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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 ThighsOn this judiciall Bench; that wee may sitT'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 AncestorFrom Anack's Sonnes, nor from the GenitalsOf wrastling-Cacus, who gave many falls.No matter for his birth, sayd Diego then;Bring hither strait the Rack! for it is TenTo one, this will enforce from out his Pate,Some secrets, that concerne the English State.But O! true, loyall Heart! he'ld not one wordReveale, 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'advanceThe Brittish cause? when they perceiv'd his heart;Was bigge, and whilst enforc'd, would nought impart;

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