The glory of God, the honor of both their Majesties, and the good of these countries, with the stay of the effusion of Christian blood, and divers other like reasons, force him to peace." Thus spoke Alexander, like an honest Christian gentleman, avowing the most equitable and pacific dispositions on the part of his master and himself.

Yet at that moment he knew that the Armada was about to sail, that his own nights and days were passed in active preparations for war, and that no earthly power could move Philip by one hair's-breadth from his purpose to conquer England that summer.
It would be superfluous to follow the Duke or the Doctor through their long dialogue on the place of conference, and the commissions.

Alexander considered it "infamy" on his name if he should send envoys to a place of his master's held by the enemy.

He was also of opinion that it was unheard of to exhibit commissions previous to a preliminary colloquy.
Both propositions were strenuously contested by Rogers.

In regard to the second point in particular, he showed triumphantly, by citations from the "Polonians, Prussians, and Lithuanians," that commissions ought to be previously exhibited.