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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02795	Nevves out of the coast of Spaine The true report of the honourable seruice for England, perfourmed by Sir Frauncis Drake in the moneths of Aprill and May last past, 1587. Vpon Cales, and also since that in the Cape S. Vincent and Cape Saker: discoursed at large with euerie seuerall exploit of their fortunate successe, according to their owne letters, which likewise is confirmed by those that came from thence.	Haslop, Henry.	1587 (1587)	STC 12926; ESTC S112569	8,300	16

as well appeared from whom were shot at the least at vs ij C. Culuering and Cannon shot but in this as in all other our actions heretofore although dangerously attempted yet most fortunately performed our God wil and hath alwaies made his infinite power to all papists apparant and his name by vs his seruants vnder our blessed prince whose life the Lord prolong to be continually glorified Your louing Cossin Thomas Fenner And thus hauing set downe our full action hetherunto performed as a beginning or entrance into greater matters although this being wayed considering the quantitie of victuall prouided the disapointment of the same the infinite losse in goods besides his shippings I can by no meanes rate it at lesse then one hundred thousand pounds in spoile this I say considered may be thought an honorable péece of seruice the honour whereof we attribute to the giuer of all victories whose name be praysed and the credit to our generall whose trauel and paines being so great cannot be rewarded with too much praise his due I wish him nam operarius mercedem meruit This was the first exploit of his last voiage the second was thus as followeth in this Letter dated May 21. Maister W. you shal vnderstand that since the departure of Captaine Crosse we haue continued about Cape Saker where we landed and the better to haue the benefite of the water as also to ride in harborough at our pleasure we assaulted the same Castle and thrée other strong holdes which we tooke some by force and some by submission We haue taken at seuerall times of shipping Barkes and Caruels aboue an hundreth laden with hoopes gally-oares pipe staues timber and other prouisions of the king of Spaines for the furnishing of his forces intended against England which we burned and haue consumed all the Fisher boates and nettes thereabouts to their great hinderance Thence we came before the Hauen of Lishbon ancouring néere vnto Cast Cales where the Marques of S. Cruse was with his Gallies and séeing vs chase his ships ashore to take and carrie away his Barkes and Caruels was content to suffer vs there quietlie to tarrie and likewise to depart and neuer charged vs with one Cannon shot Thus for want of time I leaue the discourse of euerie particular euent vnto Captaine Parker who hath béene an eie witnesse and an actor in all our seruices past From Cape Saker abourd hir Maiesties good shippe the Elizabeth Bonauenture the 21. of May 1587. Your louing frend F. Drake And this is the last and all the seruice yet done wherof newes is come to England béeing full of valour daunger and honour a maime to the enimie and an arme to vs in that by their waining we waxe stronger It hath béen euer a custome amongst the auncient Romaines to surname such renowned souldiers as Scipio was called the Affrican of his conquest Haniball the scourge of Rome Licurgus the proppe of Athens Alexander the fire of Persia. And to come néerer for our owne Chronicles wants no coppie of such honors Edmund was surnamed Ironside of his valour William the Norman conquerour Edward the third the sting to Fraunce Henry the fift the furrower of Gallia Henry the 8. the terror of his enimies And to come yet néerer we haue now some liuing who for their honorable seruice against the enimie are called rash fortunate others forward but vnluckie others hot and terrible and infinite honors are ascribed to thē drawn forciblie by their valours out of the mouth of y e aduersarie Amongst al which wherein for a subiect is this Scipio inferiour to Haniball who is feared for his fortunes honored in his seruice I remember in the time of Edward the 3. king of England and in the French expedition that Edward the blacke prince so surnamed for the blacke battails he fought in Fraunce séeing his honorable subiect friend the Lord Audley wounded to the death in the forefront of the seruice of his bountie gaue to him and his heires yearely for euer 4000. crownes whether he euer or neuer recouered The languishing noble man accepting the gift and learning of his Lord general as well as taught by nature to bee honorable in the presence of the Prince gaue the same annual summe for euer to his foure Esquiers that attended on his bodie whereof béeing reproued by the giuer he aunswered that in the seruice he had shown those foure were no lesse forward to defend him and offend the foemen then himselfe and béeing now robd by the enimie of a maister he knewe it was his honour to leaue them maintenance and wished withall that he were as able to enrich his whole company of followers seuerally as he did these willingly Herewith though lamenting his death the Prince consented to his gift so will we burie him with our discourse of him Yet héere out I obserue this that Generals in actions of expedition are bound by honor to reward the wel deseruing yet is it not in the power of anie subiect to excéede the limits of his abilitie but to reward where he is led by honour to content the rest as he is commanded or allowed of those that excéed him in authoritie If we do but looke warily into y e worlds estate we may then conclude with our Diuines Mischiefe hath sheathed deceit hipocrisie draws it And wisely was the estate of Fraunce compared to a set at Primero properlie do those of Belgia figure their countrie by a woman assaulted on the foreside by a Frenchman entrapt with palme on the other side by a Spaniard And in another impreasa they figure her rent by the haire of the head by the French disrobed by the Italian bowelled by the Spanish succored by the English in which anatomizing their widowe cuntrie whome do they commend submit vnto but their succorers whome doe they rewarde with honors riches but their souldiers whom do they reuerence pray for cleaue vnto but their Captaines whome the Athenians called walles of their cuntries whom the lawlesse Scithians follow as starres the gluttonous Persians adore as Gods the rude Boetians run after as heads whom the hardie Lacedemonians reckon as comets that blaze euer against good fortune In Rome what troupes of Senators flocks of Nobles heards of Commons would burst as a sea foorth the gates to reuerence the welcome conquerour that either brought home honor or riches and that was the cause that encouraged the better sort to clime to vertue by honor and enraged the worser sort to hunt after honour with a thirst of vertue They that spare the praise are vnworthie y e profit a deserued commendation is a spurre to the mind he that obscures the honour of a souldier or a scholler wounds Mars slayes Mercury Apelles drawing the counterfeite of Honor portraieth her holding a starre in the one hand in the other a stone meaning by this embleme y e although noble mindes entitled with dignities should reach as high as the skies yet y e inferior might by vertue catch of stars And as a Noble man without vertue is like a sun beame couered with cloudes so is a meaner man without valour like the bird Fawrus y e hath a great voice almost no body Man in all ages is maintained thus In his cradle with milke in his childhood with roddes in gréene youth with shame good discipline in mans estate with armes in elder age with counsaile last of all with a staffe till he goe sencelesse to his graue then if thou be a child obey thy parents if a man serue thy Prince and die for thy cuntrie if olde counsaile others to honour souldiers when they serue not and to serue for honour when they enter armes This made the wolues Nursery Romulus become both the first king and builder of Rome This made the abiect Cirus weare the first Crowne in Persia Iustinus the swineheard Emperour in Constantinople Valentinus the husbandman Emperour in Rome Telephanes the souldier king of Lidia and this made Tarquinius Priscus a stranger borne in Corinth the sonne of one Demaratus a banished marchant from his Country become a king in Rome Yea and by this in his life he became so famous that he enlarged the confines of Italie amplified the wealth and state of the cuntrie augmented the number of Senators increased the orders of Knighthood and left Rome so happie at his death that the Citizens thereof would haue trauailed so farre as Corinth to spéede of so noble a Prince Then must euerie man prease in seruice for preferment to honour which springs of desert and such as are not fortunate must learn to follow and hope to finde must leaue to enuie and grieue to slaunder euer carrying the vpright mind of a religious subiect that in hearing euill spoken of the good to enter into consideration straight of the man and the matter and so shall he sift him out either an enimie to the Estate or the Religion that by rumors withdraw the willing and abuse the best to bring them in hatred of the worst because hée knowes the common multitude is like a manie headed beast But studie euerie man rather to looke into the daunger of such seruices I meane in respect of their bodies that performes it and to thanke God for the victories to pray for their prosperitie in their enterprises and to incourage others to their supplies so shal God be glorified Nobilitie be honoured and animated the peace of the Land maintained and all men pleased FINIS Caesars Comment li. 4. Mirror of Magistrates His loue vnto M. Foxe Note this comparison Honors portraiture Vertue ioined with noblenes is a mixture of true humanitie Man in all ages