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This war doth defend England.

Who is he that will refuse to spend his life and living in it?
If her Majesty consume twenty thousand men in the cause, the experimented men that will remain will double that strength to the realm." This same Wilford commanded a company in Ostend, and was employed by Leicester in examining the defences of that important place.

He often sent information to the Secretary, "troubling him with the rude stile of a poor soldier, being driven to scribble in haste." He reiterated, in more than one letter, the opinion, that twenty thousand men consumed in the war would be a saving in the end, and his own determination--although he had intended retiring from the military profession--to spend not only his life in the cause, but also the poor living that God had given him.
"Her Highness hath now entered into it," he said; "the fire is kindled; whosoever suffers it to go out, it will grow dangerous to that side.

The whole state of religion is in question, and the realm of England also, if this action quail.