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Enter Captayne fitz . alone./.
Well riggd, well mand, good victualls, & a gale
make a glad seaman: Three of these haue I,
and now want nothinge but the happy fourth.
my honorable owners haue supplyde
in a full measure the first needfull three
the fourth is heauns donation: Blessed heauns
when you best please fill full that happines.
But worthles, wittles seaman as I am,
what shall I speake, to speake the glorious worth

and mother to a greate & hopefull Charles./

(Marginal note)

of her whose glorious name the vessell beares.
[sprunge lineally from eight & twenty kinges]
[The stemme Great Capett, whose first royall branche]
[ended [the] in Charles the fourth, surnamde the fayre.]
[Contayninge thirteene kinges. The second branche]
[(Charles dyinge wthout issue) had begin̄inge]
[in Philippe of [Vay] Valois, th'indubitate heyre.]
[Contayninge as the former thirteene kinges.]
[Charles of that name the ninth dyes issules,]
[& leaues the Crowne to Henry kinge of Poland]
[In whose vntymely ende (for he was slayne]
[by a damnd nurslinge of sanguineous Monkes)]
[the house of braue Valois, & second branch]
[of the third race of Capetts is extinct./]
[Henry the third thus murthered by a monke]
[(non audet Stygius Pluto tentare quod audet]
[effrænis monachus.) leaues the diadem]
[by a direct line masculine, to Henry]
[kinge of Navarre: Navarrs third royall Henry,]
[and fourth of ffrance. of the third royall branch]
[of Capettes the first Burbon./ This is that]
[Greate Burbons daughter: Greate Britanniaes queene,]
[Greate Charles [his]/[greate Britaynes Monarch's] lovinge wyfe [Greate Charles his mother]]
[Wyfe, daughter, sister, mother to a kinge]
[Thou honour of our age, our hope, our starre,]
[Thou Index of the greatest empresses,]
[Thou peereles abstract of all princely dames,]

Cap.
had I a thousand trophees to hang vp
and euery trophee did Consist of kinges
and kingdomes vanquisht, I would hange them all
vpon the greate Colossus of thy name.
But wordes are worthles atomes, triuiall puffes
of a meere man, soone vtterd, soone forgott,
Imaginarie illustrations
are but illusions, actions are the test
of Frobisher, Drake, Lancaster, & Best.
Well: yf this arme of flesh cannot performe
as well, or as victoriously as they,
This stam̄eringe tonge shall send her orysons
[to the supernall throne for the encrease]
[of ioyes internall, & eternall peace]
[vnto her sacred person: Thus I leaue]
my selfe and actions to the strictest Iudge
that will oppose. My hope ys you are good:
But I will neyther Cappe, nor knee, nor fawne
too much for favour: you'le doe what you list
when I haue done my best: A seamans phrase,
is harsh, blunt, wantinge seemely [att] epethithes
for illustration, or of arts, or armes,
or matter of much Consequence: kill or Cure
doe what you please, my patience must endure
Yf you thinke well, I thanke you, but yf yll,
you cannot hurt me wth your worst of will.
The sea is not so servile to the land
to be at pricke & Checke. the selfe same hand
guides one & all. the selfe same sunn̄e will shine
on me at sea as vpon you a shoare
Seamen & landmen must my Iudges be
Iudge both, yet both Iudge wth integritie
The seaman bringes the landman of his labour,
the landman canne giue little yf not favour.
Yf both are pleasd, dispatch me hence wth mirth
to [s[illeg.]ce] plowe the seas. shew not a sparinge dearth
In your fayre approbations: Land & sea
make but one world: I haue no lawfull plea
gaynst eyther of them both: I wish both well,
Cause both in mutuall goodnes doe excell.
Breifly to both: to Sea, to land adue,
(In speakinge vnto these I speake to you)/
Breath but a loominge gale, our shippe shall sayle
through Scylla & Charibdis. yf you fayle,
or blow agaynst us wth impetuous force
to hinder us in our pretended Course.
Our shippe is still in port, & there shall ride
tyll wee shall gayne a more auspicious tyde./

exit/.