Of th’Indian trafickes, truly doth explaine
The matchlesse vertue of their nauall force,
And of their high aduentures on the maine,
That Saxons Latin muse in loftie straine
About the world doth sing; yet cruell fate
Vnto his life did adde too short a date.
348.
Anno Dom. 1584. Sir Humfrey Gilbert.
For when braue spirit did Gilbert’s thoughts excite,
To saile the seas to search for worlds vnfound,