For it behoues vs then to look to ourselues, when our next neighbours houses are on fire. Princes lose both power and strength when their Allies do perish. The encrease of a potent neighbor whose friendship is vnsafe, as it cannot be without iust suspition, so is it also dangerous and hurtful. If Germanie as the heart bee possest by the Spaniard, who striues to get the dominion ouer all Europe, the rest of the Princes shall not long draw or enioy any vitall life or spririts. The heart therefore must be succored, if you would haue the rest of the members on the body to be safe.
Necessity requires warre.
A potent Prince makes no reckoning of friends when he finds opportunity to opresse them. The English are now brought into that extremitie by their owne foresayd counsels, that vnlesse they doe preuent by war, they will shortly be preuented. The King of England in the yeare 1621. And is he not now bound in honor to recouer what he prescribed by warre which he threatned and denounced, that the conditions were not performed. In the very time of the treaty at Bruxels was Heidelberg taken and spoyled.