You had no right to treat him thus.

If I had accepted the title which you wished to give me, by the living God, I would not have suffered you so to treat me.
"But you are so badly advised that when there is a man of worth who discovers your tricks you wish him ill, and make an outcry against him; and yet some of you, in order to save your money, and others in the hope of bribes, have been favouring the Spaniard, and doing very wicked work.
No, believe me that God will punish those who for so great a benefit wish to return me so much evil.

Believe, boldly too, that the King of Spain will never trust men who have abandoned the party to which they belonged, and from which they have received so many benefits, and will never believe a word of what they promise him.

Yet, in order to cover up their filth, they spread the story that the Queen of England is thinking of treating for peace without their knowledge.

No, I would rather be dead than that any one should have occasion to say that I had not kept my promise.