The Whole and True Discouerye of Terra Florida by Jean Ribault
and a cuntry so pleasaunt and frutfull, lacking
nothing of all* that maye seme necessarye for
mans foode) we would not have to do with there
ilandes and other landes, which for that they
ffirst discovered them, they kepe with muche
ielozie, trusting that if God will suffer the Kinge,
through your perswasion, to cause some partes
of this incomparable cuntrye to be peopled and
inhabited with suche a number of his pooer sub-
iectes as you shall thinke good, there never hap-
ened in the memorye of man so great good and
comoditief to France as this. And, my lorde,
for manny causes wherof a man is never hable
to saye or wrytte to the full, as under the assured
hope that we have allwaies had, that|| executing
uprightly that which I had receaved in chardge
of you, God would blesse our wayes and nave-
gation, after we had constantlye and with dilli-
gence, in tyme convenient, determioned upon
the waye we would take (though noisome and
longe to all our company, if it had byn bifore
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* P., at all. f P., so great & good commoditie.
II P., in.
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