No More Learning

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OR the seven lakes, and by no man these verses FRaIn, empty rIver, a voyage,
Fire from frozen cloud, heavy raIn In the tWllight
Under the cabm roof was one lantern The reeds are heavy, bent,
and the bamboos speak as 1? weepIng
Autumn moon, hIlls rIse about lakes agaInst sunset
EvenIng 15 lIke a curtaIn of cloud,
a blurr above rIpples, and through It sharp long spJ. kes of the CInnamon,
a cold tune amId reeds
BehInd hIlI the monk)s bell
borne on the wInd
Sad passed here In AprIl, may return In October Boat fades m suver, slowly,
Sun blaze alone on the rIver
Where WIne flag catches the sunset Sparse chnnneys smoke In the cross lIght
Comes then snow scur on the rIver
AndaworldIS coveredWIth Jade
Small boat floats lIke a lanthorn,
The flOWIng water clots as wIth cold And at San YIn they are a people of leIsure
W:L1d geese swoop to the sand-bar,
Clouds gather about the hole of the wIndow Broad water, geese lIne out wIth the autumn Rooks clatter over the :6. shermen's lanthorns,
? A lIght moves on the north sky lIne,
where the young boy~ prod stones for shrImp
In seventeen hundred came TSlng to these hIll lakes A lIght moves on the south sky lIne
State by creatIng rIches shd thereby get Into debt'> ThIs IS Infamy, thIs IS Geryon
ThIS canal goes stIll to TenShi
though the old kIng bUIlt It fOl pleasure
KElMENRANKEI KIU MAN MAN KEI JITSU GETSU K 0 KWA TAN FUKU TAN KAI
Sun up, work
sundown, to rest
dIg well and drInk of the water
dIg field, eat of the graIn
ImperIal power IS) and to us what IS It)
The fourth, the dImensIon of stIllness And the power over wIld beasts
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VOLUTION' said Mr Adams t tool< place In the KmInds of the people
In the fifteen years before Lexington',
That wd have been In Peter Leopold's tIme
to hIS LordshIp the Count Orso all. d his descendants male legItImate and natural the admInIstratIon of ClVtl and crIminal JustIce In the saId place
debt when the MedICI tool{ the throne was 5 mllhon and when they left was fourteen
and Its Interest ate up all the best Income
the first folly was planting factorIes for wool spinnIng In England and Flanders
then England kept her raw wool, so that damped down the exchangIng
the arts gone to hell by 1750 and Leopoldo cut down the taxes
found there was t U1t' abbo1''taarzza che a/famavtZ' says Zobi
Leopold cut down the debt Interest and put the JesuIts out
and put end to the InquIsItIon
1782
and they brought In Mr Lock. e's
essay on Interest
but Genoa took our trade and Llvorno kept treaty wIth England to the loss of Llvorno
that IS to say Llvorno trade took a loss Te, adm. IrabI1e, 0 VashlnnnTTonn'
Livorno stuff went In Genovese bottoms 246
? because Tuscany kept her word and a treaty VOl, popoll transatlantICI admlrabtli,
salth ZobI, sixty years later
t Pardon our brIef dlgiession ' salth ZObi
AmerIca IS our daughter and VashiNNtonn had CIVIC vIrtues and Leopoldo meant to cut off two thIrds of state debt,
to abolIsh It
and then they sent hIm off to be Emperor In hell's bog, In the slough of VIenna, In
the mIdden of Europe In the black hole of all mental vIleness, In the prlVVY that stank Franz Josef, In Metternlch's merdery In the absolute rottenness, among embastardIzed cross-breeds,
But Ferdinando staved off an Anschluss and ParIS exploded
t certaIn practIces called relIgIous' saId Zobi t lack of experIence In econon1IC affaIrs' PIUS sIxth, VIcar of foolIshness, no Jew God ",d have kept THAT In power
So that about the time of MARENGO the FIrst Consul ,,'rote I left peace I find war
I find enemIes InSIde yr frontIer
Your cannon sold to yr enemIes 1791, end of representatIve government
18th Brumale, loth of November 14th June, 1 8 0 0 MARENGO
Mars meanIng, In that case, order That day was RIght WIth the VIctor
mass weIght agaInst wlong ad 1800
Interest at 24 to the hundred
and as they say <<: commerce languIshed '
1 8 0 1 the trIumVIrs wanted to go LeopoldIne as was A thousand of the old guard at Portoferralo
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? and two mIllIon a year, one ~'llfof It reversable to the Empress
from Elba
for the mIldness of the chmate
and the suavIty of Its denIzens
from an EnglIsh frIgate descended
And Ferdinando Habsburg (but of the House of Lorraine) whIch IS the true name of the clean part of that family
got back a state free of debt
coffers empty but the state without debt
England and AustrIa were for despots wIth commerce conSIdered
put back the Pope but
reset no republIcs VenIce, Genova, Lucca
and splIt up Poland In their soul was usura
and In the! ! hand bloody oppreSSIon
and that son of a dog, Rosplgllosl,
came Into Tuscany to make serfs of old Tuscans
S t on the throne of England, s t on the Austrian sofa In their soul was usura and In theIr minds darkness
and blankness, greased fat were four Georges
Pus was In SpaIn, WellIngton was a Jew's pImp
and lacked mInd to know what he effected
~Leave the Duke, Go for gold' '
In theIr souls was usura and In theIr hearts cowardIce In their mmds was stInk and corruptIon
Two sores ran together,
and hell pissed up Metternlch
Filth stank as In our day
( From the brIgantIne Incostante ' for a hundred days agaInst hell belch
Hope spat from March Into June
Ney out of hIS saddle
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? Grouchy delayed
Bentmck's word was, naturally,
not kept by the EnglIsh Genova under Sardegna Hope spat from Cannes, March, Into Flanders
(Not'
saId Napoleon C because of that league of lIce
but for oppOSIng the ZeitgeIst' That was my rUIn,
That I ran agaInst my own tIme, turnmg backward' OBIT, aetatis 57, five hundred years after D AIlghlerl Not, certaInly, for what most embellIshes 11 sessa femmlnue and causes us to admIre It, they wrote of MarIe de Parma hIs wIdow
Italy ever doomed With abstractIons, 1850, wrote ZObl,
By followIng brtlhant abstractIons
MastaI, PIO Nono, D'Azegho went Into eXile
and so on the 30th of October Lord MInto
was In Arezzo (I thInk BowrIng had preceded) and the crowd crIed EVVIVA
EVVIva the TarIff League
and MInto yelled EVVIva Leopoldo
EVVIV' INDIPENDENZA, thIS was the new Leopolda though MInto was for slowness and sureness
Lalage's shadow moves In the fresco's knees
She IS blotted WIth DIrce's shadow
dawn stands there fixed and unmOVIng
only we two have moved
? LI
SH:::~emmdofheaven God who made It
more than the sun
In our eye
FIfth element, mud, saId Napoleon
WIth usury has no man a good house
made of stone, no paradIse on hIS ehurch wall
WIth usury the stone cutter 15 kept from hIS stolle the weavel IS kept from hIS loom by usura
Wool does not come Into market
the peasant does not e1t hIS own graIn
the gIrl's needle goes blunt In her hand The looms are hushed one after another ten thousand after ten tholls'lnd
DUCCIO was not by usura
Nor was (La CalunnIa) paInted
NeIther AmbrogIo Praedls nor AngelIco had theIr sktil by usura
Nor St Trophlme Its clOIsters,
Nor St HIlaIre Its proportIon
Usury rusts the man and hiS chIsel
It destroys the craftsman, destrOyIng craft,
Azure IS caugllt wIth cancer Emerald comes to no Memhng Usury kIlls the chIld In the womb
And breaks short the young man's courtmg
Usury brIngs age lnto youth, It lles between the brlde
and the brIdegroom
Usury IS agaInst Nature's Increase Whores for Eleusls,
Under usury no stone IS cut smooth
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? Peasant has no gain from hIs sheep herd Blue dun) number . 2 In most rIvers
for dark days, when It IS cold
A starlIng's wIng wJ. 11 give you the colour
or duck wIdgeon, If you take feather from under the wIng Let the body be of blue fox fur, or a water rat's
or grey squirrel's Take thIs with a portIon of mohaIr
and a cock's hackle for legs
12th of March to 2nd of Aprd
Hen pheas'lnt's feather does for a fly,
green tad, the wings flat on the body
Dark fur from a hare's ear for a body
a green shaded partrIdge feather
grIzzled yellow cock's hackle green wax, harI from a peacock's tall
brIght lower body, about the SIze of pm
the head should be can be fished from seven a m
till eleven, at whIch tlIl1e the brown marsh fly comes on As long as the brown contInues, no fish wlll take Granham
That hath the light of the doer, as It were a form cleaVIng to It
Deo slmI1Is quodam modo
hic Intellectus adeptus
Grass, nowhere out of place Thus speakIng In KonIgsberg ZWIschen dIe Volkern erzlelt wlrd
a modus VIvendI
CIrclIng In eddyIng aIr, In a hurry,
the 12. close eyed In the OIly WInd
these were the regents, and a sour song from the folds
of hIS belly
sang Geryone, I am the help of the aged,
I pay men to talk peace,
MIstress of many tongues, merchant of chalcedony I am Geryon tWIn WIth usura,
. 2. 5 1
? You who have lIved In a stage set
A thousand were dead In hIS folds, In the eel-fishers basket
TIme was of the League of Cambra!
? CANTOS LII-LXXI
? No one IS gOIng to be content wIth a translIteration of Chinese names When not making a desperate effort at mne- monics or differentiating In vaIn hope of dIstinguIshIng one race from another, I maInly use the french form Our European knowledge of ChIna has come via latIn and french and at any rate the french vowels as printed have some sort of uniform connotation
? Table
Rays Idiogram from Fenollosa collectIon
FIrst dynasty HIA
Tching Tang of CHANG (second dynasty) be
1766
ThIrd dynasty TCHEOU b C 1122. -2. 55 ConfucIus (KUNG PO TSEU) 551-479
LIV Fourth Dynasty TSIN, BurnIng of the Books 2. 13 275 Fifth Dynasty H A N b C 202.
Eighth Dynasty SUNG a d 4. 10
ThIrteenth Dynasty T ANG 618
LV Tchun of T ANG a d 805 Ngan's reforms 2. 9? Nmeteenth Dynasty SUNG 960
LVI Ghengls 12. 06 3? 1
Kublal 1. 160
TwentIeth Dynasty YUEN (Mongol) Lady Quang ChI
HONG YOU dIed 139. 9
Twenty-first Dynasty MING 1368
P AGE . 254
257 LIII Great Emperors 262-
CANTO
LII LI KI
LVII FlIght of Klen Ouen Tl 311
? CANTO
LVIII Japan
Tartar Horse Fairs
Tal Tsang, son of Tal Tseu Twenty-second Dynasty MANCHU
LIX The books mto Manchu RUSSIan treaty
L X Jesuits
P AGlt 316
LXI Yong Tchlng (Chi tsong hlen Hoang TI) 172. 3 334
Kten Long 1736
In the text names of Emperors and of DynastIes are In CAPS
LXII-LXXI JOHN ADAMS Writs of asslstance Defence of Preston
The congress (Nomination of Washmgton)
Voyage to France
(not being diddled by Vergennes or plastered
by Dr Franklin)
Savmg the fisheries
Plan of Government
Recognition, loan from the Dutch, treaty with
Holland
London 412. AVOidance of war with France 418
Note the final hnes m greek, Canto 71, are from Hymn of Cleanthes, part of Adams' pazdeuma GloriOUS, deathless of many names, Zeus aye ruling all things, founder of the Inborn qualitIes of nature, by laws pJ. 1otIng all thmgs
Other foreign words and Ideograms both In these two decads and In earher cantos enforce the text but seldom 1? ever add anythmg not stated m the english, though not always In lines munedlately contiguous to these underhnmgs
162 5
341 354 359 364
371
377 391
40 0 - 0 5
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D I have told you of how thmgs were under Duke Leopold In SIena
AAnd of the true base of credIt, that IS
the abundance of nature
with the whole folk behind It
t Goods that are needed' saId Schacht (anna seIdIcI) commerCIabIll benl, delIverable thIngs that are wanted
neschek IS agamst thIS, the serpent And Vivante was there In hIS paradIse, the mIld aIr
the fields rollIng eastward, and the tower half rUIn'd wIth a peasant complaInIng that her son was taken for war and he said t plutocracIes were less violent'
_ _ _ _ SIn drawmg vengeance, poor YlttS p1. Ylng for
payIng for a few bIg Jews' vendetta on gOyIm I thInk wrote MIss Bell to her mama
that when not agaInst the Interests of Empire we shd/ keep our pledges to Arabs
Thus we lIved on through sanctIons, through StalIn
LItvlnof, gold brokers made profit rocked the exchange against gold
Before whIch entrefaltes remarked JohnnIe Adams (the elder) IGNORANCE, sheer Ignorance ov the natr ov money
sheer Ignorance of credIt and CIrculatIon Remarked Ben better keep out the Jews
or yr/ grand chIldren WIll curse you Jews, real Jews, chazlms, and neschek
also super-neschek or the InternatIonal racket
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? governments full of their gun-swIne, bankbuzzards, popplnJays DId commIt, that he dId In the KIngdom of Italy
of the two usurIes, the lesser 15 now put down
that he dId In the Kmgdom of BrItaIn etc/
Between KUNG and ELEUSIS Under the Golden Roof, la Dorata
her baldacchlno
RICCIO on hIS horse rides still to Montepulclano
the groggy church 15 gone toothless No longer holds agaInst 1zcschek
the fat has covered their croZIers The high fans and the mitre mean nothIng Once only In Burgos, once In Cortona
was the song firm and well given old buffers keepmg the stIffness,
Gregory damned, always was damned, obscurantIst Know then
Toward summer when the sun IS In Hyades Sovran IS Lord of the FIre
to thIS month are bIrds
WIth bItter smell and WIth the odour of burnIng To the hearth god, lungs of the VIctIm
The green frog lIfts up hIS VOIce and the whIte latex IS In flower
In red car WIth Jewels mcarnadlne to welcome the summer
In thIS month no destructIon
no tree shall be cut at thIS time
Wild beasts are drIven from field
In thIS month are SImples gathered
The empress offers cocoons to the Son of Heaven Then goes the sun Into GemInI
Vago In mId heaven at sunset IndIgo must not be cut
No wood burnt Into charcoal
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? gates are all open, no tax on the booths Now mares go to graZIng,
tIe up the stallIons
Post up the horsebreedIng notIces
Month of the longest days LIfe and death are now equal
StrIfe IS between lIght and darkness WIse man stays In hIS house
Stag droppeth antlers Grasshopper IS loud,
leave no fire open to southward
Now the sun enters Hydra, thIS IS the thIrd moon of summer Antares of ScorpIo stands mId heaven at sunset
Andromeda IS WIth sunrIse
Lord of the fire IS dommant To thIS month IS SEVEN,
WIth bItter smell, WIth odour of burnIng Offer to gods of tIle hearth
the lungs of the VIctunS
Warm WInd IS rISIng, crIcket bideth In wall
Young goshawk IS learnIng hIS labour
dead grass breedeth glow-worms
In Mmg T'ang HE bldeth
In the west WIng of that house
Red car and the sorrel horses
hIS banner Incarnadme
The :fish ward now goes agaInst crocodIles
To take all great lIzards, turtles, for dIVInation, sea terrapIn
The lake warden to gather rushes
to take grain for the manes
to take gram for the beasts you wtll sacrIfice to the Lords of the MountaIns
To the Lords of great rIvers
Inspector of dye-works, Inspector of colour and brolderles
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? see that the white, black, green be In order let no false colour eXIst here
black, yellow, green be of qualIty
ThIS month are trees In full sap RaIn has now drenched all the earth
dead weeds enrIch It, as If bOll'd In a bouIllon Sweet savour, the heart of the VictIm
yellow flag over Emperor's charlot
yellow stones In hIS gIrdle SagittarIUS In mId-course at sunset
cold wind IS begInnIng Dew whItens Now IS cIcada's tIme,
the sparrow hawk offers bIrds to the SpIrIts Emperor goes out In war car, he IS drawn by whIte horses, whIte banner, whIte stones 10 hIS gIrdle
eats dog and the dIsh IS deep
ThIS month 15 the reIgn of Autumn Heaven 18 actIve In metals, now gather mIllet
and finIsh the flood-walls OrIon at sunrIse
Horses now WIth black manes
Eat dog meat ThIS IS the month of ramparts Beans are the trIbute, September 15 end of thunder The hibernants go mto theIr caves
Tolls lowered, now sparrows, they say, turn Into oysters The wolf now offers hiS sacrIfice
Men hunt WIth five weapons, They cut wood for charcoal
New rice With your dog meat First month of WInter 18 now
sun 18 In ScorpIo's tall at sunrIse In Hydra, Ice startIng
The pheasant plunges Into Houal (great water) and turns to an oyster
Rambow 18 hidden awhile
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? Heaven's Son feeds on roast pork and mIllet, Steel gray are stalhon
ThIs month Winter ruleth The sun IS In archer's shoulder
In crow's head at sunrIse
Ice thIckens Earth cracks And the tIgers now move to matlllg Cut trees at solstIce, and arrow shafts of bamboo
ThIrd month, wIld geese go north,
magpIe starts bUIldIng,
Pheasant llfteth hIS VOIce to the SpIrIt of MountaIns The fishIng season IS open,
rIvers and lakes frozen deep Put now Ice In your Ice-house,
the great concert of wmds
Call thIngs by the names Good sovereign by dIstrIbutIon EVIl kIng IS known by hIs Imposts
Begm where you are saId Lord Palmerston
began draInIng swamps In SlIgo
Fought smoke nUisance In London Dredged harbour In SlIgo
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? LIII
EOU taught men to break branches YSeu GIn set up the stage and taught barter,
taught the knottIng of cords Fou HI taught men to grow barley
2837 ante Chrlstum
and they know stIll where hIs tomb IS
by the hIgh cypress between the strong walls the FIVE grams, saId ChIn Nong, that are
wheat, rIce, mIllet, gros hle and chick peas and made a plough that IS used five thousand years Moved his court then to Kio-feou-hien
held market at mid-day
C bring what we have not here', wrote an herbal Souan yen bagged :fifteen tigers
made SIgns out of bIrd tracks Hoang Tl contrIved the makIng of bricks and his Wife started workmg the Silk worms,
money was In days of Hoang TI He measured the length of Syrinx
of the tubes to make tune for song Twenty-sIx (that was) eleven ante Christurn
had four WIves and . 2 5 males of hIS makIng lils tomb IS today In Klao-Chan
Tl Ko set hiS scholars to fittIng words to their musIc
IS burled In Tung Kleou
Tlus was In the twenty fifth century a c
YAO like the sun and raIn, sa1V 1Vhat star IS at solstIce
saw what star marks mId summer YU, leader of waters,
black earth IS fertile, WIld Silk still IS from Shantung AmmassI, to the prOVInces,
? let hIs men pay tIthes In kmd
C SIu-tcheou prOVInce to pay In earth of :five colours Pheasant plumes from Yu-chan of mountams Yu-chan to pay sycamores
of thIs wood are lutes made RIngIng stones from Se-choul river
and grass that IS called TSlng-mo' or j. L&At, Chun to the spirIt Chang TI, of heaven movIng the sun and stars
que vos vers exprlment vos IntentIons, et que Ia muslque conforme
YAO
CHUN
YU
? KAO-YAO
abundance
Then an Empress fled wIth Chao ! (ang In her belly
Fou-hl by vIrtue of wood,
ChIn-nang, of fire, Hoang Tl ruled by the earth, Chan by metal
Tchuen was lord, as IS water
CHUN, govern
YU, cultIvate,
The surface IS not enough,
from Chang TI nothIng IS hIdden For years no waters came, no raIn fell
for the Emperor TchIng Tang graIn scarce, prIces rIsIng
SO that In 1760 Tchlng Tang opened the copper mIne (ante Christum)
made dISCS wIth square holes In theIr mIddles and gave these to the people
wherewith they mIght buy graIn The StlOS were emptIed
where there was graIn
7 years of stertllty
Tchlng prayed on the mountaIn and
der un Baluba das Gewltter gemacht hat
? wrote MAKE IT NEW on hIs bath tub
Day by day make It new cut underbrush,
pIle the logs
}{eep It growmg
DIed Tching aged years an hundred, In the 13th of hIs reIgn
C We are up, HI3 IS down' Immoderate love of women
Immoderate love of rIches, Cared for parades and huntIn'
Chang Tl above alone rules Tang not stintIng of praIse
ConsIder theIr sweats, the people's If you wd/ SIt calm on throne
HSla
Hla' Hla IS fallen
for offence to the spIrIts
For sweats of the people
Not by your vIrtue
but by vIrtue of T chIng Tang Honour to YU, converter of waters
Honour TchIng Tang Honour to YIN
seek old men and new tools
After :five hundred years came then Wen Wang :Be 12. 3I
Uncle Kl said Jewels'
You eat nothIng but bears' paws
In marble tower of Lou Tal doors were of Jasper 265
? that palace was ten years In the makIng
Tan Kl, palace, lIt by day wIth torches and lanthorns
Now KIeou's daughter
was baked In an ox and served
And they worked out the Y-kmg or changes
to guess from
In plaIn of MOll Ye, Cheou-sln came as a forest mOVIng
Wu Wang entered the CIty
gave out graIn tIll the treasures were empty by the NIne vases of YU, demobIlIzed army
sent horses to Hoa-chan
To the peach groves
Dated hIs year from the WInter solstIce Red was hIs dynasty
KIds 8 to 15 In the schools, then hIgher traInIng mottoes wrIt allover walls
t Use theIr ways and their mUSIc
Keep form of theIr charts and banners Prepare soldIers In peace tIme
All IS lost In the nIght clubs
that was gamed under good rule ' Wagon WIth small box wherem was a needle
that pOInted to southward and thIS was called the South Charlot
Lo Yang In the mIddle KIngdom and Its length
was 172. 00 feet Salth Tcheou Kong True sage seeks not repose
Hope Without work IS crazy Your forebear among the people
dressed as one of the people Caring for needs of the people,
old when he came to the throne ObserVIng the solstIce
DIed eleven 0 SiX ante Chrlstum
are stIll bits of hiS wrltmg
t A good governor IS as Wind over grass
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? A good ruler keeps down taxes ' Tching-ouang kept lynx eye on bureaucrats
lynx eye on the currency
weIght of the tchu was one 24th of an ounce
or one hundred graIns of mIllet cloth bolt and sIlk bolt
to be two feet two Inches by four tchang (one Tchang equals four feet)
reIgned tIll 1079
and was peace for the rest of hIS reIgn
Called for hIS hat shaped as a mortar board
set out the preCIOUS stones on hIS table
sayIng thIs IS my WIll and my last wIll Keep peace
Keep the peace, care for the people
Ten lInes, no more In hIS testament
Chao Kong called the hIstorIans,
laId out whIte and vIolet damask
For the table of Jewels, as when Tchlng-ouang receIved prmces On the table of the throne of the West
laId out the charters
constitutions of antient kIngs and two sorts of stone
Hong-pI and Yuen-yen
And on the East table he put the pearls from Mt Hoa-chan and pearls from the Islands and the sphere of Chun
that showeth the places of heaven And the dance robes of In the old dynasty and the great drum that IS 8 feet hIgh
these he put In the place for mUSIC The pIkes, bows,
bamboo arrows and war gear he set to the East
The mats of the first rank of rushes bordered wIth damask of the second of bamboo and the thIrd rank
of tree bark
A gray fur cap for the crownIng, and 2. 0 ft halbards
(Ten seven eIght ante ChrlS~um)
t Left m my Father's orders, By the table of Jewels
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? To admInIstrate as In the law left us Keep peace In the EmpIre
Ouen Quang, and Wu Wang your fathers'
Thus came Kang to be Emperor/
WhIte horses Wlth sorrel manes In the court yard
C I am pro-T cheou ' said ConfucIus
C I am ' saId ConfutzIuS c: pro-Tcheou In polItICS' Wen-wang and Wu-wang had sage men, strong as bears
SaId young Kang-wang
Help me to keep the peace' Your ancestors have come one by one under our rule
Honour to Chao-Kong the surveyor Let hIS name last 3000 years
Gave each man land for hIS labour
not by plough-land alone
But for keepIng of SIlk-worms Reforested the mulberry groves
Set perIodIcal markets
Exchange brought abundance, the prIsons were empty t Yao and Chun have returned'
sang the farmers
t Peace and abundance brIng vIrtue' I am
t pro-Teheau ' saId ConfucIus five centurIes later WIth hIS mInd on thIs age
Chou
In the 16th of Kang Quang dIed Pe-kin
PrInce of Lou, frIend of peace, frIend of the people
worthy son of Teheau-kong
And m the 26th Kang Quang, dIed Chao-Kong the tIreless
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for our rule
? on a Journey he made for good of the state and men never thereafter cut branches
of the pear-trees whereunder he had sat deemIng JustIce
deemIng the measures of lands
And you wIll hear to thIs day the folk sIngIng
Grow pear-boughs, be fearless
let no man break tWIg of thIs tree that gave shade to Chao-Kong
he had shadow from sun here,
rest had he In your shade
DIed then Kang Wang In the 26th of hIs reIgn
Moon shone In an haze of colours
Water bOIled m the wells, and dIed Tchao-ouang
to JOY of the people
Tchao-ouang that hunted across the tIlled fields And MOU-OUANG saId
t as a tIger agaInst me,
a man of thm Ice In thaw
aId me In the darkness of rule' then fell Into vanIty
agaInst councIl led out a myrIad army and brought back 4 wolves and 4 deer
hIs folk remaIned mere barbarIans Yet when neared an hundred
he wd/ have made reparatIon Crunmal law IS from Chun,
from necessIty only
In doubt, no condemnatIon, rule out Irrelevant eVIdence
Law of MOU IS law of the Just mIddle, the pIvot
RIches that come of court :fines and of Judges' tal{Ings
these are no treasure
as IS saId m the book Ltn htng of the Chu Knzg And the governor's daughters, three daughters, came to the rIver King-Ho,
bel053
? 860
For ten months was the emperor silent
and In the twelfth month, he, KONG, burnt the town
and got over It
Song turned agaInst Y-wang, great hall upon
Hlao wang
klllmg the cattle, Han-klang was frozen over
And In hIS tIme was the horse dealer FeI-tsei
IndustrIoUs, of the fallen house of Pe-y
who became master of equerry, who became Prince of TSln LI WANG aVId of slIver, to whom a memorIal
( A Pr1J1ce who wd/ fulfill oblIgatIon, takes cautIon
a ce que l'argent clrcule
that cash move amongst the people t Glory of HEOU-TSIE 15 clouded
Deathless his honour that saw hIS folk uSIng theIr substance The end of your house IS upon us '
Youl-leang-fou, In memorIal SaId Chao-kong Talk of the people
IS hk. e the hIlls and the streams
Thence comes our abundance To be Lord to the four seas of ChIna
a man must let men make verses
he must let people play comedIes
and hIstorIans wrIte down the facts
he must let the poor speak evtl of taxes
Interregnum of Cong-ho Sluen went agaInst the west tartars HIS praise lasts to thiS day Sluen-ouang contra barbaros
legat belli ducem Chaoumoukong,
Hoatland, fed by Hoal river
dark mIllet, Tchang WIne for the sacrIfice Juxta fluvlum Hoal aCles ordlnatur nee mora SWift men as 1? flyers, II! te Yangtse
Strong as the Yangtse,
they stand rooted as mountams
they move as a torrent of waters 27?
? Emperor not rash In counctl agIt consIderate HAN founded the town of Yuel
and taught men to sow the five grams In the 4th year of Sluen,
Sle was founded
and there were four years of dry summer
RITE IS
Nine days before the first moon of sprIng tIme,
that he fast And wIth gold cup of wheat-WIne that he go afield to sprmg ploughIng that he plough one and three quarters furrows
and eat beef when thIS rIte IS finIshed, so did not Sluen
that after famIne, called back the people
where are reeds to weave, where are pine trees
Sluen establIshed thiS people hac loea flUVIUS allult He heard the Wild geese cryIng sorrow
Campestrlbus Iocis
here have we fixed our dwellIng
after our sorrow, our grandsons shall have our estate
The Lady Paa Sse brought earthquakes TCHEOU falleth, folly, folly, false fires no true alarm
Mount KI-chan IS broken
Kl-chan IS crumbled m the loth moon of the 6th year of
Yeou Quang
Sun darkened, the rIvers were frozen
and at thiS time was T~ln rISIng, a marqUIS on the
EmpIre down In the rIse of prmces
T~ln drave the tartar, lands of the emperor Idle Tcheou tombs fallen In rum
from that year was no order No man was under another
9 Teheau wd/ not stand together 2. 7 1
Tartar border
? were not rods In a bundle Sky dark, cloudless and starless
at mIdnIght a raIn of stars W ars,
wars wIthout Interest boredom of an hundred years' wars
And In Slang, the prInces ImpatIent
kIlled a bad kIng for a good one, and thus Ouen Kong came to theIr rule In Sung land
and they said Slang had been killed when huntmg Ouen cherIshed the people
States of Lou were unhappy TheIr RIchards pOIsoned young prInces
All bloods, murders, all treasons Sons of the first wIfe of Ouen Kong
LIng Kong loved to shoot from the hedges
you'd see hIm behInd a wall WIth hIs arrows
For fun. of WIngIng pedestrIans
thIS prInce lIked eatIng bears' paws
By the NIne Urns of Yu, KIng Kong
made an allIance at hearIng the sound of Tcheou mUSIC ThIs was the year of the two eclIpses
And Cheou-lang that held up the portcullIs
was named t hIllock' because of a lump on hIS head Man of Sung, and hIS lIne of Lou land Chung ~
and hIS second son was Kung-fu-tseu , . Taught and the not taught Kung and EleusIs
to catechumen alone
And when Kung was poor, a superVIsor of vIctuals~
Plen's report boosted hun NI '. 1
so that he was made superVIsor of cattle
In that tIme were banquets as usual, Kung was Inspector of
markets
And that year was a comet In SeolpIa
and by nIght they fought In the boats on Klang rIver
2. 72
? And KIng Wang thought to vary the currency
j. tETOlJEj. tElICJJ'V TE TW'V XPW/JElIWlI
agamst councIl's opInIon,
and to gaIn by thIs wangll11g
Honour to Fen-yang who resIsted InjUstIce
And King Kong saId t That Idea IS good doctrIne' But I am too old to start uSing It
Never were so many eclIpses
Then Kungfutseu was made minIster and moved promptly
agaInst C T Mao
and had hIm beheaded that was false and crafty of heart
a tough tongue that flowed WIth deceit
A man who remembered eVll and was complacent m dOIng It LOU rose TSI sent girls to destroy It
Kungfutseu retired At Tching someone saId
there IS man WIth Yao's forehead Cao's neck and the shoulders of Tse TchIn
A man tall as Yu, and he wanders about In front of the
East gate
lIke a dog that has lost hIS owner
Wrong, saId ConfUCIUS, m what he says of those Emperors
but as to the lost dog, qUIte correct He was seven days foodless In TchIn
the rest SIck and Kung makIng mUSIC t sang even more than was usual '
Honour to Yng P the bastard
Tchln and Tsal cut off Kung In the desert
and Tcheou troops alone got hIm out Tsao fell after 2. 5 generatIons
And Kung cut 3000 odes to 300
Comet from Yng star to SIn star, that IS two degrees long In the 40th year of KIng Ouang
DIed Kung aged 73
273
? MIn Kong's hne was SIX centurIes lasting and there were 84 princes
SWIne thInk of extendlIlg borders Decent rulers of ll1ternal order
Fan-It sought the five lakes Took presents but made no hIghways
Snow fell In mid summer
Apncots were In December, MountaIns defend no state
nor sWIft rIvers neIther, neIther Tal-hia nor Hoang-ho Usurpations, JealousIes, taxes
Greed, murder, JealousIes, taxes and douanes
338 dled Kong sung yang
Sou-tslIl, armament racket, war propaganda and Tchan-y was workIng for TSln
bram work POLLON IDEN
and Tchao Slang called hImself t Emperor of the OccIdent' Sou TSI thought It badInage
Y0-Y reduced corvees and taxes
Thus of Kung or ConfucIus, and of t HIllock' hIs father when he was attackIng a CIty
hIS men had passed under the drop gate
And the warders then dropped It, so HIllock caught
the whole weIght on hIs shoulder, and held till hIs last man had got out
Of such stock was Kungfutseu
Chou
? LIV
O that Tien-tan chose bulls, a thousand
Sand covered them wIth great leather masks, makIng
dragons
and bound pOignards to theIr horns and tIed torches, pItch-smeared, to theIr taIls and loosed them by nIght from ten pOInts on the camp of Kl-kle the beSIeger
lIghtIng the torches
So dIed KI-kuS and that town (Tsie-me) was delIvered
be 279
For three hundred years, four hundred, nothIng qUIet, WALL rose In the tIme of TSIN CHI
TCHEOU lasted eIght centurIes and then TSIN came
and of TSIN was CHI HOANG TI that unIted all ChIna who referred to hImself as the surplus
or needless bIt of the EmpIre
and Jacked up astronomy
and after 33 years burnt the books because of fool lItteratI
by counsel of LI-sse
save medIcIne and on field works
and HAN was after 43 years of TSIN dynasty
some :6. shm' some huntm' some thIngs cannot be changed
some cook, some do not cook
some thmgs can not be changed
And when TSE-YNG had submItted, Slao-ho ran to the palace careless of treasure, and laId hold of the records,
regIsters of the realm for Lord Lleou-pang
that wd/ be first HAN
Now after the end of EULH and the death of hIS eunuch 2. 75
be 21J
? were Lleou. . . pang, and Hlang-yu
who had taste for commandIng
but made no progress In letters,
sayIng they serve only to transmIt names to posterIty
and he wIshed to carve up the empIre
bloody rhooshun, thought In ten thousands
hIS word was worth nothIng, he would not learn fenCIng And agaInst hIm
Lleou-pang stored food and munItIons 202 so that he came to be emperor, KAO,
brought calm and abundance No taxes for a whole year,
t no taxes tIll people can pay 'em' t When the quarry IS dead, weapons are useless'
t It appears to me' saId this Emperor, t that It IS
because I saw what each man cd/ put through '
And Lou-kla was envoy to Nan-hal, WIth nobIlIty,
and WIshed that the hng (the books Chu king and ChI kIng)
be restoled to whom KAO I conquered the empire on hOlseback
to whom Lou Can you govern It In that manner~
whereon Lou-kla wrote C The New DIscourse' (Sln-yu) In 12. chapters, and the books were restored
And KAD went to Kung fu tseu's tomb out of polICy VIdelIcet to please the wrIters and scholars
A hot lord and unlettered, that knew to correct hIS own faults as mdeed when he had first seen palace women, theIr
yet lIstened to Fan-koual
and had gone out of Hlen-yang the palace, aroused And he told Slao-ho to edIt the law code
Thereon the men In the vaudeVilles sang of peace and of empIre
Au douce temps de pascor 2. 76
splendour
? And Tchang-tsong wrote of mUSIC, Its prInCIples Sun-tong made record of rItes
And thIs was wrItten all In red-character, countersIgned by the assembly
sealed WIth the ImperIal Seal
and put In the hall of the forebears
as check on successors
HIAO HOEI TI succeeded hIs father
RaIn of blood fell In Y-yang
pear trees frUIted I n WInter
LIU-HEOU was empress, WIth devIlments,
tIll the grandees brought Hlao OUEN
PrInce of Tal to the thlone that was son of KAO TI and a concubIne
(no trIbute for the first year of hIS reIgn) And the chIef of the Southern BarbarIans complaIned that hIS slIver Import was mtercepted
cIrculatIon of speCIe Impeded
the tombs of hIS ancestors rUIn'd c 49 years have I governed Nan-yuel
my grandsons are now fit to serve
I am old, nIgh blInd, can scarce hear the drum-beats
I gIve up tItle of Emperor'
And KIa-Y sent m a petItIon that they store graIn agaInst
famIne
and HIAO aDEN TI the emperor publIshed Earth IS the nurse of all men
I now cut off one half the taxes
I WIsh to follow the sages, to honour Chang Tl by my furrow Let farm folk have tools for their labour It IS
for thIS I reduce the saId taxes
Gold IS medible Let no war ? nd us unready
Thus Tchao-tso of hIS mInIstry (war)
C Gold WIll sustaIn no man's lIfe nor WIll dIamonds
b c 179
2. 77
? keep the land under culture
by WIse cIrculatIon Bread IS the base of subsIstence'
They ended mutIlatIon as punIshment were but 400 men In all JaIls
DIed HIAO aUEN TI, ante Crlstum one ? ifty seven After 1. 3 years of reIgn, that pensIoned the elders
146 Great rebels began makIng lead money grasshoppers came agaInst harvest
And LI-kouang bluffed the tartars (the Hlong-nou)
m face of a thousand, he and hIS scouts dismounted
and unsaddled theIr horses, so the Hlong nOll thought Ll'5 army was wIth hIm
VIrtue IS the daughter of heaven, YU followed CHUN and CHUN, YAO havmg one root of conduct
HIAO KING had a Just man's blood on hIS conSCIence
HIA'S fortune was m good mInIsters The hIghbrows are full of themselves
learned, gay and Irrelevant
on such base nothIng stands
SIn,
HAN OU was for huntm', huntln' tIgers, bears, leopards They saId you outrIde all yrl huntsmen
no one else has such good horses
The prInce of Hoal-nan took to lIght readIng
PrInce of Ho-kien preferred hIstorIes, Chu Ktng
and the Tcheozt-lt and the Lf,-kf, of MenClUS (Mong-tse) and the Cht-lung or Odes of Mao-chi and the Tchun-tszou wIth the comment of Tso-kleou-mm
and the LI-YO wIth treatise on mUSIC 2. 7 8
? HAN TCHAO TI opened the glanarles
HAN SIEUN (or SIUN) Was fed up wIth hIghbrows
Preferred men who knew people's habIts C WrIters are full of their own unportance'
And when the tartar kIng came to Tchang-ngan
all the troops stood before hIm
the great In ceremonial uniform waited before that city and the EMPEROR
came out of the Palace with
foreign and chinese prInces,
Mandarins of the army and the book mandarins
as an hedge from the palace
and He took his way between them
mid cheermg and acclamatIon Ouan-SOUl" Ouan-soUI"
10,000 Ouan SOUl" may he lIve for
ten thousand years'
They crIed this for the Emperor and JOY was In every VOIce And the Tartar ran from hIS car to HAN SIEUN
held out hiS hand In frIendshIp
and then remounted hIS war horse
And they came mto the CIty, and to the palace
prepared And next day two ImperIal prmces went to the Prmce Tartar
the Tchen-yu and brought hIm to the audIence hall where all princes sat In theIr orders
and the Tchen-yu knelt to HAN SIEUN
and stayed three days there In festIval
whereafter he returned to hIS border and provInce He was the PrInce of Hlong-nou
And the kIngs of Sl-YU, that are from Tchang-ngan to the CaspIan
came Into the EmpIre to the JOY of HAN SIEUN TI
(Pretty manoeuvre but the techniCIans 2. 79
? bC' 49
watched wIth their haIr standIng on end
anno sIxteen, Bay of Naples)
From Ngan to the CaspIan all was under HAN SIEUN
The text of books reestablIshed And he dIed In the . 25th of
h I S reign
And Fong-chl led the bear back to Its cage whIch tale IS as follows
Fong-chl and Fou-chl had tItles but only as Queens of
HAN YUEN
and In the nnperial garden a bear forced the bars of hIS cage and of the court ladles only Fong faced hun
who seeIng thIS went back qUIetly to hIS cage And now was seepage of bhuddists H A N PING
sunple at table, gave tael to the poor
Tseou-kou and Tchong took the hIgh road
The PrInce of Ou-yen kIlled off a thousand, set troops to tIllIng the :fields
KOUANG OU took hIS rIsks as a common soldIer HAN MING changed nothIng of OU's
gave no posts to prIncesses' relatIves
and Yang Tchong sent In a placet that food prIces had rIsen SInce the start of the Tartar war, taxes had risen
Year of drought 77 and the Empress MA CHI answered Until now few Empresses' relatIves
have been enriched Without makmg trouble When Quang elu's five brothers were lIfted
thick fog came on thIS EmpIre
t History IS a. school book for prmces '
HAN HO TI heard men's good counsel
And In the thtrd moon of the first year of HAN NGAN the Empress' brother named Teng-tchl refused the honour
of prIncedom But gathered scholars and finally heard of Yang-tchln
whom he made governor
(J d 107
280
? and Yang-tchin refused gold of the mandarIn Ouang-ml
earthquakes and eclIpses And they turned out 300 mandarIns
that were creations of Leang-kl
And HUON gave most of the swag to the people
500 million tael
war, taxes, oppreSSIon backsheesh, taoists, bhuddlsts wars, taxes, oppreSSIons
And some grandees formed an academy and the eunuchs disliked the academy
but they never got rid of the eunuchs Teou-Chl brought back the scholars
and the books were IncIsed In stone 46 tablets set up at the door of the college
Inscribed In 5 sorts of character HAN HUON was run by eunuchs
HAN LING was governed by eunuchs wars, murders and crIme news
HAN sank and there were three kmgdoms and booze In the bamboo grove
where they sang emptIness IS the begInnIng of all thIngs Lleou-Tchin dIed m hall of the forebears-
when hIS father wd/ not dIe fightmg- by sUIcIde, slayIng hIS chIldren and consort
Down' HAN IS down Under T~IN Tou-yu proposed a brIdge over Hoang-ho T~IN OU TI mourned for SIr Yang-Hou
that had planned the union of empIre,
and had named Tou-yu to succeed hIm
Quang-slun wrote to hIS MAJESTY Wmd was agaInst us at San-chan, we cd/ not sau up the KIang
nor was there sense m returnIng
Not I but Sun-hao's own men sacked hIS palace
IJ d 159
281
ad 175
ad 274
? 4 d 317
ad 396
And T~IN OU exempted the conquered In au from taxes Was an army and navy dog fight And after the fall of Sun--hao hIs ballet dIstracted the EMPEROR
were five thousand ballet gIrls after the first QUIndecennIo
And Lleou-Y answered the Emperor
t Dt:fference, mllorr', IS that HUON and LING TI
extracted and kept It m publIc vaults
whereas YR Majesty keeps It In yr/ own prIvate
T~IN au dIsmIssed too many troops
and was complImented on dragons
(two found m the soldIers' well, green ones) and the country was run by Yang Slun
whl1e the emperor amused hImself In hIS park
had a lIght car made, harnessed to sheep The sheep chose whIch pIcnIc he went to,
ended hIs days as a gourmet SaId Tchang, tartar
Are not all of hIs proteges flatterers)
How can hIs county keep peace~
And the prInce ImperIal went mto the cabaret busIness
and read Lao Tse
HOAI TI was deposed, MIN TI taken by tartars
made lackey to Lleou-Tsong of Han T~IN TCHING cared for the people T~IN NGAN dIed of tonICS and taolsts T~IN HIAO told a gIrl she was 30
and she strangled hun
(plquee de ce badmage) he drunk at the t11lle
Now was therefore SUNG rising
When Lleou-yu's mother was burled
HIS dad couldn't hire a nurse for thIs babby KAO-TSOU
last T~IN down m a Bhud mess KAO TSEU preferred dIstributIon
No pomps 10 palatlo, Made peace WIth the tartars
2. 82.
? LI-Chan wd/ not leave hIs mountain
Et les Indlens dlsent que Boudha
In the form of a whIte bucl{ elephant
slId Into Queen Nana's bosom, she vIrgIn,
and after nIne months mgestlon emerged on the dexter SIde
The PrInce of Quel put out hochangs put out the shamen and Taotsse
a d 444, putt 'em OUT
In the tune of aDEN TI
t Let artIsans teach theIr sons crafts' Found great store of arms In a temple
Then To-pa-tao went after the shave-heads, the hochang And the censor finally prInted hIS placet
against extortIonate Judgements and greed of
the HIgh Judge Y upIngtchl OUEN TI reduced hIm (Yuplngtchl)
And there was peace between Sung land and Quel land and they ordered more war machInes a la Vaiturio
conscrIptIons, assaSSIns, taolsts
taxes stIll m the hands of the prmces OU TI had 'em centralIzed
Yen Yen was frugal Ouel prince went pussyfoot And the rItes of Tten, that 18 Heaven
were ploughIng and the raiSIng of suk worms OU TI ploughed hIS festIval furrow
hIS Empress dId rIte of the SIlk worms
Then au went gay and SUNG ended
Thus was I t WIth Kao~s son that was Slao, that was called
a d 448
OUTI
as Emperor
collecter of vases
(Topas were In Quel country, they were Tartar)
bhuddlsts, hochangs, serendIpity
C Man's face 15 a flag' saId Tan Tchln
. 2. 83
/I d 460
? al 503-550
t Thought 15 to body as IS Its edge to a sword'
C Wheat IS by sweat of the people'
So au TI of LEANG had a renaissance
Snow lay In PIng Tchlng till June
Emp'r'r huntln' and the Crown PrInce full of sakI And Topa Hong came south under the rain
<< No lack of students, few wise
Perhaps thiS IS due to the colleges'
And Topa, who was Lord of the Earth called hImself Yuen
and there was a hand-out to the aged halls were re-set to Kung-fu-tseu
yet agam, allus droppln' 'em and restorln' 'em
after Intervals And there was war on the Emperor au TI Hochang consIder their own welfare only
And the 46 tablets that stood stIll there In Yo Lang
were broken and bUilt Into Foe's temple (Foe's, that IS
goddam bhuddlsts)
thIS was under Hou-chl the she empress au TI went Into clOIster
Empire rotted by hochang, the shave-heads, and Another hoosy king dIed Snow alone kept out the tartars And men turned theIr thought toward Ouen TI
Yang-klen of SOUl set men to reVIse hiS law code Sou-ouel adVIsed hun, grain went Into hiS granaries HEOU raised the Three Towers
sat late and wrote verses HIS mandate was ended
Came the Xllth dynasty SOUl Y ANG-KIEN, rough, able, wrathy
flogged a few every day
and sacrIficed on Mt T11 Chan
BUilt Gin Cheou the palace
pardoned those who stood up to him
Toull-Kahn, tartar, was gIven a prIncess now was contempt of scholars
ad 581
284
? OUEN kept up mulberry trees
and faIled with his family
Y ANG (kouang) TI ordered more bUIldIngs Jobs for two mtllyum men
and filled his zoological gardens 1600 leagues of canals 40 ft wIde for the
honour of Y ANG TI of SOUl
the stream Kou-choul was lInked to Hoang Ho the river
great works by oppreSSIon by splendId oppreSSIon the Wall was from Yu-Im to Tse-ho
and a mIllion men worked on that wall Pel-klu was tactful with traders,
knowing that Y ANG liked news from afar,
wIth what he learned of the Sl-YU he mapped 48 kIngdoms KONG sank m abulela T ANG rIsmg
And the first TANG was KAO TSEU, the starter
And that year dIed LI-Chl that had come to hIs rescue
with a troop of 10,000 The war drums beat at her funeral And her husband drove back the tartars, Tou-kou-hoen
Fou stood against foe, damn bhuddlstS
When TAl TSONG came to be emperor he turned out 3000
ad 618
BUIlt thus for two hundred years TANG And there were ten thousand students
Fou-Y saymg they use muzzy language the more to mIslead folk
Kung IS to Chma as 18 water to fishes War, letters, to each a tune
PrOVInces by mountam and rIvers dIvIded
t A true prmce wants hiS news straIght'
TAl TSONG was no frIend to taozers hochangs and foes. Was observer of seasons, sayIng
Take not men from the plough
Let Judges fast for three days before passmg capital sentence
2. 85
fanCIes
? Ouel-Tchlng rock-lIke In councIl
made the Emperor put on his best clothes
SaId In war tnne we want men of abIlIty In peace we want also character
300 were unJalled to do theIr spring ploughing and they all came baek In October
It I grew wIth the people' said T A l TSONG It my son m the palace '
DIed KAO TSEU the emperor's father 635 anna domInI
DIed the Empress Tchang-sun CHI leaVIng t Notes for Prmcesses'
And TAl In hiS law code cut 92 reasons for death sentence and 7I for eXIle
as they had been under SOUl
And there were halls to ConfucIus and Teheou-Kong Ma-tcheou spoke agaInst corvees
that had been under SOUl GraIn prIce was hIgh when TAl entered
a small measure cost one bolt of sIlk, entIre If a prmce plIes up treasure
he share~ only hiS surplus
Lock not up the people's subsistence SaId TAl TSONG
let a prInce be cIted for actions
A measure of rIce now cost three or four denars,
that wdj feed one man for one day
Ouel-tchlng spoke hiS mmd to the Emperor Died a d 643
And there were plots In palatlo TAl TSONG had a letch for Corea
And an embassy came from north of the CaspIan from Kouhhan of short nIghts
where there IS always lIght over horIzon
and from the red-heads of Klel-kou
Blue-eyed and their head man was Atchen or AtkIns Chelisa 286
? And the Emperor TAl TSONG left hIs son t Notes on Conduct'
whereof the 3rd treats of selectIng men for a cabinet whereof the 5th says that they shd/ tell hIm his faults the 7th nlaintain abundance
The loth a charter of labour
and the last on keepln' up kulchur
SayIng C I have spent money on palaces
too much on 'osses, dogs, falcons but I have unIted the Hempire (and you 'aven't)
NothIng harder than to conquer a country
and damn'd easy to lose one, In fact there
aIn't anything he1. SIer
DIed TAl TSONG In the 23rd of hIs reIgn
And left not more than fifty men m all JaIls of the empIre none of 'em complaInIng of Judgement
And the tartars wanted to dIe at hIs funeral and wd/ have, If TAl hadn't foreseen It
and wrIt expressly that they should not Then the Empress Ou-heou ran the country
toward rUIn
but TAl TSONG'S contraptIon stIll worked-
local admInIstratIons m order Tchlng-gIntal drove after tartars,
hIs men perIshed In snow storms and the hochang ran the old empress
the old bItch ruled by prescrIptIon and hochangs who told her she was the daughter of Buddha Tartars remembermg TAl TSONG
held up the state of TAl TSONG
young TCHONG was run by hIs wIfe
Honour to HIEUN t to hell wIth embrOIderIes, to hell wIth the pearl merchants'
HIEUN measured shadows at solstice
polar star at 34 4
ad 662
ad
713-756
? 756
C a rebel's daughter' and killed her
Tchang-slun fighting for SOU TSONG had need of arrows and made then 1200 straw men whIch he set In dark
under wall at Yong-kleu
and the tartars shot these full of arrows And next nIght Colonel Tchang set out real men, and the tartars wIthheld
theIr arrows
t111 Tchang's men were upon them
To SOU TSONG they sent rhmocerl and elephants danCing
and bowmg, but when Ll-yen
sent TE TSONG a memorIal on the nuances of clouds our lord TE TSONG replIed that plentiful harvests were prognastlcs
more to
hiS taste than strange anImals
or even new botanIcal specunens and other natural what-nots
Cock :6. ghtmg wastes palace tnne So they set up another trIbunal
to watch mandarms
and no new temples to Idols 700,000 men in the army
Measured It m different parts of the empIre at Lang-tcheou was 29 and a half
TSlun-Y 34? and 8 lines For :five years no taxes In Lou-tcheou
census 41 mllhon, 7. 2. 6 anna domini
And HIEUN TSONG decreed Kung posthumous honours That he shd/ be henceforth called prince not mere t malstre '
In all rites and Ngan-yong were In hands of the tartars
and we were sad that the north CIties, Chepoutchlng
And there came a taozer babblIng of the eliXIr that wd/ make men lIve WIthout end
and the taozer dIed very soon after that
And plotters crIed out agamst the Queen Koue-fel
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(T au-san)
? Inkum 30 millIon tael slIver
and 111 graIn 2. 0 mIllIon measures of 1 0 0 lbs each N estorlans entered, General Kouo-tse-y
IS named In their monument
Such bravery and such honesty, 30 years wIthout rest
And more goddam Tartars bust loose agaIn
better war than peace wIth these tartars
Taxes rISIng, LI-chlng had a lIaIson
And TE-TSONG rode apart from hIS huntsmen In the huntIng
by Smtlen
and went Into a peasant's house Incognito And saId
we had good crops for two years or three years and no war
And the peasant said be, If we have bad good crops for two years or three years
you've got no taxes to pay to the Emperor
we used to pay tWIce a year and no extras and now they do nothmg but think up new noveltIes We pay the usual tithe, and If there's a full crop
They come round to squeeze more of It out of us and beat down our prIces, and then
sell It back agaIn to us
or else we have to get pack anImals
or wear out our own, so that I can't keep a tael qUIet Does thIS mean contentment~,
Whereon TE TSONG dId nothIng save exempt that one peasant from corvee
and t11en laid a tea tax Empresses, rebels, tartars
SIX months WIthout raIn DIed TE-TSONG, the deceived
ad 805
? ad 805
LV BEM bellis, urbem gabelhs
Implevit OAnd the troops not even paId
And TCHUN the new Lord was dyIng but awoke to name LI-Chun hIs heIr And at thIS tIme died Ouel-Kao the Just taxer
that set up penSIons for Widows
HIS temple stands to thIS day that hIs soldIers bUIlt for hIm
Honour to TCHUN-TSONG the sIck man C Cut It' you bastard' saId Lln-Yun
t Do you take my neck for a whetstone') , And the rebel Lleou PI was delIghted
And the censors saId Llkl has hogged ten provInces' treasure If these go to the natIonal treasury
they WIll go out of cIrculatIon the people thereby deprIved,
so HIEN-TSONG threw thIS mto commerce
? And yet he was had by the eunuchs, the army 800 thousand
not tIllmg the earth
And half of the EmpIre tao-tse hochangs and merchants so that With so many hochangs and mere shIfters
three tenths of the folk fed the whole empIre, yet HIEN reduced the superfluous mandarIns
and remItted taxes In Hoal
LI Klang and Tlen Hlng "rere hIS mInIsters
remembermg TCHING-OUANG, KANG, HAN-OUEN and HAN KING TI
t Men are the basIs of empIre:l, saId our lord HIEN-TSONG yet he dIed of the elIxIr,
fooled by the eunuchs, and more Tou-san (tartars)
were raIdIng
MOU-TSONG drove out the taozers
but refused to wear mournIng for HIEN hIs father
The hen sang In MOD'S tIme, raCln', Jazz danCln' and play-actors, Tartars stIll raIdln'
MOU'S first son was strangled by eunuchs,
Came QUEN-TSONG and kIcked out 3000 fanCIes
let loose the falcons
yet he also was had by the eunuchs after 15 years reIgn aU-TSONG destroyed hochang pagodas,
spent hiS tune dluhn' and huntln' Brass Idols turned Into ha'pence
chased out the bonzes from temples
46 thousand temples chased out the eunuchs
and Tsal-gm whom he had WIshed to make empress hanged herself after hIS dearIl
saYing I follow to the nIne fountams'
So SIUEN decreed she shd/ be honoured as FIrst Queen
of aU-TSONG
a a 820
? ad 846
Ruled SIUEN with hIs mmd on the C Gold Mirror' of TAl TSONG
Wherein IS wrItten In tIme of dIsturbance make use of all men, even scoundrels
In tIme of peace reject no man who IS WIse
HIEN said no rest for an emperor A lIttle spark lIghts a great deal of straw
SIUEN'S Income was 18 mIllIon strIngs of a thousand on salt and wme only
not countIng graIn, SIlk etc
(calculated at french louIs d'or 1770
say about 90 mll1yun pund sterlIng) A man who remembered faces
and had by the taozers
tho' he stood for Just price and sound paper
I 3 years on the throne
Y TSONG his son brought a Jazz age HI-TSONG cock fights poverty archery
Squabbles of governors, eunuchs Sun Te put out the Eunuchs
and got hImself murdered
Then came lIttle dynasties, came by murder, by treason, WIth the Prmce of Tc;IN rISing
LI-ke-Yong IS not dead' saId Tchu
C for hIs son prolongs hIm ' whereas my sons are mere pIgS and dogs HIU cut down taxes and douanes
was hell on extorters 10 years chan~onsde gestes
Khltans rISIng, Yellou Apaokl and ChulIu, some gal, HIU, gallant, pugnacIous So they saId
In the city of Tching-tcheou are women lIke clouds of heaven,
SIlk. , gold, pIled mountaIn hIgh 2. 92.
ad 860
? Take It before PrInce T~Ul gets there Thus Quang Yeou to the Khltan of Apaoki
whose son was lost In the mulberry forest Thus came T~IN Into EmpIre
callmg themselves later TANG
hunters and Jongleurs Comedians were the klng's eyes but unstable
Took Chou land In 70 days WIthout dIsorder
A PrInce thIS was, but no Emperor, paladIn, useless to rule Tartar Yuen ruled as protector
cut down taxes, analphabetlc
And yet he set all the hawks loose,
saId huntm' IS hell on the crops
ThIs Ll-sse Yuen, called MING TSONG, had eIght years of
a. a923
Ll Tsongkou ruled hIS troops by affectIon was Prmce of Lou at this tlnle
that 18 Kungfutseu's country
The dowager empress chose hIm
a great captaIn under MING TSONG and they needed troops for defence agaInst tartars
In ChekIng-Tang's department Called ApaokI son of ChullU to aSSIst them And Cheklng Tang founded a dynasty
a rl 9J4
Dry sprmg, a dry summer locusts and raIn In autumn
and beyond that, lack of speCIe tax collectors Inhuman
Chuhu a great Queen of the Tartar Te Kouang put the emperor In a temple
and supplIed him With comforts
tartars put on chmese clothes
Ouan sow" ten thousand
eVVlva, eVVlva Lleou-Tchl-Yuen . 193
ad 947
comIng up from the ranks
good reign
? Turk of the horde of ehato, set hIS CIty at Calfon fou
And the tartars called their dead emperor t salted'
And It wd/ be now 13 years untIl SUNG
Teoul-tcheou saId Lou land has produced only writers Said TAI-TSOU KUNG IS the master of emperOlS
and they brought out Ou-tchao's edItIon, 953, And TAl ordered hImself a brIck tomb WIth no flummery
no stone men sheep or tIgers
CHI-TSONG m the thIck by T~e-tcheou,agaInst Han
sent reserve troops to the left wing
while he held firm on the rIght,
sayIng now, that they thInk they have beaten us'
And CHI cleared out the temples and hochang cleared out 30 thousand temples
and that left 26 hundred
WIth 60 thousand bonzes and bonzesses Chou cOin was of Iron
And CHI'S men drove t~e Tang boats from the Hoal-ho
all north of the great Klang was to CHI-TSONG who lent graIn to Hoal-nan deva~t
Died Quang-po the adVIsor SUNG was for 300 years
LIght was In hIS birth room and fragrance
as 1? It were almond boughs
Red the robe of hIs dynasty
pourvou que ~a doure, saId hIs mother
He saId let brothers Inherit
you are not here by virtushj
the last HAN was a mInor eunuchs, hochangs and taxers
princes get too much power
TCHAO KOUANG revIewed all capItal sentences
took tax power from governors 294
and tartars
? and centered the army command South Han was rotted wIth douanes
was rotted wIth tortures TSIuenpIU In snow had all Chou
and was SIxty SIX days only In takIng It And the emperor
Sent hIS own coonskIn coat to thIs general who promptly went gay,
FIve stars shone In Koue, five planets
T A l TSONG brought out the true BOOKS
and there arose In the prOVUlce of Ssetchuen a 1 evolt because of the greed of the mandarIns
Not content wIth theIr salarIes
began to bleed merchants for lIcences
whIch new damn tax made money so scarce In that prOVInce that men cdn't buy the neceSSItIes
Therefore Quang Siaopo of the people demanded Just dIstrIbutIon
and they went agamst TSlng-chln CIty, and took Pongchan
by vIolence and cut open the governor's belly whIch they :filled up wIth SlIver
(bIt of what he had extorted) and TAl TSONG reIgned 22 years
carIng for field work MeanwhIle Jelly Hugo the tartar, a Khltan, freed hIs people of taxes
and started old age relIef Ghengls rIsIng
And Tchln-Song declIned a present of sables (marte zlbbehne) sayIng It was Just as cold for the soldIers
and In ten four men crIed once agaIn Ouan SOUl
may he lIve for 10 thousand years
TCHIN-TSONG
ouan SOUl, may he lIve for ten thousand years
who saId don't worry about comIng ages the people need tIme to breathe
a d 978
a d 993
2. 95
? ad 1022
And he made terms wIth the tartars, paId 'em In SIlk and m slIver
to keep 'em qUIet as far as the wall
And the King of Khltan set court at Tchongklng our lord TCHIN gomg mumbo
and they burled hIm wIth the tracts about heaven whIch had wrought his dIshonour
and GIN TSONG cleaned out the taozers and the tartars began uSIng books
Han, Khltan, tartar wars, boredom of
Money and all that, stablhzatlon, probably racket
1069
And now FOU-Ple to whom we owed the peace of 1042. wIth
returned and was kept and made mInIster and CHIN-TSONG lIved soberly
wIth no splurge of table or costumes and at thIs tune began N gan
(or more fully Ouang-Ngan-che) to demand that they reset the market trIbunals,
postmg every day what was on sale and what the rIght prIce of It
as had been under TCHEOU emperors
and that a market tax shd/ go to the emperor from thIs
thereby rehevmg the poor of all douanes gIvIng them easy market for merchandIse
and enlIvenIng commerce
by making to cIrculate the whole realm's abundance
and said he knew how hard It wd/ be to nnd personnel
to look after thls, as when YAO had appoInted Koen
who could not, and then YU who had drawn off the flood water
And these changes annoyed, greatly, the bureaucrats 2. 96
the tartars
? whom he sent to confino that is the most stubborn
and got younger men to replace 'em And LIU-hoel saId Ngan was a tWIster
but the Emperor sent back HoeI's protest So Hoel begged to retIre, and
was sent out to Tengtcheou as governor And Ngan saw land lymg barren
because peasants had nowt to sow there whence saId Lend 'em graIn In the sprmg tIme
that they can pay back In autumn
WIth a bIt of an mcrease, thIS wd/ augment the reserve, ThIS will need a trIbunal
and the same trIbunal shd/ seek
equIty
for all lands and all merchandIse
accordtng to harvest and SOlI
so that the emperor's tIthes shd/ be proportIonate
to the rarIty or the abundance of merchandIse to make commerce more easy, that the folk be not
nor yet the ImperIal revenue be made less and Ngan made yet a thIrd pomt
that was to fix the value of money
and to cOin enough denars
that shd/ stay always on the same footing and Fan-chungm protested
but
Heol-kmg argued for Ngan
no man 1S forced to borrow thIS graIn In sprIng tune
If peasants find It no advantage
they WIll not come borrow It
and Sse-ma, saId, all rIght In theory
but the executIon WIll be full of abuse
they'll take It, but not brIng It haclt. 297
overburdened
? TSONG of T ANG put up granarIes
somewhat hke those you want to establish
a measure of ten or twelve pounds cost no more than ten pence and when the prIce was put up
they went on bUYing
and the whole prOVInce was rUIned
CHIN stayed pro-Ngan, and It was suggested that drought was due to Ngan's reforms,
whereto N gan said droughts had happened before
and at the 12th moon of the 17th year of thIs Emperor Sse-rna Kouang, Fan Tsuyu and Lleou Ju offered the HISTORY, called
ad 10-84 Tse-tcbt t01zg hen hang 1nou
on the model of Tso kJeou mlng
and thIs began wIth the 23rd year of OUEI-LIE of TCHEOU dynasty
and was In 294 books
Honour to CHIN-TSONG the modest Lux enlm per se omnem In partem Reason from heaven, saId T cheou Tun-y
enlighteneth all thmgs selpsum selpsum drffundlt, rlsplende
Is the beginnIng of all thIngs, et e1. tectu,
Said Ngan YAO, CHUN were thus In government
Died now the master of Nenuphar
Mandarms oppressing peasants to get back their graIn loans, and hts dIctIonary IS, they say, coloured wIth hochang
mterpretatlons and Taozer, that IS Ngan's
and merchants In Cal? ong put up their shutters In mournmg
for Sse-kouang
antI-tao, antl-bhud, antl-Ngan
whose rules had worked . 20 years
till Sse-kouang reversed 'em
Students went bhud rather than take Kung via Ngan, Flood relIef, due to Ngan)
? Joker somewhere')
came Tsal Kmg pro-Ngan, probably crooked and they put Ngan's plaque In a temple
HOEI went taozer, an' I suppose Tsal ran to state usury The tartar lord
wanted an alphabet
by name Akouta, ordered a wrItten tongue for KIn tartars
And a fox walked Into the Imperial palace and took hIS seat on the throne
a mad man ran shrIekIng change, tartars more tartars tartars pass over Hoang-ho
And they used paper notes when cOin was too heavy for
and redeemed those notes at one thIrd/ And there were ever all sorts of dIsturbers For there were the tartars, Khltan, that had
taken the old Turk's country,
and these tartars are called also Leao And there are KIn tartars, that were under Akouta
and these are called also Nutche, from nOlth of Corea, and there were the hordes of Ghenglz (TAI-TSOU, Temougln)
of whom was CHI-TSOU or Koublal
Hoang ho, Hoang ho, tartars pass over Hoang ho SUNG died of taxes and guncracks
Mongrels m fish-skm (shagreen, or shark's skm)
till I 157 the Km used com made In China
and OuIo stopped swappmg suk for the toys of Hla,
saId men cannot eat Jewels
Oulo of Km, greatest of KIn, under hIm were books set
II it 1177
In hiS reIgn were only 18 beheaded but hIS brat was run by hIS miSSUC;
and they had an IdeologIcal war
C medIocrity's chIldhood lasts Into mIddle age'
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transport
mto Nutche
? they brought out a text book on mUSIC GHINGIZ (Tchlnkls) hearIng of alphabets
hearIng of mores and saw a green unIcorn speakmg
fumee malIgne In the underground 12. 19 saId Yehu Tchutsal tax, don't extermInate
you WIll make more 1? you tax 'em thIS was a new Idea to the mongols
who wanted to turn all land Into grazIng
and saw no use for human mhabltants
these mongrels beln' 'orsemen
Ten percent tax on WIne, three and I/3rd on neceSSItIes
mohammeds say drfferent make more anyhow If you tax 'em
SUNG fallmg, Antzar went agaInst KIn by Tang and Teng, let 'em pass
3? 0
? LVI
LLETS' blgliettl, as COIn was too heavy for transport, Bbut redeemed the stuff at one thIrd
And Ou-KIai had another swat at the tartars and licked 'em
And Yu-Tchong, governor of KI. Llgtcheou In the Chensl said my spIes have told me etc/
easy to start a war,
not easy to finIsh one
SUNG dIed of levyIng taxes
guncracks, SUNG dIed under HOEI the sltder,
And there was a man named TchinkIs In Tartary hearIng of alphabets, morals, mores
and a man named Yellu-Tchutsal Yellu apaokl Ouanyen akouta,
of KIn, of Khltan, and Genghls of Yuen,
hearIng of alphabets
and Yehu Tchutsal saId to Ogotal
tax, don't extermInate You'll make more by taXIng the bl1ghters
thus saved several ml11yum lIves of those chmamen BOJars thought land was for grazmg
ten percent tax on hooch, 3-J-rd on necessItIes And they trIed to stop the Tartars on Hoang Ho
day falls lIke a flutterIng flag
East prmces went by the valley of box wood
tocoverMtKualWIth apalace c There 18 " saId the T aozers,
t A medIcme that gIves ImmortalIty' and shIps sent (11 Sao) to Japan
Mt Tal Haku IS 300 mIles fronl heaven lost In a forest of stars,
Slept on the pme needle carpet 3? 1
? sprmkled horse blood
praymg no brave man be born among Mongols
JO Ouen yan Tchln hochang of KIn
YAO, CHUN, YU controller of waters BrIdge bUIlders, contrIvers of roads
gave grain to the people kept down the taxes
Hochang, eunuchs, taoists and ballets nIght-clubs, gimcracks, debauchery
Down, down' Han IS down
Sung IS down Hochang, eunuchs, and taozers
empresses' relatives, came then a founder sayIng nothIng superfluous
cleared out the taozers and grafters, gave graIn
opened the mountaIns
Came taozers, hochang and debauchery
And lltteratl fought fiercer than other men to keep out the
drlftmg dung-dust from the North Hochang southward lIke rabbIts
half a mIllIon In one prOVInce only mus mgens, Ingens, noll meum granum comedere
No slouch ever founded a dynasty DIed Kin Lusiang, hIstorIan and ConfUCIan all mulberrIes frozen In Pa Yang
Where were two mIllIon trees and beyond that Lltterati fought fiercer than other men
Hall breakmg the trees and walls
In I-Tchlng-tcheou
Crops gone
AgaInst Ogotal's catapults Nlk-la-su used powder
May the whIte bIrds remember thIS warrIor, good at lOgIstICS Ozm (Wodm) Yourlak had 'em set out mulberry trees
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mogul
? Ghenso was for no taxes, grew up as a labourer A hundred chI of rIce for ten denars
that IS an 1/. 2. ounce of slIver ZmKwa observed tllat gold IS InedIble Stored graIn agaInst famIne
observed that Jade IS InedIble And they used InvIsIble wrItIng
In Ten Bou's tune came a whIte phoenIX and In this time was Yehu Tchutsal
Meng Kong stIll held agaInst Mogois Han, Lang, Ouen, Kong,
MIe, Klen, Tchong, Kmg
Fou, Pong, Chun KIng
gone Vendome, Beaugency, Notre Dame de Clery,
and they took law against YelIu, but hIs leavIng was 13 flutes, hIs lute and hIs lIbrary
to refute charge of embezzlement And after hIm ched Meng Kong
KUJak was crowned
And the first day they put on theIr whIte clothes and the second day red robes
and the thIrd day were all lords In VIolet,
scarlet the fourth day, and KUJak went agaInst Hungary made war on Poland, on PrUSSIa
and Mengko took off taxes
And In Cal Fang they made a graIn dIVIdend
and gave InstructIon In farmIng ploughs, money, ammaSSl
YAO, SHUN, YU, Kung
TCHIN QUANG, OUEN, Ghenglz Khan
And Mengko went Into Bagdad, went Into Kukano
and dIed by the wall at Ho-tcheou Ogotal reIgned for nme years
3? 3
? ad
1225/65
Kubial ascended Mt Hianglou
the KIang full of war Junks
that SUNG thought securIty LI TSONG belIeved hIs news serVIce
wrongly
Kublal before hIm
and about hun damned rascals, courtezans, palace
Cliques, easy wars without Justice
And Kublal said Sung laws very beautiful
unlIke theIr conduct Klasse harmed SUNG more than Mongols
North IS the cradle of mongols
Pasepa gave them their alphabet
1000 words mongol, and 41 letters
SUNG sank by Yal Island The line of Ghenglz called YUEN
ad 1278 this dynasty mo'gol
Hoang-ho's fount In a sea of stars
Quang tchl slew Ahama Ouen Tlenslang was faIthful
War scares Interrupt commerce Money was now made of brass and profit on arms went to the government
WIne taxed high, settlers lIcensed
Lou-chi brought back the grafters (Ahama's)
and boosted the tea tax
Tchm-kln dIsgusted by the SIze of the tax receIpts
and L Sleuen staved off a war With Japan staved off a war on Annam
saId Taxes are not abundance
Yellu resumed the Imperial college, gathering scholars
KUBLAI Was a buggar for taxes Sangko stinkIng WIth graft
Ouantse made a law code
elIminated 250 tribunals, that mostly dId nowt but tax
ad 1295 KUBLAI d1ed heavy With years
hiS luck was good mInIsters, save for the treasury
3? 4
women
? C As hunger alone drove them to brIgandage they wd/ continue bandIts tIll fed'
ThIS known In the tIme of TIMOUR The last SUNG fled In what was left of a navy
went down m sea waves, came mongols
of Ghenglz
rose KUBLAI
HIA, CHANG, TCHEOU
were great lInes tIll Kungfutseu
Then were HAN T<;IN
T ANG SUNG
Then these mongols or YUEN
Ghenglz, Ogotal, KUBlAI KHAN
that carne Into EmpIre
From the Isle of Yal, no more SUNG countIng
and mogols stood over all ChIna
89 years more tIll MING came, 1368
that IS from GhengIz an hundred and 60 (Cambuskm) And In south prOVInce Tchln Tlaouen had rIsen
and took the CIty of Tchang tcheou
offered marrIage to Ouang ChI,
who saId It IS an honour
I must first bury Kanouen H IS body IS heavy HIS ashes were lIght to carry
BrIght was the flame for Kanouen
Quang ChI cast herself Into It, FaIthful forever HIgh the hall TIMOUR made her
And In the 8th moon the publIc works and corvee department presented GIN TSONG a volume on mulberry culture
by MIao Haoklen where he explains m detaIl the
grOWIng of sIlk worms and of unwIndIng cocoons
be 202 ad 265 ad 618 ad 950
3? 5
? IlJ
1312/20
and the Emperor had this engraved wIth all dIagrams and distributed throughout all China
nor had any emperor more care to :find men of merIt- dOIng what KUBLAI had Intended-
than had Alullpata called GIN TSONG (AlgIaptou khan) honourIng Kung wIth the rites
And his son dIed of assasSins
died of the gang of TlemoutIer, lamas, foes,
shIt and religIon always stInking In concord Came Jason agamst these assaSSInS
came CHUNTI last of the mogul
Two mIllion families went down In famine
blood rained on the high land
green hair came down lIke rain HanJong levelled the temples
hIS folk burst mto JOy
to put land back under tillage
CHUNTI came to the college, as had not In 1. 1 years of reIgn gave a SlIver seal to Kung's eplgon
but gangsters continued
a pU"ate declIned to turn mandarIn,
a comet exploded In Pleiades Hoang-ho shIfted Its bed
and they said that the Mile Buddha had come down to turn out the mogul,
pseudo-Sung put on red hats
Tlenouan beat the rebels, Talpou was killed by rebels
Slngkl respected
and the lamas put on a ballet for CHUNTI
In Ivory headgear
castagnettes crmkhng and clackIng, and a Tang dance
Without fancy clothes Kongpel saId to Toto Don't open dIspatches
Dragon barge drIfted WIth musIc Statue poured water amldshlp
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? SpIrIts struck the nIght watches
they say CHUNTI Invented thIs clockwork
The Red Caps called theIr candIdate Mmg Ouan as If emperor
Left monkhood and put manhood on
to end the lme of GhengIz khan
Yuentchang ceased bemg hochang took Ito Yen wIthout pIllage
and passed over Klang rIver
conquered the TalpIng prOVInce
Comet m Tchang star, over Tal Mlng shone the meteor broom-shaped
Mmg commg out of South Country, In 35 years' dIssolution CHUNTI ceased from the throne
DIed YukiOU of more than ten wounds Now m Chang-tou was rUIn
the hIgh house of KUBLAI cast down Came MIng slowly, a thousand, an hundred thousand
the pIrate Kouetchln came to hun
At court, eunuchs and grafters
among mongols no man trusted other The empress' folk In Corea kIlled off kmg Peyen Of MING were now 2. 00,000
that fought three days In the boat fight there by lake Peyan
to Hoang Ho the rIver YeougIn and the Tchlng brothers
ttll Leou Lean was arrowed
And they left Tchln-II hIS father's treasure
but took hIS graIn for the people Came MING thus to K. 1anKlng, say 1368 For crnne after TIMOUR the mandate
left YUEN mongols
No slouch ever founded a dynasty
From Ghenglz were 8 score years until MING time 3? 7
? SaId now YUENTCHANG
SUIS fils d'un pauvre labourelLt
In a vIllage of Ssetcheou In the provmce of Klangnan at seventeen was made shavelIng
then enrolled under Tsehing the captain ThIS IS called DestIny
Schlcksal to brIng peace to the EmpIre Ll, Su, Tong and I
were four musketeers
We were workmen m the same VIllage we were plam sOJers together
If we can take Chantong prOVInce, we can take PekIn (and dId so, 1368)
HesaIdtoSuTa Doasyoudeem
CHANG, CHOU, and HAN rose by talents
Once we four were lucky to have even canvas coats Mongols are fallen
from lOSIng the law of Chung NI (ConfucIus)
HAN came from the people
How many fathers and husbands are fallen Make census
GIve rIce to their famlhes
Give them money for rItes
Let rich folk keep thetr goods by them
Let the poor be provided
I came not agamst YUEN
but agaInst grafters and rebels
I rebelled not agaInst KUBLAI, not agaInst Ghenglzkhan
but against lIce that ate theIr descendants TAl TSONG
KAO TSEU
TAl TSOU
and now HONG YOU three hundred, three hundred
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? each had 300 years by the mandate five cycles of 60 years
Mongols were an Interval
YAO
SHUN
HAN
TeHEU
- -J:: /C
t Once agam war IS over Go talk to the savants'
He gave fur coats to the troops In Nlnghla
Showed no zenophobla Moguls wd/ not have chmese In office In Pekin he paid the soldiers
To peasants he gave allotments
gave tools and yoke oxen
No eunuchs to serve save as domestIcs
C Don't belIeve all you are told by officials
C I suggest " saId HONG VOU, t that you get a faculty
a good faculty before IncreaSIng the number of students' 3? 9
? He dechned arab cosmetics
Capn Ye-ouang bUilt an Ice wall
to keep off the Yuen
whIch they took for a real wall
t Coreans are gentle by nature'
and that year the Emperor dIed
Five planets were In conjunction
In '84 dIed General LI-ouen, In '85 Su Ta
In 1386 peace
HONG VOU declmed a treatise on ImmortalIty
offered by Taozers, Et En l'an trentunleme de son EmpIre
l'an SOIxante de son eage HONG VOU voyant ses forces aff'olbllr
dlct Que la vertu t'InSplre, Tchu-ouen Vous, mandanns fideles, lettres, gens d'1. rmes
Aidez mon petIt-fils a soutenlr La dlgnlte de cest pOUVOlr
Ie pOlds de son office Et comme au PrInce aUEN TI
Jadls des HAN Falctes mOl mes funeraJ. 11es
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D when KtEN QUEN was throned AhIS uncle set to unthrone hIm, sayIng
As Teheou-kong looked after Tchlng-ouang his nephew
protect hun from the gUiles of hIs mInIsters And when the palace cd/ no more hold out
they remembered a box left by HONG YOU whereIn was wrItten
Go out by the gate of Kouemen
Under nIght dark, follow the aqueduct tIll you come to the
temple of ChIn Lo-koan
And In the red chest was habIt of hochang and dIploma of hochang
Nme men went WIth KIEN aDEN TI
and at Kouemen gate, messlre Ouangchln, the taOIst
beat WIth hIs head on the ground, cryIng Ouan SOUl may you lIve for 10,000 years
HONG VOU came to me In a VISIon
saYing go to the gate at Kouemen
and that I row you to Chln-Io-koan
Were nIne mandarIns, were Yang-long and Ye Hmlen that went thus With KIEN TI, took monkhood,
and he was wanderIng for 35 years until YNG-TSONG from one hIdmg place to another
YONG LO dId 2. 0 years heavy police work
To whom came an envOI from Bengal
And Malacca came Into our EmpIre,
And YANG LO commanded a (' summa' that IS that the gIst of the books be corrected And Mahamou sent In trIbute of horses
GIN TSONG was ten months on the throne Under tartars had all gone feudal And In 1430 was peace
a J 1403
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ad 1409 ad 1415
? Came YNG-TSONG a chIld of eight years, eunuchs as wet-rot In the palace
HONG VOU restored ImperIal order yet now came again eunuchs, taozers and hochang
Armourers worked day and nIght YUKIEN burnt the forage round Pekin
against tartar horses thIs was m days of KING TI
Fan-kuang took burnIng arrows and lances of the sort that one throws
Ye&len, Peyen, Tlemour came up under the walls at Pekin Che-heng and Yuk. len were defenders
t no longer amused by theIr promises' In '52. was Emperor's grain ration
for famine In Honan, for famine In Shantung a million SIX hundred thousand measures of grain
And for war they made 15 foot carrochs
wIth a case slung below for prOVISIons
(VIde ValturlO)
and a cannon to forrard, a turret bordered with lances we had a thousand such carrochs
countIng they wd/ fill a field of four Iz
and these were never brought Into actIon
ad 1459 Died Yuklen the restorer, that had so vIle a reward by his own hand, In prIson
Che-heng turned to magIcians a man full of hImself
Now were the new maps publIshed There was a rebellIon
of eunuchs
HIEN TSONG the Idolater dId posthumous honour to Yuklen decreed Kungfutseu was an Emperor
to be so held In all rItes,
Drove out the taozers and hochang
yet for one eunuch, Hoal-ngan, one might forgive many
eunuchs
? Tho' they trIed a star chamber
and held It all of four years
tIll HIEN TSONG removed them another Lord seeking elixIr
seekIng the transmutatIon of metals seekmg a word to make change
HOAI of SUNG was nearly rurned by taozers HIEN of TANG died seeking ehxlr
and In '97 they made a law code
a bear walked mto PekIn unnoticed though they strafed the watch for allowmg It and there were 53 mIllIon folk m the EmpIre at trIbute average of five measures
of, say, 100 lbs each
c au TI of LEANG, HOEl-TSONG of SUNG were more than all other Emperors
Laoist and foelst, and came both to an evu end To hell wIth the pyramid
YAO and SHUN lIved WIthout any such monument TCHEOU KONG and Kungfutseu certaInly wd/ not have
ordered one
nor wIll It lengthen YR MAJESTY'S days
It WIll shorten the lIves of YR subjects
they WIll, many of 'em, dIe under new taxes:'
DIed HIAO TSONG aged 36, after peace and hIs 18 years
on the throne
And 8 bloody eunuchs conspIred WIth LIeu,
II d 1105
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? thunderbolt fell, naturally, on the palace
From HONG VOU were an hundred and forty years
tIll now au TSONG, a minor,
and 140 would be tIll the MANCHU, new mongol And when Lleou-J. . . . ln the castrat Was artested they found 10 hIS bUIldIngs
gold bars 2 4 0 thousand, of about 1 0 tael each I 5 ffillhons 10 money
5 mtlhon bars SlIver, of about 50 tael each
2. measures of unset Jewels thus shakmg the Emperor's confidence
In I 512. came t bachelors men " that were horse thIeves DIed au TSONG the lazy
And the Empress chose CHI-TSONG successor
who was son (aine) of the second son of the Emperor
HIEN TSONG
he was a writer of verses,
In fact he saId he wdj lIke to reSIgn
and she (TCHANG CHI) told them to lay hold of Klang-pIng and they found In hIS cellarage
70 . 1 500 400 not to count
caskets of gold
thousand . 2. 00 caskets of SlIver caskets of mIxed
great plates, gold and stIver SIlk of the first grade, pearIs,
cut stones and Jewels
Came agaIn Mansour the tartar
and tartars saId they wanted a market for horses lap saIlors drove chInks to embargo
C no trade save WIth our reg1t'Jcoles'
And were five planets In the constellatIon of Yng-che
"d 1536 CHI-TSONG dId rItes at the MING tombs on Mt Tlen-cheou
]aps burnt the salt works at Hal men 314
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Oua-chl led troops agaInst them
who called themselves (wolves of our Lady J
And Japs feared only thIs lady Oua-eM PIrates almost took Fou-klen
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NBU put order In Sun land, Nippon, In the begmnmg
Swhere were DAI ttll Shogun Jorltomo
These Dal were of heaven descended, so saYing Gods were their forebears Till the Shogun
or crown general put an end to Internal wars
And DAI were but reges sacrlficlolz after this tune
In MIaco, wIth formalItIes
wearIng gold-flowered robes
At each meal was a new clay dIsh for their service C Descended from Ten Seo DAISIN
that had reIgned for a mIllIon years'
All these lords say they are of heaven descended
and they ran mto debt to keep up appearance
they were there busy wIth SCIences, poetry, hIstory
danCIng, In Mlaco, and mUSIC, playIng at Jeu de paume and
escrune
wIth a garrIson to keep watch on 'em
and to keep 'em from InterferIng wIth bUSIness
So came a t butler to a person of quahty' MeSSIre Undertree
a slave, In Sa Mo a fish-vendor a stud-keeper,
that made war on Corea
and was called WAR GOD post mortem
And because of the hauteur of
Portagoose prelates, they drove the Xtlans out of Japan
ttl! were none of that sect m the Island
? ad 1578 And In the 5th moon of the 2. oth year of OUAN LI
with shIps new condItIoned
Messire Undertree went agamst the Lord Lipan bOOZIng kIng of Korea
of all things
? and four towns opened theIr gates to the Nlppons and he, Undertree, came to Plnyang the chIef CIty
destroyIng the royal tombs
and the Koreans ran yo"lIng to ChIna
seekIng help of the emperor OVAN LI At thIs tIme were t the pirates Incorporate'
Ku ching the ImperIal tutor saId I wa. s seduced
by Imposters
CHIN SONG had come aged 10 to the throne
And 00 t'other side was the question of horse fairs, and tartars of whom were Nutche or savage,
these traded at Kalyuen
and the other great hordes, Pe and Nan-koan
that were beyond the great wall fighting each other and the Nutche gave refuge to mongols
when the mongrels were drIven from ChIna by MING lords and they were so poor they were dnven to peddlIng
ginseng, beaver pelts horse haIr
and fur of martes zibbelloe
seven such hordes unIted, and clrave MING before them But N utche of N ankoen, nrst fought the wIld N utche
In the 4th year of Suen Te
They stopped paymg trIbute 1430 or thereabouts and a dIplomat saId to the Tartars
You have lost yrl market for gInseng you have lost horse faIrs
by fightIng each other
And on t'other SIde, was Undertree makIng war m Korea
and Pere RICCI brought a clock to the Emperor that was set In a tower
And Ku Tchang wasn't safe, even burled,
Court ladles m cabal, gangsters set to defame him
ttll hIS son hanged hnnself from the worry 3I 7
? And the eunuchs of TIentsin brought Pere MatllIeu to court where the RItes answered
Europe has no bonds wIth our empIre and never receIves our law
As to these Images, pIctures of god above and a vIrgIn
they have lIttle mtrInSlC worth Do gods rIse boneless to heaven that we shd/ belIeve your bag of theIr bones)
The Han Yu trIbunal therefore consIders It useless
to brIng such noveltIes Into tIle PALACE,
we consIder It 111 adVIsed, and are contrary
to receIvIng eIther these bones or pere MathIeu
The emperor CHIN TSONG receIved hun
ten thousand brave men, ten thousand desperate SIeges
lIke bells or a ghazel tleacherles, and romances,
and now the bull tanks dIdn't work
from the begInnIng of ChIna, great generals, faIthful adherents, To echo, desperate SIeges, sellouts
bloody reSIstance, and now the bull tanks dIdn't worh. SIeges from the begInnIng of tIme untIl now
SIeges, court treasons and lazlIless
AgaInst order, lao, bhud and lamas,
night clubs, empresses' relatIves, and hoang mIao, pOIsonIng lIfe WIth mirages, rUlnmg order, TO KALON And Tl Koen heard crIes from the forest
whence came the bull tanks
came great cars bUIlt lIke shIps fifteen feet hIgh
by a hundred, three decl\. ers
carrIed on great wheels of stone
drawn each by an hundred or mo. . . e hundred oxen But Tchu-ye and his men
made theIr sortIe
Cast petards that frIghtened the oxen,
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? thereby v,. at C:lI S '" ere turned over and Tchu-ye's men slaughtered the slcgers
HOAI TSONG fell before tartars, 5 ly from Tsunhoa T. A. I TSONG of Manchu took them the law from China
forbad manchus marry thelr sIsters Yellow belt for the Emperor
red belt for the prIncess of blood Told all to cut off theIr pig tails
and south Mlng had to fear mOle from rottenness InsIde than from the Mancllu north and north east
LI koen viceroy had spent all this money, 110t payIng the troops
who turned bandIt
And the Lord of MANCHU wrote to the MING lord saYing
We took arms agaInst oppreSSIon
and fron"l fear of oppression
not that we WIsh to rule over you
When In Suen fou I met WIth YR officers
I sacrIficed on thIs oath, a blacl{ bull to earth a white horse to the SpIrIt of Heaven
although they were qUite subordinate officers I dId this from respect to YR PERSON
to show that we wanted peace
Whereto all my actIons have tended
I offered to extradIte crInllnals
to give back droves stolen
And to thIs offer I had no answer I don't mean no proper answer
I had no answer whatever
And Kong Yeou came to JOIn TAl TSONG
and Tal sent an hetmall to greet thIs Kong, rebel, who came WIth boats arms munItIons and furnIture,
an hundred thousand folk came WIth Kong Yeou
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as peace oath
? And TAl TSONG said No taltars favoured of heaven have stayed boxed wIthIn theIr own customs
Moguls took letters from lamas I a free lord wIthout overlord
wIll adopt such law as I lIke, In my right to adopt It I take letters from ChIna
which IS not to say that I take orders from any man I take laws, but not orders
Thereafter he graded hIS officers Aba tehan, Maen tehan, Tlhah tchan
on mandarIn system
and four more Islands came to hIm
and he TAl set exams In the ChInese manner for 16 bachelors, first class
3I bachelors, seconds, and I 8I thIrds and he made a BerlItz, Manchu, chInese and mongul
and gave prIzes, and camped neAt year Kourbang tourha
Here Mongrels came to hIm, and thence Into China southward by gorges
the gorges of Ho-ehe near Ton,
and by Tal ehen gorge west of Taltong nammg Chensl as next place of muster
(TAI TSONG, son of TAl TSOU, ruling from Mougden)
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Chose learnIng from Yao, Shun and Kungfutseu,
from Yu leader of waters
And 111 the seventh moon thIs monarch of Tartary commg near unto Suen-hoa-fou wrote to the governor
Your sovran treats me as enemy WIthout askIng what forces Iny actIon
you are, Indeed, subjects of a great realm
but the larger that empIre, the more shd/ It strIve toward peace If chIldren are cut off from parents
If WIves can not see thelr husbands
1? yr houses are devast and your rIches carrIed away
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? thIS IS not of me but of mandarIns
Not I but yr/ emperor slaughters you
and yr/ overlords who take no care of yr/ people and count soldiers as nothIng
And toward the end of the 8th moon
Tengyun sent In dIspatches I have beaten the tartars
I have slaughtered great numbers Wluch he had not. Whereup T A l TSaNG wrote hIm I WIll send a thousand
to meet any ten thousand If you fear to rIsk that, send a thousand
I wIll meet them wIth an hundred
HopIng thIS WIll teach you not to lIe to your Emperor And after the next raId offered peace
And after vain waltmg an answer
HIS tartar folk agaIn asked hIm to be Emperor and he saId If the KIng of Corea accepts me Whereon the Tartars wrote the KIng of Korea
EIght ROYAL PRINCES OF MANCHU 18 great lords of our banners to the KIng of Corea As heaven appears to deSIre It
we accept our KIng to be Emperor haVIng begged hun to take thIS mandate
The Mogul prInces have JOIned us HONG VOU brought the land under one rule Before hIm the KIn were unIted
and after them was YUEN, entIrety
And the Mongols wrote to Corea
49 PRINCES MOGUL, to the KIng of Corea 200 years under MING
and now turn agamst them because of the crimes of their mandarIns
we Jom Manchu to make end of oppreSSIon The weakness of the Mtng troops, the faithlessness
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of theIr commanders
? show that theIr MANDATE IS fallen
we now recognize TAl TSONG of MANCHU
Our blood In hIS service
For two years Vie have besought hIm to take IMPERIAL tItle Four hundred thousand Mogul, theIr qUIvers and arrows
are back of thIS
And Corea replIed In the negatIve And next year T AI TSONG took throne thIrd moon, 1635 anno domInI
Put the three races In office as moguls after Ghengis had not done
and contInued the raIdIng
round Peking, Into Shantung (galhce Chantong)
and Into Kiangnan, returnIng WIth plunder
Thus untIl Ousan InVIted them to put down the rebels
RIce was at one mark SlIver the measure In Kal fong
and human meat sold m market
LItse's gangsters over all Honan
Ll Sao weep, weep over Kalfong, Klentsong the bloody and Litse called hImself I:mperol
MIng troops were unpaId
Eunuchs devoured the taxes, the Prune mInIster
could not get hold of tl). em
And the castrats opened the gates of Pekm to rebels tIll HOEl dIed hung In hIS belt
and there was blood In t1e palace LI Sao, Ll Sao,
wrong never endIng Likoue faIthful to death, and then after
and In thIS day Ousan asked In the 11anchu TAl TSONG was dead these two years,
hiS brotrers ruhng as counsel Atrox MING, atrox finIS
the nine gates were 111 flame 322
? Manchu wIth Ousan put down many reLels Ousan offered to payoff these Manchu
who replIed then wIth courtesy
we came for Peace not for payment
came to brIng peace to the Empire 1Il Pekm they cried aUAN SOUl
a thousand, ten thousand years, A NOI elJen, ouan SOUl, Ousan, Ousan
peace maker Ousan, In the rIver, reeds, :flutes murmured Ousan
Brought peace Into ChIna, brought In the Manchu Lltse thought to gaIn Ousan,
roused Ousan and Ousan remembered hIs father
dead by the hand of Litse 'TaO' &5' EXEL
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E lIbro CHI-KING SIC censeo
D wrote the young MANCHU, CHUN reHI
less a work of the mInd than of affects '
brought forth from the Inner n'lture here sung m these odes
Urbanity In externals, V! rtU m Internals some In a high style for the rItes
some In humble,
for Emperors, for the people
all thIngs are here brought to preCISIons
that we shd/ learn our IntegrIty
that we shd/ attam our IntegrIty
Ut anlmum nostrum purget, ConfucIus alt, dlrlgatque ad lumen ratlonlS
per1? etuale effecto/
That this book keep us In due bounds of office
the norm
show what we shd/ take Into action,
what follow within and persIstently CHI KING ostendlt mCltatque VIr autem rectus et hbldlnls expers Ita domine servat
WIth faIth, never trIcky, obsequatur parentis nunquam deflectat
all order comes Into such norm
19Itur melS encomllS, therefor thIs preface
CHUN TCHI anna undeceslmo
(ad 1655)
perlplum, not as land looks on a map
but as sea bord seen by men sallIng
Now tarters In the murk night
sent great numbers of sOJers wIth lanthorns whIch they held up very hIgh
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? and thus spread lIght on proceedmgs causmg great fear In N ankmg
so the last mlngsters fled out by the Tcll1nklang road And the amnural put to sea thInkIng perhaps that
a few mInutes more resistance
wd/ be of no mortal use And on the tenth came an officer
to say that the port was In tartar hands But MILord the PrInce and hIs eatIng companIons were In no shape to take m the message
They weren't sober ttll the followIng lDldnlght whereon they skedaddled
And the Nankmgs set up a new emperor
And the order to off pIgtaIls stIffened resIstance
put new guts Into mlngsters
Kouel born to III fortune
no mmgster cd/ trust any other, cd/ agree wIth any SIX othels
utI11te pubhque, motIf trop eleve for VIle courtIers
and when the young MANCHU was 14 they gave hIm to
WIfe a mogul
and took In GalIleo's astronomy, chucked the mohametan
And there came a hong-mao or red-headed Dutchman And the portagoose to Macao
and they say that the Emperor CHUN TCHI died of sorrow, for the death of one of hIS queens
an officer's WIfe who had risen
And the four regents put eunuchs out of hIgh office a thousand purged out of palace
2nd a half ton block of Iron InscrIbed
Let there be no Eunuch In office hereafter And In '64 they putt out the Xtlans
Portageese were confined to Macao
Thus KANG HI 32 5
a J 1645
? who played the SpInet on Joh! 'nle Bach's bIrthday
do not exaggerate/ he at least played on some such mstrument and learned to pIck out several tunes (european)
and were demarked the hOlders of RussIa
wIth a portagoose and a frog prIest to Interpret
to whom each a robe brocaded wIth dragons
but not embroldeled
and short coats of martIn, satIn IInmg, gold buttons PereIra and Gerbilion
m1. de mandarms second order
And that embassy went out VIa Mt PaUCIty
and paId VISIt to the ho fo, the lama who dIes not
as he sat on a paIr of great Cusl110ns
one brocade and the other plaIn yellow who blessed them wIth tea and a luncheon
and In another room assez mal propre
sIngmg hIS prayers was anothel
and In yet another temple apartment another saId frankly he dIdn't see how he cd/ have lIved In another body before thIS and In any case had no such remembrance
but only the ho /o's word
and they went on toward the Hans of Kalkas where they got order to turn about and come home
was a war on between Eleutes and Kalkas
and to tell the Oros (the 0 Rosslans) to meet 'em at Sehnga or some other place on the frontIer
to determine frontiers
which they accomplIshed next year at Nlpchou
WIth these anlbassadors were a lot of domestics five thousand 800 sOJers
and a spot of artillery
who all passed the gt wall at Cha houkoen
And KANG walked to hiS grandmother's funeral a dJ. stance of 500 Iy from the capItal
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? And thIs embassy was concernIng the Amur frontIer comIng from Petersburg
but we wanted our martIn sables, our huntIn'
that was on the north sIde of the Amur
where are mountaIns and great lakes In the valleys
Year 18th of KANG HI, under the 7th moon
was thIs treaty In latin With COpIes In tartar and mUSCovIte and the chll1ks swore by the god of Xtlans
thInkIng nothmg else wd/ have more force WIth the muscovltes C To spare further bloodshed on our frontIers
we here near the town of Nlpchou
swear peace solId, eternal state that boundary stones shall be set
Pray we to the GOD of all thIngs who seeth our hearts
that 1? any man here have reservatIon or plot hIS own profit
In VIolence to thiS treaty he die before he reach a rIpe age
So the e:lVoys
embraced to the musIc of Instruments
and the rhooslans (Oroslans) served a sort of lunch to the chInese ambassadors
conn. tures and three sorts of wme
VIntage of europe
and thIS was due to the frog and the portagoose
Gerblilon and PereIra
to Gerblllon In the most crItical moment
that he kept theIr tempers ttll they came to conclUSIon
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O the Jesuits brought In astronomy S(Gahleo's, an heretIc's)
mUSIC and physIcs from Europe,
GrImaldI, Intorcetta, Verblest, Koupehn Subject of yr/ Majesty,
prescnbed of the trIbune of rItes
True that the Europeans have passed zealously many dangers and have brought us astronomy, and founded Cannon
whIch have served us In CIVIl wars,
and that one shd/ reward theIr serVIces In negotIatIng WIth
the ORoslans
They have not made any trouble
We permIt lamas, hochangs and taotses to go to
theIr churches It wdj seem unwarranted to forbid only these Europeans
to go to theIr temples We deem therefore that they be so permItted
mdiscrunmate to pray and burn perfumes
3rd day 2nd moon of the 3Ist year of liANG HI 17 grandees of the EmpIre, whereof eleven cabInet mInIsters
of thiS EMPEROR
Les peres GerbllIon, Fourteres, Bournat
took qUInIne to the palace, anno domIni 1693
Hence the JeSUIt church In Pek. 1n In the Hoang Tchang
that IS the palace enclosure And Feyenkop? In the Kaldan war
was fightIng Eleutes and Mohamedans and the Emperor shot S1X quaIl de suzte WIth SIX arrows
and sent the Crown PrInce an Eleute horse
saymg I don't know that chInese beal1 fodder WIll SUIt hIm HerewIth some Kalkas sheep for prIme mutton
yr affectIonate father KANG HI
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? Hoang Ho IS frozen In fact the Ortes country seems to be pretty much as we thought It In PekIn,
small hunan' qUIte pleasant, a lot of pheasants and hares pasturage excellent Hoang Ho fruz 112. a ft thIck
Ortes very orderly, have lost none of thelr mongol habits, theIr prmces In concord, no usury
Clever especially In lookIn' after their anImals,
clumsy bowmen, but hIt theIr mark
And General Feyenkopf wrote hIm
that the Eleutes had caved In
and KANG HI gave a fur cap to the envoy and hiS (KANG HI'S) horse sweat pInk
as In legend the horses of Taouen land, the Tien ma, or horses of heaven
and thiS horse m partIcular had been taken In the battle of Tchaomed
and they had a grand show In Pekin for next new year's Mongols, Kaldans and Eleutes
C It IS easy after thIS to be sure
that all lamas are traItors
Keep these prIsoners In separate rooms,
sold to the TIpa who IS a liar I have taken the sun 380 34'
I e one degree 2. 0 less here than m PekIn '
KANG HI Dogs bark only at strangers And at Pa1chen
KANG m was pleased wIth the pasture land, delayed hIS return to the capItal,
stayed stag-huntmg outsIde the great wall whue Kalda had grabbed Samarkand and
Bokara for the mohammeds 1699 peace year In all Tartary
GrImaldi, PereIra, Tony Thomas and GerbI110n sent In theIr placet SIC
European htteratl
? having heard that the ChInese rItes honour Kung-? u-tseu and offer sacrIfice to the Heaven etcJ
and that theIr ceremonIes are grounded In reason
now beg to know theIr true meaning and In partIcular the meanIng of terms for example MaterIal
Heaven and Changtl meanIng' Its ruler";) Does the manes of ConfucIus
accept the grain, fruIt, stlk, Incense offered
and does he enter hIs cartouche">
The European church wallahs wonder 1? thl~ can be reconcued And the archblsh of AntIoch spent a year In Canton
mousmg round but not comIng to PekIn
but was, next year, permItted,
MonseIgneur Maillard de Tournon
from C! enlens, papa (Number XI) the Klao Hoang and the Portagoose kIng sent an envoy
and they cured I(ANG HI WIth wine from the CanarIes
w'lch putt 'em up a Jot hIgher And too much rIce went to BatavIa
so our lord KANG layed an embargo (a bIt before Tommy Juffusun)s)
and a tsong-plng or second class mandarIn putt up a petItIon
AGAINST Europes and Xtlanlty That there had been nIne red boats Into Macao
Dutchmen, red-heads or Englanders
Japan, sez Tchmg mao, IS the only conSIderable kingdom
to east of us
and Japan kept peace even all through the great Mlng rebelhon Slam and TonkIn pay trIbute,
only danger to us IS from these Europeans
by Hong-mao I mean any nordIC barbarIan
there are Yenkell and Yntsa (meanm' froggtes) and Holans
all equally barbarous
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? I have knocked around at sea for some years and the Dutch are the worst of the lot of them,
porlik tlgurs,
theIr vessels stand any Wind and Calty a hundred cannon
1? ten of 'em get Into Canton
who knows what cd/ happen
I thInk we shdj stop thIs danger at source
or at least make 'em dIsarm before comIng Into our harbours or have 'em come In one at a tIme
or unlade In a fortress
They wormed mto Japan VIa ManIlla they have been
kIcked out but stIll try to get In agam
They spend money, gather the dregs of the people, make maps I don't know what they are up to
and that's not my prOVInce All I know IS they refuged In ManIlla
And now they are top dog In ManIlla
I rest my case In the trIbunals of En1plre trustIng that thIs bmd-weed wIll not be permItted
to root In and fortIfy Humbly to yr MAJESTY
Tching Mao, a sea captam Dug up edIct of '69
PERMIT only Verblest and hIS colleagues We vote to pardon all converts
provIded they pull down theIr churches, and agaIn May eleventh MISSIONARIES have well served In reformIng our
and In making us cannon
and they are therefore permItted to stay
and to practIce theIr own relIgIon but no chInese IS to get converted
and they are not to bUIld any churches
47 europeans have permIts
they may contmue theIr cult, and no others
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mathematiCs
? Jesuits appealed that they be not confounded lVlth I>utchr. nen
Let stay, If wd/ promise never see Europe again vanous churches were levelled and
there came an embassy from PETER of Russia
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with cavalcade and drawn sabres
and a new bloke from the KIao-hoang of Roma
TIbet was brought under and '22. was a peace year
The Emp'r'r went huntIn' as usual
and tIger huntIn' In Haltse and dIed the 20th of thl~ month at 8 m the evenIng
C no DYNASTY has come In WIth such JustIce as ours has I have not wasted the treasures of empIre considermg them as the blood of the people
3 milhon a year on rIver embankments
I order that YONG TCHING succeed me
THOU SHALT NOT
lend money to sOJers Huntm' keeps manchu :fit
avoId the hot summer I n Pekm' He began taking trIpS Into Tartary
HIStory translated to manchu Set up board of translators Verblest, mathematIcs
PereIra professor of mUSIC, a treatIse In chInese and manchu Gerbillon and Bouvet, done In manchu
revIsed by the emperor as to questIons of style A dIgest of phIlosophy (manchu) and current
Reports on the memOlres des academIcs
des SCIences de ParIS
QUlnme, a laboratory set up m the palace
He ordered 'em to prepare a total anatomy, et qu'us velllerent a. la purete du langage
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? et qu'on n'employat que des termes propres (namely CH'lng mmg)
En son Palals dlvers atehers
wanted the best European models
fer palntln' an' scuppchure, hts works In one hundred volumes wuz emperor KANG HI 61 years
from 1662. and came after hun
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ONGTCHING
YhIS fourth son, to honour hIs forebears
and SpIrIts of fields of earth
heaven
utIlIty publIC
sought good of the people, actIve, absolute, loved
No death sentence save a man were thrIce tned
and he putt out XtIanIty
chinese found It so Immoral
hIs mandarIns found thIs sect so l1llmoral
It The head of a sect' runs the law t who deceIves folk
4l by pretendIng rehglon, ought damn well to be strangled' No new temples for any hochang, taolsts or sl1l1tlars
SIC zn lege
False laws are that stu- up revolt by pretense of vIrtue Anyone but unpertment fakers wd have admItted
the truth of the Emperor's answer
What I say now I say as Emperor
Applied to thlS dally and all day
Not seemg my chJ1dren not seeIng the Empress tIll the tune of mournmg be ended
Xtlans bemg such slIders and lIars
PublIC kItchen m famIne
PublIC works for the unemployed, 1725,
a dole, nothmg personal agaInst GerbIllon and hIS
Xtlans are disturbIng good customs seekIng to uproot Kung's laws seekmg to break up Kung's teachmg Officers at Tlentslng
who faked rIce dlStributIon 334
colleagues, but
? and gave bad rIce to the needy
can damn well pay up what they have embezzled Lleu-yu-y, state examIner saId
Put magazInes In the 4 towns of Chan-sl (that there be set up a fondego)
Look whom you choose to admInIster
that these be not the overworked Governors
To keep out graft 1? any man have loaned rIce In secret A 100,000 pund capItal
wd/ mean ThIrty thousand great measures At moderate price we can sell In the spring
to keep the market prIce decent
And stIll brIng In a small revenue
which should be used for gettIng more next crop AMMASSI or sane collectIon,
to have bIgger provISIon next year,
that IS, augment our famIne reserve
and thus to keep the rIce fresh In store house
IN tIme of common scarclty, to sell at the Just prIce In extraordInary let It be lent to the people
and In great calanutIes, gIve It free
Lleou-yu-y
Approved by the EMPEROR
(Un rontego t')
And In every town once a year
to the most honest CItizens a dInner
at expense of the emperor no favour to men over women
Manchu custom very old, reVIved now by YONG TCHING An' wotk. lnmen thought of If proper m field work
get 8th degree button and
rIght to SIt at tea with the governor One, european, a paInter, one only admitted And Pope's envoys got a melon
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? And they druv out Lon Coto fer graftln'
sent hun to confino to watch men breakln' ground He had boosted the salt prIce
And they receIved the volumes of history
wIth a pee-rade with portable cases like tabernacles the dynastIc hIstory wIth solemnIty
C I cant', had saId KANG HI
C ResIgn' saId VIctor Emanuel, you Count Cavour can resign at your convenIence
C To comfort the soul of my father
Emperor now defunct and In heaven', saId YONG TCHING, Don't thInk that soft talk IS wanted
you wrIte down what you take for the facts
call pork pork In your proposals
your brIefs shd/ be secret and sealed and our Emperor
WIll publIsh at hIs discretIon
Eleventh month 23rd day for ceremonial ploughIng
(1 take It december) Out by the Old Worker's Hill
YONG ploughed half an hour
three prInces, nIne presIdents dId theIr stuff and the peasants In gtl mass sang the hymns
befittmg thIS field work as writ m LI KI In the old days
And they sowed gram and m autumn the graIn of that :field was for ceremonIal purposes put In sacks of Impenal
yellow as fit for thiS purpose
c You Chrlsters wanna have foot on two boats
and when them boats pulls apart
you Will din well gIt a wettlo' , saId a court mandarIn tel1m~ 'em
And they set up a yellow pavilIon
wIth a buffet beneath It And the dIshes and the court SlIver
and m deep sIlence sounded suddenly trumpets 336
? and musIC for the Emperor YONG TCHING
and Dom Metello and the Europeans went to their places a cushIon for Dom Metello
and the Emperor's WIne was brought In, whIch he offered to Dam Metello
who knelt, drank, and returned to h1S cushion
whereon they offered hIm fruIt plIed hIgh In a pyramid and the Emperor YONG saId take him somewhere where
It IS cooler
So they dined hun and showed him a comedy
and gave hIm seven trunks of stuff for hunself
and 35 for the Portagoose boss who had sent hIm
1e he wuz honoured but cdn't spJ11 proppergander
and the chmk grandees took hIm down the canal
With a dInner cooked by the chefs of the Palace
and hIS trappIngs up- (as they say) -held the honour of Europe
and as to Sounou beIng Xtlan, he wuz probably also a conspIracy But the populatIon of Yun-nan was growmg
and the prIce of gram kept gOln' up
Lot of land undeveloped
so they opened It
tax exemptIon for SIX years on good rIce land
and for ten years on dry
and honours In proportIon to
how much a bloke wd put under culture button 8th class for enough, and dIplomas
for 15 arpens A peasant got two bouquets for hIS cap and a cramOlSI scarf and a band to walk home wrff And a boost for any mandarIn
that wd stake out new settlers 800,000 In doles
a mIllIon on canal reparatIons
Good of the empire of any part of the empIre concerns every mandarIn
no matter where he IS located 337
? It IS lIke a famIly affalr
Ghost frIghtens no honest ninn No house IS durable If perched on yr neIghbor's rUIn An honest peasant IS a prognostIC
wrote YONG TCHING passIng In SIlence the other t prognistics' of the
Governor'5 letter Men are born wIth a fund of rIghtness you Will
find good men In any small VIllage
but the bureaucrats take no notIce
let Chlyeou be made a 7th class mandarIn
give hun 100 ounces of SlIver as mcentlve to other men Heaven has scattered rIches and poverty
but to profit on other men's loss IS no better than banditry In momentum of avarIce, no longer steers hiS own course Chlyeou didn't do It on book readln'
nor by muggIn' up hIstory MIllIon In earthquake relIef
and a thousand taels to the capItal Jesuits but expelled the rest from Canton
t they go on bUyIng converts'
Died 1735 at 58
m the 13th year of hiS reign Came KIEN, 40 years before t our revolution'
YONG TCHING unregretted by canagha and nitWIts t A man's happiness depends on hImself,
not on hiS Emperor
If you thInk that I thmk that I can make any man happy
you have mlSunderstood the FU
JrlM
(the Happiness Ideogram) that I sent you Thus Tchlng whom Coupetal had brought up,
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? for the nun1ber of bye-laws for IllS attentIon to detaIl
unregretted by scoundrels never had death sentences such attentIon
three trIals, publIcatIon of detaIls, examInatIon, to poorest as for the hIghest
CAl TSONG HIEN HOANG TI be he credIted
so his son Klen Long came to the throne
In the 36th of that century-
and as to the rIse of the Adamses-
ExtensIve Mohamedan treasures
C QuestIon of COIn In these conquered towns IS very unportant
I adVISe a few of YOUR mIntage and to leave the old pIeces current Those used llere,
Raskat, yerquI and baize11-
are of bronze weIghIng about I/5th of one of our ounces 50 of these mahometan dISCS malt. e a tC1tke
about one of our taels There are some useless old cannon here
whIch I suggest we melt up for small cash to keep commerce movIng'
Tchao-hou
to hIS EMPEROR
from the camp before Hashan (or Kasgar, a CIty In lIttle Boucarla)
ThiS prIncess entered the palace when YONG TCHING was emperor
as C a young lady merely of talents recIted wIth beautIful VOIce
and had other amIable qualItIes' concubme, and havIng a son was made queen
and for forty two years had seen hun, thIS son, on the :first throne of ASIa
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? m the 86th year of her age posthumous EMPRESS
Hiao ChIng Hlen Hoang Heou and her son as memorIal
exempted hIs empIre from the land tax
for a year as Indeed he had done before on her bU"thdays when she was 70 and when she reached her elghtleth bIrthday and now, In memorIam And he wrote
a poem on the Beauties of Mougden and condensed the Mlng hIstorIes
hterary kuss, and wuz Emperor fer at least 40 years
Perhaps you wIll look up his verses
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? LXII
CqUlt of eVtl 'tntentzon
Xor tncltnatton to perseverance tn error
to correct It wIth cheerfulness partIcularly as to the motIves of acttons
of the great natt01ts of Europe'
for the plantIng
and rulIng and orderIng of New England
from latItude 400 to 480
TO THE GOVERNOR AND THE COMPANIE
whereon Thomas Adams
19th Match 1628
18th assIstant whereof the saId Thomas Adams
(abbrevIated)
Merry Mount become BraIntree, a plantatIon near Weston's Capn Wollanston's became Merrymount
ten head 40 acres at 3/ (shIllIngs) per acre
who lasted 6 years, brewIng commenced by the first Henry
contmued by Joseph Adams, hIs son
at decease left a maltIng establIshment
Born 1735, 19th Oct old style, 30th new style John Adams Its emolument gave but a bare scanty subsIstence
C PassIon of orthodoxy In fear, CalvIDlsm has no other agent
study of theology
wd/ Involve me In endless altercation
to no purpose, of no deSIgn and do no good to any man whatsoever
not less of order than liberty
Burke, GIbbon, beautrliers of figures
I1l1ddle path, resource of second-rate statesmen produced not In BrItam
tax falls on the colo:::S 341
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~
? Lord North, purblmd to the rIghts of a contInent, eye on a few London merchants
no longer saw redcoat as brother or as a protector
(Boston about the SIze of Rapallo) scarce 16,000,
habIts of freedom now formed
even among those who scarcely got so far as analysIs
so about 9 o'c In the morning Lard Narf wuz beln' unpasslble was a hght fall of snow In Bastun, In Ktng St
and the 29th Styschlre In Brattle St
Murray's barracks, and In this case was a
barber's boy ragging the sentInel so Capn Preston etc/
lower order With btllets of wood and C Just rovmg , force In fact of a rIght sez Chawles Fwancis
at same tIme, and In Louses of Parleymoot so fatal a preCISIon of aIm,
sOJers aimIng')')
Gent standIng In hIS doorway got . 1 balls In the arm
and :five deaders t never Cadmus 'etc was more pregnant
patrIots need legal adVIsor
measures Involvln' pro-fesslonal knowl-edge
BE IT ENACTED / guy-nor councIl an' house of assembly (Blaydon obJectln' to form ov these doggymlnts)
Encourage arts commerce an' farnlln' not suggest anything on my own
1? ever abandoned by admmlstratlon of England
and outrage of the soldIery the bonds of affectIon be broken
ttl! then let us try cases by law IF by snowballs oystershells CInders
was provocat1on
reply was then manslaughter only
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? In consIderatIon of endocrIne human emotIons unuprootable, that IS, human cmotlons-
merely manslaughter
brand 'em In hand
but not hang 'em beIng mere hunlan bllghters
common men lIke the rest of us subJekk to
paSSIons law not bent to wanton ImagInatIon
and temper of IndIvIduals
mens SIne affectu
that law rules
that It be
SInce a:t! ectu In 1770, Bastun
Bad law IS the worst sort of tyranny Burke dIsputed rlg~t to seIze lands of the heathen and gIve It to any kIng, If we be feudatory parlIament has no control over us
We are merely under the monarch
allegIance IS to the kIng's natural person t The Spensers' saId Coke, hatched treason denyIng thIS
allegIance follows natural, not polItIC person
are we mere slaves of some other people'>
MercantIle temper of BritaIn
constItution Without appeal to hIgher powers unwrItten
VOTED 92. to 8 agamst Oliver
1 e agaInst klng's pay for the Judges Instead of
haVIng the WIgS paid by the colony
no Jurors wd/ serve These are the stones of foundatIon
J A 's reply to the Governor Impeachment of OlIver
These stones we bUIlt on
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? I don't receIve a shl1hng a month, wrote Mr Adams to Ablgau In seventeen 74
June 7th approve of comnuttee from the several colonies BowdoIn, CushIng, Sam Adams, John A and PaIne (Robert)
t mope, I muse, I ruminate' Ie
personnel manque we have not men for the tImes
Cut the overhead my dear wIfe and keep yr/ eye on the daIry non Importation, non eating, non export, all bugwash
but untIl they have proved It
In experIment
no use In telhng 'em
Local legIslatIon / that IS basIc /
we wd consent In matters of empIre trade, It IS by no means essentIal to trade wIth foreign natIons at all
as sez Chas FrancIs, ChIna and Japan have proved It weekly In Boston Gazette from '74 untIl LeXIngton
wrote Novanglus, then shooting started
a. llus them as putts off tak. mg a SIde
and lastly In superintendIng the preparatIon of
bIlls of credIt, to serve as dollars durIn' the struggle then moved for a navee
which he got, after some rIdIcule
GUided pubk mmd m formation of state constItutIons
e g N York and N CarolIna
retaIn what experIence has found good,
central authorIty, war, trade, and dIsputes between states
republIcan Jealousy which seeks to cut off all power from fear of abuses does
qUIte as much harm as a despotIsm
9th Feb to end of that year probably very laborIOUS
privateers not mdependence, what IS) sovereign state
acknowledged of natIons and all that sovrelgn state and all that
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BIrth of a NatIon
? by other natIons acknowledged
when hIS BrIt majesty lords commons have excluded from crown protectIon
May 12th, C as 12. months ago shd/ have been'
regards Independency beIng moved and accepted June 7th spIes and persons counterfeItlng-or abettmg In same-
our contInental bIlls of credIt
or knowmgly paSSIng the same to be punished
no word, oratlonem, plobably not elegantIssunam Routledge was elegant
(saId nothmg not hackneyed SIX months before' wrote J A to hIs wIfe
I saId nothIng etc/ letter to Chase from John Adams
the people are addtcted, as well as the great, to corruptIon ProvIdence In whIch, unfashIonable as the faIth IS, I beheve Schlcksal, sagt der Fuhrer
wIth pomp bells bonfires on the 2nd day of July
than any socIal commumty has ever yet carrIed out
reasonable act only by Its geography INadequate conceSSIon by England,
always too late (sero)
BrItaIn never In season, reCIprocatIon by trade
CavalIer, sentnnent rather than prmciple
TO serve lIberty at a hIgher rate than tyrants wdl pay 'em
you shd/ have numbered yr/ regIments, you never
send me
accounts e g of guns, numbers, theIr weIght of metal I never know of what SIze (frIgates etc/)
ImpaSSIble moderatIon of WashIngton saved us by stoPPIn' cat:6. ghts between officers
For proportIonal representatIon- Clearest head In the Congress
(John's was)
THUMON
we want one man of IntegrIty In that embassy
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? BordeaUA, and passed on to ParIS
the ethIcs, so called, of FranklIn
IF moral analyslS be not the purpose of historIcal wrIting
Leyden Gazette, 1vIagazlne Pohtlque Hollandals, Calkoen, Amsterdam bankers, dIrected to Mr A by Gen WashIngton
(CornwallIs' surrender)
De Ruyter stIll cherIshed memories of Dutch freedom
dOlvent tousJours crzer la Llberte,-amls de la France shd/ remarked Flassans
and especIally the consonance of Van Capellen personal VISits to deputIes at der Haag
Leyden, Harlem, Zwol were petItIons
Zeland, OverysseI, Gronye, Utrecht and Gutlderland
so on the 19th of Aprrl
John got hIS answer and recognItIon, categoric
Mr Adams has demanded a categorIcal answer
for the USN A letters of credence / we say that he IS
admItted as envoy 1782 BIrth of a NatIon
corps dzplomatlque
HIs lIterary connectIons sans whIch was no openIng
a stranger to language and manners so In hIS correspondence
Dumas, WIthout money, frIends, agamst Intrigue to pecunlary advances
In fact from Wllhnk, van Staphorst and FynJe S,000,000 gUIlders to maIntaIn our overstraIned credit
ttll 1788 relatIons HIS relatIons w. . . th bankers In Amsterdam
In October a treaty of commerce, by no alts or dIsgUIses no flatteries, no corruptIons
who to the age of 40 years had scarce crossed the edge of hIS prOVInce
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to be now
WIth
? transferred to Adam Street In the AdelphI
suspectIng the post boy of humour In takmg hIm there
MagaZInes, dally pamphlets In hands of men of no character
In fact one bookseller saId to me can get 'em at a gUinea a day to wrIte pro or con anythmg HIred'
Found archery still beIng practIced
CredIt till I returned to AmerIca Ice, broken Ice, ICY water
500 mIles on a trottmg horse In dead WInter
but never as on that Journey to Holland
(England to Holland)
Struck down our men, shattered our maInmast
never as on that gOIng to Amsterdam, fundamentals In crItIcal moments
lIterature and phIlosophy are the rage in even fashIonable CIrcles
and FrederIck's treaty of commerce toward mItIgatIon of malltlme law
conSIderably In advance of world standalds phIlanthropy not wholly free from SUSpICIon that
the new states cd/ profit
The Duke saId that John wd/ be stared at,
to make gam out of neIghbor's troubles second~rymIsfortune of BrItaIn
AS of a demonstratIon In EuclId
system of government
ImmedIacy In order to be of any effect perceIve taste and elegance are the cry
whIch I have not
LIbertatem Amlcltlam FIdem a new power arose, that of fund holders
fond of rotatIon so that to remove
theIr abuse from me to the PreSIdent (WashIngton)
TO be punctual, to be confined to my seat (over the Senate)
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? to see nothIng done (by the senate)
to hear nothmg saId, to say and DO nothIng borrow for tradIng very unmercantIle
by thought, word, never encourage a war
horror they are In lest peace shd/ continue will accumulate perpetual DEBT
leadIng to yet more revolutIons
He (Adet) announced to the PresIdent the entIre
annmIlation of factIons In France (18 June '95) He (Jay) returned yesterday to N York
very sociable and In fine spIrIts
no ChIef JustIce yet named to succeed hIm happIly he IS elected before the
treaty was publIshed
as factIons
agaInst hIm wd/ have quarrelled whether rIght or
the contrary
to colour theIr 0PPOSlt on
elegance of J Q A's style IS admIred
propertIes of serenIty In OBservatIon
but where shall be found (1795) good men and true to fill offices WashIngton's cabinet posts go a-beggmg
to four senators, and to more whom I do not know nomlnatun KIng, Henry, Cotsworth (~) and Pinckney
all have refused It (simIlarly for the War Office) expenses here so far beyond salarIes
IntegrIty rewarded With obloquy
I belIeve the PresIdent wIll retIre
Dangerous that PresIdent and V P be In opposite boxes persons hIghest class of ablhty enlisted
habItually In elaborate diSCUSSIons
aSSiduously read by the people
I hate to lIve In PhJ. 1adelphy In the summer
hate speeches messages addresses levees and drawlngrooms
? been 30 years among these rocks whIstlIng
(Amphlon) and none wd/ ever move wIthout money
Had I eloquence humour or Irony, 1? Mr Jefferson be elected I belIeve I must put up fOl the House
belIeve I
mIght be of some use In that body, retIrement
(Washmgton's) removed all check upon partIes
Mr Jefferson, Mr HamIlton
the latter not enjOyIng the confidence of the people 'It large to oppose Ham to Jeff wd/ be futIle
whereon Ham set to undercut Adams
'96 tIll 1854 no preSIdent chosen agaInst Penllsylvanla C the old man WIll make a good presIdent' remarked Mr Glles ( but we shall have to check hIm occ~slon'lly'
C manoeuvres that wd/ surprIse you' wrote John to AbIgaIl
a love of SCIence and letters
a deSIre to encourage schools and academIes as only means to preserve our ConstItutIon Elleswood admInIstered the oath WIth great energy Napoleon's conquest of Italy
created a paradIse for army contractors whereon Senor MIranda
was for makIng great conquests and HamIlton Talleyrand Mr A not caught asleep by hzs cabInet
so that on the 18th of Feb the senate reed/ tIle nonl1natlon
and a communIcatIon of Talleyrand's document assumIng no rIsk In trustIng
the profeSSIons of T allcyrand Not vmdIctIve that I can remember
though I have often been wroth at any rate staved off a war
roused the land to be ready a pardon for all offenders
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of Murray
? (1 e poor dutch FrIes and companIons)
formed own vIew of HamIlton's game (and hIs frIends') whIch wd/ certaInly h'lve tangled wIth Europe
wont to gIve to hIS conversation
full Impetus of vehement wIll, charged course of Ham and hiS satellItes to dls~ppomtmentthat they hadn't
got us entangled wIth BrItaIn defensIve and offenSIve
Snot, Bott, Cott left over from WashIngton's cabInet
and as for HamIlton
we may take It (my authorIty, ego scrIptor cantIlenae) that he was the PrIme snot In ALL Arnellcan l'lstory
(11th Jan 19)8, from Rapallo) But for the clearest head In the congress
pater patrIae
the man who at certa n P0111tS
made U~ at certain pOInts
saved us
by faIrness, honesty and straIght movlI~~
ARRIBA ADAMS
35?
17i4 1'1J the. Leafter
? LXIII
OWARDS sendIng of Ellsworth Tand the pardon of FrIes
25 years In office, treatIes put thru and loans raIsed
and General PInckney, a rn1n of honour declIned to particIpate
or even to give SUsplc. . . on of havmg colluded defiCiency In early moral foundatIons (Mr Hamilton's) they effect here and there sImple manners
true relIgIon, nl01 als, :here flourish
1 e \Vashlngtoll 4th March 1801
toward the newly created fount of supply (Mr Jefferson) In a. rdour of hostIlIty to Mr Jefferson
to overlook a good deed If PIckering cd/ mount on
wd/ vote for J Adams
whose IntegrIty not hiS enemIes had dIC)puted
rIghts
dIffUSing knowledge of prIncIples
maintaining Justice, 1n regJsterlng treaty of peace changed wIth the tImes, and not
forgettIng what had suffered by the sedition laws Obt svt Chas Holt
Iionoured father
(SIgned John QUIncy Adams (In full)
1825 (when elected)
Scott's fictIons and eve11 the VIgorous and exaggerated poetry of Ld/ Byron
when they wd/ not read hIm anrthlog else property EQUAL'D land m J A '5 dISpOSItIon From Fancy's dreams to active VIrtue turn
The cats thought hIm (FranklIn) almost a catholIc
35I
? The Church of England laId claIm to hIm as one of 'em Presbyters thought hIm half presbyterIan
frIends, sectarIes, Erlpult caelo fulmen
and all that to dItch a poor man fresh from the country Vol Two (as the protagonIst saw It )
No books, no tIme, no frIends Not a new Idea all thiS week
even bagpIpe not dIsagreeable
for amusement readIng her (Mrs Savd) the Ars Amandl 1758, around half after three, went to the Court House WIth Saml QUIncy and Dr Gordon
And saw the most spaCIOUS room and
finest hne
of ladles I ever dId see, GrIdley
enquIred my method of study
and gave me Reeve's adVIce to hIs nephew
read a letter he wrote to Judge LeIghton follow the study
rather than gaIn of the law, but the gaIn
enough to keep out of the brIars, So that I
belIeve no lawyer ever dId so much busIness
for so lIttle profit as I durIng the 17 years that I practIsed you must conquer the INSTITUTES
and I began WIth Coke upon LIttleton
greek mere matter of curIosIty (In the law) to ask Mr Thatcher's concurrence
'\\hole evenIng on orIgInal SIn and the plan of the unIverse
and lastly on law, he thInks that the country IS full Van Myden edttto terza deSIgn of the book IS eXpOSItIon
of technIcal terms
352.
? as of Hawkins' Pleas of the Crown Bracton,
Bntten, Fleta on GlanvIlle, must dIg wIth my fingers
as nobody wul lend me or sell me a pIck axe
Exercises my lungs, reVIves my SpIrIts opens my pores readIng Tully on Catahne qUIckens my cIrculatIon
Ruggles grandeur In boldness of thought honour contempt
of meanness was practIsIng law and runnIng a tavern In SandwIch
dIed Novascotla 1788 and a tory Read one book an hour
then dIne, smoke, cut wood
tn quella parte dove sta mem01a, Colonel Chandler not conSCIOUS
these crude thoughts and expressions
are catched up and treasured as proof of hIS character Not findmg them (Rhine grapes slIps) In that CIty sends to a village 70 miles away
and then sends two packets
one by water and lest that mIscarry, the other by post
to Mr QUIncy to whom he owes nothIng
and wIth whom he IS but lIttle acquaInted purely for the purpose of
propagatIng RhIne WIne In these prOVInces (one up to FranklIn) I
read TImon of Athens, the manhater
must be (IRA must be) aroused ere the mInd be
at Its best
la qual manda juoea
dIrty and rIdIculous ht. tgatlons been multIplIed proverb, as lItIgIOUS as BraIntree
fraud and systen1 of bIgotry
on whIch papal usurpatIons are founded, monument of prIestly
gUIle wrought Into system
4: Our constItution' t every m'ln hIS o~rn monarcl1 '
353
ambItIon
? all these boastIng speeches have heard (1760) and never faIled to raIse a hoarse laugh
An InferIor officer In Salem
whose name was Coclle petitIoned the JustIces for a Wf I t of ASSIstance
to break open shIps, shops, cellars and houses Mr Sewall expressed doubt of legalIty,
OxenbrIdge Thayer wIth OtIS, a contest appeared to be opened
354
? LXIV
o John's bro, the sherIff, we lay a kInd word In passmg TCrolnwell was not prudent
nor honest
nor laudable
Prayer hands uplIfted
Solitude a person, a NURSE
plumes IS she angel or bIrd, IS she a bIrd or an angel) ruffled, rumpled, rugged wIngs
looks down
and pItIes those who wear a crown
meanIng (query) George, LouIS or FrederIck) BeautIful spot, am almost wholly surrounded by water whereIn Deacon (later General) Palmer
has surrounded himself WIth a colony
of glass-blowers from Germany
come to undertake that work 111 AmerIca, 1751,
hIs lucerne grass
whereof 4 crops a year, seed he had of GrIdley of Abmgdon pods an odd thIng, a sort of ramshorn of straw
about 70 bushel of I/4th an acre of land
1115 potatoes
sub conditione :fidelitatis
18 It known that Ohver ever adVised to lay Internal taxes
or sohclted office of stamps)
to be dragged through the town only In pageantry to be burnt on a hIll, and IllS house broken open but has not the LIeutenant Governor
a near relatIon etc/
a son etc/
In one family etc/
BY 40 towns, verbatIm, theIr Instrument 355
upon us?
? to theIr representatIves Sam Adams has taken some paragraphs
Stamp Act spread a SpIrIt from GeorgIa to New HampshIre
wIth honour, more InqUISItlVC 15 to theIr lIbertIes
even the lowest
Your courts are shut down) JustIce VOID
I have not drawn a wrIt since the Ist of November If thIS authorIty be once recognIzed
rUIns AmerIca
I must cut down my expenses
For my rwn as well as AmerIca's
To renounce under tree, nay under the very branch where they hang'd him In effigy
UNANIMOUS for GrIdley, Jas OtIS, J Adams pray that the Courts may be opened
(orIginal of thIS IS preselved) If what I wrote last nIght
recall what Lord Bacon
wrote about laws InVISIble and correspondences
th,t parlIament
hath no authorIty
to unpose Internal taxes upon us
Common Law 1St Inst 142-
Coke, to the 3rd Inst Law IS the subject's bIrthrIght Want of rIght and of remedy are all one CONSTRUED that no Innocent
may by lIteral constructIon be damaged actus
legIS nulh facIt InJurIam
Governor In counCIl as supreme court of probate
by more ravenous sort of ambItIon
or avarIce
aVOId as the plague
tendency of the a<:t to reduce the body of people
356
? to Ignorance, dependence and poverty
relIgIous bIgots
the worst of men, colonIes
becomes a fashionable study and wIll probably
stare more and more for some tIme Ipswich InstructIons f1ght to tax selves,
rather as allIes than as subjects FIRST settlement not a natIonal act
and not at expense of the natIon
nor made on land of the Crown waddled through snow drIvIng my cattle to water ShuttIng courts equals abdIcatIon of throne
for enterIng a vessel at LouIsburg and taking away
10 barrels of
rum
PItt vs/ GrenvIlle, and for the repeal of the act Parhament tak. es as RepresentatIve and not LegIslatIve
l. uthorlty But Thatcher got hIm IndIcted for balratry
And he came near to convIction Gaffe grew warm and saId Eaton's character
was as good as any man's at the b:lr punch WIne bread cheese apples pIpes and tobacco
Thursday oated at MartIn's
when we saw five boxes of dollars
gOIng In a horse cart to 5,,1ern for Boston FOR :england, saId to contaIn about $I8,000
loppIng and trImmIng
walnut trees, and for fellIng of pInes and saVlns An Irregular lnlsshapen pIne Will darkeJ. l
the whole scel1e In some p11ces
case between negro and owner At same tIme a cravIng ma1'l (I-Iutchln. . . . cn)
357
? at Dr Tuft's where I found fine wIld goose on th~ e,Plt
and cranberru. . s In the skIllet
to the WhIte House In Brattle St
office lucratIve In Itself but new statutes
h1. d been passed In ParlIament J Q A born July eleventh
duty on glass IncompatIble
wIth my Ideas on rIght, JustIce and polH. . y
between negro and owner engaged Mr Hawley's '1ttcntlon 100 towns, one week's notIce
about 10 o'clock troops began landIng under co\cr of
the cannon
of the shIps, wlthout molestatIon
Oct 1St PopulatIon of Boston retrograde durIng 25 years
that preceded thIs
was now not above I6,000
DurIng my absence on CIrcuIt
as Byles s~ud t 0 If grIevances red-dressed ' under my WIndows In the squ1rc
dlurn, fife, and In evenIng VIolins, songs
flutes of the serenaders, that IS, Sons of Liberty
as well at the extravagance of the populace,
deceptions to '"hleh they are lIable,
suppressIon of eqUIty, when thoroughly heated
my drafts wIll be found In the Boston Gazette for thos~
a cargo of WInes from MadeIra belongIng to Mr Hancock
Without paYIng Customs
paInful drudgery I had In hiS cause
as to thIS statute my clIent never consented
Mr Hancock never consented, nevel voted for It himself nor for any man to make any such law
whenever
years '68, '69
? we leave prInCIples and clear prOpOSItIons
and wander Into constructIon we wander Into a wtlderness a darkness whereIn arbItr1. ry power
set on throne of blass wIth a sceptre of non Suspended, In fact, only after Battle of LexIngton
whIch ended all such prosecutIons ~1t Wollanston, seat of our ancestors
flom
East chamber every shIp sloop schooner and brIgantme
Three hundred and fifty were under the LIberty Tree,
a young butto11wood, and preparIng the next day's paper, coohlng up paragraphs,
artIcles, workIng the polItIcal engIne
MORNING at Brackett's upon case {)f a whale
that I had Imported from London the only complete set of BrItIsh Statutes
then In Boston or, I thInk, In the whole
of the ColonIes, and In that work a statute
whose publIcatIon they feared, an
express prohibItIon of empressment
expressly IN AmerIca whIch statute they Intended to
get repealed
and dId succeed 1769 toward the end of December so dOIng About 9 o'clock In evenIng, supposed to be SIgnal of fire
men In front of the barracks and baker's boy afore mentIoned Mr Forest known then as the (IrIsh Infant'
tears streamIng over hIS face
C for that very unfortunate man, CaptaIn Preston
In prISon
wants counCIl and can get none, Mr QUIncy WIll serve 1? you WIll
Mr Auchmuty dechnes unless you wtll engage'
C But he must be senSIble that thIS wd/ be as Important a case as was ever trIed here or In any country
not expect me to use art, sophistry, prevarication'
359
? Up01'1 whIch he offered me a retaInIng fee of one gUInea
whIch I accepted
(Re whIch thIngs was Hutchinson undoubtedly scro-
fulous ego scriptor cantllenae Ez P)
BrIngIng It In all to 10 gUineas
for Preston and 8 for the sOJers
(But where the devIl thIs brace of Adamscs sprung from' (OxenbrIdge Thatcher d'lngers from Intemperate heats
BUT In ConnectIcut every famIly has a lIttle manufactury house
and make ? 01 themselves thIngs for whIch they were used to run Into debt to the merchants)
CIted BeccarIa He went out and saddled my horse and brIdled hIm
C as a man of lIberty, I respect you
C and from here to Cape Cod you won't find ten men amiss'
nIhil humanum ahenum This landlord, a hIgh son
and h'ls on hIS SIgn
Sons of LIberty served here
When he came away he took VIew of the comet
to roll and cool themselves and feed on whIte honeysucl? Je
our horses had got out of compound SUBILLAM
CumlS ego occuhs melS
sleepIng under a wIndow pray for me,
wIthered to skIn and nerves tu thelezs respondebat lIla apothanezn, pray for me gentlemen
my prayers used to be answered, She prayed for delIverance
IIO years of age, and some say she 1S over that
Anemonle, at Nantasket, non VI sed saepe legendo
Severn Ayres of VIrgInIa, Mr Bull, Mr Trapler of S CarolIna Chas Second's tIme was tax voted In CarolIna
360
? Hemp seed cd/ be brought here, mulberry does well In our chmate
When people of EUlope have been InSidIously deprIved
of theIr lIbertIes
whIch wd/ render Jurors mere ostentatIon and pageantry green tea, froM Holland I hope, but dont know,
recovered at BraIntree, pruned by me, grown remarkably pInes better for loppIng
STOOD by the people much longer than they wd/ st:tnd
by themselves. 1771 make potash and raIse a great number of colts
whIch they send to the West IndIes for rum Splendours of Hartford and MIddletown Just as vie got there
IndIan puddIng pork greens on the table One party for wealth and power
at expense
of the lIberty of thelr country
W1rs, carnage, confUSIon
not Interested In their servItude
I am, for all I can see, left qUite alone
13th, Thursday
landlady great grand daughter of Governor Indlcott new lIght, contInually cantIng
saId IndIan preacher Adam' Adam when you It-new
It wd/ make good cIder' Mrs Rops, fine woman
very pretty and very genteel
Tells old storIes of WItchcraft, paper money and Governor Belcher's admInIstratIon
Always convInced that tIle lIbertIes of the country had more to fear from one man (HutchInson)
than from all other men whatsoever
which have always freely and decently uttered
RIch seldom remarkable for modesty, IngenuIty or humanIty
361
? t Is mere ImpertInence a contempt'> ' asked Mr OtiS
I saId there was no more JustIce left In BrItaIn t~an hell HutchInson IS etc
Moore's Reports, for the book was borrowed, Its owner a buyer, not a reader of books
for It nad been Mr GrIdley's NfYj state has done partlally
. 22, Monday (thIS was 1773)
HutchInson's letters received
Oliver, Moffat, Pa"'Cton and Rome for 1767, '8, '9
avariCIOUS, ambitIOUS, VIndIctIve
these were the letters that Frankhn got hold of Bone of our bone, educated among us,
serpent and deputy serpent
that SIr John Temple procured theI11
God knows how or from whom Gentle raIn last nIght and thIS mornIng
HutchInson suckIng up to George IIIrd falsehood m Rome's letters qUIte flagrant
Col Haworth
attracted no attention untIl
he dIscovered hIs antipathy to a cat
Three cargoes Bohea
were emptIed, thIS IS but an attack upon property I apprehend It was necessary, absolute, Indispensable
Irregular recourse to origmal power
IMpeachment by House before CouncIl saId shd/ be glad 1? constItutIon cd/ carryon
WIthout recourse to hIgher powers unwrItten Says Grldley You keep very late hours'
End of thlS Canto
? LXV
UR. ORS refuse to take oath
JsayIng whIle ChIef JustIce of thIs Court stands
llnpeached Moses GIll has made many JustIces by lendIng money
A statue of H M (HIs Majesty) very large
on horseback
sohd lead glIded with gold
on an hIgh marble pedestal We then walked up Broadway
magnIficent bUlldmg, cost 2. 0,000 pounds N Y
currency
ShIp
of 800 tons burden lest levelIng spmt of New England should propagate Itself In New York.
whole charge of the PrOVInce
between 5 and 6 thousand pounds N York money For Massachusetts about 12. thousand lawful
as wdj equal about 16,000 of N York
AdvIsed hIm to publIsh
from Hakluyt the voyage of J Cabot,
Hudlbras tavern, PrInceton, sing as badly as the presbyterIans of
N York
scz congress sIld/ raise money and
employ men to wrIte In the newspapers (In England)
WashIngton would raIse one thousand men at hIS own expense
and march for release of Boston not a VIrgInIan
but an American PatrIck Henry
tenants In capIte, Galloway well aware that my arguments
363
? tend to the Independency of the colonles bound by no laws made by ParlIament
SInce our ancestors came here
Bill of RIghts
wIshed to hear In Congress at large law of natr/ BrIt constItutIon
trade of EmpIre cd/ be under parlIament Mr Rutledge of S CarolIna saId
II: Adams, We must agree upon somethIng'
Turtle and everythUlg else a dutchitted EnglIsh prayer
17th of September America WIll support Massachusetts
C that natIon
new avov/s brIbery to be part of her system'
1fr l-Ienry, AmerIcan legislature
After December 1St no molasses
coffee pImento flom Domenlca
fine bowlIng green and fine turtle, madeira
Congress nIbblmg and qUIbblIng as usual
took departure In very great rain from
the happy, the peaceful, the elegant Philadelphy
2. young ladles to smg us the new liberty song readIness to be shot / versus / taxes
Judgement gives way to fears I/3rd of humanIty IMbeCIlIty of 2nd petItIon Mr Hancock had ambition Mr Adams (that IS Saml) said nothIng, appeared deeply
but seconded my motIon In Congress
Mr WashIngton seated near by the door scuttled Into the book room WIth modesty
Dickenson
to consider
? past merIdIan, avarIce growIng on hIm alum
Suppose yrj ladyshIp has been In the tWlttels
I
(p 432. )
oated at the Red LIon
6 sets of works In one bUIldIng, hemp mIll, 011 mIll, and
a mIll to grInd bark for tanners, at Bethelehem, a fuller's mIll both for cloth and leather, dye-house, a sharIng house
they raIse a great deal of madder CommIttee to purchase woollen goods for the Army
Sept I775, to 5000 L/ sterlIng
delegates of PennsylvanIa produced no account of the powder
100 tons of powder was wanted CushIng saId I move we take Into conSIderatIon
a means of keepmg up the army In wIntel AmmunItIon can not be had unless we open out ports Can't stand war wIt. hout trade
tobacco to France and SpaIn Rutledge saId
Take men from
agrIculture and put 'em In factorIes AgrIculture and manufacturles
can not be lost but tlade IS precarIOUS
e AmerIcans are theIr own C1. rriCrS now ImperatIve to open out ports,' saId Mr Zubly PrOVISIons to SpaIn for money
and cash sent to England for powder
e We are between hawk and buzzard' saId LIVIngston pleased that New Jersey raIse two battalions
of eIght companIes eacll
68 prIvates, capn, lIeutenant, enSIgn, 4 sargeants 4 corporals Who to appomt officers for theIr artIllery
Personal frIends have not been SUItable
rather Washington's word than any convention's
Trade or no trade
powder, appOIntment of officers 365
? How trade) by whose carrlage,J farms, Inanufacturles hItherto as If money
was prOVInce's not of the continent
John Adams as seen by John Adams, squabbles In congress to shut or not shut customs houses
t Everything we want for war IS powder and shot' saId Mr Zubly
2ndly arms and munItions
3rd1y that we must have money
We must keep up the notIon that thIs paper IS good
for sometlling (commerciabill~)
MISSISSIPPi scheme In France South Seas In England
were wrIt for our learnIng
A navy' Can we have one~ WIthout trade) Can we maIntaIn war WIthout It')
Can we get InformatIon~
SpanIards too lazy to come here for goods To trade WIth England or forelgners~
If so, who does the carrying") They to us, we to them') I speak from prIncIple, It has been said we aSSOcIate
In terrorem
Damn well rIght, Mr Zubly
Deane wdj have traders prohIbIted unporting unnecessary and export of all lIvestock save horses
GU1daloupe, MartInIque WIll supply powder agaInst tobacco each colony shd/ carry thiS trade, not IndIVIduals
Chase Oct 2. 0 1775 Jay says more from mdlvldual enterprIse
than from lukewarmness of assemblIes want french woollens dutch worsteds
german steel Wythe says better open our trade altogether
Why shdn't AmerIca have a navy~ We abound In firs, Iron ore, tar
? the Rom3ns suddenly bUIlt one agaInst Carthage RESOLVED that tV/O vessels be ~tted
6th AprJ1 to remove all restrIctIons on tlade obhge BrItaIn to keep up a navy
that WIll cost her tWIce what she takes from us
FAECE Romull non PlatoDls republIca' C AmerIca' (Wythe) WIll hardly lIve wIthout trade
Am for glV1l1g letters of marque
and for powder, to make treatIes WIth us, Why
call ourselves dutIful subjects')
Wd/ France have lIstened to BrIstol or LIverpool'> Resolved a commIttee to draft confederatIon
To prOVIde flax, hemp, wool and cotton
In each colony of SOCIety for furtherance of agrIculture, arts, manufacturles
and correspondence between these SOCIetIes
that natural advantages be not neglected ducks and saIl cloth
Is It In the Interest of France to stand neuter"> Resentment a duty, a man's person, property, lIberty
not safe WIthout It
Hooper of North CarolIna saId I WIsh to see a day
when slaves are not necessary
Lee, Sherman and Gadsden on my SIde
Rush, FranklIn, Bayard and MIfIlIn putt us WIse to
the rumours against us
t adventurers, bankrupt attourneys
from Massachusetts
t dependent on popularIty' So prompt farr and explICIt
~Mr Jefferson, you can wrIte ten tImes better than I can' Cut about I/4th and some of the best of It
I have often wondered that J's first draft has not
been publIshed suppose the reason IS the vehement phIlippIC a31. 1nst
negro slavery'
? thus Adams, 40 years later To contract for ImportatIon of gun powder
-or If cannot, then for salt peter and sulphur enough to make 500 tons
40 brass field pIeces (6 pounders) 10,000 stapd arms June 12th J Adams head of the Board of \Val
tIll Nov eleventh '77
had conversed much wIth gentlemen
who conduct our cod and whale fisherIes OU. L seamen 1? once let loose on the ocean
They saId wd/ rum the character of our seamen etc (make 'em mercenary and bent wholly on plundah '
~ In any character yrj LordshIp please eAcept
that of a BrItIsh subJect' (John to Lord Howe In parley)
88 battalIons, September,
<lash had already formed lucratIve connectIons In ParIS
by Mr D (Deane's) recommendatIons
partIcularly wIth Ray de Chaumont who was shippIng stuff to sell on commISSion
Always have been and still are spies m America (I 804) and I consIdered the
fisheries
To Capn Sam Tucl\. . er commandIng the Boston
(wInd hIgh and seas very rough)
You are to afford hIm every accommodatIon In yt/ power . and consult hIm as to what port you shall endeavour to get to
\V V ernon
J Warren
Navy Board, Eastern Department
Sunday 15th came under saIl before breakfast bauled my WInd to southward
found they dId chase me
Log book, 51 Tucker 19 Feb
;lfter runnIng 3 hours to westward 368
? I then hove In the stays
she contInued to chase us
all day, but I rather gaIn on her
Smoke, smell of sea coal, of stagnant and putrId water Increase the qualmlness but do n o t OCC1S10n It
In calm wIth our guns out
Tucker saId hIs orders were to take me to France
and any prizes that mlgl-tt fall In hIS way At nIght the wInd Increased to a hurrycane North, East by North, then North -VVest
ane blasterend bubb gan In the foresaIl dIng
raIlings
agonIes, the saIlors' theIr countenances language be-havlour
no man upon hIs legs nothIng In place chests casl{s bottles etcetera
no place no person dry
by lIghtnIng
at maInmast and topmast wounded 2. 3 men
Log Book of Saml Tucker contInually one thIng after anothe:t. . gIVing way
lay by uncle! maIn sail
down topgallant yards
4 P M carrIed away slIngs chaIns and the mIzzen. 4AM madesaIlandbeganto
1epa! r tIle rIggIng
Mr JohnnIe's behaVIour gave satIsfactIon (1 e young
J Q Adams
mexpresslble InconvenIence of havIng so lIttle space between decks nothIng but
dread of pIstol to keep men In quarters In actIon shIp not properly furnIshed WIth glasses
whIch wd/ save tllelr expense In a thousand ways INattentIon In navy as In the army
INattentIon to health of the saIlors 369
? the practIce of profane swearIng and cursIng
1st ltAarch maInmast found sprung In two places sea, clouds, sea, everythIng d2. mp, sea,
clouds, f11r sun, 9 knots and no nOIse
What the state of finances, stocks and theIr army~ So that the ball passed dIrectly o"er my head Tucl",er In old age sald that J A was out wIth 1 musket lIke any damn common
marIne
c Ordered 111m, but there he wuz out ag n
I sez Me orders, SIr, are to glt yew to EUrope'
Was a letter of marque, shot through our mIzzen yard we upon thIS turned our broadsIde whIch
the Instant she saw, she struclt The Martha, worth 80,000
Capn McIntosh much a gentleman
5 weeks after our embarcatlon
t Mr Mclntos~ of North BrIt'un
very decIded agaInst AmerIca In the
contest HIS passIons enkIndle' Numbers of small bIrds from the shore Instant they lIght on a shIp
drop asleep froln exhaustIon
aleron, famous for sea laws at least I take It thIS IS the place
along SIde wIth hakes, skates and gurnards rIver very beaut. . . ful on both SIdes
horses, oxen, great flocks, husbandmen ploughIng women a half dozen In droves wIth theIr hoes churches, convents, gentlemen's seats
very magnIficent From perus of the sea, IntrIgues, bUSiness wangles
rural Improvements are brought down to the water's edge
muddy water, grand seats, beautIful groves
a number of vessels In the rIver land, cattle, horses after
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pund sterlmg
? so long a Journey
at BOldea'l1x, at Blaye
FIrst dIsh was a fine french soup then bOIled meat hO'hts of calf one way and lIver another
b
bread very fine and fine salad the
raISins are most delICIOUS
none of us understood french none of t11em engllsll on quarter decl{ I was struck. wIth the hens
capons COCh. . S In theIr coops Saluted a small town called Blaye
wIth the INdependent salute
I e I 3 for the colonies All the gentlemen agreed Dr Franklm
had been rec'd by the I(lng wIth great pomp
and a treaty concluded
there are 4 sorts Chate"lu Margaux, Haute BrIon, Lafitte
and Latour
fish and bean salad, claret, champagne
to see the new comedIe and, after, the opera
d,nclng very cheerful (our
AmerIcan theatre not then even In contemplatIon)
Trompette, work of Vauban
Banished In LOUIS XVth's time for workIng wIth Malesherbes I concluded there was a form of SIncerIty In It
decorated wIth complIments
saw (Les deux avares) Tucker tho' not polIshed
was an energetIc and successful commander LIghts In the garden and an InscrIptIon
de l01zb
? TheIr eagerness to sell a knIfe was as great as that of some persons I have seen to get offices
fields of grass, vIneyards, castles
yet every place swarms wIth beggars
Rue RIcheheu, I-Iotel de ValoIs then Basse Cour, had been Hotel ValentlnolS
Money In Mr Schwelghausel's hands sIgned, Franlt. hn
Lee Adams
To J WIllIams
abstaIn from further expendIture
and close your accounts
Ml Beaumarchals, another of Mr Deane's frlends
DIned that day WIth Madame Heivetius
to the Long Champ where all carrIages of ParIS were paraded As descent modest and regular
a famIly as ever I saw 111 France
Among whoIn was M Condorcet hIS face whIte as a sheet
Franl\. hn, Deane, Bancroft are frIends
never was before I came here
a letter book
a minute book an account book
Mr Deane lIved expenSIvely Dr FrankllIl
Great WIt, great humourIst, great polIticIan, the Lees
are all VIrtuous men, If
there had been letters, mInutes, accounts, Mr Lee
had not seen them
In first box near the celebrated VoltaIre
Mme la Duchesse d'Agen a 5 ou 6 enfants contre la coutume du pays
des Noatlles IS mdhon louls a year from the crown
number of persons WIth theIr eyes :6:"\. ed on our lIttle treasury
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of paper
? You wrote that you wd/ send the InVOIces If we thought necessary
The KIng's bed chamber where he W1S dressIng one puttIng on hIS sword, one hIs coat I accordIngly wrote to Sam Adams
I:normous
sums have been expended, no book of
accounts, no documents whereflom
able to learn what has been ree'd In AmerIca
Wrong In haVIng three commISSIoners one IS enough
m leaVIng salarIes at uncertaInty
In mInglIng pubhc mmlster and commercIal agent
Mr Deane never succeeded In throwIng much lIght on hIS mode of dOIng bUSIness In France
Many other qualItIes I cd/ not dIstInguIsh from VIrtues HIS Majesty ate lIke a KIng, solId beef
and other thIngs In PIOPOI tlon Offer to make 2. 00 peers (tn AmerIca)
To the dwellIng of Mme du Barry
who sent to InvIte us Turgot, Condillac, Mme Helvetlus
M Genet's son went WIth me and my son to the menagerIe BarbIer de SevIlle at the ComedIe (Nantes)
actIng Indl:fferent
Much conversatIon about the electrIcal eel
H I S VOIce (P Jones's) IS still, and soft, and small
Laws of the VIS1g0ths and JustInIan still m use In GalICIa 13 mules 2 muietiers arrIVIng Corunna at 7
pork of thIS country excellent and delIcIous
also bacon, ChIef JustIce mforms me that much of It IS fattened on chestnuts and upon Indian corn
other pork IS they say fattened on VIpers
pOSSIble unports to SpaIn 373
? gram of all sorts pItch turpentIne tImber, salt fish, spermaceti and rIce
Tobacco they have from theIr colonIes
as also IndIgo
of the KIng's tobacco they take 10 mIllIons weIght per annum
Saw ladles take chocolate In SpanIsh fashIon dIned on board la Belle Paule
Gallcla, no floor but ground trodden to mIre by men hogs horses and mules
no chImney 1/2. way as you ascend to the chamber was a stage covered Wlt~ straw
on which lay a fattening 110g above, corn was hung on stIcks and on sht Walk
In one corner a bm full of rape seed or culzar In the other a bIn ? ull of oats
among whIch slept better than SInce my arrIval
I n Spam
In general the mountains covered WIth furze
scarce an elm oak or other tree
O'BrIen afterward sent me a mInced pIe and a me~t pIe
at St James Campostella and 2 bottles of Frontenac Wine nothmg rIch but tIle churclles, nothmg fat but the clelgy NO symptoms of commerce or even of Internal traffic Between GalIce and Leon I780
all of colour made of black sheep's wool undyed
the rIver Valcaire between two rows of mountains
not a decent house since Corunna
4 Tuesday, clean bed, no fleas for the first time In Spam
at Astorga
largest turnipS I ever saw
Mauregato women, as fine as squaws and a great deal
Hoy mlsmo han llegado
a esta plaza el Caballero
Juan Adams mlembro 374
more nasty
? etcl los 111g1eses
evacu"ndo Rhode Island
los Amerlcanos tomar011
Gazette de MadrId, 24th of December Great flocks of sheep and cattle
AsturIas mout"ltaIns fIver runs also down Into POltugal
a dance they call the fandango Tuesday 11th at BUlgOS
we go along sneezing and coughIng my patIence never nearer exhausted
33 religious houses In Burgos In the last house In SpaIn we found one ell mney
First Since that In the French consul's, Corunna RIver Charent runs by It
Vergennes mIght suppose that I In naivete
wd/ send hIm my InstructIons My determinatIon to InsIst on the fisherIes
(In fact John saved cod to Baastun)
I was not clear that I suspected hIS motives
U S at ltberty to negotiate commerce, as peace
they Intended to keep us m stew WIth England
for a~ long as pOSSIble after the peace, as was EFfected for eleven years until Jay
sacrIficed hIS popularIty and Washlngto~'5 was dlmlnlshed
Those who Wish to Investigate WHOM In congress (leaVIng us no doubt Vergennes was a tWIster)
WIth my two sons to Amsterdam rye barley oats beans
hemp graIn clover lucern and salnfoln
and the pavements are good, vines cattle sheep everythIng
such wheat crops never saw elsewhere church m tlSlC ItalIan styIe
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plentIful
? a tapestry number of Jews stabbIng the wafer blood gushIng from It
Brussels stone same as BraIntree North Common excellent character, emperor dId not lIke hIm
IntermIxture houses trees shIps canals very startlIng neatness remarkable
Van der Capellen tot de Pol fears holders of EnglIsh funds wul etc/
trIed to end some feudal burdens about here and got hImself censured OK, as was Van Berckel
Don Joas Tholomeno Independence of AmerIca IS assured Sept 14th '82.
MIrabel (Sardegna) only why dont they acknowledge It') 5 copies, EnglIsh and Dutch SIde by SIde,
saId wd/ be SIgned next week
aetat 46
foreIgn minIsters all herd together
Rheingrave, de Salm, Colonel Bentinck
PrUSSIan mInIster WIll talk of astronomy natural lustory news SIeges but very reserved upon polItICS
VERJARING van den veldslag by LeXIngton
Eerste MemOire dan den Heer Adams
INDRUK of de Hollandsche Natle
DeputIes of Holland and Zeeland we Signed etc/ treaty of COlnmerce
8 Oct '82 nrmness heaven has gIven you
commerce of Bruge, Ostend grown WIth our revolutIon vlngt avmgtclnq naVlres dans Ie baSSIn
(Count Sarsfield)
magazlns de la vIlle sont remplts, Journee d'un homme I 5 sl et nourri
CEuvre de M Ie Due de Vauguyon 376
? ? to sIgn one's name 16,000 t1IIles after dInner
Mr VIscher who was more open than I had known him saId the Stadtholder was Ie plus grand t de ce pays-cz entete comme une she mule
Rode to ValencIennes and found our axletree broken agaIn, walks, rose gardens, waterspouts, fish ponds
carp WIll assemble In an huddle before you
stIckIng theIr mouths out of water
MIle de Bourbon her haIr uncombed
came out by the round house
wIth It hangmg over her shoulders, In whIte
Thus France taxes Europe great part of court polICy to
provIde natIonal Influence over la nzode
as an occaSIon of commerce Jay IS des PetIts AugustIns Franklm IntrIgues manoeuvres InSInuates
I WIll make a good peace or 110 peace U shall enJoy rIght to fish unmolested
on banks and In Gulf of St Lawrence or wherever else heretofore to
dry cure In Nova ScotIa
Cape Sable and on any unsettled bays"
complunents conversatIon on vapors and exhalatlo11. s from Tartary
For my part thought that AmerIcans
Had been embroIled In European wars long enough
easy to see that France and England wd/ try to embroIl us OBVIOUS
that all powers of Europe WIll be contInually at manoeuvre to work us Into theIr real or unagInary balances
of power, J A 1782 FISHERIES
our natural rIght, garters stars keys tItles rIbbons objects of these men of hIgh lIfe
France wd/ never send that money (send any of It) to England
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? whereas we gettIng money from ! )ortug. ,l must spend It In London, consIdered
theIr attack on me an attack on the fisherIes t IfIhavenot'sezIt beenmIstaken
In the polIcy of France from my first observatIon of It to tris hour, they have been as averse to other powers acknowledgIng our Independence
as you have been'
(GOD"
sez he (Oswald) t Now I see It
I wIll wrIte 110me at once on thIS subJect'
To exempt fishermen husbandmen merchants
as much as possIble from evIls of future wars Dr FranklIn (a nice lesson any how)
The KIng
IS lIke Mr Hancock
Nor where who sows the corn by corn IS fed
(Lady Lucan's verses on Ireland)
The Duke de la Rochefoucauld
made me a VISIt
(Lady Lucan's verses on Ireland)
made me a VISIt
and deSIred me to explaIn to hIm some
passages In the ConnectIcut constItutIon
(at whIch pOInt Ml ElIot left ~s)
Mr Vaughn saId etc/ that he sau)
t But' sez he t you can not blame us endeavourIng to carry thIs pOInt to marl\,. et
and get somethIng by It ' (whIch seems faIrly Enghsh)
To get BIlly (FranklIn) made mInIster here and the Doctor to LOl1don
MIle Bourbon 15 grown very fat, Chatham so dampened the zeal of Sardegna
BLUSH, oh ye lecords' 378
? congress has double XX'd me
How WIll they wash It'> I
dIned wIth M Malesherbes uncle of Luzerne
tIers etat contaIns 30 classes
DIned at Passy, S' 11 regne un faux saVOlr whIch mfleXlblhty has been called vanIty PolIcy of frog court to lay stunlbling block:
between England and AmerIca None EnglIsh have come, apprIzed, here
of where was the danger
Peace IS made NegotIatIons all passed before I hear
of LIVIngston's letter of Jan '82 s'. Jch IS Doc Flanklm (M1Y 3rd 1783)
a composed man
plaIn EnglIshman Duke and Ambassador Manchester
I told Hartley theIr poltey wIth Holland was wrong all wrong 1?