"Go to Brussels," said the pamphleteer; "it all stands clearly written out on the register with the names and surnames of all you great bribe-takers." These were choice morsels from the lampoon of the notary Danckaerts.
"We are tortured more and more with religious differences," wrote Barneveld; "with acts of popular violence growing out of them the more continuously as they remain unpunished, and with ever increasing jealousies and suspicions.

The factious libels become daily more numerous and more impudent, and no man comes undamaged from the field.

I, as a reward for all my troubles, labours, and sorrows, have three double portions of them.

I hope however to overcome all by God's grace and to defend my actions with all honourable men so long as right and reason have place in the world, as to which many begin to doubt.

If his Majesty had been pleased to stick to the letters of 1613, we should never have got into these difficulties.