O'Donel shall never come into his country, nor Bagenal into Newry, nor Kildare into Dundrum, or Lecale.

They are now mine.

With this sword I won them, with this sword I will keep them.' Sidney, indignant at these pretensions, wrote thus to Leicester: 'No Atila nor Yotila, no Vandal nor Goth that ever was, was more to be dreaded for over-running any part of Christendom, than this man is for over-running and spoiling of Ireland.

If it be an angel of heaven that will say that ever O'Neill will be a good subject till he be thoroughly chastised, believe him not, but think him a spirit of error.

Surely if the queen do not chastise him in Ulster, he will chase all hers out of Ireland.