The Harvard Classics

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SIR FRANCIS DRAKE REVIVED Calling upon this dull or effeminate Age, to follow his noble steps for gold and silver. A THERE is a general Vengeance which secretly pur- sueth the doers of wrong, and suffereth them not to prosper, albeit no man of purpose empeach them: so is there a particular Indignation,...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SIR FRANCIS DRAKE REVIVED Calling upon this dull or effeminate Age, to follow his noble steps for gold and silver. A THERE is a general Vengeance which secretly pur- sueth the doers of wrong, and suffereth them not to prosper, albeit no man of purpose empeach them: so is there a particular Indignation, engraffed 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, that 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 anf] is not without her choler; and both together many times find means whereby, though the eagle lays her eggs in Jupiter's lap, yet by one way or other, she escapeth not requital of her wrong done to] the emmet. Among the manifold examples hereof, which former Ages have committed to memory, or our Time yielded to sight: I suppose, there hath not been any more notable then this in hand; either in respect of the greatness of the person by whom the first injury was offered, or the meanness of him who righted himself. The one being, in his own conceit, the mightiest Monarch of all the world The other, an English Captain, a mean subject of her Majesty's Who (besides the wrongs received at Rio de la] Hacha with Captain John Lovell in the years is]65 and i5]66) having been grievously endamaged at San Juan de Ulua in the Bay of Mexico, with Captain John Hawkins, in the years 15367 and is]68, not only in the loss of his goods ofsome value, but also of his kinsmen and friends, and that by the fa...