ustnesse of his Cause,
To make good, what he dar'd to vndertake,
And once in Action, he stood not to pause,
But in vpon them like a Tempest brake,
And downe their buildings with such fury bare,
That they from mists dissolued were to ayre.

[Stanza 16]

As those braue Edwards, Father, and the Sonne,
At Conquer'd Cressy, with successefull lucke,
Where first all France (as at one game) they wonne,
Neuer two Warriours, such a Battaile strucke,
That when the bloudy dismall fight was done,
Here in one heape, there in another Rucke
Princes and Peasants lay together mixt,
The English Swords, no difference knew betwixt.

[Stanza 17: _Iames, Daulphine of Viennoies. The Dukes of Lorraine, and
Burbon. The Earles of Aumerle, Sauoye, Mountbilliard, Flaunders, Neuers
& Harecourt._]

There Lewes King of Beame was ouerthrowne
With valient Charles, of France the younger Brother,
A Daulphine, and two Dukes, in pieces hewen;
To them six Earles lay slaine by one another;
There the grand Prior of France, fetcht his last groane,
Two Archbishops the boystrous Croud doth smother,
There fifteene thousand of their Gentrie dy'de
With each two Souldiers, slaughtered by his side.

[Stanza 18: _King Iohn of France and Philip his Son taken by the Black
Prince at the Battaile of Poyteers, brought Prisoners to England._]

[_Iohn of Cleumount._]

[_Peter of Burbon._]

Nor the Blacke Prince, at Poyteers battaile fought;
Short of his Father, and himselfe before,
Her King and Prince, that prisoners hither brought
From forty thousand weltring in their gore,
That in the Worlds opinion it was thought,
France from that instant could subsist no more,
The Marshall, and the Constable, there slaine
Vnder the Standard, in that Battaile ta'ne.

[Stanza 19: _Examples of such as haue aduanced theselues to the Crowne
of France against the strict letter of the lawe Salique, in the two
following Stanzas._]

Nor is this clayme for women to succeede,
(Gainst which they would your right to France debarre)
A thing so new, that it so much should neede
Such opposition, as though fetcht from farre,
By Pepin this is prou'd, as by a deede,
Deposing Cheldrick, by a fatall warre,
By Blythild dar'd his title to aduance,
Daughter to Clothar, first so nam'd of France.

[Stanza 20]

Hugh Capet, who from Charles of Lorayne tooke
The Crowne of France, that he in peac