THE EARL OF CUMBERLAND ad. 



1589. 



with cordes by the foure corners, and a weight in the 

 midst that the water might runne downe thither, and so 

 be received into some vessell set or hanged underneth : 

 Some that wanted sheetes, hanged up nakins, and cloutes, 

 and watched them till they were thorow wet, then wring- 

 ing and sucking out the water. And that water which 

 fell downe and washed away the filth and soyling of the 

 shippe, trod under foote, as bad as running downe the 

 kennell many times when it raineth, was not lost I warrant 

 you, but watched and attended carefully (yea sometimes 

 with strife and contention) at every scupper-hole, and 

 other place where it ranne downe, with dishes, pots, Cannes, 

 and Jarres, whereof some drunke hearty draughts even 

 as it was, mud and all, without tarrying to dense or 

 settle it : Others clensed it first, but not often, for it 

 was so thicke and went so slowly thorow, that they 

 might ill endure to tary so long, and were loth to loose 

 too much of such precious stuffe : some licked with 

 their tongues (like dogges) the boards under feete, the 

 sides, railes, and Masts of the shippe : others that were 

 more ingenious, fastened girdles or ropes about the [II. ii. 164.] 

 Mastes, dawbing tallow betwixt them and the Maste 

 (that the raine might not runne downe betweene) in 

 such sort, that those ropes or girdles hanging lower on 

 the one side then on the other, a spout of leather was 

 fastened to the lowest part of them, that all the raine 

 drops that came running downe the Maste, might meete 

 together at that place, and there be received. 



Hee that got a canne of water by these meanes was 

 spoken of, sued to, and envied as a rich man. Quam 

 pulchrum digito monstrari & dicier hie est ? Some of the 

 poore Spaniards that we had taken (who notwithstanding 

 had the same allowance that our owne men had) would 

 come and crave of us, for the love of God, but so much 

 water as they could holde in the hollow of their hand : 

 and they had it, notwithstanding our great extremitie, 

 to teache them some humanitie in stead of their accus- 

 tomed barbaritie, both to us and other nations heretofore. 



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