Skip directly to:Main content Main navigation

University of Virginia Library

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF Captain John Smith

MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF Captain John Smith

AN ACCIDENCE or the Path-way to Experience

tp1.

TO ALL THE RIGHT Honorable And most Generous Lords in England, and Others: Especially of his Majesties Privy Councell, and Councell of Warre.

TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL Sir Robert Heath, Knight etc.

TO THE READER; And All Generous And Noble Adventurers by Sea; And Well-Wishers to Navigation. Especially The Masters, Wardens, and Assistance of the Trinity-House.

AN ACCIDENCE for Young Sea-men: Or, Their Path-way to Experience.

TEXTUAL ANNOTATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE TO

TEXTUAL ANNOTATION

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

A SEA GRAMMAR ...

tp2.

TO ALL THE RIGHT Honourable, and most generous Lords in England, especially those of his Majesties Privy Councell, and Councell of Warre.

TO THE READER And All Worthy Adventurers by Sea, and well wishers to Navigation.

TO HIS WELL Deserving friend Captaine John Smith.

TO THE MUCH deserving Captaine, John Smith.

TO HIS WORTHILY-deserving friend Captaine John Smith.

IN LAUDEM NOBILISSIMI viri Johannis Smith.

TO HIS FRIEND Captaine Smith, on his Grammar.

TEXTUAL ANNOTATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE TO

TEXTUAL ANNOTATION

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

THE TRUE TRAVELS, Adventures, and Observations of Captaine John Smith

tp3.

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, William Earle of Pembroke, Lord Steward of his Majesties most Honourable Houshold. Robert Earle of Lindsey, Great Chamberlaine of England. Henrie Lord Hunsdon, Vicount Rochford, Earle of Dover. And all your Honourable Friends and Well-willers.

TO MY WORTHY FRIEND, Captaine John Smith.

TO MY NOBLE brother and friend, Captaine John Smith.

TO HIS VALIANT and deserving friend, Captaine John Smith.

TO MY WORTHY FRIEND, Captaine John Smith.

TO HIS WORTHY FRIEND, Captaine John Smith.

TO MY WORTHY FRIEND, Captaine John Smith.

TO MY WELL DESERVING friend, Captaine John Smith.

TO HIS APPROVED friend, the Authour; Captaine John Smith.

TO THE VALOUROUS and truly-vertuous souldier, Captaine John Smith.

TO HIS NOBLE FRIEND, Captaine John Smith.

TO HIS TRULY deserving friend, Captaine John Smith.

THE TRUE TRAVELS, ADVENTURES, AND OBSERVATIONS Of Captaine John Smith, in Europe, Asia, Africke, and America: beginning about the yeere 1593, and continued to this present 1629.

TEXTUAL ANNOTATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE TO The True Travels

TEXTUAL ANNOTATION

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

ADVERTISEMENTS for the Unexperienced Planters of New England, or Any Where

tp4.

TO THE MOST Reverend Father in God, George Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterburie his Grace, Primate and Metrapolitan of all England: and The Right Reverend Father in God, Samuel Lord Arch-Bishop of Yorke his Grace, Primate and Metrapolitan of England.

ADVERTISEMENTS: Or, The Path-way to Experience to erect a Plantation.

TEXTUAL ANNOTATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE TO

TEXTUAL ANNOTATION

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Fragment A. 1613. SAMUEL PURCHAS'S First Mention of John Smith

Fragment B. 1613. THE SMITH/HOLE MAP Reported in Print

Fragment C. 1613. SAMUEL PURCHAS and Smith's True Relation

Fragment D. 1613. ENGLISH DOMESTICATED BOARS Frighten Indians

Fragment E. 1616. CAPT. EDWARD BRAWNDE'S Letter to John Smith

Fragment F. December 1616. A SPANISH SUMMARY of Correspondence Involving "Juan Smith"

Fragment G. 1623? JULIUS CAESAR'S REMEDY for "Panique Feares"

Fragment H. 1624. TWO COMPLEMENTARY COUPLETS in Smith's Generall Historie

Fragment I. 1625. SAMUEL PURCHAS'S MENTION of Smith's "Fiery Torches"

Fragment J. 1625. SAMUEL PURCHAS'S PROTOTYPE of Smith's True Travels

SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY for Fragment J

collapse section

THE TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES of Captaine John Smith in divers parts of the world, begun about the yeere 1596.

collapse section

Extracts of Captaine Smiths Transylvanian Acts, out of Fr. Fer. his Storie.

II. Divers valiant English-men in this battell. Captaine Smith taken, sold, sent into Turkie, and over the Black Sea to Tartaria. His admirable escape and other travels in divers parts of Christendome.

TEXTUAL ANNOTATION TO Fragment J

TEXTUAL ANNOTATION

Fragment K. 1627. Smith'S COMMENDATORY VERSES for John Taylor

Fragment L. 1628. Smith'S COMMENDATORY VERSES for Robert Norton

AUXILIARY DOCUMENTS

Document i. RECORD OF Capt. John Smith's Baptism

Document ii. LAST WILL of George Smith, Father of Captain John

Document iii. INVENTORY OF George Smith's Property

Document iv. CAPT. John Smith'S Last Will

Document v. CONFIRMATION OF

Document vi. ORIGINAL EPITAPH in St. Sepulchre's Church, London

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEXES

INDEX OF INDIAN WORDS

collapse section

Collapse All | Expand All expand section

146

TO HIS VALIANT
and deserving friend,
Captaine John Smith.

MOngst Frenchmen, Spanyards, Hungars, Tartars, Turks,
And wilde Virginians too, this tells thy works:
Now some will aske, what benefit? what gaine?
Is added to thy store for all this paine?
Th' art then content to say, content is all,
Th'ast got content for perils, paine and thrall;
Tis lost to looke for more: for few men now
Regard Wit, Learning, Valour; but allow
The quintessence of praise to him that can
Number his owne got gold, and riches, than
Th' art Valiant, Learned, Wise; Pauls counsell will,
Admire thy merits, magnifie thy skill.
The last of thine to which I set my hand
Was a Sea Grammar; this by Sea and Land,
Serves us for imitation: I know none,
That like thy selfe hast come, and runne, and gone,
To such praise-worthy actions: bee't approv'd,
Th'ast well deserv'd of best men to be lov'd:
If France, or Spaine, or any forren soile
Could claime thee theirs, for these thy paines and toile,
Th' adst got reward and honour: now adayes,
What our owne natives doe, we seldome praise.
Good men will yeeld thee praise; then sleight the rest;
Tis best praise-worthy to have pleas'd the best.

[_]

2. Ed[ward?] Jorden contributed five rhyming couplets to the Sea Grammar, sig.
(a3)r; see the Biographical Directory.

Tuissimus Ed. Jorden.

[_]

2