Philip, however, would not listen to his retirement, and made use of the most convincing arguments to induce him to remain.

Four hundred and fifty annual florins, secured by good reclaimed swamps in Friesland, two thousand more in hand, with a promise of still larger emoluments when the King should come to the Netherlands, were reasons which the learned doctor honestly confessed himself unable to resist.

Fortified by these arguments, he remained at his post, continued the avowed friend and adherent of Granvelle, and sustained with magnanimity the invectives of nobles and people.

To do him justice, he did what he could to conciliate antagonists and to compromise principles.
If it had ever been possible to find the exact path between right and wrong, the President would have found it, and walked in it with respectability and complacency.
In the council, however, the Cardinal continued to carry it with a high hand; turning his back on Orange and Egmont, and retiring with the Duchess and President to consult, after every session.

Proud and important personages, like the Prince and Count, could ill brook such insolence; moreover, they suspected the Cardinal of prejudicing the mind of their sovereign against them.