A Description of New England/In the deserued Honour of the Author, Captaine Iohn Smith, and his Worke

by John Davies

 

In the deserued Honour of the
Author, Captaine Iohn Smith,
and his Worke.

 

DAmn’d Enuie is a sp’rite, that euer haunts
Beasts, mis-nam’d Men; Cowards or Ignorants.
But, onely such shee followes, whose deere WORTH
(Maugre her malice) sets their glorie forth.
If this faire Ouerture, then, take not; It
Is Enuie’s spight (dear friend) in men-of-wit;
Or Feare, lest morsels, which our mouthes possesse,
Might fall from thence; or else tis Sottishnesse.
 If either; (I hope neither) thee they raise;
* Hinderers. Thy * Letters are as Letters in thy praise;
Who, by their vice, improue (when they reprooue)
Thy vertue; so, in hate, procure thee Loue.
 Then, On firme Worth: this Monument I frame;
 Scorning for any Smith to forge such fame.

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