The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. eBook

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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 541 pages of information about The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I..
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  Horridum vbi semper pelagus, glacieque perenni
  Frigora natiuos simulant immitia montes. 
  Ni frustra per Cimmerios, syluisque propinqua
  Flumina Riphaeis eoa profectus ad vsque est
  Moenia Iencisonvs, [D] Persasqve et proxima Persis
  Bactra, et Bactrorvm confines regibus Indos. 
  Ni frustra, quod mortali tot secla negarant,
  Hac tuus immensum nuper Dracvs [E] ambijt orbem,
  Qua patri Oceano clausas circumdare terras
  Concessit natura viam, mediaque meare
  Tellure, et duplici secludere littore mundos. 
  Iam si fortuna, iam si virtute sequare
  Digna tua; sunt monstra mihi, sunt vasta gigantum
  Corpora, quae magno cecidisse sub Hercvle non sit
  Dedecus, Ogigivs non quae aspernetur Iaccvs. 
  Quae si indigna putas, tantaque in pace beata
  Auersare meos multo vt tibi sanguine fines
  Inuidiosa petas:  est nobis terra propinqua,
  Et tantum bimari capiens discrimen in Isthmo. 
  Hanc tibi iamdudum primi inuenere Brittanni,
  Tum cum magnanimus nostra in regione Cabotvs [F]
  Proximus a magno ostendit sua vela Colvmbo. 
  Haec neque vicina nimium frigescit ab arcto,
  Sole nec immodico in steriles torretur arenas: 
  Frigus et aestatem iusto moderamine seruat,
  Siue leues auras, grati spiracula coeli,
  Seu diae telluris opes, et munera curas. 
  Pone age te digno tua sceptra in honore, meoque
  Iunge salutarem propius cum littore dextram. 
  Sit mihi fas aliquam per te sperare quietem,
  Vicinoque bono laetum illucescere Solem. 
  Quod si consilijs superum, fatisque negatum est
  Durare immensum magna infortunia tempus: 
  Quod si de immerita iustum est ceruice reuelli
  Ignarum imperij dominum, populique regendi;
  Quod si nulla vnquam potuit superesse potestas,
  Ni pia flexilibus pareret clementia frenis
  Obsequium.  A mita quaesita potentia Cyro
  Amissa est saeuae soboli.  Parcendo subegit
  Tot reges Macedvm virtus, tot postera sensim
  Abscidit a parto tandem inclementia regno. 
  Et quod Romvleis creuit sub patribus olim
  Imperium, diri semper minuere Nerones.

[Sidenote A:  Noua Albion.] [Sidenote B:  Hugo Willobeius eques auratus.] [Sidenote C:  Martinus Frobisherus eques auratus.] [Sidenote D:  Antonius Ienkinsonus.] [Sidenote E:  Franciscus Dracus eques auratus.] [Sidenote F:  Sebastianus Cabotus.]

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A report of the voyage and successe thereof, attempted in the yeere of our
  Lord 1583 by sir Humfrey Gilbert knight, with other gentlemen assisting
  him in that action, intended to discouer and to plant Christian
  inhabitants in place conuenient, vpon those large and ample countreys
  extended Northward from the cape of Florida, lying vnder very temperate
  Climes, esteemed fertile and rich in Minerals, yet not in the actuall
  possession of any Christian prince, written by M. Edward Haies gentleman,
  and principall actour in the same voyage, who alone continued vnto the
  end, and by Gods speciall assistance returned home with his retinue safe
  and entire.

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