The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques And Discoveries of the English Nation — volume 07
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques And Discoveries of the English Nation — volume 07
Hakluyt Richard
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The residue ofhis ship were caried vnto Plimmouth, where they were detained a yere and anhalfe for their ransome. Valdez comming vnto Drake and humbly kissing his hand protested vnto him, that he and they had resolued to die in battell, had they not by goodfortune fallen into his power, whom they knew to be right curteous andgentle, and whom they had heard by generall report to bee most favourablevnto his vanquished foe: insomuch that he sayd it was to bee doubtedwhether his enimies had more ca...use to admire and loue him for his great, valiant, and prosperous exploites, or to dread him for his singularfelicitie and wisedom, which euer attended vpon him in the warres, and bythe which hee had attained vnto so great honour. With that Drake embracedhim and gaue him very honourable entertainement, feeding him at his ownetable, and lodging him in his cabbin. Here Valdez began to recount vnto Drake the forces of all the SpanishFleet, and how foure mightie Gallies were separated by tempest from them, and also how they were determined first to haue put into Plimmouth hauen, not expecting to bee repelled thence by the English ships which theythought could by no meanes withstand their impregnable forces, perswadingthemselues that by means of their huge Fleete, they were become lords andcommaunders of the maine Ocean.
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