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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12469	A sea grammar vvith the plaine exposition of Smiths Accidence for young sea-men, enlarged. Diuided into fifteene chapters: what they are you may partly conceiue by the contents. Written by Captaine Iohn Smith, sometimes gouernour of Virginia, and admirall of Nevv-England.; Sea-mans grammar	Smith, John, 1580-1631.; Smith, John, 1580-1631. Sea-mans grammar.	1627 (1627)	STC 22794; ESTC S111000	63,445	88

A Sea Grammar WITH ●HE PLAINE EXPOSITION of SMITHS Accidence for young Sea-men enlarged ●●●ided into fifteene Chapters what they are you may partly conceiue by the Contents ●●●tten by Captaine IOHN SMITH sometimes Gouernour of VIRGINIA and Admirall of NEVV-ENGLAND LONDON Printed by IOHN HAVILAND 1627. TO ALL THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE AND most generous Lords in England especially those of his Maiesties Priuy Councell and Councell of Warre Great LORDS IVlius Caesar wrote his owne Commentaries holding it no lesse honour to write than fight much hath bin writ concerning the art of war by land yet nothing concerning the same at Sea Many others might better than my selfe haue done this but since I found none endeuourd it I haue aduentured encouraged by the good ent●●tainment of my late printed Accidence This I suppose will be much bettered by men in these things better experienced others ignorance may fault it I haue beene a miserable Practitioner in this Schoole of Warre by Sea and Land more than thirty yeeres howeuer chance or occasion haue kept me from your Lordships knowledge or imployment Yet I humbly entreat your Lordships to accept and patronize this little Pamphlet as the best testimony I can present your Honours of my true duty to my King and Country Thus humbly crauing your Honours pardons and fauourable construction of my good intent I remaine Your Honours in all duty to be commanded IOHN SMITH TO THE READER AND ALL WORTHY ADuenturers by Sea and well wishers to NAVIGATION Honest Readers IF my desire to doe good hath transported mee beyond my selfe I intreat you excuse me and take for requitall this rude bundle of many ages obseruations although they be not so punctually compiled as I could wish and it may bee you expect At this present I cannot much amend them if any will bestow that paines I shall thinke him my friend and honour his endeuours In the interim accept them as they are and ponder errours in the balance of good will Your friend IOHN SMITH TO HIS WELL DESERuing friend Captaine IOHN SMITH REader within this little worke thou hast The view of things present to come and past Of consequence and benefit to such As know but little thinking they know much And in thy quiet chamber safely read Th' experience of the liuing and the dead Who with great paine and perill oft haue tride When they on angry Neptunes backe did ride He hauing with his Trident strucke the maine To hoise them vp and throw them downe againe Deare friend I 'le cease and leaue it to thy Booke To praise thy labour Reader ouer-looke Edw. Ingham To the much deseruing Captaine Iohn Smith I Hate to flatter thee but in my heart I honour thy faire worth and high desert And thus much I must say thy merits claime Much praise honor both from Truth Fame What Iudge so ●'re thy Actions ouer-looke Thou need'st not feare a triall by thy Booke Geor. Bucke TO HIS VVORTHILY deseruing friend Captaine IOHN SMITH THe Lighter Hippias of Troy disclos'd Germans in India Cannowes now in trade The Barge by graue Amocles was compos'd The Argozees first the Illyrians made The Galley I●son built that Graecian sparke The Cyprians first did crosse the Seas with Barke The Keele by the Phaenician● first was nam'd The Tyrrhens first made anchors Plateans oares The Rhodians for the Brigandine are fam'd Cyrenians found the Craer and Creet adores Daedalꝰ for Masts and Saile-yards Typhis wise With triple honour did the sterne deuise The Tackle famous Anacharsis wrought Noble Pyseus did the Stem first frame To light the Copians first the Rudder brought Young Icarus for Sailes acquir'd great fame Thou with the best of these mai'st glory share That hast deuis'd compil'd a worke so rare For what long trauels obseruations true On Seas where waues doe seeme to wash the skies Haue made thee know thou willing do'st vnscrew To those that want like knowledge each man cries Liue worthy Smith England for this endeuour Will if not stupid giue thee thanks for euer Nicolas Burley In laudem Nobilissimi viri Johannis Smith MOney the worlds soule that both formes and fames her Is her bad Genius to it damnes and shames her If merit and desert were truly weighed In Iustice Scales not all by money swey'd Smith should not want reward with many moe Whom sad obliuion now doth ouer-flow For now no good things gotten without money Except t is got as Beares from thornes licke honey With danger to themselues For poore mens words Are wind and aire Great mens are pickes and swords Greatnesse more safe may act lust theft or treason Than poore Iohn Smith or I may steale two peason Or drinke a harmelesse cup to chase away Sad cares and griefes that haunt vs euery day Who saw thy Virgin limbd by thee so truly Would sweare thou hadst beene one that sawest her newly One of her latest louers But to tell The truth I thinke they know her not so well And this Sea Grammar learn'd long since by thee Thou now hast form'd so artificiallie That many abeardlesse boy and Artlesse foole Preferr'd before thee may come to thy schoole Iohn Hagthorpe TO HIS FRIEND Captaine Smith on his GRAMMAR MV●h traueld Captaine I haue heard thy worth By Indians in America set forth Mee silence best seemes to keepe and then Thy better praise be sung by better men Who feele thy vertues worthinesse Who can Deriue thy words is more Grammarian Than Camden Clenard Ramus Lilly were Here 's language would haue non-plust Scaliger These and thy trauels may in time be seene By those which stand at Helme and prime ones beene Edw. Iorden In Authorem EAch Science termes of Art hath where withall To expresse themselues calld Technologicall Logicke doth teach what Pradicables bee Genus and Species with the other three Philosophie purblind in the first Creation Talks of first Matters forme and void Priuation Geographie teaches how for to define Tropicks Meridians and the Aequators line So words of Art belong to Nauigation And ships which here from thee receiue translation That now th' vntraueld land-man may with ease Here know the language both of ships and Seas I haue no Art of words due praise to impart To thee that thus expound'st these words of Art W. S. In Authorem THou which in Sea-learning would'st Clerk commence First learne to reade and after reade to learne For words to sound and not to know their sense Is for to saile a ship without a Sterne By this Sea Grammar thou mayst distinguish And vnderstand the Lattine by the English Here mayst thou learne the names of all ships geere And with their names their natures and their vse To hoise the Sailes and at the Helme to steere To know each Shroud each Rope each Knot each Noose And by their names to call them euery one 'T is such a Booke as may be call'd Such none And yet a Smith thereof the Authour is And from his Forge alone