... Europe can stand against their pikemen. If the Low Countries, whichnumber as many souls as we, cannot make a stand against them with all their advantages of rivers, and swamps, and dykes, and fortified ... the crushing taxes, and to overthrow the tyranny of Alva and the Spaniards. He was asked by the magistrates whatforce De la Marck had at his disposal, and replied carelessly that he could not say exactly, ... murdered mygrandfather and uncles and one of my aunts; they have shot away my father's leg, and would have taken hislife had he not escaped out of their hands; so that what was before a longing...