The Christian point of view, on the other hand, is found in Vauquelin de la Fresnaye, who differs from Ronsard and Du Bellay in his preference for scriptural themes in poetry. The Pleiade was essentially pagan, Vauquelin essentially Christian. The employment of the pagan divinities in modern poetry seemed to him often odious, for the times had changed, and the Muses were governed by different laws. The poet should attempt Christian themes; and indeed the Greeks themselves, had they been Christians, would have sung the life and death of Christ. In this passage Vauquelin is evidently following Minturno, as the latter was afterward followed by Corneille:-- "Si les Grecs, comme vous, Chrestiens eussent escrit, Ils eussent les hauts faits chante de Iesus Christ.... He! quel plaisir seroit-ce a cette heure de voir Nos poetes Chrestiens, les facons recevoir Du tragique ancien? Et voir a nos misteres Les Payens asservis sous les loix salutaires De nos Saints et Martyrs? et du vieux testament Voir une tragedie extraite proprement?"[415] Vauquelin's opinion here is out of keeping with the general theory of the Pleiade, especially in that his suggestions imply a return to the mediaeval mystery and morality plays. The _Uranie_ of Du Bartas is another and more fervid expression of this same ideal of Christian poetry. In the _Semaines_, Du Bartas himself composed the typical biblical poem; and tragedies on Christian or scriptural subjects were composed during the French Renaissance from the time of Buchanan and Beza to that of Garnier and Montchrestien. But Vauquelin's ideal was not that of the later classicism; and Boileau, as has been seen, distinctly rejects Christian themes from modern poetry.