The gunner shevving the vvhole practise of artillerie: vvith all the appurtenances therevnto belonging. Together with the making of extra-ordinary artificiall fireworkes, as well for pleasure and triumphes, as for warre and seruice. VVritten by Robert Norton, one of his Maiesties gunners and enginiers.
Norton, Robert, d. 1635., Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598,
A Due to the Author, his Worke and Worth.
SInce mongst all Nations Warre it selfe doth showe,
It behooues Man Warres Weapons for to know,
Who here may learne the Gunners ayming Arts,
Which thy free industry to all imparts;
The fittest subiect now it is by farre,
At these times, when such Rumors are of Warre,
And filles the Eares, and Courages awake,
Goe on then, and to Thee this glory take,
That he that reades these things which thou dost write,
May know a Gunners part, though he nere fight,
And know Warres chiefest Engines vse and strength,
In Bore, Cilinder, Axis, and in Length,
In Touch-hole, Carriage, Wadd, in Shot and Charge,
Of Fire-workes in briefe thou speakst at large;
French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, vaile your Cappes
To Nortons skill, in Mars his Thunder-claps.
Iohn Rudstone a Louer of the Artes Mathematicall, The∣orick and Practick.
