In forty minutes.”
Besides, may it not have been from this voyage of Sir Francis Drake, and the accounts which were published respecting it, that the correct knowledge of physical geography was derived which Richard II. displays (act iii. sc. 2, l. 37, &c. vol. iv. p. 165)? as in the lines,—
“when the searching eye of heaven is hid,
Behind the globe, that lights the lower world.
. . . . . .
when from under this terrestrial ball
He fires the proud tops of the eastern pines
And darts his light through every guilty hole.
. . . . . .
revell’d in the night