Response à un ligueur, masqué du nom de catholique Anglois

which is what the Huguenots say, imitating your speaking by the aphorisms of Hippocrates and Galen. These are therefore the true medicines to procure the healing of France: namely, that one use justice with peace, and not the stale drugs of your filthy apothecary shop, which is supplied by the enemy of the salvation of men, in the new Babylon of the Christians.

From there you come to what you call the conspiracy of Meaux, which is a means held by the Huguenots to save their lives and liberty, as they say, and you pass over in silence what had been concluded at Bayonne: to have the principal leaders of their Religion killed, to break the Edict, and to execute massacres throughout all of France. In short, to dress them as the Duke of Alba did the Counts of Horn and Egmont, and an infinity of others, exterminated or rendered slaves. That is the provision that was proposed for the affairs of Religion in France and the Low Countries, and you wanted the Huguenots to be so foolish, and to fall asleep, and not provide for such a conspiracy, where the life of them and their wives and children was at stake. Thus it is a crime for them to protect themselves, but it is a virtue for you and your like to surprise them. And thus you take license in all things that you reproach in others.