"Thou knewest this life unfit for thy greatnesse, and thou wert not borne for thy selfe but thy Countrie, thou knewest the Sea, wherein every great soule should wander."
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Thomas Scott, Sir VValter Ravvleighs ghost, or Englands forewarner Discouering a secret consultation, newly holden in the Court of Spaine. Together, with his tormenting of Count de Gondemar; and his strange affrightment, confession and publique recantation: laying open many treacheries intended for the subuersion of England (1626), p. 16
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Walter Raleigh
1554 β 1618
englischer Seefahrer, Entdecker und Schriftsteller
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