A LIBEL OF SPANISH LIES ad. 



the silly Indian slave, as it appeareth in his first lie : 

 for without all doubt there is no English man that will 

 say (if he have his right senses) that he dyed at Nombre 

 de Dios, for they all knowe the contrarie: neither can 

 the General avouch that he received intelligence from 

 any English man, that after the death of Sir Francis 

 Drake they did elect for Generall Colonel Quebraran Do7i Bemd- 

 (as he doth most falsely affirme in the latter ende of dim his rare 

 his vaine and frivolous letter) seeing that this name "^^-^ /^ 5!^-^f ^-^ 

 was strange & unknowen to any m the English JNavie. strange name. 

 Neither do I imagine that any of those which the 

 Generall saith he hath taken, were so forgetfull, as not 

 to remember their Generals name. But without all 

 doubt this addition of so new and strange a name to 

 the English Generall, doth proove that Don Bernaldino 

 is not unfurnished of a forge and storehouse of lies, 

 from whence as from an everflowing fountaine, he 

 sendeth forth lies of al sorts sufficient for his own store, [III 596.] 

 and great plentie to furnish his friends : the Generall 

 was much beholding to his godfathers who gave him 

 the name Bernaldino, which we in English doe take to 

 be plaine Barnard, which name hath as it were a kinde 

 of privilege from being sharpely reprehended, when the 

 partie is thought to erre : for it is a common saying The schoole- 

 amongst the schoolemen that Bernardus non videt men of modesty 

 omnia, viz. Barnard seeth not all things, (when he doth ^^/^tfi^^.^_ 

 dissent from their opinions) the which favour we could i^^j^jiQ^j^ ^y^ 

 be content to yeeld to Bernaldino for the name sake, they doe thinke 

 if he were not taken with so many manifest and impu- the author to 

 dent lies : neither doe I thinke that Sennor Bernaldino ^^''^• 

 will say, that he sawe all that he hath written, be it 

 spoken in councell for shaming the Generall : for is 

 there any man so voide of reason as to thinke, that any 

 Englishman being demanded of his Generals name, 

 would write or speak Quebraran for Baskervil. So The difference 

 much difference there is in the sound of the sillables, ^q^Jj^^.^^^^ 

 as there is no affinitie at all, or likelihood of truth. andBasker- 

 But such are the Generals rare gifts, (be it spoken to mil. 



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