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THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



and long exercise therein, hee grewe to bee such an 

 Oratour and Poet, as fewe were in that age living, by 

 reason whereof hee grew in favour with Richard then 

 King of England, and undertooke that long voyage with 

 him into Palestina and Syria agaynst the Turkes. From 

 whence being returned againe into England, hee faithfully 

 described both in Verse and Prose all such things as 

 hee had seene in the Cities, fieldes and tentes of the 

 souldiours, where hee was present, and omitted not to 

 note the behaviour, forme, and proportion of body in the 

 foresayd king, giving to his notable worke this most apt 

 name for the title. The Journall of King Richard. He 

 flourished in the yeere of our Redemption 1200. under 

 John king of England. 



The travailes of Gulielmus Peregrinus. 



Ulielmus Peregrinus, Poeta quidem per 

 eam aetatem excellens, genere Anglus 

 florebat, literarum, ut multi tunc erant, 

 amator maximus, & qui bona tempora 

 melioribus impenderat studiis. Hie cum 

 accepisset, expeditionem in Saracenos per 

 Regem Richardum parari, accinxit se ad 

 iter illud, non tantum ut miles, sed etiam peregrinus. 

 Vidit ea quae in Mari Hispanico fiebant, vidit quae in 

 Syria & Palaestina commissa fuerunt, in Sultanum 

 Babyloniae Regem, ac perfidos Saracenos. Omnia haec 

 scripsit, & vivis depinxit coloribus, ita ut quasi prae oculis, 

 totum poneret negotium, idemque Argumentum cum 

 Richardo Canonico non infoeliciter, Heroico pertractavit 

 carmine, opusque jam absolutum Huberto Cantuariorum 

 Archiepiscopo, & Stephano Turnhamo Capitaneo rerum 

 bellicarum expertissimo dedicavit, addito hoc titulo, 

 Odeporicon Richardi Regis. Multaque alia edidisse 

 Poetam talem non dubito, sed num extent ilia ejus 

 scripta, mihi non constat. Hoc tamen satis constat, eum 

 fuisse in pretio, Anno a salutifero virginis partu 1200. 

 sub Anglorum Rege Joanne. 



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