After having replied to the grievances alleged in support of that proclamation, "We should never have believed," said the Doge Loredano, "that so great a prince would have given ear to the envenomed words of a pope whom he ought to know better, and to the insinuations of another priest whom we forbear to mention (Cardinal d'Amboise).

In order to please them, he declares himself the foe of a republic which has rendered him great services.

We will try to defend ourselves, and to prove to him that he has not kept faith with us.

God shall judge betwixt us.

Father herald, and you, trumpeter, ye have heard what we had to say to you; report it to your master.