THE ENTERPRISE OF JOHN FOX ad. 



1577. 



made the enemies agast to behold them, a skilfuller Pilot 

 leades them, and their mariners bestirre them lustily : 

 but the Turkes had neither mariners. Pilot, nor any 

 skilfull Master, that was in a readinesse at this pinch. 



When the Christians were safe out of the enemies 

 coast, John Fox called to them all, willing them to be 

 thankfull unto almighty God for their deliverie, and most 

 humbly to fall downe upon their knees, beseeching him 

 to aide them unto their friends land, and not to bring 

 them into an other daunger, sith hee had most mightily 

 delivered them from so great a thraldome and bondage. 



Thus when every man had made his petition, they fell 

 straight way to their labour with the oares, in helping one [II. i. 135.] 

 another, when they were wearied, and with great labour 

 striving to come to some Christian land, as neere as they 

 could gesse by the starres. But the windes were so 

 divers, one while driving them this way, another while 

 that way, that they were now in a new maze, thinking 

 that God had forsaken them, and left them to a greater 

 danger. And forasmuch as there were no victuals now 

 left in the gaily, it might have beene a cause to them (if 

 they had beene the Israelites) to have murmured against 

 their God : but they knew how that their God, who had 

 delivered them out of JEgypty was such a loving and 

 mercifull God, as that hee would not suffer them to be 

 confounded, in whom he had wrought so great a wonder : 

 but what calamitie soever they sustained, they knew it 

 was but for their further triall, and also (in putting them 

 in mund of their farther miserie) to cause them not to 

 triumph and glory in themselves therefore. Having 

 (I say) no victuals in the gaily, it might seeme that one 

 miserie continually fel upon an others neck : but to be Extremity 0/ 

 briefe, the famine grew to be so great, that in 28 dayes, fi^^"^- 

 wherein they were on the sea, there died eight persons, to 

 the astonishment of all the rest. 



So it fell out, that upon the 29 day, after they set from 

 Alexandria, they fell on the Isle of Candie, and landed at 

 Gallipoli, where they were made much of by the Abbot 



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