Who could accomplish that?
No one but ourselves; and that good queen who pawned her jewels so that Columbus should accomplish his voyage.

You cannot deny all this, it seems to me.

And the Emperor Charles V.! What have you to say about him?
Do you know any more extraordinary man! He fought all the kings of Europe, and half the world was his, 'the sun never set on his dominions,' we Spaniards were masters of the world; you cannot either deny this.

And still we have said nothing of Don Philip II., a king so wise and so astute that he made all the monarchs of Europe dance at his pleasure, as though he were pulling them with a string.

Everything was for the greater glory of Spain and the splendour of religion.