a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1589. 



in that there were so many drunkards amongst us) I 

 answere, that in their government of shires and parishes, 

 yea in their very housholdes, themselves can hardly 

 bridle their vassals from that vice. For we see it is a 

 thing almost impossible, at any your Faires or publique 

 assemblies to finde any quarter thereof sober, or in your 

 Townes any Alepoles unfrequented : And we observe 

 that though any man having any disordered persons in 

 their houses, do locke up their drinke and set Butlers 

 upon it, that they will yet either by indirect meanes steale 

 themselves drunke from their Masters tables, or runne 

 abroad to seeke it. If then at home in the eyes of your 

 Justices, Maiors, Preachers, and Masters, and where they 

 pay for every pot they take, they cannot be kept from 

 their liquor : doe they thinke that those base disordered 

 persons whom themselves sent unto us, as living at home 

 without rule, who hearing of wine doe long for it as a 

 daintie that their purses could never reach to in England, 

 and having it there without mony even in their houses 

 where they lie & hold their guard, can be kept from 

 being drunk ; and once drunke, held in any order or 

 tune, except we had for every drunkard an officer to 

 attend him ? But who be they that have runne into 

 these disorders ? Even our newest men, our yongest 

 men, and our idelest men, and for the most part our 

 slovenly prest men, whom the Justices, (who have 

 alwayes thought unwoorthily of any warre) have sent out 

 as the scumme and dregs of their countrey. And those 

 were they, who distempering themselves with these hote 

 wines, have brought in that sicknesse, which hath infected 

 honester men then themselves. But I hope, as in other 

 places the recoverie of their diseases doeth acquaint their 

 bodies with the aire of the countries where they be, 

 so the remainder of these which have either recovered, 

 or past without sicknesse will proove most fit for 

 Martiall services. 

 Answere to If we have wanted Surgeons, may not this rather be 



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