_Ralegh._ "It is a toy to tell me of law; I defy such law, I stand on the fact." _Cecil._ "I am afraid my often speaking (who am inferior to my lords here present) will make the world think I delight to hear myself talk. My affection to you, Sir Walter Ralegh, was not extinguished but slaked in regard of your deserts. You know the law of the realm (to which your mind doth not contest) that my Lord Cobham cannot be brought." The King's Attorney, Sir Edward Coke, took up the thread of his much-interrupted discourse, and this time he brought forward a witness, one Dyer, a pilot. Dyer was accordingly sworn, and delivered this evidence: "I came to a merchant's house in Lisbon to see a boy that I had there, there came a gentleman into the house, and enquiring what countryman I was, I said, an Englishman. Whereupon he asked me if the King was crowned. And I answered, no, but that I hoped he should be so shortly. Nay, saith he, he shall never be crowned; for Don Ralegh and Don Cobham will cut his throat ere that day come." Ralegh naturally asked, "What infer you from this?" And the King's Attorney answered him, "That your treason hath wings." Ralegh had a convincing reply, "Why did they name the Duke of Buckingham with Jack Straw's treason, and the Duke of York with Jack Cade, but that it was to countenance his treason?" The King's Attorney was worsted in this point; and accordingly Serjeant Philips came to his assistance by repeating, as usual, the gist of Cobham's accusations. To which Ralegh answered, "If truth be constant and constancy be in truth, why hath he forsworn that that he hath said? You have not proved any one thing against me by direct proofs, but all by circumstances." Coke was becoming more and more impatient. "Have you done?" he cried. "The King must have the last." _Ralegh._ "Nay, Master Attorney, he which speaketh for his life must speak last. False repetitions and mistakings must not mar my cause." _Coke._ "The King's safety and your clearing cannot agree. I protest before God, I never knew a clearer treason." The Attorney's impatience grew so much that, in the words of one report, he sat down in a chafe and would speak no more, until the commissioners urged and entreated him. After much ado he went on, and made a long repetition of all the evidence; and at the repeating of some things Sir Walter Ralegh interrupted him, and said he did him wrong. _Coke._ "Thou art the most vile and execrable traitor that ever lived." _Ralegh._ "You speak indiscreetly, barbarously and uncivilly." _Coke._ "I want words sufficient to express thy viperous treasons." _Ralegh._ "I think you want words indeed, for you have spoken one thing half a dozen times." _Coke._ "Thou art an odious fellow; thy name is hateful to all the realm of England for thy pride." _Ralegh._ "It will go near to prove a measuring cast between you and me, Master Attorney."