Response à un ligueur, masqué du nom de catholique Anglois

ashes of his body to purge the sodomies with which he infected France, than to make him rich from the ashes of the innocent. But in your usage, that is but pure virtue, provided that one supports your party and the Roman Church, enriched by such graces. He was killed by one whom he had wished to have burned, and this on the day of a battle, and yet you are not reprehensible when, treacherously, you would have had a hundred of those of the Religion die, even though they had done you no harm. That is the equality that is found in your arguments. One has, you say, incited Poltrot to kill the Duke of Guise, for which you blame the Admiral and Beza. But you do not say that the Admiral, by his declarations, requested that Poltrot be confronted with them, in order to verify what was to the contrary of your slander, which could not be obtained. And they had him die without observing such formalities as are required for the justification of those who are accused by criminals whom one tortures so much that one makes them say what one wants, as was done to that man. But whatever the case may be, the Huguenots say that posterity owes to Poltrot the tongue and the pen, to make live the memory of an act so generous as his; from which the fatherland gathers such fruit, and must feel happy to be able to produce such men who, with so much honor and affection toward