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    History of the United Netherlands, 1588-89
    History of the United Netherlands, 1588-89
    History of the United Netherlands, 1588-89
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    History of the United Netherlands, 1588-89

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      Title: History of the United Netherlands, 1588-89

      Author: John Lothrop Motley

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      HISTORY OF THE UNITED NETHERLANDS

      From the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce—1609

      By John Lothrop Motley

      MOTLEY'S HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS, Project Gutenberg Edition, Vol. 59

      History of the United Netherlands, 1588-1589

      CHAPTER XX.

           Alexander besieges Bergen-op-Zoom—Pallavicini's Attempt to seduce

           Parma—Alexander's Fury—He is forced to raise the Siege, of Bergen

           —Gertruydenberg betrayed to Parma—Indignation of the States—

           Exploits, of Schenk—His Attack on Nymegen—He is defeated and

           drowned—English-Dutch Expedition to Spain—Its meagre Results—

           Death of Guise and of the Queen—Mother—Combinations after the

           Murder of Henry III.—Tandem fit Surculus Arbor.

      The fever of the past two years was followed by comparative languor. The deadly crisis was past, the freedom of Europe was saved, Holland and England breathed again; but tension now gave place to exhaustion. The events in the remainder of the year 1588, with those of 1589—although important in themselves—were the immediate results of that history which has been so minutely detailed in these volumes, and can be indicated in a very few pages.

      The Duke of Parma, melancholy, disappointed, angry stung to the soul by calumnies as stupid as they were venomous, and already afflicted with a painful and lingering disease, which his friends attributed to poison administered by command of the master whom he had so faithfully served— determined, if possible, to afford the consolation which that master was so plaintively demanding at his hands.

      So Alexander led the splendid army which had been packed in, and unpacked from, the flat boats of Newport and Dunkerk, against Bergen-op-Zoom, and besieged that city in form. Once of great commercial importance, although somewhat fallen away from its original prosperity, Bergen was

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