‘Harry Hunt shall have his whistle and chaine, And all his jewels whatsoe’er they be, And other rich gifts that I will not name, For his good service he hath done me. LXXVII ‘Horsley, right thou’st be a knight, Lands and livings thou shalt have store; Howard shall be Earl of Nottingham, And so was never Howard before. LXXVIII ‘Now, Peter Simon, thou art old; I will maintaine thee and thy son; Thou shalt have five hundred pound all in gold For the good service that thou hast done.’ LXXIX With that King Henrye shifted his room[1153]; In came the Queene and ladyes bright; Other arrands they had none But to see Sir Andrew Barton, Knight. LXXX But when they saw his deadly face, His eyes were hollow in his head; ‘I wo’ld give a hundred pound,’ says his Grace, ‘The man were alive as he is dead! LXXXI ‘Yet for the manful part he hath play’d, Both here at home and beyond the sea, His men shall have half-a-crowne a day Till they come to my brother, King Jamie.’ FOOTNOTES: [1137] three pence bread = the breadth of a threepenny piece. [1138] archèborde = hatch-board. [1139] dearlye dight = expensively fitted or ornamented. [1140] guide = guidon, signal flag. [1141] hall = hull. [1142] glass = a lantern to guide the man-of-war’s course by the merchantman’s. [1143] ancients = ensigns. [1144] stirr’d = moved, lowered. [1145] can = ken, know. [1146] Weate = wit ye, know. [1147] geare = business, fighting. [1148] sway = go, turn out. [1149] swarm’d = climbed. [1150] bearing arrow = a long arrow for distant shooting. [1151] spole = shoulder, _épaule_. [1152] jacke = jacket, short coat of mail. [1153] shifted his room = made place. _131. The ‘George-Aloe’_ I The _George-Aloe_, and the _Sweepstake_, too, _With hey, with hoe, for and a nony no,_ O, there were two Merchant-men, a sailing for Safee _And alongst the Coast of Barbarye_. II The _George-Aloe_ came to anchor in the bay, _With hey, &c._ But the jolly _Sweepstake_ kept on her way, _And alongst, &c._ III They had not sayl’d but leagues two or three, _With hey, &c._ But they met with a French Man-of-War upon the Sea, _And alongst, &c._ IV ‘All haile, all haile, you lusty Gallants all! _With hey, &c._ Of whence is your fair Ship, and whither do ye call?’ _And alongst, &c._ V ‘We are Englishmen, and bound for Safee,’-- _With hey, &c._ ‘Ay, and we are Frenchmen, and war upon the sea, _And alongst, &c._ VI ‘Amaine, Amaine, you English dogs, hail!’-- _With, hey, &c._ ‘Come aboard you French swads[1154], and strike down your sayle,’ _And alongst, &c._ VII