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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Richard Hakluyt
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Hygon ho Brochthonos.

Ossoi gaian echousi Brotoi henos ekpephyasi
hos allaela horan ethnesi charma physei.
Hos de thaliplagktos metekiathen ethnea pleista,
hoikoi mimnazous axiagastos ephy.
Exocha Brettanoi d', alloin schisthentes erantai,
idmenai allothroun phyla polysperea.
Indous hesperious kai eoous, Aithiopas te
kai Moschous, kai pant eschatounta genae.
Touton d' oia malista, klyta, klytos Haklyutos
graphen ariphradeos, mnaem aei essomenon.]

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In nauales RICHARDI HAKLUYTI Commentarios.

Anglia magnarum foecunda puerpera rerum,
siue solum spectes nobile, siue salum;
Qua quantum sumptis se nobilitauent armis,
siue domi gessit pralia, siue foris;
Multorum celebrant matura volumina: tanta
Insula materiem paruula laudis alit.
At se in quot, qualesque, & quando effuderit oras,
qua fidit ignotum peruia classis iter,
Solius Hakluyti decus est, pradiuite penna
ostendisse suis ciuibus ausa mari
Quacunque idcirco celeri gens Anglica naui,
Oceani tristes spernere docta minas,
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