IV.
Be sure you don’t the Doctor call
Pill draught, and Bolus fly,
For if you take them, one or all!
Just bid your friends good bye!
Good wine’s the stuff,
Then drink enough,
And never say you’ll die! (Laughter and cheers).
All. Never say Die! Hurrah! Hurrah!
(Scene changes).
Scene III.—CREEK IN THE RIVER CHAGRES.
The deep forest around. Distant mountains. Deck of the “Pacha.” Drake and Chiruca.
Drake. This seems a hiding-place retired enough. Yet! should the Spaniards come here, and so many of us absent?
Chiruca. There is no danger. They know nothing of this region. Five nations of warriors are in arms against them. Our homes will be your homes; our food will be your food; the beautiful daughters of the land will be your wives; we will love you like brothers; we will join with your great nation; your great Queen shall be our Queen. This affair of Nombre de Dios will fly through our people; now we know you can give us vengeance and drive these robbers away. England shall have all the gold.
Drake. The more I see of this river the better I like it—the very haven for a pirate ship.
Chiruca. Here, then, I leave you, noble Drake. To morrow (pointing to the mountains) before those mountain tops are red with the rising sun, we shall meet at the junction of the streams. Adieu! (he prepares to leap)