Storing their theft-free treasuries with golde,
And there doth plentie crowne their wealthie fields,
There Learning eates no more his thriftlesse bookes,
Nor Valure Estridge-like[1] his yron armes.
There Beautie is no strumpet for her wants,
Nor Galique humours putrifie her blood:
But all our Youth take Hymens lights in hand,
And fill eche roofe with honor'd progenie.
There makes Societie Adamantine chaines,
And ioyns their hearts with wealth, whom wealth disioin'd.
There healthfull Recreations strow their meades,
And make their mansions daunce with neighbourhood,
That here were down'd in churlish Auarice.
And there do Pallaces and temples rise
Out of the earth, and kisse th' enamored skies,
Where new Britannia humblie kneeles to heauen,
The world to her, and, both at her blest feet,
In whom the circles of all Empire meete.
G. C.
Ad Thomam Hariotum Matheseos, et vniuersæ Philosophiæ peritissimum, de Guiana Carmen. Dat. Anno. 1595.
Montibus est Regio, quasi muris, obsita, multis:
Circumsepit aquis quos Raleana suis.
Intus habet largos Guaiana recessus:
Hostili gestans libera colla iugo.
Hispan̄us cliuis illis sudauit, et alsit
Septem annos, nouies: nec tamen inualuit.
Numen, et omen inest numeris. Fatale sic illi:
Et nobis virtus sit recidiua, precor.
Gualtero patefacta via est duce et auspice Ralegh
Mense vno: ô factum hoc nomine quo celebrem?
Nocte diéq; datis velis, remisque laborans,
Exegit summæ dexteritatis opus.
Scilicet expensis magnis non ille pepercit,
Communi natus consuluisse bono.
Prouidus excubuit simili discrimine Ioseph:
Sic fratres, fratrem deseruêre suum:
- ↑ Ostrich-like.
