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Excerpt from A Report of the Truth Concerning the Last Sea-Fight of the Revenge
'i And after that, Syr Iohn Norris marched from Peniz che in Portugall, with a handfull of souldiers, to the gates of Lisbone, being aboue English miles. Where the Earle of Essex himselfe and other valiant Gentlemen, braued the Cittie of Lisbone, encamped at the verie gates from whence after many daies abode, finding neither promised partie, nor prouision to batter: made retrait by land, in despight of all their Garrisons, both of Horse and foote. In this sort I haue a little digressed from my first purpose, only by the necessarie comparison of theirs and ouractions: the one couetous of honour without vaunt or ostentation; the other so greedy to purchase the Opinion of their own affaires, and by false rumors to resist the blasts of their owne dishonors, as they wil not only not blush to spread all maner of vntruthes: but cuen for the least ad.
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