“We have children, we have wives,
And the Lord hath spared our lives.
We will make the Spaniard promise, if we yield to let us go;
We shall live to fight again and to strike another blow.”
And the lion there lay dying, and they yielded to the foe. 95
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And the stately Spanish men to their flagship bore him then,
Where they laid him by the mast, old Sir Richard caught at last,
And they praised him to his face with their courtly foreign grace;
But he rose upon their decks, and he cried: