To say, however, that they will pay no more, is as much as to declare that they will give up their land and their religion both.

I say this, not because I have any desire to put my hands into the common purse.

You well know that I have never touched the public money, but it is important that you should feel that there is no war in the country except the one which concerns you all." The states, thus shamed and stimulated, set themselves in earnest to obey the mandates of the Prince, and sent a special mission to England, to arrange with the Duke of Anjou for his formal installation as sovereign.
Saint Aldegonde and other commissioners were already there.

It was the memorable epoch in the Anjou wooing, when the rings were exchanged between Elizabeth and the Duke, and when the world thought that the nuptials were on the point of being celebrated.

Saint Aldegonde wrote to the Prince of Orange on the 22nd of November, that the marriage had been finally settled upon that day.