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Page 241 - CAPTAIN DRAKE If you fortune to come to this Port, make haste away! For the Spaniards which you had with you here, the last year, have bewrayed this place, and taken away all that you left here. I depart from hence, this present 7th of July, 1572. Your very loving friend, John Garret...
Page 24 - Verse 13. 7 would not, brethren, have you ignorant concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 14. For if we believe that Jesus is dead, and is risen; even so, them that sleep with Jesus will God bring with him.
Page 127 - He said soldiers were the noblest estate of mankind, and horsemen the noblest of soldiers. He said they were the masters of war and ornaments of peace, speedy goers and strong abiders, triumphers both in camps and courts. Nay, to so unbelieved a point he proceeded, as that no earthly thing bred such wonder to a prince as to be a good horseman. Skill of government was but a pedanteria...
Page 253 - We'll die for our home; We will not change our credo, For Pope, nor book, nor bell, And if the devil come himself, We'll hound him back to hell.
Page 148 - ... in comparison. Then would he add certain praises, by telling what a peerless beast the horse was, the only serviceable courtier, without flattery, the beast of most beauty, faithfulness, courage, and such more, that if I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him, I think he would have persuaded me to have wished myself a horse.
Page 201 - I send you all the thanks my heart can conceive, or my words can express, for your many travails and cares taken for me ; which though they have not taken effect as you wished, yet my debt to you is not the less ; but pay it I never shall in this world.
Page 47 - ... to hawk, to hunt, to play at tennis, and all pastimes generally which be joined with labour used in open place, and on the daylight, containing either some fit exercise for war, or some pleasant pastime for peace, be not only comely and decent, but also very necessary for a courtly gentleman to use.
Page 276 - to hold his eyes open. For before I depart, if God lend me life and leave, I mean to reap some of your harvest which you get out of the earth and send into Spain to trouble all the earth." Drake meant what he said. He was still unsatisfied ; he was more contemptuous of the Spanish power than ever, and his men were intoxicated with their leader's spirit. But not so his partner. When the combined force was once more assembled at the...
Page 127 - Nay, to so unbelieved a point he proceeded, as that no earthly thing bred such wonder to a prince as to be a good horseman - skill of government was but a pedanteria* in comparison.