Excerpt from Two English Queens and Philip

Fate had dealt hardly with the Emperor of late, and the impossible task he had assumed was break ing him down mentally and physically. Once again 'i he had found himself faced, not only by his Old? Enemy France, but by his own German Princes, and solely by flight and good luck had he escaped capture at the hands Of the Judas whom he had made powerful at the expense Of right and justice, Maurice Of Saxony. From sheer impotence to struggle further, the Emperor had been forced to accept the humiliating terms Of the Peace Of Passau dictated to him by the Lutheran Princes. But free now from danger from his own people, he had turned again to Cope with the foreign ally Of his rebel vassals, determined this time to make a supreme effort to crush his French rival utterly before growing infirmities crushed him.

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