+1st Off.+ There, there! Lay that in the place; so, so; here, help to spread this carpet. Quick, quick! +2d Off.+ Will our new king be here to give the forked herd an oration? +1st Off.+ An halter! Thou dost so fumble! But what's the general voice of the king's death? Here's the mourning for that bar. +2d Off.+ Marry, some think he died against his will; and others, that his brother--Where stands this?--will bury him very royally---- +1st Off.+ Hum! and others think if thou wert hanged, when 'tis thy due, there would be quickly a knave less. Despatch, despatch! I hear them coming. _Enter +Judges+, the two Ladies, +DE LOOME+, +LA GITTERNE+, and others. +De Flame+ stands at the bar._ +Off.+ Pray, by your leave; make way; give back there! For shame, sir; you press so hard upon the judges, they scarce have liberty to breathe. Clear the bar; peace! +1st Judge.+ My lord, here's none but knows you, and I believe do grieve to see you stand thus, and for a fact of such a bloody nature. A gentleman of your fair hopes and fortunes, blood and spirit, and other excellent parts, all cast upon untimely hazards by such an act (as indeed I know not how to name it). You needs must, therefore, be worthy our grief; and I presume you are not now to know the laws and customs of this your country, with what religious care they look unto the safety of our lives and our estates, and with what strictness on perpetrations of such a dye---- +2d Judge.+ Especially, where innocent blood is shed; and therefore we, being but the tongues of the law (my lord), may hope you will interpret the justice of it clearly from our mouths. +De F.+ Please you, most reverend lords, is there aught else but this I am to stand accused for? +2d Judge.+ Not that we know. +De F.+ Then, my good lords, you need not labour much to find out circumstances to condemn me; nor do I wish or think, my lords, to satisfy the law by talking in my own defence. Nor will I brand myself with such a fear, much less hope, as to bespeak a melting tear. That were to wish the act undone, and rob my justice of a glory I would be torn to atoms for. No, I come to meet the law; and if your wisdoms can contract the spacious volumes of it into one doom, I shall not startle, or divide my breast. My resolution was above it, when first I undertook to be my own law and judge. +1st Judge.+ I grieve to hear this language from you: it takes much from the man that you have seemed, my lord; stain not your noble and religious fame with such an atheism. +2d Judge.+ Look back into the deed, my lord. See, what a tide of blood pursues you, and breaks upon your soul in angry seas.