24 'Sheets' in plural in Hannah's MS. Another in the Ashmolean collection 'clo[a]th[e]s'—a good naval technicality.
27-34 Referring to the Mare Clausum dispute and the English insistence on the lowering of foreign flags.
An Epitaph on his most honoured friend, Richard, Earl of Dorset.
[Died March 28, 1624.]
Let no profane ignoble foot tread near
This hallow'd piece of earth: Dorset lies here.
A small sad relique of a noble spirit,
Free as the air, and ample as his merit;
Whose least perfection was large, and great