Whereby the shores were stuft with men of armes.

61.

Fiue hundred saile well mann’d against the foes,

I launcht into the seas with them to fight:

And for the generall of the fight I chose

My bastard brother, William Longspath hight,

Of those our troublous times the brauest knight,

Who at this time his valiancie did show,

In this sea-fight against th’inuading foe.

62.