And ever and anon with singults* rife,
He cried out, to make his undersong,
'Ah! my love's Queen, and goddess of my life,
Who shall me pity when thou doest me wrong?'"**
*Sobs.
**"Colin Clout's come home again."
But Raleigh soon decided to return to court, and persuaded
Spenser
"To wend with him his Cynthia to see,
Whose grace was great and bounty most rewardful"*
*Colin Clout.
You know how Spenser was received and how he fared. But Raleigh
himself after he had introduced his friend did not stay long at
court. Quarrels with his rivals soon drove him forth again.
It was soon after this that he published the first writing which
gives him a claim to the name of author. This was an account of
the fight between a little ship called the Revenge and a Spanish
fleet.
Although with the destruction of the Invincible Armada the sea
power of Spain had been crippled, it had not been utterly broken,
and still whenever Spanish and English ships met on the seas,
there was sure to be battle.
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