Shall beat down the attempt of the Barbarians,
Then in his Noon he shall be perplexed and have untoward business,
Young Ogmion shall pull down his strength.
ANNOT.
This Stanza was made concerning Philip the II. King of Spain, who for the first seven years that he came to his Crown, had prosperous fortune, did brave exploits against the Barbarians, and chiefly in the person of his Brother Don Juan of Austria, who got the memorable Battle of Lapantho against the Turks, but in the middle of his Noon, that is of his Age, fell into great perplexities and cross businesses, being constrained to put his onely son Don Carla to death, and to poison his wife and after that never prospered, when young Ogmion (that is Henry IV. King of France) came to the Crown.
XC.
French.
Un Capitaine de la grand Germanie,
Se viendra rendre par simulé secours,
Au Roy des Roys, aide de Pannonie,