“We shall first feign us Christendom to take; 1509 Cold water shall not grieve us but a lite: 1510 And I shall such a feast and revel make, That, as I trow, I shall the Soudan quite. 1511 For though his wife be christen’d ne’er so white, She shall have need to wash away the red, Though she a fount of water with her led.”

O Soudaness, 1512 root of iniquity, Virago thou, Semiramis the secónd! O serpent under femininity, Like to the serpent deep in hell y-bound! O feigned woman, all that may confound Virtue and innocence, through thy malíce, Is bred in thee, as nest of every vice!