And smart of wounds receiu’d from foes of late

Did with swift furie feather my desire,

Which of itself by nature’s gifts did hate

To linger time, deferring vtmost fate

In doubtfull chance of battaile to be tride,

For which I was surnam’d, hight Ironside.

23.

This fire of expedition in affaires

And height of resolution t’vndergoe,

Compar’d to strength of limbes and restlesse cares,