At last it was sending great armies to conquer France and snatch its crown.

Poor France now saw the plans of this Spanish tyranny and bewailed her misery.

The subjects of her lawful king were ordered to rise against him, on account of religion and conscience.

Such holy pretexts were used by these Saracenic Christians in order to gain possession of that kingdom.
For all these reasons, men should not reproach the inhabitants of the Netherlands, because seeing the aims of this accursed tyranny, they had set themselves to resist it.

It was contrary to reason to consider them as disturbers of the general peace, or to hold them guilty of violating their oaths or their duty to the laws of the holy empire.