Her half-drowned face, and lifts it o'er the waves,

From Severn's bank, even to this barren down,

Our foremost men have pressed their fainty rear,

And not one Saxon face has been beheld;

But all their backs and shoulders have been stuck

With foul dishonest wounds; now here, indeed,

Because they have no farther ground, they stand.

Aur. Well have we chose a happy day for fight;

For every man, in course of time, has found