A month ago we received permission to enter the service of the Netherlands.

It will only cost me a word with Captain Van der Laen, to be my own master." "Thanks, thanks; but the young lady forbade me to ask your assistance." "Folly, I shall go with you, and when our goal is reached, fight my way through to the Beggars.

Our departure will not trouble the council, for, when Henrica and I are outside, there will be two eaters less in Leyden.

The sky is grey; I hope we shall have a dark night.

Captain Van Duivenvoorde commands the guard at the Hohenort Gate.