Such strong inuasion both by seas and land
Vpon the Danes, that all the force of hand,
That they for warre could make, would scarce suffice
To giue repulse vnto their enemies.
7.
Which when Canute did heare, his Danish force
He mustred vp, and I inspir’d by fame,
Troopt vp my Kentish friends, both foot and horse,
With whom deckt in braue armes and skill’d in frame
Of varied fight, vnto Canute I came,