That liu’d in dread of their insulting foes;

And to performe their promis’d force for fight

Against the foes, in Don Antonio’s right.

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Yet at their hands no helpe to this assay

Elizae’s famous captaines could obtaine,

Who wanting power their valour to display,

When the sad prince Antonio all in vaine

The people’s helpe had sought, and none could gaine,

Remou’d their martiall power gainst Lisbon bent,