"Be favourable and gracious O Lord to this thy English Sion, behold in the bowels of thy mercy our Navy on Sea, guard, guide, protect and defend the right honourable the Lord high Admiral of England, the Vice-Admiral, with all honourable and worshipful personages, Captains, Masters, Officers, Sailors, and Soldiers now employed, whether on the Western or South Seas...let not furious storms, winds, or tempests hurt them, nor surging Seas harm them, let not Papists amaze them, nor foreign enemies fear them [i.e. make them afraid]: but thou Lord of hosts encourage their hearts, enable their hands, indue them with valour, grant them safely to return with glorious victory...Also O Lord we thy Servants humbly beseech thee, to bless and prosper not only our Sea causes, but also all our land service, her Majesty's most honourable General, Marshal, Captains, Officers, and English soldiers whatsoever, strengthen them with courage and manliness, that they may suppress the slights of Antichrist, with all the force and power of foreign enemies, and papistical practices, that dare preÂsume to attempt any harm or hurt to her royal Majesty, their honours, her English people, or to this noble Realm of England."
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A Prayer for Assistance against the Armada (1588) n.p. Quoted in Bertrand T. Whitehead, Brags and Boasts: Propaganda in the Year of the Armada (Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1994) pp. 94–95
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Henry Roberts (fl. 1606)
Henry Roberts (fl. 1606) was an English writer and poet. His works, all of extreme rarity, may be identical with the "Henrie Roberts, one of the sworne esquires" of Elizabeth I and envoy from the Queen to "Mully Hamet, emperour of Marocco and king of Fes", in 1585, whose embassy is recounted in Richard Hakluyt's Voyages (1589, pp. 237–9). He was subsequently attached to the court of James I, and was present at the festivities upon the occasion of the visit of Christian IV of Denmark to England i
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