Upon his recovery, having no better pastime, he fell to reading the Scriptures.

The result was his conversion to Calvinism; and the world shudders yet at the fate in which that conversion involved him.
Saint Quentin being thus reduced, Philip was not more disposed to push his fortune.

The time was now wasted in the siege of several comparatively unimportant places, so that the fruits of Egmont's valor were not yet allowed to ripen.

Early in September Le Catelet was taken.
On the 12th of the same month the citadel of Ham yielded, after receiving two thousand shots from Philip's artillery, while Nojon, Chanly, and some other places of less importance, were burned to the ground.

After all this smoke and fire upon the frontier, productive of but slender consequences, Philip disbanded his army, and retired to Brussels.