A sparke not quite extinct, whence growes a flame,
Wil soone resume his former strength againe:
Euen so Canutus power, which I did tame,
And with one blow might then haue queld the same,
Resum’d proud strength, which little time did yeeld,
And oft times after brau’d me in the field.
48.
The bainfull’st battaile we did euer fight,
At Scorstan was, in fruitfull Worstershire,
Where vnto both the hosts in open sight