"You would trust him with your heads?" asked Ludwig of Nassau. "Head, body, and soul," replied d'Egmont. "Friend, faithful and true, I will do likewise," said de Hoorn. But William said: "It behoves us to be far-sighted, and not to wait for things to happen." And then my Lord of Egmont spoke again, very excitedly. "I have arrested twenty-two Reformers at Grammont," he said, "and if their preachings come to an end, and if punishment is meted out to the iconoclasts, the anger of the King will be appeased." But William said: "These are mere hopes." "Let us arm ourselves with trust," said d'Egmont. "Let us arm ourselves with trust," echoed de Hoorn. "It is cold steel rather than trust that should be our weapons," replied de Hoogstraeten. Whereupon William the Silent made a sign to the effect that he wished to depart. "Adieu, Prince without a country," said the Count d'Egmont. "Adieu, Prince without a head," answered William. "The sheep are for the butcher," said Ludwig of Nassau, "but glory waits the soldier that saves the land of his fathers." "That I cannot," said d'Egmont, "neither do I desire to." "May the blood of the victims fall once again upon the head of the flatterer," said Ulenspiegel. And then those Lords retired. Whereupon did Ulenspiegel come down from his chimney, and go straightway to carry the news to Praet. And the latter said: "D'Egmont is nothing better than a traitor. But God is with the Prince." The Duke! The Duke at Brussels! Where are the safes and coffers that have wings? XII William the Silent went in the way by God appointed. As for the two Counts, they had already given themselves up to the Duke of Alba, who offered pardon to William as well if only he would appear before him. At this news Ulenspiegel said to Lamme: "My good friend, what do you think now? The Duke has sent out a summons through Dubois, the Attorney-General, by which the Prince of Orange, Ludwig his brother, de Hoogstraeten, Van den Bergh, Culembourg, de Brederode, and other friends of the Prince are cited to appear before him within forty days; and if they do this they are assured of justice and mercy. But listen, Lamme, and I will tell you a story. One day there was a Jew of Amsterdam who summoned one of his enemies to come down and join him in the street, for the Jew was standing on the pavement, but his enemy was looking out of a window just above. 'Come down at once,' said the Jew, 'and I will give you such a blow on the head as will squash it down into your chest, so that your two eyes will look out from your sides like the eyes of a thief from betwixt prison-bars.' But the other answered: 'Even if you promised me a hundred times as much, still I would not come down.' Even so may the Prince of Orange and his friends make reply to him that summons them!"