1 566.] DEA TH OF a NEIL. 545 Bagenal into Newry, nor Kildare into Dundrum or Lecale. They are now mine. With this sword I won them ; with this sword I will keep them/ 'My Lord/ Sidney wrote to Leicester, 'no Attila nor Totila, no Yandal or Goth that ever was, was more to be doubted for overrunning any part of Christendom than this man is for overruning and spoiling of Ireland. If it be an angel of heaven that will say that ever O'Neil will be a good subject till he be thoroughly chastised, believe him not, but think him a spirit of error. Surely if the Queen do not chastise him in Ulster, he will chase all hers out of Ireland. Her Majesty must make up her mind to the expense, and chastise this cannibal. She must send money in such sort as I may pay the garrison throughout. The present soldiers, who are idle, treacherous, and in- corrigible, must be changed. Better have no soldiers than those that are here now and the wages must be paid. It must be done at last, and to do it at once will be a saving in the end. My dear Lord, press these things on the Queen. If I have not money, and O'Neil make war, I will not promise to encounter with him till he come to Dublin. Give me money, and though I have but five hundred to his four thousand, I will chase him out of the Pale in forty-eight hours. If I may not have it, for the love you bear me have me home again. I have great confidence in Lord Kildare. As to Sussex and Arnold, it is true that all things are in disorder and decay ; but the fault was not with them impute it to the iniquity of the times. These VOL. vii. 35
