NICHOLAS AND ANTONIO ZENO a.d. 



1200. 



forsaken & left in this distresse referring my self to 

 the mercifull providence of God, I shaped my course 

 for England, & unhoped for of any, God alone releeving 

 me, I arrived at Dartmouth. By this last discovery it 

 seemed most manifest that the passage was free & with- 

 out impediment toward the North : but by reason of 

 the Spanish fleet & unfortunate time of M. Secretaries 

 death, the voyage was omitted & never sithens attempted. 

 The cause why I use this particular relation of all my 

 proceedings for this discovery, is to stay this objection, 

 why hath not Davis discovered this passage being thrise 

 that wayes imploied ? How far I proceeded & in what 

 forme this discovery lieth, doth appeare upon the Globe 

 which M. Sanderson to his very great charge hath pub- 

 lished, for the which he deserveth great favor & com- 

 mendations. 



The discoverie of the Isles of Frisland, Iseland, [in. 121.] 

 Engroneland, Estotiland, Drogeo and Icaria : 

 made by two brethren, namely M. Nicholas 

 Zeno, and M. Antonio his brother : Gathered 

 out of their letters by M. Francisco Marcolino. 



IN the yere of our Lord 1200 there was 

 in the Citie of Venice a famous Gentle- 

 man, named Messer Marino Zeno, who 

 for his great vertue and singular wise- 



j dome, was called and elected governour 



I in certaine common wealths of Italy : in 

 the administration whereof he bore him- 



selfe so discretly, that he was beloved of all men, and 

 his name greatly reverenced of those that never knew 

 or saw his person. And amongst sundry his worthy 

 workes, this is recorded of him, that he pacified certaine 

 grievous civile dissentions that arose among the citizens 

 of Verona : whereas otherwise, if by his grave advise 

 and great diligence they had not bene prevented, the 

 matter was likely to breake out into hot broyles of 



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