THe straunge turning of the I le of Dogs , from a commedie to a tragedie two summers past , with the troublesome stir which hapned aboute it , is a generall rumour that hath filled all England , and such a heauie crosse laide vpon me , as had well neere confounded mee : I meane , not so much in that it sequestred me from the woonted meanes of my maintenance , which is as great a maime to any mans happinesse , as can bee feared from the hands of miserie , or the deepe pit of dispaire wherinto I was falne , beyond my greatest friendes reach to recouer mee : but that in my exile and irkesome discontented abandonment , the silliest millers thombe , or contemptible stickle-banck of my enemies , is as busie nibbling about my fame , as if I were a deade man throwne amongest them to feede vpon . So I am I confesse in the worldes outwarde apparance , though perhappes I may prooue a cunninger diuer then they are aware , which if it so happen as I am partely assured , and that I plunge aboue water once againe , let them looke to it , for I will put them in bryne , Quassa tamen nostra est , non mersa nec obrutunauis . or a piteous pickle euery one . But let that passe , though they shal find I wil not let it passe when time serues , I hauing a pamphlet hot a brooding that shall be called the Barbers warming panne , and to the occasion , a fresh of my falling in alliance with this lenten argument . That infortunate imperfit Embrion of my idle houres the I le of Dogs before mentioned , breeding vnto me such bitter throwes in the teaming as it did , and the tempestes that arose at his birth , so astonishing outragious and violent as if my braine had bene conceiued of another Hercules , I was so terrifyed with my owne encrease ( like a woman long trauailing to bee deliuered of a monster ) that it was no sooner borne but I was glad to run from it . Too inconsiderate he adlong rashnesse this may be censured in me , in beeing thus prodigall in aduantaging my aduersaries , but my case is no smoothred secret , and with light cost of rough cast rethorieke it may be tollerablely playstered ouer , if vnder the pardon and priuiledge of incensed higher powers it were lawfully indulgenst me freely to aduocate my owne astrology . Sufficeth what they in their graue wisedoomes shall proscribe , I in no sorte will seeke to acquite , nor presumptuously attempte to dispute against the equity of their iudgementes , but humble and prostrate appeale to their mercies . Auoide or giue grounde I did , scriptum est I will not goe from it , and post varios casus , variable Knight arrant aduentures , and outroades , and inroades , at greate Yarmouth in Norfolke , I ariued in the latter ende of Autumne . Where hauing scarse lookt about me , my presaging minde saide to it selfe , Hic fanonius serenus est , hic auster imbricus , this is a predestinate fit place for Pierse Pennilesse to set vp his staffe in . Therein not much diameter to my deuining hopes did the euent sort it selfe , for sixe weekes first and last vnder that predodumant constellation of Aquarius or Ioues Nectar filler , tooke I vp my repose , and there mette with such kind entertainment and benigne hospitality when I was Una litera plusquam An imperfit Embrion I ma well call it , for I hauing begun but the induction and first act of it , the other soure acts without my consent , or the least guesse of my drift or scope , by the players were supplied , which bred both their trouble and mine to . Medicus . medicus as Plautus saith , and not able to line to my selfe with my owne iuice , as some of the crummes of it like the crums in a bushy beard after a greate banquet , will remaine in my papers to bee seene when I am deade and vnder ground ; from the bare perusing of which infinite posterities of hungry Poets shall receiue good refreshing , euen as Homer by Galataeon was pictured vomiting in a basō ( in the temple that Ptolomy Philopater erected to him ) and the rest of the succeeding Poets after him , greedily lapping vp what he disgorged . That good old blind bibber of Helicon I wot well , came a begging to one of the chiefe citties of Greece , & promised them vast corpulent volumes of immortallity , if they would bestowe vpon him but a slender outbrothers annuity of muttō & broth , and a pallet to sleep on , and with derision they reiected him , wherupon he went to their enemies with the like profier , who vsed him honourably , and whome hee vsed so honourably , that to this daye though it be three thousand ye are since , their name and glorie florish greene in mens memory through his industry . I truste you make no question but those dull pated pennifathers , that in such dudgen scorne reiected him , drunck deep of the soure cup of repentance for it , when the high flight of his lines in common brute was ooyessed . Yea in the worde of one no more wealthy then hee was , wealthy saide I , nay I 'le befworne hee was a grande iurie man in respect of me , those graybeard Huddle-duddles and crusty cum-twangs , were strooke with such stinging remorse of their miserable Euclionisme and sundgery , that hee was not yet cold in his graue but they challenged him to be borne amongst them , and they and sixe citties more , entred a sharpe warre aboute it , euery one of them laying claime to him as their owne , and to this effect hath Bucchanan an Epigram .

I alleadge this tale to shewe howe much better my lacke then Homers ( though all the King of Spaines Indies will not create me such a nigling Hexameter-founder as he was ) in the first proclayming of my banke-rout indigence and beggery , to bende my course to such a curteous compassionate clime as Yarmouth , and to warne others that aduaunce their heades aboue all others , and haue not respected , but rather flatly opposed themselues against the Frier medicants of our profession , what their amercements and vnrepriueable pennance will be , excepte they teare ope their oystermouthd pouches quickly , and make double amendes for their parsimony . I am no Tiresias or Calchas to prophecie , but yet I cannot tell , there may bee more resounding bel-mettall in my pen then I am aware , and if there bee , the first peale of it is Yarmouthes . For a patterne or tiny-sample what my elaborate performance would bee in this ease , had I a ful-sayld gale of prosperity to encourage mee , whereas at the dishumored composing hereof may iustly complaine with Ouid .

My state is so tost and weather-beaten that it hath nowe no anchor-holde left to cleaue vnto . I care not , if in a dimme farre of launce-skippe , I take the paines to describe this superimente principall Metropolis of the redde Fish . A towne it is that in rich situation exceedeth many citties , and without the which , Caput gentis , the swelling Battlementes of Gurguntus , a head citty of Norffolke , and Suffolke , would scarce retaine the name of a Citty , but become as ruinous and desolate as Thetforde or Ely : out of an hill or heape of sande , reared and enforced from the sea most miraculously , and by the singular pollicy and vncessant inestimable expence of the Inhabitantes , so firmely piled and rampierd against the funish waues battry , or suyng the leaste action of recouerie , that it is more coniecturall of the twaine , the land with a writ of a Eiectione firma wil get the vpperhande of the Ocean , then the Ocean one crowes skip preuaile against the Continent . Forth of the sands thus struglingly as it exalteth and liftes vp his glittering head . So of the neyboring sands no lesse semblably ( whether in recordation of their worn out affinitie or no , I know not ) it is so inamorately protected and patronized , that they stand as a trench or guarde about it in the night , to keep off their enemies . Now in that drowsie empire of the pale-fac't Queene of shades , malgre letting driue vpon their Barricadoes , or impetuously contending to breake through their chaine or barre , but they entombe and balist with sodaine destruction . In this transcursiue reportory without some obseruant glaunce , I may not dully ouerpasse the gallant beauty of their hauen , which hauing but as it were a welte of land , or as M. Camden cals it , lingulam terrae , a little tong of the earth betwixte it and the wide Maine , sticks not to mannage armes , and hold his owne vndefeasably against that vniuersall vnbounded empery of surges , and so hath done for this hundreth yeere . Two mile in length it stretched his winding current , and then meetes with a spatious riuer or backwater that feedes it . A narrow channell or Isthmus in rash view you woulde opinionate it : when this I can deuoutly auerre , I beholding it with both my eies this last fishing , sixe hundreth reasonable barkes and vesselles of good burden ( with a vantage ) it hath giuen shelter to at once in her harbour , and most of them riding abrest before the Key betwixt the Bridge and the Southgate . Many bows length beyond the marke , my penne roues not I am certain , if I doe , they stand at my elbow that can correct mee . The delectablest lustie sight and mouingest obiect , me thought it was that our I le sets forth , and nothng behinde in number with the inuincible Spanish Armada , though they were not such Gargantuan boysterous gulliguts as they , though ships and galeasses they would haue beene reckoned in the nauy of K. Edgar , who is chronicled & registred with three thousand ships of warre to haue scoured the narrow seas , and sailed round about England euery Summer . That which especiallest nourisht the most prime pleasure in me , was after a storme when they were driuen in swarmes , and lay close pestred together as thicke as they could packe ; the next day following , if it were faire , they would cloud the whole skie with canuas , by spreading their drabled sailes in the full clue abroad a drying , and make a brauer shew with them , then so many banners and streamers displayed against the Sunne on a mountaine top . But how Yarmouth of it selfe so innumerable populous and replenished , and in so barraine a plot seated , should not onely supply her inhabitants with plentifull purueyance of sustenance , but prouant and victuall moreouer this monstrous army of strangers , was a matter that egregiously bepuzled and entranced my apprehension . Hollanders , Zelanders , Scots , French , Westerne men , Northren men , besides all the hundreds and wapentakes nine miles compasse , fetch the best of their viands and mangery from her market . For ten weeks together this rabble rout of outlandishers are billetted with her , yet in all that while the rate of no kinde of food is raised , nor the plenty of their markets one pinte of butter rebated , and at the ten weekes end , when the campe is broken vp , no impression of any dearth left , but rather more store then before . Some of the towne dwellers haue so large an opinion of their setled prouision , that if all her Maiesties fleet at once should put into their bay , within twelue dayes warning with so much double beere , beefe , fish and bisket they would bulke them as they could wallow away with .

Here I could breake out into a boundlesse race of oratory , in shrill trumpetting and concelebrating the royall magnificence of her gouernement , that for state and strict ciuill ordering , scant admitteth any riuals : but I feare it would be a theame displeasant to the graue modesty of the discreet present magistrates ; and therefore consultiuely I ouerslip it , howsoeuer I purpose not in the like nice respect to leape ouer the laudable petigree of Yarmouth , but will fetch her from her swadling clouts or infancy , & reueale to you when and by whom she was first raught out of the oceans armes , and start vp and aspired to such starry sublimitie , as also acquaint you with the notable immunities , franchises , priuileges she is endowed with beyond all het confiners , by the discentine line of kings from the conquest .

There be of you it may be , that will account me a paltrer , for hanging out the signe of the redde Herring in my title page , and no such feast towards for ought you can see . Soft and faire my marsters , you must walke and talke before dinner an houre or two , the better to whet your appetites to taste of such a dainty dish as the redde Herring , and that you may not thinke the time tedious , I care not if I beare you company , and leade you a sound walke round about Yarmouth , and shew you the length and bredth of it .

The masters and batchellours commensement dinners at Cambridge and Oxford , are betwixt three and foure in the afternoone , & the rest of the antecedence of the day worne out in disputations : imagine this the act or commensement of the red Herring , that proceedeth batcheler , master & doctor all at once , & therefore his disputations must be longer . But to the point , may it please the whole generation of my auditours to be aduertised , how that noble earth where the town of great Yarmouth is now mounted , & where so much fish is sold , in the dayes of yore , hath bin the place where you might haue catch fish , & as plaine a sea within this 600. yere as any bote could tumble in , & so was the whole leuill of the Marshes betwixt it and Norwich . An. Do . 1000. or thereabouts ( as I haue scrapt out of wormeaten Parchment ) and in the Raigne of Canutus , hee that dyed drunke at Lambeth or Lome-hith , somewhat before , or some what after , not a prenticeship of yeares varying : Caput extulit vndis , the sands set vp shop for themselues , and from that moment to this sextine centurie ( or let me not be taken with a lye , fiue hundred nintie eight , that wants but a paire of yeares to make me a true man ) they would no more liue vnder the yoke of the Sea , or haue their heads washt with his bubbly spume or Barbers balderdash , but clearely quitted , disterminated and relegated themselues from his inflated Capriciousnesse of playing the Dictator ouer them .

The Northerne winde was the clanging trumpetter , who with the terrible blast of his throate , in one yeallow heape or plumpe clustred or congested them togither , euen as the Westerne gales in Holland right ouer against them , haue wrought vnruly hauocke , and thresht and swept the sandes so before them , that they haue choakt or clamd vp the middle walke or dore of the Rhene , and made it as stable a clod-mould , or turffe ground , as any hedger can driue stake in . Castter two mile distant from this new Yarmouth we intreate of , is inscribed to be that olde Yarmouth , wherof there are specialties to be seene in the oldest writers , and yet some visible apparant tokens remaine of a hauen that ran vp to it , and there had his entrance into the sea , by aged Fishermen commonly tearmed Grubs Hauen ) though now it be graueld vp , and the streame or tyde-gate turned another way . But this is most warrantable , the Alpha of all the Yarmouths it was , & not the Omega correspondently , & from her withered roote they branch the high ascent of their genealogie . Omnium rerum vicissitudo est , ones falling , is anothers rising , and so fell it out with that ruind Dorpe or hamlet , which after it had relapst into the Lordes handes for want of reparations , and there were not men enough in it to defend the shore from inuasion , one Cerdicus a Plashing Saxon , that had reueld here and there with his battleaxe , on the bordring bankes of the decrepite ouerworne village now surnamed Gorlstone threw forth his anchor , and with the afsistance of his speare , in stead of a pikestaffe , leapt aground like a sturdie bruite , and his yeomen bolde cast their heeles in their necke , and friskt it after him , and thence sprouteth that obscene appellation of Sarding sandes , with the draffe of the carterly Hoblobs thereabouts , concoct or disgeast for a scripture , verity , when the right christendome of it , is Cerdicke sands , or Cerdick shore , of Cerdicus so denominated , who was the first maylord or captaine of the morris daunce that on those embenched shelues stampt his footing where cods & dogfish swomme not a warp of weeks forerunning ) & til he had giuen the onset they balkt thē as quicksands . By and by after his iumping vppon them , the Saxons for that Garianonum , or Yarmoth that had giuen vp the ghost , in those slymie plashie fieldes of Gorlstone trowled vp a second Yarmouth , abutting on the West side of the shore of this great Yarmouth , that is , but feeling the ayre to be vnholsome and disagreeing with them , to the ouerwhart brink or verge of the flud , that writ all one stile of Cerdicke sands , they dislodged with bagge and baggage , and there layde the foundation of a third Yarmouth O quam nulla potest abolere vetustas , that I hope will holde vp her head till Doomesday . In this Yarmouth as Master Camden saith , there were seauentie inhabitants , or housholders , that payed scot and lot in the time of Edward the Confessor , but a Chronographycal Latine table , which they haue hanging vp in their Guild hall , of all their transmutations from their Cradlehoode , infringeth this a little , and flatters her , shee is a great deale yonger , in a faire text hand texting vnto vs , how in the Scepterdome of Edward the Confessor , the sands first began to growe into sight at a low water , and more sholder at the mouth of the ryuer Hirus or Ierus , whereupon it was dubbed Iernmouth or Yarmouth , and then there were two Channels , one on the North , another on the South , where through the fisher-men did wander and wauer vp to Norwitch , and diuers parts of Suffolke and Norfolke , all the fennie Lerna betwixt , that with Reede is so imbristled , being ( as I haue forespoke or spoken to fore ) Madona , Amphitritc , fluctuous demeans or fee simple .

From the Citie of Norwich on the East part , it is sixteene mile disiunct , and dislorated , and though betwixt the Sea and the salt flud it be interposed , yet in no place about it can you digge sixe foote deepe , but you shall haue a gushing spring of fresh or sweete water for all vses , as apt and accommodate , as Saint Winifrides Well , or Towre-hill water at London , so much praised and sought after . My Tables are not yet one quarter emptied of my notes out of their Table , which because it is , as it were a Sea Rutter diligently kept amongst them from age to age , of all their ebbs and flowes , and winds that blew with or against them , I tie my selfe to more precisely , and thus it leadeth on .

In the time of King Herrolde and William the Conqueour , this sand of Yarmouth grew to a setled lumpe , and was as drie as the sands of Arabia , so that thronging theaters of people ( as well Aliens as Englishmen ) hiued thither about the selling of fish and Herring , from Saint Michael to Saint Martin , and there built sutlers booths and tabernacles , to canopie their heads in from the rhewme of the heauens , or the clouds dissoluing Cataracts . King William Rufus hauing got the Golden wreath about his head , one Herbertus Bishop of the sea of Norwich , hearing of the gangs of good fellowes , that hurtled and bustled thither , as thicke as it had beene to the shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket , or our Ladie of Walsingham , builded a certaine Chappell there for the seruice of God , and saluation of soules .

In the raigne of King Henrie the first , King Steuen , King Henrie the second , and Richard de corde Lyon , the apostacie of the sands from the yalping world was so great , that they ioynd themselues to the maine land of Eastflege , and whole tribes of males and females , trotted bargd it thither to build and enhabite , which the saide Kinges whiles they weilded their swords temporall animaduertised of , assigned a ruler or gouernour ouer them , that was called the Kings prouost , and that manner of prouostship or gouernment remained in full force and vertue all their fowre Throneships , Alias a hundred yeare , euen till the inanguration of King Iohn , in whose dayes the forewritten-of Bishop of Norwich , seeing the numbrous increase of soules of both kindes that there had framd their nests , and meant not to forsake them till the soule Bell towld them thence , puld downe his Chappell , and what by himselfe and the deuout oblations and douatines of the fishermen vpon euery returne with their nets full , reedifide and raysed it to a Church of that magnitude , as vnder ministers and Cathedrals verie queasie it admits any hayle fellow well met , and the Church of Saint Nicholas he hallowed it , whence Yarmuoth roade is nicknamed the Roade of Saint Nicholas . King Iohn to comply and keep consort with his auncestors in furthring of this new waterworke , in the ninth yeare of the engirting his annoynted browes with the refulgent Ophir circle , and Anno 1209. set a fresh glosse vppon it , of the towne or free burrough of Yarmouth , and furnisht it with many substantial priuiledges and liberties , to haue and to holde the same of him , and his race , for fifty fiue pound yearely . In Anno 1240. it percht vp to be gouernd by balies , and in a narrower limmitte then the forty yeares vndermeale of the seauen sleepers , it had so much towe to her distaffe and was so well lined and bumbasted , that in a sea battell her shippes and men conflicted the cinque ports , and therein so laid about them , that they burnt , tooke , and spoyled the most of them , whereof such of them as were sure flights , ( sauing a reuerence of their manhoods ) ranne crying and complayning to King Henry the second , who with the aduice of his counsaile , set a fine of a thousand pound on the Yarmouth mens heads for that offence , which fine in the tenth of his reigne hee dispenc't with and pardoned .

Edward the first , and Edward the second likewise , let them lacke for no priuiledges , changing it from a burrough to a porte towne , and there setting vp a custome house with the appurtenances for the loading and vnloading of shlps . Henry the third in the fortieth of his empery cheard vp their blouds with two charters more , and in Anno 1262. and forty fiue of his courte keeping , hee permitted them to wall in their towne and moate it about with a broade ditch , and to haue a prison or iaile in it . In the swindge of his trident hee constituted two Lord admirals ouer the whole nauy of England , which he disposed in two partes , the one to beare sway from the thames mouth Northwarde , called the Northren nauy , the other to shape his course from the thames mouth to the westwarde termed the westerne nauy , and ouer this northren nauy , for admirall commissionated one Iohn Peerbrowne burgesse of the towne of Yarmouth , and ouer the westerne nauy one Sir Robert Laburnus knight .

But Peerebrowne did not only hold his office all the time of that king doeing plausible seruice , but was againe Readmirald by Edward the third and so died ; in the fourteenth of whose raigne he mette with the french Kinges nauy beeing foure-hundred saile , neere to the hauen of Sluse , and there so slic't and slasht them & tore their plancks to mammocks and their leane guttes to kites meate , that their best mercy was fire & water which hath no mercie , and not a victuelar or a drumbler of them hanging in the winde aloofe , but was rib-roasted or had some of his ribbes crusht with their stondarting engines , no ordinance then beeing inuented . This Edward the thirde of his propensiue minde towardes them , vnited to Yarmouth Kirtley roade , from it seauen mile vacant , and sowing in the furrowes that his predecessours had entred , hayned the price of their priuiledges & not brought them downe one barley kirnell .

Richard the second vpon a discorde twixt Leystofe and Yarmouth , after diuerse law-dayes and arbitrarie mandates to the counties of Suffolke and Norfolke directed about it , in proper person 1385. came to Yarmouth and in his parliamente the yeare ensuing , confirmed vnto it the liberties of Kirtley roade , ( the onely motiue of all their contention ) . Henrie the fifth or the fifth of the Henries that ruled ouer vs , abridged them not amite of their purchast prerogatiues , but permitted them to builde a bridge ouer their hauen and ayded and furthered them in it . Henry the sixth , Edward the fourth , Henry the seauenth and King Henry the eight , with his daughters Queene Mary and our Chara deum soboles Queene Elizabeth , haue not withred vp their handes in signing and subscribing to their requests , but our virgin rectoresse most of al , hath shoured downe her bounty vpon them , graunting them greater graunts then euer they had , besides by-matters of the clarke of the marketshippe , and many other beneuolences towardes the reparation of their porte . This and euery towne hath his backewinters or frostes that nippe it in the blade ( as not the clearest sunne-shine but hath his shade , and there is a time of sicknes as well as of health ) . The backewinter , the froste biting , the eclipse , or shade , and sicknesse of Yarmouth was , a greate sicknesse or plague in it 1348 , of which in one yeare seauen thousand and fifty people toppled vp their heeles there . The newe building at the west ende of the Church was begunne there 1330. which like the imperfit workes of kinges colledge in Cambridge , or Christ-church in Oxford haue too costly large foundations to be euer finished ,

It is thought if the towne had not beene so scourged and eaten vp by that mortality , out of their owne purses they woulde haue proceeded with it , but nowe they haue gone a neerer way to the woode , for with wooden galleries in the Church that they haue , and stayry degrees of seates in them , they make as much roome to sitte and heare , as a newe west end would haue done .

The length and bredth of Yarmouth I promised to shew you ; haue with you , haue with you : but first looke wistly vpon the walles , which if you marke , make a stretcht out quadrangle with the hauen . They are in compasse from the South cheanes to the North cheanes , two thousand one hundreth and fourescore yardes . They haue towres vpon them sixteene : mounts vnderfonging & enflancking them two of olde , now three , which haue their thundring tooles to compell Deigo Spanyard to ducke , and strike the winde collicke in his paunch , if he praunce to neere them , and will not vaile to the Queene of England . The compasse about the wall of this new mount is fiue hundreth foot , and in the measure of yards eight score and seuen . The bredth of the foundation nine foot : the depth within ground eleuen . The heighth to the setting thereof fifteene foot , and in bredth at the setting of it , fiue foot three inches , and the procerous stature of it ( so embailing and girdling in this mount ) twentie foot and sixe inches . Gates to let in her friends , and shut out her enemies , Yarmouth hath ten , lanes seuenscore : as for her streets , they are as long as threescore streets in London , and yet they diuide them but into three . Voide ground in the towne from the walles to the houses , and from the houses to the hauen , is not within the verge of my Geometry . The liberties of it on the fresh water one way , as namely from Yarmouth to S. Toolies in Beckles water , are ten mile , and from Yarmouth to Hardlie crosse another way , ten mile , and conclusiuely , from Yarmouth to Waybridge in the narrow North water tenne mile ; in all which foords or Meandors : none can attache , arrest , distresse , but their officers ; and if any drowne themselues in them , their Crowners sit vpon them .

I had a crotchet in my head , here to haue giuen the raines to my pen , and run astray thorowout all the coast townes of England , digging vp their dilapidations , and raking out of the dust-heape or charnell house of tenebrous eld , the rottenest relique of their monuments , and bright scoured the canker eaten brasse of their first bricklayers and founders , & commented and paralogized on their condition in the present , & in the pretertense , not for any loue or hatred I beare them , but that I would not be snibd , or haue it cast in my dishe , that therefore I prayse Yarmouth so rantantingly , because I neuer elsewhere bayted my horse , or tooke my bowe and arrowes and went to bed . Which leesing ( had I bene let alone ) I would haue put to bed with a recumbentibus , by vttering , the best that with a safe conscience mought be vttred of the best , or worst of them all , and not withstanding all at best , that tongue could speake , or hart could thinke of them , they should bate me an ace of Yarmouth . Mutch brainetossing and breaking of my scull it cost me , but farewell it , and farewel the Baylies of the Cynqueports , whose primordiat Gethneliaca , was also dropping out of my inckhorne , with the syluer oare of their barronry by William the Conquerour conueyed ouer them at that nicke when hee firmed and rubrickt the Kentishmens gauill kinde of the sonne to inherite at fifteene , and the felony of the father not to draw a foot of land from the sonne , & amongst the sonnes the portion to be equally distributed ; and if there were no sonnes , much good doe it the daughters , for they were to share it after the same tenure , and might alienate it how they would , either by legacy or bargaine without the consent of the lord .

To shun spight , I smothered these dribblements , & refrained to descant how William the Conquerour hauing heard the prouerbe of Kent and Christendome , thought he had woonne a countrey as good as all Christendome , when he was enfeofed of Kent , for which , to make it sure vnto him after he was entailed thereunto , nought they askt they needed to aske twise , it being enacted ere the words came out of their mouth . Of that profligated labour , yet my breast pants and labours : a whole moneths minde of reuoluing meditation , I raueling out therein ( as raueling out signifies Penelopes telam retexere , the vnweauing of a webbe before wouen and contexted : ) It pities me , it pities me , that in cutting of so faire a diamond as Yarmouth , I haue not a casket dusky Coruish diamonds by me , and a boxe of muddy foiles the better to set it forth . Ut nemo miser nisi comparatus , sic nihil pro mirifico nisi cum alijs conferatur . Cedites solistellae scintillantes , soli Garrianano cedite reliqua oppida veligera sedium naualium speciocissimo sed redeo ad vernaculvm .