It is difficult, in the man conversing thus amicably and sensibly with the Dutch ambassador, to realise the shrill pedant shrieking against Vorstius, the crapulous comrade of Carrs and Steenies, the fawning solicitor of Spanish marriages, the "pepperer" and hangman of Puritans, the butt and dupe of Gondemar and Spinola.
"I protest," he said further, "that I seek nothing in your state but all possible friendship and good fellowship.

My own subjects complain sometimes that your people follow too closely on their heels, and confess that your industry goes far above their own.

If this be so, it is a lean kind of reproach; for the English should rather study to follow you.
Nevertheless, when industry is directed by malice, each may easily be attempting to snap an advantage from the other.

I have sometimes complained of many other things in which my subjects suffered great injustice from you, but all that is excusable.

I will willingly listen to your people and grant them to be in the right when they are so.