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 the name._] [Note i: _The Armes of the towne of Huntingdon, first so named of a place where Hunters met._] [Stanza 70] Northampton[k] with a Castle seated high, Supported by two Lyons thither came; The men of [l]Rutland, to them marching nie, In their rich Ensigne beare an Ermine Ram, And [m]Lestershire that on their strength relye, A Bull and Mastiue fighting for the game. Lincolne[n] a Ship most neatly that was lim’d In all her Sailes with Flags and Pennons trim’d. [Note k: _The armes of the towne._] [Note l: _From the aboundance of wooll in that tract._] [Note m: _A sport more vsed in that Shiere from ancient time, then in any other._] [Note n: _For the length that it hath vpon the Germane Ocean._] [Stanza 71] Stout[a] Warwickshire, her ancient badge the Beare, Worster[b] a Peare-Tree laden with the Fruit, A Golden Fleece and[c] Hereford doth weare, Stafford[d] a Hermet in his homely sute, Shropshire[e] a Falcon towring in the Ayre, And for the Shiere whose surface seems most brute, Darby, an Eagle sitting on a Roote, A swathed Infant holding in her foote. [Note a: _The Beare and ragged Staffe, the ancient Armes of that Earledome._] [Note b: _For the aboundance of fruit more there then in any other tract._] [Note c: _The finenesse of the wooll of Lemster in that Shiere._] [Note d: _Many Hermites liued there in the woods in times past, it being all forrestie._] [Note e: _Expressing the loftinesse of the mountaines in that Shiere, on which many Hawkes were wont to airy._] [Stanza 72]