To a vain strife and profitless disgrace,

Declare, "The foreigner, one not my child,

Shall henceforth lead my troops, reach height by height

The glory, then descend into the shame;

So shall rebellion be less guilt in him,

And punishment the easier task for me:"

—If on the best of us such brand she set,

Can I suppose an utter alien here,

This Luria, our inevitable foe,

Confessed a mercenary and a Moor,