The following lines are a part of the cipher poem, the Spanish Armada:
——“So by a roaring Tempest on the flood,
A whole Armado of convicted saile
Is scattered and dis-joyn’d from fellowship.”
K. J., Act iii., Sc. iii.
A part of Cranmer’s prophetic speech at Elizabeth’s christening has reference to Francis himself:
“So shall she leave her Blessednesse to One
(When Heaven shall call her from this clowd of darknes)
Who, from the sacred Ashes of her Honour
Shall Star-like rise, as great in fame as she was,