Polixenes, again, argues touching the breach of amity between him and Leontes, that revenge is like to be all the more bitter for the cordiality of past confidence. Then, too, the implication of Lord Scroop, of Masham, in the conspiracy with Grey and Cambridge against Henry V.,— “Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow, Whom he hath cloy’d and graced with princely favours,— That he should, for a foreign purse, so sell His sovereign’s life to death and treachery!” Henry reminds Scroop that he bore the key of all his counsels, and knew the very bottom of his soul; and he wept for _him_,—“for this revolt of thine, methinks, is like another fall of man.”—A later king of England, Edward IV., is made to despair when he sees his brother Clarence among the supporters of the foe: “Yea, brother of Clarence, art thou here too? Nay, then, I see that Edward needs must down.”—And once again, there is the _Et tu Brute_ cue from which we started, thus set forth in all its suggestive force by Shakespeare’s Antony: “For Brutus, as you know, was Cæsar’s angel: Judge, O you gods, how dearly Cæsar loved him! This was the most unkindest cut of all: For when the noble Cæsar saw _him_ stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitor’s arms, Quite vanquish’d him: then burst his mighty heart.” But as we recur to this, as the first among these secular annotations on a Scripture text, so we recur to Scripture, in conclusion, for a pathetic parallel, also from the Book of Psalms: “For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it; neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me: then I would have hid myself from him. But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.” The companionship past intensifies the cruelty present. Without so recent and vivid a remembrance of sweet counsel together, and companionship hallowed by the sanctuary itself, the present cruelty could have been borne; but with them it hardly can. “_JUDGE NOT._” ST. MATTHEW vii. 1. A stringent motive is adduced to enforce the strenuous monition, “Judge not,”—and it is, “that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; even He who hath committed all judgment unto the Son: who art thou that judgest another? * * * * * Appalled were all who gazed on the last struggles of Cardinal Beaufort, rendered hideous by the tortures of agonizing remorse. Hope had he none. Despair was impersonated in the frenzied contortions of that dying man. King and peers stood beside the death-bed, awe-stricken and shocked. The king prayed for the cardinal, that the Eternal mover of the heavens might “look with a gentle eye upon this wretch: