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Show The defcription ofBritaine. not bernie hotd of letters and learited incr, enen fithit was fir inhabited, 3 would ad fame thing in partt: cular alfoof their apparell, but {ith the nealing twithall is nothing profitable to the reader,4) pale tt ouer,fignt: fieng neuerthelete, that it was diftinguiffed bp fundate denifes from that of the common fort, and of fuch eftimation among the people,that thofoener tare the Druiyth fed , might walke there he twould without any harine o2 amtofance, This honour twas giuen allo bnto the prefs tn Kome,infomuch that then Volufius x0 twas ertlen by the Triumuirate,anbd fate bimfelfe in fuch Datiger,as fhat he could nol efcape the hardett, he gat the weed of a pref bpon his backe, and beaged his almes therein,encn in the bigh tates as he trautlled, andfo efcaped the danger and the furie of bis aduerfa biito bs, nor we to them, euen fromthe berie com ming of Brate, pet bp reafonof diftance betiveene our countries, te had no great familiaritie and common fuccel. - peauertg and motions of the planets by arithniecticall celeftiall indutirte,to find out the truc quantities of the hodies by geometricall Demonffratton, and thereto the contpafie of fhe earth, and Hidden natures of things acceffe one nto another , fill the time of Gurguntius, after thofe entrance mante of that nation fraurclles Dither in more (ccuvitie,as diners of our countriemen contained in the fame by philofophicall contemplation, Did bnto them iwithont all danger , fo be offered bp itt §But clas, thisintegritie continued not long antong ,,, facrifice fo their gods . bat tue had the manerof our bis {ucceflors, for bnito the immortalitie of the foule, ples alfo out of France, Iuucnal is a iwitnefe, whe thep added, that after deathit went into another bodic, faith; {of ahichtranflation Ouid faith; Morte carent anima, fem Gallia erate priore relia i ta fd, ' tt of tunda Britannos. Wowwbeit as they taught bs Logikeand Rbhefortke , fo we had alfo fome Sopbiftrie ftom thent; but tn the fwoxt fenfe: for from France is all kind of forgeric, Séde,nouis domibus vinunt hecobvoge reiepte. ) he fecond o2 {uccedent, being alivates either more noble,o2 moze vile than the former, as the partic defer: ries ; but to proceed with other things. After the neath of DruiyusBardus bis forme,ann fife Ring of the Celts, fucceeded npt onelie ouer the fain kingdome,butallo in bis fathers bertues,oherebytt is corruption of maners , and craftie bebauiour not fo vedbp his merits,abilett belincd here bponcarth. And fone as often tranfported into England. And albeit therefore it is faid by Plato andether,that Orpheus Feduiercon icone.C the oke , thereon the mittle Gtolweth, mite ilieDeutfed infinit other toics (fo errouris Doooity fap, Ver AMET of hir ote doings) thereof neither ne: Sa. cevecs te euen Sarron, One mothes,tt ae pe o22Sa Ween mtMag' agus,1022 Druiy Druiyusdt0 leane them bert cription, fome ie ts PlinieS pba Dhefe otionsL things areacrtusT partlie toudjed herne by Ci Ra s aa PoeFOHe alto by Cota Mela ValMos ii ache ips Noise Bfchee latertime,teb oforDrulydcs the motttous part babe do confee.t hat the hate of the ae ene Ealive,tibere that religion( faith Plinie) tuas fo hottie profette a folloinen, 7 Feist; gras able Perfis Videri polit. east. and ite the Deuiydes allo eee ib.z0, vie tamongthe Calice, muryacs.pouty @ enaa clues a -oe P the mroze ittran fare ouderfanding of the mpfte: anethat boavine. and asthe Galles rectedthety ligion ftom the sweitons » Oive Ukebife hav t from 60 ' by heart,ahtch were tobe ShueHERase? monlie peonouricedin vere. And thi tict as3 it, th i fem enaihea mane Hey bed anelic fopreferue thety teligtou ai contemp tabereintsit might eatilie haute fallen,ttanp 7 piece mon fort, ane Athelped L atfo not a tittlee inthe erercite of fas memories, wherednto bakes are btter eninies, eka bathat tons es Ould as nofiet readilic thilfullin the Druiythreligt Gen.4.21, fatd religton after the afore remembzedfort into berfe, iuas firft oeutfed by him, for be yas an ercellent poet, and no leffe induced toith a fiiiqular fill in the practife and {peculation of muficke,of abich tivo many fuppofe bint te be the berie anfho2 and beginner, although pniuftlieith both poetrie and fong werein ble before the flod, as was alfo the harpe and pipe, tic) Jubal in: nented, and could neuer be performed twithout great fill tr muficke. but fo proceed,as the cheefe effimation tons onelte,for thett knotoledge in religion , fo didthe fame of the Bardes (tthich tucre & called of this Bardus fo2 their ercellent fill in muficke poctric, and the be roicall Bind of fong , thich at the firft conteined onelie the high mpfteries and fecret points of their religion, She Bards Degencrate, Uhere twas littie difference alfo betiveene thenand the Druiydes,till they fo farte degenerated fromtheir fir® inffituffor,that thep becante to be 3 minffrels at featts, Creare ne Score ant ettalot wit re DM LeenDaa nallfor His kindR of turtting from Driiyus(thka e oxtats aM touRder of torit retigi¢i and that this stand' bath : not Inferrum mens prona uiris,animague capaces Morty: C7" ignanum et rediture parcere Vita. Thus we le as inaglatle the tate of religion, fora fime,afterthe firft inbabitation of this land: bat holo long ttcontinucdin (uch foundneffe, as the original authors left it,in ged {oth J cannotfap,pet this is molt rerteine, fhat after atinie,ahen Albion arriued bere, tiereas laphet ¢Samothes {with their childzen taught nothing elfe thar {uch Dortrine as tiep had learned of Noah:Chamthe great granbfather of this our Albion, and bis difciples biterlie renouncing to folloty their fleps,qaue theit minds ttholie to fence and lead their: hearers headlong ontoall erroz. Cahereby bis pofferi fienot onclieco2rnpted this our Fland, with moi fl thie trades and practifes;but allo all mankind,generals lie ibere thep becante,with vicious life, and mol tiv fours proceeded at the firit all fogcerie ,twitchcraf, and anv bis aie fhe erecutionof bnlatwfull lutt, without refpect offer, oan age,confangquinitic,o2 kind: ashanchesfromanonts Hus andabhominable rot, 02 fireames deriued front a moft filthie and howible ttinking puddle. Totvbeit, € notwithtanding all thefe his manifold lewoneties, =~ fuch Was the folite of hisZgyprians(ahere he first retgs ned aiid tanght)that ahtlett belived they alone bad bint gobardos,Rodtbardos, gone lame mufician Lambard 66 mebd,that enorie piittte Wouldott hazard aD atténept abpueall other 5 of bole fhilfull ditties Germanic is not drfurnifhes , as SF heare Onto this date. Zin Quizqueiad2itetp Spaine,an Slanvdof the Jnoies , theycall fad) men Boitios,, their rimes Arcitos , and ir ffed of barpsthep fing bntotinibeels mate of thels fuch ford Bardes « Finalli¢ of onr fortLheatic in his firlt bake th this oder for matters oftheir retigion,& Maximus hand‘urget leti metus t inde ruendt rie ante of fhe Bardes, are not pet ertinguithed as puted him fora gon scaling the bighell of the fenew agon mortg the Wrifons of (tales, there thep cail their poplanets after bis naine, as thep df0 thenert beneath tt efs and rlictans Barthes, as thep dwallo in Breland: after Ofyris his forine whom thep libetwife hono2e0 bine fibich Sulpitius alfo tyziting to Lucane remembzeth, ber fhe Navite of Tupicer. ! there he faith that the tvo2d Bardus is meere Celtike, Certes it tas a crittonte begontte tr@eyprofol & and figntfieth a Ginger. Hotwbeit the Romans tunging firme,and generallie in ble almottincncrie'place tat ‘ ? te all nations befine themfclues to be but rade and bats 50 proceffe of tine (ahen anp of their famous tworthie jeaueh!i barous, and therets milltking btferlic the rough muprinces vied)to alcribe fomte formeoxother of thettars bowbe ficke of the Bardes,entrebd fo farre into the conteinpti bute bis perfor 5 to the end bis: naine: night neuer ous mockage of their melonte , that thep aftribed the lweare outof meindrie,Aid this thep called theit tan {yo20 Bardus bnito their foles and idiots, ihereds con lation in Heaven ,fo that be abich balanitiarres ‘02 traritwife the Scythians and fuch as dwell Within the forine of ftarres Dedicated Unto' hii; was properlica> nozthtweaft part of Europe,did bfethe famte two2d in be, fain fo haue a (eat ditions the govs.A) toie mincliketo tie honourable maner,calling theit beff poets and he: the catalog of omit faints , although the one tas retcall fingers, Singebardos; their couragious firigers horittenin the celettially2 inmateriall oibes, the other and capifeins that delited it muficke , Albardos,Dain (heepsfhins aiid berte bitchle paper) but pet frettes t il Affairsh aft' iftorical ciatel treatifes ; , appti : ont fettingsartt Dotbne Non tacitas Evebifedes, Ditifjue profundt Pallida regna petuntsregit 1demfpirttusartws Orbe alio Longe canstisfi copnitasvite Morsmedia ebcortepopult os diofp icitarfas, Feelices errorefiso,quos tlle timorum deonken metings, andabborinable facvifices ofthe -_itt qreat eftimation (Mhereas other nations confems fools : there thep fang nrocommoniic no dininitie 40 tepand abhooten hin for bis wickeuelle, calling hint as before, but the puilfant acts of valiant princes,and Chemefenua,that ts,the impudent, infantous and tic? Cheme? fabulous narrations of the abdulteries of the gods. hed Cham) and iif onelie butloeda citie butodint fenua..' © Certes ir inp time this fond blage , and thereto the be: Lich thep called Chem Min,but alfoatter bis death rez Cie th iTes tonither , and not to faite tr onetittle, in the they:eesof this bis labozions repetition , wut as Aut filis neftire datum :nemoraalta remotis Facolitis lucés Pobis authoribus, oumbra of the Druiydes remained inthe end among the Wai: 30 goblie conuerfation. 3fo2 from Cham and vis fucceG "iat tor. is 7 w é trine Cham nets and ditties as either perteine butoreligion, pro, ydane lotie,commendationof ancelfrie ; and tifa, mationof the mind birfo Mars,trherebythere ajpeareth torehearfe manic Hundz2e0s Etwos burbarices vatud,morémanefinistrum berie likelte,that the teinding and trapping bp of the 20 the religion eart imbgacedfell into great decate . Fo2 After his death had bis Cole theutk into the bodice ofa ,.. the Druiydes iuere thus bonozed and of fo great au- fwanne, that of Agamemnon conueied into an thozitie tn Waitaine, pet were there great numbers of pgle,of Aiax intoa lion,of Atlas into acerteine tuzeff them alfo inthe Alesof Might,anglefep, and the Dy ler, of Therfites ito an ape, of DeiphobusintoPyhades, in tthich thep held open (choles oftheir profetttthagoras ,andEmpedocles dienga child, after fundzic ont,almfe as it tere fromthe refozt of people , tryerechanges into a man,thereof be bimfeife faith 5 in thep ffudied andlearned their fongs by heart. Pow Ipfe ego ndma, fui puerolim,deindepuclla, beit the checfe college of all 4 fap,remained fill in AlArbufium & volucrizgnutus quog,in aquorepiftis, bion,{thither the Druiydes of other nations allo (befine ius, lib, JFo2 fain thepiofixbom Pythagorasalfo had,ad taught the Oalles)twould of cuffonte repatre when foeuer any ap. viti- this evrontjtfthe foule ayperteined at fhe firfktoaking, controuerfie among themin matters of religion did TH aud hein this eftatenio not leave his life tvorthic bis ., bapento be mourd. At fuch times allo the reft were Metempf. Salling, tt Koulvatier bis deceafe be Hut bpinthebos °~ calledoutof the former Jlands', therebp it appearetty chéfis, dieof a flaue,begger.cocke,ctole,dogape, horlle, alle, that in {uth cafes thep bad their fypnods and publike ihounte,02 moniter, there foremaineasina placesf mectings,andtherebnts it grew finallie into cuffome, purgation and punifhment, for a certeine period of andafterthat a ppoucrbe,euen in bariancesfalling out tineefide this,it hould peraduenture futkeine offen among the princes, great mem and commonfoats of tranfigtion fronrone bodice tuto another, accoxdingts -_ppeople lining in thete twealk parts of Europe, fo peld thequantitie amb quealitic of hisdmings bere on earth, tobe tried bp Wattaine and bir thie Jlanvs , bicaufe Till it ould finallte be purified , ano reffozed againe to they honoured bir preefts (the Druiydes)) as the Atheanother huntane bodic, therein if it bebaucd it felfé niens didthett Areopagites. moze orberlie thanat the firfl ; after the nert death} tt Furthermore,in Writaine, and among the Galles, cain! fhonto be preferred ,cither to the bovie of a king agatie, aid to fap the truth, geverallie in all places there the ¢H, hrother great effate. Aud thus thep made a perpetual Druiyhh religion was frequented,{uch wasthe eftima- Duy! citculation 02 renolution of our foules,much like brit fton of the preefts of this profettton, that there teas lite mi the continualmotion ofthe beanens,abich neuer fad fle 02 nothing Done withanttheir thilfull aduife,no 10t ‘Till, to2 long perld one reprefentation and figure . 302 in cinill canfes,perteinting to the regimentof the com this caufe alfo,as Diodorus fatth, thep ofen to caff cere iron-fuealth and countrie, Ahep hav the charge alto of fettte letters tite the fire , thereinthe, bead tucre burs all facrifices, publikeand prinate » thep interpreted o nied.to be velinered tuto thefr deceafedfrends,theres tacles , preached of religion 5 and fuere never without bp thepmight bideritand of the eftate of fuch as trae Steabnumbers of pong men that beard them with uellen at :meoe be ans ie ea ye tons( asthe e as the Mot Mor _, diligence [ ,as thep taught from time i t to finte, a nite Dnts S, Nicholasto be a fpeach-man Louching their perfons alto thep were erempt frort anny oan.thofe rid thep bindaletter, all temporal fernices impofitions tributes, ann err: Titty anes paite offhars onbisfetin: cifesof the twars shhidh :thichitminttintitie ) greater wo tothe qgrane) and to the end that aftertheir nertocati nn tic cautenthe rideaty companies of {eholers to flock ine thep Mould deale iwith themaccordintglic, adit and as their { places,¢ * tolearue tole thetr ace tranes. Drew Dfthete tri des likewite, fome ae goin! Inerits required, Thep byoughtin alte the twosthipi remain &. Dithete liketwife,foie oly! n 1 mated with them fern ft. Q a , bfnanic gods, > and their Dehonoe eS y feucrall en, right,ten all fafacrifices:oD thep hos ttuelue ,o2 pests, frill learning thefecrets ofth ifte t Plurimafecuri fudyifli's Carmina Bardi; Satrorum Drutydé, p ofitis recepis lis ab armas, Soli nofft Devs,c7* cali nutmna vobis, ssae eens peteeStaeee baue pim,at bis otune tuill,fo tall ali things likelwife them alfo Strabo. lig. arr endyen be Wall fer bis time, We taught the courfes of the Socionhb. {pith maze facilitic, howv to obferuc : The defcription ofBritaine. them forte bie of ILogtke # Rbefortke fuch as it was fobich our lainiers practifedfy in thetr plees andcommon 5, Oak cantes, 03 although the Greeks twere not bnknotone ta, fhe fuopld andall that is therein had their beginning by tobe fmalt difference betingerte their Boiios anv out tyziteth thus, anrong' other tke fatengs well ‘toward the latter end: : the Htteriott atetenifures therebyto Wiilny-aime itt hislife,that afer his death he might by merit hanefach place in heauen,anong theming farres somber; , enictie cf thofe that inere called fons could notobteite {hat beniefit,for ther fhould there not haue beenediaas endto in heancn fo haue ferued alltheitturnessaben fore another place Was iti time imagined, there they O77dir Yeighed that iwere bf a feconb caltiitg,a5 the Semonds 73°" tho twere gods bp grace and fanour of the peoplessemas hes dics volabriint faith Fulgentins Ji Dordbws antiqnia) quos Yale hec dignos aferiber ent,ob merit) panperkdten ; int Pita ‘Hyppo. Vortumnus; ce, nec terrenos evs déparare'vellent peb gratie venerationem, 08 alfua third place that ts to favan garthbere thofe cons Dinellen thie) Were noblemen, officers, mae = Pasa ee 4 20: |