With what enthusiasm would this dis

With what enthusiasm would this discourse be received! With what unanimous ap-plause! The enterprise is so glorious; the end proposed so noble, so useful; the example of the monarch so encouraging; the rewards promised so magnificent! What generous ambition would fire every heart, and how on every lip would be heard the cry of our fathers marching to the conquest of the Holy Sepulcher, "God wills it, God wills it!" And if it happened that one of these princes, preferring an ignoble repose to this glorious labor, should dare to reply, without dying of shame, "For me, I prefer remaining in the midst of my idleness, enjoying the delights of the court," what a general hoot, what exclamations of disapprobation and con-tempt, would follow this cowardly and indolent refusal!