Did make repaire, t’oppugne the fleet of Spaine;

Then all that royall nauie could containe:

Such feruent loue vnto their soueraigne’s name,

With fierie courage did their hearts enflame.

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Those stout sea-searchers of the stormie flood,

The sonnes of Nereus broad sea-sayling race,

And the braue offspring of Prometheus brood,

That with loud thunder-claps their foe-men chace,

Who in Elizae’s royall fleet had place,