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LOe here Smiths Forge, where Forgery's Roague-branded,

True Pegasus is shoo'd, fetters are forged
For Silke-sotts, Milk-sops, base Sloth, farre hence landed,
(Soile-chang'd,* Soule-soil'd still) Englands dregs, discharged,
To plant (supplant!) Virginia, home-disgorged:
Where vertues praise frames good men Stories armour
'Gainst Time, Achilles-like, with best Arts charged;
Pallas, all-arm'd, all-learn'd, can teach Sword-Grammar,
Can Pens of Pikes; Armes t'Arts; to Scholar, Souldier hammer:

Can Pilgrim make a Maker; all so well
Hath taught Smith scoure my rustie out-worne Muse,
And so conjur'd her in Virginian Cell,
That things unlearned long by want of use,
Shee fresh areeds
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me read, without abuse
By fabling. Arthurs great Acts little made
By greater lies she saith; seales Faith excuse
a T' Island, Groonland, Estotiland to wade
After lie-legends; Malgo, Brandon, are Wares braide.

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The Fryer of Linneb

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frights her with his black Art;
Nor Brittish Bards can tell where Madocc planted.
Cabots, Thorns, Elyots truth have wonne her heart,
Eldest discov'rers of New Worlds Cont'nent (granted
So had just Fates.) Colon and Vespuce panted;
This got the named, last, least of Three; the Other
New Worlds Isles found first: Cabot is most chanted
In Three-Mens-song; did more New World discover
Then both, then any; an hundred degrees coasted over.

Haile Sir Sebastian, Englands Northern Pole,
Virginia's finder; Virgin Eliza nam'd it,
Gave't Raleigh. (Rut, Prat, Hore, I not enrole)
Amadas rites to English right first fram'd it.
Lane planted, return'd, nor had English tam'd it:
Greenviles and Whites men all slaine; New Plantation
James founds, Sloth confounds, feare, pride, faction sham'd it:
Smiths Forge mends all, makes chaines for Savage Nation,
Frees, feeds the rest; the rest reade in his Bookes Relation.

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* Cælum
non animum
mutant

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a These are
said a thousand
yeares agoe to
have beene in
the North
parts of
America.

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b He is said
to discover the
Pole 1360.

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c Madoc ap
Owen Planted
some remote
Western parts.
1170.

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d America
named of
Americus
Vesputius,
which
discovered les
then Colon or
Sir Sebastian
Cabot, and the
Continent
later. Colon
first found the
Isles 1492. the
Continent
1498. Above a
yeare after
Cabot had don
it. He was set
forth by
Henry 7 and
after by Henry
8. Knighted,
and made
grand Pilot of
England by
Edward 6
Under whom
he procured
the sending of
Sir Hugh
Willoughby,
and discovery
of Greenland
and Russia:
having by
himself
discovered on
America from
67 North lat.
to neere 40
South.

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1. This involved composition is rather typical of Purchas.

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2. The complete line is caelum non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt, "they who scud
across the sea change their climate, not their mind" (Horace, Epistles, I, xi, 27).

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3. "Counsels, tells (me to)."

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4. "Worse deception." "Wares" is a variant spelling; "braid[e]" is long obsolete
in this sense.

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5. Nicholas of [King's] Lynn; see p. I, below, for notes on the others mentioned here,
except for Robert Thorne and Hugh Eliot (fl. 1480-1510), who, sailing with Cabot, are
claimed to have been the English discoverers of America.

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SAMUEL PURCHAS[_]1 of his friend Captaine John Smith, and his Virginia.

SAMUEL PURCHAS
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of his friend Captaine John Smith,
and his Virginia.