I hope and I fear.

Meantime we bear as heavy burthens as if we were actually at war." He added once more the warning, which it would seem superfluous to repeat even to schoolboys in diplomacy, that this Xanten treaty, as proposed by the enemy, was a mere trap.
Spinola and Neuburg, in case of the mutual disbanding, stood ready at an instant's warning to re-enlist for the League not only all the troops that the Catholic army should nominally discharge, but those which would be let loose from the States' army and that of Brandenburg as well.

They would hold Rheinberg, Groll, Lingen, Oldenzaal, Wachtendonk, Maestricht, Aachen, and Mulheim with a permanent force of more than 20,000 men.

And they could do all this in four days' time.
A week or two later all his prophesies had been fulfilled.

"The Prince of Neuburg," he said, "and Marquis Spinola have made game of us most impudently in the matter of the treaty.