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This continuation of the prayer attributed to Sir Francis Drake reflects the Elizabethan Puritan sensibility that material comfort can dull spiritual and martial drive. Drake accumulated enormous wealth from privateering — his circumnavigation of the globe (1577–1580) yielded plunder worth hundreds of thousands of pounds — yet he repeatedly sought new voyages and commands rather than retiring to his estates. The prayer's plea against complacency reads as an expression of that restlessness, whether or not Drake composed these exact words.