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"Go hang thyself, coward, or, if you choose, swim out to the Spaniard, and shift from thy wet doublet and hose into a sanbenito. Let the don come, shoot if he can, and land if he will! We'll singe his beard in Virginia as we did at Cales! 'The great St. Philip, the pride of the Spaniards, Was burnt to the bottom and sunk in the sea. the St. Andrew and eke the St. Matthew
Receiving the victorious army from the former consuls, proceeding to Cales, whence the war had originated, after he had, at the first shout and onset, routed the enemy, who were disheartened by the recollection also of the former engagement, he set about attacking the town itself.
The hypothesis that he was not a Roman citizen, but possibly a burgess of Cales or of some other Latin town in Campania, renders the fact that the Roman police treated him so unscrupulously the more easy of explanation. At any rate he was not an actor, for he served in the army. Compare, e. g., with the verse of Livius the fragment from Naevius' tragedy of -Lycurgus- :
Brother, I cannot imagine what business brought you to this country. Myself. Perhaps the same which brings you to this moor business of Egypt. Antonio. Not so, brother; you speak the language of Egypt, it is true, but your ways and words are neither those of the Cales nor of the Busne. Myself. Did you not hear me speak in the foros about God and Tebleque?
First, of our own loss of two ships, the Phoenix and Nonesuch, in the Bay of Gibraltar: then of his, and his seven ships with him, in the Bay of Cales, or thereabouts, fighting with the 34 Dutch Smyrna fleete; sinking the King Salamon, a ship worth a L150,000 or more, some say L200,000, and another; and taking of three merchant-ships.
I spoke with the Duke of York, just as he was set down to supper with the King, about our sending of victuals to Sir Thomas Allen's fleet hence to Cales, to meet him. 3rd. Sir Jer.
Twenty-five of the senators were sent to Cales, to be kept in custody, and twenty-eight to Teanum; these being the persons by whose advice principally it appeared that the revolt from the Romans had taken place. Fulvius and Claudius were far from being agreed as to the punishment of the Campanian senators.
Thus punishment was inflicted on those also who were at Cales. The letter was then read, together with the decree of the senate, when it was too late to prevent the business which was already executed, and which had been accelerated by every means to prevent its being obstructed.
Against the Spanish fleets arriual, they had provided 25. or 30. good ships, committing the gouernment of them vnto Admirall Lonck, whom they commanded to ioine himselfe vnto the lord Henry Seymer, lying betweene Douer and Cales.
"And knowing his ingratitude, why should you give yourself so much trouble about him?" "Am I not his romi, my son, and am I not bound by the law of the Cales to assist him to the last?
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