By permission of Messrs. Macmillan, to whom I am indebted
for some of my choicest numbers. For the story of Sir Richard
Grenville's heroic death, 'in the last of August,' 1591--after
the Revenge had endured the onset of 'fifteen several armadas,'
and received some 'eight hundred shot of great artillerie,'--see
Hakluyt (1598-1600), ii. 169-176, where you will find it told
with singular animation and directness by Sir Walter Raleigh,
who held a brief against the Spaniards in Sir Richard's case
as always. To Sir Richard's proposal to blow up the ship the
master gunner 'readily condescended,' as did 'divers others';
but the captain was of 'another opinion,' and in the end Sir
Richard was taken aboard the ship of the Spanish admiral, Don
Alfonso de Bazan, who used him well and honourably until he
died: leaving to his friends the 'comfort that being dead he
hath not outlived his own honour,' and that he had nobly shown
how false and vain, and therefore how contrary to God's will,
the 'ambitious and bloudie practices of the Spaniards' were.
XCV
_Tiresias and Other Poems_, 1885. By permission of Messrs.
Macmillan. Included at Lord Tennyson's own suggestion. For the
noble feat of arms (25th October 1854) thus nobly commemorated,
see Kinglake (v. i. 102-66). 'The three hundred of the Heavy
Brigade who made this famous charge were the Scots Greys and the
second squadron of Enniskillings, the remainder of the "Heavy
Brigade" subsequently dashing up to their support.
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