And for to saue our shattered ships and armour brought,
To wey them out that else had bulgd themselves in sand,
Hereon before the fielde with might and mayne we wrought,
Beside at skirmish oft, vpon the shoare we fought;
These labours tyred so my men and me that tyde,
That we could not endure the battayles brunt t’abyde,
[But sound retrayte till better Fortune might vs guyde.]
22.
They followed harde the chace with scath and losse we scapt,
And shipt we hoysed sayles, to Fraunce we made retyre: