The Battaile of Agincourt

by Michael Drayton

And ^mLestershire that on their strength relye,

A Bull and Mastiue fighting for the game.

Lincolneⁿ a Ship most neatly that was lim’d

In all her Sailes with Flags and Pennons trim’d.

^a The Beare and ragged Staffe, the ancient Armes of that Earledome.

^b For the aboundance of fruit more there then in any other tract.

^c The finenesse of the wooll of Lemster in that Shiere.

^d Many Hermites liued there in the woods in times past, it being all forrestie.

^e Expressing the loftinesse of the mountaines in that Shiere, on which many Hawkes were wont to airy.

Stout^a Warwickshire, her ancient badge the Beare,