.
Much
and
often
was
his
mind
perplexed
with
thoughts
about
settling
his
Empire
;
his
cogitations
fought
within
themselues
,
when
sometimes
hee
would
(
in
his
owne
pryuate
Iudgment
)
make
such
a
man
fit
to
be
of
his
secret
and
chiefest
counsels
,
and
sometimes
another
:
this
he
would
like
to
day
,
and
to
morrow
vtterly
distast
him
.
At
length
he
resolued
to
trust
none
of
his
owne
Country-men
,
but
lay
his
hart
in
the
brest
of
one
of
his
Elkes
,
(
that
is
to
say
,
a
Christian
turned
Moore
)
yet
(
vpon
sounder
contemplation
)
him
hee
reiected
too
:
he
would
put
the
health
of
so
great
a
Kingdome
into
no
such
dangerous
Physitiaus
hands
:
for
he
deliuered
that
Mahamet
(
his
GOD
)
would
take
all
fauor
from
him
if
he
should
doe
so
:
besides
he
that
had
forsaken
his
owne
Law
and
religion
,
could
not
haue
the
temper
of
constancy
,
to
serue
one
of
a
contrary
religion
:
nay
,
how
euer
in
out-ward
shew
,
these
Elkes
or
Regadoes
(
quoth
hee
)
seeme
Saints
,
and
holy
ones
,
to
me
they
may
proue
Diuels
,
and
hold
it
no
conscience
to
betray
my
bloud
and
Kingdome
.
Azus
therefore
was
the
man
culled
out
from
the
rest
,
by
the
Emperor
.
This
Prince
flourished
in
as
great
glory
,
as
the
greatest
of
his
predecessors
:
the
blessed
fruites
of
sweete
peace
,
tooke
away
the
sourenesse
of
any
warre
(
either
forren
or
domesticke
)
that
was
serued
in
against
him
:
his
subiects
were
infinite
,
his
Citties
filled
with
Nations
:
He
had
more
Wiues
then
any
of
his
fore-fathers
:
his
Concubins
were
fairer
and
more
in
number
;
he
was
as
happy
as
euer
was
any
King
in
Barbary
,
in
the
flourishing
multitudes
of
his
people
:
and
as
infortunate
as
euer
any
before
him
,
in
beholding
their
misery
.
Fortune
twice
had
her
pleasure
vpon
him
,
first
in
lifting
him
vppe
hygh
in
her
loue
,
lastly
in
pursuing
him
and
his
subiectes
with
her
tyrrany
.
Many
noble
and
notable
occurrentes
,
presented
themselues
to
the
eye
and
eare
of
the
world
,
during
his
Raigne
:
of
which
to
write
as
they
deserue
,
were
to
adde
a
large
Uolume
to
the
Chronicles
of
that
Countrey
.
I
will
therefore
(
as
one
hauing
been
at
a
royall
banquet
)
reserue
some
of
it
to
my selfe
,
and
bestow
some
vppon
others
,
such
as
I
thinke
will
be
sweetest
in
going
downe
:
of
which
take
this
as
part
.
It
was
in
his
time
,
when
that
great
Armada
,
(
that
brought
terror
in
her
Wombe
from
Spaine
)
was
deliuered
of
it
,
in
the
narrowe
Seas
of
England
.
At
the
birth
(
but
indeed
the
buriall
)
of
which
inuincible
Nauy
,
the
Spaniards
that
lay
then
in
Barbary
and
attended
on
the
Spanish
Embassadour
,
beguiling
themselues
with
a
false
rumor
,
that
this
land
was
conquered
,
prepared
for
triumphs
,
as
(
if
their
ioy
had
bin
tamely
begot
)
they
had
reason
:
But
one
Maister
Arnold
Tomson
(
an
english
Marchant
)
certifying
to
the
Emperour
the
truth
and
certaine
defeature
of
the
Spanish
Fleete
:
the
English
men
that
were
there
,
hadde
likewise
leaue
of
Mahamet
,
to
expresse
their
ioy
in
Bone-fires
,
and
other
triumphes
;
for
the
King
did
euer
loue
the
Nation
of
our
Countrey
,
and
did
many
fauors
to
our
Marchantes
.
The
English
Embassadour
lying
in
the
same
streete
where
the
Spanish
Embassador
lay
,
and
our
Marchants
gathering
togither
,
determining
to
ride
into
the
fielde
,
and
there
hauing
put
themselues
into
some
gallant
order
,
to
come
backe
into
the
Citty
,
in
a
triumphant
and
ciuill
manner
,
to
doe
honour
to
their
Country
for
so
happy
and
vn-heard-of
a
victory
:
behold
,
before
the
Spanish
Embassadors
gate
(
by
which
our
Country-men
determined
on
horsebacke
to
passe
)
stood
a
company
of
Spaniardes
,
(
with
some
Moores
whom
they
had
hired
)
armed
with
pike
and
shot
to
stoppe
their
passage
;
betweene
whom
what
happened
,
those
english
Marchantes
the
then
were
hurt
,
(
of
which
maister
Arnold
Tomson
was
one
)
can
if
they
be
yet
liuing
testifie
:
and
for
those
that
were
then
slaine
out-right
,
the
Emperour
(
in
indignation
)
swore
not
onely
that
they
who
did
execute
this
trechery
vppon
the
english
Nation
,
should
haue
Iron
giuen
them
(
that
is
to
say
,
should
haue
their
throates
cut
)
but
hee
would
also
certifie
the
King
of
Spaine
of
this
abuse
:
so
willing
was
hee
to
doe
Iustice
euen
to
strangers
.
Another
accident
(
because
it
is
worthy
note
for
the
example
,
and
may
be
a
warning
to
our
Countrey-men
)
will
I
set
downe
:
and
this
is
it
.
An
English
man
fallen
out
and
struck
by
his
maister
,
desperately
resolued
(
whilest
the
fire
was
in
his
bloud
)
to
reuenge
those
blowes
on
his
body
,
by
giuing
wounds
to
his
own
soule
:
and
thereupon
he
presently
went
and
denyed
his
religion
,
forsooke
Christ
to
follow
Mahomet
;
And
from
a
Christian
turned
Moore
.
It
is
the
custome
of
that
Countrey
when
any
Man
wil
do
so
,
to
obserue
(
amongst
others
)
these
ceremonies
:
It
is
signified
to
those
Christians
that
are
in
the
Citty
,
Towne
,
&c.
that
such
a
one
will
be
an
Elke
,
or
turne
Moore
,
A
certaine
equall
number
therefore
(
aswel
Barbarians
as
Christians
)
are
assembled
in
a
place
fit
for
such
purposes
;
one
part
sitting
(
like
Iudges
)
on
the
one
side
,
the
other
,
opposite
directly
against
them
:
the
Turne-coate
iust
in
the
middle
of
the
roome
betweene
them
,
and
in
presence
of
both
,
he
is
there
then
demaunded
,
whether
he
will
deny
the
law
of
his
owne
religion
and
embrace
theirs
or
no
:
It
is
offered
vnto
him
his
free
liberty
to
take
the
one
or
the
other
:
nay
it
is
lawfull
for
those
that
sit
there
on
the
contrary
part
(
being
Christians
)
to
vse
all
the
power
of
Argument
to
winne
him
from
this
delinguishment
.
Thus
did
they
serue
this
man
:
thus
was
he
three
seuerall
times
,
conuented
before
them
:
and
three
seueral
times
did
he
most
stifly
defend
what
he
had
done
,
and
defie
Christ
:
no
Physicke
of
Spirituall
counsell
doing
good
vppon
him
,
they
gaue
him
ouer
.
But
note
the
iudgment
of
that
Captaine
(
the
Lord
of
hoasts
)
whose
colours
of
saluation
he
had
forsaken
,
within
a
short
time
(
after
this
Apostasy
&
rebellion
of
his
soule
)
this
Traytor
to
God
,
happened
to
kill
a
Man
:
for
which
fact
hee
was
adiudged
by
the
Ladies
of
that
Country
,
not
to
loose
his
life
,
but
(
which
was
worse
)
to
liue
;
But
how
to
liue
?
As
the
first
Murderer
that
euer
drew
bloud
of
Man
:
as
Cayne
liued
,
wandering
vp
and
down
,
with
none
(
on
paine
of
death
)
to
keep
him
company
,
but
his
owne
thoughtes
which
were
tenne
thousand
executioners
;
none
to
giue
him
bread
,
so
that
he
fed
vpon
despaire
:
none
to
quench
his
thirst
,
so
that
he
drunke
the
poison
of
an
infected
conscience
,
he
knew
he
had
killed
a
Man
,
and
therefore
euen
Infidels
abhorred
him
:
he
knew
he
had
forsaken
his
Religion
,
and
therefore
Christians
would
not
pitty
him
:
In
this
wretehed
state
he
went
vp
and
downe
,
in
this
misery
he
pyned
,
till
hee
dyed
:
let
that
death
of
his
teach
others
how
to
line
.
But
leauing
this
,
let
vs
againe
fixe
our
eyes
vpon
Mahamet
the
Emperor
,
who
(
thinking
it
would
be
as
great
a
glory
to
him
,
to
create
others
,
Kings
,
as
to
be
a
King
himselfe
)
did
(
by
the
aduice
of
his
counsell
,
but
most
of
all
out
of
the
working
and
height
of
his
owne
spirit
)
determine
to
diuide
his
large
and
fruitful
Empire
amongst
his
Sonnes
.
Of
all
the
Wiues
and
Concubins
that
this
Emperor
had
,
three
onely
,
(
aboue
the
rest
)
had
a
soueraignty
ouer
his
amorous
affections
,
and
of
those
three
,
he
did
still
prefer
one
before
the
other
.
Lilia
Isa
was
the
fairest
,
and
her
did
he
loue
dearest
:
shee
was
empresse
ouer
the
rest
,
yet
were
the
rest
Queenes
ouer
others
,
shee
had
the
supreame
commaund
of
the
Kinges
house
,
and
none
commaund
her
but
the
King
.
Lilia
Ageda
was
a
Negro
,
yet
had
she
a
second
place
in
his
heart
.
Lilia
Myriem
had
the
third
:
of
Lilia
Myriem
(
being
a
blacke
Woman
likewise
)
did
hee
beget
a
Son
,
called
Muly-Shem
,
being
one
of
the
fairest
Children
that
euer
he
had
,
but
this
Muly-Shem
offring
some
offence
to
a
youth
that
attended
on
him
,
was
by
him
slaine
.
The
young-man
afterward
(
knowing
the
Emperours
wrath
)
killing
himselfe
.
Lilia
Agede
was
mother
to
Muly-Beferris
,
and
Muly-Sheck
,
(
the
youngest
Brother
:
)
Lilia
Isa
Mother
to
Muly-Sidan
(
the
eldest
.
)
Betweene
these
three
were
these
late
ciuell
warres
in
Barbary
.
And
thus
did
Mahamet
make
diuision
of
his
Kingdome
,
which
afterwarde
bred
diuision
amongst
his
people
,
and
set
all
in
a
Combustion
to
Muly
sidan
(
who
was
giuen
to
Armes
and
to
loue
a
Souldier
)
gaue
he
the
Kingdome
Tadula
,
and
Taphalet
:
to
Mulibefarris
(
whose
soule
lusted
after
nothing
but
sensuall
pleasure
)
gaue
he
the
Kingdome
of
Sus
:
to
Muly-Sheck
,
the
Kingdome
of
Fez
:
appoynting
Mustapha
(
that
was
born
a
Christian
,
and
turned
Moore
,
but
a
Souldier
,
and
a
Gentleman
of
a
Noble
Spirit
)
to
attend
on
Sheck
as
his
Guardian
,
because
he
was
but
young
.
Before
we
step
any
farther
,
it
shall
not
be
amisse
(
because
I
would
draw
this
Barbary-picture
,
with
as
much
life
and
delightfull
colours
as
I
could
)
to
set
downe
a
pretty
combat
betweene
two
of
the
Emperours
Wiues
,
playd
before
the
Emperour
himselfe
.
Thus
it
was
:
Mahamet
sitting
one
morning
with
Lilia
Ageda
(
the
Negro
)
by
him
,
talking
mearily
(
for
hee
tooke
pleasure
in
her
speech
,
because
shee
was
wise
:
)
In
comes
Isa
(
his
fairest
bedfellow
)
and
seeing
the
Blacke-one
so
neere
her
beloued
,
she
blushed
and
shewed
anger
euen
in
her
eyes
,
(
for
what
Woman
woulde
not
be
angry
to
see
another
robbe
her
of
the
loue
of
an
Emperour
?
)
At
length
bowing
to
the
earth
,
she
fell
at
the
Kings
feete
,
and
with
a
pretty
smile
beganne
to
tell
a
tale
of
the
Larke
and
the
Crow
:
the
shutting
vppe
of
her
morrall
being
,
that
the
Larke
was
the
Bird
of
the
morning
,
and
of
the
day
,
and
therefore
might
be
bold
to
challenge
the
mornings
due
,
and
all
Rytes
of
the
day
;
But
the
Crow
was
the
Bird
of
the
night
,
and
had
nothing
to
do
with
the
morning
.
The
emperor
vnderstanding
her
sweete
witty
bitternesse
,
that
by
the
Larke
thee
ment
her selfe
,
and
by
the
Crow
,
Lilia
Ageda
(
because
of
her
blacknesse
)
was
so
delighted
with
the
comparison
,
that
hee
gaue
charge
none
should
euer
after
presume
to
giue
the
Emperour
his
good
morrowe
,
till
Lilia
Isa
had
bin
with
him
,
and
thereupon
was
Isa
called
the
emperors
Larke
,
or
his
Bird
of
the
morning
.
Let
vs
loose
one
poynt
more
of
our
compasse
,
and
sayle
a
little
out
of
our
intended
way
to
finde
out
in
what
feare
and
awful
reuerence
the
subiects
of
this
Kingdome
hold
the
anger
of
their
Soueraigne
:
to
vnderstand
which
,
receiue
this
only
as
a
tast
.
One
of
the
emperours
officers
of
his
Custome
(
whose
name
was
Cidde
Abdela
Creme
)
being
an
olde
Man
,
had
one
Sonne
onely
,
(
called
Enhamet
)
whom
he
tendred
as
his
life
,
being
the
hope
and
health
of
his
age
:
him
had
the
father
put
into
his
owne
place
:
the
young
man
comming
in
a
morning
betimes
to
the
Custome-house
,
but
the
rest
of
the
officers
being
not
present
,
he
could
not
enter
(
for
euery
one
hath
a
seuerall
Key
,
and
vnlesse
all
be
there
together
,
not
one
can
get
in
)
he
determined
within
himselfe
to
spend
an
houre
(
til
the
rest
met
)
in
renewing
the
emperors
pallace
(
where
his
Concubins
liued
)
because
he
was
told
it
was
a
rare
and
rich
place
,
and
that
it
was
not
lawfull
without
great
meanes
to
enter
.
That
report
more
inflamed
his
desire
,
insomuch
that
in
the
end
(
watching
his
time
)
by
stealth
he
got
in
.
Where
being
,
and
staring
vp
and
downe
,
it
chanced
that
one
of
the
Women
saw
him
,
who
presently
screeked
out
,
and
ranne
crying
,
A
man
,
a
man
:
for
you
must
note
,
that
if
any
one
of
them
spy
a
Man
,
(
except
the
Eunuches
that
attend
them
)
and
doe
not
call
for
helpe
,
it
is
death
to
her
:
and
what
Man
soeuer
rudely
presume
to
haue
a
fight
of
them
,
it
is
death
to
him
.
It
was
knowne
by
inquiry
,
(
vpon
her
noyse
)
that
it
was
Enhamet
the
Customers
Sonne
,
who
had
thus
offended
the
lawes
:
the
Emperor
being
giuen
to
vnderstand
so
much
,
made
an
oath
he
should
dye
for
it
.
Immediately
vpon
this
(
by
occasion
of
some
busines
)
comes
the
olde
Man
(
Enhamets
Father
)
to
the
King
,
who
supposing
it
hadde
beene
about
his
Sonnes
pardon
,
and
his
indignation
being
now
a
little
cooler
)
suddainely
demaunded
of
him
what
that
Man
deserued
,
that
durst
breake
into
the
place
where
his
Emperours
Concubins
were
:
Cidde
Abdela
(
not
suspecting
the
offender
)
answered
,
that
hee
deserued
the
sharpest
sentence
of
death
,
for
so
the
Law
would
adiudge
him
.
Be
thou
then
(
quoth
the
Emperor
)
thine
owne
Sonnes
condemnation
:
As
thou
hast
iudged
him
,
so
let
it
be
.
But
the
King
beholding
death
sitting
in
the
olde
Mans
face
at
that
doome
,
grew
pittifull
,
and
(
for
loue
he
bare
the
Father
)
forgaue
the
Sonne
,
which
mercy
notwithstanding
,
Abdela
Creme
not
truely
laying
holde
of
,
but
mistaking
the
Noble
spirit
of
a
Prince
,
and
imagining
that
this
fauor
so
strangely
extended
was
but
a
snare
to
intrap
his
owne
life
,
because
offences
of
that
nature
were
neuer
before
pardoned
in
any
:
home
hee
comes
;
with
sorrow
in
his
afflicted
looks
,
and
his
heart
euen
murdered
within
him
,
by
the
cruelty
of
his
owne
thoughtes
:
his
Sonne
demaunded
the
cause
of
this
so
strange
and
suddaine
distemperature
,
but
his
Father
giuing
no
answer
,
sends
for
cordes
,
shewes
them
onely
insteade
of
speech
,
and
to
make
this
dumb
Tragedy
fall
in
the
end
,
he
causeth
him
before
his
owne
eyes
to
bee
strangled
:
great
were
the
lamentations
of
the
Sonne
,
and
aboundant
were
the
teares
he
let
fall
to
soften
his
Fathers
heart
:
a
mighty
conflict
was
there
in
the
poore
old
mans
bosome
,
betweene
naturall
piety
to
a
Child
,
and
naturall
feare
of
a
Soueraigne
:
but
the
last
of
the
two
preuailed
:
and
hauing
bestowed
vpon
the
dead
body
the
ceremonies
of
the
graue
,
according
to
the
custome
of
the
Countrey
,
hee
caused
the
Act
to
bee
registred
downe
for
his
owne
safety
,
alledging
that
howsoeuer
the
Emperor
(
when
he
heard
this
blacke
and
vnnaturall
deed
reported
)
would
happily
bee
moued
vnto
wrath
,
yet
inwardly
he
would
be
highly
contented
with
it
.
Mahamet
being
thus
feared
and
loued
of
his
subiects
,
wanted
nothing
that
(
according
to
humane
Iudgement
)
could
make
a
Prince
happy
:
pleasure
was
his
slaue
and
waighted
on
him
whensoeuer
he
lusted
for
her
company
:
Riches
flowed
into
his
houses
of
treasure
in
large
&
Golden
streams
:
his
Court
was
ful
of
counsellors
;
his
Cittyes
full
Merchants
,
his
Castles
full
of
souldiers
:
he
was
a
mightie
King
himselfe
,
&
had
sonnes
that
were
as
mightie
as
hee
,
their
Dominions
were
ample
,
they
were
full
of
men
,
and
full
of
all
thinges
that
maintaine
men
.
It
seemed
that
the
Father
lost
much
of
his
imperiall
state
and
dignitie
,
when
hee
placed
his
three
sonnes
(
like
three
great
lights
)
to
shine
equally
in
his
kingdome
,
considering
that
all
the
beames
of
maiestie
that
came
from
them
,
might
(
if
he
had
pleased
)
haue
beene
sent
foorth
from
the
centred
glory
of
his
owne
head
,
but
euen
this
borrowed
reflexions
of
theirs
,
made
his
brightnes
the
greater
:
and
his
sonnes
yeelding
acknowledgement
of
all
their
royaltie
to
flow
from
him
,
did
(
like
Riuers
paying
tribute
to
the
Sea
)
seeme
not
a
whit
the
lesse
for
such
homage
and
fealtie
.
Fortune
hauing
turnd
the
wheele
of
this
Emperours
fate
along
time
with
steddie
hand
,
had
now
brought
it
about
to
the
vppermost
point
&
highest
,
on
which
she
meant
he
should
sitte
:
he
should
be
no
more
her
darling
,
and
therefore
shee
tooke
her
fauours
from
him
.
Or
to
speake
of
a
power
that
controlls
Fortune
,
and
whose
very
finger
throwes
downe
kingdoms
to
vtter
confusion
,
or
holdes
them
vp
in
their
greatnesse
,
whether
the
generall
sinnes
of
the
whole
Nation
deserued
it
,
or
whether
the
people
were
punisht
for
the
particular
faults
of
the
king
and
his
Courtiers
,
as
many
times
it
falls
out
,
and
as
it
hapned
to
the
Grecians
,
for
Quicquid
delirant
Reges
plestantur
Achini
:
or
for
what
other
faultes
soeuer
,
the
rodde
of
vengeance
was
made
readie
:
it
is
in
man
to
thinke
vppon
and
feare
,
but
not
to
examine
,
yet
sure
it
is
,
that
as
a
fire
catching
hold
at
first
but
of
some
meane
cottage
,
in
some
one
end
or
corner
of
a
Cittie
,
hath
oftentimes
(
ere
the
furie
of
it
could
bee
put
out
)
swallowed
vp
in
his
flames
,
the
goodliest
and
most
beautifull
buildings
that
stoode
euen
fardest
out
of
reach
,
so
did
the
clowdes
of
infection
burst
open
their
vaines
,
and
let
fall
the
poyson
of
them
,
on
this
kingdom
of
Barbary
.
If
euer
the
Plague
in
any
place
got
his
true
name
,
there
he
had
it
.
At
the
beginning
it
strooke
(
like
an
Arrowe
)
on
the
head
but
of
one
Citty
,
but
in
a
short
time
after
,
it
fleme
from
Cittie
to
Citty
,
and
in
the
end
stucke
in
the
very
hart
of
the
whole
kingdome
.
Insomuch
,
that
Death
came
(
like
a
tyrannous
Usurper
)
to
the
Court
gates
,
&
threatned
to
depose
the
Emperour
himselfe
.
Hee
that
before
sate
in
his
throne
of
maiestie
,
greatly
feared
of
other
Nations
round
about
him
,
and
strongly
garded
by
his
owne
,
is
on
the
suddaine
daunted
,
and
(
beeing
accounted
one
of
the
mightiest
amongst
the
Kings
of
the
earth
)
is
ready
to
submit
to
him
,
with
whom
euen
Infants
doe
euery
howre
fight
hand
to
hand
.
See
the
authoritie
,
fame
and
terror
of
that
Inuader
(
Death
)
hee
strooke
but
vp
an
Allarum
in
this
Emperous
Pallace
,
and
the
Emperour
himselfe
trembled
through
feare
thereof
:
his
conceites
that
stood
before
like
so
many
aged
Oakes
,
bowed
presently
to
the
earth
like
so
many
ranks
of
young
Willowes
:
yet
his
Citties
shooke
at
the
voyce
,
no
lesse
then
if
it
had
beene
at
an
Earth-quake
.
And
so
hardly
did
the
pestilence
pursue
Mahamet
,
that
he
durst
not
sleep
for
it
in
one
place
twice
together
:
euery
night
was
he
compelled
(
for
safety
)
to
flye
vnto
a
contrary
lodging
.
As
his
Court
remoued
so
did
the
plague
:
whersoeuer
the
one
kept
his
standing
house
,
there
the
other
pitched
vp
his
Pauilion
as
a
proud
and
daring
Challenger
to
all
commers
.
Insomuch
that
sicknesse
in
the
end
(
though
weake
of
himselfe
)
wrastled
with
so
many
that
were
neere
and
about
the
Princes
person
,
and
still
got
the
better
of
them
,
that
Mahomet
had
not
men
to
remoue
those
tents
which
hee
was
inforced
to
carry
vp
and
downe
with
him
for
his
owne
houshold
to
lye
in
:
fourescore
Barbarians
(
being
all
attendants
and
Officers
in
Court
)
falling
euery
night
,
in
this
mortal
and
pestiferous
massacre
.
So
that
the
Emperour
for
want
of
Seruants
was
glad
to
take
chained
slaues
from
the
Oare
(
out
of
their
gallies
)
and
to
make
them
his
guard
.
What
a
strange
alteration
is
here
of
a
Court
?
He
that
had
seene
this
prince
so
royally
attended
,
so
maiestically
attyred
,
with
such
God-like
reuerence
kneeled
vnto
:
so
guarded
,
so
followed
,
so
circled
round
with
a
Nation
in
number
infinite
:
Would
that
Man
haue
euer
thought
that
such
a
Prince
could
haue
beene
driuen
out
of
his
stately
pallaces
,
and
beene
glad
to
lye
abroade
in
the
fields
?
Or
that
he
shold
euer
submit
to
such
humility
,
as
to
put
his
life
into
the
hands
of
slaues
and
miserable
Captiues
?
The
onely
dispised
wretches
of
his
Kingdome
:
the
beggerliest
:
the
most
discontented
,
the
worst-minded
to
him
&
his
Nation
:
yea
,
such
whom
he
knew
could
haue
been
glad
to
cut
his
throat
,
to
ransome
themselues
from
the
bondage
and
Hell
of
the
gally
?
Yet
euen
these
most
forlorne
Creatures
,
(
which
before
like
Oxen
were
yoaked
by
the
Neckes
with
Iron
)
was
this
great
Monarch
faine
to
make
much
of
,
and
to
turne
them
into
his
best
and
fayrest
courtiers
.
So
easily
and
so
low
can
the
hand
of
Heauen
pull
downe
the
mightiest
vpon
earth
,
and
make
them
stoope
euen
to
the
weakest
.
The
hart
being
thus
sicke
,
was
not
the
whole
body
(
thinke
you
)
in
danger
to
perish
?
The
eye
of
the
Kingdome
being
so
much
blemished
,
did
not
the
Uniuersall
land
dwell
in
darkenesse
?
Was
it
possible
that
the
Court
should
pyne
,
and
that
the
Citties
should
flourish
?
No
,
no
,
Alasse
!
Full
houses
were
emptied
there
of
whole
families
:
whole
streetes
of
their
housholds
:
yea
,
euen
the
Citties
themselues
were
left
desolate
of
inhabitants
.
Had
all
the
Artifiers
in
the
Land
,
layed
by
all
other
worke
,
onely
to
haue
made
Coffins
,
they
could
not
all
haue
builded
roomes
fast
enough
,
for
the
dead
to
dwell
in
:
For
sicknesse
was
euen
weary
of
throwing
downe
bodies
,
and
Death
euen
glutted
with
killing
them
.
Doe
but
imagine
how
the
World
shewed
,
when
all
Creatures
that
were
drowned
in
the
Uniuersall
floud
,
lay
heaped
together
,
after
the
waters
were
shrunke
into
the
earth
,
such
a
Mount
Caluary
was
Barbarie
:
the
carkases
of
vnburied
men
were
so
many
,
that
a
far
off
they
might
be
taken
for
hills
,
yea
so
numberlesse
were
they
,
that
it
seemed
as
if
all
the
Nations
vppon
earth
had
sent
their
dead
thether
,
and
that
Barbarie
had
beene
the
common
Church-yard
.
When
Vespasian
besieged
Ierusalem
,
Famine
fed
vpon
the
Cittie
within
,
and
warre
without
,
yet
did
the
Iewes
choose
rather
to
steale
forth
,
and
trust
the
doubtfull
mercy
of
an
Enemie
,
then
to
perrish
vnder
the
crueltie
of
their
owne
countrymen
.
At
length
,
such
multitudes
of
them
got
daily
through
the
gates
,
that
Tytus
(
to
be
ridde
of
them
,
&
fright
them
from
comming
)
crucified
them
all
,
and
sixt
the
bodies
so
put
to
death
,
round
about
the
Cittie
,
before
their
walls
,
as
a
terror
to
those
within
:
so
that
in
the
end
,
(
they
pressing
forth
for
all
this
continuallie
vppon
him
)
there
coulde
be
found
neither
wood
enough
for
Crosses
to
nayle
them
vpon
,
nor
ground
enough
whereon
to
set
Crosses
.
The
like
miserie
fell
vpon
this
royall
kingdom
of
Barbarie
,
for
the
people
in
it
were
strooke
downe
so
fast
by
the
Pestilence
,
that
the
liuing
were
not
able
to
inter
the
dead
,
neither
could
there
be
found
ground
sufficient
enough
(
about
theyr
Citties
)
to
affoord
them
buriall
,
so
that
the
earth
did
not
(
as
in
other
Countries
)
couer
and
burie
them
,
but
they
buried
and
couered
the
earth
.
Let
vs
muster
the
dead
together
,
and
take
a
view
of
this
disordered
Armie
.
In
Morocco
the
cheefest
Cittie
of
Barbarie
,
died
in
one
yeere
seauen
hundred
thousand
Moores
,
and
seauen
thousand
seauen
hundred
Iewes
,
as
by
bills
daily
sent
to
the
Emperour
did
appeare
.
What
Nation
in
the
Worlde
would
not
haue
trembled
,
hearing
of
such
an
invinsible
host
marching
against
them
,
yet
Death
with
one
Arrowe
slew
all
these
.
In
the
Cittie
of
Far
,
died
(
the
same
yee●e
fiue
hundred
thousand
,
beside
those
that
fell
in
the
Country
.
Yea
so
terrible
and
fierce
was
Death
in
his
execution
of
those
in
Morocco
,
that
in
the
space
of
one
day
and
a
night
,
hee
slewe
there
with
his
owne
handes
,
foure
thousand
,
seauen
hundred
and
odde
.
A
mercilesse
and
tragicall
conquest
,
an
inglorious
victorie
,
for
he
made
them
away
in
their
beddes
.
O
what
a
number
of
graues
must
haue
beene
opened
,
if
all
these
thousands
should
haue
had
their
rites
of
buriall
?
Howe
many
fathers
for
children
,
wiues
for
husbands
,
sonnes
and
daughters
for
Parents
,
and
kinsfolkes
for
friends
,
should
heere
haue
wept
,
if
the
dead
had
beene
paid
their
due
lamentations
?
But
Mourning
heere
had
so
wasted
it selfe
,
that
it
quite
forgot
truly
howe
to
mourne
.
Sicknes
&
griefe
grew
so
familiar
with
men
,
that
to
be
ridde
of
such
lothsome
company
,
they
sought
out
Death
,
when
they
knewe
not
where
to
finde
a
Graue
.
O
thou
beautiful
Kingdome
,
how
couldest
thou
chuse
but
looke
vnlouely
,
hauing
so
many
children
dead
in
thy
wombe
?
how
could
thy
body
be
otherwise
then
vnwholesome
,
hauing
so
mortall
a
disease
running
vppon
thee
,
yea
,
all
ouer
thee
seuen
years
together
!
And
O
your
Citties
that
were
the
fairest
Daughters
to
so
Noble
a
Mother
;
What
shrikes
,
and
soule-afflicting
passions
did
not
you
breath
forth
,
seeing
all
your
Marchants
(
that
had
wont
to
court
you
bee
your
loues
)
and
forsaking
you
to
see
your
buildinges
stand
in
their
wonted
height
,
but
robbed
of
their
wonted
ornamentes
!
to
see
Foxes
and
wilde
Beastes
(
instead
of
Men
)
inhabiting
in
your
goodliest
streetes
and
meeting
daily
vpon
your
Exchanges
!
A
more
then
Widdow-like
lamentation
must
you
needes
put
one
,
to
behold
your selues
vtterly
bereaued
of
those
that
were
your
best-beloued
:
What
Kingdome
(
thogh
neuer
so
farre
remoued
)
is
not
heauy
at
the
heart
,
hearing
these
sad
stories
of
your
sorrow
?
—
Quis
talia
fando
,
Mirmydonum
,
Dolopumùe
,
aut
Durimiles
Vlissi
Temperet
àlachrimis
?
Your
enimies
cannot
bee
so
barbarous
as
not
to
yeeld
to
your
condolement
.
We
will
therefore
no
longer
let
out
your
teares
within-doores
,
nor
no
more
stand
wondring
to
see
all
your
buildinges
shew
like
so
many
hearses
;
but
will
suruay
your
filds
abroad
,
&
try
if
they
can
afford
any
better
consolation
,
Alasse
they
cannot
:
calamity
there
trauels
vp
and
downe
in
the
same
wretched
habilyments
,
that
she
weares
within
the
walled
Citties
,
People
fly
in
numbers
vp
to
the
Mountaines
,
to
dwell
amongst
beastes
,
and
to
dispossesse
them
of
their
inheritance
:
they
flie
thinking
Death
would
not
follow
them
,
but
hee
like
a
politicke
Generall
,
lay
so
close
in
Ambush
at
their
returning
backe
to
their
Citties
,
that
he
cut
them
off
faster
then
at
the
first
,
&
left
their
bodies
to
be
a
pray
to
those
beasts
,
who
not
many
daies
before
ranne
into
their
Caues
as
beeing
afraid
of
them
.
O
what
a
miserie
was
it
,
to
see
high-wayes
strewed
with
dead
and
infected
carkases
,
as
if
the
whole
kingdome
had
beene
sacked
,
and
the
enemie
had
had
all
the
people
in
execution
?
A
rich
and
abundant
haruest
couered
the
face
of
the
earth
,
but
the
Husbandmen
in
steade
of
filling
their
Barnes
,
were
busied
in
filling
vp
graues
:
the
fruites
which
the
ground
brought
forth
,
shee
herselfe
did
againe
denoure
.
A
strange
haruest
was
it
,
for
Corne
was
had
in
without
Reapers
,
it
was
gathered
&
sowed
againe
all
at
one
time
,
for
the
Earth
did
now
play
the
good
Huswife
,
shee
saued
all
to
herselfe
,
and
yet
euen
in
sauing
it
,
did
she
spill
all
:
there
were
not
handes
enough
to
gather
the
foode
,
which
she
out
of
her
plenteous
lappe
bestowed
amongst
her
children
,
nor
mouthes
enough
to
eate
it
.
The
Country-Lasse
sate
not
nowe
singing
by
her
Milking-payle
,
for
the
poore
beastes
ran
bellowing
vp
and
downe
with
swolnevdders
,
mourning
before
their
Maisters
doores
,
because
they
could
not
be
eased
of
their
burdens
.
The
Pestilence
hauing
thus
(
like
a
mercilesse
Inuader
)
destroyed
both
Citties
&
Uillages
,
and
hauing
oftentimes
made
the
greatest
Lords
in
the
kingdome
stoope
to
his
commaund
,
and
determining
to
conclude
his
conquest
,
with
taking
the
Generall
ouer
so
great
a
Nation
prisoner
,
did
at
the
last
set
vpon
the
Emperour
Mahamet
himselfe
,
and
with
her
venemous
breath
kild
him
.
Which
glorious
victorie
beeing
gotten
,
Death
and
his
Liefetenant
(
Sicknes
)
beganne
to
sound
a
retra●te
,
to
march
from
their
walls
,
and
to
let
them
liue
in
quiet
.
No
sooner
were
their
backes
turnd
,
but
againe
in
multitudes
came
the
people
downe
from
the
Mountaines
,
and
as
all
Riuers
(
when
Land-waters
haue
opprest
them
)
flie
to
the
bosome
of
the
Sea
for
safety
,
so
did
the
Nation
of
this
great
Empire
,
from
all
parts
thereof
come
marching
ioyfully
,
(
and
yet
fearefully
)
to
fill
vp
&
make
good
againe
theyr
disinhabited
houses
.
What
stories
are
now
tolde
of
lamentable
Funeralls
?
what
friends
and
kinsfolkes
are
missing
?
what
sorrowe
there
is
for
so
much
Acquaintance
lost
?
what
gladnes
to
meete
with
any
,
whom
they
heard
or
doubted
were
in
their
graues
?
Their
Citties
doe
now
looke
with
cheerefull
countenaunces
,
streetes
are
filled
with
men
,
houses
with
families
:
euery
one
applies
himselfe
to
his
former
labour
,
euery
Merchant
to
his
trafficke
.
But
behold
,
in
the
heate
of
all
this
Sun-shine
,
when
no
wrinkle
could
be
seene
in
the
browe
of
Heauen
,
when
all
was
calme
,
and
that
men
lay
safely
snorting
on
their
secure
pillowes
,
a
seconde
storme
burst
out
of
the
clowdes
,
a
second
&
a
more
fearefull
:
God
poured
another
vengeance
on
the
heads
of
this
people
,
he
sent
Famine
to
breath
vpon
them
,
and
to
suck
the
life-blood
out
of
theyr
bosoms
,
so
that
they
that
before
durst
not
come
neere
one
another
,
for
feare
of
beeing
infected
with
the
Pestilence
,
are
now
ready
to
lay
hold
each
of
other
,
and
to
turne
their
owne
bodies
into
nourishment
.
The
Plague
was
mercifull
to
them
,
in
dispatching
them
quickly
out
of
the
world
,
but
this
tyrant
put
them
to
lingering
deaths
.
They
had
once
more
meate
then
mouthes
,
now
they
had
many
mouthes
and
no
meate
.
O
Hunger
!
how
pittilesse
art
thou
?
a
monster
thou
art
of
a
most
strange
condition
,
for
,
how
small
a
thing
will
appease
thee
,
and
yet
what
wilt
thou
not
destroy
to
satisfie
thy
rauenous
appetite
?
thou
art
most
cruell
to
them
that
most
seeke
to
relieue
thee
,
and
when
thou
hast
nothing
to
feede
vpon
,
thou
plaiest
the
murderer
,
and
eatest
vp
thy selfe
.
How
tirannous
hast
thou
shewed
thy selfe
to
this
great
Nation
?
thou
hast
heard
children
crying
for
bread
to
their
Parents
,
yet
wouldest
not
relieue
them
,
whilst
the
Parents
went
mourning
and
pyning
vp
and
downe
that
they
wanted
foode
themselues
.
Men
that
were
strong
of
body
,
didst
thou
by
thy
sorcerie
bring
so
lowe
,
that
they
could
scarce
stand
on
their
legs
:
Weomen
that
had
fresh
blood
in
theyr
cheekes
,
and
were
louely
to
be
lookt
vppon
,
didst
thou
make
leaue
,
and
turnedst
them
into
Anatomies
.
O
Famine
,
thou
cruellest
executioner
of
Gods
wrath
,
thou
dishonest
guest
,
for
into
what
house
soeuer
thou
commest
,
thou
destroiest
all
that
is
set
before
thee
:
thou
traytor
to
Plentie
,
enuious
hag
,
malicious
Witch
,
that
with
thy
vnsauorie
breath
blasteth
whole
fieldes
of
Corne
:
away
,
gette
thee
gone
,
the
hand
of
Heauen
keepe
thee
from
landing
vpon
the
English
share
,
hide
thy
head
for
shame
,
in
the
graues
of
those
whom
most
vnmercifullie
thou
hast
slaughtered
,
bee
buried
there
for
euer
:
for
if
thou
shouldest
set
footing
vpon
this
little
Ile
,
thou
wouldest
quickly
turne
it
into
a
great
Land
of
miserie
.
But
was
the
terrible
Iudge
of
the
world
,
satisfied
with
punishing
this
people
twice
in
this
manner
,
had
their
offences
towardes
him
deserued
no
more
blowes
?
It
seemes
they
had
run
into
a
most
proude
rebellion
,
and
that
hee
had
sworne
in
his
indignation
to
be
reuenged
vppon
them
for
it
:
for
loe
,
the
spirit
of
his
rage
comes
nowe
in
a
consuming
fire
,
it
is
wrapt
vp
in
clowdes
of
lightning
,
and
the
thunder
of
it
breakes
into
Ciuill
warre
.
The
three
sonnes
of
so
great
an
Emperour
,
shine
now
like
three
Meteors
in
the
firmament
,
all
in
steele
,
their
Courts
now
are
Campes
,
and
none
are
Courtiers
but
Souldiers
.
Three
Brothers
beeing
all
three
Kings
,
are
vp
in
Armes
,
only
to
make
of
three
but
one
,
miserie
vpon
miserie
.
They
that
escaped
the
stripes
of
the
Pestilence
,
were
eaten
to
death
by
Famine
,
they
that
saued
themselues
out
of
the
Iawes
of
Famine
,
are
now
in
danger
to
perish
on
the
Sword
.
O
noble
France
,
if
I
should
bid
thee
onely
to
tell
the
horror
,
the
terrors
,
the
vnbounded
mischiefe
and
calamity
that
come
marching
in
with
intestiue
Broyles
,
thou
needest
to
say
nothing
,
but
to
open
thy
bosome
,
and
shew
those
deepe
scars
which
thine
owne
sons
haue
set
there
.
There
are
teares
yet
in
thine
eyes
,
for
those
sad
funeralls
which
the
Ciuill
sworde
prepared
.
The
Low-Countries
haue
beene
in
labour
a
long
time
,
and
are
not
yet
deliuered
of
that
Monster
:
if
they
could
not
expresse
the
paynes
and
pangs
that
followe
this
inward
disease
of
a
kingdome
,
this
griefe
about
the
heart
of
a
Land
,
this
very
Earth-quake
that
hath
power
to
ouer-turne
Townes
and
Towers
,
wee
haue
too
many
leaues
in
our
own
Chronicles
,
spotted
with
the
inuenomed
Inck
of
Ciuill
discord
.
Too
many
of
our
Kings
haue
beene
too
famous
by
that
miserie
:
too
many
of
our
noblest
Families
,
haue
shaken
their
ancient
Houses
by
that
thunder
.
This
fire
of
Discention
hath
now
taken
holde
of
Barbarie
,
a
kingdome
full
of
people
,
abundant
in
riches
,
flowing
with
Arts
and
trafficke
with
all
Nations
:
how
happy
therefore
are
we
,
that
haue
peace
in
our
Citties
,
and
plentie
in
our
fieldes
?
yet
doubtlesse
,
our
sinnes
are
in
number
infinite
,
in
nature
abhominable
,
wee
deserue
as
little
pardoning
as
they
,
yet
is
our
wickednes
as
blacke
and
detestable
as
theirs
.
Let
vs
therfore
stray
aside
awhile
,
and
by
comparing
the
heauy
afflictions
which
the
Diuine
Iusticer
hath
layd
vpon
other
Countries
in
times
past
,
acknowledge
an
incommensurable
loue
and
mercy
of
his
,
to
this
Iland
of
ours
,
nowe
in
these
present
dayes
.
For
in
the
yere
of
Christ
81.
and
in
the
yeere
188
,
the
breath
of
the
Pestilence
was
so
strong
,
and
so
contagious
,
that
in
Rome
there
died
daily
two
thousand
people
.
In
the
yeere
254
,
fifteene
Prouinces
of
the
Romaine
Empyre
were
almost
consumed
with
the
like
calamitie
.
Nay
in
Constantinople
the
rage
of
the
disease
was
so
great
,
that
in
the
yeere
530
,
there
fell
euery
day
(
for
many
dayes
together
)
fiue
thousand
,
&
sometimes
tenne
thousand
.
Within
tenne
yeeres
after
that
,
(
which
was
in
Anno
540
,
)
there
began
an
vniuersall
plague
ouer
the
whole
world
,
which
continued
50
yeeres
with
hot
violence
.
In
the
yeere
1359
,
so
mortall
a
blow
did
Death
giue
to
Italy
by
infection
,
that
there
was
scarce
left
tenne
of
a
thousand
.
And
to
Rome
(
in
the
yere
1521
)
that
shee
made
graues
for
a
hundred
thousand
.
Millan
likewise
,
Padua
and
Venice
,
in
the
yeres
1576
and
77
,
opened
the
Earth
to
receiue
into
her
womb
a
hundred
thousand
dead
carkasses
,
that
were
left
breathlesse
in
each
of
those
Citties
,
by
the
tyrannie
of
this
pestiferous
disease
.
And
in
Bohemia
(
beeing
but
a
small
kingdome
)
there
died
three
hundred
thousand
the
same
time
.
In
the
yeere
1596
,
fel
such
a
plague
in
Constantinople
,
that
it
strooke
downe
in
sixe
moneths
space
,
seauen
hundred
thousand
persons
.
And
this
misery
was
seconded
by
so
terrible
a
Famine
,
that
a
penny
loafe
of
breade
of
English
mony
,
was
worth
a
crowne
in
golde
,
by
reason
of
which
,
the
people
were
worse
consumed
than
before
by
the
Pestilence
.
We
will
now
set
forth
some
of
our
owne
home-borne
tragedies
wrought
by
the
Plague
,
of
which
take
this
as
Prologue
to
the
rest
.
In
the
raigne
of
K.
Edward
the
third
,
the
Infection
spred
it selfe
in
the
East
Indies
,
amongst
the
Tartars
,
Saracens
and
Turks
,
which
had
a
hand
ouer
them
by
the
space
of
7
yeeres
:
and
this
vengeance
which
was
poured
downe
from
heauen
vpon
this
people
,
strooke
their
soules
into
such
amazement
and
terror
,
that
many
of
the
Heathen
(
with
the
very
feare
thereof
)
offred
to
be
conuerted
and
turne
Christians
.
Shorthe
after
,
by
reason
of
Passengers
from
one
Prouince
to
another
,
the
same
mortall
plague
was
dispersed
in
many
Christian
kingdoms
,
&
(
amongst
others
)
brought
into
England
,
where
it
was
so
forcible
all
ouer
the
Land
,
that
not
onely
men
,
but
also
beasts
,
birdes
and
fishes
were
smitten
there-with
,
and
found
dead
with
botches
vpon
them
.
Yea
,
such
a
massacre
did
it
make
amongst
the
liuing
,
that
they
were
scarceable
to
burie
the
dead
.
At
which
time
,
(
with
the
rest
that
then
died
of
the
Plague
,
)
Henry
Duke
of
Lancaster
,
Blanch
Dutchesse
of
Lancaster
,
and
the
Earle
of
Warwick
ended
their
liues
.
So
that
in
one
yeere
,
in
a
little
plot
of
ground
of
13
Acres
compasse
(
then
called
Spittle-croft
,
and
nowe
the
Charter-house
)
were
buried
50000.
persons
,
besides
all
them
that
were
then
buried
in
the
Church
yards
&
diuers
other
places
.
Our
late
calamities
infliced
vpon
vs
for
our
sinnes
are
fresh
in
memory
,
the
eyes
of
many
people
are
yet
wet
with
mourning
at
burials
,
the
rod
is
stil
held
ouer
vs
,
the
stripes
of
it
are
euen
nowe
to
bee
seene
sticking
in
our
flesh
.
Yet
you
see
howe
the
Great
Father
of
Nations
,
keepes
vs
vnder
his
wing
,
he
is
loth
to
chide
,
more
loath
to
strike
vs
,
let
vs
not
therefore
,
like
foolish
haire-braind
children
,
prouoke
him
too
often
,
and
too
much
to
anger
,
least
he
take
vp
his
triple
Mace
of
hote
vengeance
,
and
with
it
bruze
our
people
,
as
hee
hath
already
stretcht
out
his
Arme
to
smite
those
of
Barbarie
.
FINIS
.