The Battaile of Agincourt

by Michael Drayton

Vnder a Tree with his drawne Bowe that stood,

Which in a checkquer’d Flagge farre off was seene:

It was the Picture of olde Robin Hood,

And^g Lancashire not as the least I weene,

Thorough three Crownes, three Arrowes smear’d with blood:

Cheshiere a Banner very square and broad,

Wherein a man vpon a Lyon rode.

^h For their agillity with the Speare, and swiftnesse of their Naggs.

ⁱ Being ready stil in Armes against the Scots.

^k Expressing the scite therof iuting out into those dangerous Seas, betwixt England and Ireland.