I intend not his praise! I strive only to set out the praise of
his and our good GOD! that guided him in his truth! and protected
him in his courses! My ends are to stir thee up to the worship of
GOD, and service of our King and Country, by his example! If
anything be worth thy consideration; conclude with me, that the
LORD only, can do great things!

FRANCIS DRAKE [Bart.]




SIR FRANCIS DRAKE REVIVED

Calling upon this dull or effeminate Age, to follow his noble steps for
gold and silver.


As there is a general Vengeance which secretly pursueth the doers of
wrong, and suffereth them not to prosper, albeit no man of purpose
empeach them: so is there a particular Indignation, engrafted in the
bosom of all that are wronged, which ceaseth not seeking, by all means
possible, to redress or remedy the wrong received. Insomuch as those
great and mighty men, in whom their prosperous estate hath bred such an
overweening of themselves, but they do not only wrong their inferiors,
but despise them being injured, seem to take a very unfit course for
their own safety, and far unfitter for their rest. For as ESOP teacheth,
even the fly hath her spleen, and the emmet [ant] is not without her
choler; and both together many times find means whereby, though the