The Battaile of Agincourt

by Michael Drayton

Worster^b a Peare-Tree laden with the Fruit,

[A Golden Fleece and^c Hereford doth weare],

Stafford^d a Hermet in his homely sute,

Shropshire^e a Falcon towring in the Ayre,

And for [the Shiere whose surface seems most brute],

Darby, an Eagle sitting on a Roote,

A swathed Infant holding in her foote.

^f That famous out-law liued much in that Country, and is yet by many places there celebrated.

^g Accounted euer the best Archers in England.

Olde^f Nottingham, an Archer clad in greene,