mists, the Spaniards whilst their waggons made forward, staid in a place of advantage neer Zut∣phen, upon whom the English were entred before they were aware, and were entertained with a fu∣rious charge of shot, which notwithstanding they abode, and so valiantly followed the skirmish, that they overthrew, put back, slew, and took pri∣soners many of them, but herein the day pro∣ved dolefull, that the worthy Sir Philip Sidney, as he was changing his horse, was shot by a Musket above the left knee, which so shivered the thigh bone, that the Bullet could not be got out: Being thus wounded, he was carried to Arnheim in Gelder∣land. Whilest he lay thus upon his wound, M. Hum∣phrey Fen, a godly and able Minister, being at this time Chaplain to the Earl of Leicester, went to vi∣sit him, who found him carefully fitting and pre∣paring himself for death; wherein he was much holpen by that faithfull servant of Jesus Christ: and after Mr. Fen had been a while with him, Sir Philip told him that he had made his Will, and that he was now minded to be his own Executor, and so causing a Cabinet to be brought to him, he gave him a good sum of Gold, which he had for∣merly bequeathed to him in his Will: in this his last sickness, his Arcadia came into his mind, and he considered that in it there were divers light, & amorous passages, which might tend to the cor∣rupting of the incautious Reader: It was not as yet Printed, neither was there any Copy of it, but onely one, which for the present was in the hands of his intire friend, Sir Fulk Grevil, and therefore to