The English (who, Thou knowest, hide
Contemptibly upon an isle)
No doubt on Thee have also cried,
According to their native guile;
Presumption could no further go
In those who plunged the world in woe.
Thou wouldst not hearken to a race
Possessed of that inhuman Fleet,
So cruel, arrogant and base,
So steeped in rancour and deceit.