“Then Kill me at once!”

—  William the Silent

Reply to the people who preferred Philip II over the Duke of Anjou, as quoted in William the Silent (1897) by Frederic Harrison

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stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht, leader of the … 1533–1584

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