THE PORTUGAL VOYAGE ad. 



1589. 



Was there not moreover a round summe of the 

 adventure spent in levying, furnishing, and maintaining 

 3 moneths 1500 men for the service of Berghen, with 

 which Companies the Mutinies of Ostend were suppressed, 

 a service of no smal moment ? 



What misery the detracting of the time of our setting 

 out, which should have bene the 1 of February, did lay 

 upon us, too many can witnes : and what extremitie the 

 want of that moneths victuals which we did eat, during 

 the moneth we lay at Plimmouth for a wind, might have 

 driven us unto, no man can doubt of, that knoweth what 

 men do live by, had not God given us in the ende a more 

 prosperous wind and shorter passage into Galitia then 

 hath bene often seen, where our owne force & fortune 

 revictualled us largely : of which crosse windes, that held 

 us two dayes after our going out, the Generals being 

 wearie, thrust to Sea in the same, wisely chusing rather 

 to attend the change thereof there, then by being in 

 harborough to lose any part of the better, when it should [II. ii. 136.] 

 come by having their men on shore : in which two dayes 

 25 of our companies shipped in part of the fleet were 

 scattered from us, either not being able or willing to 

 double Ushant. 



These burdens layed upon our Generals before their 

 going out, they have patiently endured, and I thinke they 

 have thereby much enlarged their honour : for having 

 done thus much with the want of our artillery, 600 horse, 

 3000 foot, 20000 li. of their adventure, and one moneths 

 victuals of their proportion, what may be conjectured 

 they would have done with their ful complement ? 



For the losse of our men at sea, since we can lay it 

 on none but the will of God, what can be said more, 

 then that it is his pleasure to turne all those impediments 

 to the honor of them against whom they were intended : 

 and he will still shew himselfe the Lord of hosts in doing 

 great things by them, whom many have sought to 

 obscure : who if they had let the action fall at the height 

 thereof in respect of those defects, which were such 



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