And ever since the Conquest have been fools.

Earl Of Rochester (1647-1680): Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country.

For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,

And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,

Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.

Edmund Spenser (1553-1599): Faerie Queene. Book vii. Canto xi. St. 33.

And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind,

The last and hardest conquest of the mind.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Odyssey of Homer. Book xiii. Line 353.