“That book [the Regii Sanguinis Clamor] consists of various prooemia and epilogues [i.e. addition to the central text]—­to wit, An Epistle to Charles, another To the Reader, and two sets of verses at the close, one eulogistic of Salmasius, the other in defamation of me.  Now, if I find that you wrote or contributed any page of this whole book, even a single verse, or that you published it, or procured it, or advised it, or superintended the publishing, or even lent the smallest particle of aid therein, you alone, since no one else is to the fore, shall be to me responsible for the whole, the author, the ‘Crier’.  Nor can you call this merely my severity or vehemence; for this is the procedure established among almost all nations by right and laws of equity.  I will adduce, as universally accepted, the Imperial Civil Law.  Read Institut.  Justiniani l.  IV.  De Injuriis, Tit. 4:  ’If any one shall write, compose, or publish, or with evil design cause the writing, composing, or publishing, of a book or poem (or story) for the defamation of any one,’ &c.  Other laws add ’Even should he publish in the name of another, or without name;’ and all decree that the person is to be taken for the author and punished as such.  I ask you now, not whether you wrote the text of the Regii Sanguinis Clamor, but whether you made, wrote, published, or caused to be published, the Epistle Dedicatory to Charles prefixed to the Clamor, or any particle thereof; I ask whether you composed or caused to be published the other Epistle to the Reader, or finally that Defamatory Poem, You have replied nothing yet to these precise questions.  By merely disowning the Clamor itself and strenuously swearing that you wrote no portion of it, you thought to escape with safe credit, and make game of us, inasmuch as the Epistle to Charles the Son, or that to the Reader, or the set of Iambic verses, is not the Regii Sanguinis Clamor.  Take now this in brief, therefore, that you may not be able so to wheel about or prevaricate in future, or hope for any escape or concealment, and that all may know how far from mendacious, how veritable on the contrary, or at least not unfounded, was that report which arose about you:  take, I say, this in brief,—­that I have ascertained, not by report alone, but by testimony than which none can be surer, that you managed the bringing out of the whole book entitled Regii Sanguinis Clamor, and corrected the printer’s proofs, and composed, either alone, or in association with one or two others, the Epistle to Charles II. which bears Ulac’s name.  Of this your own name ‘ALEXANDER MORUS,’ subscribed to some copies of that Epistle, has been too clear and ocular proof to many witnesses of the fact for you to be able to deny the charge or to get rid of it....  There are several who have heard yourself either admit, on interrogation, that that Epistle is yours, or declare the fact spontaneously....  If you