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TO HIS LOVING friend Captaine John Smith.
  
  
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TO HIS LOVING
friend Captaine John Smith.

WHere actions speake the praises of a man,
There, Pennes that use to flatter silent be,
Or if they speake, it is to scorne or scanne;
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For such with vertue seldome doe agree.
When I looke backe on all thy labours past,
Thy travels, perils, losses oft sustaind
By Sea and Land; and (which is worst and last)
Neglect or small reward, so dearely gaind.
I doe admire thy still undanted spirit;
unwearied yet to worke thy Countries good.
This be thy praise then, due unto thy merit;
For it th'hast venter'd life; and lost thy blood.

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1.  2.  3.  1.  2.  3. 
Truth,  travayle,  and Neglect,  pure,  painefull,  most unkinde, 
1.  2.  3.  1.  2.  3. 
Doth prove,  consume,  dismay,  the soule,  the corps,  the minde. 

Edw: Ingham.

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4. "Judge by unfair or ignorant standards."

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1. Still unidentified, but the only friend to contribute two commendations to Smith's
works.