T’oppugne the foe, that should her state assaile,
Loe, from the Groyne the blacke fleet was descri’d,
Who now befriended with a gentle gale,
For England’s rockie bounds did make full saile,
Of whom hight captaine Flemming first had sight,
And fled before them with industrious flight.
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At Plimmouth port where th’English fleet did lie,
He with full saile came in, and cri’d amaine:
“Weigh vp your ankors, hoise your sailes on high;