Which with his valiant crew he did maintaine,

Against the incursions of the power of Spaine.

97.

An. eodem. Drake’s voyage to Carthagena and Domingo.

Meane time th’ vndaunted Drake no time did sleepe,

Vpon the maine king Philip’s powers to sease,

Who thought himselfe the Neptune of the deepe;

But of such yoke, the sea-gods sonnes to ease,

Drake tooke from him the scepter of the seas,

And put the same in his faire soueraigne’s hand,