V. 1625. æt. 65. Plantation, and not by Surcharge 47 be in Penury. It hath beene a great Endangering, to the Health of some Plantations, that they haue built along the Sea, and Riuers, in Marish and vnwholesome 48 Grounds Therefore, though you begin there, to auoid Carriage, and other like Difcommodities, yet build ftill, rather vpwards, from the Streames, then along.49 It concerneth likewife, the Health of the Plantation, that they haue good Store of Salt with them, that they may vse it, in their Victualls, when it shall be neceffary.50 If you Plant, where Sauages are, doe not onely entertaine them with Tritles, and Gingles; But vfe them iuftly, and gratiously, with sufficient Guard neuerthelesse: And doe not winne their fauour, by helping them to inuade their Enemies, but for their Defence31 it is not amisse. And fend oft of them, ouer to the Country, that Plants, that they may fee a better Condition 52 then their owne, commend it when they returne. When the Plantation grows to Strength, then it is time, to Plant with Women, as well as with Men; That the Plantation may spread into Generations, and not be euer peeced 55 from without. It is the finfulleft Thing in the world, to forsake or destitute a Plantation, once in Forwardneffe: For befides the Dishonour, it is the Guiltinesse of Bloud,56 of many Commiserable Persons. and 47 Surcharge. Omitted in the Latin. 48 Vnwholesome. Aquosis, watery." 49 Then along. Omitted in the Latin. 50 Necessary. Quos verisimile est putridos aliter sæpe futuros, ‘which (the victuals) will probably otherwise be often putrid.' $1 Defence. Sed Auxiliis Defensivis non incommodum erit subvenire, but to help them by aid for their defence will not be amiss.' $ Condition. Conditiones hominum, condition of men.' $3 Commend. Divulgent, publish.” 54 Plant with Women women also." $5 Be Men. Mulieres summittere, 'send peeced. Pendeat, 'depend.' 56 Guiltinesse of Bloud. Proditio mera Profusioque Sanguinis, ‘simple betrayal and shedding of blood.' V. 1625. æt. 65. 康 British Museum Copy. 35. Of Prophecies. Meane not to fpeake of Diuine Prophecies; Nor of Heathen Oracles; Nor of Naturall Predictions; But only of Prophecies, that haue beene of certaine Memory, and from Hidden Causes. Saith the Pythoniffa to Saul; To Morrow thou and thy fonne shall be with me.a hath these Verses. At Domus Æneæ cunctis dominabitur Oris, Homer A Prophecie, as it feemes, of the Roman Empire. Seneca the Tragedian hath these Verses. Venient Annis Secula feris, quibus Oceanus The A Prophecie of the Discouery of America. Daughter of Polycrates dreamed, that Iupiter bathed her Father, and Apollo annointed him: And it came to paffe, that he was crucified in an Open Place, where the Sunne made his Bodie runne with Sweat, and the Raine washed it. Philip of Macedon dreamed, He sealed vp his Wiues Belly: Whereby he did expound it, that his Wife should be barren: But Aris a 1 Sam. xxviii. 19. But the family of Eneas shall rule over all lands. And his children's children and those that shall be born of them. Virgil. Æneid. iii. 97. which are adapted from Homer. Iliad. xx. 307, 8. There shall come a time in the series of years, in which the Ocean shall unloose the bounds of things and a vast earth shall appear; also another Typhys shall disclose new worlds, neither shall Thule be the farthest land. Seneca. Medea. ii. 375-380. d Herodotus. iii. This Essay is not included in the posthumous Latin Edition of 1638 d the Soothsayer, told him, his Wife was with Childe, because Men doe not vfe to Seale Vessells that are emptie.4 A Phantafme, that appeared to M. Bras in his Tent, faid to him; Philippis iterùm me marcă Tiberius faid to Galba. Tu quoque Galba ibis Imperiums In Vefpafians Time, there went Free in the Eaft; That those that should come north of ľadu, fhould reigne ouer the World: which thout it may be was meant of our Saviour, yet Tazas expoends it of Vespasian Domitian dreamed, the Night before he was flaine, that a Golden Head wis growing out of the Nape of his Necke And indeed the Scocetion that followed him, for many peres, made Golden Times. Henry the Sixt of Engand and of Hey the Seuenth, when he was a Lad, Σ gize him Water; This is the Lad, that shall enioy the Crowne, for which we ftriue! When I was in Frau. I heard from one Dr. Pena, that the Q. Mother, who was gizen to Curious Arts, caused the King her Husbands Nativitie, to be Calculated, under a false Name: And the Aftrologer gaue a Iudgement, that be fould be killed in a Duell; At which the Queene hughed thinking her Husband, to be aboue Challenges and Duels: but he was flaine, vpon a Course at Tilt, the Splinters of the Staffe of Mongomery, going in at bis Beter. The triviall Prophecie, which I heard, when I was a Childe, and Queene Elisabeth was in the Flower of her Yeares, was; When Hembe is fponne; lum slut see me again at Philippi Appian. De Bellis Civilibus. ÔNG ĐINH TIÊN SA g Empire Suetonius Gala iv. tells it of Augustus V. 1625. æt. 65. Whereby, it was generally conceiued, that after the England build Houfes of Lime and Stone It was generally conceiued, to be meant of the Spanish Octogefsimus octauus mirabilis Annus ;a Was thought likewise accomplished, in the Sending of that great Fleet, being the greatest in Strength, though not in Number, of all that euer swamme vpon the Sea. As for Cleons Dreame, I thinke it was a Iest. It was, that he was deuoured of a long Dragon; And it was expounded of a Maker of Sausages, that troubled him exceedingly. There are Numbers of the like kinde; Especially if you include Dreames, and Predictions of Aftrologie. But I haue fet downe these few onely of certaine Credit, for Example. My Iudgement is, that they ought all to be Defpifed; And ought to ferue, but for Winter Talke, by the Fire fide. Though when I fay Defpifed, I meane it as for Beleefe: For other a Eighty Eight, a year of wonders. Aristophanes. Knights. 195. 1 mi leter marke, when they L I Cremes The Produce Conectes, or obfcure este temabes into ProStars a Man which coveteth COMS IR Felirted that, which As that of Seneca's vas te heft to Demonftraa nefarm, må great Parts beyond a mugar de Procably conceined, Art Aling fereto, the Tradition as damar it mought enme I TIPAM The third, s me Get ce & that almoft all a Number, hace beene Impofv de mi mte Frames, meerely conA her the Enem Pai ะง |