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death_n	die_v	life_n	see_v	16,095	5	3.5035	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13440	The Dolphins danger and deliuerance being a ship of 220. tunne hauing in her but 36. men and 2. boyes, who were on the 12. of Ianuary 1616. set vpon by 6. men of warre of the Turkes hauing at the least 1500. men in them : who fought with them 5. houres and a halfe, yet to the glory of God and the honor of our English nation, both shippe and goods safely brought vp the Riuer of Thames and deliuered / truely set forth by the appoyntment of M. Edward Nichols, being Maister of the said ship ; with the names of all those that were slaine on the English part, the maner how, and how many were maymed, and what they are that suruiue.	Nichols, Edward, fl. 1617.; Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1617 (1617)	STC 23748.5; ESTC S1146	8,486	25

Warr who kept ●ight of vs in the euening neere the I le of Serdine which belongs to the King of Spaine The said Satty putting forth a light aloft to giue a signe to the rest of his associates that hee had espied vs and the more to delude vs they let th● light sodainly fall that we might immagine it to be the shooting of a Starre The 12. of Ianuary in the morning about 4. of the clocke we had better sight of the Sattie and we perceiued that she stood in to get betwixt the shore and vs which made vs doubt she had more fellowes not far off as not long after wee found the Mr. presently sent one to the top mast head who presently discouered 5. Ships more making towards vs before the wind being then at west South west which the Maister with a prospectiue glasse perceiu'd to be the Turks men of war The first of them booming by himselfe before the wind with al his sailes abroad without colours or Flag yet at present boording he put his flag out as we immagined After him came 2. ships more of greater burthen then the first and next one more which put his Flag in the main top as we perceiued afterward then came the 5. and last much greater in bignes and force then any of the rest all strongly prepared to offend and defend in any Godles desperate assault our M. perceiuing their readines made speedy preparation for the incounter with our Ordinance and small shot and other defensiue munition first perswading his men with most Christian and manly Resolution by prayer first to recommend their soules their bodies and their actions to their God and Sauiour which being done they went to dinner after which the Mr. againe exhorted them in this manner Contrymen and fellowes you see into what an exigent it hath pleased God to suffer vs to fall into let vs remember that we are but men and must die of necessity when where and how is only in Gods knowledge appointment but if it be his pleasure that this must be the last of our dayes his will be done and let vs for his glory our soules welfare our Countries honor the credit of our selues fight it valiantly to the last gaspe let vs prefer a noble death before a slauish life if we die let vs die to gaine a better life for mine own part qd he I will see that if we escape this danger that if any be hurt maimd in the fight they shall bee carefully prouided for their health and maintenance whilst they liue afterward therefore bee resolute stand to it heere is no shrinking but force perforce we must be men or slaues die with me or if you will not I by Gods grace will dye with you These cheerfull words had been sufficient to put courage into faint hartles Cowards but much more it emboldened vs that were feareles before for wee all expected greedily to make proofe of the successe at which the Maister caused his Trumpets twice to haile them but they not regarding vs scornd to answer vs then the M. went vp the poop and waued his sword 3. or 4. times ouer his head brandishing it with such dreadles resolution as if the day had beene ours already then the Trumpets sounded a charge which warlik noyse inspird vs with new courage beeing within shot of them our Mr. commanded his Gunner to make his leuell to shoot went close by his quarter that was neerest vs shot on purpose to misse him as a warning what kind welcome they were to haue at our hands at which the formost ship came vp to vs apace being almost becalmed or with very little winde returning vs worse then wee sent for their first shot kild vs a man so betwixt vs for a good space was a most furious encounter they hauing aduantage of vs by reason of the winde presently layde vs a boord with one of their shippes this was neere about eleauen of the clocke then they sounded their Trumpets and gaue sueh a showt as if they had won the victory already But God that neuer leaues those that put their confidence in him cheared our Maister and Company with such manly fortitude that presently our Trumpets sounded and answered them with a charge Which Trumpeter was presently slaine as shal be after related and the Boatswaine winding his whistle that pell-mell we fell to it in such feirce manner that their great ordinance had torne our shippe that wee vsed our Gunes cleare of the ports for they had left vs no port on the quarters but all open but we not failing to pay them as well on their bow to their great dismaying for we had not left them one man aliue from their maine-mast forward besides we dismounted their ordinance tore them so neer the water that their cheife Commanders were forced with their Cuttleaxes to beate their owne men to force them to make more hast to vngrapple from vs then they did to boord vs. All this time the Maister Vigillently went to and frow encouraging his men sometimes in the Gunner roome sometimes at the healme sometimes on the port as ocasion serued and where his presence was most needfull This first fight continued two howers the ship was in burden two hundred tunnes or there abouts and had in her 25. peices of ordinance and about 250. men the Captaine of her wee imagine was one Walsingham which should be an English man by that name and Admirall of himselfe for so it signifide by his Flag in his maine top they boorded vs on our Larboord quarter armd with fauchions hatchets and halfe pikes they staid aboord vs halfe an hower tearing vp our naileboords vpon the poope and the Trap-hatch but wee hauing a murtherer in the round house kept the larbboord-side cleare whilest our men with the other ordinance and muskets and a murtherer in our Trap-hatch playd vpon them and their ship yet for all this they paide our gallery with smal shot that we were much endangered but at last we shot her through and through and they vs likewise that being fearefull to be sunke she bore a head from vs and lay by the lee to mend her leakes this fight was so neere the shore that the inhabitants set vp a glasse and found it lasted two howers and a halfe and this was the first encounter in which was kild fiue men and a little boy the manner how they were slaine shal be at the end of the booke Now the Second incounter as wee suppose was with Captaine Kelleies Ship that came likewise vp with his flag in the maine top and another Ship with his Flag in the fore top which Shippes were at least three hundred tunne apeece or there abouts and had in each of them twenty eight or thirty peeces of Ordinance and about two hundred fifty men so they laid vs aboard on the Starbord quarter and the other on the Larbor where entring our ship