England, to pay me lavish hire
For service ne’er perform’d, must needs, O fool!
To this most perilous venture run
On mine own credit: therefore am I made
A very bankrupt; all my hopes
Of victory, dominion, fortune, fame,
All ruin’d, and my royal word,
My promises and threats alike held vile
As the vain Brunswick’s menaces,
Horrible once, now laugh’d at and despised.