141.
His fleet transferr’d, with prosperous gale did sweepe
Through parted wanes of Thetis waterie skie,
Vnto the shores of the Castilian deepe,
In whose proud billowes he did wafting lie,
Vntill for truth he heard by his espie,
Of that prepare, that in Cales harbor lay,
For Spaine’s Armada gainst th’appointed day.
142.
Then gaue he order for the nauall fight,