A co[m]mendation of the adue[n]terus viage of the wurthy Captain. M. Thomas Stutely Esquyer and others, towards the land called Terra florida Seall, Robert. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A11841 of text S121844 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 22139). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A11841 STC 22139 ESTC S121844 99857006 99857006 22665 2240904386

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A11841) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 22665) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 396:8) A co[m]mendation of the adue[n]terus viage of the wurthy Captain. M. Thomas Stutely Esquyer and others, towards the land called Terra florida Seall, Robert. 1 sheet ([1] p.) At the long shop adioyning vnto Saint Mildreds Churche in the Pultrie, by Iohn Alde, Imprinted at Londo[n] : [1563] Signed: q[uod] Robert Seall. Verse - "If fortunes force procure,". Publication date from STC. Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. eng Stucley, Thomas, 1525?-1578 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Florida -- Discovery and exploration -- England -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. eebo A co[m]mendation of the adue[n]terus viage of the wurthy Captain. M. Thomas Stutely Esquyer and others, towards the land called Terra florida. Seall, Robert 1563 1 744 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-08 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-08 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-09 Sampled and proofread 2007-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A Commendation of the aduēterus viage of the wurthy Captain . M. Thomas Stutely Esquyer and others , towards the Land called Terra florida . IF Fortunes force procure , The valiant noble hart : In trauail , pain & daungers great , In warres to haue his part . If losse of goods insue , Through valiant enterprise : Or for slaknes , or the foresight , Of diligent aduise . Yet of his wurthy praise , I can not speak to miche : Who ventreth bothe his goods and life , His Contrey to enriche . The worldly wise doo muse , And also doo invay : At noble harts when that their welths , Doo fall vnto decay . As now of late I knew , And saw the euidence : Of one whose part it was to shew , The like experience . A noble hart in deed , And wurthy great renowne : Whose fortune was not to remain , In Cittie nor in Towne . A yung Eneas bolde , With hart and courage stout : Whose enterprise was only pight , Straunge things to bring about . And though that all men seemd , His dooings to deride : Yet this his fact he would not leue , Nor throwe it so a side . But stil he dooth procure , With boldned hart and minde : That thing whiche erst he had assayd , By trauail now to finde . Into a land vnknowne , To win hym wurthy fame : As exequies and memory , Of his moste noble name . Whiche if it fall his lot , With fortunes helping hand : He may wel make a lawhing stock , Of them whiche him withstand . Same terme it Stolida , And Sordida it name : And to be plain they doo it mock , As at a foolishe game . If reasons sence be cause , Of this forespoken talke : Or fayned folly be the ground , Why mennes tungs thus doo walke . Then might it seem to me , The Frenches labour lost : Their careful pain and trauail eke , That they therein haue tost . The cronicles also , Whiche only seem as trew : And writ by them that of that place , Before did take the vew . The spaniards eke doo shew , And verify the same : To be described as a thing , Deseruing suche a name . The Portingales doo say , The crownacles be iust : And all that trauaild haue that coste : The same confes it must . If that in times before , Through talkes men haue refraind : Whiche for the loue of trauail sore , Their harts haue long been paind . Columbus as I read , The space of many yeeres : Was counted as vnwise also , As in writers appeeres . His ernest sute denied , Yet in the finall ende : His wurds & deeds did seem at length , On reason to depend . The like assay in hand , He did at last procure : Whose life and lucky viages , Good fortune did assure . At th end in sauety home , At lenght he did retourn : And quenched all their mocking harts Whiche erst did seem to burn . For fire of force must needs , Declare his burning heat : Though for a time in smothering smoke It seemes it self to beat . So talk of tungs may not , By smothering through be tame : But bursting out at length wil turn , Into a firye flame . And then the mallice gon , The fire falleth down : And quenched quite as by this man , Whiche was of great renowne . Now Stuetley hoice thy sail , Thy wisshed land to finde : And neuer doo regard vain talke , For wurds they are but winde . And in reproof of all . I wil not once refrain : With prayer for to wish that thou , Maist safely come again . And that sum frute at length , By trauail thou maist finde : With riches for to satisfy , Thy manly modest minde . Finis . ꝙ Robert Seall .

Imprinted at London at the long Shop adioyning vnto Saint Mildreds Churche in the Pultrie , by Iohn Alde .