A
DESCRIPTION
OF THE FAMOUS
KINGDOME
OF
MACARIA;
SHEWING
ITS EXCELLENT
GOVERNMENT:
WHEREIN
The Inhabitants live in great
Prosperity, Health, and Happinesse; the
King obeyed, the Nobles honoured; and
all good men respected, Vice punished,
and vertue rewarded.
An Example to other Nations.
In a Dialogue between a Schollar and a Traveller.
LONDON,
Printed for Francis Constable, Anno 1641.
TO THE HIGH
AND
HONOURABLE
COURT
OF
PARLIAMENT.
WHereas I am confident, that this Honorable Court will lay the CornerStone of the worlds happinesse before the final recesse thereof, Ihave adventured to cast in my widowes mite into the Treasurie; not asan Instructer, or Counsellour, to this Honourable Assembly, but havedelivered my conceptions in a Fiction, as a more mannerly way, havingfor my pattern Sir Thomas Moore, and Sir Francis Bacononce Lord Chancellour of England; and humbly desire that thishonourable Assembly will be pleased to make use of any thing thereincontained, if it may stand with their pleasures, and to laugh at therest, as a solace to my minde, being enclined to doe good to thepublick. So humbly craving leave, that I may take my leave, I restthis 25, of October 1641.
A
DESCRIPTION
OF THE FAMOUS
KINGDOME
OF
MACARIA.
SHEWING
ITS EXCELLENT
GOVERNMENT
Traveller.
WEll met sir, your habit professes scholarship, are you a Graduate?
Schollar.
Yes sir, I am a Master of Arts.
Trav. But what doe you heare in the Exchange; I conceive you tradein knowledge, and here is no place to traffick for it; neither in thebook of rates is there any imposition upon such