56.

Nine times the pale-fac’d queene of peacefull night,

Did lose that siluer lustre in her wane,

Which she receiu’d from Phœbus cheerefull sight,

And nine times did her brothers light againe

Renue that losse, which she did erst sustaine,

While Antioch walles our armie did enclose,

And stood in daily skirmish with the foes.

57.

In the ninth month, vpon the topfull brow