They met and yielded to the Spanish force;

Then ’cross th’ Atlantic seas they bore their prey,

Who grieving landed from their sultry bay:

And marching many a burning league, he found

Himself a slave upon a miner’s ground:

There a good priest his native language spoke,

And gave some ease to his tormenting yoke;

Kindly advanced him in his master’s grace,

And he was station’d in an easier place;

There, hopeless ever to escape the land,