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New Inhabitants
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Summary
Of Albions glorious Ile the Wonders whilst I write,
The sundry varying soyles, the pleasures infinite …
What helpe shall I invoke to ayde my Muse the while?
Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion (1612)
I am Lord Frampull,
The cause of all this trouble; I am he
Haue measur’d all the Shires of England ouer:Wales, and her mountains, seene those wilder nations,
Of people in the Peake, and Lancashire;
Their Pipers, Fidlers, Rushers, Puppet-masters,
Iuglers, and Gipseys, all the sorts of Canters
And Colonies of beggars, Tumblers, Ape-carriers,
For to these sauages I was addicted,
To search their natures, and make odde discoueries!
Ben Jonson, The New Inne (1629)
Of all the late sixteenth century’s monuments to the prospect of English colonizing, none more effusively reinvented the world as Albion’s oyster than the younger Richard Hakluyt’s triumphal record of voyaging, The Principall Nauigations, Voiages, and Discoveries. Froude would call it “the Prose Epic of the modern English nation.”
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- Freedom BoundLaw, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865, pp. 193 - 230Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010