TO LORD CHARLES HOWARD 



Merchant hath founded so many chargeable Lectures, and 

 some of them also which are Mathematical!, tending to 

 the advancement of Marine causes ; I nothing doubted of 

 your Lordships forwardnes in settling and establishing of 

 this Lecture ; but rather when your Lordship shall see 

 the noble and rare effects thereof, you will be heartily sory 

 that all this while it hath not bene erected. As therefore 

 our skill in Navigation hath hitherto bene very much 

 bettered and increased under the Admiraltie of your 

 Lordship ; so if this one thing be added thereunto, 

 together with severe and straight discipline, I doubt not 

 but with Gods good blessing it will shortly grow to the 

 hiest pitch and top of all perfection : which whensoever it 

 shall come to passe, I assure my selfe it will turne to the 

 infinite wealth and honour of our Countrey, to the pros- 

 perous and speedy discoverie of many rich lands and 

 territories of heathens and gentiles as yet unknowen, to 

 the honest employment of many thousands of our idle 

 people, to the great comfort and rejoycing of our friends, 

 to the terror, daunting and confusion of our foes. To 

 ende this matter, let mee now I beseech you speake unto 

 your Lordship, as in times past the elder Scipio spake to 

 Cornelius Scipio Africanus : Quo sis, Africane, alacrior ad 

 tutandam Rempublicam, sic habeto : Omnibus, qui 

 patriam conservaverint, adjuverint, auxerint, certum esse 

 in coelo, ac definitum locum, ubi beati asvo sempiterno 

 fruantur. It remaineth therefore, that as your Lordship 

 from time to time under her most gracious and excellent 

 Majestic, have shewed your selfe a valiant protectour, a 

 carefull conserver, and an happy enlarger of the honour 

 and reputation of your Countrey ; so at length you may 

 enjoy those celestial blessings, which are prepared to such 

 as tread your steps, and seeke to aspire to such divine and 

 heroical vertues. And even here I surcease, wishing all 

 temporal and spiritual! blessings of the life present and 

 that which is to come to be powred out in most ample 

 measure, not onely upon your honourable Lordship, the 

 noble and vertuous Lady your bedfellow, and those two 



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