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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: and feu-de-joie on the occasion. But as old Fuller says, "The bear
was not yet killed, and Medina Sidonia might have catched a great
cold, had he no other clothes to wear than the skin thereof."
So flew rumor, false and true, till poor John Bull's wits were
well-nigh turned: but to the very last, after his lazy fashion, he
persuaded himself that it would all come right somehow; that it was
too great news to be true; that if it was true, the expedition was
only meant for the Netherlands; and, in short, sat quietly over his
beef and beer for many a day after the French king had sent him
fair warning, and the queen, the ministry, and the admirals had
been assuring him again and again that he, and not the Dutchman,
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