"He asks you to disarm," continued William of Orange; "he invites you to furnish hostages, but the time has been when the lord of the land came unarmed and uncovered, before the estates-general, and swore to support the constitutions before his own sovereignty could be recognized." He reiterated his suspicions as to the honest intentions of the government, and sought, as forcibly as possible, to infuse an equal distrust into the minds of those he addressed.

"Antwerp," said he, "once the powerful and blooming, now the most forlorn and desolate city of Christendom, suffered because she dared to exclude the King's troops.

You may be sure that you are all to have a place at the same banquet.

We may forget the past, but princes never forget, when the means of vengeance are placed within their hands.

Nature teaches them to arrive at their end by fraud, when violence will not avail them.