_Sol quo[que] & exoriens & quum se condet in vndas, Signa dabit, Solem certissima signa sequuntur. &c. -------- Nam sæpe videmus, Ipsius in vultu varios errare colores. Cæruleus, pluuiam denunciat, igneus Euros. Sin maculæ incipient rutilo immiscerier igni, Omnia tum pariter vento, nimbis[que] videbis Feruere: non illa quisquam me nocte per altum Ire, ne[que] a terra moueat conuellere funem. &c. Sol tibi signa dabit. Solem quis dicere falsum Audeat? -------- &c._
And so of Mone, Sterres, Water, Ayre, Fire, Wood, Stones, Birdes, and Beastes, and of many thynges els, a certaine Sympathicall forewarnyng may be had: sometymes to great pleasure and proffit, both on Sea and Land. Sufficiently, for my present purpose, it doth appeare, by the premisses, how _Mathematicall_, the _Arte_ of _Nauigation_, is: and how it nedeth and also vseth other _Mathematicall Artes_: And now, if I would go about to speake of the manifold Commodities, commyng to this Land, and others, by Shypps and _Nauigation_, you might thinke, that I catch at occasions, to vse many wordes, where no nede is.
Yet, this one thyng may I, (iustly) say. In _Nauigation_, none ought to haue greater care, to be skillfull, then our English Pylotes. And perchaunce, Some, would more attempt: And other Some, more willingly would be aydyng, it they wist certainely, What Priuiledge, God had endued this Iland with, by reason of Situation, most commodious for _Nauigation_, to Places most Famous & Riche. And though,
(of * Late) a young Gentleman, a Courragious Capitaine, was in a great readynes, with good hope, and great causes of persuasion, to haue ventured, for a Discouerye, (either _Westerly_, by _Cape de Paramantia_: or _Esterly_, aboue _Noua Zemla_, and the _Cyremisses_) and was, at the very nere tyme of Attemptyng, called and employed otherwise (both then, and since,) in great good seruice to his Countrey, as the Irish Rebels haue * tasted:
Yet, I say, (though the same Gentleman, doo not hereafter, deale therewith) Some one, or other, should listen to the Matter: and by good aduise, and discrete Circumspection, by little, and little, wynne to the sufficient knowledge of that +Trade+ and +Voyage+: Which, now, I would be sory, (through Carelesnesse, want of Skill, and Courrage,) should remayne Vnknowne and vnheard of. Seyng, also, we are herein, halfe Challenged, by the learned, by halfe request, published. Therof, verely, might grow Commoditye, to this Land chiefly, and to the rest of the Christen Common wealth, farre passing all riches and worldly Threasure.