A.D. 



c. 890. 



Mares milke a 

 chief e dnnke. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



and contention. There is great plentie of hony and I 

 fish. ! 



The wealthiest men drinke commonly Mares milke, and ' 

 the poore people and slaves meade. There is no ale , 

 brewed among the Easterlings, but of mead there is 



plentie. 



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The navigation of King Edgar, taken out of Floren- 1 

 tius Wigorniensis, Hoveden, and M. Dee his 

 discourse of the Brittish Monarchie, pag. 54, ' 



55, &c. 



Have often times (sayd he) and many ! 

 wayes looked into the state of earthly j 

 kingdomes, generally the whole world over 

 (as farre as it may be yet knowen to 

 Christian men commonly) being a studie 

 of no great difficultie, but rather a purpose 

 somewhat answerable to a perfect Cosmo- 

 grapher, to finde himselfe Cosmopolites, a citizen and 

 member of the whole and onely one mysticall citie 

 universall, and so consequently to meditate of the Cosmo- 

 politicall government thereof, under the King almightie, 

 passing on very swiftly toward the most dreadfull and most 

 comfortable terme prefixed. 



And I finde (sayd he) that if this Brittish Monarchie 

 would heretofore have followed the advantages which they 

 have had onward, they might very well, yer this, have sur- 

 passed by justice, and godly sort, any particular Monarchie 

 els, that ever was on earth since mans creation : and that 

 to all such purposes as to God are most acceptable, and to 

 all perfect common wealths, most honorable, profitable, and 

 comfortable. 



But yet (sayd he) there is a little locke of Lady 

 Occasion flickering in the aire, by our hands to catch hold 

 on, whereby we may yet once more (before all be utterly 

 past, and for ever) discreetly and valiantly recover and 

 enjoy, if not all our ancient & due appurtenances to this 



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