Which ouercharg’d with seed their heads do bow

Are by the reaper downe in handfuls borne,

Who for that meed, which th’owner doth allow,

Still plies his labour with a sweatie brow;

So th’English did with sword and fire despoile

The fruitfull plentie of that pleasant soile.

323.

That strong street-fenced towne, Vigo by name,

In ashie heapes on ground did groueling lie,

And on the swift wings of a golden flame,