With his usual recklessness and wrath, he expressed himself at more than one session of the state council in most unmeasured terms.

His anger had been more inflamed by information which he had received from the second son of Berlaymont, a young and indiscreet lad, who had most unfortunately communicated many secrets which he had learned from his father, but which were never intended for Egmont's ear.
Philip's habitual dissimulation had thus produced much unnecessary perplexity.

It was his custom to carry on correspondence through the aid of various secretaries, and it was his invariable practice to deceive them all.

Those who were upon the most confidential terms with the monarch, were most sure to be duped upon all important occasions.

It has been seen that even the astute Granvelle could not escape this common lot of all who believed their breasts the depositories of the royal secrets.
Upon this occasion, Gonzalo Perez and Ruy Gomez complained bitterly that they had known nothing of the letters which had recently been despatched from Valladolid, while Tisnacq and Courterville had been ignorant of the communications forwarded by the hands of Egmont.