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First Line: What others have with cheapnesse seene, and ease
Last Line: The truth of travails lesse in bookes then thee.


What others have with cheapnesse seene, and ease,
In Varnisht maps; by'th' helpe of Compasses;
Or reade in Volumes, and those Bookes (with all
Their large Narrations, Incanonicall)
Thou hast beheld those seas, and Countries farre;
And tel'st to us, what once they were, and are.
So that with bold truth, thou canst now relate
This Kingdomes fortune, and that Empires fate:
Canst talke to us of Sharon; where a spring
Of Roses have an endlesse flourishing.
Of Sion, Sinai, Nebo, and with them,
Make knowne to us the now Jerusalem.
The Mount of Olives; Calverie, and where
Is (and hast seene) thy Saviours Sepulcher.
So that the man that will but lay his eares,
As Inapostate, to the thing he heares,
Shall by his hearing quickly come to see
The truth of Travails lesse in bookes then Thee.





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