To frustrate Acon’s hopes of such supplies,
And with some high aduenture to renowne
Our English name, finding by my espies
The passage where the carriages came downe,
From Babylon to that distressed towne:
I with a band of choice selected men,
Departed from the christian host vnseene.
53.
From vnder couert of a thicke-set groue,
On the carauan first the charge we gaue,