A display of two forraigne sects in the East Indies vizt: the sect of the Banians the ancient natiues of India and the sect of the Persees the ancient inhabitants of Persia· together with the religion and maners of each sect collected into two bookes by Henry Lord sometimes resident in East India and preacher to the Hoble Company of Merchants trading thether

CHAP. V.

Of Wyse the fourth Sonne of Pourous, his Trauailes ouer seuen Seas, his Architecture, hee meeteth with the Woman appointed; his reuelations touching Religion, consummation of loue with the Woman, and their peopling of the South.

THen Wyse the youngest of the foure Brethren, went to the North, hauing instruments necessary with him to effectuate any thing that his well conceipted inuention could finde out: therefore whatso∣euer was conuenient for mans vse, hee had a braine to thinke and contriue; that so the needes of the world might be serued by the deuises of his ingenious fancy or conceipt. Thus he became the originall of the handy∣crafts; for hee knew how to reare the buil∣dings of Townes, Cities, or Castles; to set, plant, and till the ground; how to make all things needfull for the vse of man; which various disposition of his to meditate things

for mans conuenience, gaue him the name of Viskermah, which is as much as the Hands∣man, because he could do any thing to bee done by the hand.

Being indued with a genius sit for Planta∣tions, he (directed by God) trauailed towards the South, where he met with seuen Seas, all which he passed ouer, framing a vessell for his conuoy, and leauing in euery place testimo∣nies of his ingenuity; and passing ouer the last called Pashcurbatee, he came to the land called Derpe, there by the Sea side hee built him a faire house of such Timber as grew by the place, hauing Engines of Art, to reare vp Timber. Thus hauing made a comely habita∣tion, with roomes lightsome, and broad tar∣rasses or roofes aloft, for pleasure and pro∣spect delightfull, where he might sometimes please his eyes with the rowling Sea, which with renewed assaults smote against the bankes of the shoare, and directing his sight the other way, might behold the pleasant woods and fieldes, he thus for a time solaced himselfe after tedious trauaile.

But not long had he tooke such comfort as his solitary condition could affoord him, but the Woman appointed for him wandering through the woods to the Sea side, and pas∣sing along the shoare thereof, set her eyes vp∣on this new Edifice; and hauing neuer beheld any before, the rarity of it drew her neerer to

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satisfie her admiration with the view of the same; on whom Wyse chancing to cast his eye, as shee thus came to looke on his habitation, he descended to take a fuller contemplation of her beauty, whose feature deserued his better notice; for shee was of body amiably white, and her tresses were scattered with poudered Saunders, and other odors, the sent of which the blasts of the winde dispersed in such māner, that he became partaker of them by his approach, which enkindled his senses with new desires, to be neerer her, who at such distance gaue him a smell of so great sweet∣nesse: whose approach strucke her into a blush, but her shame giuing place, she moued the question to him, How he came to that place where she onely had liued, to interupt her in her free walkes and wanderings? He made answer, That God the maker of light, that makes all obiects visible, had sent him thither to admire her excellency, which was so rare, That it was not fit it should bee sha∣ded in a place so solitary, but had reserued it as a blessing for his eyes to view and admire: and because it was pitty desolation and lone∣lynesse should bee a waster and obscurer of such louelynesse, hee had with hazard of his life aduentured ouer seuen Seas, to be blest with the enioyment thereof; a labour and tra∣uaile worthy of so rich a recompence, and a worthy recompence and satisfaction for such

a labour: intreated her therefore, to accept of such a blessing as God had prouided for her by his society.

But she that could not be brought to thinke of a course of life different from her former, told him that in his absence shee found no need of his presence, neither did shee at that present stand inclined to accept of his moti∣on; that therefore he would leaue her to the liberty of her owne free dispose. He loath to lose the happinesse of his eyes, importuned her to view the roomes of his building, as if he meant to wooe her with the faire workes of his handes: but she taking his importunity in euill part, told him, that if hee desired her not to shunne the place, hee would dismisse her freely. So turning from him with some displeasure, because shee was by him vnwil∣lingly detained, she fled from him with coye distaste, he almost expiring with the sadnesse of her departure, whose presence he could not purchase and his pleasure therein with∣out her anger.

She hauing rob'd his eyes of that sight, that they would neuer willingly haue lost, he committed himselfe to the racke of pensiue meditations, broke the quiet slumbers of re∣pose, thinking darknesse vnfauorable to him that suspended and prorogued the chearefull day from his appearance, in which hee might renew his visitations of her. So trauersing

the woods to and fro, hee at last came into a Valley, where hee found her cropping the flowers, and gratifying her senses with their seuerall odours; on whom intruding ere shee well perceiued, he said: Oh sweeter then all Flowers or sents that the field can boast of, whose louelinesse hath drawne me to make proffer of new kindnesse, fly me not who hast had a former tryall of my behauiour towards thee. So bearing with his presence, he tooke occasion to make knowne to her the Creati∣on of the world, and the Parents from whence he was descended, the dispersing of his bre∣thren into the seuerall parts of the world, the hardnesse and hazard of his voyages, the qualities with which he was indued, and the seuerall Monuments of his Art, which hee had left in the places where hee had beene. Further, he conceiued that the power aboue had not prompted him with the ieopardy of a thousand liues to cut a path through seuen ragged Seas in a floating habitation, but euen to that end that the bitternesse of all those euils might be sweetned by his enioyment of her.

She desirous to breake off this speech, as vngratefull to her eares, turned backe this discourse, desiring him to take his content∣ments elsewhere, then in quest after her; that if she could preuaile with him in any request, it should be in this, to leaue her, and neuer af∣ter

to disturbe her with such motions. So both departed, she indisdaine, he in sadnesse and sorrow, for such dismission: giuing him onely this as a doubtfull comfort at their par∣ting, that if she found her selfe inclined to his society, she knew where to finde him, and to manifest to him such alteration,

Vpon this hauing left the place that con∣tained his blisse, with oppressed thoughts, he was no sooner got into a priuate place that might seeme as counsell keeper to his passi∣ons, but hee humbled himselfe vnder the greene trees, and said; Oh thou to whom be∣longs the acknowledgement of my being, I haue by thy guidance forsaken the society of my parents, whom I know not whether I shall euer behold againe, as also the fellowship of my brethren; I haue coped with as many haz∣zards as can make trauaile bitter and dis∣comfortable, I haue left company to come in∣to solitude; nay, which is worse, to behold one that might giue me the wished comforts of society, by her refusall to adde degrees to my sorrow. Oh make not voide the end of my being! giue not such an euill recompence to my aduentures, bury not all these qualities thou hast put in this Essence, by this one disa∣ster: witnesse oh you heauens, vnder whose azured roofe I now am, the sorrow I suffer, and witnesse oh ye greene trees, that if you were sensible of my complaint, would spend

your selues in gummy teares, what Agony perplexeth mee. And if the Maker of crea∣tures ouerlooke his workes, let him now ap∣peare and redresse the miseries of his Ser∣uant.

With that a still and quiet Ayre breathed through the leaues of the trees, and a voyce issued thereupon, and said, What requirest thou oh thou son of Pourous? And Wyse made answer, that he onely desired that the woman with whom he had met, might affoord him the comforts of society in the copulations of Marriage; which request was granted on these iniunctions, that he should erect Pagods for Gods worshippe, and adore Images vnder greene trees, because God had vnder them manifested himselfe hy vision to him.

So Ieiunogundah, (for so was the woman called) feeling the motions of affection to re∣newe in her, at the next meeting gaue such expressions of loue to Wyse, as fully accom∣plished his demaund: So conuersing toge∣ther, they made good the nuptiall ends, in a fruitfull generation. So the South as the other parts of the world became inhabited.