Why, truly, your great enemy is the Spaniard. He is a natural enemy.
He is naturally so, he is naturally so throughout,--by reason of that
great enmity that is in him against whatsoever is of God.
* * * * *
Well, your danger is as you have seen. And truly I am sorry it is so
great. But I wish it to cause no despondency;--as truly, I think it
will not: for we are Englishmen; that is one good fact.
* * * * *
To hang a man for six-and-eightpence, and I know not what; to hang
for a trifle and acquit murder,--is in the ministration of the
law through the ill-framing of it. I have known in my experience
abominable murders committed. And to see men lose their lives for
petty matters: this is a thing God will reckon for.