Iask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? has great britain any enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? no sir, she has none. ey are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. ey are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the british ministry have been so long forging. and what have we to oppose to them? shall we try argument? sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. have we anything new to o er upon the subject? nothing. we have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? what terms shall we nd which have not been already exhausted? let us not, i beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. sir, we have done everything that could be done, to avert the storm which is now coming on. we have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliament. our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne! in vain, a er these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. ere is no longer any room for hope. if we wish to be free—if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending—if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained—we must ght! — i repeat it, sir, we must ght! an appeal to arms and to the god of hosts, is all that is left us! craft and structure: in paragraph 4, henry uses five verbs to describe how the colonists have tried to avoid a confrontation with britain: petition, remonstrate, supplicate, prostrate, and implore. how are their meanings related? what is their effect on henry’s argument?