Three
to
One
:
Being
,
An
English-Spanish
Combat
.
LOuing
Countreymen
;
Not
to
weary
you
with
long
Praeambles
,
vnnecessary
for
you
to
reade
,
and
troublesome
for
me
to
set
downe
;
I
will
come
roundly
to
the
matter
;
intreating
you
,
not
to
cast
a
malitious
eye
vpon
my
Actions
,
nor
rashly
to
condemne
them
,
or
to
stagger
in
your
Opinions
of
my
performance
,
sithence
I
am
ready
with
my
life
to
Iustify
what
I
set
downe
;
the
Trueth
of
this
Relation
being
Warrented
by
Noble
Proofes
,
and
Testimonies
not
to
be
questioned
,
I
am
a
Westerne
Man
,
Deuonshire
my
Countrey
,
and
Tauestoke
my
place
of
Habitation
.
I
know
not
what
the
Court
of
a
King
meanes
,
nor
what
the
fine
Phrases
of
silken
Courtiers
are
:
A
good
Shippe
I
know
,
and
a
poore
Cabbin
,
and
the
Language
of
a
Cannon
:
And
therefore
,
as
my
Breeding
has
bin
Rough
,
(
scorning
Delicacy
:
)
And
my
Present
Being
consisteth
altogether
vpon
the
Soldier
,
(
blunt
,
plaine
,
and
vnpollished
;
)
so
must
my
Writings
be
,
proceeding
from
fingers
fitter
for
the
Pike
then
the
Pen
:
And
so
(
kinde
Countreymen
)
I
pray
receaue
them
.
Neither
ought
you
to
expect
better
from
me
,
because
I
am
but
the
Chronicler
of
my
owne
Story
.
After
I
had
seene
the
Beginning
and
End
of
Argeires
Voyage
,
Then
,
the
Drumbe
beating
vp
for
a
New
Expedition
,
in
which
,
many
Noble
Gentlemen
,
and
Heroicall
Spirits
,
were
to
venture
their
Honors
,
Liues
,
and
Fortunes
:
Cables
could
not
hold
me
,
for
away
I
would
,
and
along
I
vowed
to
goe
,
and
did
so
.
The
Dissigne
opening
it selfe
at
Sea
for
Cales
,
The
Shippe
I
went
in
,
was
called
The
Conuertine
,
(
one
of
the
Nauy
Royall
:
)
The
Captaine
,
Thomas
Portar
.
On
the
two
and
twentie
day
of
October
,
The
Saturday-night
,
some
sixteene
Sayle
of
the
Hollanders
,
and
about
ten
White-Hall-Men
(
who
in
England
are
called
Colliers
)
were
commanded
to
fight
against
the
Castle
of
Puntall
,
On
the
Sunday
morning
following
,
the
Earle
of
Essex
going
vp
very
early
,
Captaine
Portar
,
and
the
Maister
of
our
Ship
,
Vpon
this
,
Captaine
Portar
perceiuing
the
danger
wee
,
and
our
Shippe
were
in
,
commaunded
a
number
of
vs
to
get
vpon
the
vpper
Deck
,
and
with
our
Small
Shotte
to
try
if
we
could
force
the
Cannoneers
from
their
Ordnance
.
Wee
presently
aduaunced
our selues
,
fell
close
to
our
worke
,
and
plyed
them
with
Pellets
;
in
which
hotte
and
dangerous
Seruice
,
one
Master
William
Iewell
,
William
Iewell
,
his
Seruice
.
behaued
himselfe
both
Manly
and
like
a
Noble
Soldier
,
expressing
much
Valour
,
abillity
of
Body
,
and
readinesse
;
with
whom
,
and
some
few
more
,
I
(
amongst
the
rest
)
stood
the
brunt
,
which
continued
about
three
houres
.
Out
Ship
lay
all
this
while
with
her
Star-bord
side
to
the
Fort
,
who
beating
vs
continually
,
with
at
least
two
hundred
Muskets
,
whose
Bullets
flew
so
thick
,
that
our
Shrowdes
were
torne
in
peices
,
and
our
Tacklings
rent
to
nothing
;
and
when
she
came
off
,
In
the
heate
of
this
Fight
,
William
Sentliger
(
whether
cald
vp
by
my
Lord
of
Essex
,
or
comming
of
himselfe
,
I
know
not
)
seeing
vs
so
hardly
besett
,
and
that
we
had
but
few
Shotte
vpon
our
Deck
,
in
regard
of
the
Enemies
number
,
which
played
vpon
vs
,
came
with
a
Valient
and
Noble
Resolution
,
out
of
another
Shippe
into
ours
,
bringing
some
fortie
Soldiers
with
him
,
who
there
with
vs
,
renued
a
second
Fight
,
as
hotte
,
or
hotter
then
the
former
:
Where
in
this
Fight
,
one
of
our
Bullets
was
shotte
into
the
mouth
of
a
Spanish
Cannon
,
where
it
sticketh
fast
,
and
putteth
that
Roarer
to
silence
.
Vpon
this
Brauery
,
they
of
the
Fort
began
to
waxe
calmer
,
and
cooler
:
And
in
the
ende
,
most
part
of
their
Gunners
being
slayne
,
gaue
ouer
shooting
,
but
yeilded
not
the
Fort
vntill
night
.
Whilst
this
Skirmish
continued
,
a
company
of
Spaniards
within
the
Castle
,
by
the
aduantage
of
a
Wall
,
whose
end
ietting
out
,
they
still
as
they
discharged
,
retired
behinde
it
,
sauing
themselues
,
and
extreamely
annoying
vs
;
I
remooued
into
the
Fore-Castle
of
our
Shippe
,
and
so
plyed
them
with
Haile-shotte
,
that
they
forsooke
their
stand
.
What
Men
on
our
part
were
lost
(
by
their
Small
Shotte
)
I
can
not
well
remember
,
but
sure
I
am
,
not
very
many
:
Yet
the
Spaniards
afterwards
,
before
the
Gouernour
of
Cales
,
confest
they
lost
about
fifty
,
My
Hurts
and
Bruises
here
receiued
,
albeit
they
were
neither
many
,
nor
dangerous
,
yet
were
they
such
,
that
when
the
Fight
was
don
,
many
Gentlemen
in
our
Shippe
for
my
encouragement
,
gaue
me
Money
.
During
this
Battaile
,
the
Hollanders
and
White-Hall-Men
,
you
must
thinke
,
were
not
idle
,
for
their
Great
Peices
went
off
continually
,
from
such
of
their
Shippes
as
could
conueniently
discharge
,
because
our
Shippe
lay
betweene
them
and
the
Fort
;
and
they
so
closely
plyed
their
worke
,
that
at
this
Battery
were
discharged
from
the
Ordnance
,
The
Castle
being
thus
quieted
,
(
though
as
yet
not
yeilded
)
the
Earle
of
Essex
,
about
twelue
at
noone
,
Spanish
Hares
,
and
stayed
them
from
running
farder
.
Part
of
our
Men
being
thus
landed
,
they
marched
vp
not
aboue
a
flight
shotte
off
,
and
there
rested
themselues
.
Then
about
sixe
at
night
the
Castle
yeilded
,
vpon
composition
,
The
Captaine
of
the
Fort
,
his
name
was
Don
Francisco
Bustamante
,
Port
Reall
.
who
presently
vpon
the
deliuery
,
was
carried
aboard
the
Lord
Generalls
Shippe
,
where
he
had
a
Soldierly
Welcome
;
And
the
next
day
,
He
,
and
all
his
Company
were
put
ouer
to
Port
Reall
,
vpon
the
mayne
Land
because
they
should
not
goe
to
Cales
,
which
is
an
Iland
.
Monday
.
October
24.
On
the
Monday
,
Spanish
Picaroes
were
brought
in
for
flying
from
the
Castle
,
)
I
was
an
eye
witnesse
,
of
English
Mens
Eares
worne
in
that
despightfull
manner
.
What
the
Forces
being
on
Shore
did
,
or
how
farre
they
went
vp
,
I
can
not
tell
,
for
I
was
no
Land-Soldier
,
and
therefore
all
that
while
kept
aboard
:
Yet
about
twelue
of
the
clock
,
when
they
were
marched
out
of
sight
,
I
(
knowing
that
other
English
Men
had
don
the
like
the
very
same
day
,
)
ventered
on
Shore
likewise
,
Richard
Peeke
on
Shore
.
to
refresh
my selfe
,
with
my
Sword
only
by
my
side
,
because
,
I
thought
the
late
stormes
had
beaten
all
the
Spaniards
in
,
and
therefore
feared
no
danger
.
On
,
therefore
,
I
softly
walked
,
viewing
the
desolation
of
such
a
Place
,
for
I
saw
no
body
:
Yet
farre
had
I
not
gon
from
the
Shore
,
but
some
English
Men
were
come
euen
almost
to
our
Shippes
,
and
from
certaine
Gardens
had
brought
with
them
many
Oranges
and
Lymons
.
The
sight
of
these
,
sharpned
my
stomach
the
more
to
goe
on
,
because
I
had
a
desire
to
present
some
of
those
Fruites
to
my
Captaine
.
Hereupon
,
I
demanded
of
them
,
what
danger
there
was
in
going
?
They
sayd
,
None
,
but
that
all
was
husht
,
and
not
a
Spaniard
stirring
.
We
parted
,
they
to
the
Shippes
,
I
forward
:
And
before
I
had
reached
a
mile
,
I
found
(
for
all
their
talking
,
of
no
danger
)
Three
English-Men
starke
dead
,
being
slayne
,
lying
in
the
way
,
it
being
full
of
deepe
Sandy
pittes
,
so
that
I
could
hardly
finde
the
passage
,
and
one
,
some
small
distance
from
them
,
not
fully
dead
.
The
groanes
which
he
vttered
,
led
me
to
him
;
and
finding
him
lying
on
his
belly
,
I
called
to
him
,
and
turning
him
on
his
back
,
saw
his
woundes
,
and
sayd
;
Brother
,
what
Villaine
has
done
this
mischeife
to
thee
?
He
lamented
in
sighes
and
dolefull
lookes
,
and
casting
vp
his
eyes
to
Heauen
,
but
could
not
speake
.
I
then
resolued
(
and
was
about
it
)
for
Christian
Charities
sake
;
and
for
Countries
sake
,
to
haue
carried
him
on
my
back
to
our
Shippes
,
farre
off
though
they
lay
,
and
there
(
if
by
any
possible
meanes
it
could
haue
bin
done
,
)
to
haue
recouered
him
.
But
my
good
intents
were
preuented
;
For
on
a
sodaine
,
came
rushing
in
vpon
me
,
a
Spanish-Horseman
,
whose
Name
,
as
afterward
I
was
informed
,
was
Don
Iuan
of
Cales
,
a
Knight
;
I
seeing
him
make
speedily
and
fiercely
at
me
,
with
his
drawne
weapon
,
suddenly
whip'd
out
mine
,
wrapping
my
Cloake
about
mine
Arme
:
Fiue
or
sixe
Skirmishes
wee
had
,
and
for
a
pretty
while
,
fought
off
and
on
.
Time
was
it
for
me
to
looke
about
warily
,
and
to
lay
about
lustely
,
to
defend
a
poore
Life
so
hardly
distressed
:
As
therefore
his
Horse
was
violently
breaking
in
vpon
me
,
I
struck
him
into
the
eyes
,
with
a
flappe
of
my
Cloake
;
vpon
which
,
turning
sideward
,
I
tooke
my
aduantage
,
and
as
redily
as
I
could
,
stepping
in
,
it
pleased
God
,
that
I
should
pluck
my
Enemy
downe
,
Pardone
moy
le
vous
pree
,
le
suis
vn
buon
Chrestien
.
Pardon
me
Sir
,
I
am
a
good
Christian
.
I
,
seeing
him
braue
,
and
hauing
a
Soldiers
minde
to
Rifle
him
,
I
searched
for
Iewels
,
but
found
,
onely
fiue
Peices
of
Eight
about
him
,
in
all
amounting
to
twenty
Shillings
English
:
Yet
he
had
Gold
,
but
that
I
could
not
come
by
;
For
,
I
was
in
hast
to
haue
sent
his
Spanish
Knight-hood
home
on
Foote
,
and
to
haue
taught
his
Horse
an
English
Pace
.
Thus
farre
,
my
Voyage
for
Oranges
sped
well
,
but
in
the
end
,
prooued
sower
Sawce
to
me
.
And
it
is
harder
to
keepe
a
Victory
,
then
to
obteyne
;
So
,
heere
it
fell
out
with
mine
.
For
,
fourteene
Spanish
Muskatiers
,
spying
me
so
busy
about
one
of
their
Countrey-men
,
bent
all
the
Mouthes
of
their
Peeces
to
kill
me
,
which
they
could
not
well
doe
,
without
endangering
this
Don
Iohns
life
;
so
that
I
was
inforced
(
and
glad
I
scap'd
so
too
)
to
yeild
my selfe
their
Prisoner
.
True
Valour
(
I
see
)
goes
not
alwaies
in
good
Cloathes
;
For
,
He
whom
before
I
had
surprized
,
seeing
me
fast
in
the
snare
,
and
(
as
the
euent
prooued
)
disdaining
that
his
Countrey
men
should
report
him
so
dishonored
,
most
basely
,
(
when
my
handes
were
in
a
manner
bound
behind
me
)
drew
out
his
Weapon
,
(
which
the
rest
had
taken
from
me
,
to
giue
him
)
and
wounded
me
through
the
Face
,
Vpon
this
,
I
was
led
in
Triumph
,
into
the
Towne
of
Cales
:
An
Owle
not
more
wondred
and
hooted
at
,
a
Dog
not
more
cursed
.
In
my
beeing
ledde
thus
along
the
Streets
,
A
Flemming
spying
me
,
Don
Fernando
,
an
antient
Gentleman
,
was
sent
downe
this
Summer
,
from
the
King
at
Madrill
,
with
Soldiers
;
But
before
our
Fleete
came
,
the
Soldiers
were
discharged
;
They
of
Cales
,
neuer
suspecting
that
we
meant
to
put
in
there
.
Before
him
,
was
I
brought
to
be
examined
,
yet
few
,
or
no
questions
at
all
,
were
demaunded
of
me
because
,
he
saw
I
was
all
bloudy
in
my
Cloathes
,
and
so
wounded
in
my
Face
and
Iawes
,
that
I
could
hardly
speake
:
I
was
therefore
committed
presently
to
Prison
,
where
I
lay
eighteene
dayes
:
The
Noble
Gentleman
,
giuing
expresse
charge
,
that
the
best
Surgeons
should
be
sent
for
,
least
,
being
so
basely
hurt
and
handled
by
Cowards
,
I
should
be
demanded
at
his
hands
.
I
being
thus
taken
on
the
Monday
,
when
I
went
on
Shore
,
Yet
,
thus
honestly
was
I
vsed
by
my
worthy
Friend
Captaine
Portar
;
He
aboue
my
deseruing
,
complayning
,
that
he
feared
he
had
lost
such
a
Man
:
Iohn
Glanuile
,
Secretary
to
the
Fleete
)
sent
three
Men
on
Shore
,
to
enquire
in
Cales
for
me
,
and
to
offer
(
if
I
were
taken
)
any
reasonable
Ransome
:
But
the
Towne
,
thinking
me
a
better
Prize
then
(
indeede
)
I
was
,
denyed
me
,
and
would
not
part
from
me
.
Then
came
a
Command
to
the
Teniente
,
or
Gouernor
of
Cales
,
to
haue
me
sent
to
Sherrys
,
(
otherwise
called
Xerez
,
)
lying
three
Leagues
from
Cales
.
Wondrous
vnwilling
(
could
I
otherwise
haue
chosen
)
was
I
to
goe
to
Sherry
,
because
,
I
feared
I
should
then
be
put
to
Tortures
.
Hauing
therefore
a
Young
man
,
(
an
English
Man
,
and
a
Merchant
,
Countrey-man
,
what
my
Name
is
,
our
Partnership
in
Misery
hath
made
you
know
;
And
with
it
,
know
that
I
am
a
Deuonshire-Man
borne
,
and
Tauestock
the
place
of
my
once-abiding
.
I
beseech
you
,
if
God
euer
send
you
Liberty
,
and
that
you
saile
into
England
,
take
that
Countrey
in
your
way
;
Commend
me
to
my
Wife
and
Children
,
made
wretched
by
me
,
an
infortunate
Father
,
and
Husband
:
Tell
them
,
and
my
Friends
,
(
I
intreate
you
,
for
Gods
cause
)
that
if
I
be
(
as
I
suspect
I
shall
be
)
put
to
Death
in
Sherris
,
I
will
dye
a
Christian
Soldier
,
no
way
,
I
hope
,
dishonouring
my
King
,
Countrey
,
or
the
Iustice
of
my
Cause
,
or
my
Religion
.
Anon
after
,
away
was
I
conueyed
with
a
strong
Guard
,
On
the
Sunday
following
,
two
Friers
were
sent
to
me
,
(
both
of
them
being
Irish
Men
,
and
speaking
very
good
English
;
Padre
Iuan
,
(
Father
Iohn
.
)
After
a
sad
and
graue
Salutation
;
Brother
(
quoth
he
)
I
come
in
Loue
to
you
,
and
Charity
to
your
Soule
,
to
Confesse
you
:
And
if
to
vs
,
(
as
your
Spirituall
Ghostly
Fathers
)
you
will
lay
open
your
Sinnes
,
wee
will
forgiue
them
,
and
make
your
way
to
Heauen
,
for
to
morrow
you
must
dye
.
I
desired
them
,
that
they
would
giue
me
a
little
respite
,
that
I
might
retire
into
a
priuate
Chamber
,
and
instantly
I
would
repaire
to
them
,
and
giue
them
satisfaction
:
Leaue
I
had
;
Away
I
went
,
and
imediately
returned
:
They
asked
me
,
if
I
had
yet
resolued
,
and
whether
I
would
come
to
Confession
:
I
told
them
,
I
had
been
at
Confession
already
:
One
of
them
demaunded
,
with
whome
?
I
answered
,
with
God
the
Father
:
And
with
nobody
else
(
sayd
the
other
?
)
Yes
,
(
quoth
I
,
What
thinke
you
of
the
Pope
?
sayd
Father
Iohn
:
I
answered
,
I
knew
him
not
:
They
,
hereupon
,
shaking
their
heads
,
told
me
,
they
were
sorry
for
me
,
and
so
departed
.
Whilst
thus
I
lay
in
Sherrys
,
(
Don
Francisco
Bustamente
)
was
brought
in
,
Prisoner
for
his
Life
,
because
he
deliuered
vp
the
Castle
;
but
whether
he
dyed
for
it
,
or
no
,
I
cannot
tell
.
My
day
of
Triall
being
come
,
I
was
brought
from
Prison
,
Duke
of
Medina
,
D.
of
Macada
,
D.
Ferdinando
,
Giron
,
Marquesse
De
Alquenezes
,
&c.
into
the
Towne
of
Sherrys
,
by
two
Drumbes
,
and
a
hundred
Shotte
,
before
three
Dukes
,
foure
Condes
,
or
Earles
,
foure
Marquesses
,
besides
other
great
Persons
;
the
towne
hauing
in
it
,
at
least
,
fiue
thousand
Soldiers
.
At
my
first
appearing
before
the
Lordes
,
my
Sword
lying
before
them
on
a
Table
,
the
Duke
of
Medina
asked
me
if
I
knew
that
Weapon
;
It
was
reached
to
me
;
I
tooke
it
,
and
embraced
it
in
mine
armes
,
and
with
teares
in
mine
eyes
,
kist
the
Pomell
of
it
.
He
then
demaunded
,
how
many
Men
I
had
kild
with
that
Weapon
?
I
told
him
,
if
I
had
kild
One
,
I
had
not
bene
there
now
,
before
that
Princely
Assembly
,
for
when
I
had
him
at
my
foote
,
begging
for
Mercy
,
I
gaue
him
life
,
yet
he
,
then
very
poorely
,
did
me
a
mischiefe
:
Then
they
asked
Don
Iohn
(
my
Prisoner
)
what
Woundes
I
gaue
him
;
He
sayd
,
none
:
Vpon
this
he
was
rebuked
,
and
told
;
That
if
vpon
our
first
Encounter
,
he
had
run
me
through
,
it
had
beene
a
faire
and
Noble
Triumph
;
but
so
to
wound
me
,
being
in
the
hands
of
others
,
they
held
it
Base
.
In
that
Paper
(
as
after
I
was
informed
,
by
my
two
Irish
Interpreters
)
there
was
set
downe
,
the
Number
of
our
Shippes
,
their
Burden
,
Men
,
Munition
,
Victuall
,
Captaines
,
&c.
as
perfect
,
as
wee
our selues
had
them
in
England
.
Of
what
Strength
(
quoth
an
other
Duke
)
is
the
Fort
at
Plymouth
?
I
answered
,
very
Strong
:
What
Ordnance
in
it
?
Fifty
sayd
I
:
That
is
not
so
,
sayd
he
,
there
is
but
seuenteene
:
How
many
Soldiers
are
in
the
Fort
?
I
answered
,
two
hundred
:
That
is
not
so
,
(
quoth
a
Conde
)
there
is
but
twenty
.
Marquesse
Alquenezes
asked
me
,
Of
what
strength
the
little
Iland
was
before
Plymouth
?
I
told
him
,
I
knew
not
:
Then
(
quoth
he
)
wee
doe
.
Is
Plymouth
a
Walled
Towne
?
Yes
my
Lords
:
And
a
good
Wall
?
Yes
sayd
I
,
a
very
good
Wall
:
True
,
sayd
a
Duke
,
to
leape
ouer
with
a
Staffe
.
And
hath
the
Towne
,
sayd
the
Duke
of
Medyna
,
strong
Gates
?
Yes
:
But
,
quoth
he
,
there
was
neither
Wood
nor
Iron
to
those
Gates
,
but
two
dayes
before
your
Fleete
came
away
.
Now
,
before
I
goe
any
farther
,
let
me
not
forget
to
tell
you
,
that
my
two
Irish
Confessors
,
had
been
heere
in
England
the
last
Summer
,
&
when
our
Fleete
came
from
England
,
they
came
for
Spaine
;
Hauing
seene
our
King
at
Plymouth
,
when
the
Soldiers
there
shewed
their
Armes
,
and
did
then
diligently
obserue
what
the
King
did
,
and
how
he
carried
himselfe
.
How
chance
(
sayd
Duke
Giron
)
did
you
not
in
all
this
Brauery
of
the
Fleete
take
Cales
,
as
you
tooke
Puntall
?
I
replyed
,
that
the
Lord
Generall
might
easily
haue
taken
Cales
,
for
he
had
neere
a
thousand
Scaling
Ladders
to
set
vp
,
and
a
thousand
Men
to
loose
;
but
he
was
loath
to
rob
an
Almeshouse
,
hauing
a
better
Market
to
goe
to
:
Cales
,
I
told
them
,
was
held
Poore
,
Vnmand
,
and
Vnmunitioned
:
What
better
Market
,
sayd
Medyna
?
I
told
him
,
Genoa
,
or
Lisbone
,
and
as
I
heard
,
there
was
instantly
,
vpon
this
,
an
Army
of
sixe
thousand
Soldiers
sent
to
Lisbone
.
Then
,
quoth
one
of
the
Earles
,
when
thou
meetst
me
in
Plymouth
,
wilt
thou
bid
me
welcome
?
I
modestly
told
him
,
I
could
wish
,
they
would
not
too
hastely
come
to
Plymouth
,
for
they
should
finde
it
another
manner
of
place
,
then
as
now
they
sleight
it
.
Many
other
Questions
were
put
to
me
by
these
great
Dons
,
which
so
well
as
God
did
enable
me
,
I
answered
,
they
speaking
in
Spanish
,
and
their
words
interpreted
to
me
,
by
those
two
Irish
Men
before
spoken
of
,
who
also
relate
my
seuerall
answers
to
the
Lords
.
And
by
the
common
People
,
who
encompast
me
round
,
many
ieerings
,
mockeries
,
scornes
,
and
bitter
iestes
,
were
to
my
face
throwne
vpon
our
Nation
,
which
I
durst
not
so
much
as
bite
my
lippe
against
,
but
with
an
inforced
patient
eare
stood
still
,
and
let
them
runne
on
in
their
Reuilings
.
At
the
length
,
amongst
many
other
reproches
,
and
spightfull
Names
,
one
of
the
Spaniardes
called
English
Men
Gallinas
,
(
Hennes
;
)
At
which
,
the
great
Lordes
fell
a
laughing
:
Herevpon
,
one
of
the
Dukes
(
poynting
to
the
Spanish
Soldiers
,
)
bid
me
note
how
their
King
kept
them
;
And
indeed
,
they
were
all
wonderous
braue
in
Apparell
,
Hattes
,
Bandes
,
Cuffes
,
Garters
,
&c
,
and
some
of
them
in
Chaines
of
Gold
:
And
asked
farther
,
If
I
thought
these
would
prooue
such
Hennes
as
our
English
,
when
next
yeare
they
should
come
into
England
?
I
sayd
no
:
But
being
somewhat
imboldned
by
his
merry
Countenance
,
I
told
him
as
merily
,
I
thought
they
would
be
within
one
degree
of
Hennes
:
What
meanst
thou
by
that
,
sayd
a
Conde
?
I
replyed
,
they
would
prooue
Pullets
,
or
Chickens
.
Darst
thou
then
(
quoth
Duke
Medyna
,
with
a
brow
halfe
angry
)
fight
with
one
of
these
Spanish
Pullets
.
O
my
Lord
,
sayd
I
,
I
am
a
Prisoner
,
and
my
Life
at
Stake
,
and
therefore
dare
not
be
so
bold
to
aduenture
vpon
any
such
Action
:
There
were
heere
of
vs
English
,
some
foureteene
Thousand
,
in
which
Number
,
there
were
aboue
twelue
Thousand
,
better
,
&
stouter
Men
then
euer
I
shall
be
;
Yet
,
with
the
licence
of
this
Princely
Assembly
,
I
dare
hazard
the
breaking
of
a
Rapier
;
And
withall
,
told
him
,
Hee
was
vnworthy
the
Name
of
an
English
Man
,
that
should
refuse
to
Fight
with
one
Man
of
any
Nation
whatsoeuer
.
Herevpon
,
my
Shackells
were
knockt
off
,
and
my
Iron
Ring
and
Chayne
taken
from
my
Neck
.
Roome
was
made
for
the
Combatants
,
Rapier
and
Dagger
the
Weapons
:
Signior
Tiago
;
When
after
wee
had
played
some
reasonable
good
time
,
I
disarmed
,
him
as
thus
.
I
caught
his
Rapier
betwixt
the
Barres
of
my
Poniard
,
and
there
held
it
,
till
I
closed
in
with
him
,
and
tripping
vp
his
Heeles
,
I
tooke
his
Weapons
out
of
his
hands
,
and
deliuered
them
to
the
Dukes
.
I
could
wish
,
that
all
you
,
my
deere
Countrey-men
,
who
reade
this
Relation
,
had
either
bin
there
,
without
danger
,
to
haue
beheld
vs
;
Or
,
that
He
with
whome
I
fought
,
were
heer
in
Person
,
to
iustifie
the
issue
of
that
Combat
.
I
was
then
demaunded
,
If
I
durst
Fight
against
an
other
?
I
told
them
,
my
heart
was
good
to
aduenture
;
but
humbly
requested
them
,
to
giue
me
pardon
,
if
I
refused
.
For
,
to
my selfe
I
too
well
knew
,
that
the
Spaniard
is
Haughty
,
Impatient
of
the
least
affront
;
And
when
he
receiues
but
a
Touch
of
any
Dishonor
,
Disgrace
,
or
Blemish
,
(
especially
in
his
owne
Countrey
,
and
from
an
English
Man
,
)
his
Reuenge
is
implacable
,
mortall
,
and
bloudy
.
Yet
being
by
the
Noblemen
,
pressed
agen
,
and
agen
,
to
try
my
Fortune
with
an
other
,
I
(
seeing
my
Life
in
the
Lyons
paw
,
to
struggle
with
whome
for
safety
,
there
was
no
way
but
one
,
and
being
afrayd
to
displease
them
,
)
sayd
,
That
if
their
Graces
,
and
Greatnesses
,
would
giue
me
leaue
to
play
at
mine
Owne
Countrey
Weapon
,
called
the
Quarter-Staffe
,
I
was
then
ready
there
,
an
Opposite
,
against
any
Commer
,
whome
they
would
call
foorth
;
and
would
willingly
lay
downe
my
Life
before
those
Princes
,
to
doe
them
Seruice
;
prouided
,
my
Life
might
by
no
foule
meanes
be
taken
from
me
.
Herevpon
,
the
head
of
a
Halbert
,
which
went
with
a
Screw
,
was
taken
off
,
and
the
Steall
deliuered
to
me
;
the
other
But-end
of
the
Staffe
hauing
a
short
Iron
Pike
in
it
:
This
was
my
Armor
,
and
in
my
place
I
stood
,
expecting
an
Opponent
.
At
the
last
,
Then
,
a
Second
(
Arm'd
as
before
)
presents
himselfe
:
I
demanded
,
if
there
would
come
no
more
?
The
Dukes
asked
,
how
many
I
desired
?
I
told
them
,
any
number
vnder
Sixe
:
Which
resolution
of
mine
,
they
smiling
at
,
in
a
kind
of
scorne
,
held
it
not
Manly
,
(
it
seemed
,
)
nor
fit
for
their
owne
Honors
,
and
Glory
of
their
Nation
,
to
worry
one
Man
with
a
Multitude
;
and
therefore
appointed
Three
onely
,
(
so
Weapond
)
to
enter
into
the
Listes
.
Now
Gentlemen
,
if
here
you
condemne
mee
,
for
plucking
(
with
mine
owne
hands
)
such
an
assured
danger
,
vpon
mine
owne
head
;
Accept
of
these
Reasons
for
excuse
.
To
dye
,
I
thought
it
most
certaine
,
but
to
dye
basely
,
I
would
not
:
For
Three
to
kill
One
,
had
bin
to
Mee
no
Dishonor
;
To
Them
(
Weapons
considered
,
)
no
Glory
;
An
Honorable
Subiection
,
I
esteemed
better
,
then
an
Ignoble
Conquest
.
Vpon
these
Thoughts
,
I
fell
to
it
.
The
Rapier
Men
trauerst
their
ground
,
I
,
mine
;
Dangerous
Thrusts
were
put
in
,
and
with
dangerous
hazard
auoyded
:
Showtes
ecchoed
to
Heauen
,
to
encourage
the
Spaniards
;
Not
a
shoute
,
nor
Hand
,
to
hearten
the
poore
English
Man
;
Onely
,
Heauen
I
had
in
mine
Eye
,
the
Honor
of
my
Countrey
in
my
Heart
,
my
Fame
at
the
Stake
,
my
Life
on
a
narrow
Bridge
,
and
Death
both
before
me
and
behind
me
.
It
was
not
now
a
time
to
dally
,
they
still
made
full
at
me
;
And
I
had
beene
a
Coward
to
my Selfe
,
and
a
Villane
to
my
Nation
,
if
I
had
not
called
vp
all
that
weake
Manhood
which
was
mine
,
to
guard
my
owne
Life
,
and
ouerthrow
my
Enemies
.
Plucking
vp
therefore
a
good
heart
,
seeing
my selfe
faint
and
wearied
,
I
vowed
to
my
Soule
,
to
doe
something
,
ere
she
departed
from
me
:
And
so
setting
All
vpon
One
Cast
,
It
was
my
Good
Fortune
(
it
was
my
God
did
it
for
Mee
)
with
the
But-end
where
the
Iron
Pike
was
,
to
Kill
one
of
the
Three
;
and
within
a
few
Boutes
after
,
to
Disarme
the
other
two
,
causing
the
One
of
them
to
fly
into
the
Armie
of
Soldiers
then
present
,
and
the
Other
for
refuge
fled
behind
the
Bench.
I
hope
,
if
the
brauing
Spaniards
set
vpon
England
(
as
they
threaten
,
)
we
shall
euery
One
of
vs
,
giue
the
repulse
to
more
then
Three
;
Of
which
good
Issue
for
the
Publique
,
I
take
this
my
Priuate
successe
to
be
a
Pledge
.
Now
was
I
in
greater
Danger
,
being
(
as
I
thought
)
in
Peace
,
then
before
,
when
I
was
in
Battaile
:
For
,
a
generall
Murmure
filled
the
Ayre
,
with
Threatnings
at
me
;
the
Soldiers
especially
bit
their
thumbes
,
and
how
was
it
possible
for
me
to
scape
?
Which
,
the
Noble
Duke
of
Medina
Sidenia
seeing
,
called
me
to
him
,
and
instantly
caused
Proclamation
to
be
made
,
After
our
Fight
in
Sherris
,
I
was
kept
in
the
Marquesse
Alquenezes
House
,
who
one
day
(
out
of
his
Noble
affability
)
was
pleasant
in
speech
with
me
;
And
by
my
Interpreter
,
desired
I
would
Sing
:
I
willing
to
obey
him
(
whose
goodnesse
I
had
tasted
,
)
did
so
,
and
sung
this
Psalme
:
When
as
we
sate
in
Babilon
,
&c.
The
meaning
of
which
being
told
,
he
saide
to
me
,
English
Man
,
comfort
thy selfe
,
for
thou
art
in
no
Captiuity
.
After
this
,
I
was
sent
to
the
King
of
Spaine
,
lying
at
Madrill
;
At
my
being
in
Madrill
,
before
I
saw
the
King
;
My
Entertainement
(
by
the
Marquesse
Alquenezes
appointment
,
)
was
at
his
owne
House
,
where
I
was
lodged
in
the
most
sumptuous
Bedde
that
euer
I
beheld
;
and
had
from
his
Noble
Lady
,
a
Welcome
farre
aboue
my
poore
deseruing
but
worthy
the
Greatnesse
of
so
excellent
a
Woman
;
She
bestowing
vpon
me
,
whilst
I
lay
in
her
House
a
very
faire
Spanish
Shirt
,
richly
Laced
,
and
at
my
parting
from
Madrill
,
a
Chayne
of
Gold
,
and
two
Iewells
for
my
Wife
,
and
other
pretty
Thinges
for
my
Children
.
And
now
that
her
Noble
Courtesies
together
,
with
my
owne
Thankefullnes
,
Don
Iohn
of
Cales
;
She
,
Vpon
Christmas-day
,
I
was
Presented
to
the
King
,
the
Queene
,
and
Don
Carolo
the
Infante
.
Being
brought
before
him
,
I
fell
(
as
it
was
fitt
)
on
my
Knees
:
Many
Questions
were
demanded
of
me
,
which
so
well
as
my
plaine
witte
directed
me
,
I
resolued
.
In
the
end
,
his
Maiesty
offered
me
a
Yearely
Pention
,
(
to
a
good
Vallew
)
if
I
would
Serue
him
,
eyther
at
Land
or
at
Sea
;
For
which
his
Royall
Fauors
,
I
confessing
my selfe
infinitely
Bound
,
and
my
Life
indebted
to
his
Mercy
,
most
humbly
intreated
,
that
with
his
Princely
Leaue
,
I
might
be
suffered
to
returne
into
mine
owne
Countrey
,
being
a
Subiect
onely
to
the
King
of
England
,
my
Souereigne
.
And
besides
that
Bond
of
Allegiance
,
there
was
another
Obligation
,
due
from
me
,
to
a
Wife
and
Children
;
And
therefore
,
most
submissiuely
beg'd
,
that
his
Maiesty
would
be
so
Princely
minded
,
as
to
pitty
my
Estate
,
and
to
let
me
goe
:
To
which
he
at
last
granted
;
Bestowing
vpon
me
,
one
hundred
Pistoletts
,
to
beare
my
Charges
.
Hauing
thus
left
Spaine
,
I
tooke
my
way
through
some
part
of
France
;
Where
,
by
occasion
,
happening
into
Company
of
seuen
Spaniards
,
their
Tongues
were
too
lauish
in
Speeches
against
our
Nation
;
Vpon
which
,
some
high
words
flying
vp
and
downe
the
Roome
,
I
leaped
from
the
Table
,
and
drew
.
One
of
the
Spaniards
did
the
like
(
none
of
the
rest
being
Weaponed
,
which
was
more
then
I
knew
.
)
Vpon
the
noise
of
this
Bustling
,
two
English
Men
more
came
in
,
Who
vnderstanding
the
Abuses
offered
to
our
Countrey
,
the
(
Spaniards
in
a
short
time
,
Recanted
on
their
Knees
)
their
Rashnesse
.
And
so
hoysing
Saile
for
England
;
I
Landed
on
the
three
and
twenty
day
of
Aprill
,
1626.
at
Foy
in
Cornewall
.
And
thus
endeth
my
Spanish
Pilgrimage
:
With
thankes
to
my
good
God
,
that
in
this
extraordinany
Manner
preserued
me
,
amidst
these
desperate
Dangers
.
Therefore
most
gratious
God
,
(
Defender
of
Men
abroad
,
and
Protector
of
them
at
home
,
)
How
am
I
bounden
to
thy
Diuine
Maiestie
,
for
thy
manifold
Mercies
?
On
my
Knees
I
thanke
thee
,
with
my
Tongue
I
will
praise
thee
,
with
my
Handes
Fight
in
thy
Quarrell
,
and
all
the
daies
of
my
Life
serue
thee
.
Out
of
the
Red-Sea
,
I
haue
escaped
;
From
the
Lyons
Den
,
bin
deliuered
;
I
rescued
from
Death
,
and
snatcht
out
of
the
Iawes
of
Destruction
,
onely
by
Thee
,
O
my
God
;
Glory
be
to
thy
Name
,
for
euer
,
and
euer
.
Amen
.