The meeting of the council was then adjourned for an hour or two, to meet again in the afternoon, for the purpose of deciding deliberately upon the answer to be given to the Request.

Meanwhile, many of the confederates were swaggering about the streets, talking very bravely of the scene which had just occurred, and it is probable, boasting not a little of the effect which their demonstration would produce.

As they passed by the house of Berlaymont, that nobleman, standing at his window in company with Count Aremberg, is said to have repeated his jest.

"There go our fine beggars again," said he.

"Look, I pray you, with what bravado they are passing before us!" On the 6th of April, Brederode, attended by a large number of his companions, again made his appearance at the palace.