Quelques ans bons rongeant un & pillant,
Par tyrannie a l’Isle changeant pris.
English.
After that the King of the South shall have talked of Wars,
The Harmotick Island shall despise him,
Some good years gnawing one and plundering,
And by tyranny shall change the price of the Island.
ANNOT.
The two first Verses are concerning Philip the II. King of Spain, who is called here the King of the South, whom after his vain and frustrated Invasion of 88. the Harmotique Island (that is England) shall deride, and he after that shall have some good years, that is of Peace, still pillaging and plundering his Subjects, and shall change the price of England, that is, make it of a higher value, and more flourishing then ever it was before, as it did prove in Queen Elizabeth’s time.