At The Last He
Entreated To Have The Merchant Of The Admiral Carried By Him As A
Messenger To The General, That So He Might Be Satisfied And Assured Of
Their Minds By One Of Their Own Company.
But Master Wilkinson would
agree to no such thing; although Richard Rowit, the merchant himself,
seemed willing to be
Employed in that message, and laboured by
reasonable persuasions to induce Master Wilkinson to grant it - as
hoping to be an occasion by his presence and discreet answers to
satisfy the General, and thereby to save the effusion of Christian
blood, if it should grow to a battle. And he seemed so much the more
willing to be sent, by how much deeper the oaths and protestations of
this Cavalero were, that he would (as he was a true knight and a
soldier) deliver him back again in safety to his company. Albeit,
Master Wilkinson, who, by his long experience, had received sufficient
trial of Spanish inconstancy and perjury, wished him in no case to put
his life and liberty in hazard upon a Spaniard's oath; but at last,
upon much entreaty, he yielded to let him go to the General, thinking
indeed that good speeches and answers of reason would have contented
him, whereas, otherwise, refusal to do so might peradventure have
provoked the more discontentment.
Master Rowit, therefore, passing to the Spanish General, the rest of
the galleys, having espied him, thought, indeed, that the English were
rather determined to yield than to fight, and therefore came flocking
about the frigate, every man crying out, "Que nuevas?
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