They earnestly wished English cooperation, but it was the cooperation of English matchlocks and English cutlasses, not English protocols and apostilles.

It was military, not diplomatic machinery that they required.

If they could make up their minds to submit to Philip and the Inquisition again, Philip and the Holy office were but too ready to receive the erring penitents to their embrace without a go-between.
It was war, not peace, therefore, that Holland meant by the English alliance.

It was war, not peace, that Philip intended.

It was war, not peace, that Elizabeth's most trusty counsellors knew to be inevitable.
There was also, as we have shown, no doubt whatever as to the good disposition, and the great power of the republic to bear its share in the common cause.