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Lord Grey de Wilton, the lord deputy of Ireland under whom Ralegh served, succeeded in driving the expeditionary force into a fort and then mounted a siege. The fort lacked water and after three days, Sebastiano di San Giuseppe, the troops' leader, surrendered and ordered his men to throw down their weapons. The terms of the surrender remain in dispute, the but resulting action does not.

The reservations that any prudent person might have had about trusting such a cruel trickster evidently did not keep Marlowe from spending time with Watson. And after all, Watson too would have had to set prudence aside to spend time with Marlowe. Each of them might have felt strangely safer to see certain of his most sinister qualities reflected int he cracked glass of the other.