"The Pacification is itself an assurance.

'Tis a provisional arrangement, to be maintained by both parties, until after the decision of the assembly.
The Pacification must therefore be maintained or disavowed.

Choose between the two.

Only, if you mean still to acknowledge it, you must keep its articles.

This we mean to do, and if up to the present time you have any complaint to make of our conduct, as we trust you have not, we are ready to give you satisfaction." "In short," said an envoy, "you mean, after we shall have placed in your hands the government of Utrecht, Amsterdam: and other places, to deny us any pledges on your part to maintain the Pacification." "But," replied the Prince, "if we are already accomplishing the Pacification, what more do you wish ?" "In this fashion," cried the others, "after having got all that you ask, and having thus fortified yourselves more than you were ever fortified before, you will make war upon us." "War ?" cried the Prince, "what are you afraid of?
We are but a handful of people; a worm compared to the King of Spain.