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And others (that more sub'tly did conferre)
Thinke him a small, contracted Conjurer:
Then Diego, Bredro names! Hemskerk! and cryes,
Hans van Geulick! Derick too! place your Thighs
On this judiciall Bench; that wee may sit
T'undoe, this short-Embassadour with wit.
One, faine would know's discent: Thou Pirat-Dogge
(The wrathfull Captive then reply'd) not Ogge
(The Bashan King) was my Progenitor;
Nor doe I strive, to fetch my Ancestor
From Anack's Sonnes, nor from the Genitals
Of wrastling-Cacus, who gave many falls.
No matter for his birth, sayd Diego then;
Bring hither strait the Rack! for it is Ten
To one, this will enforce from out his Pate,
Some secrets, that concerne the English State.
But O! true, loyall Heart! he'ld not one word
Reveale, that he had heard at Councell-bord.
Some ask'd him then, his bus'nesse late in France;
What Instruments lay there conceal'd t'advance
The Brittish cause? when they perceiv'd his heart;
Was bigge, and whilst enforc'd, would nought impart;
Thinke him a small, contracted Conjurer:
Then Diego, Bredro names! Hemskerk! and cryes,
Hans van Geulick! Derick too! place your Thighs
On this judiciall Bench; that wee may sit
T'undoe, this short-Embassadour with wit.
One, faine would know's discent: Thou Pirat-Dogge
(The wrathfull Captive then reply'd) not Ogge
(The Bashan King) was my Progenitor;
Nor doe I strive, to fetch my Ancestor
From Anack's Sonnes, nor from the Genitals
Of wrastling-Cacus, who gave many falls.
No matter for his birth, sayd Diego then;
Bring hither strait the Rack! for it is Ten
To one, this will enforce from out his Pate,
Some secrets, that concerne the English State.
But O! true, loyall Heart! he'ld not one word
Reveale, that he had heard at Councell-bord.
Some ask'd him then, his bus'nesse late in France;
What Instruments lay there conceal'd t'advance
The Brittish cause? when they perceiv'd his heart;
Was bigge, and whilst enforc'd, would nought impart;
Diego
