"I have always been upright in my words and my deeds, and I am not going to embark myself in a wicked war because the States have plunged themselves into one so entirely unjust.

Next summer the Spaniard means to divide himself into two or three armies in order to begin his enterprises in Germany." Caron respectfully intimated that these enterprises would be most conveniently carried on from the very advantageous positions which he occupied in the duchies.

"No," said the King, "he must restore them on the same day on which you make your surrender, and he will hardly come back in a hurry." "Quite the contrary," said the Ambassador, "they will be back again in a twinkling, and before we have the slightest warning of their intention." But it signified not the least what Caron said.

The King continued to vociferate that the States had never had any intention of restoring the cities.
"You mean to keep them for yourselves," he cried, "which is the greatest injustice that could be perpetrated.

You have no right to them, and they belong to other people." The Ambassador reminded him that the Elector of Brandenburg was well satisfied that they should be occupied by the States for his greater security and until the dispute should be concluded.
"And that will never be," said James; "never, never.