His wife, who had been in Zealand, came to join him, and the pleasure of seeing her again was a consolation under all his troubles.  He writes to Vossius, August 17, 1632[180], “Oppressed by the violence of my enemies, to which hand shall I turn me, and to whom shall I have recourse, but to her who has been the faithful companion of my good and bad fortune; and to you who have given me public marks of your attachment in my greatest calamities?  I have not yet (he adds) come to a resolution in my own affair; but as far as I can see I shall have it in my power to chuse.  It ought not to appear hard to me to live under a Master, when I see that after so many efforts for preserving your liberty you have little more than the name of it.  I am resolved to expose myself to every thing rather than stoop to those who have treated me so unworthily after many years patience.  I value not that man who lays aside all sentiments of generosity.”  He no doubt means the Prince of Orange, of whom he thought he had reason to complain.

He was well pleased with the air of the place where he resided, and met with so many Dutchmen[181], that he did not look upon himself as a stranger.  He wanted his books; but the learned Lindenbrogius gave him access to his library to use it as his own.

When winter came on, he lodged at Hamburg with Van Sorgen, a Merchant, who had a regard for men of learning:  he was brother to Nicholas Van Sorgen an eminent Advocate at the Hague.

Notwithstanding the embarrassment of his affairs he tells the First President of the Court of Moneys, that he did not pretend to draw money from the King of France for the future.  “I shall always,” says he, “retain a most grateful sense of the King’s liberality:  but it is enough to have been chargeable to you when in France.  I have never done you any service, though I made an offer of myself.  But it would not be proper that I should now live like a hornet on the goods of other men.  I shall never forget, however, the kindness of so great a King, and the good offices of so many friends.”

His wife was gone to Zealand, “to receive,” says he, “the remains of our wreck, which I am uncertain into what port to carry.”  He wrote to Descordes, to whom he had already spoke his sentiments in several Letters, that he most humbly thanked the King for his inclination to honour him with his benefactions though absent, and that he was extremely sensible of the constant attention of his friends to serve him; but that he saw no just reason for accepting the King’s favours since his departure from France.  “I earnestly wish,” he adds, “that my excuses may be well received:  I have no less grateful sense of what is offered me than of what was given me:  and shall most chearfully testify my gratitude for the favours received from a most excellent King as often as occasion offers.  In the mean time I pray God to give him a long life and vigorous health, and to restore the tranquillity of the kingdom, if France be capable of so great a blessing.”