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IN THE DESERVED Honour of the Author, Captaine John Smith, and his Worke.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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IN THE DESERVED
Honour of the Author,
Captaine John Smith,
and his Worke.
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5

DAmn'd Envie is a sp'rite, that ever haunts
Beasts, mis-nam'd Men; Cowards, or Ignorants.
But, onely such shee followes, whose deere WORTH
(Maugre
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her malice) sets their glorie forth.

If this faire Overture, then, take not; It
Is Envie's spight (dear friend) in men-of-wit;
Or Feare, lest morsels, which our mouthes possesse,
Might fall from thence; or else, tis Sottishnesse.
If either; (I hope neither) thee they raise;
Thy *Letters
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are as Letters in thy praise;

Who, by their vice, improve (when they reproove)
Thy vertue; so, in hate, procure thee Love.
Then, On firme Worth: this Monument I frame;
Scorning for any Smith to forge such fame.
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*Hinderers.

Jo: Davies, Heref:

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5. This sonnet was reprinted in the Generall Historie, 95. John Davies also contributed
the verses under the engraving of Smith in the corner of the map of New England (see the
Biographical Directory).

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6. I.e., "in spite of" -- common in English between 1300 and 1700.

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7. "Let" in the sense of "hinder" survives almost solely in the phrase "without let
or hindrance."