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boates, the other a liiscaine : But in the ende by 

 reason of the number that came uppon her she 

 was taken, but to their great losse : for they had 

 lost in fighting, and by drowning above 400. men, 

 and of the EngHsh were slaine about a hundred. 

 Sir Rychard Greenfield himselfe being wounded in 

 his braine, whereof afterwards hee dyed. He was 

 borne into the ship called the Saint Pdu/e, whtrem 

 was the Admirall of the fleet Don Alonso de 

 Barsan': there his woundes were drest by the 

 Spanish Surgeons, but Don Alonso himselfe would 

 neither see him, nor speake with him : all the rest 

 of the Captaines and Gentlemen went to visite him, 

 and to comfort him in his hard fortune, wondring 

 at his courage, and stout heart, for that he shewed 

 not any signe of faintnes nor changing of colour. 

 But feeling the hower of death to approch, lice 

 spake these wordes in Spanish, [&. said]: Here 

 die I Richard Greenfield, with a ioyfull and quiet 

 mind, for that I have ended my life as a true 

 soldier ought to do, yt. hath fought for his 

 countrey, Queene, religion, and honor, whereby 

 my soule most ioyfull departcth out of tliis bodic, 

 and shall alwaies leave bchinde it an everlasting 

 fame of a valiant and true soldier, that hath done 

 his dutie, as he was bound to doe. When he had 

 finished these [or such other like] words, hee gave 

 up the Ghost, with great and stout courage, and 



' Read "Basan." 



