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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12830	A geographicall and anthologicall description of all the empires and kingdomes, both of continent and ilands in this terrestriall globe Relating their scituations, manners, customes, prouinces, and gouernements.	Stafford, Robert, 1588-1618.	1607 (1607)	STC 23135; ESTC S117770	38,734	82

A GEOGRAPHICALL AND ANthologicall description of all the Empires and Kingdomes both of Continent and Ilands in this terrestriall Globe Relating their scituations manners Customes Prouinces and Gouernements Arsiam naturam superat nam pendere Terra Quam facit haec facit hic pictor habere pedes LONDON Printed by T. C. for Simon VVaterson dwelling at the Signe of the Crowne in Paules Church-yard 1607. In insequeus Geographium opus Decastichon QVid perigrinandi prodest tot adire labores Dum quod vbique petis possis habere domi Quae mare quae tellus quae tanta pericula monstrant Haec vno obtatu parvula charta docet Non hîc Scylla vorax aut formidanda Caribdis Temperat has placidas mitior auster aquas Hic tu cum cern●●●●ernas polyphemon in antro Non aper hic fertat dente vel vnque Leo. Ergo quid vlterius satagis Habet omnia habentem Qui mundum mundus quod tenet ille tenet Io Prideaux FLevit Alexander cum plures audijt orbes Tu potius plures non Iore flere potes Ille dolens vnum quod non superaverit omnes Armis desperat viuere posse suis Tam bene tu veterem cum iam descripseris orbem Nunc cupias alium posse videre novum Ne doleas nam si non primus sufficit orbis Quo tua se saturet Musa secundus erit Interea Safforte tuum quo pinxeris orbem Stabit forte vetus dum cadet orbis opus Casparus Tomannus NOn capiunt muscas nec sepe minutis Ingentes animi rebus adesse solent Audaces fortuna invat timor arguit autem Degeneres animos hoc tua caepta sonant Cui genus antiqnum iuvenis quem terra nec vndae Nee vasti spatium terruit oceani Quae tu tam dextre pinxisti cuncta referre Et genus proaves vt videare tuos Ergo age iam notus si nox tibi sufficit orbis Ignotos adeas inipiger Antipodes Iohannes Glanuillae TO THE RIGHT Honourable admired of men and myrrour of women the Lady Elizabeth Russel Dowager my worthy Lady and Mistresse RIght Honourable It may seeme strange to your learned censure to finde him the Author of a booke which so lately was your vnworthy Page But the seedes then sowne were such and their manuring sithens of that qualitie that the ground had been too barren if no fruit had followed Little God knowes it is and that very vntimely vnable to endure the least blast of our moderne Critickes were it not fauourably sheltered by your Honorable Patronage whose rare learning vertues the world rather honoureth then imitateth my selfe am fitter to admire then expresse The very conceit whereof heartened mee to circuit the whole earth in it to finde something to present your Honour a Si natura nigat facit indignatio versū Sat. 1. Meere chafing made Iuuenall a Poet and me a Geographer an ardent contention to acknowledge my dutie which sufficiently to performe I esteeme my selfe too vnworthy and the whole world too little The thing herein I aime at is your benigne acceptance in confidēce whereof I haue presumed so farre which seconding in this your manifold former fauours my hopes are attained and my selfe bound Your Honours in all seruice and dutie to be commaunded Rob. Stafforde To the Reader COurteous Reader for so I suppose thee to be vntil I find thee contrary thou art little beholding to me for this Geographical discourse as containing little in it worth thy perusing and that which it is thou hast against my will Hardly I thinke I shall satisfie thee who neuer in this kinde could satisfie my selfe yet thus farre importunity hath forced mee and whatsoeuer thou findest is more then my selfe intended or thou couldest of me expect A poore Suruey here thou hast not of my trauels but reading If sometime therefore erroneous I patronize it not but relate it So far thou mayest beleeue me that what my selfe beleeue not I inuented not but tooke out of others The Methode I had from my Tutor and so far forth the rest that I account it but the gleanings of his plentifull Haruest The rather to be allowed as I take it because it admitteth without maime the cancelling of a fiction and the interserting of any notable thing omitted If thy profit by it counteruaile my paines thou hast somewhat if otherwise the briefnesse of it cannot loose thee much time They which haue no leisure to seeke farther may take this for an insight others may fetch a great deale more from thē of whom I had this to whose riper iudgements I trust my youth may excuse mee when the worke cannot As for the Punies of mine owne ranke Carpere vel noli nostra vel ede tua Martial Shall serue for a counterblast And so I commend this description of the world to the world and thy selfe and it to the Creator of both Not determining to trouble thee any more for ought I know and therefore rest Thine as thou vsest me R. Staff To the Author WHen Caesar sitting in Imperiall Robe was Soueraign Lord of th' earth cōmanding Rome He sent to measure this terrestriall Globe To see how much was left to ouercome Belike his Kingdomes Vice-Royes were too slacke In due performance of this weighty taske Or he some good Geographers did lacke That might in briefe resolue what he did aske Whilst he intended all the world to gaine He in the Senate house was stabd to death A little Vrne his ashes did containe Whose mind was not content with halfe the earth Hadst thou deare friend liu'd in this Monarkes dayes And rendred vp this booke vnto his hands He would haue crown'd thee with tryumphall Bayes Or made thee ruler of some forreine lands For this small booke yet great in worth doth show All that which mighty Caesar crau'd to know In idem opus Carmen Encomiasticon VT Microcosmus Homo est simulachrum Regis Olympi Sic Maiore minor pulchrior orbe foret Factus erat Magnus Mundi ratione Minoris Scire licet patulo quicquid in orbe latet O Tu qui externas ignarus tendis ad Oras Hunc discas librum mira legenao loqui Hic mores hominum graphicè depingit Vrbes Et quicquia magnum sub lone Caesar habet Hîc campos stuutos montes Capitolia turres Structaque Mygdonio marmore tecta legas Hîc fractos Regum tumulos stratosque Colossos Ruptaque Montiuagae Templa Sacrata Deae Hîc vbi Troia fuit magnae Carthaginis arces Quaeque erat armipotens Roma vetusta scias Terra Arabum foelix vbi Phaenix nascitur vnus Plus foelix multos terra Britanna tulit Haec multos parit ingento Gentoque potentes Parua sed eximij Insula culta viris Inter quos semper meus est memoranous amicus Qui dulce nobis vtile texit opus Tho. Rogers A GEOGRAPHICALL AND ANTHOLOgicall description of the whole World CHAP. I. DE