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Show Theft Beokeofiskefinkpars-Cuavagp ofthree hundred andforty fhips: fo as their formengreat victory was desaitedbyah Guar:.§.9. of the Hifornofthe World, See could:match ouer-land round about Holland,aboue forefcore mile,and oner|manyigreat The Carthaginians hearing what had hapned, repaire all their wanlike Vellels hopi once againto command the Seas.;| they are alfo as confident oftheirla nd-forees fii Armie had oucrcomithis wearifome march, and were now.far from home,the Pringe Mawriceynaking countenance td failevpthe Rhine, changed his)courle inthe night and Seas,before the fame thereofrecoueted:Rume. theduerthrow of Atilins. They fend Ufaradal into Sicil withall their old Souldiers vs an hundred and fortie Elephants imbarqued'intwo hundred Gallies;- With shis i : and flect hearritiesat Li/pbewm ; where he beginstovexethe Partifans of Kome Bitade uerfitie doth not difcourage the Reesanes: They build inthree moneths(amatterof ae Hote pone hundred and twenty fhips 3 with which,andthe remainder oftheiy late hi - wiatke,they row to Pamormas, or Palerma, the chicfe Citic ofthe Africans in Sicil 2 firround it by Landand Water: afterawhilethey:take it,and leauing a Garrifon thio. in,returneto Rome. hi Very defirous the Romans were to bedoing in 4frick:.to vvhich purpofe they imploi- td €Seruilimsand C.Sempronins their Confulls. But thefe wrought no wonders, Sine Spoile they made vpon the coafts.of Africas but Fortune robbed themof all:theirgets tings.Forin their returne, they were firft fet vpon the fands,and like to haue octilted neere vntotheleffer Syrtes,wherethey were faine to!heaueall ouer-boord,, thatfo they might get off : then,hauing with much adoe doubled the Cape of Li/rbewmin clieir pat fage from Pasermas towards Italie,thiey loft an hundred andfifiy,oftheit ships by foule weather. A gieater difcouragement newer, Natiomhad ; the godof the vvarsfauoured ther no more,sthan the god of the waters afflided:them, Ofallthac Mars enricht them 2° with vponthe Land ,Neptane robbed thim vpon the Seas, Foi they hadnowloft,befides wvhattheyJoftin fight,foure hundred and fixe Ships and Gallies, with all themunition and Souldiers tranfported in them. ; _ Theexceeding damage hereby receiued, perfwaded them to giue overtheir Nauigation,andtheir fight by Sea, and to {end only a Land-arinie into swi/, viderL.Cacilus and FFurinstheirConfuls. Thefe they tran{ported in fome threefcore ordinary pathage Aoats;by the ftreights of Adeffaxa, thatare not aboucamile and'ahalfebroadfromland ve laod.In like fort,the ouerthrow which «4ti/ins xeceiuedin Africayoccafioned chiefly ;y = Eipyranrade them leffe cholericke againfithe Carthaginiansthan before; L054 at for two yeares after,they kept the high & wooddie grounds, not daring to fight in Riuers;vviththeir Cannon and catriage; Zuephenivvas taken. ;Againe;when-the Spanifp failing down the ftreame,he was fet downbefore Hulft.in Brabant, ere theSpaniards had. knowledge vvhat wa' bécome ot him; Sothis,Town he alfo-tooke, beforethe Spenifh, armiecould retutnes: Laftlyy the spaayh armiewas.no fooner,arriued in-Brabaut, than, the Prince Wawrices welliattended-by, his good feet, having fortified Halffer faile-as gaineyand prefented himéElfe before Nymegen inGelderi,axGitie of notableimportance; , ti b rhs po and maftred it. Andtofay thetruthyit isiimpofible for any maritime, Gountrie,not having the coafts admirably. fortified,todefendit felfe againft'a powerful enemy,that ismafter oftheSeas Hereof l had rather,that Spaimethan Exg/and thould be an example. Letittherefore be fuppofed,that King PAi/ip the fecond had. fully: refolued.toihinder. Sirvohw Vorrés in. - 1589. from'prefénting; Den, Antonie, King of Bortugale, beforethe gates of Lysborne, and that he would haue kept offthe »Eagh/b;, by power ofhis:land-forcess asbeingitoo weake at Sea, through the great. onerthrow.ofhis mighty ‘Aremado, by the feet of Queene Elizabethinthe yeare foregoing. Surely, iithadnot bin-hard for him, toprepare an/Armie, chat fhould beable torefift onreleuen thoufand. But where fhould 20 chishis'\Armie haue binibeftowed¢ Ifabout Lysborne; then; would-it shane beene eafie vntd the! Exp li{h to take, ranfackey-and bare the "Howie ofGreiae, and to waltethe Countricround abouvit. Forthe great andthreatning preparations ofthe Earle of .4ttemirs,the Marquefle of Seréléa,,andothersysdid-hot hinder; them from: performing all this» Neither did the: haftie Jeanie: of ¢ight thousand, ivader,the} Barleiof:4xdrads, forueto more effec, than the 'incteafe of: honourto Sir John Nerrs,andbis AG fociatesconfidering, thatthe Engl/b: chargedothele, at: Puchte de| Barges, and palling thegreat Bridge, behindewhichtheylay, that was flanked with fhotjand-bamricadoed at the farther endrouted themjtooke their campe s tookeitheix Generals ftandard,with thé Kings Armes,and purfuedthem ouerallthe Gountrie, which they fired.; Ifa toys 30 all Atmic,and nor (lasthis was )a Gompanit ofpriuate adienturers;hiad thus begun-the War in' Gali¢ie, Ethinkeit wouldhaue made the Spaniards to.quit the guard of Ponta: the faire and champion Countries. But this late refolition of FoHfaking theSeaspalted not long: Forit was impoffible for themto fuccour thofe plates Which they heldin Sieit; without'a Nauie, much leffe to maintaine the Vwat in Afvices For whiereas tlie Ro- galésand make hafte to thedefencé oftheir S' lago; whofe Temple. was,notfar fromthe danger. Butyhadthey held their firkt refolution; as knowing, that Sit Jobe Warris his ~ ae Welt parts ofSitil, ‘making fometimes @ march of abauean hundred and forty :rs sealae a could notbeperformedwith an-Arimie, andthe prouifions hislanding in Portugale? Didnot he-latid at Penttha,and march ouer the Coyntrey te Lysborne; xe dayes iourney ¢ Didinothe (when all Dow datonio his promifes failed ) vans otefend forces from Meffams to Egé/iato ‘Liljbeam,andto other placesin the ee eile than foureteene daiessthe Carthaginians would pafle it vviththeit Sallies,in eightand forty Hotires. ; cockbeastsbe ~~ : ae aS aduantage OF tranfporting Armies by wate!, 40 mainieintent was,tobring Dem datonio,withanArmi¢,intohis Kingdom, whitherconts ining ftrong,he expectedto be readily.andioyfully welcomed:couldthey hauehindred paflealong bythe Riuer of Lystorneto Cafcaliz,and there, having wenthe Fort, quietly There fading a btiteredincnichit ie i ath; ch ainent i ue raking imbarque his:men,and depart? Burthefe;though ino more than; dn handfull, yet were 4° they Englifbmen.Letvs confider.of thematter it felfe ; whatanother Nation niight dogs cuenagainit Exg/and,in landing an Armie, byaduantage ofa fleet,if we had none,,, This queftion,whether aninuading Armie may be refified at their landing vpon the ‘cof ofBags lendwere there no fleet ofours at the Sea to impeach it's is already handled by alearned Gentleman of our Nation,in his obferuations vpon C¢/ars Commentatiess that maine . oe Cnche had Edmond'there, hie failed back againe to London s bytheanes whe! cof,he and comparatiuely ;asthatit isa' more {afe and ¢afie courle, to defend a) L the Eoaft of wh is Wenig Alteccold Go pteuciteceseCooterraccayrabarel | ahd failingto the Welt IaldeditDareantoaant Lote Tactdehy aber? Edmond to match after him, stothe to the Riccou: sshled» d, feo aa fuccour oteegecst Worceerfpire,'by him greatly {poy ; oe or =King,and fpoiled where he pleafedevefiiecour could arriue. And i tainesthe affirmative, This he holds only vpon fuppolition 37» 2Z/eace of-our ‘Phippivgs England,thanto fuffer any enemy to land,and afterwards to fight, with;himy Surely D pracpekaeh elp, vwhich the Wetberlands haut had agaitifithe Spaniards, inthedt holdwith him,thar it isthe beft way;to keep our enemy fronitreading yponour grounds Wherein,if we failechen tuft we fecke to make him with, that he-had {taied at his owne &gh ueheti part oftlic time,' whereitt chéiv enemies Haue!bim able todoc it. : solar circuimftances)thatbelong not vntothis difcourfe. But-making,,the queftion; Bee ee ee being Mafters of the-Sea they could paffe theit Army#08 Placeto place, \vnwearied,and cntite,with all the' Munition 6Artileric belonging V" 59 ‘ae corrfie 3 Cotitit ‘Maurice ofNaffaa, iow Yiding, oné of chcgrat tonghegSoin ie worthieh Princts,that either the preferit orpreceding Ages aof i Stee esee i5 9o,carviedhis Armi€by Sed) Wicliforty cn Se te **@hemie CA peeietitiontyi dSR aeeae, ces shewinds ra a fe y. tet: dale, arriving inthe mouth. of the Mesze, turne a mferued the Gyddealr ee a ee a ictal,BUF as LONE AST be A chce to-afelyand fadowne before Zusphen.' So before the +col home, In fuch acafé; if it fhould happen,-onr iudgéments are toweigh many. particls Neral, and pofttines whether England, without helpe of er fisetes be able te acharhe 4" enemic from landing, Uholdthatit is vnable fo todos andtherfore think itmok of afirt 'vidoryto ap,eneOys dangerous to makethe aduenture,Forthe incouragement: and the difcouragement ofbeing beatento the invaded, ‘may. draw afterit aimoft, perils confequenice. ! by 4 Ttistrue; thatthe Marthall Azoa/ué, in his Commentaries, doth greatly, com plaine; we, chee of phe rob efiap that by his wanting faxces, whicrewith to hauekept thefrontien ofGuea |
