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devise, against the Irish land and nation ; insomuch 

 as d Aquila said in open treaty, that when the devil 

 upon the mount did shew Christ all the kingdoms of 

 the earth, and the glory of them, he did not doubt but 

 the devil left out Ireland, and kept it for himself. 



I cease here ; omitting not a few other proofs of 

 the English valour and fortunes, in these latter times : 

 as at the suburbs of Paris, at the Raveline, at Druse 

 in Normandy, some encounters in Britanny, and at 

 Ostend, and divers others ; partly because some of 

 them have not been proper encounters between the 

 Spaniards and the English ; and partly because 

 others of them have not been of that greatness, as 

 to have sorted in company with the particulars for 

 merly recited. It is true, that amongst all the late 

 adventures, the voyage of sir Francis Drake, and sir 

 John Hawkins into the West Indies, was unfor 

 tunate ; yet in such sort as it doth not break or 

 interrupt our prescription, to have had the better of 

 the Spaniards upon all fights of late. For the dis 

 aster of that journey was caused chiefly by sickness; 

 as might well appear by the deaths of both the 

 generals, sir Francis Drake, and sir John Hawkins, 

 of the same sickness amongst the rest. The land 

 enterprise of Panama was an ill measured and imma 

 ture counsel: for it was grounded upon a false 

 account, that the passages towards Panama were no 

 better fortified than Drake had left them. But yet 

 it sorted not to any fight of importance, but to a 

 retreat, after the English had proved the strength of 

 their first fort, and had notice of the two other forts 



