1.  When we did sett our feete even on their Mynes
And brought their golden fagotts thence, their Ingotts
And silver wedges; when each ship of ours
Was able to spread sayles of silke; the tacklings
Of twisted gold; when every marryner
At his arrivall here had his deepe pockets
Crammd full of Pistoletts; when the poorest ship-boy
Might on the Thames make duckes and drakes with pieces
Of eight fetchd out of Spayne:  These were the Bellowes
Which blew the Spanish bonfires of revenge;
These were the times in which they calld our Nation
Borachos,[12] Lutherans and Furias del Inferno.

2.  Would we might now give them the selfe same cause To call us soe.

1.  The very name of Drake
Was a Bugbear to fright Children; Nurses still’d
Their little Spanish Nynnyes when they cryde
“Hush! the Drake comes.”

2.  All this must needs beget Their mortall hate to us.

1.  It did; yet then We lovd them beyond measure.

2.  Why?

1.  Why, did not Spaine fetch gold from the West Indies for us To spend here merrily?  She planted vines, We eate the Grapes; she playd the Spanish Pavine[13] Under our windowes, we in our bedds lay laughing To heare such Mynstrelsy.

2.  How then turnd the windes?  Why did this beauteous face of love in us Put on so blacke a Visour of hate to them?

1.  Oh, sir, doe but looke backe to Eighty Eight,
That Spanish glasse shall tell you, shew each wrinckle.
England that yeare was but a bit pickd out
To be layd on their Kinges Trencher.  Who were their Cookes? 
Marry, sir, his Grandees and great Dons of Spaine,
A Navy was provided, a royall fleete,
Infinite for the bravery of Admiralls,
Viceadmirall [sic], Generalls, Colonells and Commanders,
Soldiers, and all the warlike furniture
Cost or experience or mans witt could muster
For such a mayne designe.

2.  Stay; Eighty Eight,—­ Thirty eight yeares agoe:  much about then Came I into the world.—­Well, sir, this fleete?

1.  Which made the Sea fish wonder what new kingdome
Was building over theirs, beate downe the Billowes
Before them to gett thither.  ’Twas such a Monster
In body, such a wonder in the eyes,
And such a[14] thunder in the eares of Christendome
That the Popes Holynes would needes be Godfather
To this most mighty big limbd Child, and call it
Th’Invincible Armado.

2.  Thats to say
A Fleete of Shipps not to be overcome
By any power of man.

1.  These were the Whales,
These were the huge Levyathans of the Sea
Which roaring came with wide and dreadfull Jawes
To swallow up our Kingdom, Shipps & Nation. 
The fame of this Armado flew with Terrour
Riding on Envyes wing; the preparation
Was wayted on with wonder, and the approach
Shewd the grim face of horrour:  yet gainst all these
Our Country and our Courages were armd.