Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Sir Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake Revived
The Dedicatory EpistleIntended to QUEEN ELIZABETH
Written by SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, Deceased.
To the Queen’s most excellent Majesty, my most dread Sovereign.
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To the Queen’s most excellent Majesty, my most dread Sovereign.
M
S
Humbly submitting myself to Your gracious censure, both in writing and presenting; that Posterity be not deprived of such help as may happily be gained hereby, and our present Age, at least, may be satisfied, in the rightfulness of these actions, which hitherto have been silenced: and Your Servant’s labour not seem altogether lost, not only in travels by sea and land, but also in writing the Report thereof (a work to him no less troublesome) yet made pleasant and sweet, in that it hath been, is, and shall be for Your Majesty’s content; to whom I have devoted myself [and] live or die.
FRANCIS DRAKE [Knight].
January 1, 1592 [i.e., 1593].
January 1, 1592 [i.e., 1593].