[1083] Correspondance de Philippe II., tom. II. p. 12.
[1084] Brandt, Reformation in the Low Countries, vol. I. pp. 263, 264; et alibi.
[1085] Grotius, Annales, p. 29.—Vandervynckt, Troubles des Pays-Bas, tom. II. p. 450.
[1086] Campana, Guerra de Fiandra, fol. 38.—Ferreras, Hist. d'Espagne, tom. IX. p. 555.
[1087] "Valde optaremus tandem aliquam funesti hujus temporis, criminaliumque processuum finem, qui non populum tantum nostrum, sed vicinos omnes exasperant." Viglii, Epist. ad Hopperum, p. 482.
[1088] Correspondance de Philippe II., tom. II. p. 15.
[1089] "Y quando por esta causa se aventurassen los Estados, y me viniesse á caer el mundo encima." Ibid., p. 27.
Philip seems to have put himself in the attitude of the "justum et tenacem" of Horace. His concluding hyperbole is almost a literal version of the Roman bard:—
"Si fractus illabatur orbis,
Impavidum ferient ruinæ."
[1090] Archives de la Maison d'Orange-Nassau, Supplément, p. 87.