In vain he conjured him, by letter after letter, to be true to his own bright fame so nobly earned.

An old friend of De Bours, and like himself a Catholic, was also employed to remonstrate with him.

This gentleman, De Fromont by name, wrote him many letters; but De Bours expressed his surprise that Fromont, whom he had always considered a good Catholic and a virtuous gentleman, should wish to force him into a connection with the Prince of Orange and his heretic supporters.

He protested that his mind was quite made up, and that he had been guaranteed by Parma not only the post which he now held, but even still farther advancement.
De Fromont reminded him, in reply, of the frequent revolutions of fortune's wheel, and warned him that the advancement of which he boasted would probably be an entire degradation.

He bitterly recalled to the remembrance of the new zealot for Romanism his former earnest efforts to establish Calvinism.