The motto, embroidered in letters three feet long, was happily chosen.

The House of Orange had long used the elliptical device, "I will maintain." The ellipsis was now filled up with words of high import, "The liberties of England and the Protestant religion." The Prince had not been many hours on board when the wind became fair.
On the nineteenth the armament put to sea, and traversed, before a strong breeze, about half the distance between the Dutch and English coasts.

Then the wind changed, blew hard from the west, and swelled into a violent tempest.

The ships, scattered and in great distress, regained the shore of Holland as they best might.

The Brill reached Helvoetsluys on the twenty-first.