Transcribed from the 1876 Arliss Andrews edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org DRAKE: OR THE TRANSFER OF THE TRIDENT A National Drama BY WILLIAM MAC OUBREY, OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER. * * * * * “_Thus saith the_ LORD _which maketh a_ WAY _in the_ SEA, _and a path in the mighty_ WATERS.” “_The_ ISLES _shall wait upon me_, _and on mine arm shall they trust_.”—_Isaiah_ xliii., 16, _and_ li., 5. * * * * * * * * * * LONDON: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR BY ARLISS ANDREWS, 31, MUSEUM STREET, BLOOMSBURY, W.C. 1876. Dramatis Personæ. Drake (Sir Francis). Earl of Leicester. Lord William Howard, Earl of Effingham. Cecil, afterwards Lord Burleigh. Don Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish Ambassador. Sir Edward Killigrew. Sir Edward Horsey. Thomas Cobham, son of Lord Cobham. Sir John Hawkins, Bolton, and Hampton, his Captains. 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). TO THE ANGLO-SAXON RACE. BRETHREN, The first great object which I have had in view, in the construction of this Drama, was to bear my humble acknowledgment to an ALLWISE PROVIDENCE, who alone could have developed the unprecedented might of the Anglo-Saxon Race—and who alone could have laid the foundations, or builded up, the giant structure of the British Empire—so vast, so rich, so powerful—unparalleled in extent, or wealth, or population—in arts and arms, in manufactures, in literature and laws, in civilization and commerce, in the history of mankind. Great have been the four preceding Empires of PROPHECY! each, for its allotted period, having dominion over the Earth; but of none of them, as of England, could it be said “The abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee.”—(Isaiah lx, 5)