"The moment was propitious to me.

I was one of the seamen who had helped to conquer the unconquerable Armada of King Philip.

I was therefore not to be denied, and Sir John was sent home as empty-handed as he went to Court.

D'ye marvel that he hates me?
Knowing him for what he is, d'ye marvel that he dubs me pirate and worse?
'Tis natural enough so to misrepresent my doings upon the sea, since it is those doings have afforded me the power to hurt his profit.

He has chosen the weapons of calumny for this combat, but those weapons are not mine, as I shall show him this very day.