[Skelton's] rash folly might have procured the order from the court of France, to own this alliance [with England]; He thought it would terrify the States; And so he pressed this officiously, which they easily granted .-- _Swift_.

And who can blame him, if in such a necessity he made that alliance?
P.772._Burnet_.

The King of France thought himself tied by no peace; but that, when he suspected his neighbours were intending to make war upon him, he might upon such a suspicion begin a war on his part .-- _Swift_.

The common maxim of princes.
P.776._Burnet_, speaking of the Declaration prepared for Scotland, says that the:--Presbyterians, had drawn it so, that, by many passages in it, the Prince by an implication declared in favour of Presbytery.

He did not see what the consequences of those were, till I explained them.
So he ordered them to be altered.