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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2012
This pamphlet published at Mons advocates the reconciliation of the Netherlands with the king according to the example set by the Union of Arras of January 1579. In September 1579 Margaret of Parma was re-appointed as regent, but when she arrived back in the Netherlands in the summer of 1580 to take over government, her son Alexander prevented her from exercising any influence.
If you hope to gain advantage from having a man like the prince of Orange as your chief, and from our having a woman as our regent, you are very much mistaken. For if Madame's sex is an obstacle, so is his lack of courage. Tell me, how many times has he been at the head of your regiments when it was time to fight? Do you remember seeing him assemble and command your army with the diligence and zeal appropriate to a commander-in-chief? Did you see him come to the rescue of the town of Maastricht after a siege lasting four months or (a little time before) go to meet the prince of Parma? The prince of Parma hastened rashly to the gates of Antwerp and cut your army to pieces before the eyes of the prince of Orange, who remained paralysed within the walls of Antwerp and gave neither the assistance nor the orders which one must expect in such a situation from a commander-in-chief.
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