Afterwards they treat with me, they reconcile themselves with me, they are sworn foes of the Spaniard.

Don John arrives, and they follow him; they intrigue for my ruin.

Don John fails in his enterprise upon Antwerp citadel; they quit him incontinently and call upon me.

No sooner do I come than, against their oath and without previous communication with the states or myself, they call upon the Archduke Matthias.

Are the waves of the sea more inconstant--is Euripus more uncertain than the counsels of such men ?" While these events were occurring at Brussels and Antwerp, a scene of a different nature was enacting at Ghent.