Third Version
In Elizabetha Triumphans, published in 1588, James Aske provides a version of the speech, reworked in verse:
- Their loyal hearts to us their lawful Queen.
- For sure we are that none beneath the heavens
- Have readier subjects to defend their right:
- Which happiness we count to us as chief.
- And though of love their duties crave no less
- Yet say to them that we in like regard
- And estimate of this their dearest zeal
- (In time of need shall ever call them forth
- To dare in field their fierce and cruel foes)
- Will be ourself their noted General
- Ne dear at all to us shall be our life,
- Ne palaces or Castles huge of stone
- Shall hold as then our presence from their view:
- But in the midst and very heart of them
- Bellona-like we mean as them to march;
- On common lot of gain or loss to both
- They well shall see we recke shall then betide.
- And as for honour with most large rewards,
- Let them not care they common there shall be:
- The meanest man who shall deserve a might,
- A mountain shall for his desart receive.
- And this our speech and this our solemn vow
- In fervent love to those our subjects dear,
- Say, seargeant-major, tell them from our self,
- On kingly faith we will perform it thereā¦
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