ABSTRACT
The traitors put on an appearance of calmness at this announcement, but soon the venom of their souls was shown (for what they had said was feigned), and they replied,
that as it was not the intention of the three to join the war, they had no occasion for their arms; and so their arms were taken from them ,* and they were killed, as we shall explain. They knew what would be their doom, and they said so ere they determined how they would act, but death was preferable to a life of treason to their king.
