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As low as dust; how scepterd Crownes are swaid;

Most Kingdomes government: How ruld with Lawes

The South world is: their rites, Religious sawes:

Townes Topographick view, and Rivers courses,

Fonts, Forts, and Cittadales: scorch’d Asiaes sources:

All you may see, and much more, than I name

Seal’d in the Authors, never-dying fame.

Eleazar Robertson.

In Commendation of this History.

Thou art not hatch’d, forth from anothers braine,

Nor yet Collect’d, from others toiles thy sight,

The selfe-same Man, that bred Thee beares the paine

Of thy long birth: O weary wandring Wight!

It’s carefull he, by Knowledge gives thee light,

And deepe experience to adorne thy name;

Both Pilgrime, Pen-man, so thy Maister right;

Who best can judge, in what concernes the same:

Then free-borne toile, flee forth with winged Fame

Thy Countries Virgin, thou the first penn’d Booke

That in his Soile, did ever Pilgrime frame

Of curious Travailes; whereon the Learned looke:

Then Knit thy Maiden brow, with Garlands greene,