is brought at last into publike to make himselfe a Synonoma to his name For although there is no contending with Ghosts yet we determine to portrait this snake and deliniate this prodigy of men in his right colours and with such brevity as may be least irkesome to the hearers Democ. Let us stand up and see their painted Gorgons head Man This Trivius a true triviall Trivius a man satiated with widowes but widowed of goodnesse of of a strong sinewy body rather then a witty and ingenuous heart having good successe in his suits sucked more marrow from other mens relicts then ever hee received by the poore practise of his profession Hee speakes much with litle discretion and having his braines in his tongue will utter an ocean of words without the least drop of reason Trib. You have painted me to an haire worthy Manilius I confesse I am altogether ignorant of the lawes and as blinde men are wont to doe I easily subscribed to the opinion and iudgement of my brothers wherefore my ignorance desires pardon and cries that you should spare him whom God will spare as being an INNOCENT Manil. You devised a redier answer for me Trivius then any defence for your selfe ignorance excuseth a tanto not a toto you had a good example before namely Antrivius deceased sleeping in peace who as his pen witnesses being sicke on his bed would assent to no such opinion But you adoring your money not only in the Image but in the rust preferred your drosse before your peace of conscience wherefore as you have milkt your widowes so let the exchequer milke you of all that you have Democ. Very good the Goate must now be milkt This Ignoramus paies the price of his Ignorance one day takes away what many yeares have gathered and the exchequer draines the fortunes of so many wives hah hah hah Herac. Humaine affaires never succeede well where divine service is neglected Clerk Let Trivius bee taken away and kept close prisoner least hee escape and Roderigo keepe your hand close lest by his stolen merchandize he procure his liberty Prim. To speake of you most honoured Curvus Acilius your constancy and integrity hath with a beame of the Sunne described you a father of your country the starre of the Court and a true Son of justice and have left you a memory to posterity which shall never be extinguished by the injury of time or forgetfulnesse for you have utterly conquered all envy and in this last date of your age have erected a statue in the Courts of the living whereunto no better Epitaph can be added then Sacred to the memory of Curvus Acilius Democ. O how much doth this Trivius differ from Acilius the one as hee singularly knew the lawes so he rightly despensed them the other neither dispensed them nor knew them Herac. In this negligent and retchlesse age vices like grasse in pits are wont to spring out mens lazinesse from whence wee finde it true that evills are much more incurable in the old then in the young Democ. Yet if old men would more diligently measure their houre as much as they are nearer death they should live more uprightly But now there is such corruption of life that men doe never more love the earth then when thy should leave it never lesse regard heaven then when they should goe thither Hold my sides least I burst with laughter young men grow old and old men young hah hah hah Clerk Bring forth Ioachimus Rod. He is departed his owne prison before he was commited to our custody Camb. He is dead and is beholding unto death for although he were a very subtile Lawyer in his cunning and intricate arguments and shewed himselfe a true Tytides who wavering Ioachimus Ghost wavering with dreadfull motion appeareth and vanisheth this way and that doubted whether to ioyne with Hector or Achilles saying whom to fly I know whom to follow I know not yet the more severely was he to be punished because hee was so industrious to dissemble and corrupt the truth Democ. But the fates have taken him out of your hands and by dying in time he prevented an untimely death Clerk Bring forth Hortensius Rod. He was never committed to our custody Manil. Thou saist true Roderigo he was a man of such unstained life that hee shewed himselfe truly worthy both in life and death wherefore the memory of so his iust and upright Hortensius Ghost with an amiable countenance appeareth vanisheth a man is to bee lamented with perpetuall Elegye for he deservedly got the name of an honest Iudge and a poore studient in which title he might glory more then in the Empire of the World Hee Conquered envie by his vertues and won honour in his death Herac. With what pious sentences are good mens tombes to be engraven Democ. From hence proceede those Adagyes Every evill man is a foole no evill man is happy A wise man is every where at home none but a foole can be banished Herac, He truely travelleth from home my Democ who enioyeth not himselfe Manil. Let him depart and serve for a good example Clerk Call forth Antrivius Rodo. He was called forth long since Clerk Where appeared he Antrivius his ghost with a lovely countenance appeareth and vanisheth Rodo. Where he arrived he is far enough free from our our hands or manicles Prim. By what authority Rodo. By the command of a crabbed and imperious noble man who having waited a while at the prison doore swore he would enter or breake off the hinges He was of so fierce and terrible aspect that I gave him way for feare and as soone as I delivered my prisoner he caught him by the haire and vanished Camb. No man can resist an inevitable fate But if that man had lived unto these dayes his sentence had beene so upright in this dispute that hee had beene freed and made an happie end of his long-wearied age Let him sleepe in peace as hee flourished in the light and the more he flourished for being the lesse contentious in his cases Democ. T is best to speake well of the dead but if he had not beene so sickly of body perchance he had not beene so sound in mind Herac. You say true Democritus for sicknesse afflicteth the body but cureth the soule Democ. What mad men are those in the meane while who being healthy in body are diseased in their minde Clerk Sergeant bring Damocles to the barre hold up your hand Damocles Thou art indited by the name of Damocles that in Hilary Terme 1638. thou diddest contrary to the peace of the Commonweale the liberty of the subiect and the testimony of thine owne conscience not having the feare of God before thy eyes traitorously maliciously and wickedly give sentence for Ship-money payable to the King without evident necessity whereof hee himselfe was the sole Iudge Speake Damocles art thou guilty of the crime for which thou art endited Dam. I confesse I am not altogether