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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18761	A prayse, and reporte of Maister Martyne Forboishers voyage to Meta Incognita. (A name giuen by a mightie and most great personage) in which praise and reporte is written diuers discourses neuer published by any man as yet. Now spoken of by Thomas Churchyarde Gentleman, and dedicated to the right honorable M. Secretarie Wilson, one of the Queenes Maiesties most honorable Priuie Counsell.	Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604.	1578 (1578)	STC 5251; ESTC S105049	13,491	49

vnderstoode and learned the third parte of the worlde is vnhabited and one Columbo an Italian in Kyng Henry the seuenths tyme was set a woorke by the Kyng of Aragon and Queene Isabella which Columbo made a discouerie of the Indians by a voyage he tooke in hande of whiche discouerie sence that season is growne suche an infinite treasure as is incredible to be spoken of And this is to bee proued that there are nombers of places in the Indians not yet possessed nor neuer were in the handes of Christen people neither yet can not bee offensiue too the Spaniardes if Englishe menne enioye them For in cōscience and right thei were better to haue our companie then neither wee nor thei enioye the mightie Masse of wealthe that these Indians would yelde vs. The earth was made for y childrē of men neither the Spaniard nor the Frenche hath a prerogatiue too dwell alone as though God appointed them a greater portiō then other Nations In deede hee that lies idlelie at home and hopes that GOD will caste kyngdomes in his lappe maie as well catche at the Cloudes in the ayre as come by any commoditie of the Earth But to those that trauailes abroad a double or treble parte is a lotted as a manne might saie that Destinie makes her dole and giueth an almose to them that reacheth out their handes for it But too suche as thinketh scorne too come when the dole is a dealyng she neither castes a bare chipping of bread nor flings any thankfull chaunce of good Fortune I trust wee are not afearde to offende those that with that golde seeketh meanes to conquere the whole world and encomber by crueltie and pride ali the kingdomes of the earth Why may not wee as well by pollicie aud Sworde if it come too that pointe posses a peece of those places that falleth by enheritance too none but sutch as are able to get them and haue power to defend them As our Prouerbe is Winne Golde and weare Golde So the necessitie of millions of men biddes them seeke abroad for some benefite or lie at home in exstreme ruine and beggerie For want of good exercies to mainteine a multitude that daylie encrease the fine and stoute stomackes stoupeth to steale and the cunnyng and craftie wittes compasseth by falshead to come by true mens Goods so that here at home is no other occupation commonly vsed But a newe kinde of arte how to deceiue one another And surely it is no maruell for if people bee not employed to win their foode and that neither Plague nor Warres doe deminish the multitude I feare in a whyle we shall haue neither meate for our mouthes nor houses for our heades I wonder why there is more men hanged in Englande in the space of one yere then in fiue regions our neibours in the space of ten yeres put to execution Belike if those busie Bodies and stout corrages were occupied about honest causes they would bee rather able to giue bread to the needie then ready too spoyle and cut the throates of the welthy and ritch You know and all the world may see that we had neuer bigger nor better Shippes nor more abundance of them whiche Uessailes were they abroad the sight shot of them would make our enemies affraid and tremble And those shippes sparkled seuerall waies about some noble discouerie if our foes in the meane while offered iniurie to our countey O what a discourage shoulde the enemy haue when at their backs thei should finde our shippes vnder saill armed and apointed too giue them a charge and a foyll By the reporte of sutch as bee wise and worshipfull if our goodly shippes were employed where lawfully we may goe and vse good traficke Their yerely commoditie would fiue tymes surmount the reuennue of the Crowne Further I am sure of if wee tooke a custome too be abroad both the Turkes Gallies and al other christen princes powers on the Seas would giue them free passage or stand in awe of our Princes Nauie Than iudge what is lost by this our slacknes and slouth and consider what gain and glorious victorie may bee won with a little trauaill and exercise the Mother and Nurse of life and good lawes a thing moste liked in a common weale and followed and embraced of euery good mynde But I doubt whether Alexander the great was more to be praised in his conquestes for that he beegan with a kingdome than sutch as with little maintenance attaines by exercise of wit and bodie to any noble territorie For Alexanders fame by Philip his Father was spread so farre that the Macedonians name was a terrour too their enemyes and Alexanders Purse and power with the greatesse of his harte was in a maner sutche readie Proppes to holde hym vppe that hee could not fall but by the rebuke of Fortune or want of worldly pollicie But sutch as from small abilitie or suckor doe rise too greate wealth or gouernmente hauyng neither Kyng nor Kingdomes too comforte them are of great hart and corrage neither inferiour to Hercules nor in their mindes behind no iote the mightie Alexander for worthy renoume For as by our comon opinion they can not sincke that are held vp by the Chin so is it hard too swimme in a strong Flood or bee any way aflote where is greate weakenes of bodie and little strength to withstande the streame I can doe no more with my penne but praise and commende all Noble and manly exercises in whiche exercise I put these parties afore rehearsed and all other that may and doe by their paines and discoueries helpe their Countrey too commoditie And will spare neither charges studie nor trauell in preferryng of Gods honor and wealth of the Prince they were borne vnder And albeit that this iorney is a speciall thing to be spoken of yet in reading Belle Forest in the second Tome and other Authours I finde that Gabotha was the firste in Kyng Henrie the seuenths daies that discouered this frosen land or Seas frō sixtie seuen towards the North and from thence towards the South along the cost of America to thirtie sixe degrees and a halfe as it is affirmed in the sixth booke of the Decade This beeing doen at that season for the discouerie of Cattaye auouched by the Spanishe Decades and other bookes Authors of as great credit But this Gabothaes labour robs no peece of praise from maister Forboyshers for Gabotha made but a simple rehearsall of such a soyle And Maister Forboysher makes a perfaite proofe of the Mines profite of the countrie By whiche action he encorageth sondrie good subiects to search out the secretes of naturall causes and hidden Treasures kept for wante of exercise in Nauigation from our knowledge and vse And as I might properly say hee hath broken the Ice explained the passage and opened the Port of present commoditie and gaine Thus trusting you that reade this woorke will take in worth my good will and paines