Your case no tame expedients will afford,
Resolve on death or conquest by the sword,
Which for no less a stake than life you draw,
And self-defence is Nature's eldest law. (John Dryden)

Your case no tame expedients will afford, Resolve on death or conquest by the sword, Which for no less a stake than life you draw, And self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

John Dryden

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