A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1577- 



roade : now have the two Castles full power upon the 

 gaily, now is there no remedy but to sinke : how can it 

 be avoided ? The canons let flie from both sides, and 

 the gaily is even in the middest, and betweene them both. 

 What man can devise to save it ? there is no man, but 

 would thinke it must needes be sunke. 



There was not one of them that feared the shotte, 

 which went thundring round about their eares, nor yet 

 were once scarred or touched, with five & forty shot, 

 which came from the Castles. Here did God hold foorth 

 his buckler, he shieldeth now this gaily, and hath tried 

 their faith to the uttermost. Now commeth his speciall 

 helpe : yea, even when man thinks them past all helpe, 

 then commeth he himselfe downe from heaven with his 

 mightie power, then is his present remedie most readie 

 prest. For they saile away, being not once touched with 

 the glaunce of a shot, and are quickly out of the Turkish 

 canons reach. Then might they see them comming 

 downe by heapes to the water side, in companies like unto 

 swarmes of bees, making shew to come after them with 

 gallies, in bustling themselves to dresse up the gallies, 

 which would be a swift peece of worke for them to doe, 

 for that they had neither oares, mastes, sailes, gables, nor 

 any thing else ready in any gaily. But yet they are cary- 

 ing them into them, some into one gaily, and some into 

 another, so that, being such a confusion amongst them, 

 without any certaine guide, it were a thing impossible to 

 overtake them : beside that, there was no man that would 

 take charge of a gaily, the weather was so rough, and 

 there was such an amasednes amongst them. And verely 

 I thinke their God was amased thereat : it could not be 

 but he must blush for shame, he can speake never a word 

 for dulnes, much lesse can he helpe them in such an 

 extremitie. Well, howsoever it is, he is very much to 

 blame, to suffer them to receive such a gibe. But howso- 

 ever their God behaved himselfe, our God shewed him- 

 selfe a God indeede, and that he was the onely living 

 God : for the seas were swift under his faithful!, which 



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