Put downe the Spanish Inquisition.

Thrice happy wee (quoth I thinking thereon)

That see no dayes of persecution;

For were it free to kill, this grisly elfe

Wold martyrs make in compass of herselfe:

And were shee not prevented by our prayer,

By this time shee corrupted had the aire.

And am I innocent? and is it true,

That thing (which poet Plinye never knew,

Nor Africk, Nile, nor ever Hackluyts eyes