It was thought he should have made his bargain better with the Kaiser, before starting; but he had neglected that.
Albert's course was downward thenceforth; Kaiser Karl's too.

The French keep these "Three Bishoprics (TROIS EVECHES)," and Teutschland laments the loss of them, to this hour.

Kaiser Karl, as some write, never smiled again;--abdicated, not long after; retired into the Monastery of St.
Just, and there soon died.

That is the siege of Metz, where Alcibiades was helpful.

His own bargain with the Kaiser should have been better made beforehand.
Dissatisfied with any bargain he could now get; dissatisfied with the Treaty of Passau, with such a finale and hushing-up of the Religious Controversy, and in general with himself and with the world, Albert again drew sword; went loose at a high rate upon his Bamberg-Wurzburg enemies, and, having raised supplies there, upon Moritz and those Passau-Treatiers.