[1] After which oration in respect of further aduance|ment as the custome is (for seruice past,Knights made by the earle of Sus|sex. and incou|ragement to procéed in the like worthie dooings) he made these knights: Sir William Drurie, sir Tho|mas Manners, sir George Careie, and sir Robert Constable, and placing the said sir William Dru|rie the appointed generall in full authoritie, he com|mitted them to God, and the good conduct of their chéefeteine. Now hauing heard the lord lieutenant thus speake, and séeing the means that he vsed to in|courage them against the enimie; how could they one with another but vow in mind, euen with the hazzard of their hearts, to performe to their power no lesse than he in speech implied? How could they (I saie) but venture life and lim, hauing so often séene the perillous enterprises which he himselfe vnder|tooke against forren hostilitie, as to his owne danger so to the high praise of his heroicall prowesse: and not without desert, as one verie well noteth, saieng:

—satrapas praeclarus, fortis & audax,

Elisabetha tui speciosi corporis acerComes Sussexi [...] Camerarius.

Et fidus custos, discrimen adire paratus

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