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THOMAS MACARNESSE to his worthy friend and Countryman, Captaine John Smith.
  
  
  
  
  
  
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THOMAS MACARNESSE
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to his worthy friend and Countryman,
Captaine John Smith.

WHo loves to live at home, yet looke abroad,
And know both passen and unpassen
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road,

The prime Plantation of an unknowne shore,
The men, the manners, fruitfulnesse, and store:
Read but this little
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Booke, and then confesse
,

The lesse thou lik'st and lov'st, thou liv'st the lesse.
He writ it with great labour, for thy good,
Twice over, now in paper, 'fore in blood;
It cost him deare, both paines, without an ayme
Of private profit, for thy publicke gaine.
That thou mightst read and know and safely see,
What he by practice, thou by Theoree.
Commend him for his loyall loving heart,
Or else come mend him, and take thou his part.
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1. Macarnesse has not been identified satisfactorily.

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2. "Passed and unpassed"; the sole instances of these erroneous forms recorded in
the OED.

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3. Perhaps a term of endearment here.