I came[823] appointed wel, with fiftie sayles or more.
18.
But so the noble Britaynes playde the valiaunt men,
By pollicies, and force to hurt my shippes and mee,
That I was forced after my returne agen,
To rigge my shippes: a wonders thing[824] to see:
For in the strands and in the seas, where landing places be,[825]
Sharpe postes they pight, whereon our shippes wee ron:[826]
[And at our enemies shoares, that woulde haue glory won,
In daunger both by land and sea were almost all vndone:[827]]