Wit, learning, virtue, discipline of war,
Shall for protection to your world repair,
And fix a long illustrious empire there.
…
“Late Destiny shall high exalt your reign,
Whose pomp no crowds of slaves, a needless train,
Nor gold, the rabble’s idol, shall support,
Like Motezume’s or Guanapaci’s court,
But such true grandeur as old Rome maintained,
Where Fortune was a slave, and Virtue reigned.”[271]