A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1596. 



quid ver^j & ex anlmo cogitemus, & quae sint actionum 

 nostrarum rationes, ac fundamenta, cognoscis : Tu, qui 

 ea, quae in te est, ab omni ^ternitate pra^scientia, vides, 

 quod nee aliqua ulciscendi malitiosa cupiditas, nee injuri- 

 arum referendarum, desiderium, nee sanguinis effundendi 

 sitis, nee alicujus lueri, quasstusve aviditus ad istam 

 classem praeparandam, & emittendam nos eommoverit : 

 sed potius, quod provida quasdam eura, solersque vigi- 

 lantia hue nos impulerit : ne vel inimieorum nostrorum 

 negleetus, vel status nostri firmitatis nimium seeura 

 cogitatio, aut illis gloriam & honorem, aut nobis damnum 

 & periculum pariat : Cum, inquam, base sint nostri, 

 quicquid attentatur, negotii fundamenta : cumque tu 

 hunc nobis animum, mentemque injeceris, ut istud 

 aggrederemur : curvatis genibus a te humillime petimus, 

 ut velis hoc nostrum incoeptum secundissime fortunare, 

 totum iter prosperrimis flatibus dirigere, celerem & 

 expeditam victoriam nobis concedere, reditumque talem 

 nostris militibus elargiri, qualis & nomini tuo incre- 

 mentum glorias, & illis famae, laudisque triumphum, 

 & Regno nostro firmam tranquillitatem possit apportare : 

 idque cum minimo Anglorum sanguinis dispendio. His 

 nostris religiosis petitionibus concede, Domine, sacro- 

 sanctam & annuentem voluntatem tuam. 



After that we had anchored at Plymmouth that night, 

 as I have said, the third of June very early in the morn- 

 ing, having a reasonable fresh gale of winde, we set 

 sayle, and kept our course againe, and the ninth of the 

 same moneth comming something neere to the North 

 cape, in a maner in the same altitude, or not much 

 differing, which was about xliii. degrees, and something 

 more, yet bearing so, as it was impossible to bee descried 

 from the land : There it pleased the Lords to call a 

 select Councell, which was alwayes done by hanging out 

 of a flagge of the armes of England, and shooting off 

 of a great warning peece. Of this select or privie Coun- 

 cell, were no moe then these : The two Lords Generall, 



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