Old Ocean shook with it; Neptune, in the depths of his caves (SES GROTTES PROFONDES), saw the English subjecting his waves (SES ONDES): the wild Iroquois, prize of these crimes (FORFAITS), bursts out; detesting the tyrants who disturb his Forests,"-- and scalping Braddock's people, and the like.
"Discord, charmed to see such an America, and feeble mortals crossing the Ocean to exterminate one another, addresses the European Kings: 'How long will you be slaves to what are called laws?
Is it for you to bend under worn-out notions of justice, right?
Mars is the one God: Might is Right.

A King's business is to do something famous in this world.' "O daughter of the Caesars," Maria Theresa, "how, at these words, ambition, burning in thy soul, breaks out uncontrollable! Probity, honor, treaties, duty: feeble considerations these, to a heart letting loose its flamy passions; determining to rob the generous Germans of their liberties; to degrade thy equals; to extinguish 'Schism' (so called), and set up despotism on the wrecks of all." "Huge project"-- "FIER TRIUMVIRAT,"-- what not: "From Roussillon and the sunny Pyrenees to frozen Russia, all arm for Austria, and march at her bidding.

They concert my downfall, trample on my rights.
"The Daughter of the Caesars, proudly certain of victory,--'t is the way of the Great, whose commonplace virtue, pusillanimous in reverses, overbearing in success, cannot bridle their cupidity,--designates to the Triumvirate what Kings are to be proscribed [Britannic George and me, Reich busy on us both even now], and those ungrateful tyrants, by united crime, immolate to each other, without remorse, their dearest allies." For instance:-- "O jour digne d'oubli! Quelle atroce imprudence! Therese, c'est l'Anglais que tu vends a la France: Theresa! it is England thou art selling to France;"-- Yes, a thing worth noting.

"Thy generous support in thy first adversities; thy one friend then, when a world had risen to devour thee.

Thou reignest now:--but it was England alone that saved thee anything to reign over! Tu regnes, mats lui seul a sauve tes etats: Les bienfaits chez les rois ne font que des ingrats.
"And thou, lazy Monarch,"-- stupid Louis, let us omit him:--"Pompadour, selling her lover to the highest bidder, makes France, in our day, Austria's slave!" We omit Kolin Battle, too, spoken of with a proud modesty (Prag is not spoken of at all); and how the neighboring ravenous Powers, on-lookers hitherto, have opened their throats with one accord to swallow Prussia, thinking its downfall certain: "Poor mercenary Sweden, once so famous under its soldier Kings, now debased by a venal Senate;"-- Sweden, "what say I?
my own kindred [foolish Anspach and others], driven by perverse motives, join in the plot of horrors, and become satellites of the prospering Triumvirs.
"And thou, loved People [my own Prussians], whose happiness is my charge [notable how often he repeats this] it is thy lamentable destiny, it is the danger which hangs over thee, that pierces my soul.