portion du peuple injustement méprisée ailleurs, unjustly portion of-the people despised elsewhere, a portion of the people unjustly despised elsewhere, et esclave dans presque tout le nord. and slave in almost all the north. and almost throughout the north in a state of slavery. Environ About About cents quatre-vingt thousand four hundreds four-twenty four hundred, and ninety liberté, et douze, cette nation, si jalouse de sa nation twelve, this qui est encore fière aujourd'hui Rome il y a treize siècles, fut joug par une femme, et par un peuple moins puisyoke by a woman, and by a people less poweryoke by a woman, and by a people less power sant que les Suédois. ful than the Swedes. ful than the Swedes. Marguérite de Valdémar, la Sémiramis du Nord, Margaret of Waldemar, the Semiramis reine de Danemarck et de Norvège, queen of queen of Denmark and of Norway, Denmark and of Norway, of-the North, of the North, conquit la conquered the conquered Suède par force et par adresse, et fit un seul royaume de ces trois vastes états. kingdom of these three vast states. three vast states into one kingdom. the Sweden was these Après sa mort, After her death, guerres civiles: elle la Suède fut déchirée par des secoua le joug des Danois: elle le reprit; elle shook-off the yoke of-the Danes: shook off the Danish yoke, she she him took-again; and fell under it again; she vers l'an vingt. L'un The one twenty. about the year one thousand five hundred and twenty. étoit Christiern Second, roi de Danemarck, + was Christiern was Second, king of Christiern the Second, king of Denmark, Denmark, stre formé de vices, sans aucune vertu ; ster formed of vices, without ster any virtue; The one mon mona mon l'autre the other, of vice, and wholly devoid of virtue; the other, un archevêque d'Upsal, an archbishop of Upsa!, archbishop of Upsal, two of concert made They one day, in concert, caused saisir un jour les consuls, les magistrats de Stockto-seize one day the consuls, the magistrates of Stockthe consuls, the magistrates of Stockholm, to be seized, to-the pillage, and all was slaughtered, without to pillage, and all the inhabitants were butchered without distinction d'âge ni de sexe. Tandis que ces deux of age nor of sex. distinction of age or distinction sex. Whilst that these two twas-necessary to-share the spoils, + exercised that the spoils were to be divided, que le despotisme a de plus tyrannique, et ce que which the despotism has of most tyrannical, and that which the utmost tyranny of despotism, and la vengeance a de plus cruel, un nouvel événement the new a new vengeance has of most cruel, a the utmost cruelty of vengeance, changea la face du nord. changed the face of-the north. changed the face of the north. event event Gustave Vasa, jeune Gustavus Vasa, anciens young Vasa, a young homme descendu des rois du pays, descended from-the ancient kings of-the country, descended from the ancient kings of the country, fond des forêts de la Dalecarlie, bottom of the forests of the Dalecarlia, depth of the forests of where he had been concealed, and came to the deliverance of Suède. Sweden. Sweden. C'étoit une de ces grandes âmes, que This + was one of those great souls, which He possessed one of those la nature forme si rarement, great souls, which avec toutes les VOL. I. B qualités nécessaires pour commander aux hommes: for to-command to-the men: qualities necessary sa taille avantageuse et son grand air des partisans dès and his great air to-him + made and noble air procured him qu'il se montroit. of-the partisans, from-the-time that he himself + showed. partisans as soon as he showed himself. Son élo His elo His elo quence, à laquelle sa bonne mine donnoit de la force, quence, to the-which his good mien + gave of the strength, which was strengthened by his personal advantages, quence, étoit + was was d'autant plus persuasive qu'elle étoit sans of so-much more persuasive the art: son génie formoit de ces art: his genius † formed of those art: his genius conceived as she + was without for being without entreprises que le those enterprises enterprises which the which the daring courage infatigable les faisoit réussir. courage indefatigable them + made to-succeed. indefatigable courage ensured their success. his his un siècle féroce, vertueux enfin, à ce que l'on age ferocious, virtuous in-short, to that which the one ferocious age, in short he is said to have been as an a Gus Gus dit, autant qu'un chef de parti peut l'être. Gussays, as-much as a chief of party can it be. as a leader of a party tave Vasa avoit été virtuous tavus Vasa † had can be. ôtage de been hostage of tavus Vasa had been a hostage of retenu prisonnier contre le droit des gens. against the right of-the peoples. contrary to the law of nations. retained prisoner detained as a prisoner Échappé de sa Escaped from his Having escaped from Buried in these subterraneous-places, he While buried in these dared he had the boldness II Enseveli dans ces caverns, songer 'à détrôner le tyran. to-think to to-dethrone the tyrant. to meditate dethroning the tyrant. aux paysans; il leur parut to-the peasants; he to-them appeared to the peasants; he appeared to them se découvrit He himself discovered He discovered himself |