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The Colonies of Bartas

VVith the Commentarie of S. G. S. in diuerse places corrected and enlarged by the Translatour [i.e. William Lisle]

Lisle, William (1579?-1637)

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[But Englands great negocies will not let]

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[While ore th'vnpeopled vvorld I leade the fruitfull stocke]

[As when the skie orecast vvith darkesome cloudy racke]

[This countrey reaching foorth as rich as it is large]

[Cham Lord was of the land that Scuthward is bese]

[Now Iaphet spred along from th'Ellesponticke waters]

[Here if I were disposd vpon the ground to tread]

[Th' Allusion of words is not a suer ground]

[It shall suffise me then to keepe me neare th'encloses]

[But all this other world, that Spaine hath new found out]

[Well may I graunt you then (thou'lt say perhaps) ther's naught]

[O world of sundry kindes! O nature full of wonders!]

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Mores hominum multorum narrat & vrbes.