Don John of Austria, or Passages from the history of the sixteenth century, MDXLVIIMDLXXVII . ly satirized. One of the most daring ofthese publications represented a hand proceeding from heavenand transferring the Crown from the head of Philip II. to thatof Orange. Those who could neither write nor draw expressedtheir hatred and contempt in simpler ways, like the Governor ofMechlin, who bestowed on a whelp which ran about his house thename of Don Under the care of Orange the prospects of the Estates weregradually improving. Don John was not strong enough both togarrison the country and
Don John of Austria, or Passages from the history of the sixteenth century, MDXLVIIMDLXXVII . ly satirized. One of the most daring ofthese publications represented a hand proceeding from heavenand transferring the Crown from the head of Philip II. to thatof Orange. Those who could neither write nor draw expressedtheir hatred and contempt in simpler ways, like the Governor ofMechlin, who bestowed on a whelp which ran about his house thename of Don Under the care of Orange the prospects of the Estates weregradually improving. Don John was not strong enough both togarrison the country and to threaten the greater cities. Hissuccesses had for the time united the Catholic and Protestantparties by the bonds of a common fear. Orange had therefore A. Carnero : Guerras Civiles en Flandes, 142. 302 DON JOHN OF AUSTRIA. chap, ix ample time for his financial arrangements and cordial co-operationin making them. His agents in Germany succeeded in negotiatingthe aid of twelve thousand men, to be led across the Rhine in thespring by the Duke John Casimir of the Pfalz, and to be paid.
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