It would move you to witness their condition.

They have suffered as much as is humanly possible." Many of the troops, indeed, were deserting, and making their escape, beggared and desperate, into France, where, with natural injustice, they denounced their General, whose whole heart was occupied with their miseries, for the delinquency of his master, whose mind was full of other schemes.
"There past this way many Spanish soldiers," wrote Stafford from Paris, "so poor and naked as I ever saw any.

There have been within this fortnight two hundred at a time in this town, who report the extremity of want of victuals in their camp, and that they have been twenty-four months without pay.

They exclaim greatly upon the Prince of Parma.
Mendoza seeks to convey them away, and to get money for them by all means he can." Stafford urged upon his government the propriety of being at least as negligent as Philip had showed himself to be of the Spaniards.

By prohibiting supplies to the besieging army, England might contribute, negatively, if not otherwise, to the relief of Antwerp.