THE ENTERPRISE OF JOHN FOX a.d. 



1577. 

 of the prison wall, and made such a lowing, that the 

 inhabitants thereabout (as here and there scattering 

 stoode a house or two) came and dawed him, so that 

 they understood the case, how that the prisoners were 

 paying their ransomes : wherewith they raised both 

 Alexandria which lay on the west side of the roade, and 

 a Castle which was at the Cities end, next to the roade, 

 and also an other Fortresse which lay on the Northside of 

 the roade : so that nowe they had no way to escape, but 

 one, which by mans reason (the two holdes lying so upon 

 the mouth of the roade) might seeme impossible to be 

 a way for them. So was the red sea impossible for the 

 Israelites to passe through, the hils and rockes lay so on 

 the one side, and their enemies compassed them on the 

 other. So was it impossible, that the wals of Jericho 

 should fall downe, being neither undermined, nor yet 

 rammed at with engines, nor yet any mans wisedome, 

 pollicie, or helpe set or put thereunto. Such impossi- 

 bilities can our God make possible. He that helde the 

 Lyons jawes from renting Daniel asunder, yea, or yet 

 from once touching him to his hurt : can not he hold 

 the roring canons of this hellish force ? He that kept 

 the fiers rage in the hot burning Oven, from the three 

 children, that praised his name, can not he keepe the fiers 

 flaming blastes from among his elect ? 



Now is the roade fraught with lustie souldiers, laborers, 

 and mariners, who are faine to stand to their tackling, in 

 setting to every man his hand, some to the carying in of 

 victuals, some munitions, some oares, and some one thing, 

 some another, but most are keeping their enemie from 

 the wall of the road. But to be short, there was no time 

 mispent, no man idle, nor any mans labour ill bestowed, 

 or in vaine. So that in short time, this gaily was ready 

 trimmed up. Whereinto every man leaped in all haste, 

 hoyssing up the sayles lustily, yeelding themselves to his 

 mercie and grace, in whose hands are both winde and 

 weather. 



Now is this gaily on flote, and out of the safetie of the 

 V 161 I. 



