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S121844 If fortunes force procure, / The valiant noble hart: Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 18336 A Commendation of the aduenterus viage of / the wurthy Captain. M. Thomas Stutely Esquyer and others, / towards the Land called Terra florida. A Commendation of the aduenterus viage of the wurthy Captain. M. Thomas Stutely Esquyer and others, towards the Land called Terra florida. A Commendation of the adventurous voyage of the worthy Captain. M. Thomas Stutely Esquire and others, towards the land called Terra florida. Seall, Robert Printer Iohn Alde. 1563-1563

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IF Fortunes force procure, The valiant noble hart: In travail, pain & daungers great, In warres to have his part. If losse of goods insue, Through valiant enterprise: Or for slaknes, or the foresight, Of diligent advise. Yet of his wurthy praise, I can not speak tomiche: Who ventreth bothe his goods and life, His Contrey to enriche. The worldly wise doo muse, And also doo invay: At noble harts when that their welths, Doo fall unto decay. As now of late I knew, And saw the evidence: Of one whose part it was to shew, The like experience. A noble hart in deed, And wurthy great renowne: Whose fortune was not to remain, In Cittie nor in Towne. A yung Eneas bolde, With hart and courage stout: Whose enterprise was only pight, Straunge things to bring about. And though that all men seemd, His dooings to deride: Yet this his fact he would not leve, Nor throwe it so a side. But stil he dooth procure, With boldned hart and minde: That thing whiche erst he had assayd, By travail now to finde. Into a land unknowne, To win hym wurthy fame: As exequies and memory, Of his moste noble name. Whiche if it fall his lot, With fortunes helping hand: He may wel make a lawhing stock, Of them whiche him withstand. Same terme it Stolida, And Sordida it name: And to be plain they doo it mock, As at a foolishe game. If reasons sence be cause, Of this forespoken talke: Or fayned folly be the ground, Why mennes tungs thus doo walke. Then might it seem to me, The Frenches labour lost: Their careful pain and travail eke, That they therein have tost.
The cronicles also, Whiche only seem as trew: And writ by them that of that place, Before did take the vew. The spaniards eke doo shew, And verify the same: To be described as a thing, Deserving suche a name. The Portingales doo say, The crownacles be just: And all that travaild have that coste: The same confes it must. If that in times before, Through talkes men have refraind: Whiche for the love of travail sore, Their harts have long been paind. Columbus as I reed, The space of many yeeres: Was counted as unwise also, As in writers appeeres. His ernest sute denied, Yet in the finall ende: His wurds & deeds did seem at length, On reason to depend. The like assay in hand, He did at last procure: Whose life and lucky viages, Good fortune did assure. At thend in savety home, At lenght he did retourn: And quenched all their mocking harts Whiche erst did seem to burn. For fire of force must needs, Declare his burning heat: Though for a time in smothering smoke It seemes it self to beat. So talk of tungs may not, By smothering through be tame: But bursting out at length wil turn, Into a firye flame. And then the mallice gon, The fire falleth down: And quenched quite as by this man, Whiche was of great renowne. Now Stuetley hoice thy sail, Thy wisshed land to finde: And never doo regard vain talke, For wurds they are but winde. And in reproof of all, I wil not once refrain: With prayer for to wish that thou, Maist safely come again. And that sum frute at length, By travail thou maist finde: With riches for to satisfy, Thy manly modest minde.
Finis. quod Robert Seall Imprinted at London at the long Shop adjoyning unto Saint Mildreds Churche in the Pultrie, by John Alde.