OF A WAR WITH SPAIN. 



over the pursuit of his right for Urbin ; which, 

 after, he prosperously re-obtained, and hath trans 

 mitted to his family yet until this day. Nothing 

 more unjust than the invasion of the Spanish Armada 

 in 88 upon our seas : for our land was holy land to 

 them, they might not touch it ; shall I say there 

 fore, that the defence of Lisbon, or Gales, afterwards, 

 was unjust ? There be thousands of examples ; &quot;utor 

 &quot; in re non dubia exemplis non necessariis :&quot; the 

 reason is plain ; wars are &quot; vindictse,&quot; revenges, 

 reparations. But revenges are not infinite, but ac 

 cording to the measure of the first wrong or damage. 

 And therefore when a voluntary offensive war, by 

 the design or fortune of the war, is turned to a 

 necessary defensive war, the scene of the tragedy 

 is changed, and it is a new act to begin. For the 

 particular actions of war, though they are complicate 

 in fact, yet they are seperate and distinct in right : 

 like to cross suits in civil pleas, which are sometimes 

 both just. But this is so clear, as needeth no farther 

 to be insisted upon. And yet if in things so clear, 

 it were fit to speak of more or less clear in our 

 present cause, it is the more clear on our part, be 

 cause the possession of Bohemia is settled with the 

 emperor. For though it be true, that &quot; non datur 

 &quot; compensatio injuriarum ;&quot; yet were there some 

 what more colour to detain the Palatinate, as in the 

 nature of a recovery, in value or compensation, 

 if Bohemia had been lost, or were still the stage 

 of war. Of this therefore I speak no more. As for 

 the title of proscription or forfeiture, wherein the 



