LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Then prithee, let me persuade thee to have some kindness for thyself; look to thy own soul that is in great peril of everlasting ruin and destruction by these means; dost thou call this religion? It is a prodigious piece of religion! Come pray tell me what business it was that you talked of? You should not have asked me a question so often, but I would have given you a plain answer, though I were under the obligation of an oath as you are. DUNNE--My lord, pray ask the question again once more and I will tell you. LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--I will so, and I will ask it you with all the calmness, and seriousness, and candour, that I can; if I know my own heart, it is not in my nature to desire the hurt of anybody, much less to delight in their eternal perdition; no, it is out of tender compassion to you, that I use all these words: I would have thee to have some regard to thy precious and immortal soul, which is more valuable than the whole world; reflect upon that scripture again which I mentioned before, which must be true because it is the words of him that is truth itself: what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? If that soul of thine be taken away, what is the body fit for, but, like a putrid carcase, to be thrust into and covered with the dust with which it was made: therefore I ask you, with a great desire that thou mayest free thyself from so great a load of falshood and perjury, tell me what the business was you told the prisoner the other man Barter did not know. DUNNE--My lord, I told her, he knew nothing of our coming there. LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Nay, nay, that can never be it, for he came along with thee. DUNNE--He did not know anything of my coming there till I met him on the way. LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Prithee, mind my question; sure enough thou hadst told him whither thou wert going, or else he could not have been thy guide; so he must needs know of thy coming there: but what was the business thou told'st her, he did not know? DUNNE--She asked me whether I did not know that Hicks was a Nonconformist? LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Did my lady Lisle ask you that question? DUNNE--Yes, my lord, I told her I did not. LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--But that is not my question; what was that business that he did not know? DUNNE--It was the same thing; whether Mr. Hicks was a nonconformist. LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--That cannot be all; there must be something more in it. DUNNE--Yes, my lord, it is all; I know nothing more. LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--What did she say to you when you told her, he did not know it? DUNNE--She did not say anything, my lord.