Stories from Hakluyt, selected and edited by Richard Wilson . so odious and disdained asthe traitors themselves, who have sold their countryto a stranger and forsaken their faith and obedience,contrary to nature and religion, and contrary to thathuman and general honour, not only of Christians, butof heathen and irreligious nations, who have alwayssustained what labour soever, and embraced evendeath itself for their country, prince or commonwealth. To conclude, it hath ever to this day pleased Godto prosper and defend Her Majesty, to break the pur-poses of malicious enemies, of forsworn traito
Stories from Hakluyt, selected and edited by Richard Wilson . so odious and disdained asthe traitors themselves, who have sold their countryto a stranger and forsaken their faith and obedience,contrary to nature and religion, and contrary to thathuman and general honour, not only of Christians, butof heathen and irreligious nations, who have alwayssustained what labour soever, and embraced evendeath itself for their country, prince or commonwealth. To conclude, it hath ever to this day pleased Godto prosper and defend Her Majesty, to break the pur-poses of malicious enemies, of forsworn traitors andof unjust practices and invasions. She hath ever beenhonoured of the worthiest kings, served by faithfulsubjects, and shall, by the favour of God, resist, repeland confound all whatsoever attempts against hersacred person or kingdom. In the meantime, let theSpaniard and traitor vaunt of their success, and we,her true and obedient vassals, guided by the shininglight of her virtues, shall always love her, serve her,and obey her to the end of our The voyage truly discoursed, made by Sir Francis Drake,and Sir John Hawkins, chiefly pretended for somespecial service on the islands and main of the WestIndies, with six of the Queens ships, and twenty -one other ships and barques, containing 2,500 menand boys, in the year 1595. In which voyage boththe foresaid knights died by sickness. We brake ground out of the Sound of Plymouth,on Thursday the 28th of August, and that nightanchored again in Cawsand Bay, where we rode tillFriday. Then we set sail and stood south-west: andabout three of the clock the next morning the Hope,wherein Sir Thomas Baskerville went, struck uponthe Eddystone, and shot off a piece, but after clearedherself well enough. On Monday, at six of the clock in the morning, theLands End bare north-west and by north, and thenwe stood away south-west and by south for the coastof Spain. The 8th of September we took two small Flemishflyboats bound for Barbary; w
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