By which the toils of war most lively are exprest.

But, Muse, may I demand, Why these of all the rest,

(As mighty Albion’s eld’st) most active are and strong?

From[67] Corin came it first, or from the use so long?

Or that this fore-land lies farth’st out into his sight,

Which spreads his vigorous flames on every lesser light?

With th’ virtue of his beams, this place that doth inspire,

Whose pregnant womb prepar’d by his all-powerful fire,

Being purely hot and moist, projects that fruitful seed,

Which strongly doth beget, and doth as strongly breed: