“Go therefore, tell thy master here I am; My ransom is this frail and worthless

–“Go therefore, tell thy master here I am;

My ransom is this frail and worthless trunk,

My army but a weak and sickly guard;

Yet, God before, tell him we will come on,

…

The sum of all our answer is but this:

We would not seek a battle, as we are;

Nor, as we are, we say we will not shun it”–