Three days long the city was abandoned to that trinity of furies which ever wait upon War’s footsteps—­Murder, Lust, and Rapine—­under whose promptings human beings become so much more terrible than the most ferocious beasts.  In his letter to his master, the Duke congratulated him upon these foul proceedings as upon a pious deed well accomplished.  He thought it necessary, however; to excuse himself before the public in a document, which justified the sack of Mechlin by its refusal to accept his garrison a few months before, and by the shots which had been discharged at his troops as they approached the city.  For these offences, and by his express order, the deed was done.  Upon his head must the guilt for ever rest.

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Hanged for having eaten meat-soup upon Friday
Provided not one Huguenot be left alive in France
Put all those to the torture out of whom anything can be got
Saint Bartholomew’s day
Science of reigning was the science of lying

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