From th’English fleet amongst the enemie.

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Then had th’Iberians dread, their pride did bow,

Their foes by valour brake their nauall round,

And as a torrent from an hil’s steepe brow,

Clad in fresh showers and thunder’s fearefull sound,

Beares all before it in the plaine land ground;

So did they beat from off their natiue bounds,

Spain’s mighty fleet with cannons scathful wounds.

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