When at the Groyne that host lay readie dight

To passe the seas, to dispossesse Nauarre,

Gainst whom th’vnholy league did warre prepare;

But while the royall fleet of our faire queene

Appeer’d at sea, they durst not then be seene.

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Nor durst that captaine of the Spanish fleet,

Th’insulting Don Alonso Bacan hight,

Elizae’s ships in equall battell meet;

But if by chance he found the ods in fight,