Whence with loud clamour to the marine shore,

The armed people clustred in thicke swarmes,

Where red-ey’d Eris warre’s blacke ensigne bore,

And mongst their troops did sprinkle blood and gore;

Stirring them vp with eager minds to wade

Through seas of blood, the aduerse fleet t’inuade.

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And as the golden swarmes of black-backt bees,

Their thighes full loaden from the flowrie field,

With humming noise flie to the hollow trees,