"If you think you can make the passage to England before the fleet from Spain arrives, go at once.

You maybe sure that it will come ere long to support, you.
But if, you prefer, to wait, wait.

The dangers of winter, to the fleet and to your own person are to be regretted; but God, whose cause it is; will protect you." It was, easy to sit quite out of harm's way, and to make such excellent, arrangements for smooth weather in the wintry channel, and for the conquest of a maritime and martial kingdom by a few flat bottoms.

Philip had little difficulty on that score, but the affairs of France were not quite to his mind.

The battle of Coutras, and the entrance of the German and Swiss mercenaries into that country, were somewhat perplexing.