That our French heads ached sorely for it:—thence,

Marching through Picardy, to Calais here,

They have engirded us; fix'd the dull tourniquet

Of war upon our town; constraining, thus,

The life blood of our commerce, with fair France,

Of whom we are a limb; and all this openly:—

And, therefore, as an open foe, who think

And strike in the same breath, I do esteem

Their valour, and their plainness.

I view them with a most respectful hatred.