1540-1596, Elizabethan Seaman, Born in Crowndale, Devon
I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.
Sir Francis Drake – [Army and Navy]
The advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.
Sir Francis Drake – [Battles]