Let him be hanged by the tongue
And by the arm, by the tongue that orders,
And by the arm that signs the sentence of death.
Slaet op den trommele.
Beat upon the war drum. Long live the Beggar!
“Let the Duke be shut up alive with his victims’ bodies!
In the noisome stench
Let him die of the corpse plague!
Beat upon the war drum. Long live the Beggar!
“Christ from on high look on thy soldiers,