New English Canaan, or New Canaan containing an abstract of New England, composed in three bookes : the first booke setting forth the originall of the natives, their manners and customes, together with their tractable nature and love towards the English : the second booke setting forth the naturall indowments of the countrie, and what staple commodities it yeeldeth : the third booke setting forth what people are planted there, their prosperity, what remarkable accidents have happened since the first planting of it, together with their tenents, and practise of their church / written by Thomas Morton ...

Sir Christoffer Gardiner, Knight.

In laudem Authoris.

THis worke a matchles mirror is that shewes, The Humors of the seperatiste, and those So truely personated by thy pen, I was amaz'd to see't, herein all men, May plainely see as in an inter-lude, Each actor, figure and the scaene well view'd, In Connick Tragick and in a pastorall stife, For tyth of muit and Cummin shewes their life, Nothing but opposition, gainst the right, Of sacred Majestie men, full of spight, Goodnes abuseing, turning vertue out Of Dores, to whipping stocking and full bent, To plotting mischiefe, gainst the innocent, Burning their houses, as if ordained by fate, In spight of Lawe, to be made ruinate, This taske is well perform'd and patience be, Thy present comfort and thy constancy, Thine honor, and this glasse where it shall come, Shall sing thy praises till the day of doome.

Sir. C. G.