A Flame of Fire
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Our country now, thank God, is in comparative peace again. The Great Armada, the very thought of which hung like a night pall upon our people for such a long time, has come, and - all that was left of it - returned to the shores from which it came. The proud boasts of Spain no longer trouble us. Not that they ever made us fear, for no sooner did her Gracious Majesty ascend the throne than the whole nation began to feel the throbbings of a new life. In truth, as my father hath often said to me, our people seemed to be new-born during the first ten years of Elizabeth's reign. It is true we had lost Calais under Mary, but we did not fear the French; towards the Dutch we had only feelings of friendship, while we had tasted the quality of the Spaniards too often to fear them. That they were richer than we, we were well aware; that they could put more soldiers in the field we also knew; all the same, we had learned to laugh at their proud vauntings. We were told right often that the Pope excommunicated our Queen, and promised Spain and its King all manner of blessing - temporal and spiritual - if they would bend our necks, and bring us into submission; while terrible threats were made if we did not throw off our allegiance to Elizabeth and yield to Papal authority. But, as I said, we did not fear.
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