Did with swift winde cut through the wauie seas,
While shee, whose heart th’effects of grace did feele,
Not giuing trust vnto the strength of steele,
While England’s sacred queene, while shee, I say,
For her faire fleete to this effect did pray:
389.
Recorded by him that wrote this voiage, who carried it with him into Spaine, translated into Latin by D. Marbecke.
“Thou guide of all the world, great king of heauen,
That seest all hearts with thy all-seeing eye,
Thou knowest what cause vs to this warre hath driuen,