Olde[f] Nottingham, an Archer clad in greene, Vnder a Tree with his drawne Bowe that stood, Which in a checkquer’d Flagge farre off was seene: It was the Picture of olde Robin Hood, And[g] Lancashire not as the least I weene, Thorough three Crownes, three Arrowes smear’d with blood: Cheshiere a Banner very square and broad, Wherein a man vpon a Lyon rode. [Note f: _That famous out-law liued much in that Country, and is yet by many places there celebrated._] [Note g: _Accounted euer the best Archers in England._] [Stanza 73] A flaming Lance, the[h] Yorkshiere men for them, As those for Durham neere againe at hand, A Myter crowned with a Diadem: An Armed man, the men of[i] Cumberland: So[k] Westmerland link’d with it in one Stem, A Ship that wrackt lay fierd vpon the sand: Northumberland[l] with these com’n as a Brother, Two Lyons fighting tearing one another. [Note h: _For their agillity with the Speare, and swiftnesse of their Naggs._] [Note i: _Being ready stil in Armes against the Scots._] [Note k: _Expressing the scite therof iuting out into those dangerous Seas, betwixt England and Ireland._] [Note l: _Their terrible conflicts (many times) with the Scots, expressed in the fight between the golden and red Lyons._] [Stanza 74] Thus as themselues the English men had show’d Vnder the Ensigne of each seu’rall Shiere, The Natiue Welch who no lesse honour ow’d To their owne King, nor yet lesse valiant were, In one strong Reg’ment had themselues bestow’d, And of the rest, resumed had the Reare: To their owne Quarter marching as the rest, As neatly Arm’d, and brauely as the best. [Stanza 75] [a]Pembrooke, a Boat wherein a Lady stood, Rowing her selfe within a quiet Bay; Those men of South-Wales of the [b]mixed blood, Had of the Welch the leading of the way: Caermardin[c] in her Colours beare a Rood, Whereon an olde man lean’d himselfe to stay At a Starre pointing; which of great renowne, Was skilfull Merlin, namer of that Towne. [Note a: _Milford Hauen in Pembrookeshiere, one of the brauest harbours in the knowne world, therefore not vnaptly so expressed._] [Note b: _Partly Dutch, partly English, partly Welch._] [Note c: _Merlin, by whose birth and knowledge that towne is made famous._] [Stanza 76] [d]Clamorgan men, a Castell great and hie, From which, out of the Battlement aboue, A flame shot vp it selfe into the skye: The men of [e]Munmouth (for the ancient loue To that deare Country; neighbouring them so nie) Next after them in Equipage that moue, Three Crownes Imperiall which supported were, With three Arm’d Armes, in their proud Ensigne beare. [Note d: _A Watch Tower or Pharus, hauing the scituation where Seuerne beginneth to widden, as when Pirats haue come in to giue warning to the other Maratyne Countries._]