You have beaten the Blues almost every time that you have met them.

You would have beaten them last time, had not a sort of madness seized you.

It was not we who led you across the Loire; you have chosen to come, and we have followed you.
"At any rate, it is better to die fighting, for God and country, than to be slaughtered unresistingly by these murderers.

You saw how they fell upon the helpless ones who were unable to cross with us; how they murdered women and children, although there was no resistance, nothing to excite their anger.

If you die, you die as martyrs to your faith and loyalty, and no man could wish for a better death.
"All is not lost, yet.