Then courts of guard are set with speciall care,

Lest that our foes aduantage to espie,

In ambuskado neere should lurking lie:

And euery one with hearts to heau’n did pray

To scape the horror of th’approching day.

68.

The heau’ns that in eternall booke do keepe

The register, for life or deathe’s decree,

By vision strange did shew to me in sleepe,

That next daie’s cheerefull light the last should be,