Consider the great successes we have had.

How well the affairs of Aachen and Mulbeim have been arranged; those of the Duke of Neuburg how completely re-established.

The Catholic cause, always identical with that of the House of Austria, remains in great superiority to the cause of the heretics.

We should use these advantages well, and to do so we should not immaturely pursue greater ones.

Fortune changes, flies when we most depend on her, and delights in making her chief sport of the highest quality of mortals." Thus wrote the Archduke sensibly, honourably from his point of view, and with an intelligent regard to the interests of Spain and the Catholic cause.