They are now much changed again, and the Spanish partizans are beginning to lose their tongues.

I invite them, if they intend to address your Majesty, to proceed as they ought towards a veritably grand monarch, without hunting up any of their old quibbles, or reservations of provinces, or any thing else which could inspire suspicion.

I have sent into Gelderland and Friesland, for I find I must stay here in Holland and Zeeland myself.

These two provinces are the gates and ramparts through which we must enter.

'Tis, in my opinion, what could be called superb, to command all the sea, thus subject to the crown of France.