_The names of so many ships belonging to her majesty as I could come
by at this present_.
The Bonadventure. White Bear.
Elizabeth Jonas.[2] Philip and Mary.
Triumph. Aid.
Bull. Handmaid.
Tiger.[3] Dreadnought.
Antelope. Swallow.
Hope. Genet.
Lion. Bark of Bullen.
Victory. Achates.
Mary Rose. Falcon.
Foresight. George.
Swiftsure. Revenge.
[2] A name devised by her grace in remembrance of her own
deliverance from the fury of her enemies, from which in one
respect she was no less miraculously preserved than was the
prophet Jonas from the belly of the whale.--H.
[3] So called of her exceeding nimbleness in sailing and
swiftness of course.--H.
It is said that as kings and princes have in the young days of the
world, and long since, framed themselves to erect every year a city in
some one place or other of their kingdom (and no small wonder that
Sardanapalus should begin and finish two, to wit, Anchialus and
Tarsus, in one day), so her grace doth yearly build one ship or other
to the better defence of her frontiers from the enemy.
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