ATTORNEY--Thou art the most vile and execrable traitor that ever lived. RALEIGH--You speak indiscreetly, barbarously, and uncivilly. ATTORNEY--I want words sufficient to express thy viperous treasons. RALEIGH--I think you want words indeed, for you have spoken one thing half a dozen times. ATTORNEY--Thou art an odious fellow, thy name is hateful to all the realm of England for thy pride. RALEIGH--It will go near to prove a measuring cast between you and me, Mr. Attorney. ATTORNEY--Well, I will now make it appear to the world that there never lived a viler viper upon the face of the earth than thou.--And there withal he drew a letter out of his pocket saying further--My lords, you shall see this is an agent that hath writ a treatise against the Spaniard, and hath ever so detested him; this is he that hath spent so much money against him in service; and yet you shall all see whether his heart be not wholly Spanish. The lord Cobham, who of his own nature was a good and honourable gentleman, till overtaken by this wretch now finding his conscience heavily burdened with some courses which the subtlety of this traitor had drawn him into, my lords, he could be at no rest with himself, nor quiet in his thoughts, until he was eased of that heavy weight: out of which passion of his mind and discharge of his duty to his prince and his conscience to God, taking it upon his salvation that he wrote nothing but the truth, with his own hands he wrote this letter. Now sir, you shall see whether you had intelligence with Cobham within four days before he came to the Tower. If he be wholly Spanish, that desired a pension of £1500 a year from Spain, that Spain by him might have intelligence, then Raleigh is a traitor: he hath taken an apple and pinned a letter into it and threw it into my lord Cobham's window, the contents whereof were this, 'It is doubtful whether we shall be proceeded with or no, perhaps you shall not be tried.' This was to get a retractation. Oh! it was Adam's apple whereby the devil did deceive him. Further he wrote thus, 'Do not as my lord of Essex did; take heed of a preacher, for by his persuasion he confessed and made himself guilty.'[19] I doubt not but this day God shall have as great a conquest by this traitor, and the Son of God shall be as much glorified as when it was said _Vicisti Galilæe_; you know my meaning. What though Cobham retracted, yet he could not rest or sleep until he had confirmed it again. If this be not enough to prove him a traitor, the king my master shall not live three years to an end. (_Note._--Here Mr. Attorney produced the lord Cobham's letter, and as he read it, inserted some speeches.)