And find it much dishonoured by base homage:
I not deny, but tribute hath been due
To Spain by our forefathers’ base captivity,
Yet cannot rase out their successors’ merit.
’Tis said, we shall not answer at next birth
Our fathers’ faults in heaven; why then on earth?
Which proves and shows, that which they lost
By base captivity,
We may redeem with honoured valiancy.
We borrow nought: our kingdom is our own: