We shall weep, they will laugh.

The Lord be praised for all; but I can not write this without tears." This nervous language painted the situation and the character of the writer.
As for Charles Mansfeld, he soon fell away from the league which he had embraced originally with excessive ardor.
By the influence of the leaders many signatures were obtained during the first two months of the year.

The language of the document was such that patriotic Catholics could sign it as honestly as Protestants.

It inveighed bitterly against the tyranny of "a heap of strangers," who, influenced only by private avarice and ambition, were making use of an affected zeal for the Catholic religion, to persuade the King into a violation of his oaths.

It denounced the refusal to mitigate the severity of the edicts.