ANNOT.
This Stanza is concerning the Lady Elizabeth of France, Daughter to Henry the II. and Sister to Charles the IX. who being promised first to Don Carlo Infante of Spain, was afterwards Married to his Father Philip the II. at which the young man being vexed and discontented, began to raise combustions in the State, for which, and his too much familiarity with his Mother in Law, he was strangled by his Fathers command, and she poisoned.
LXXIX.
French.
Le Chef de Classe par fraude, stratageme,
Fera timides sortir de leurs Galeres,
Sortis meurdris chef renieux de Cresme,
Puis par l’Embusche luy rendront les salaires.
English.
The Commander of a Fleet by fraud and stratagem,