Imagine: scouts burst into Queen Elizabeth I’s throne room. ‘Your Majesty,’ they pant, ‘the Spanish have sent an armada to destroy the government and impose their religion on England! What shall we do?’ An impertinent Sir Francis Drake leaps to his feet and cries, ‘My Queen, I shall take command of every vessel in England and defend your happy realm from the invaders.’
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