President Lemaitre interrupted him.

"I cannot unmoved hear you repeating, sir, that to which my respect made me shut my eyes when the prince spoke.
Looking upon me as an individual, you might speak to me in any way, you thought proper; but so soon as the body I represent here is injured by insulting terms, I take offence, and I cannot suffer it.

Know then, sir, that the Parliament does not deceive or play fast and loose with anybody, and that it renders to every man his due." The conversation was continued for some moments in this warm and serious tone; but the quarrel went no further; from the account they received of it, the Parliament applauded the premier president's firmness, and all the members swore that they would suffer anything rather than that there should be any change in the decree.

It remained intact, and Mayenne said no more about it.
During these disputes amongst the civil functionaries, and continuing all the while to make proposals for a general truce, Henry IV.

vigorously resumed warlike operations, so as to bring pressure upon his adversaries and make them perceive the necessity of accepting the solution he offered them.