Through rolling clouds of smoake doth sternely frowne;
Whose fierce fiers climing houses far away,
By foes are seene to worke the towne’s decay.
432.
Thus burnt Spaine’s Cadiz fam’d for that faire place,
Where great Alcides, when his sword did tame
The triple Gerion borne of tyrant’s race,
Did fixe his pillars t’eternize his name,
With ne plus vltra grauen on the same;
Thus did it burne captiu’d in English yoke,