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Lodowick Lhuyd, in prayse of the Author.

Go on, be boulde, thou litle booke,
sounde foorth thy aucthours fame.
Aduaunce the trauell tried of him
that christened first thy name.
Thy state exilde, thy age vnknown,
thy line that longe was lost:
Is now returnd, and known againe
in auncient Britaynes cost:
From Scythia shore, from Phrigia feilds,
where longe thy selfe haue laine,
From raging Rockes, and crased cragges,
thou art come home againe.
Thy patron graunde, and auncient sire
Aeneas Troiane stoute:
Did neuer toile on land and Seas,
as thou hast rangde aboute,
From Mountaines high wherto thy selfe
alone wast wont to talke:
Lhuid, taught thy steps to treade in Court
with Princes wise to walke.
If then Solinus merit fame,
that Cæsars stirpe haue pende:
The same ought Lhuyd of right to claime
that Brutus line defende.
If Curtius be aduauncde on high,
Alexanders fame to feede:
Then well ought Lhuyd commended be
to honour Hectors seede.
What praise had Liui then in Rome,
or Herodot in Greece:
That prayse ought neuer Humfry Lhuyd
in natiue soyle to leese.
Who, being aliue: could Argos make,
with sugred talke to sleepe:
And now being dead, might Argos make,
with hundred eies to weepe.
Who, though his corps is clothd in clay
in mouldred dust to lie:
In spight of Parcas, yet his fame,
doth skale the empire skie.
And though that age out liueth youth,
yet death doth age exile:
Though fame suruiueth death againe,
yet time doth fame defile.
So youth to age, and age to death,
and death to fame in fyeld:
And fame to time, and time to GOD,
this Lhuyd knew well to yeeld.
Sith then he founde Misenus trumpe
to sounde againe the fame
That once was wonne, and then was lost
extoll each one his name.
And gyue him then his due desert,
enroll his noble minde:
That first haue taught, his countrimen
their countrie state to finde.