Albions England A Continued Historie of the same Kingdome, from the Originals of the first Inhabitants thereof: With most the chiefe Alterations and Accidents theare hapning, vnto, and in the happie Raigne of our now most gracious Soueraigne, Queene Elizabeth: Not barren in varietie of inuentiue and historicall Intermixtures: First penned and published by William Warner: and now reuised, and newly inlarged by the same Author: Whereunto is also newly added an Epitome of the whole Historie of England |
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CHAP. LXII.
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CHAP. LXII.
From then, when first my Father, eare my birth, was one of those
Did through the Seas of ysie Rocks the Muscouites disclose,
We shall our English Voyages, the cheefe at least, digest,
Of which in this her Highnes Raigne haue been perform'd the best,
Then here a while let Mandeuill and his beloued rest.
To name the diuers Peoples that in Europe be were much,
Not but remotest Regions, of our Natiues seene, we touch.
But, Moderns, Yee (of whom are some haue circum-sail'd the Earth)
Here pardon vs your Sailes, and giue your proper praises bearth:
Infuse yee Penn-life too into ore taken Fames by death.
Caboto (whole Cosmographie and selfe-proofe brake the Ise
To most our late Discouerers, Debtors to his Aduise)
Had vs, eare Spayne, possest of that which Spanyards now abuse,
But, he inuiting, idely we did offred Gold refuse:
Yeat him to say for most the Meane, it weare not vs to shame,
Of English new Discoueries, that yeeld vs Wealth and Fame.
Reserue we to the Actors though (of whom lost some their Wealth,
Their liues a many, all at least indangered their health,
In trewer perils, and more braue Achieuements, than the Tailes
(Of Iason and Vlysses of their fabled Sea-toyld Sailes)
The Glorie of the dangerous Gole: Nor let vs heere forgit
(In which I first did breath this aire) London, preferring it.
Did through the Seas of ysie Rocks the Muscouites disclose,
We shall our English Voyages, the cheefe at least, digest,
Of which in this her Highnes Raigne haue been perform'd the best,
Then here a while let Mandeuill and his beloued rest.
To name the diuers Peoples that in Europe be were much,
Not but remotest Regions, of our Natiues seene, we touch.
But, Moderns, Yee (of whom are some haue circum-sail'd the Earth)
Here pardon vs your Sailes, and giue your proper praises bearth:
Infuse yee Penn-life too into ore taken Fames by death.
Caboto (whole Cosmographie and selfe-proofe brake the Ise
To most our late Discouerers, Debtors to his Aduise)
Had vs, eare Spayne, possest of that which Spanyards now abuse,
But, he inuiting, idely we did offred Gold refuse:
Yeat him to say for most the Meane, it weare not vs to shame,
Of English new Discoueries, that yeeld vs Wealth and Fame.
Reserue we to the Actors though (of whom lost some their Wealth,
Their liues a many, all at least indangered their health,
In trewer perils, and more braue Achieuements, than the Tailes
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The Glorie of the dangerous Gole: Nor let vs heere forgit
(In which I first did breath this aire) London, preferring it.
Some Marchants theare of woorth did mind with Nations, then vnknowne,
New Traffiques, and the passe thereto was by Caboto showne:
By his instruction at their costs three shippes were rigged out,
Hugh Willoughby the Admyrall, a Knight both wise and stoute.
Next place (whose braue performance of Imployments euer liue)
To Chancelor, grand Pylot for that Voyage, did they giue.
Now sayle they for the Northeast partes, Cathayas Shores to finde:
Incountred with huge seas of Ise, with stormie Gustes and Winde:
Shotland, AEgeland, Halgland, th' Isles of Roste and Losoot past,
Tempestiously Arzinas Rhode receiued Sir Hugh at last.
Theare he, and all of two his ships, attempting bootles shifts,
Weare in that Climate Frozen dead, shut vp with Isie Driftes:
Wheare died he and all with him (if so to die be death)
But no, saith heauen, no, saith their Fame suruiuing them on earth.
Then Chancelor, his onely ship remayning of that fleete,
For Fynmarke, at the Wardhouse sayles with his Consorts to meete.
Their day hath more than two months length, & Mal-strands Poole it makes
Such hidious rore, deuouring fluds, yr ten miles distāce shakes.
Wheare, frustrate of his friends in quest, with courage not deiect,
He for the Course preposed did his ventrous sayles direct.
New Traffiques, and the passe thereto was by Caboto showne:
By his instruction at their costs three shippes were rigged out,
Hugh Willoughby the Admyrall, a Knight both wise and stoute.
Next place (whose braue performance of Imployments euer liue)
To Chancelor, grand Pylot for that Voyage, did they giue.
Now sayle they for the Northeast partes, Cathayas Shores to finde:
Incountred with huge seas of Ise, with stormie Gustes and Winde:
Shotland, AEgeland, Halgland, th' Isles of Roste and Losoot past,
Tempestiously Arzinas Rhode receiued Sir Hugh at last.
Theare he, and all of two his ships, attempting bootles shifts,
Weare in that Climate Frozen dead, shut vp with Isie Driftes:
Wheare died he and all with him (if so to die be death)
But no, saith heauen, no, saith their Fame suruiuing them on earth.
Then Chancelor, his onely ship remayning of that fleete,
For Fynmarke, at the Wardhouse sayles with his Consorts to meete.
Their day hath more than two months length, & Mal-strands Poole it makes
Such hidious rore, deuouring fluds, yr ten miles distāce shakes.
Wheare, frustrate of his friends in quest, with courage not deiect,
He for the Course preposed did his ventrous sayles direct.
King Arthur, Malgo, Edgar once to haue subdewd are said
Orkney, Gotland, Island, and those former in that traide,
Gronland, Wireland, Curland, and cold Scrikfyn them obaid,
Newland, with others, and those Isles wheare men, saue eyes alone,
Are hid in hides of beastes, and beasts saue fish haue fother none:
Thence Chancelor, ariuing mong'st the Laplanders at last,
They, seeing vncouth Men and Shippes, weare wondringly agaste,
(For eare that day was heard no Shippe that churlish pole had past.)
The Lapland Bay wheare he arriu'd, now cald Saint Nicholas Bay,
Though Russian, fifteene hundred Miles from Mosco is away:
Theare Winterd he at Newnox, till safe conduct being sent,
Thence to their King on swift-drawne Sleads through frozen waies he went.
Orkney, Gotland, Island, and those former in that traide,
Gronland, Wireland, Curland, and cold Scrikfyn them obaid,
Newland, with others, and those Isles wheare men, saue eyes alone,
Are hid in hides of beastes, and beasts saue fish haue fother none:
Thence Chancelor, ariuing mong'st the Laplanders at last,
They, seeing vncouth Men and Shippes, weare wondringly agaste,
(For eare that day was heard no Shippe that churlish pole had past.)
The Lapland Bay wheare he arriu'd, now cald Saint Nicholas Bay,
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Theare Winterd he at Newnox, till safe conduct being sent,
Thence to their King on swift-drawne Sleads through frozen waies he went.
Not like Sarmatian Scithians (for the Moscouites be so)
He found them plaine, but rather much in pompe to ouer-floe:
They neuer in the Russian Court till then did English see,
His intertainment therefore was as stately as might be.
In sundry Roomes were hundreds seene in Gold and Tyssue clad,
A Maiestie Augustus-like their King inthroned had.
Let passe what paste in speech betwixt our Pilot and their King,
Full well could Chancelor demeane himselfe in euery thing,
Let passe how in Basilius Court most royally be sead,
Suffise it that our Agent of his arrant thither spead:
That is, that ours might trade with them, of which large leaue is read.
More, not vnworthie note, hereof our purpose is to say,
But this be first of Mandeuil remembred by the way.
He found them plaine, but rather much in pompe to ouer-floe:
They neuer in the Russian Court till then did English see,
His intertainment therefore was as stately as might be.
In sundry Roomes were hundreds seene in Gold and Tyssue clad,
A Maiestie Augustus-like their King inthroned had.
Let passe what paste in speech betwixt our Pilot and their King,
Full well could Chancelor demeane himselfe in euery thing,
Let passe how in Basilius Court most royally be sead,
Suffise it that our Agent of his arrant thither spead:
That is, that ours might trade with them, of which large leaue is read.
More, not vnworthie note, hereof our purpose is to say,
But this be first of Mandeuil remembred by the way.
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