He had done much manful work in the Netherlands, and was destined to do much more; but he was now discontented, and thought himself slighted.

In more remote regions of the world, the thrifty soldier thought that there might be as good harvesting for his sword as in the thrice-trampled stubble of Flanders.
"I would refuse no hazard that is possible to be done in the Queen's service," he said to Walsingham; "but I do persuade myself she makes no account of me.

Had it not been for the duty that nature bound me towards her and my country, I needed not to have been in that case that I am in.
Perhaps I could have fingered more pistoles than Mr.Newell, the late Latiner, and had better usage and pension of the Spaniards than he.

Some can tell that I refused large offers, in the misery of Alost, of the Prince of Parma.

Last of all, Verdugo offered me very fair, being in Loccum, to quit the States' service, and accept theirs, without treachery or betraying of place or man." Not feeling inclined to teach Latin in Spain, like the late Mr.Newell, or to violate oaths and surrender fortresses, like brave soldiers of fortune whose deeds will be afterwards chronicled, he was disposed to cultivate the "acquaintance of divers Pollacks," from which he had received invitations.