I can't go on a month longer, and, if not supplied, I shall be obliged to abandon the work.

I have not money enough to pay my sailors, joiners, carpenters, and other mechanics, from week to week, and they will all leave me in the lurch, if I leave them unpaid.

I have no resource but to rely on your Majesty.

Otherwise the enterprise must wholly fail." In case it did fail, the Prince wiped his hands of the responsibility.

He certainly had the right to do so.
One of the main sources of supply was the city of Hertogenbosch, or Bois-le-Duc.