Excerpt from History of the United Netherlands, Vol. 6: From the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Years' Truce, 1609, 1605-1609Genoese would of course not tell him the truth on such an occasion, wrote accordingly to the states-general that they might feel safe as to their eastern frontier. Whatever else might happen, Friesland and the re gions adjacent would be safe next year from attack.1 The immediate future was to show whether the subtle Italian had not compassed as neat a deception by tell ing the truth as coarser politicians could do by false hood.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.