ish itself. Yet, in this perplexed world the deeds of men may
be without excuse, while, nevertheless, in the men themselves there
may be something to love, and something more to admire.

[Footnote 345: "You shall understand that the
Emperor hath suddenly caused his army to march
towards Namur, and that himself is gone after in
person; the deliberation whereof, both of the one
and the other, is against the advice of his
council, and all other men to the staying of him.
Wherein Albert the Duke of Savoy, John Baptiste
Castaldo, Don Hernando de Gonzaga, and Andrea Doria
have done their best, as well by letter as by their
coming from the camp to this town, _viva voce_
alleging to him the puissance of his enemy, the
unableness as yet of his army to encounter with
them, the danger of the chopping of them between
him and this town, the hazard of himself, his
estate, and all these countries, in case, being
driven to fight, their army should have an
overthrow; in the preservation whereof standeth the
safety of the whole, and twenty other arguments.
Yet was there no remedy, but forth he would, and
commanded them that they should march _sans plus
repliquez_. His headiness hath often put him to
great hindrance, specially at Metz, and another
time at Algiers. This enterprise is more dangerous
than they both. God send him better fortune than
_multi ominantur_."--Mason to Petre, Brussels, July
10; _German MSS. Mary_, bundle 16, State Paper
Office.]

[Footnote 346: "The Emperor, in these nine or ten
days following of his enemy, hath showed a great
courage, and no less skilfulness in the war; but
much more notably showed the same when, with so
small an army as he then had, he entered into
Namur, a town of no strength, but commodious for
the letting of his enemy's purpose, against the