There were occasions in France at that moment in which it was as well to be blind and deaf.

It was impossible for the Republic, unless driven to it by dire necessity, to quarrel with its great ally.

It had been calculated by Duplessis-Mornay that France had paid subsidies to the Provinces amounting from first to last to 200 millions of livres.

This was an enormous exaggeration.

It was Barneveld's estimate that before the truce the States had received from France eleven millions of florins in cash, and during the truce up to the year 1613, 3,600,000 in addition, besides a million still due, making a total of about fifteen millions.