Response à un ligueur, masqué du nom de catholique Anglois

it, expose their life to deliver it. It is, they say, to spare much blood to provide thus for those who are armed against justice, and who found all their contentment and grandeur upon the destruction of the human race. Happy, they say, would be our century if it knew how to produce as many liberators as the misfortune of men such as the English Catholic has produced for us in the way of Tyrants. And as for Beza, he has sufficiently shown that he had no part whatsoever in this deed, about which you speak by hearsay from those who chatter without proving anything.

You come then after to speak in very ill-sounding terms of the peace that was made before Orleans, and of the Edict of the first troubles, in which one can remark by what spirit you are led, for one sees that there is nothing that displeases you as much as peace. By being contrary to it, you show that you hate civil society, and consequently humanity. But good patriots remark well that, immediately after the Duke of Guise was dead, the war ceased at once, as if the cause of it had resided entirely in the life and the passion of this man, maddened by ambition, and that consequently it is necessary, to remove such intemperance today from the body of the State, that one purge it of such humor as it is full of,