LXXI.

French.

La Tour Marine troisfois prise & reprise, Par _Espagnols_, _Barbares_, _Ligurins_, _Marseille_ & _Aix_, _Arles_ par ceux de _Pise_, Vast, feu, fer, pille, _Avignon_ des _Thurins_.

English.

The Sea-tower three times taken and retaken, By _Spaniards_, _Barbarians_, and _Ligurians_, _Marseilles_ and _Aix_, _Arles_ by those of _Pisa_, Wast, fire, Iron, plunder, _Avignon_ of _Thurins_.

ANNOT.

It is hard to guess what this Sea Tower is, which was taken and retaken three times; first by the _Spaniards_, next by the _Barbarians_, and then by the _Ligurians_, that is, either the _Genoeses_, or those of _Ligorne_, unless he meaneth the _Pignon de Velez_ in _Africa_, first taken by _Charles_ the V. upon the _Barbarians_, then retaken again by them, taken again by the _Spaniards_, by the help of the _Genoeses_. In the third Verse _Marseille_, _Aix_, and _Arles_, are threatned by those of _Pisa_, that is the _Florentines_, of being ruinated by Fire and Sword, and to be plundered, as also _Avignon_ by those of _Piemont_.