You say that I promised you, both by letters and through my agent Davison, and also by my own lips, to assist you and never to abandon you, and that this had moved you to come to me at present.

Very well, masters, do you not think I am assisting you when I am sending you four thousand foot and four hundred horse to serve during the war?
Certainly, I think yes; and I say frankly that I have never been wanting to my word.

No man shall ever say, with truth, that the Queen of England had at any time and ever so slightly failed in her promises, whether to the mightiest monarch, to republics, to gentlemen, or even to private persons of the humblest condition.

Am I, then, in your opinion, forsaking you when I send you English blood, which I love, and which is my own blood, and which I am bound to defend?
It seems to me, no.

For my part I tell you again that I will never forsake you.
"'Sed de modo ?' That is matter for agreement.