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Show 191 Churchyard, though he-seems to have had less Churchyard, he supplemented his income tributes to private persons. dition of 1589, for " 8 wrote for by "addressing Prior to the example, Peele cause an departure complaint. for of the inspirational Like payment literary Portugal expe- tribute to Sir John N orris and Sir Francis Drake: "To arms, to arms, to glorious arms, With noble Norris and victorious Drake, Under the sanguine Cross, brave England's badge. You fight for Christ and England's peerless Queen, Elizabeth the -wonder of the world. ,', 9 Though Peele's dedications marily b his works such and "prayers" high as pri the one-quoted above and the one dedicated to Essex a few months Elizabethans held their warriors esteem. In An Portugal, the to have been motivated financial stratts, it should be pointed out, in all fairness, that later did reflect the chauvinism of the age. in seem Trojan Eglogue Gratulatorie, composed for Essex upon his return from Peele compares the Earl to the Greeks wars, returning victorious from 10 and likens his conduct before the walls of Lisbon to that :8 Ibid. 9 Quoted by Edward P. Cheyney in A History of England From the Defeat of the Armada to the Death of Elizabeth (New York: Peter Smith, 1948), I, 163. 10 An Eglogue Gratulatorie, stanza xvii. |
