And we will gain place, wealth, and pow’r,
As arm’d neutrality.
Excise and Customs, Church and Law,
I’ve begged from Master Rose;
The Garter too—but still the Blues
I’ll have, or I’ll oppose.”
“Now God be with him,” quoth the King,
“Sith ’twill no better be;
I trust we have within our realm,
Five hundred good as he.”