a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1576. 



I may perceive that it shall not sufficiently satisfie you 

 in this behalfe, I will then impart unto you a large dis- 

 course, which I have written onely of this discovery. 



And further, because it sufficeth not only to know 

 that such a thing there is, without abilitie to performe 

 the same, I wil at leasure make you partaker of another 

 [III. 24.] simple discourse of navigation, wherein I have not a 

 litle travelled, to make my selfe as sufficient to bring 

 these things to effect, as I have bene readie to offer my 

 selfe therein. 



And therein I have devised to amend the errors of 

 usuall sea cards, whose common fault is, to make the 

 degrees of longitude in every latitude of one like big- 

 nesse. 



And have also devised therein a Spherical instrument, 

 with a compasse of variation for the perfect knowing of 

 the longitude. 



And a precise order to pricke the sea card, together 

 with certaine infallible rules for the shortning of any 

 discovery, to know at the first entring of any fret, 

 whether it lie open to the Ocean more wayes then one, 

 how farre soever the sea stretcheth it selfe into the 

 land. 



Desiring you hereafter never to mislike with me, for 

 the taking in hande of any laudable and honest enter- 

 prise : for if through pleasure or idlenesse we purchase 

 shame, the pleasure vanisheth, but the shame remaineth 

 for ever. 

 Pereas qui And therefore to give me leave without offence, 

 alwayes to live and die in this mind, That he is not 

 worthy to live at all, that for feare, or danger of death, 

 shunneth his countries service, and his owne honour : 

 seeing death is inevitable, and the fame of vertue im- 

 mortall. Wherefore in this behalfe, Mutare vel timere 

 sperno. 



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