Your people …
Will brook nor Pope nor Spaniard here to play
The tyrant, or in commonwealth or church”;
and again, with questionable taste:
“And see you, we shall have to dodge again,
And let the Pope trample our rights, and plunge
His foreign fist into our island church,
To plump the leaner pouch of Italy”;
whilst Elizabeth is made to vulgarize it beyond hope of redemption into a mere petty ebullition of splenetic womanly vanity:
“Then, Queen indeed! No foreign prince or priest