POEMS OLD AND NEW
thousand : and when they arose early in the morning,
behold, they were all dead corpses. So Sennacherib
king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and
dwelt at Nineveh."—2 Kings xviii. and xix.
P. 35, 1. 5 Assyria : an ancient country in the valley of
the river Tigris : now Iraq.
1. 6. Cohorts : regiments, troops.
1. 8. Deep Galilee : the Lake of Galilee, in Palestine.
P. 36, 1. i. Ashur : one of the chief towns of Assyria, and
on the river Tigris.
1. 2. Baal: a Phoenician god.
1. 3. Gentile : any one who was not a Jew.
The Armada.
P. 36, 1. r i. Castile : the more important half of Spain :
here = Spain.
Aurigny's Isle : a small island in the English Channel,
just of? Gape de la Hogue : Alderney.
1. 16. Edgecumbe : a peak near Plymouth (facing Ply-
mouth Hoe).
P. 37, 1. 2. Halberdiers : soldiers armed with the halberd,
—a long pole surmounted by an axe-head on one side
and a hook on the other.
1. 3. Yeomen : freeholders, a grade below gentlemen.
1. 4. Her Grace : Queen Elizabeth.
1. 7. Lion : the emblem of England.
1. 8. Gay lilies : the emblem of France. On the English
royal arms of that day the lilies of France still appeared
in the quartering beneath the lion.
1. 9. That famed Picard field : Crecy (1346), in Picardy,
where Edward III defeated the French king, Philip VI.
1. 10. Bohemia's plume : the King of Bohemia, fighting
for France, was slain at Grecy. His triple feather crest,
with the motto Ich dien, was adopted by the Black
Prince, Edward's eldest son, who won his spurs in the
battle.
^ Genoa9s bow: the Genoese archers on the French
side at Grecy.
Caesar's eagle shield: the imperial eagle of the House
of Austria.
1. 11. Agincourt: the battle in the North of France,
where Henry V, in 1415, turned on the French and
defeated them.
L 16. Semper eadem : Lat. always the same : the motto
on the English royal standard.
P. 38,1. 2. Eddystone : a rock to the south of Plymouth.
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