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A12460	A description of New England: or The obseruations, and discoueries, of Captain Iohn Smith (admirall of that country) in the north of America, in the year of our Lord 1614 with the successe of sixe ships, that went the next yeare 1615; and the accidents befell him among the French men of warre: with the proofe of the present benefit this countrey affoords: whither this present yeare, 1616, eight voluntary ships are gone to make further tryall.	Smith, John, 1580-1631.; Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver.	1616 (1616)	STC 22788; ESTC S111023	38,061	84

improue when they reprooue Thy vertue so in hate procure thee Loue. Then On firme Worth this Monument I frame Scorning for any Smith to sorge such fame Io Dauies Heref To his worthy Captaine the Author THat which wee call the subiect of all Storie Is Truth which in this Worke of thine giues glorie To all that tho-hast done Then scorne the spight of Enuie which doth no mans merits right My sword may helpe the rest my Pen no more Can doe but this I 'aue said enough before Your sometime souldier I. Codrinton now Templer To my Worthy friend and Coson Captaine Iohn Smith It ouer-ioyes my heart when as thy Words Of these designes with deeds I doe compare Heere is a Booke such worthy truth affords None should the due desert there of impare Sith thou the man deseruing of these Ages Much paine hast ta'en for this our Kingdoms good In Climes vnknowne Mongst Turks and Saluages T' inlarge our bounds though with thy losse of blood Hence damn'd Detraction stand not in our way Enuie it selfe will not the Truth gainesay N. Smith To that worthy and generous Gentleman my verie good friend Captaine Smith MAy Fate thy Proiect prosper that thy name May be eternised with liuing fame Though soule Detraction Honour would peruert And Enuie euer waits vpon desert In spight of Pelias when his hate lies colde Returne as Iason with a sleece of Golde Then after-ages shall record thy praise That a New England to this I le didst raise And when thou dy'st as all that liue must die Thy fame liue heere thou with Eternitie R Gunnell To his friend Cap Smith vpon his description of New England SIr your Relations I haue read which shewe Ther 's reason I should honour them and you And if their meaning I haue vnderstood I dare to censure thus Your Proiect 's good And may if follow'd doubtlesse quit the paine With honour pleasure and a trebble gaine Beside the benefit that shall arise To make more happie our Posterities For would we daigne to spare though 't were no more Then what o're-filles and surfets vs in store To order Nature's fruitfulnesse a while In that rude Garden you New England stile With present good ther 's hope in after-daies Thence to repaire what Time and Pride decaies In this rich kingdome And the spatious West Beeing still more with English blood possest The Proud Iberians shall not rule those Seas To checke our ships from sayling where they please Nor future times make any forraine power Become so great to force a bound to Our Much good my minde fore-tels would follow hence With little labour and with lesse expence Thriue therefore thy Designe who ere enuie England may ioy in England's Colony Virginia seeke her Virgine sisters good Be blessed in such happie neighbourhood Or what-soere Fate pleaseth to permit Be thou still honor'd for first moouing it George Wither è societate Lincol. In the deserued honour of my honest and worthie Captaine Iohn Smith and his Worke. CAptaine and friends when I peruse thy booke With Iudgements eyes into thy heart I looke And there I finde what sometimes Albyon knew A Souldier to his Countries-honour true Some fight for wealth and some for emptie praise But thou alone thy Countries Fame to raise With due discretion and vndanted heart I oft so well haue seene thee act thy Part In deepest plunge of hard extreamitie As forc't the troups of proudest foes to flie Though men of greater Ranke and lesse desert Would Pish-away thy Praise it can not start From the true Owner for all good-mens tongues Shall keepe the same To them that Part belongs If then Wit Courage and Successe should get Thee Fame the Muse for that is in thy debt A part whereof least able though I bee Thus heere I doe disburse to honor Thee Rawly Croshaw Michael Phettiplace William Phettiplace Richard Wisfing Gentlemen and Souldiers vnder Captaine Smiths Command In his deserued honor for his Worke and worth VVHy may not we in this Worke haue our Mite That had our share in each black day and night When thou Virginia foildst yet kept'st vnstaind And held'st the King of Paspeheh enchaind Thou all alone this Saluage sterne didst take Pamunkes king wee saw thee captiue make Among seauen hundred of his stoutest men To murther thee and vs resolued when Fast by the hand thou ledst this Saluage grim Thy Pistoll at his breast to gouerne him Which did infuse such awe in all the rest Sith their drad Soueraigne thou had'st so distrest That thou and wee poore sixteene safe retir'd Vnto our helplesse ships Thou thus admir'd Didst make proud Powhatan his subiects send To lames his Towne thy censure to attend And all Virginia's Lords and pettie Kings Aw'd by thy vertue crouch and Presents brings To gaine thy grace so dreaded thou hast beene And yet a heart more milde is seldome seene So making Valour Vertue really Who hast nought in thee counterfet or slie If in the sleight bee not the truest art That makes men famoused for faire desert Who saith of thee this sauors of vaine-glorie Mistakes both thee and vs and this true storie If it bee ill in Thee so well to doe Then is it ill in Vs to praise thee too But if the first bee well done it is well To say it doth if so it doth excell Praise is the guerdon of each deere desert Making the praised act the praised part With more alacritie Honours Spurre is Praise Without which it regardlesse soone decaies And for this paines of thine wee praise thee rather That future Times may know who was the father Of this rare Worke New England which may bring Praise to thy God and profit to thy King A DESCRIPTION OF new-New-England by Captaine Iohn Smith IN the moneth of Aprill new- 1614. with two Ships from London of a few Marchants I chanced to arriue in New-England a parte of Ameryca at the I le of Monahiggan in 43 of Northerly latitude our plot was there to take Whales and make tryalls of a Myne of Gold and Copper If those failed Fish and Furres was then our refuge to make our selues sauers howsoeuer we found this Whale-fishing a costly conclusion we saw many and spent much time in chasing them but could not kill any They beeing a kinde of Iubartes and not the Whale that yeeldes Finnes and Oyle as wee expected For our Golde it was rather the Masters deuice to get a voyage that proiected it then any knowledge hee had at all of any such matter Fish Furres was now our guard by our late arriual and long lingring about the Whale the prime of both those seasons were past ere wee perceiued it we thinking that their seasons serued at all times but wee found it otherwise for by the midst of Iune the fishing failed Yet in Iuly and August some was taken but not sufficient to defray so great a charge as our stay required Of dry fish we made about 40000. of