The well-rig’d Nauie falne into the Road, For this short Cut with victuall fully stor’d, The King impatient of their long aboad, Commands his Army instantly aboard, Casting to haue each Company bestow’d, As then the time conuenience could afford; The Ships appointed wherein they should goe, And Boats prepar’d for waftage to and fro. [Stanza 64] To be imbarqu’d when euery Band comes downe, Each in their order as they mustred were, Or by the difference of their [a]Armings knowne, Or by their Colours; for in Ensignes there, Some wore the Armes of their most ancient Towne, Others againe their owne Diuises beare, There was not any, but that more or lesse, Something had got, that something should expresse. [Note a: _A Blazon of the Ensignes of the seuerall Shires, in 14 Stanzas following._] [Stanza 65] First, in the [b]Kentish Stremer was a Wood, Out of whose top an arme that held a Sword, As their right Embleme; and to make it good, They aboue other onely had a Word, Which was; Vnconquer’d; as that freest had stood. [c]Sussex the next that was to come Aboard Bore a Blacke Lyon Rampant, sore that bled, With a Field-Arrow darted through the head. [Note b: _Expressing their freedom, as still retaining their ancient liberties, by surprising the Conqueror like a mouing Wood._] [Note c: _An expressiõ of King Harolds death, slaine with an Arrow in the head, at the Battaile of Hastings, fighting against the Conqueror._] [Stanza 66] The men of [d]Surrey, Cheeky Blew and gold, (Which for braue Warren their first Earle they wore, In many a Field that honour’d was of olde:) And Hamshere 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]