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would, and with what conditions she would, and have in 

 cluded or left out whom she would. For she only by this 

 course should force him to wish for peace, and she had the 

 means in her hands to make the conditions : and as easy it 

 had been to have done this as to have performed lesser ser 

 vices. The objections against this will be hazard and 

 charge. Hazard, to hold any thing of his that is so mighty 

 a king : and charge, to send such supplies from time to time 

 as will be needful. For hazard, it is not the hazard of the 

 state or the whole, as are the hazards of a defensive war 

 whensoever we are enforced to fight, but it is only a hazard 

 of some few, and such commanders, as shall be set out for 

 such a service. And those also that shall be so hazarded, 

 shall be in less danger than if they were put into any frontier 

 places of France, or of the Low Countries, for they should 

 not be left in any part of the main or continent of Spain or 

 Portugal, where the enemy might bring an army to attempt 

 them ; (though I doubt not but after he had once tried 

 what it were to besiege two or three thousand English in a 

 place well fortified, and where they had a port open, he 

 would grow quickly weary of those attempts ;) but they 

 should be so lodged as the seat and strength of the place 

 should warrant their safety, so that to pull her majesty s men 

 out of it should be a harder task than to conquer any country 

 that stands on firm land by him : and to let English quietly 

 possess it should so much prejudice him as he were notable 

 to endure it. And for charge, there need not so much be 

 expended but that it might easily be borne. And the place 

 being well chosen, and the war well conducted, in a short 

 time there would not only arise enough to pay the charge, 

 but the great profit to her majesty, and wealth to our country 

 would grow from the place that should be held, for in a short 

 time a great part of the golden Indian stream might be 

 turned from Spain to England, and her majesty be made to 

 VOL. xr. 



