Fertile and rich as was the country which he ruled, he threw on England and Holland the whole charge of defending it.

He expected that arms, ammunition, waggons, provisions, every thing, would be furnished by the heretics.

It had never occurred to him that it was his business, and not theirs, to put Mons in a condition to stand a siege.

The public voice loudly accused him of having sold that celebrated stronghold to France.

But it is probable that he was guilty of nothing worse than the haughty apathy and sluggishness characteristic of his nation.
Such was the state of the coalition of which William was the head.