Well it thine age became
  O noble Erpingham,
  Which didst the signall ayme,
    To our hid forces;
  When from a meadow by,
  Like a storme suddenly,
  The English archery
    Struck the French horses.

  With Spanish Ewgh so strong,
  Arrowes a cloth yard long,
  That like to serpents stung,
    Piercing the weather. 
  None from his fellow starts,
  But playing manly parts,
  And like true English hearts,
    Stuck close together.

  When downe their bowes they threw,
  And forth their bilbowes drew,
  And on the French they flew,
    Not one was tardie;
  Armes were from shoulders sent,
  Scalpes to the teeth were rent,
  Down the French pesants went,
    Our men were hardie.

  This while oure noble king,
  His broad sword brandishing,
  Downe the French host did ding,
    As to o’erwhelme it. 
  And many a deep wound lent,
  His armes with bloud besprent,
  And many a cruel dent
    Bruised his helmet.

  Glo’ster, that duke so good,
  Next of the royal blood,
  For famous England stood,
    With his braue brother,
  Clarence, in steele so bright,
  Though but a maiden knight. 
  Yet in that furious light
    Scarce such another.

  Warwick, in bloud did wade,
  Oxford, the foe inuade,
  And cruel slaughter made;
    Still as they ran up,
  Suffolk, his axe did ply,
  Beavmont and Willovghby,
    Ferres and Tanhope.

  Upon Saint Crispin’s day,
  Fought was this noble fray,
  Which fame did not delay,
    To England to carry. 
  O when shall English men,
  With such acts fill a pen,
  Or England breed againe
    Such a King Harry.

[5] A Collection of Poems of the Sixteenth Century.—­Communicated by J.F., of Gray’s Inn.  We thank our Correspondent for the present, and shall be happy to receive further specimens from the same source.

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SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY

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AMERICAN IMPROVEMENTS.

[The very recent publication of the ninth volume of the Encyclopaedia Americana[6] enables us to lay before our readers the following interesting notices, connected with the national weal and internal economy of the United States of North America.]

Navy.—­Since the late war, the growth and improvement of our navy has kept pace with our national prosperity.  We could now put to sea, in a few mouths, with a dozen ships of the line; the most spacious, efficient, best, and most beautiful constructions that ever traversed the ocean.  This is not merely an American conceit, but an admitted fact in Europe, where our models are studiously copied.  In the United States, a maximum and uniform calibre of cannon has been lately determined on and adopted.