Hakluytus posthumus, or Purchas his pilgrimes : contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others . O I the Man, whose Muse musd on Plantations,New England, Virgin, Bermude, Newfound-landed,Lawrell for olive take, and make RelationsOf Armes, Harmes, Fights, Frights, Flights, Depopula-tions,Romes Buls, Spaines broyles, Irelands ire, Traitors , Angels, Winds, Seas, Men, Elizas GloryConspire; Shee outlives Death, in Heaven, in Story. Aile greatest of English Names, GloriousElizabeth! Nor may wee after thyvoyage and peregrination out of thisWor
Hakluytus posthumus, or Purchas his pilgrimes : contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others . O I the Man, whose Muse musd on Plantations,New England, Virgin, Bermude, Newfound-landed,Lawrell for olive take, and make RelationsOf Armes, Harmes, Fights, Frights, Flights, Depopula-tions,Romes Buls, Spaines broyles, Irelands ire, Traitors , Angels, Winds, Seas, Men, Elizas GloryConspire; Shee outlives Death, in Heaven, in Story. Aile greatest of English Names, GloriousElizabeth! Nor may wee after thyvoyage and peregrination out of thisWorld, unto thy true and heavenly home& Country, forget the great Acts of thyearthly Pilgrimage. Thou wast indeedthe Mother of English Sea-greatnesse,and didst first by thy Generalls not salute alone, butawe and terrifie the remotest East and West, stretchingthy long and strong armes to India, to China, to America,to the Peruvian Seas, to the Californian Coast and NewAlbions Scepters : Thou madst the Northerne Muscoviteadmire thy Greatnesse: Thou gavest name to the North-west Straits (Meta Incognita) and the Southern Negros,xix 449 2 F. PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES 1625. and Hands of the South-unknowne-continent which knewnot humanitie, were compelled to know Thee; Thouimbracedst the whole earthly Globe in thy MaritimeArmes: thou freedst England from Easterlings andLumbards borrowed legs, and taughtst her not onely tostand and goe without helpe, but become helpe to ourfriends, and with her own Sea forces to stand against,yea to stand upon, and stampe under feet the proudestof her foes. Thou wast a Mother to thy Neighbours,Scots, French, Dutch; a Mirrour to the remotest ofNations. Great Cumberlands twelve voyages beforerecited are thine, and the fiery vigor of his Martiall Spiritwas kindled at thy bright Lamp, & quickened by theThe Fleets set Great Spirit of Elizabeth, Drake, Candish, John andfirth by queen Ricnard Hawkins, Raleigh, Dudley, Sherley, Preston,s Greenvile, Lancaster, Wo
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