What phlegmatical reasons soever were made you, wrote the Queen, who but three weeks before had been so gentle and affectionate to her, ambassador, how happeneth it that you will not remember, that when a man hath faulted and committed by abettors thereto, neither the one nor the other will willingly make their own retreat.
"Project Gutenberg History of The Netherlands, 1555-1623, Complete"
John Lothrop Motley