Walter Raleigh — English Explorer

Sir Walter Raleigh was an English landed gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer. He was cousin to Sir Richard Grenville and younger half-brother of Sir Humphrey Gilbert. He is also well known for popularising tobacco in England... (wikipedia)

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.