A chorographicall description of tracts, riuers, mountains, forests, and other parts of this renowned isle of Great Britain with intermixture of the most remarkeable stories, antiquities, wonders, rarities, pleasures, and commodities of the same. Diuided into two bookes; the latter containing twelue songs, neuer before imprinted. Digested into a poem by Michael Drayton. Esquire. With a table added, for direction to those occurrences of story and antiquitie, whereunto the course of the volume easily leades not.

As thou, the Q. of Isles, great Britaine—

Both for excellence in soile and ayre, as also for large continent she hath this 〈◊〉〈◊〉. And although in ancientest time of the Greekes (that hath any story or Chorography) Sardinia was accounted the h greatest Isle, and by some Sicily, as the oldverses of the i Seauen tell vs, and that by k Ptolemy the East-Indian Tapo∣bran, now called Sumatra, had preheminence of quantity before this of ours; yet certainly, by comparison of that with this, eyther according to the mea¦sure tooke of it by Onesicrit l vpon Alexanders commandement, or what later time teaches vs, we cannot but affirme with the Author here in substance, that
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as, long since, Dionysius Afer of our Britaine, which hath giuen cause to call it Another world, as the attributes of it in Virgill, Horace, Claudian, and others iustifie.

Notes

• h

  Scylax Cary∣and. in 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Edit. per D. Hoe schelium.
• i

  Eust ath. ad Di¦onys. Asrum.
• k

  Geograph. lib. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. cap 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• l

  Solin polybist. cap. 66.
• Honest men, by simplicity of nature, loo∣king onely to their own, neg∣lecting 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Malmesbur. No other Isle is equall to Eri∣taine.