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Gelasimus, Pseudocheus, Dameas, Eutrapelus, Pædio.
Gelas:
My Bootes and spurrs are on, all thinges ready
Only I want my flying Pegasus

Ps:
But staye awhile till he hath eate his haye
[tho] Woulds't haue him carrye thee three hundred myles
wt h.out a Bayte?

Gelas:
Pædio bidd the Smyth view Pegasus!
yf any nayles be wanting in his shoes
or yf his hoofes neede paring

Eut:
How circumspectly prouident is he

Ps:
When thou art mounted vp aloft into
the Middle region of th'Aire, a hill
hangs on the right hand on the left a Rock
direct thy course iust in the Middle waye

Gels:
Betweene the rock and hill I apprehend

Ps:
There Rocky Ætna swells breathes out his flames
take heede least Pegasus, there put his ffoote

Eut:
The Middle Region of th'Aire is couldest
If thou art wise at Ætna warme thy hands

Ps:
Hould thou thie tounge
Ætna being left fflye to Pindus hill
on right & left hand there thou shalt behould
the Mamaluccian Inhabitants
Them and theire Citties and theire Regions
thou soone shall ouerpasse, and at the length
the Milky waye thou shalt espie; Keepe that
that way will bringe thee to the Zodiaque
There thou maist lodge all night yf that thou please
that Cittie hath twelue Inns for travaylor s.
Taurus or Gemini, Cancer, Leo
or Virgo yf you. please, chouse wc h. thou wilt
But do[']st thou heare me?[*] Gelasimus
by noe meanes lodge thou in Aquarius

Gelas:
Why soe?

Ps:
Because that liquor. is to weake

Gelas:
What doe they hang vp signe posts at theire Dores?

Ps:
Yes.

Gelas:
That's well I[']le Inn at the Virgine

Ps:
Heere take this paper this will shew the way
and all the distances. from place to place.

he giues him a paper.
Eutr:
Ha, Ha, He! do'st thou beleiue such foolish fictions?
soe meerelie Comicall?

Ps:
H'st peace, ∥te of the prey shall come to thee
Se'est thou not this gould?

Gelas:
From [Ætna] Athens to Ætna sixtie fower myles
he Reades
ffrom Ætna to Pyndus eightie one myle and a halfe
[ffrom thence to the Mamulucces]
ffrom Pindus to the Mamuluccs 59 myles
ffrom the Mamuluccs to the Tingitanes 16t e e n e myles & a litle more
ffrom the Tingitanes vp to the Zodiaque 23
There I will Inne; Well, where must I goe next daye?
ffrom the Zodiaque downe to the pleasant ffeildes of Thessalie 57
there I will pick a Posye of sweete fflowers
ffrom the pleasant feilds of Thessalie to Gurgustidonia, 24 & somewhat more.
ffrom Gurgustidonia to the Squilmagians 83
ffrom the Squilmagians to the Pigmies 80 myles & a halfe
ffrom the Pigmies to the Antipodes 90 short myles
Pseudocheus
Thou promisedst to write a Chronicle
of all thy travayles, prythee haue a Care
My travayles may be registered therein
and lett that booke be my rare monument

Eutr:
He is ambitious, how he desires
to haue his folly made Immortall

Dem:
If thou wilt Ile notifie it sufficientlie to the people.

to Gelas:
Gelas:
Will you.? Pseudocheus reward the orator. what canst thou amplifie

Dem:

Demosthenes Could neuer paint a thinge out better in his Collou
r s. Thus I beginne
A Iorney is vndertaken but of whome? of a younge man of what
manner of man? not of a begger, but of one, that yett is endued
w
t h. the goodes of ffortune and body, this is called the— Circumstance of the person, lett vs now come to the—

Circumstance of the place
What is th'end of his Iorney, not Sparta, not Thebes not
Myteline it selfe; But he travailes to the Antipodes the
remotest region beneath the earth:;
What is the Cause Impulsive? not marchaundize, not rapine
not Warr, not

Gelas:
Egregious orator it is enough
Howers haue wings they quickly flye away
And t'is noe wisemans ∥te to make delayes
ffarewell my ffreinds for a long tyme farwell

Eut:
Ioue giue thy Voyage ffortunate successe

Dem:
Goe that thou mai'st retorne, returne that thou mai'st goe, maist
thou not perish, by the way thou go«e»est

Farewell
Exeunt omnes./