my crowne off Qu. I was ignorant Then of his worth and heard but the report Of his accusers and his enemies Who never mention in his character Shadowes of any vertue in those men They would depresse like Crowes and carrion birds They sly ore slowrie Meades cleare Springs faire Gardens And stoope at carcasses for your owne honour Pitty poore Chabot King Poore and a Colossus What could so lately straddle ore a Province Can he be fallen so low and miserable To want my pitty who breakes forth like day Takes up all peoples eyes and admiration It cannot be he hath a Princely wife too Qu. I interpose not often Sir or presse you With unbecomming importunitie To serve the profitable ends of others Conscience and duty to your selfe inforce My present mediation you have given The health of your owne state away unlesse Wisedome in time recover him King If he proove No adulterate gold triall confirmes his value Qu. Although it hold in mettle gracious Sir Such fiery examination and the furnace May wast a heart that 's faithfull and together With that you call the feces something of The precious substance may be hazarded King Why you are the chiefe engine rais'd against him And in the worlds Creede labour most to sinke him That in his fall and absence every beame May shine on you and onely guild your fortune Your difference is the ground of his arraignement Nor were we unsollicited by you To have your bill confirm'd from that that spring Came all these mighty and impetuous waves With which he now must wrastle if the strength Of his owne innocence can breake the storme Truth wonot lose her servant her wings cover him He must obey his fate Con. I would not have It lie upon my fame that I should be Mentioned in Story his unjust supplanter For your whole Kingdome I have beene abused And made beleeve my suite was just and necessary My walkes have not beene safe my closet prayers But some plot has pursued me by some great ones Against your noble Admirall they have frighted My fancy into my dreames with their close whispers How to uncement your affections And reâ—der him the fable and the scorne Of France Qu. Brave Montmorancie King Are you serious Con. Have I a soule or gratitude to acknowledge My selfe your creature dignified and honor'd By your high favours with an equall truth I must declare the justice of your Admirall In what my thoughts are conscious and will rather Give up my claime to birth title and offices Be throwne from your warme smile the top and crowne Of subjects happinesse then be brib'd with all Their glories to the guilt of Chabots ruine King Come come you over act this passion And if it be not pollicie it tasts Too greene and wants some counsell to mature it His fall prepares your triumph Con. It confirmes My shame alive and buried will corrupt My very dust make our house-genious grone And fright the honest marble from my ashes His fall prepare my triumph turne me first A naked exile to the world King No more Take heede you banish not your selfe be wise And let not too much zeale devoure your reason Enter Asall As Your Admirall Is condemn'd Sir King Ha strange no matter Leave us a great man I see may be As soone dispatch'd as a common subject Qu. No mercy then for Chabot Enter Wife and Father Wif. From whence came That sound of Chabot then we are all undone Oh doe not heare the Queene she is no friend To my poore Lord but made against his life Which hath too many enemies already Con. Poore soule shee thinkes the Queene is still against him Who employeth all her powers to preserve him Fa. Say you so my Lord daughter the Queen 's our friend Wif. Why doe you mocke my sorrow can you flatter Your owne griefe so be just and heare me sir And doe not sacrifice a subjects blood To appease a wrathfull Queene let mercy shine Vpon your brow and heaven will pay it backe Vpon your soule be deafe to all her prayers King Poore heart she knowes not what she has desir'd Wif. I begge my Chabâ—ts life my sorrowes yet Have not destroid my reason King He is in the power of my Lawes not mine Wif. Then you have no power And are but the emptie shadow of a King To whom is it resign'd where shall I begge The forfeit life of one condemnâ—d by Lawes To partiall doome King You heare he is condemn'd then Fa. My sonne is condemn'd fit King You know for what too Fa. What the Iudges please to call it But they have given tâ— a name Treason they say Qu. I must not be denied King I must deny you Wif. Beâ—lest for ever for t Qu. Grant then to her King Chabot condemn'd by law Fa. But you have power To change the rigor in â—our breast there is A Chancellor above it I nere had A suite before but my knees joyne with hers To implore your royall mercy to her Lord And take his cause to your examination It cannot wrong your Iudges if they have Beene steer'd by conscience Con. It will fame your Iustice King I cannot be prescrib'd you kneele in vaine You labour to betray me with your teares To a treason above his gainst my owne Lawes Looke to the Lady Exeunt Enter Asall As Sir the Chancellor King Admit him leave us all Enter Chancellor How now my Lord You have lost no time and how thrive the proceedings Cha. T was sit my gracious Soveraigne time should leave His motion made in all affaires beside And spend his wings onely in speed of this King You have shew'd diligence and what 's become Of our most curious Iusticer the Admirall Cha. Condemn'd sir utterly and all hands set To his conviction King And for faults most foule Cha. More than most impious but the applausive issue Strooke by the concourse of your ravish'd subjects For joy of your free Iustice if there were No other cause to assure the sentence just Were proofe convincing King Now then he sees cleerely That men perceive how vaine his Iustice was And scorne him for the foolish net he wore To hide his nakednesse i st not a wonder That mens ambitions should so blinde their reason To affect shapes of honesty and take pride Rather in seeming then in being just Cha. Seeming has better fortune to attend it Then being sound at heart and vertuous King Professe all nothing doe like those that live By looking to the Lamps of holy Temples Who still are busie taking off their snuffes But for their profit sake will adde no oyle So these will checke and sentence every fame The blaze of riotous blood doth cast in others And in themselves leave the sume most offensive But he to doe this more deceives my judgement Than all the rest whose nature I have sounded Cha. I know Sir and have prov'd it King Well my Lord To omit circumstance I highly thanke you For this
solid reason Against the Admirall what commands of yours Not to your expectation obey'd By him is ground of your so keene displeasure Qu. Commands of mine he is too great and powerfull To stoope to my employment a Colossus And can stride from one Province to another By the assistance oâ— those offices You have most confidently impos'd upon him T is he not you take up the peoples eyes And admiration while his Princely wise Kin. Nay then I reach the spring of your distaste He has a wife Enter Chancellor Treasurer and whisper with the King Qu. Whom for her pride I love not And I but in her husbands ruine Can triumph ore her greatnesse King Well well I le thinke on 't Exit Cha. He beginnes to incline Madam you are the soule of our great worke Qu. I le follow and imploy my powers upon him Tre. We are confident you will prevaile at last And for the pious worke oblige the King to you Cha And us your humblest creatures Que. Presse no further Exit Que. Cha. Le ts seeke out my Lord Constable Tre. And inflame him Cha. To expostulate with Chabot something may Arise from thence to pull more weight upon him Exeunt Enter Father and Allegre Fa. How sorts the businesse how tooke the King The tearing of his bill Al. Exceeding well And seem'd to smile at all their grimme complaints Gainst all that outrage to his highnesse hand And said in plaine he sign'd it but to try My Lords firme Iustice Fa. What a sweete King t is Al. But how his rivall the Lord Constable Is labour'd by the Chancellor and others to retort His wrong with ten parts more upon my Lord Is monstrous Fa. Neede hee their spurres Al. I Sir for hee s afraid To beare himselfe too boldly in his braves Vpon the King being newly entred Mynion Since t is but patience sometime they thinke Because the favor spending in two streames One must runne low at length till when he dare Take fire in such flame as his faction wishes But with wise feare containes himselfe and so Like a greene faggot in his kindling smoakes And where the Chancellor his chiefe Cyclops findes The fire within him apt to take he blowes And then the faggot flames as never more The bellowes needed till the too soft greenenesse Of his state habit shewes his sappe still flowes Above the solid timber with which then His blaze shrinkes head he cooles and smoakes agen Fa. Good man he would be wod the bad not spoile him Al. True sir but they still ply him with their arts And as I heard have wrought him personally To question my Lord with all the bitternesse The galls of all their faction can powre in And such an expectation hangs upon 't Though all the Court as t were with child and long'd To make a mirror of my Lords cleare blood And therein see the full ebbe of his flood And therefore if you please to counsell him You shall performe a fathers part Fa. Nay since Hee s gone so farre I wod not have him feare But dare e'm and yet I le not meddle in t Enter Admirall Hoes here if he have wit to like his cause His spiriâ— wonot be asham'd to die in t Exit Al. My Lord retire y' are way-laid in your walkes Your friendes are all fallen from you all your servants Suborn'd by all advantage to report Each word you whisper out and to serve you With hat and knee while other have their hearts Adm. Much profit may my foes make of such servants I love no enemy I have so well To take so ill a bargaine from his hands Al. Their other oddes yet shun all being combinde And lodg'd in ambush ariv'd to doe you mischiefe By any meanes past feare of law or soveraigne Adm. I waâ—ke no desart yet goe arm'd with that That would give wildest beasts instincts to rescue Rather then offer any force to hurt me My innocence is which is a conquering justice As weares a shield that both defends and fights All. One against all the world Adm. The more the oddes The lesse the conquest or if all the world Be thought an army fit to employ gainst one That one is argued fit to fight gainst all If I fall under them this breast shall beare Their heape digested in my sepulchre Death is the life of good men let e'm come Enter Constable Chancellor Treasurer Secretary Con. I thought my Lord our reconcilement perfect You have exprest what sea of gall flow'd in you In tearing of the bill I sent to allow Adm. Dare you confesse the sending of that bill Con. Dare why not Adm. Because it breake your oath Made in our reconcilement and betrayes The honour and the chiefe life of the King Which is his justice Con. Betraies Adm. No lesse and that I le prove to him Omnes You cannot Trea. I would not wish you offer at an action So most impossibly and much against The judgement and favour of the King Adm. His judgement nor his favour I respect So I preserve his Iustice Cha. T is not Iustice Which I 'le prove by law and absolute learning Adm. All your great law and learning are but words When I plead plainely naked truth and deedes Which though you seeke to fray with state and glory I 'le shoote a shaft at all your globe of light If lightning split it yet t was high and right Exit Con. Brave resolution so his acts be just He cares for gaine not honour Chan. How came he then By all his infinite honour and his gaine Tre. Well said my Lord. Sec. Answer but onely that Con. By doing justice still in all his actions Sec But if this action prove unjust will you Say all his other may be so as well And thinke your owne course fitter farre than his Con I will Exit Cha. He cooles we must not leave him we have no Such engine to remove the Admirall Exeunt Enter King and the Admirall Kin. I prethee Philip be not so severe To him I favour t is an argument That may serve one day to availe your selfe Nor Does it square with your so gentle nature To give such fires of envie to your bloud For howsoeuer out of love to Iustice Your Iealousie of that doth so incense you Yet they that censure it will say t is envy Adm. I serve not you for them but for your selfe And that good in your Rule that Iustice does you And care not this what others say so you Please but to doe me right for what you know King You will not doe your selfe right why should I Exceede you to your selfe Adm. My selfe am nothing Compar'd to what I seeke t is justice onely The fount and flood both of your strength and kingdomes King But who knowes not that extreame justice is by all ruld lawes the extreame of injurie And must to you be so the persons that Your passionate heate calls into question Are great and many and
point Deserts hang sprawling out their vertuous limbs King Better and better Adm. This your glory is My deserts wrought upon no wretched matter But shew'd your royall palmes as free and moist As Ida all enchast with silver springs And yet my merit still their equall sings King Sing till thou sigh thy soule out hence and leave us Adm. My person shall my love and faith shall never King Perish thy love and faith and thee for ever Whos 's there Enter Asall Let one goe for the Chancellor Asa He 's here in Court Sir King Haste and send him hither This is an insolence I never met with Can one so high as his degrees ascend Clime all so free and without staine My Lord Enter Chancellor Chancellor I send for you about a service Of equall price to me as if againe My ransome came to me from Pavian thraldome And more as if from forth a subjects fetters The worst of servitudes my life were rescued Cha. You fright me with a Prologue of much trouble King Me thinkes it might be tell me out of all Your famous learning was there ever subject Rais'd by his Soveraignes free hand from the dust Vp to a height above Ayres upper region That might compare with him in any merit That so advanc'd him and not shew in that Grosse over-weening worthy cause to thinke There might be other over-sights excepted Of capitall nature in his sifted greatnesse Chan. And past question Sir for one absur'd thing granted A thousand follow King You must then employ Your most exact and curious art to explore A man in place of greatest trust and charge Whom I suspect to have abus'd them all And in whom you may give such proud veines vent As will bewray their boyling bloud corrupted Both gainst my crowne and life Cha. And may my life Be crust in every act If I explore him not to every finer King It is my Admirall Cha. Oh my good Leige You tempt not charge me with such search of him King Doubt not my heartiest meaning all the troubles That ever mov'd in a distracted King Put in just feare of his assaulted life Are not above my sufferings for Chabot Cha. Then I am glad and proud that I can cure you For he 's a man that I am studied in And all his offices and if you please To give authoritie King You shall not want it Cha. If I discharge you not of that disease About your necke growne by your strange trust in him With full discovery of the foulest treasons King But I must have all prov'd with that free justice Cha. Beseech your Majestie doe not question it King About it instantly and take me wholly Vpon your selfe Cha. How much you grace your servant King Let it be fiery quicke Cha. It shall have wings And every feather shew the slight of Kings Actus Tertius Enter Chancellor attended the Proctor generall whispering in his eare Two Iudges following They past Enter Chabot in his gowne a gaurd about him his father and his wife on each side Allegre Adm. ANd have they put my faithfull servant to the racke Heaven arme the honest man Fa. Allegre feeles the malice of the Chancellor Adm. Many upon the torture have confest Things against truth and yet his paine sits neerer Than all my other feares come don't weepe Wife My Lord I doe not grive out of a thought Or poore suspition they with all their malice Can staine your honour but it troubles me The King should grant this licence to your enemies As he were willing to heare Chabot guilty Adm. No more the King is just and by exposing me To this triall meanes to render me More happy to his subjects and himselfe His sacred will be obey'd take thy owne spirit And let no thought in fringe thy peace for me I goe to have my honours all confirm'd Farewell thy lip my cause has so much innocence It shanot neede thy prayer I leave her yours Till my returne oh let me be a sonne Still in your thoughts now Gentlemen set forward Exit Manente Father and Wife Fa. See you that trust in greatnesse what sustaines you These hazards you must looke for you that thrust Your heads into a cloud where lie in ambush The souldiers of state in privy armes Of yellow fire jealous and mad at all That shoote their foreheads up into their forges And pry into their gloomy Cabbinets You like vaine Citizens that must goe see Those ever burning furnaces wherein Your brittle glasses of estate are blowne Who knowes not you are all but puffe and bubble Of breath and fume forg'd your vile brittle natures Cause of your dearenesse were you tough and lasting You would be cheape and not worth halfe your face Now daughter Plannet strooke Wif. I am considering What forme I shall put on as best agreeing With my Lords fortune Fa. Habit doe you meane Of minde or body Wif. Both wod be apparell'd Fa. In neither you have reason yet to mourne Wif. I le not accuse my heart of so much weakenesse T were a confession gainst my Lord. The Queene Enter Queene Constable Treasurer Secretary She has exprest ' gainst me some displeasure Fa. Le ts this way through the Gallery Qu. T is she Doe you my Lord say I woâ— speake with her And has Allegre one of chiefest trust with him Suffâ—red the racke the Chancellor is violent And what 's câ—nfest Tre. Nothing he contemn'd all That could with any cruelst paine explore him As if his mind had rob'd his nerves of sence And through them diffusd fiery spirits above All flesh and blood for as his limbs were stretch'd His contempts too extended Qu. A strange fortitude Tre. But we shall lose th' arraignement Qu. The successe Will soone arrive Tre. You le not appeare my Lord then Con. I desire Your Lordship wod excuse me Tre. We are your servants Exiunt Tre. Sec. Con. She attends you Madam Qu. This humblenesse proceedes not from your heart Why you are a Queene your selfe in your owne thoughts The Admiralls wife of France cannot be lesse You have not state enough you shold not move Without a traine of friends and servants Wif. There is some mystery Within your language Madam I woud hope You have more charitie than to imagine My present condition worth your triumph In which I am not so lost but I have Some friends and servants with proportion To my Lords fortune but none within the list Of those that obey mee can be more ready To expresse their duties than my heart to serve Your just commands Qu. Then pride will ebbe I see There is no constant flood of state and greatnesse The prodigie is ceasing when your Lord Comes to the ballance hee whose blazing fires Shot wonders through the Kingdome will discover What slying and corrupted matter sed him Wif. My Lord Qu. Your high and mighty Justicer The man of conscience the Oracle Of State whose honorable titles Would cracke an Elephants backe is
now turn'd mortall Must passe examination and the test Of Law have all his offices rip d up And his corrupt soule laid open to the subjects His bribes oppressions and close sinnes that made So many grone and curse him now shall finde Their just reward and all that love their country Blesse heaven and the Kings Iustice for removing Such a devouring monster Fa. Sir your pardon Madam you are the Queene she is my daughter And he that you have character'd so monstrous My sonne in Law now gon to be arraign'd The King is just and a good man but 't does not Adde to the graces of your royall person To tread upon a Lady thus dejected By her owne griefe her Lord 's not yet found guilty Much lesse condemn'd though you have pleas'd to execute him Qu. What sawâ—y fellow 's this Fa. I must confesse I am a man out of this element No Courtier yet I am a gentleman That dare speake honest truth to the Queenes care A duty every subject wonot pay you And justifie it to all the world there 's nothing Doth more ecclipse the honours of our soule Than an ill grounded and ill followed passion Let slie with noise and license against those Whose hearts before are bleeding Con. Brave old man Fa. Cause you are a Queene to trample ore a woman 〈◊〉 tongue and faculties are all tied up 〈◊〉 out a Lyons teeth and pare his clawes And then a dwarfe may plucke him by the beard T is a gay victory Qu Did you hëare my Lord Fa. I ha done Wif. And it concernes me to beginne I have not made this pause through servile feare Or guiltie apprehension of your rage But with just wonder of the heates and wildnesse Has prepossest your nature gainst our innocence You are my Queene unto that title bowes The humblest knee in France my heart made lower With my obedience and prostrate duty Nor have I powers created for my use When just commands of you expect their service But were you Queene of all the world or something To be thought greater betwixt heaven and us That I could reach you with my eyes and voyce I would shoote both up in defence of my Abused honour and stand all your lightning Qu. So brave Wif. So just and boldly innocent I cannot feare arm'd with a noble conscience The tempest of your frowne were it more frightfull Then every fury made a womans anger Prepar'd to kill with deaths most horrid ceremony Yet with what freedome of my soule I can Forgive your accusation of my pride Qu. Forgive what insolence is like this language Can any action of ours be capable Of thy forgivenesse dust how I dispise thee Can we sinne to be object of thy mercie Wif. Yes and have dont already and no staine To your greatnesse Madam t is my charity I can remit when soveraigne Princes dare Doe injury to those that live beneath them They turne worth pitty and their prayâ—rs and t is In the free power of those whom they oppresse To pardon e'm each soule has a prerogative And priviledge royall that was sign'd by heaven But though i th knowledge of my disposition Stranger to pride and what you charge me with I can forgive the injustice done to me And striking at my person I have no Commission from my Lord to cleere you for The wrongs you have done him and still he pardon The wounding of his loyaltie with which life Can hold no ballance I must talke just boldnesse To say Fa No more now I must tell you daughter Least you forget your selfe she is the Queene And it becomes not you to vie with her Passion for passion if your Lord stand fast To the full search of Law Heaven will revenge him And give him up precious to good mens loves If you attempt by these unruly wayes To vindicate his justice I me against you Deere as I wish your husbands life and fame Suffer are bound to suffer not contest With Princes since their Will and Acts must be Accounted one day to a Judge supreme Wif. I ha done if the devotion to my Lord Or pietie to his innocence have led me Beyond the awfull limits to be observ'd By one so much beneath your sacred person I thus low crave your royall pardon Madam I know you will remember in your goodnesse My life blood is concern'd while his least veine Shall runne blacke and polluted my heart fed With what keepes him alive nor can there be A greater wound than that which strikes the life Of our good name so much above the bleeding Of this rude pile wee carry as the soule Hath excellence above this earth-borne frailty My Lord by the Kings will is lead already To a severe arraignement and to Iudges Will make no tender search into his tract Of life and state stay but a little while And â—rancâ— shall â—â—â—ho to his shame or innocence This suit I begge with teares I shall have sorrow Enough to heare him censur'd foule and monstrous Should you forbeare to antidate my sufferings Qu. Your conscience comes about and you incline To feare he may be worth the lawes condemning Wif. I sooner will suspect the starres may lose Their way and cristall heaven returne to Chaos Truth â—its not on her square more firme than he Yet let me tell you Madam were his life And action so foule as you have character'd And the bad world expects though as a wife T were duty I should weepe my selfe to death To know him falne from vertue yet so much I a fraile woman love my King and Country I should condemne him too and thinkâ— all honours The price of his lost faith more fatall to me Than Cleopatra's aspes warme in my bosome And as much boast their killing Qu. This declares Another soule than was deliver'd me My anger melts and I beginne to pitty her How much a Princes eare may be abus'd Enjoy your happie confidence at more leasure You may heare from us Wif. Heaven preserve the Queene And may her heart be charitable Fa. You blesse and honour your unworthy servant Qu. My Lord did you observe this Con. Yes great Madam And read a noble spirit which becomes The wife of Chabot their great tiâ— of mâ—rriage Iâ— not more strong upon em than their vertues Qu. That your opinion I thought your judgement Against the Admiâ—all doe you thinke him honest Con. Religiously a true most zealous Patrior And worth all royall favour Qu. You amaze me Can you be just your selfe then and advance Your powers against him Con. Such a will be farre From Montmoranzie Pioners of state Have left no art to gaine me to their faction And t is my misery to be plac'd in such A sphere where I am whirl'd by violence Of a fierce raging motion and not what My owne will would encline me I shall make This appeare Madam if you please to second My free speech with the King Qu. Good heaven protect all Haste to the King
it sign'd with all These my assistant brothers reverend hands To his conviction in a publike triall King You said for foule and monstrous facts prov'd by 〈◊〉 Cha. The very words are there sir King But the deedes I looke for sir name me but one that 's monstrous Cha. His foule comparisons and affronts of you To me seem'd monstrous King I told you them sir Nor were they any that your so vast knowledge Being a man studied in him could produce And prove as cleare as heaven you warranted To make appeare such treasons in the Admirall As never all Lawes Volumes yet had sentenc'd And France should looke on having scap'd with wonder What in this nature hath beene cleerely prov'd In his arraignement 1. Nothing that we heard In slendrest touch urg'd by your Advocate King Dare you affirme this too 2. Most considently King No base corruptions charg'd upon him 1. None sir Tr. This argues Chabot has corrupted him Seâ— I doe not like this 1. The summe of all Was urg'd to prove your Admirall corrupt Was an exaction of his officers Of twenty souse taken from the Fishermen For every boate and that fish'd the Normand coast King And was this all The mountaines and the marvells promist me To be in cleere proofe made against the life Of our so hated Admirall Iud. All sir Vpon our lives and consciences Cha. I am blasted King How durst you then subscribe to his conviction 1. For threats by my Lord Chancellor on the Bench Affirming that your Majestie would have it Made capitall treason or account us traitors 2. Yet sir we did put to our names with this Interposition of a note in secret In these two letters V and I to shew Wee were enforc'd to what we did which then In Law is nothing Fa. How doe you feele your Lordship Did you not finde some stuffing in your head Your braine should have beene purg'd Cha. I fall to peeces Would they had rotted on the Bench. King And so you sav'd the peace of that high Court Which otherwise his impious rage had broken But thus am I by his malicious arts A parly rendred and most tyrannous spurre To all the open course of his base envies A forcer of my Iudges and a thirst Of my nobilities blood and all by one I trusted to make cleere my love of Iustice Cha. I beseech your Majestie let all my zeale To serve your vertues with a sacred value Made of your royall state to which each least But shade of violence in any subject Doth provoke certaine death King Death on thy name And memory for ever one command Our Advocate attend us presently As He waites here King But single death shall not excuse thy skinne Torne ore thine eares and what else can be inflictedâ— If thy life with the same severity Dissected cannot stand so many fires Sec. Tre. Be mercifull great Sir King Yet more amaze Is there a knee in all the world beside That any humane conscience can let bow For him y are traitors all that pitty him Tr. This is no time to move King Yet t was my fault To trust this wretch whom I knew fierce and proud With formes of tongue and learning what a prisoner Is pride of the whole slood of man for as A humane seede is said to be a mixture And faire contemperature extracted from All our best faculties so the seede of all Mans sensuall frailty may be said to abide And have their confluence in onely pride It stupifies mans reason so and dulls True sence of any thing but what may fall In his owne glory quenches all the spirits That light a man to honour and true goodnesse As Your Advocate Enter Advocate King Come hither Adv. My most gracious Soveraigne Adm. Madam you infinitely oblige our duty Qu. I was too long ignorant of your worth my Lord And this sweete Ladies vertue Wâ—f Both your servants Adm I never had a feare of the Kings Iustice And yet I Know not what creepes ore my heart And leaves an ice beneath it my Lord Chancellor You have my forgivenesse but implore heavens pardon For wrongs to equall justice you shall want No charitie of mine to mediate To the King for you Cha. Horrour of my soule Confounds my gratitude Con. To me now most welcome Adv. It was my allegiance sir I did enforce But by directions of your Chancellor It was my office to advance your cause Gainst all the world which when I leave to execute Flea me and turne me out a most raw Advocate King You see my Chancellor Adv. He has an ill looke with him King It shall be your province now on our behalfe To urge what can in justice be against him His riot on our Lawes and corrupt actions Will give you scope and field enough Adv. And I Will play my law prize never feare it sir He shall be guilty of what you please I am studied In him sir I will squeeze his villanâ—es And urge his acts so whom into his bowells The force of it shall make him hang himselfe And save the Lawes a labour King Iudges for all The poisonous outrage that this viper spile On all my royall freedome and my Empire As making all but servants to his malice I will have you revise the late arraignement And for those worthy reasons that already Affect you for my Admiralls acquitall Employ your justice on this Chancellor away with him Arrest him Captaine of my guard to answer All that due course of Law against him can Charge both his Acts and life Cap. I doe arrest thee Poyet Lord Chancellor in his Highnesse name To answer all that equall course of Law Can charge thy acts and life with Cha. I Obey King How false a heart corruption has how base Without true worth are all these earth-bred glories Oh blessed justice by which all things stand That stills the thunder and makes lightning finke Twixt earth and heaven amaz'd and cannot strike Being prov'd so now in wonder of this man The object of mens hate and heavens bright love And as in cloudy dayes we see the Sunne Glide over turrets temples richest fields All those left darke and slighted in his way And on the wretched plight of some poore shed Powres all the glories of his golden head So heavenly vertue on this envied Lord Points all his graces that I may dinstinguish Him better from the world Tre. You doe him right King But away Iudges and pursue the afraignement Of this polluted Chancellor with that swiftnesse His fury wing'd against my Admirall And be you all that sate on him compurgators Of me against this false Iudge Iud. We are so King Be you two joyn'd in the commission And nothing urg'd but justly of me learning This one more lesson out of the events Of these affaires now past that whatsoever Charge or Commission Iudges have from us They ever make their ayme ingenuous Iustice Not partiall for reward or swelling favour To which if your King
to one but another is exalted by the execution of the Law since the corruption of one must conclude the generation of another though not alwayes in the same profession the corruption of an Apothecary may be the generation of a Doctor of Physicke the corruption of a Citizen may beget a Courtier a Courtier may very well beget an Alderman the corruption of an Alderman may be the generation of a Country Iustice whose corrupt ignorance easily may beget a tumult a tumult may beget a Captaine and the corruption of a Captaine may beget a Gentleman-Vsher and a Gentleman-Vsher may beget a Lord whose wit may beget a Poet and a Poet may get a thousand pound a yeare but nothing without corruption Tre. Good Mr. Advocate be pleased to leave all digressions and speake of the Chancellor Adv. Your Lordship doth very seasonably premonish and I shall not neede to leave my subject corruption while I discourse of him who is the very fenne and stigian abisse of it five thousand and odde hundred foule and impious corruptions for I will be briefe have beene found by severall examinations and by oathes prov'd against this odious and polluted Chancelor a man of so tainted and contagious a life that it is a miracle any man enjoyeth his nostrills that hath lived within the sent of his offices he was borne with teeth in his head by an affidavit of his Midwife to note his devouring and hath one toe on his left foote crooked and in the forme of an Eagles talon to foretell his rapacitie What shall I say branded mark'd and design'd in his birth for shame and obloquie which appeareth further by a mole under his right eare with only three Witches haires in t strange and ominous predictions of nature Tre. You have acquainted your selfe but very lately With this intelligence for as I remember Your tongue was guilty of no such character When hee sat Iudge upon the Admirall A pious incorrupt man a faithfull and fortunate Servant to his King and one of the greatest Honours that ever the Admirall received was That he had so noble and just a Iudge this must Imply a strange volubilitie in your tongue or Conscience I speake not to discountenance any Evidence for the King but to put you in minde Mr. Advocate that you had then a better opinion Of my Lord Chancellor Adv. Your Lordship hath most aptly interpos'd and with a word I shall easily satisfie all your judgements He was then a Judge and in Cathedra in which he could not erre it may be your Lordships cases out of the chaire and seate of Iustice he hath his frailties is loos'ed and expos'd to the conditions of other humane natures so every Iudge your Lordships are not ignorant hath a kinde of priviledge while he is in his state office and being and although hee may quoad se internally and privately be guilty of bribery of Iustice yet quoad nos and in publike he is an upright and innocent Iudge we are to take no notice nay we deserved to suffer if wee should detect or staine him for in that we disparage the Office which is the Kings and may be our owne but once remov'd from his place by just dishonour of the King he is no more a Iudge but a common person whom the law takes hold on and wee are then to forget what hee hath beene and without partialitie to strip and lay him open to the world a counterfeit and corrupt Iudge as for example hee may and ought to flourish in his greatnesse and breake any mans necke with as much facilitie as a jeast but the case being altered and hee downe every subject shall be heard a Wolfe may be appareld in a Lamb-skinne and if every man should be afraid to speake truth nay and more than truth if the good of the subject which are clients sometime require it there would be no remove of Officers if no remove no motions if no motion in Court no heate and by consequence but cold Termes take away this moving this removing of Iudges the Law may bury it selfe in Buckram and the kingdome suffer for want of a due execution and now I hope your Lordships are satisfied Tre. Most learnedly concluded to acquity our selfe 1 Iud. Mr. Advocate please you to urge for satisfaction Of the world and clearing the Kings honour how In justly he proceeded against the Admirall Adv. I shall obey your Lordship So vâ—st so infinite hath beene the impudence of this Chancellor not onely toward the subject but even the sacred person of the King that I tremble as with a Palsie to remember it This man or rather this monster having power and commission trusted for the examination of the Lord Admirall a man perfect in all honour and justice indeede the very ornament and second flower of France for the Flower de lis is sacred and above all flowers and indeede the best flower in our garden Having used all wayes to circumvent his innocence by suborning and promising rewards to his betrayers by compelling others by the cruelty of tortures as namely Mounsieur Allegre a most honest and faithfull servant to his Lord tearing and extending his sinewes upon the â—acke to force a confession to his purpose and finding nothing prevaile upon the invincible vertue of the Admirall Sec. How he would flatter him Adv. Yet most maliciously proceeded to arraigne him to be short against all colour of Iustice condemn'd him of high treasons oh thinke what the life of man is that can never be recompenced but the life of a just man a man that is the vigour and glory of our life and nation to be torne to death and sacrifis'd beyond the mallice of common persecution What Tiger of Hercanian breede could have beene so cruell but this is not all he was not guilty onely of murder guilty I may say In foro coÌ„sctieniae though our good Admirall was miraculously preserv'd but unto this he added a most prodigious fearefull rape a rape even upon Iustice it self the very soule of our state for the rest of the Iudges upon the Bench venerable images of Austria he most tyranously compel'd to set their hands to his most unjust sentence did ever story remember the like outrâ—ge and injustice what forfeit what penalty can be enough to satisfie this transcendent offence and yet my good Lords this is but veniall to the sacriledge which now followes and by him committed not content with this sentence not satisfied with horrid violence upon the sacred Tribunall but hee proceedes and blasphemes the very name and honour of the King himselfe observe that making him the author and impulsive cause of all these rapines justifying that he mov'd onely by his speciall command to the death nay the murder of his most faithfull subject translating all his owne blacke and damnable guilt upon the Kings heires a traytor to his Country first he conspires the death of one whom the King loves and whom every