Note 125 — THE DUMB KNIGHT.
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Charles Fitzgeoffry, writing a similar poem on Sir Francis Drake, in 1596, thus mentions Markham's work—
"Well hath this poet royalis'd his facts And curiouslie describ'd his tragedie; Quaintlie he hath eternized his acts In lasting characters of memorie, Even co-eternal with eternitie: So that the world envies his happie state, That he should live when it is ruinate."