"He was more skilful in all poyntes of navigation, then any that ever was before his time, in his time, or since his d…"

"For by the life of God, it doth even take my wits from me to think on it. Here is such controversy between the sailor…"

"Coming up unto them, there has passed some cannon shot between some of our fleet and some of them, and so far as we p…"

"There is plenty of time to win this game, and to thrash the Spaniards too."

"In the later sixties radical, popular and militant Protestantism spread like wildfire as Huguenots, Dutch sea-beggars…"

"As for Drake, he too may now be considered an imperialist, but it was as the popular hero of the sea-war that he made…"

"In Eighty Eight how she did fight Is known to all and some, When the Spaniard came, her courage to tame, But had bett…"

"Therefore good worthy Drake, serve thou thy sovereign Queen, And make the Spanish foe to quake, and English force be …"

"Drake was so entirely a man of action that by his actions alone he must be judged. In them and in the testimony of in…"

"That, judged by the morality of the nineteenth century, Drake was a pirate or filibuster is unquestioned; but the Spa…"