In grand procession takes her place amidst the crowded way.
See, on her right, great Cecil rides: a wiser man than he
Ne’er led our glorious country on to meet his destiny:
And, on her left, in manhood’s prime, is Raleigh proud and brave,
Back from Virginia lately come, across the Atlantic Wave.
Lords Effingham and Seymour next move onward side by side,
Hawkins and Drake and Frobisher but just behind them ride;
Lord Oxford and Lord Cumberland, and Vavasor and Blount,
And more of England’s chiefest men, too numerous to recount.
From every window beauty smiles, in faces young and old,