It is all important that there should be no mistake.

I have for a whole year remained inactive because you told me that the time had not yet come, and now that you say the propitious moment is approaching would fain be sure that no error has been committed.

All seems well, the troops are devoted to me, and will fight against whomsoever I bid them.

By lavish gifts and favours I have attached all my generals firmly to me, and soon this ungrateful emperor shall feel how rash and foolish he has been to insult the man to whom alone he owes it that he was not long ago a fugitive and an exile, with the Swedes victorious masters of his capital and kingdom.
"Have not I alone saved him?
Did not I at my own cost raise an army and stand between him and the victorious Gustavus?
Have not I alone of all his generals checked the triumphant progress of the invaders?
And yet he evades all his promises, he procrastinates and falters.

Not one step does he take to give me the sovereignty of Bohemia which he so solemnly promised me, and seems to think that it is honour and reward enough for me to have spent my treasure and blood in his service.