Major-General Morgan replied, and said, "The Prince of Condé and Don Juan of Austria were great Captains; and that they might dodge with Marshal Turenne, to fatigue his army:" and, further, that "If he did keep the army three nights to that hard shift, they would not care who did knock them on the head!"
Marshal Turenne replied, "We must do it, and surmount all difficulty!"
The Major-General desired to know of his Excellency, "Whether he was certain, the enemy was so near him?"
He answered, "He had two spies just come from them."
Then Major-General Morgan told him, "His condition was somewhat desperate!" and said that "A desperate disease must have a desperate cure!"
His Excellency asked, "What he meant?"
Major-General Morgan did offer him, to attempt the Counterscarp upon [by] an assault; and so put all things out of doubt, with expedition.
The Major-General had no sooner said this; but Marshal Turenne joined his hands, and looked up, through the boards, towards the heavens, and said, "Did ever my Master, the King of France, or the King of Spain attempt a Counterscarp upon an assault: where there were three Half Moons covered with cannon, and the ramparts of the town playing point blank into the Counterscarp?"
Further, he said, "What will the King, my Master, say of me, if I expose his army to these hazards?" And he rose up, and fell into a passion, stamping with his feet, and shaking his locks, and grinning with his teeth, he said, "Major-General Morgan had made him mad!"