Note 552 — BOOK IX.
William Julius Mickle translation
My sov'reign's fleet I yield not to your sway.—The circumstance of Gama's refusing to put his fleet into the power of the zamorim, is thus rendered by Fanshaw:—
"The Malabar protests that he shall rot In prison, if he send not for the ships. He (constant, and with noble anger hot) His haughty menace weighs not at two chips."