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 Rh Spaniardes greatly to heare of the death of him, whoe life was a courge & coutinuall plague vnto them: But it was a pointe of great implicitie, & carcely beeeming a Generall, to tie the credite of his reporte locally to any place vppon the report of a illy Indian iaue. For it had beene ufficient to haue aid, that Fraunces Drake Was certainly dead, without publishing the lye in Print, by naming Nombre de Dios: for it is mot certaine Sir Fraunces Drake dyed twixt the Iland of Scouda, and Porte-bella: But the Gencrall being rauihed with the uddaine ioy of this report as a man that hath ecaped a great daunger of the enemie, doeth breake out into an inolent kind of bragging of his valour at Sea, and heaping one lye vpon another, doth not ceae vntill he hath drawne them, into equences, and o: doth commende them vnto Peter the Doctor, as cenour of his learned worke. Rh