Hormuz Quotes

“This light is of those flames and glitt'ring Arms
Wherewith the stubborn Persians of Ormuze,
Spurning the yoake, and valiant to their harms,
Fierce Albuquerque afterwards subdues.
There shall the hissing Shafts (like living swarms)
Turn'd in the Ayre, their shooters Helmets bruize;
That they may see, with Eyes though ne're so dim,
How God will fight for them, that fight for Him.

The Mountains then of Salt will not be able
To keep those Bodies from corruption
Which on the coasts shall lye out (miserable)
Of Calayat, Mascate, and Gerun;
Until the easie yoake and honorable
They learn (with all their fierceness) to put on :
Forc't by the Conquerours, to pay to Them,
Rich tribute of their Pearles of Baherem.”
― Richard Fanshawe, The Lusiads