Such as of subjects allegiance doth require.
Now hear the cause of your late conquest won.
We had discovered your intent to be
(And, sure, ye ladies are not secret all;
Speech and not silence is the Muse’s grace)
We well perceiv’d (I say) your mind to be
T’ employ such prisoners, as themselves did yield,
To serve a Queen, for whom her purest gold
Nature refin’d, that she might therein set
Both private and imperial virtues all.