It was for this reason that he submitted to the exhortations and denunciations of the English ambassadors.

It was for this that he kept steadily in view the necessity of dealing with and supporting corporate France, the French government, when there were many reasons for feeling sympathy with the internal rebellion against that government.

Maurice felt differently.

He was connected by blood or alliance with more than one of the princes now perpetually in revolt.
Bouillon was his brother-in-law, the sister of Conde was his brother's wife.

Another cousin, the Elector-Palatine, was already encouraging distant and extravagant hopes of the Imperial crown.