'Dormiunt in utramque aurem'.

I doubt they will be suddenly enough awakened one day, and the cry will be, 'Who'd have thought it ?' Then they will be for getting oil for the lamp, for shutting the stable-door when the steed is stolen," and so on, with a string of homely proverbs worthy of Sancho Panza, or landgrave William of Hesse.
In truth, one of the most painful features is the general aspect of affairs was the coldness of the German Protestants towards the Netherlands.

The enmity between Lutherans and Calvinists was almost as fatal as that between Protestants and Papists.

There was even a talk, at a little later period, of excluding those of the "reformed" church from the benefits of the peace of Passau.

The princes had got the Augsburg confession and the abbey-lands into the bargain; the peasants had got the Augsburg confession without the abbey-lands, and were to believe exactly what their masters believed.