The Belgick borderers by the bankes of Rheine,
Cast off Rome’s yoke, and left their blind deuotion,
With one consent beginning to incline
Vnto a truth more perfect, more diuine;
Which they with martyr’d blood did long maintaine,
Gainst th’inquisition of Rome-wronged Spaine.
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But at the last, when with warre’s dreadfull thunder,
Don Iohn of Austria and his warlike band,
Began to shake the Belgicke state in sunder,