Versos English Michael Drayton Stanza 109

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The time perfixed comming to expire, And their reliefe ingloriously delay'd: Nothing within their sight but sword, and fire; And bloody Ensignes eu'ry where display'd: The English still within themselues entire, When all these things they seriously had way'd, To Henries mercy found that they must trust, For they perceiu'd their owne to be iniust.