“Fame and envie are both needlesse to the dead because unknown, sometimes dangerous to the living when too well knowne: reason enough that I rather cause to say nothing, then too little, in the praise of the deceased Author, or of your Lordship my desired factor.”
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The world encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, being his next voyage to that to Nombre de Dios formerly imprinted;
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