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George Coryate (1607)

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Type of entity: Person

Name: George Coryate

Date of death: d. 1607

Source of information: Special Collections

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BC Trv/COR: Coryats crudities : hastily gobled vp in five moneths trauells in France, Sauoy, Italy, Rhetia cõmonly called the Grisons country, Heluetia aliàs Switzerland, some parts of high Germany, and the Netherlands; newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the county of Somerset, & now dispersed to the nourishment of the trauelling members of this kingdome. Three crude veines are presented in this booke following (besides the foresaid crudities) no lesse flowing in the body of the booke, then the crudities themselves, two of rhetoricke and one of poesie. That is to say, a most elegant oration, first written in the Latin tongue by Hermannus Kirchnerus... in praise of trauell in generall. Now distilled into English spirit through the Odcombian Limbecke. This precedeth the crudities. Another also composed by the author of the former, in praise of trauell of Germanie in particular, sublimed and brought ouer the helme in the stillitorie of the said trauelling Thomas: this about the center or nauell of the crudities. Then in the posterne of them looke, and thou shalt find the posthume poems of the authors father