Excerpt from Tales of the Wars of Our Times, Vol. 1 of 2 War is the curse, and peace the blessing, of a country: a realm gaineth more by one year's peace than by ten-years' war. Thus thought and spoke the great Lord Burleigh. His last memorable act was an attempt to bring about a peace with Spain, in which he was Opposed by the Earl of Essex, to whom the statesman pointed out these words in the Psalms, Men of blood shall not live out half their days. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.