...therefore I wish no subject to spare his purse towards it." — " God hath stirred up this action to be a school to breed up soldiers to defend the freedom...such that we are already weary ; yet this journey is nought in respect to the misery and hardship that soldiers must and do endure." " There can be no doubt,"...

...frequently to that point in his communications with Walsingham and other statesmen. "God hath stirred up this action," he repeated again, "to bo a school to...misery and hardship that soldiers must and do endure." J He was right in his estimate of the effect likely to be produced by the war upon the military habits...

...with Walsingham and other statesmen. "God hath stirred up this action," he repeated again, " to be a school to breed up soldiers to defend the freedom...misery and hardship that soldiers must and do endure." * He was right in his estimate of the effect likely to be produced by the war upon the military habits...

...for the coming death-grapple. " God hath stirred up this action," wrote one in Leicester's army, " to breed up soldiers to defend the freedom of England,...brought into a most dangerous estate, if it should bo attempted." And this new martial spirit was inflamed by the return of Drake from the New World,...

...for the coming death-grapple. " God hath stirred up this action," wrote one in Leicester's army, " to breed up soldiers to defend the freedom of England,...most dangerous estate, if it should be attempted." And this new martial spirit was inflamed by the return of Drake from the New World, whither he had...

...for the coming death-grapple. " God hath stirred up this action," wrote one in Leicester's army, " to breed up soldiers to defend the freedom of England,...quietness is brought into a most dangerous estate, if it shoald be attempted." And this new martial spirit was inflamed by the return of Drake from the New...

...training for the coming death-grapple. " God hath stirred up this action," wrote one in Leicester's army, "to breed up soldiers to defend the freedom of England,...most dangerous estate, if it should be attempted." And this new martial spirit was inflamed by the return of Drake from the New World, whither he had...

...for the coming death-grapple. " God hath stirred up this action," wrote one in Leicester's army, " to breed up soldiers to defend the freedom of England,...most dangerous estate, if it should be attempted." And this new martial spirit was inflamed by the return of Drake from tho New World, whither ho had...

...effect of "our long quietness," and say that " God had stirred up the war in the Low Countries, to be a school, to " breed up soldiers to defend the freedom...these long times of peace and quietness, is brought to a most " dangerous state." Indeed, things were looking very bad on land in England. On the 8th August,...

...patient veterans."2 The war in the Low Countries was indeed, as some one wrote to Walsingham in 1585, " a school to breed up soldiers to defend the freedom of England, which through these long times 1 Monk, p. 22. 2 Motley, iv. 520. of peace and quietness is brought into a most dangerous estate if...