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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

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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

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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

A SEA GRAMMAR ...

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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

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

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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

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

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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.

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

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Chapter 1. What people they are that beginne this plantation: the bane of Virginia: strange misprisions of wise men.

Chapter 2. Needlesse custome, effect of flattery, cause of misery, factions, carelesse government, the dissolving the Company and Patent.

Chapter 3. A great comfort to new England, it is no Iland: a strange plague.

Chapter 4. Our right to those Countries, true reasons for plantations, rare examples.

Chapter 5. My first voyage to new England, my returne and profit.

Chapter 6. A description of the Coast, Harbours, Habitations, Land-marks, Latitude, Longitude, with the map.

Chapter 7. New Englands yearely trials, the planting new Plimoth, supprisals prevented, their wonderfull industry and fishing.

Chapter 8. Extremity next despaire, Gods great mercy, their estate, they make good salt, an unknowne rich myne.

Chapter 9. Notes worth observation: miserablenesse no good husbandry.

Chapter 10. The mistaking of Patents, strange effects, incouragements for servants.

Chapter 11. The planting Bastable or Salem and Charlton, a description of the Massachusets.

Chapter 12. Extraordinary meanes for building, many caveats, increase of corne, how to spoyle the woods, for any thing, their healths.

Chapter 13. Their great supplies, present estate and accidents, advantage.

Chapter 14. Ecclesiasticall government in Virginia, authority from the Arch Bishop, their beginning at Bastable now called Salem.

Chapter 15. The true modell of a plantation, tenure, increase of trade, true examples, necessity of expert Souldiers, the names of all the first discoverers for plantations and their actions, what is requisite to be in the Governour of a plantation, the expedition of Queene Elizabeths Sea Captaines.

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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

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

TEXTUAL ANNOTATION TO Fragment J

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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

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

[Source: Generall Historie, 45, 230.]

As has been mentioned in the Generall Historie, 9n, Smith "illustrated" that
work with a number of bits of more or less pertinent poetry, all of which,
with the exception of two rhyming couplets, were borrowed from Martin
Fotherby's Atheomastix. These two couplets are repeated here with some
slight additional comment.

Thus God unboundless by his power,
Made them thus kind, would us devour.

Smith's use of the word "unboundless" is cited in the OED as an
example of the occasional redundant addition of the prefix "un-" to a word
ending in "-less," which is found chiefly in the late sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries.

A due desert, for fortune makes provision
For Knaves and Fooles, and men of base condition.

The editor has already observed elsewhere that "the incorporation of
the fool among fortune's unfavored runs contrary to proverb — fools do have
fortune" ("Captain John Smith and the Bishop of Sarum," Huntington
Library Quarterly, XXVI [1962–1963], 25).