_INDIAN SQUA_.[286]
Now (gentle Reader) having trespassed upon your patience a long while
in the perusing of these rude Observations, I shall, to make you
amends, present you by way of Divertisement, or Recreation, with a
Coppy of Verses made sometime since upon the Picture of a young and
handsome _Gypsie_, not improperly transferred upon the _Indian SQUA_,
or Female _Indian_, trick’d up in all her bravery.
The Men are somewhat Horse Fac’d, and generally Faucious, _i.e._
without Beards; but the Women many of them {100} have very good
Features; seldome without a _Come to me_, or _Cos Amoris_, in their
Countenance; all of them black Eyed, having even short Teeth, and
very white; their Hair black, thick and long, broad Breasted;
handsome streight Bodies, and slender, considering their constant
loose habit: Their limbs cleanly, straight, and of a convenient
stature, generally, as plump as Partridges, and saving here and there
one, of a modest deportment.
Their Garments are a pair of Sleeves of Deer, or Moose skin drest,
and drawn with lines of several Colours into Asiatick Works, with
Buskins of the same, a short Mantle of Trading Cloath, either Blew or
Red, fastened with a knot under the Chin, and girt about the middle
with a Zone, wrought with white and blew Beads into pretty Works;
of these Beads they have Bracelets for their Neck and Arms, and
Links to hang in their Ears, and a fair Table curiously made up with
Beads likewise, to wear before their Breast; their Hair they Combe
backward, and tye it up short with a Border, about two handfulls
broad, {101} wrought in Works as the other with their Beads: But
enough of this.
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The _POEM_.
_Whether White or Black be best
Call your Senses to the quest;
And your touch shall quickly tell
The Black in softness doth excel,
And in smoothness; but the Ear,
What, can that a Colour hear?
No, but ’tis your Black ones Wit
That doth catch, and captive it.
And if Slut and Fair be one,
Sweet and Fair, there can be none:
Nor can ought so please the tast
As what’s brown and lovely drest:
And who’ll say, that that is best
To please ones Sense, displease the rest?
{102} Maugre then all that can be sed
In flattery of White and Red:
Those flatterers themselves must say
That darkness was before the Day:
And such perfection here appears
It neither Wind nor Sun-shine fears._
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A
{103} Chronological TABLE
_Of the most remarkable passages in that part of_ America, _known
to us by the name of_ NEW-ENGLAND.[287]
_Anno Dom._ 1492. _Christ. Columbus_ discovered _America_.
1516. The Voyage of Sir _Thomas Pert_, Vice Admiral of _England_, and
Sir _Sebastian Cabota_ to _Brazile, &c._
1527. _New-found-Land_, discovered by the _English_.
1577. Sir _Francis Drake_ began his Voyage about the _World_.
{104} 1585. _Nova Albion_ discovered by Sir _Francis Drake_, and by
him so Named.
1585. _April 9._ Sir _Richard Greenevile_ was sent by Sir _Walter
Rawleigh_ with a Fleet of Seven Sail to _Virginia_, and was stiled
the General of _Virginia_.
1586. Captain _Thomas Candish_, a _Suffolk_ Gentleman, began his
Voyage round about the World, with three Ships past the Streights of
_Magellan_, burn’d and ransack’d in the entry of _Chile_, _Peru_,
and _New-Spain_, near the great Island _Callifornia_ in the South
Sea; and returned to _Plymouth_ with a precious Booty _Anno Dom.
1588_. _September_ the _8th_; being the third since _Magellan_ that
circuited the Earth.
1588. Sir _Walter Rawleigh_ first discovered _Virginia_, by him so
Named, in honour of our Virgin Queen.
1595. Sir _Walter Rawleigh_ discovered _Guiana_.
{105} 1606. A Collony sent to _Virginia_.
1614. _Bermudas_ Planted.
1618. The blazing Star; then _Plymouth_ Plantation began in
_New-England_.[288]
1628. The _Massachusets_ Colony Planted, and _Salem_ the first Town
therein Built.[289]
1629. The first Church gathered in this Colony was at _Salem_; from
which Year to this present Year, is 43 Years.
In the compass of these Years, in this Colony, there hath been
gathered Fourty Churches, and 120 Towns built in all the Colonies of
_New-England_.
The Church of Christ at _Plymouth_, was Planted in _New-England_
Eight Years before others.
1630. The Governour and Assistants {106} arrived with their Pattent
for the _Massachusets_.
1630. The Lady _Arabella_ in _New-England_.
1630. When the Government was established, they Planted on _Noddles_
Island.[290]
1631. Captain _John Smith_ Governour of _Virginia_, and Admiral of
_New-England_, Dyed.