Troopt vp there were in that same strong-arm’d host,
Fortie three thousand perfect in the frame
Of euery fight, who of that time may boast,
And craue inscription in the booke of fame,
T’haue been the guard of so diuine a dame,
Who for her person only chosen were,
Martiall’d by Hunsdon that true hearted peere.
211.
M. Thomas Flemming.
But while the noble queene her selfe appli’d