Answer this first.

Have you or yours any commission to show either from the King of Spain or any other potentate ?" "Never a one but the cause of Heaven and our own swords.

And with them, my lord, we are ready to meet any gentlemen of your camp, man to man, with our swords only, half-way between your leaguer and ours; and I doubt not that your lordship will see fair play.

Will any gentleman accept so civil an offer?
There sits a tall youth in that corner who would suit me very well.

Will any fit my gallant comrades with half-an-hour's punto and stoccado ?" There was a silence, all looking at the lord deputy, whose eyes were kindling in a very ugly way.
"No answer?
Then I must proceed to exhortation.