The Duke, however, was appointed Governor of the citadel.  Sancho d’Avila, the former constable, refused, with Castillian haughtiness, to surrender the place to his successor, but appointed his lieutenant, Martin d’Oyo, to perform that ceremony.  Escovedo, standing upon the drawbridge with Aerschot, administered the oath:  “I, Philip, Duke of Aerschot,” said the new constable, “solemnly swear to hold this castle for the King, and for no others.”  To which Escovedo added, “God help you, with all his angels, if you keep your oath; if not, may the Devil carry you away, body and soul.”  The few bystanders cried Amen; and with this hasty ceremony, the keys were delivered, the prisoners, Egmont, Capres, Goignies, and others, liberated, and the Spaniards ordered to march forth.

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     A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman
     Agreements were valid only until he should repent
     All Protestants were beheaded, burned, or buried alive
     Arrive at their end by fraud, when violence will not avail them
     Attachment to a half-drowned land and to a despised religion
     Barbara Blomberg, washerwoman of Ratisbon
     Believed in the blessed advent of peace
     Compassing a country’s emancipation through a series of defeats
     Don John of Austria
     Don John was at liberty to be King of England and Scotland
     Ferocity which even Christians could not have surpassed
     Happy to glass themselves in so brilliant a mirror
     His personal graces, for the moment, took the rank of virtues
     Necessary to make a virtue of necessity
     One-half to Philip and one-half to the Pope and Venice (slaves)
     Quite mistaken:  in supposing himself the Emperor’s child
     Sentimentality that seems highly apocryphal
     She knew too well how women were treated in that country
     Those who fish in troubled waters only to fill their own nets
     Worn crescents in their caps at Leyden

MOTLEY’S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, Project Gutenberg Edition, Vol. 27

THE RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC

By John Lothrop Motley 1855 1577 [chapter ii.]

Triumphal entrance of Don John into Brussels—­Reverse of the picture —­Analysis of the secret correspondence of Don John and Escovedo with Antonio Perez—­Plots against the Governor’s liberty—­His desponding language and gloomy anticipations—­Recommendation of severe measures—­Position and principles of Orange and his family—­ His private views on the question of peace and war—­His toleration to Catholics and Anabaptists censured by his friends—­Death of Viglius—­New mission from the Governor to Orange—­Details of the Gertruydenberg conferences—­Nature and results of these negotiations—­Papers exchanged between the envoys and Orange—­Peter Panis executed for heresy—­Three parties