In Competition No. 3117 you were invited to recast a famous political speech as a sonnet.
Lots of you went for Elizabeth I’s address to the troops at Tilbury, but James Aske got there first in 1588, with a verse reworking that appeared in Elizabetha Triumphans, his celebration of the Armada victory.
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