Transcribed from the 1876 Arliss Andrews edition by DavidPrice,
DRAKE:
ORTHE
TRANSFER OF THE TRIDENT
A National Drama
BY
WILLIAM MAC OUBREY,
OF THEMIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER.
“Thus saith the lord which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters.”
“The isles shallwait upon me, and on mine arm shall theytrust.”—Isaiah xliii., 16, and li.,5.
LONDON:
Printed and Published for the author byArliss Andrews,
31, Museum Street, Bloomsbury, W.C.
1876.
p. 2DramatisPersonæ.
Drake (Sir Francis).
Earl of Leicester.
Lord William Howard, Earl of Effingham.
Cecil, afterwards Lord Burleigh.
Don Bernardino de Mendoza, SpanishAmbassador.
Sir Edward Killigrew.
Sir Edward Horsey.
Thomas Cobham, son of Lord Cobham.
Sir John Hawkins, Bolton, and Hampton, hisCaptains.
William Hawkins, Bill Carvell, &c.
John Oxenham, Thomas Moone, Sayers.
Comagre (Indian Cacique).
Chiruca (his son).
English and Foreign Spies.
Joe Jolly (Landlord of the Blue Anchor).
Lord — (General of the El Dorado).
Poet, (who sings the National Ode).
Sailors, Spaniards, Indians, Attendants,Page.
Queen Elizabeth.
Mrs. Ashley (her Chamberwoman).
p. 3TO THEANGLO-SAXON RACE.
Brethren,
The first great object which I have had in view, in theconstruction of this Drama, was to bear my humble acknowledgmentto an Allwise Providence, who alonecould have developed the unprecedented might of the Anglo-SaxonRace—and who alone could have laid the foundations, orbuilded up, the giant structure of the British Empire—sovast, so rich, so powerful—unparalleled in extent, orwealth, or population—in arts and arms, in manufactures, inliterature and laws, in civilization and commerce, in the historyof mankind. Great have been the four preceding Empires ofProphecy! each, for its allottedperiod, having dominion over the Earth; but of none of them, asof England, could it be said “The abundance of the seashall be converted unto thee.”—(Isaiah lx, 5)
Whilst I would put on record my own conviction, I would invitethe attention of my countrymen to the assured fact, that noenlarged views of policy of our statesmen, no magnitude of ourarmaments, no superior science of our Generals, have wrought thiswonder, for our race and country. The peculiar Glory of England is, that hergreatness is the work of God! to whomis known from the be