That changes e’en our very properties,)
Soften’d their manhood. Then ’twere policy
That we should court the Saxons to our aid.
This, too, will in our Britons raise the flame
Of bright and generous emulation.
Say, lords! doth this my proposition please you?
1st Bar. We do approve, and thank its noble author.
Vor. You, my good lord, then do I here depute,
Jointly with Catagrine, our second born,
That you with speed repair to Saxony;