Nay, just are they, and justice still,

as just, they justly use:

And unto them, as guiltless then,
canst thou thyself excuse?

No, no; not so, for they behold
thy double deeds, be sure !
No forged style, nor flatt'ring phrase,
their favour may allure.

No gifts, no gold, can them corrupt;
such justice there doth reign:
And they that disobey their 'hests,
are subject unto pain.

These are no novel news I tell,
the proof is plainly known:
To such as do offend their wills,
their power forth is shown.

They see thy conscience guilty is;
thy faithless fraud they see:

And think'st thou then, this guilt of thine
can unrewarded be?

O FAITH, think not so far to wish
from reason's limits pure!

But judge thyself, what justice they
to sinful ones inure.

And thyself such doom shall give,
as guilty shalt thou find :
Therefore relent, and once again
thy grudging conscience mind!
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ENG. GAR. VIII.

Which unto gods that sacrèd are,

as guilty thee bewray.

In place of fraud, let faith and truth with thee now bear the sway!

Revoke and call to memory

the fruits of friendship shown! Perpend in mind my torments strong, my plaints and pensive moan!

Which, six long years, as passionate
to carping yoke of care,
I 'bode for thee, as thou thyself,
I know, canst well declare.

Remember thou the plaints and tears which I poured forth for thee ! And ponder well the sacred vow that thou hast made to me!

Which vow gave comfort to thy friend,
that subject served to grief:
Thou gavest thyself a pledge to me!
Thy faith was my relief!

But now what hellish hag, alas, hath turned thy love to hate? Or else what whelp of HYDRA's kind in thee hath wrought debate?

Alas, wilt thou despoil me quite of my possessed joy?

Or wilt thou plunge me headlong thus to gulfs of great annoy?

Who would a [have] thought alas,

such fraud to rest in thee?

Who would have deemed, without desert thy heart should change from me?

Whose heart hath couched his tent within my covert breast

And thine, I hoped, of me thy friend likewise had been possesst.

But wavering minds, I plainly see,
so compassèd with guile,
Pretend by sleights, the perfect joys
of friends for to exile.

O should a prattling parasite so egg thee with disdain ;

That thou, the presence of thy friend, through flattery, shouldst refrain?

Not vouching once to speak with him, whose heart thou hadst in hold: Sith Liking fame hath granted grace; should Love so soon be cold!

Consider these my letters well,
and answer them again!
For I, thy friend in covert zeal,
this time hath closed my pen.

Farewell! Adieu! Ten thousand times to GOD I thee commend!

Beseeching him his heavenly grace unto thee still to send !

Thy friend in wealth, thy friend in woe: Thy friend while life shall flit me fro. And whilst that you enjoy your breath, Leave not your friend unto the death! For greater praise cannot be won Than to observe True Love begun.

The destruction, capture, &c. of Portuguese Carracks, by English seamen. 1592-1594 A.D.

R. HAKLUYT. Voyages, III., 194, Ed. 1600.

In the Third Volume of this Series will be found the fullest and most exact description in our language of the annual Fleets, usually consisting of five Carracks, that went from Lisbon to Goa and back; written by JAN HUYGHEN VAN LINSCHOTEN, a Dutchman, who made that Voyage in the years 1582-1592. The following events occurred after LINSCHOTEN reached Lisbon, on 2nd January 1592 [III. 470].

Some additional particulars from a very rare tract, The Seaman's Triumph, London, 1592, 4to, are given in the footnotes.

A true Report of the honourable Service at sea performed by Sir JOHN BURROUGH Knight, Lieutenant General of the Fleet prepared by the Honourable Sir WALTER RALEGH Knight, Lord Warden of the Stanneries of Cornwall and Devon. Wherein, chiefly, the Santa Clara of Biscay, a ship of 600 tons, was taken: and the two East Indian Carracks, the Santa Cruz and the Madre de Dios, were forced; the one burnt, the other taken and brought into Dartmouth the 7th of September 1592.

IR WALTER RALEGH, upon Commission received from Her Majesty for an Expedition to be made to the West Indies, slacked not his uttermost diligence to make full provision of all things necessary as, both in his choice of good ships, and [of] sufficient men to perform the action, evidently appeared. For [of] his ships, which were in number fourteen or fifteen, those two of