Yet not to draw aboue his bosomes hight:
The Trumpets sound the Charge and the Retreat,
The bellowing Drumme, the Martch againe doth beat.

[Stanza 38: _Great Ordnance then but newly in vse._]

Cannons vpon their Caridge mounted are,
Whose Battery France must feele vpon her Walls,
The Engineer prouiding the Petar,
To breake the strong Percullice, and the Balls,
Of Wild-fire deuis'd to throw from farre,
To burne to ground their Pallaces and Halls:
Some studying are, the scale which they had got,
Thereby to take the Leuell of their Shot.

[Stanza 39]

The man in yeares preacht to his youthfull sonne
Prest to this Warre, as they sate by the fire,
What deedes in France were by his Father done,
To this attempt to worke him to aspire,
And told him, there how he an Ensigne wonne,
Which many a yeare was hung vp in the Quire:
And in the Battell, where he made his way,
How many French men he struck downe that day.

[Stanza 40]

The good old man, with teares of ioy would tell,
In Cressy field what prizes Edward play'd,
As what at Poycteers the Black Prince befell,
How like a Lyon, he about him layd:
In deedes of Armes how Awdley did excell,
For their olde sinnes, how they the French men payd:
How brauely Basset did behaue him there:
How Oxford charg'd the Van, Warwick the Reare.

[Stanza 41]

And Boy, quoth he, I haue heard thy Grandsire say,
That once he did an English Archer see,
Who shooting at a French twelue score away,
Quite through the body, stuck him to a Tree;
Vpon their strengths a King his Crowne might lay:
Such were the men of that braue age, quoth he,
When with his Axe he at his Foe let driue,
Murriain and scalpe downe to the teeth did riue.

[Stanza 42]

The scarlet Iudge might now set vp his Mule,
With neighing Steeds the Streetes so pestred are;
For where he wont in Westminster to rule,
On his Tribunal sate the man of Warre,
The Lawyer to his Chamber doth recule,
For be hath now no bus'nesse at the Barre:
But to make Wills and Testaments for those
That were for France, their substance to dispose.

[Stanza 43]

By this, the Counsell of this Warre had met,
And had at large of eu'ry thing discust;
And the graue Clergie had with them beene set:
To warrant what they vndertook was iust,
And as for monies that to be no let,
They bad the King for that to them to trust: