Speak, then, and relieve the soul of this venerableprince from torture,
2
It was in vain that the venerableprince appeared on the balcony, amidst the firing, crying out Kill me, you cowards!
3
Sigismund knelt at the venerablePrince's feet, and receiving his head on his shoulder, their tears mingled.
4
What Minister, however able, however popular, could have withstood the wisdom, the irreproachability, the vast prescriptive authority, of the venerablePrince?
5
"The children of the Republic are protected by an even hand," observed the venerableprince.