Fovre bookes of Du Bartas I. The Arke, II. Babylon, III. The Colonnyes, IIII. The Columues or Pyllars: In French and English, for the Instrvction and Pleasvre of Svch as Delight in Both Langvages. By William Lisle ... Together with a large Commentary by S. G. S |
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As short a cut it is, as that of Hellespont
From Asia to Greece; or that, where-ore they wont
Saile from the Spanish hill vnto the Realme of Fesse;
Or into Sicilie from out the hau'n of Resse.
From Asia to Greece; or that, where-ore they wont
Saile from the Spanish hill vnto the Realme of Fesse;
Or into Sicilie from out the hau'n of Resse.
So from the Wastes of Tolme and Quiuer (where the kine
Bring calues with weathers fleece, with Camels bunchie chine
And haire, as Genets, slicke) they peopled Azasie;
Cosse, Toua, Caliquas, Topira, Terlichie,
And Florida the faire, Auacal, Hochilega,
The frosen Labour-lands, Canada, Norumbega.
Bring calues with weathers fleece, with Camels bunchie chine
And haire, as Genets, slicke) they peopled Azasie;
Cosse, Toua, Caliquas, Topira, Terlichie,
And Florida the faire, Auacal, Hochilega,
The frosen Labour-lands, Canada, Norumbega.
They sow'd ath'other side the land of Xalisco,
Mechuacan, Cusule; and founded Mexico
Like Venice, o're a Lake; and saw, astonished
The greenest budding trees become all withered,
As soone as euer touch'd; and eke a mountaine found
Vesevus-like enflam'd about Nicargua ground.
So passing forth along the straight of Panama,
Vpon the better hand they first Oucanama,
Then Quito, then Cusco, then Caxamalca built;
And in Peruuiland, a country thorow-guilt,
They wondred at the Lake that waters Colochim,
All vnder-paued salt, and fresh about the brim:
And at the springs of Chinke, whose water strongly-good
Makes pebble-stones of chalke, and sandy stones of mood.
Mechuacan, Cusule; and founded Mexico
Like Venice, o're a Lake; and saw, astonished
The greenest budding trees become all withered,
As soone as euer touch'd; and eke a mountaine found
Vesevus-like enflam'd about Nicargua ground.
So passing forth along the straight of Panama,
Vpon the better hand they first Oucanama,
Then Quito, then Cusco, then Caxamalca built;
And in Peruuiland, a country thorow-guilt,
They wondred at the Lake that waters Colochim,
All vnder-paued salt, and fresh about the brim:
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Makes pebble-stones of chalke, and sandy stones of mood.
Then Chili they possest, whose riuers cold and bright
Run all the day apace, and rest them all the night:
Quinteat, Patagonie, and all those lower seats,
Whereon the foamy bracke of Magellanus beats,
Vpon the left they spread along by Darien side,
Where Huo them refresh'd, then in Vraba spide
How Zenu's wealthie waves adowne to Neptune rould
As bid as pullets egges the massie graines of gould;
A mount of Emeralds in Grenad saw they shine;
But on Cumana banks hoodwinked weare their eyne
With shady night of mist: so quickly from Cumane
They on to Pary went, Omagu and Caribane:
Then by Maragnon dwelt, then entred fierce Bresile
Then Plata's leauell fields, where flowes another Nile.
Run all the day apace, and rest them all the night:
Quinteat, Patagonie, and all those lower seats,
Whereon the foamy bracke of Magellanus beats,
Vpon the left they spread along by Darien side,
Where Huo them refresh'd, then in Vraba spide
How Zenu's wealthie waves adowne to Neptune rould
As bid as pullets egges the massie graines of gould;
A mount of Emeralds in Grenad saw they shine;
But on Cumana banks hoodwinked weare their eyne
With shady night of mist: so quickly from Cumane
They on to Pary went, Omagu and Caribane:
Then by Maragnon dwelt, then entred fierce Bresile
Then Plata's leauell fields, where flowes another Nile.
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