When one fears that an evil is coming, the sooner it arrives the better.

Here is a quarter of a year that I have been expecting you, and certainly for the great benefit I have conferred on you, you have exhibited a great ingratitude, and I consider myself very ill treated by you.

'Tis very strange that you should begin by soliciting still greater succour without rendering me any satisfaction for your past actions, which have been so extraordinary, that I swear by the living God I think it impossible to find peoples or states more ungrateful or ill-advised than yourselves.
"I have sent you this year fifteen, sixteen, aye seventeen or eighteen thousand men.

You have left them without payment, you have let some of them die of hunger, driven others to such desperation that they have deserted to the enemy.

Is it not mortifying for the English nation and a great shame for you that Englishmen should say that they have found more courtesy from Spaniards than from Netherlanders?
Truly, I tell you frankly that I will never endure such indignities.