A DESCRIPTION OF THE FAMOUS KINGDOME OF MACARIA; SHEWING ITS EXCELLENT GOVERNMENT: WHEREIN The Inhabitants live in great Prosperity, Health, and Happinesse; the King obeyed, the Nobles honoured; and all good men respected, Vice punished, and vertue rewarded. _An Example to other Nations._ In a Dialogue between a Schollar and a Traveller. LONDON, Printed for _Francis Constable, Anno_ 1641. [Illustration: decorative banner] TO THE HIGH AND HONOURABLE COURT OF PARLIAMENT. Whereas I am confident, that this Honorable Court will lay the Corner Stone of the worlds happinesse before the final recesse thereof, I have adventured to cast in my widowes mite into the Treasurie; not as an Instructer, or Counsellour, to this Honourable Assembly, but have delivered my conceptions in a Fiction, as a more mannerly way, having for my pattern Sir _Thomas Moore_, and Sir _Francis Bacon_ once Lord Chancellour of _England_; and humbly desire that this honourable Assembly will be pleased to make use of any thing therein contained, if it may stand with their pleasures, and to laugh at the rest, as a solace to my minde, being enclined to doe good to the publick. So humbly craving leave, that I may take my leave, I rest this 25, of October 1641. [Illustration: decorative banner] A DESCRIPTION OF THE FAMOUS KINGDOME OF MACARIA. SHEWING ITS EXCELLENT GOVERNMENT _Traveller._ Well met sir, your habit professes scholarship, are you a Graduate? _Schollar._ Yes sir, I am a Master of Arts. _Trav._ But what doe you heare in the Exchange; I conceive you trade in knowledge, and here is no place to traffick for it; neither in the book of rates is there any imposition upon such commodities: so that you have no great businesse either here or at the Custome-house. Come let us goe into the fields, I am a Traveller, and can tell you strange newes, and much knowledge, and I have brought it over the sea without paying any Custome, though it bee worth all the merchandize in the kingdome. _Schol._ We Scholars love to heare newes, and to learne knowledge, I will wait upon you, goe whither you will. _Trav._ Well, we will goe into Moore fields, and take a turne or two, there we shall be out of this noise, and throng of people. _Sch._ Agreed; but as we goe, what good newes doe you heare of the Parliament? _Trav._ I heare that they are generally bent to make a good reformation, but that they have some stops and hinderances, so that they cannot make such quick dispatch as they would; and if any experience which I have learned in my long travels, may stand them in stead, I would willingly impart it for the publick good. _Sch._ I like that well, I pray you declare some good experience, that I may say that I have gained some thing by the company of Travellers.