Reflex. V.

5. THat the most promising de∣signs, though launch'd out and promoted with all the appertinent u∣tensills, that policy can contrive; are many times easily defeated by uncal∣culated Accidents: sometimes a mi∣staken letter, in the sound of a word, hath rooted great Armadoes: and the whistling of the wind in the Sicamour trees destroyed an Host. Thus GideonPage  74founded the Midianites with the sud∣den surprizal of Trumpets, Lamps, and broken Pitchers. * The very looks of the Germanes affrighted the Gaules; And the very flashes in the besmeared faces of the Picts, did gawle the Saxons. Thus did the hellish visage of the grim Negroes and Molettoes beyond all ima∣gination at the first assault nonplus our men at Hispaniola; which yet had not signified so much, if it had not been seconded with the unhappy Conduct of Gen. Venables; whose crazy ma∣nagement of affairs shared so sinister an influence to his better deserving Followers.

The Indulgent Heavens till now, su∣spending the Award of any Damages to the English Nation, in repair of the losse of that invincible Armado in Eighty Eight.