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History of the United Netherlands
1584-1609

CHAPTER XVII
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For him paeans as to a deliverer.

Without him the ark would have fallen into the hands of the Philistines.

For the Valois, shouts of scorn from the populace, thunders from the pulpit, anathemas from monk and priest, elaborate invectives from all the pedants of the Sorbonne, distant mutterings of excommunication from Rome--not the toothless beldame of modern days, but the avenging divinity of priest-rid monarchs.

Such were the results of the edicts of June.

Spain and the Pope had trampled upon France, and the populace in her capital clapped their hands and jumped for joy.


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