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braced the religious profession he renounced that amusement, 'ab exordío religiosæ professionis huic principaliter exercitio renunciavi.' The profound respect which I feel for the character and for the personal merits of M. de Cambray makes me blush with shame for him at learning that such a work should have proceeded from his pen! That with the same hand with which he offers every day upon the altar of the living God that adorable chalice which contains the blood of Jesus Christ, the price of the redemption of the Universe, he has presented to those very souls which were then redeemed, the cup with the poisoned wine of the Whore of Babylon,..for thus it is that the Fathers have called all those detestable books, which under ingenious fictions and elegant language, contain nothing but tales of gallantry and amours, descriptions of the temple and the statue of Venus, and of the enchanted island of Love, and the