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A Journey srom Venice to Genoa
i. e.
What time, great King, (hall terminate our woes ?
Safe could Antenor break through all his foes,
Pierce to the bottom of the Illyrian bay,
View Kingdoms, where Lilurnian Princes sway ;
Pass the nine mouths of fierce Timaeus waves.
Which rores upon the hills and o’er the valleys raves,
And there could fix; and on that foreign ground,
Great Padods tow’rs, for after ages found ;
New name the people, and free from all alarms
Hang up, in peace, his consecrated arms.
In those days when the art of Navigation was but in its infancy,and
the Mariners very unwillingly parted with the fight of land, Antenor
was forced to keep close, and creep along the Coasl of Peloponnefus,
and Epirus, and then sail by the Illyrian, and Liburnian Shoars, which
are very uneven and troublesom to deal with, being full of Creeks, un-
safe Bays, and Rocks; besides very many Issands of various shapes:
Whereas if he had crossed over to the Italian coasl,he had had a nearer
voyage, and sayled with pleasure all along an even, bold, brave
lhoar.
The people of Padoa,zrv well pleased with the thoughts of their An-
cient founders and Progenitors, and they (bill preserve the tomb of An-
tenor, near to which at present Hands the Church of Saint Lawrence,
and in their publick shows they will sti.ll be representirg something of
Troy, and the old Trojans, and in one place I saw a horse of wood, a-
bout twenty foot high, in imitation of the old Trojan horse ; but, I
suppose,nothing near so big as the first original: Yet when I consider
that above eleven hundred years after the desinition of Troy, when
Towns and Buildings were very much amplified and improved, Pom-
pey coming in Triumph, could not enter even the great Triumphal
gates os Rome it self in a chariot drawn by Elephants, an Animal that
seldom or never comes to be so high as this Horse, it may well be sup-
posed that they could not have received, even this poor model of the
firsl great one into the old town of Troy without pulling down their*
walls.
The City of Padoa was always a friend to the Romans, and did them
great service in their wars againsl the Galli, Senones, the Z>mbnans,
Boians, Infubres, Cimbrians and Carthaginians, and sluck close to their
Interesl till the time of the declination of the Roman Empire ; When
Attila the powerful King of the Huns with fire and sword deslroyed
it; and when after divers years it was rebuilt by the favour of Narfes,
the Eunuch, General to the Emperor Jujinian, it was again lamenta-
bly ruined by the Longobardian Princes, who by shooting arrows, with
firebrands fixed to them, set the City on fire, and took it. But under
the Empire of Charles the great, and his successbrs, it arose Gut of its
ashes again, and ssourislied for a long time ; being governed firsl by
Consuls, and then by a Podesla, untill the time of their dreadful Ty-
rant Ezzellin, who harrassed, banished, tormented, and masiacred the
Inhabitants, cramming their own Wells within the City,full with their
mangled
i. e.
What time, great King, (hall terminate our woes ?
Safe could Antenor break through all his foes,
Pierce to the bottom of the Illyrian bay,
View Kingdoms, where Lilurnian Princes sway ;
Pass the nine mouths of fierce Timaeus waves.
Which rores upon the hills and o’er the valleys raves,
And there could fix; and on that foreign ground,
Great Padods tow’rs, for after ages found ;
New name the people, and free from all alarms
Hang up, in peace, his consecrated arms.
In those days when the art of Navigation was but in its infancy,and
the Mariners very unwillingly parted with the fight of land, Antenor
was forced to keep close, and creep along the Coasl of Peloponnefus,
and Epirus, and then sail by the Illyrian, and Liburnian Shoars, which
are very uneven and troublesom to deal with, being full of Creeks, un-
safe Bays, and Rocks; besides very many Issands of various shapes:
Whereas if he had crossed over to the Italian coasl,he had had a nearer
voyage, and sayled with pleasure all along an even, bold, brave
lhoar.
The people of Padoa,zrv well pleased with the thoughts of their An-
cient founders and Progenitors, and they (bill preserve the tomb of An-
tenor, near to which at present Hands the Church of Saint Lawrence,
and in their publick shows they will sti.ll be representirg something of
Troy, and the old Trojans, and in one place I saw a horse of wood, a-
bout twenty foot high, in imitation of the old Trojan horse ; but, I
suppose,nothing near so big as the first original: Yet when I consider
that above eleven hundred years after the desinition of Troy, when
Towns and Buildings were very much amplified and improved, Pom-
pey coming in Triumph, could not enter even the great Triumphal
gates os Rome it self in a chariot drawn by Elephants, an Animal that
seldom or never comes to be so high as this Horse, it may well be sup-
posed that they could not have received, even this poor model of the
firsl great one into the old town of Troy without pulling down their*
walls.
The City of Padoa was always a friend to the Romans, and did them
great service in their wars againsl the Galli, Senones, the Z>mbnans,
Boians, Infubres, Cimbrians and Carthaginians, and sluck close to their
Interesl till the time of the declination of the Roman Empire ; When
Attila the powerful King of the Huns with fire and sword deslroyed
it; and when after divers years it was rebuilt by the favour of Narfes,
the Eunuch, General to the Emperor Jujinian, it was again lamenta-
bly ruined by the Longobardian Princes, who by shooting arrows, with
firebrands fixed to them, set the City on fire, and took it. But under
the Empire of Charles the great, and his successbrs, it arose Gut of its
ashes again, and ssourislied for a long time ; being governed firsl by
Consuls, and then by a Podesla, untill the time of their dreadful Ty-
rant Ezzellin, who harrassed, banished, tormented, and masiacred the
Inhabitants, cramming their own Wells within the City,full with their
mangled