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 392 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. [CH. 60. was entitled to be received and heard when he had any- thing to communicate. The promises made to Cobham had been broken. The Holy Office had continued to ill- use English seamen who had committed no offence, to rob, imprison, and otherwise injure them. He must re- quest the immediate release of those who were at present in the Inquisitor's hands, with compensation for the in- juries which they had sustained. The Archbishop had remained while the ambassador was speaking, dumb with anger and amazement. At last, finding his voice, and starting from his seat in fury, he exclaimed : ' Sirrah ! l I tell you, that, but for certain respects, I would so chastise you for these words that you have spoken, that I would make you an ex- ample to all your kind. I would chastise you, I say, I would make you know to whom you speak in such shame- less fashion/ ' Sirrah ! ' replied Smith in a fury too, and proud of his command of the language which enabled him to re- tort the insult, ' Sirrah ! I tell you that I care neither for you nor your threats.' ' Quitad os ! ' ' Be off with you ! ' shouted Quiroga, foaming with rage, ' leave the room ! away ! I say/ ' If you call me Sirrah,' said Smith, ' I will call you Sirrah. I will complain to his Majesty of this.' 1 ' Yo os digo.' Sirrah is too mild a mark of infinite distance between a a word ; but we have no full equiva- superior and inferior. ' Dog ' would lent. ' Os ' is used by a king to sub- perhaps come nearest to the Arch- jects, by a father to children, more bishop's meaning in the present con- rarely by a master to a servant. It is nection.