[1] Here was heard ſuch clamour, noyſe and la|mentable cryes, as is vſed in tyme when anye towne is ſodenly taken and ſurpriſed by the eni|mies: for as the common Prouerbe witneſſeth, fyre and water haue no mercie: and yet of theſe two, water is more terrible and daungerous: for there is no force or witte of man able to reſiſte the violence of inundations, wher they ſodeynly breake in.