In that and all things we will show our duty.

Very good. He immediately moved to suppress his nephew’s levies, which he had thought were preparations against the Poles, but when he looked more closely, he found that they were really preparations against you. He was so annoyed that he ignored his sickness, age and weakness: sends an instruction to Fortinbras to stop, which, in short, the young man obeys. He receives rebuke from Norway, and finally makes a vow to his uncle that he will never again threaten your majesty. At that, old Norway, overjoyed, gives him a grant of three thousand crowns a year and a commission to use those soldiers against the Poles, with a request to you, contained here…

…That it might please you to allow him to pass through your territory for that purpose, subject to the conditions that are set down in there.