shere next in the same Colours bore,
Three Lions Passant, th' Armes of Beuis bould,
Who through the World so famous was of yore;
A siluer[e] Tower, Dorsets Red Banner beares;
The Cornishmen two Wrestlers had for theirs.

[Note d: _The first famous Earle of that Countrey._]

[Note e: _Expressing the pleasantnesse of the scituation of that
County, lying vpon the French sea._]

[Stanza 67]

The [f]Deuonshire Band, a Beacon set on fire,
Sommerset [g]a Virgine bathing in a Spring,
Their Cities Armes, the men of Glostershire,
In Gold three [h]Bloudy Cheuernells doe bring;
Wiltshire a Crowned[a] Piramed; As nigher
Then any other to martch to the King;
Barkshire a [b]Stag, vnder an Oake that stood,
Oxford a White Bull wading in a Flood.

[Note f: _As lying the fittest to expell or forwarne Inuasion._]

[Note g: _Expressing the delicacy of the Bath, their chiefe
Citty._]

[Note h: _The Armes of the ancient Family of Clare Earle of
Gloster borne by the City._]

[Note a: _Stonidge being the first wonder of England, standing in
Wiltshire._]

[Note b: _An old Embleme of Berech, or Berkshire._]

[Stanza 68]

The mustred men for [c]Buckingham, are gone
Vnder the Swan, the Armes of that olde Towne,
The Londoners, and Middlesex as one,
Are by the Red Crosse, and the Dagger knowne;
The Men of [d]Essex ouermatch'd by none,
Vnder Queene Hellens Image Martching downe;
[e]Suffolke a Sunne halfe risen from the brack,
[f]Norfolke a Triton on a Dolphines backe.

[Note c: _A Badge of the ancient family of the Staffords Dukes of
that place._]

[Note d: _Queene Helen Founder of the Crosse, wife to Constantine,
and Daughter to King Coell, builder of Colchester in Essex._]

[Note e: _Suffolke the most Easterly of the English shieres._]

[Note f: _For the braue prospect to the Germaine Ocean._]

[Stanza 69]

The Souldiers sent from [g]Cambridgshire, a Bay
Vpon a Mountaine watred with a shower:
Hartford[h] two Harts that in a Riuer play;
Bedfords an Eagle pearcht vpon a Tower,
And [i]Huntington a People proud as they,
Not giuing place to any for their power,
A youthfull Hunter, with a Chaplet Crown'd,
In a pyde Lyam leading forth his Hound.

[Note g: _Hauing relation to that famous Vniuersitie their Shiere
Towne._]

[Note h: _The Armes of the Towne somewhat alluding to