Chapter II: French

Que d’or, d’argent sera de pendre,
Quand Comte voudra Ville prendre,
Tant de mille & mille Soldats,
Tuez, noiez, sans y rien faire,
Dans plus forte mettra pied terre,
Pigmée aidé des _Censuarts_.

English.

How much Gold and Silver shall be spent,
When Earl shall go about to take a Town,
So many thousands and thousands of Soldiers,
Killed, drowned, without doing any thing,
In a stronger he shall put his foot on ground,
A Pygmie helped by the _Censuarts_.

ANNOT.

This Stanza and the next are concerning the Town of _Ostend_, which was Besieged by the Arch-duke, and defended by the States of _Holland_, under the conduct of Earl _Maurice_ of _Nassaw_.

_In a stronger he shall put his foot on ground_, signifieth that Earl _Maurice_ during the said Siege, took the _Sluys_ another Town of the _Spaniards_, thought stronger then _Ostend_. _A Pygmie helped by the_ Censuarts, signifieth that Prince _Maurice_ whom he calleth here a _Pygmie_ in comparison of the Arch-duke, was helped by the _French_ and _English_, whom he calleth here _Censuarts_, to rime with the word Soldats in the foregoing Verse.