AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1596. 



and rereward, that as the manner of it was altogether 



strange to the Spaniarde, so might they have bene 



without all hope of victorie, if their Generall had 



bene a man of any judgement in sea-fights : I knowe 



no reason why the English Navie should flie from him ; 



The Spaniard for the Spaniarde may put all the gaine in his eye that 



cannot bragge eyej- j^g jjj winne from the English : Perad venture some 



oj 1$ game, ^-jj^ novice of our countrey meeting the Generall in 



Spaine, and hearing a repetition of so many sillables in 



one name, as Don Bernaldino Delgadillo de Avellaneda, 



might thinke them to be wordes of conjuration, and for 



feare of raysing a spirit, might flie from him as from the 



Devill : or some simple Indian slave hearing the like 



repetition of his long and tedious name, might suppose 



it to be an armie of Spaniards, and for feare runne away : 



but the commanders and captaines of the English Navie 



Spanish brags were men of such resolution, that no Spanish bragges could 



are of no value dismay them (for they have often met them with their 



r^ ;. / Pikes in their Spanish beardes) nor the countenance of 



Don Bernaldino quaile them, although hee were acowtred 



in his gilt leather buskins, and his Toledo rapier. 



Sixtly the Generall saith in his letter, that notwithstand- 

 ing their flying away so fast, the English left them 

 one good ship well manned, who tolde him that 

 Drake dyed in Nombre de Dios : in which ship 

 were one hundred and fortie men, and fifteene 

 noble captaines of the best sort. 



THe Generall Don Bernaldino, like a resolute 

 Spaniarde having already gone over his shooes, 

 maketh no danger to wade over his bootes also : and 

 as he hath begunne, so hee doth conclude. I marvaile 

 that he did not in writing his discourse remember this old 

 saying : that is, A liar ought to have a good memorie : 

 It were much better for him in mine opinion to revoke 

 the testimonie which he saith he had from the English- 

 men, concerning Sir Francis Drake his death at Nombre 

 de Dios, and stand to the intelligence received from 



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