Then I shall put your fidelity to the proof." "I am ready for any proof." "It is not a very severe one.

You see this paper upon the table.

It is an order that all the Huguenots in my dominions shall give up their errors, under pain of banishment or captivity.

Now I have hopes that there are many of my faithful subjects who are at fault in this matter, but who will abjure it when they learn that it is my clearly expressed wish that they should do so.

It would be a great joy to me to find that it was so, for it would be a pain to me to use force against any man who bears the name of Frenchman.