Alonso Sánchez Coello, John of Austria in armour (1567)

Don John pounding from the slaughter-painted poop,

Purpling all the ocean like a bloody pirate’s sloop,

Scarlet running over on the silvers and the golds,

Breaking of the hatches up and bursting of the holds,

Thronging of the thousands up that labour under sea

White for bliss and blind for sun and stunned for liberty.

Vivat Hispania!

Domino Gloria! 

Don John of Austria

Has set his people free! 

[G K Chesterton, Lepanto]