Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	court_n	defendant_n	plaintiff_n	5,340	5	10.3536	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67763	Philarguromastix, or, The arraignment of covetousnesse, and ambition, in our great and greedy cormorants that retard and hinder reformation, (all whose reaches, are at riches) that make gold their god, and commodity the stern of their consciences, that hold everything lawful, if it be gainful, that prefer a little base pelf, before God, and their own salvations, that being fatted with Gods blessings, do spurn at his precepts : dedicated to all corrupt cunning, and cruel [bracket] governours, polititians ... : together with the lively, and lovely characters, of [bracket] justice, thankfulnesse ... : being a subject very seasonable, for these atheistical, and self-seeking times / by Junius Florilegus.	Younge, Richard.	1653 (1653)	Wing Y172; ESTC R39194	47,748	48

as he stole away the peoples hearts so these steal their estates And no cause so bad but they will undertake it either for gain or glory as he gets most fame and the greatest practice that can make a bad cause good and a good bad Whence it is they bend their tongues like Bowes for lyes As Ieremy hath it Chap. 9.3 that they may overthrow the right of the poor in his suit As Moses hath it Exod. 23.6 see more Esay 32.7 For they will devise some wicked counsel or other if they be paid thereafter to undo the adverse party with lying words And commonly they are like Caelius that could plead better against a man then for him as Plutarch speaks Yea some of them fall not far short of Carneades of whom wise Cato confest that while he disputed scarse any man could discern which was the truth So they turn judgment into wormwood Amos 5.7 and forge wrong for a Law as the Psalmist speaks Psal. 94.20 Have you not heard of a Lawyer that pleaded a case very strongly on the one side yet before the Tryal of it being advanced to the Bench he adjudged it on the other But had he been like Ioseph the Counseller whom the Holy Ghost stiles a good man and a just Luke 23.50 he would neither refuse to plead a just cause as they will do when great ones are concerned in it nor prefer one that is unjust Because he that justifies the guilty or refuseth to vindicate the Innocent in this case transfers the guilt to himself Or if this wretch finds it more for his profit he will see an end of the Clyents money before the Client shall see an end of his cause He will delay the Hearing untill he hath inriched himself and beggered his Clyent perswading him his Title is good till his patrimony be consumed And he hath spent more in seeking then the thing is worth Or the other shall get by the recovery One asking how he should have a Suit last him seven years was answered You may have a Suit in Chancery that will last you twenty years Another delivered in a Petition to King Iames I was four years compassing the World with Sir Francis Drake and there was an end of that I was three years with my Lord of Essex in Ireland Wars and there was an end of that I have had a Suit in Chancery this seventeen years but I fear I shall never have an end of that Which conceit procured him a quick dispatch but no thanks to the Lawyers He that goes to Law hath a Wolf by the eares if he prosecute his Cause he is consumed if he surcease his Suit he loseth all what difference There are not a few procrastinating or rather proterminating Attorneyes and Advocates that like him Prov. 3.28 will say unto a Clyent every day come again to morrow and yet procure his strife from Term to Term when this Term he might procure his peace Because he hath an action to his Clyents purse as his adversary hath to his Land That can spin one Suit throughout three generations and lengthen the threed of a mans cause till he shall want weft Or if he weave the Web to day he can by craft like Penelope unweave it as much to morrow Dealing with his Clyent as some Chirurgions do with their patients who will keep the wound raw and open that they may draw out of it the more money So that often the recovery of a mans right by Law is as dear as if he had bought it by purchase CHAP. 12. O The unsufferable knavery and wickednesse of such Lawyers were I able to tell it you For to me Law latine a kind of Canting is more irksome then either Irish or Welch They will sell both their speech and Silence their Clients Causes their own consciences and soules While the golden stream runneth the Mill grindeth when that spring is dry they advise them to put it to Compremise and let their Neighbours end it The fooles might have done so before saved so much money and shewed themselves Christians 1 Cor. 6.5 to 9. For a Christian indeed is like him that said to a Lawyer offering to right his wrongs and revenge him of his adversary by Law I am resolved rather to bear with patience an hail shower of injuries then seek shelter at such a Thicket where the Brambles shall pluck off my fleece and do me more hurt by scratching and tearing then the storm would have done by hailing I care not for that Physick where the remedy is worse then the disease And yet abundance of men as if they were bereaved of their very senses are more eager to cast away their money then Lawyers are to catch it being like so many Fishes that will contend for a Crum which falls into the water Nor will they ever give over untill an empty purse parteth the fray Yea they will spend their goods lives fortunes friends and undo one another to in rich an Harpie Advocate that preyes upon them both Or some Corrupt Iudge that is like the Kite in AEsop which when the Mouse and Frog fought carried them both away Which made one Lawyer build an Hospital for Fooles and Mad-men saying of such I gat my means and to such will I give it And generally Lawyers get the greatest Estates if not the devil and all of any men in the Land They are like the Butlers box which is sure to get though all the gamesters lose And it were good these earthen boxes were broken that their goods got by bribery wresting the Law and delaying of suits might be brought within a Premunire and they made to disgorge themselves As a Fox which goeth lank into the Henroost at a little hole when he hath well fed is forced to disgorge himself before he can come forth again Or that they were hanged up as Galeaze Duke of Millain caused a Lawyer to be served for delaying a Suit against a manifest and clear debt Or rather that the whole Number of such Lawyers might be pitcht over the bar and turned out of Courts without hope of ever returning And happy it were for the Nation for were this course taken and all contentious Sutes spued out as the surfeit of Courts it would fare with us as it did with Constantinople when Bazil was Emperour who coming to the Iudgement seat found neither plaintiffe to accuse nor defendant to answer for want of suites depending Or as it did in our Chancery when Sir Thomas Moor sate there as Iudge who made such quick dispatch in hearing causes that after two years and an half having one day heard and dispatcht the first cause calling for the next answer was made that there was no more causes to be heard As is there upon record still to be seen It were well for England if it had more Sir Thomas Moores whom all the riches in the world could not draw to do the least peece of injustice As is recorded of