All men to you the laurell wreath may giue,
Which that milde mercie, which you then did show,
Doth more deserue then conquest gainst the foe.
427.
After the souldier had return’d from spoile
Loaden with riches of the ransackt towne,
To yeeld fit compensation to the toile
Of each man’s paines, with fauour or renowne,
The generals did each souldier’s merit crowne,
And gaue to many a well deseruing wight