Nor yet presume vnequally to striue:

Had I thus done, I had beene man aliue.[246]

20.

But I dispised the naked Irish men,

And, for they flew, I feared them the lesse:

I thought one man enough to match with ten,

And through this carelesse vnaduisednes

I was destroyde, and all my men I gesse,[247]

At vnawares assaulted by our foen,

Which were in nombre forty to vs one.