Adieu, my friend, whom well I love." Henry IV.

accomplished all that, when he wrote to Rosny, he had showed himself resolved to undertake.

External circumstances became favorable to him.

Since his conversion to Catholicism, England and her queen, Elizabeth, had been colder in the cause of the French alliance.

When, after his declaration of war against Philip II., Henry demanded in London the support on which he had believed that he might rely, Elizabeth answered by demanding in her turn the cession of Calais as the price of her services.