In the same year the Zaporogians
Read the Letter
And said to their foe, the Sultan:
“Thou, Sultan, art the devil’s son,
The grandson of Haspid[[17]] himself,
And thou, a hornèd chort[[18]]!
“Thou art but a wretched inn-keeper
In Constantinople;
A Macedonian brewer,
Greek and Moldavian swine,