“All in the world I have is yours; Next to God, you are the one I love best, and if I did not know that your love for me is the same, I could not be so happy as I am: May God give us both the grace to live always in this affection without any guile.”

To his first wife while she was dying (1558), as quoted William the Silent (1897) by Frederic Harrison, p. 28

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