To whom like floting _Delos_ on the waue We gaue the chase, till turning backe from flight, With all her fights set vp she did vs braue, And fifteene hundred men all arm’d for fight, Vpon her deckes did shew themselues in sight, Whom in our gallies thronging in thicke croud, My souldiers did assaile with clamours loud. 48. Oft times with valour the repulse they gaue To vs, that sought to boord their ship and scale Her wooden walles, so high aboue the waue, Till from our bowes, shafts thicke as winter’s haile, Their stoutest hearts with deadly wounds did quaile, Who shrinking from the fight my men did boord, And in their furie did not spare the sword. 49. Then did appeare the ruine of the foe, Gasping for breath in vaine, sweet life they craue, The blood of wounded men did streaming flow Into the flood, and here and there it gaue A crimson colour to the siluer waue: Whereby through th’English fleet each little boat In Pagan blood triumphantly did float. 50. With that great monster barke two hundred men Reseru’d from death, in triumph we did scower The seas: to Acon’s siege begirted then By all the christian host, from whose watch-tower The foe-men viewing my approching power, And hearing of my deed vpon the deepe, No longer did intend the towne to keepe. 51. Yet after my arriue they being fed With lingring hope, did change their first intent, Gainst vs the towne did proudly beare her hed: For hearing of a priuate conuoy sent, With fresh supplie for their prouision spent, Though faint for food, yet they did after sheeld Their walles with stout defence and would not yeeld. 52. To frustrate Acon’s hopes of such supplies, And with some high aduenture to renowne Our English name, finding by my espies The passage where the carriages came downe, From Babylon to that distressed towne: I with a band of choice selected men, Departed from the christian host vnseene. 53. From vnder couert of a thicke-set groue, On the carauan first the charge we gaue, Three thousand burthened camels in a droue We from the conuoy tooke, who for to saue The rest from spoile, at first aloofe did waue, But when we towards them made, though more they were In number farre, they tooke the wings of feare. 54.