Which in diuided squadrons th’English fleet,

With hot incounter furiously did meet.

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This conflict being the fourth and last, was before Greueling.

Who bound vp round together in a ring,

Lay close in their defence against their foe;

But as the southerne blasts in budding spring,

When Auster’s swelling cheekes do ouerflow

In handfuls thicke the blossomes downe to blow;

So thicke and dreadfully did slaughter flie