'twixt their horns into the coachman's hand, who by these restrains them when, and guides them how he pleaseth; and when he would have them go on, pricks them forward with a fmall and short staff he keeps in his hand pointed like a goad. These oxen there are very neatly made, flender, ftrait limb'd, and not very large, but naturally very nimble, and by daily use made fo fit to perform that labour, (being kept well fhod) as that they go twenty miles a day, and more, with good fpeed. They keep thefe oxen for this fervice, as their horses, well dreffed, and fo well fed, that they be plump and fat, and confequently very handfome to behold. The men there of the greatest rank and quality, ride fometimes in thofe coaches, and fometimes on their curious horfes, and fometimes on their brave elephants; but however they are carried, they have their horses, which wait upon them when they go abroad, that they may beftride them when they please. And at other times they ride on mens fhoulders in a flight thing they call a palankee, made fomewhat like a couch or ftanding pallat, covered with a canopy, wherein a man may lie at his full length, as many of those grandees do, when they are removed from place to place, giving themselves up to cafe, and over unto thofe fins which follow it; and while they are thus carried, they make the shoulders and joints of those that feel their heavy weight to bow bow and buckle under their burdens. This, as it should seem, was an ancient, but a base effeminacy, fometimes ufed in Rome. Juvenal, in his first fatire, defcribing a fat lawyer thus carried. Caufidici, nova cum veniat Lectica, Matbonis, Matho the pleader comes in his new chair, It had been well if fuch carriages as these had I am no leveller, I hate the thought of it, as a wild fancy, and phrenzy that is most destructive; knowing that there is an absolute neceffity amongst men of fuperiority and fubordination, where fome must command and others obey. A head alone, without inferior members, members, is a monster, not a body. Yet however, I would have all thofe who are maiters and superiors so to demean themselves towards their underlings and fervants, in all things, as always remembring that they have, a mafter in Heaven, with whom there is no respect of perfons." Eph. vi. 9. For men, let them exalt themselves never fo high, if they will not for the prefent learn, they hall one day be made to know, that there are higher than they. All great ones therefore, who overlook thofe of low degree, believing themselves taller than all of them by head and fhoulders, had need of fuch a daily remembrancer as Symonides was to Paufanias; or that page to Philip King of Macedon, who, by that King's 'fpecial commandment, was to cry every morning in his ears, Μεμνησω ἄνθρωποςῶν Res member, O King, that thou art a Man. I fay, very many have need of such remembrancers, (who exalt themselves too much above others) to tell them that they are but men. Homo fum, bumanum à me nil alienum puto. And being but men, fhould do nothing but what well becomes humanity. Therefore, though many which are very poor, who to gain bread are content to fubmit themfelves unto any low conditions; yet others ('twixt whom and them nothing fo much as an inequality of ef tate makes the main difference) fhould not thus employ them; if not for the man's, yet for his manhood fake; not put fuch a vaft dif tance, fuch a main difference betwixt others and themselves, made of the very self-fame mould, and happily more graciously beheld by that invifible eye than themselves are, before whom they must first or last all appear, and that upon equal terms. But I fhall here digrefs no further, but return again to that people (I mean those of quality amongst them) who out of pride, or idlenefs, or both, are thus carried up and down, or by fome other means I named before, tho' they remove never fo little way from one place to another, accounting it very difhonourable for them to go on foot. And so much of this. I fhall now proceed, (having made mention of their huge multitudes of horses and elephants, &c. to take notice, SECTION VII. Of their numerous Armies; their Ammunition for War; how they lade themselves with Weapons; how terrible they appear; yet how pufillanimous, and low-fpirited they are. HERE firft, for their numerous ar WHE thing, if we confider the Great Mogul to be what he is, an over-grown Prince, (as before described) in the vaft extent of his large territories; being like a huge pike in a great pond, pond, that preys upon all his neighbours, who therefore purchase and keep his favour by very great prefents given him by way of homage, and a fubmifs acknowledgement of his mighty power. And befides, the Mogul is master of an unknown treafure, having filver, as 'tis written of Solomon, 1 Kings, x. 27. like ftones in the streets; and certainly in far greater abundance than ever Solomon had. Though I must tell my reader, that all metals there are not filver and gold, nor all ftones precious. Now he that can command what treasure he will, may likewife command what men he please, as the Mogul doth, befides his own people. Many Perfians and Tartars (before spoken of) very valiant men, who serve him as foldiers on horfeback, and fo the major part by far, whether natives or ftrangers, are mounted for his fervice in his wars. Hence it is that the armies there confift of incredible multitudes; they talk of fome which have exceeded that mighty hoft which Zerah, King of Ethiopia brought against King Afa," 2 Chron. xiv. 9, but they not having well learned that horrid bloody art of war, as the Europeans have, and wanting commanders and other officers to manage their great companies, are not fo fkilful to deftroy, as otherwise they might be: It is a phrafe moft properly and fitly applied unto favage, abfurd, brutish, and unreasonable man, to the enemies of God and his church, by the prophet Ezekiel, L 3 |