These withdrew on the approach of the Netherlanders, leaving the King standing alone.

They made their reverence, and Henry saluted them all with respectful cordiality.

Begging them to put on their hats again, he listened attentively to their address.
The language of the discourse now pronounced was similar in tenour to that almost contemporaneously held by the States' special envoys in London.

Both documents, when offered afterwards in writing, bore the unmistakable imprint of the one hand that guided the whole political machine.

In various passages the phraseology was identical, and, indeed, the Advocate had prepared and signed the instructions for both embassies on the same day.
The commissioners acknowledged in the strongest possible terms the great and constant affection, quite without example, that Henry had manifested to the Netherlands during the whole course of their war.