Ha. But I hope you have kept your Fingers all this While from Sacrilege?
Thr. There's nothing sacred in Hostility, there we neither spare private Houses nor Churches.
Ha. How will you make Satisfaction?
Thr. They say there is no Satisfaction to be made for what is done in War, for all Things are lawful there.
Ha. You mean by the Law of Arms, I suppose?
Thr. You are right.
Ha. But that Law is the highest Injustice. It was not the Love of your Country, but the Love of Booty that made you a Soldier.
Thr. I confess so, and I believe very few go into the Army with any better Design.
Ha. It is indeed some Excuse to be mad with the greater Part of Mankind.
Thr. I have heard a Parson say in his Pulpit that War was lawful.