I shall have a cheap bargain enough of the provinces.

But these Germans do nothing but eat and sleep.

They will get the profit and assign to me the trouble.

No matter, I will never suffer the aggrandizement of the House of Austria.

The States-General must disband no troops, but hold themselves in readiness." Secretary of State Villeroy held the same language, but it was easy to trace beneath his plausible exterior a secret determination to traverse the plans of his sovereign.