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THE

SPANISH INVASION;

O R

DE F E A T

OF THE

INVINCIBLE ARMADA:
A PO E M.

WITH CRITICAL NOTES,

EXPLAINING EVERY PRINCIPAL CIRCUMSTANCE OF THAT SINGULAR ENTERPRIZE, AND THE METHODS THEN TAKEN TO DEFEND THIS NATION.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

A NEW SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF QUEEN ELIZABETH.

AND AN

INTRODUCTION

Proper to be read at this IMPORTANT CRISIS, which resembles, more than any other Period, the danger we were in during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, and the Mode of our Deliverance under the Aufpices of Providence and that glorious Queen.

"Britons!

"Steer through thefe fwelling dangers,

"Plough their prides up, and bear like thunder
"Into their loudeft tempefts !"-

LONDON:

MASSINGER.

Printed for J. MACGOWAN, No. 27, Paternofter-Row,

MDCCLXXX.

[ Price, One Shilling and Sixpence.]