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Excerpt from The History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vol. 2 of 2 The prince of Orange remained not idle or un concerned, in this critical conjunéture. He' had too much fagacity not to difcern, and too much zeal and dexterity not to avail himfelf of (0 favour able an opportunity of advancing his defi us. By his letters, and emifl'aries, he endeavour to roufe the fpirit of the people, and to perfuade the council, That now was the time when they might deliver themfelves for ever from the tyran ny of Spain. By the cod providence of God, the government had fallen into their own hands. It on ht to be their unalterable urpofe, to hold fafi t e power which they fl'e ed, and to em ploy it in deliverin their f ow-citizens from that intolerable load 0 mifery under which they had (0 long groaned. The meafure of the calamities of the people, and of the iniquities of the Spa niards, was now full. There was nothing worfe to be dreaded than they had already fufi'ered and nothing to deter them from refolving either to ex pel their rapacious tyrants, or to perifh in the glo rious attempt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.