He was forced to go, disguised and in secret, to the Prince of Parma at Brussels, to ask for assistance, and to mention, with Lacrymose vehemence, that both his brother and himself had determined to renounce the episcopate, unless the forces of the Spanish King could be employed to recover the cities on the Rhine.
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Seeing his daughter, he was greatly delighted, and even Lacrymose.
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