Response à un ligueur, masqué du nom de catholique Anglois

anointed with its blood, the healing follows as soon as the harm. There, Monsieur the English Catholic, is what is responded to your statements about Nantes and Amboise.

You say then afterwards that when the King died, he is estimated to have been poisoned by the Huguenots. Upon which one asks to what purpose, and whether it went much better for them under his successor, since the same governors of the State remained in authority. The poison would have been better employed, they say, on those who were governing, for the evil proceeded from them and not from the Kings, who were led to their ruin by their bad counsel. But one leaves that expedient to those who know their hours according to the usage of Rome, which the Huguenots have not learned, but rather it has been often practiced upon them. In short, they say that they would not want you to spare anything in slandering, because by throwing at them thus every stone that is found in your path, you proceed so foolishly that, in the end, one will not believe anything of all that you say, even if some truth were to escape your mouth. You complain after this of the battle of Dreux, where died the Marshal of Saint-André, who had become rich from the confiscations of the Huguenots, and lit the chambre ardente burning chamber; a special court for prosecuting heretics against them, which, they say, would have been better suited to making