The totall discourse, of the rare adventures, and painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares travailes from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica. Perfited by three deare bought voyages, in surveying of forty eight kingdomes ancient and modern; twenty one rei-publicks, ten absolute principalities, with two hundred islands ... newly corrected, and augmented ... Together with the grievous tortures he suffered by the Inquisition of Malaga in Spaine ... his miraculous discovery and delivery / [William Lithgow].

  • William Lithgow
Date:
1640
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Credit: The totall discourse, of the rare adventures, and painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares travailes from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica. Perfited by three deare bought voyages, in surveying of forty eight kingdomes ancient and modern; twenty one rei-publicks, ten absolute principalities, with two hundred islands ... newly corrected, and augmented ... Together with the grievous tortures he suffered by the Inquisition of Malaga in Spaine ... his miraculous discovery and delivery / [William Lithgow]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i j ■III I I! r To his fingular friend Mr William Lithgoiv. *. ' * \ 'I . f I’j i ^ f • ’ , •* v ■ • g >He double travailefTit/^n^thou haft tane, ■ One of thy Feet,the other of thy Braine, ■*“ Thee,with thy lelfe jdo makcfor to contend \nr , t^e Earth thou’ft better pac’d or pend: would Mabgaes fweet liquor had thee crown’d. And not its treachery; made thy ioynts unfound, »• or LhrufKing, Country, what thou thereindui’d, JNotthem alone, but therein all injur’d : Their tort ring Rack,arrefting of thy pace Hath barr’d our hope,ofthe worlds other face: Who is it lees this fide fo wellexpreft, That with defire, doth not long for the reft. Thy travail’d Countries fo delcribed be As Readers thinke, they doe each Region fee : Thy well compafted matter, ornat Stile, Doth them oft, in quicke Aiding Time beguile, ike asa Maide3wandring in Floraes Bowers Confin’d to fmai 1 ti me, of few flitting howers. Rapt with delight, of her eye-pleafing treafure, Now culling this, now that Flower, takes fuch pleafure That the drift time,whereto fhe was confin’d 5 ]? all expir’d: whiles (he thought haife behind Or more remain’d. So each attrafting Line * Maxes them forget the time,they do not tine • Bn? fince fweet future travaile is cut (hort, Yet loofe no time,now with the Mufei fport- That reading of Thee,after times may tell In Travaile, Prole and Verle, thou didft excell. Patrick Hannay.
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