Sir Walter Raleigh

Antiquity

That such pillars were raised by Seth all antiquity has vowed.

Become

What is then become of so huge a multitude?

Border

Shebah and Raamah . . . border the sea called the Persian gulf.

Bribeless

From thence to heaven's bribeless hall.

Casualty

Losses that befall them by mere casualty.

Cipher

This wisdom began to be written in ciphers and characters and letters bearing the forms of creatures.

Cohabitant

No small number of the Danes became peaceable cohabitants with the Saxons in England.

Condition

It was conditioned between Saturn and Titan, that Saturn should put to death all his male children.

Conveyance

Following the river downward, there is conveyance into the countries named in the text.

Dark

In the dark and silent grave.

Delegacy

By way of delegacy or grand commission.

Denominator

This opinion that Aram . . . was the father and denomination of the Syrians in general.

Discoverer

The discoverers and searchers of the land.

Disorderly

Savages fighting disorderly with stones.

Distemper

Those countries . . . under the tropic, were of a distemper uninhabitable.

Distill

The Euphrates distilleth out of the mountains of Armenia.

document

They were forth with stoned to death, as a document to others.

Eclipse

All the posterity of our fist parents suffered a perpetual eclipse of spiritual life.

Empale

All that dwell near enemies empale villages, to save themselves from surprise.

Enforcement

He that contendeth against these enforcements may easily master or resist them.

Exceeding

The Genoese were exceeding powerful by sea.

Fair

The caliphs obtained a mighty empire, which was in a fair way to have enlarged.

Feminine

Ninus being esteemed no man of war at all, but altogether feminine, and subject to ease and delicacy.

Fiction

The fiction of those golden apples kept by a dragon.

Fixation

To light, created in the first day, God gave no proper place or fixation.

Foolery

That Pythagoras, Plato, or Orpheus, believed in any of these fooleries, it can not be suspected.

Hornpipe

Many a hornpipe he tuned to his Phyllis.

Inconvenience

A place upon the top of Mount Athos above all clouds of rain, or other inconvenience.

Incorporate

Moses forbore to speak of angles, and things invisible, and incorporate.

Infinity

There can not be more infinities than one; for one of them would limit the other.

Inhabitation

The beginning of nations and of the world's inhabitation.

Insurrection

He was greatly strengthened, and the enemy as much enfeebled, by daily revolts.

Investiture

He had refused to yield up to the pope the investiture of bishops.

Likelihood

There is no likelihood between pure light and black darkness, or between righteousness and reprobation.

Mass

All the mass of gold that comes into Spain.

Mastery

If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops.

Mediately

God worketh all things amongst us mediately.

Munition

The bodies of men, munition, and money, may justly be called the sinews of war.

Overlay

When any country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon it.

Paternity

The world, while it had scarcity of people, underwent no other dominion than paternity and eldership.

Phantasm

They be but phantasms or apparitions.

Pinch

Want of room . . . pinching a whole nation.

Port

Her ports being within sixteen inches of the water.

Prank

The harpies . . . played their accustomed pranks.

Prevalent

Brennus told the Roman embassadors, that prevalent arms were as good as any title.

Profane

Nothing is profane that serveth to holy things.

Rattle

The rattles of Isis and the cymbals of Brasilea nearly enough resemble each other.

Reprobate

I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king.

Resolve

In health, good air, pleasure, riches, I am resolved it can not be equaled by any region.

Seat

They had seated themselves in New Guiana.

Shift

Carrying the oar loose, [they] shift it hither and thither at pleasure.

All those schoolmen, though they were exceeding witty, yet better teach all their followers to shift, than to resolve by their distinctions.

Shroud

One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.

Significant

It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient.

Silent

Cause . . . silent, virtueless, and dead.

Sinew

The bodies of men, munition, and money, may justly be called the sinews of war.

Solicitude

The many cares and great labors of worldly men, their solicitude and outward shows.

Spirituality

If this light be not spiritual, yet it approacheth nearest to spirituality.

Stem

After they are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough nor twig in the trunk or the stem.

Straggle

They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks.

Stronghand

It was their meaning to take what they needed by stronghand.

Surmount

The mountains of Olympus, Athos, and Atlas, overreach and surmount all winds and clouds.

Teacher

The teachers in all the churches assembled.

Terrene

God set before him a mortal and immortal life, a nature celestial and terrene.

Towardliness

The beauty and towardliness of these children moved her brethren to envy.

Twig

The Britons had boats made of willow twigs, covered on the outside with hides.

Universal

Plato calleth God the cause and original, the nature and reason, of the universal.

Vent

Therefore did those nations vent such spice.

Work

He could have told them of two or three gold mines, and a silver mine, and given the reason why they forbare to work them at that time.

Workmanship

By how much Adam exceeded all men in perfection, by being the immediate workmanship of God.

yare

The lesser [ship] will come and go, leave or take, and is yare; whereas the greater is slow.