His presence, and that alone, would restore the burghers to their reason, but the task was not a grateful one.

It was also not unattended with danger; although this was a consideration which never influenced him, from the commencement of his career to its close.

Imbize and his crew were capable of resorting to any extremity or any ambush; to destroy the man whom they feared and hated.
The presence of John Casimir was an additional complication; for Orange, while he despised the man, was unwilling to offend his friends.

Moreover, Casimir had professed a willingness to assist the cause, and to, defer to the better judgment of the Prince: He had brought an army into the field, with which, however, he had accomplished nothing except a thorough pillaging of the peasantry, while, at the same time, he was loud in his demands upon the states to pay his soldiers' wages.

The soldiers of the different armies who now overran the country, indeed, vied with each other in extravagant insolence.