a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1589-91. 



souldiers that were fully resolved (as they made shew) to 

 fight valiantly to the last man before they would yeeld 

 or lose their riches : and although they set their course 

 for S. Lucar, the wind drave them unto Lisbon, which 

 (as it seemed) was willing by his force to helpe them, 

 and to bring them thither in safetie, although Alvaro de 

 Flores, both against the wind and weather would per- 

 force have sailed to Saint Lucar, but being constrained 

 by the wind and importunitie of the sailers that protested 

 they would require their losses and damages of him, he 

 [II. ii. 183.] was content to saile to Lisbon: from whence the silver 

 was by land caried unto Sivil. At Cape S. Vincent there 

 lay a Fleet of 20 English ships to watch for the Armada, 

 so that if they had put into S. Lucar, they had fallen right 

 into their hands, which if the wind had served they had 

 done. And therefore they may say that the wind hath 

 lent them a happy voiage : for if the Englishmen had 

 met with them, they had surely bene in great danger, and 

 possibly but few of them had escaped, by reason of the 

 feare wherewith they were possessed, because fortune or 

 rather God was wholy against them : which is a sufficient 

 cause to make the Spaniards out of heart, & to the 

 contrary to give the Englishmen more courage, and to 

 make them bolder for that they are victorious, stout and 

 valiant : and seeing all their enterprises do take so good 

 effect, that thereby they are become lords and masters 

 of the sea, and need care for no man, as it wel appeareth 

 by this briefe discourse. 



The 7 of August 1590. a navie of English ships was 

 seen before Tercera, being 20 in number, and 5 of them 

 the Queenes ships : their Generall was one Martin 

 Frobisher, as we after had intelligence. They came 

 purposely to watch for the Fleet of the Spanish Indies, 

 and for the Indian ships, and the ships of the countreys 

 in the West : which put the Ilanders in great feare, 

 specially those of Fayal, for that the Englishmen sent a 

 trumpet to the Governour to aske certaine wine, flesh, 

 and other victuals for their money and good friendship. 



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