History of Protestantism in the Netherlands - James Aitken Wylie

which Charles had won by his many campaigns -- a
name which can perish only with the Netherlands
themselves.
Besides the three principal figures there were
others in that brilliant gathering, who were either
then, or soon to be, celebrated throughout Europe,
and whom we shall often meet in the stirring
scenes that are about to open. In the glittering
throng around the platform might be seen the bland
face of the Bishop of Arras; the tall form of
Lamoral of Egmont, with his long dark hair and
soft eye, the representative of the ancient Frisian
kings; the bold but sullen face, and fan-shaped
beard, of Count Horn; the debauched Brederode;
the infamous Noircarmes, on whose countenance
played the blended lights of ferocity and greed; the
small figure of the learned Viglius, with his yellow
hair and his green glittering eye, and round rosy
face, from which depended an ample beard; and, to
close our list, there was the slender form of the
celebrated Spanish grandee, Ruy Gomez, whose
coal-black hair and burning eye were finely set off
by a face which intense application had rendered as
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