Should meet us hand to hand in very deed.
Some other way to conquest will I go,
Which promises to bring me better speed.
I mean to curb their pride, their wits o'erthrow,
And on itself to let their fury feed;
For with a deep wide ditch I'll gird them round,
And hunger fierce will bear them to the ground.
No longer shall this soil be coloured red
With Roman blood. Sufficient for the State
Is what these Spaniards have already shed