Neere to the king wheras hee did stand;

‘If that Your Grace will giue me leaue,

My selfe wilbe the only man.’

9

‘Thou shalt haue six hundred men,’ saith our king,

‘And chuse them out of my realme soe ffree;

Besids marriners and boyes,

To guide the great shipp on the sea.’

10

‘I’le goe speake with Sir Andrew,’ sais Charles, my lord Haward;