King Richards wrongs, to minde, Lord doe not call,
Nor how for him my Father did offend,
From vs alone deriue not thou his fall,
Whose odious life caus'd his vntimely end,
That by our Almes be expiated all:
Let not that sinne on me his Sonne desend,
When as his body I translated haue,
And buried in an honourable Graue.

[Stanza 154]

These things thus pondring, sorrow-ceasing sleepe,
From cares to rescue his much troubled minde,
Vpon his Eye-lids stealingly doth creepe,
And in soft slumbers euery sense doth binde,
(As vndisturbed euery one to keepe)
When as that Angell to whom God assign'd,
The guiding of the English, gliding downe
The silent Campe doth with fresh courage crowne.

[Stanza 155]

His glittering wings he gloriously displaies,
Ouer the Hoste as euery way it lyes
With golden Dreames their trauell, and repaies,
This Herault from the Rector of the skies,
In Vision warnes them not to vse delayes,
But to the Battell cheerefully to rise,
And be victorious, for that day at hand,
He would amongst them for the English stand.

[Stanza 156]

The dawne scarse drewe the curtaines of the East,
But the late wearied Englishmen awake,
And much refreshed with a little rest
Themselues soone ready for the Battaile make,
Not any one but feeleth in his breast,
That sprightly fire which Courage bids him take,
For ere the Sunne next rising went to bed,
The French by them in triumph should be led.

[Stanza 157: _The great care of a wise and politike Captaine._]

And from their Cabins, ere the French arose,
(Drown'd in the pleasure of the passed night,)
The English cast their Battailes to dispose,
Fit for the ground whereon they were to fight:
Foorth that braue King couragious Henry goes,
An hower before that it was fully light,
To see if there might any place be found,
To giue his Hoste aduantage by the ground.

[Stanza 158]

Where twas his hap a Quicksett hedge to view,
Well growne in height; and for his purpose thin,
Yet by the Ditch vpon whose banke it grew,
He found it to be difficult to winne,
Especially if those of his were true,
Amongst the shrubbs that he should set within,
By which he knew their strength of Horse must come,
If they would euer charge his Vanguard home.

[Stanza 159: _This Stratagem the ouerthrow of the French._]

And of three hundred Archers maketh choice