de Natali suo Auspicatissimo Octobris XIV. Anno 1633.

"--Deus
Anna nefasto te posuit die?" Hor. lib. 2. ode 13.

Oct. "Decimo quarto Normannus Haraldum
Dux superavit, & Hinc Regia sceptra tulit.
Tertius Edwardus, capto pernice Caleto,
(Gallica quo Regna sunt resarata sibi)
Ire domum tentans, diris turbinibus actus
In pelago, Vitae magna pericla subit."
Oct. Decimo quarto, tamen appulit Oras
Nativas. (His quam prosperus ille dies !)
Natali laetare tuo, guam Maxime Princeps;
Fausta velut sunt haec, Omnia semper habe."

October's fourteenth gave the Norman Duke
That victory, whence he Englands sceptre took.*
Third Edward, after he had Calais won,
(The mean whereby he France did over-run)
Returning home, by raging tempests tost,
(And near his life (so fortunes) to have lost)+
Arrived safe on shore the self-same date.
(This day to them afforded so fair fate.)
Great Duke, rejoice in this your day of birth;
And may such omens still encrease your mirth.

* Stow, in anno 1066.
+ Stow, in anno 1347.