Speke

Stories of these adventurers, like Livingstone and Speke and Burton, had a cult status in Victorian society.

Perhaps speke (better speken) is an infinitive in l. 350, but it may also be the pt.

And likewyse must we do whan we haue any mater to speke or comun of.

The sources of his power were as mysterious as were the sources of the Nile before Speke and Baker.

Enterlaced -418-with a double new invention, which teacheth to speke truely, speedily and volubly the French Tongue.

I envy you the acquaintance of a genuine non-bookish man like Captain Speke.