Many things the Church condemns are sacred to him.

He thinks the Netherlanders a free, noble nation.

Your King Philip he considers a tyrant, oppressor, and ruthless destroyer.

You who have served him and Alba--are in his eyes; but I will not wound you...." "What are we, I will hear." "No, no, it would do no good.

In short, to Adam the Spanish army is a bloody pest, nothing more." "There never were braver soldiers." "Very true; but every defeat, all the blood you have shed, has angered him and this nation, and wrath, which daily receives fresh food and to which men become accustomed, at last turns to hate.