These German princes continue still in their lethargy, careless of the state of others, and dreaming of their ubiquity, and some of them, it is thought, inclining to be Spanish or Popish more of late than heretofore." The beggared archbishop, more forlorn than ever since the death of his great patron, cried woe from his resting-place in Delft, upon Protestant Germany.

His tones seemed almost prophetic of the thirty years' wrath to blaze forth in the next generation.

"Courage is wanting to the people throughout Germany," he wrote to William Lewis of Nassau.

"We are becoming the laughing-stock of the nations.

Make sheep of yourselves, and the wolf will eat you.