Mudcat Café message #1570820

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Thread #84948 Message #1570820
Posted By: Abby Sale
26-Sep-05 - 09:04 AM
Thread Name: happy? - Sept 26 (Drake's Return)
Subject: happy? - Sept 26 (Drake's Return)

9/26/1580: Drake completes 1st circumnavigation of the globe by an Englishman (returning with ½ million £ of treasure)

         Then came the Lord Chamberlain with his white staff
          And all the people began to laugh;
          And then the Queen began to speak:
          'You're welcome home, Sir Francis Drake.'
  
                  "Upon Sir Francis Drake's Return from his Voyage about the
                  World, &c," Oxford Book of Sea Songs, Roy Palmer