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Sea Dog Francis Drake battled, looted and bought his way from scourge of Spain to Queen Elizabeth’s favorite commander.

“That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet,” wrote William Shakespeare in the 1590s. Perhaps a well-known contemporary of the great playwright heard those words shortly before embarking on a last voyage in 1595 to scourge the Spanish seas and soil of the New World.

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If that bold fellow (perhaps in company with his queen, Elizabeth of the Tudors) indeed found the time to hear Master Robert Goffe of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men utter the fair Juliet’s lines, it is doubtful he engaged in literary analysis or deep philosophical musings. Sir Francis Drake had much time for plunder but little time for tropes, thus he would have missed a fascinating corollary to Juliet’s utterance: Does he, whom others name a pirate / By any other name smell still as foul?

Piracy is a nasty word that reeks of death and misery.

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