Response à un ligueur, masqué du nom de catholique Anglois

which they were used as sacrificial victims without any law or reason, save for the passion of the Ecclesiastics who were both their judges and their accusers, supported by those good pillars of the house of Guise, who have shown the zeal of their faith: namely, the grandfather near Saverne, the father at Vassy, and the son at the massacre of Paris. This meant that when those of the aforementioned religion were no longer to be considered as private individuals, but as forming a good and sound part of the public, composed of the Princes of the blood and the principal members of the State, along with the multitude, seeing that there was nothing but cruelty without the administration of justice, they had recourse to a just defense, which nature teaches even to the least animals to guarantee a life unjustly assailed. And to cut the root of these evils, they wished to seize the disturbers of the State (they being avowed and led by those who had legitimate vocation in this Kingdom for such affairs) and thus bring them to trial. And they say that if that had been executed thus, the offshoots of this cursed stock would not have produced today such bitterness for France, in whose bosom, being nourished, they are like true scorpions. Wherefore, since they are of such nature, one must also apply to their venom the remedy required in such a case, which is to crush the animal immediately upon its sting, which being