Now you talke of setling I knew a gentleman, that was borne to a good fortune, sold all his land, went to sea in a Hollander, was taken by the Dunkirke; at seaven yeares end stole away in an English botome; after that saw both the Indies; for all this was taken by a Turks man of warre, put into the Gallies, and for ought I heare by credible report is not setled yet.

Or shall we tie our selves for certaine yeares 120 To anie service, or to anie place?

Dni. One thousand six hundred ninety-five, and in the seventh yeare of the Raigne of King William the Third, &c. H. PURCELL.

They that in course of heavenly spheares are skild To every planet point his sundry yeare, In which her circles voyage is fulfild:

My tender yeares.

But one thinge I intreate you, Mirable: This thyrteene yeares, since by rude creditors Tost and opprest, nay rent out of myne owne, I have bin forct to seeke my fate abroad, Howe weare you ravisht thence, or since that tyme What strange adventures past?

640 Now, when the sloathfull fit of lifes sweete rest Had left the heavie Shepheard, wondrous cares His inly grieved minde full sore opprest; That balefull sorrow he no longer beares For that Gnats death, which deeply was imprest, 645 But bends what ever power his aged yeares Him lent, yet being such as through their might He lately slue his dreadfull foe in fight.

These kinde of people about an hundred yeares agoe, about the twentith yeare of King Henry the eight, began to gather an head, at the first heere about the Southerne parts, and this (as I am informed) and as I can gather, was their beginning.