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

January 1, 1970

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David Gwyn, Certain English Verses presented to the Queen's most excellent Majesty in the park of St James, on Sunday the 18th of August 1588, quoted in Bertrand T. Whitehead, Brags and Boasts: Propaganda in the Year of the Armada (1994), p. 129