is brought at last into publike to make himselfe a Synonoma to his name For although there is no contending with Ghosts yet we determine to portrait this snake and deliniate this prodigy of men in his right colours and with such brevity as may be least irkesome to the hearers Democ. Let us stand up and see their painted Gorgons head Man This Trivius a true triviall Trivius a man satiated with widowes but widowed of goodnesse of of a strong sinewy body rather then a witty and ingenuous heart having good successe in his suits sucked more marrow from other mens relicts then ever hee received by the poore practise of his profession Hee speakes much with litle discretion and having his braines in his tongue will utter an ocean of words without the least drop of reason Trib. You have painted me to an haire worthy Manilius I confesse I am altogether ignorant of the lawes and as blinde men are wont to doe I easily subscribed to the opinion and iudgement of my brothers wherefore my ignorance desires pardon and cries that you should spare him whom God will spare as being an INNOCENT Manil. You devised a redier answer for me Trivius then any defence for your selfe ignorance excuseth a tanto not a toto you had a good example before namely Antrivius deceased sleeping in peace who as his pen witnesses being sicke on his bed would assent to no such opinion But you adoring your money not only in the Image but in the rust preferred your drosse before your peace of conscience wherefore as you have milkt your widowes so let the exchequer milke you of all that you have Democ. Very good the Goate must now be milkt This Ignoramus paies the price of his Ignorance one day takes away what many yeares have gathered and the exchequer draines the fortunes of so many wives hah hah hah Herac. Humaine affaires never succeede well where divine service is neglected Clerk Let Trivius bee taken away and kept close prisoner least hee escape and Roderigo keepe your hand close lest by his stolen merchandize he procure his liberty Prim. To speake of you most honoured Curvus Acilius your constancy and integrity hath with a beame of the Sunne described you a father of your country the starre of the Court and a true Son of justice and have left you a memory to posterity which shall never be extinguished by the injury of time or forgetfulnesse for you have utterly conquered all envy and in this last date of your age have erected a statue in the Courts of the living whereunto no better Epitaph can be added then Sacred to the memory of Curvus Acilius Democ. O how much doth this Trivius differ from Acilius the one as hee singularly knew the lawes so he rightly despensed them the other neither dispensed them nor knew them Herac. In this negligent and retchlesse age vices like grasse in pits are wont to spring out mens lazinesse from whence wee finde it true that evills are much more incurable in the old then in the young Democ. Yet if old men would more diligently measure their houre as much as they are nearer death they should live more uprightly But now there is such corruption of life that men doe never more love the earth then when thy should leave it never lesse regard heaven then when they should goe thither Hold my sides least I burst with laughter young men grow old and old men young hah hah hah Clerk Bring forth Ioachimus Rod. He is departed his owne prison before he was commited to our custody Camb. He is dead and is beholding unto death for although he were a very subtile Lawyer in his cunning and intricate arguments and shewed himselfe a true Tytides who wavering Ioachimus Ghost wavering with dreadfull motion appeareth and vanisheth this way and that doubted whether to ioyne with Hector or Achilles saying whom to fly I know whom to follow I know not yet the more severely was he to be punished because hee was so industrious to dissemble and corrupt the truth Democ. But the fates have taken him out of your hands and by dying in time he prevented an untimely death Clerk Bring forth Hortensius Rod. He was never committed to our custody Manil. Thou saist true Roderigo he was a man of such unstained life that hee shewed himselfe truly worthy both in life and death wherefore the memory of so his iust and upright Hortensius Ghost with an amiable countenance appeareth vanisheth a man is to bee lamented with perpetuall Elegye for he deservedly got the name of an honest Iudge and a poore studient in which title he might glory more then in the Empire of the World Hee Conquered envie by his vertues and won honour in his death Herac. With what pious sentences are good mens tombes to be engraven Democ. From hence proceede those Adagyes Every evill man is a foole no evill man is happy A wise man is every where at home none but a foole can be banished Herac, He truely travelleth from home my Democ who enioyeth not himselfe Manil. Let him depart and serve for a good example Clerk Call forth Antrivius Rodo. He was called forth long since Clerk Where appeared he Antrivius his ghost with a lovely countenance appeareth and vanisheth Rodo. Where he arrived he is far enough free from our our hands or manicles Prim. By what authority Rodo. By the command of a crabbed and imperious noble man who having waited a while at the prison doore swore he would enter or breake off the hinges He was of so fierce and terrible aspect that I gave him way for feare and as soone as I delivered my prisoner he caught him by the haire and vanished Camb. No man can resist an inevitable fate But if that man had lived unto these dayes his sentence had beene so upright in this dispute that hee had beene freed and made an happie end of his long-wearied age Let him sleepe in peace as hee flourished in the light and the more he flourished for being the lesse contentious in his cases Democ. T is best to speake well of the dead but if he had not beene so sickly of body perchance he had not beene so sound in mind Herac. You say true Democritus for sicknesse afflicteth the body but cureth the soule Democ. What mad men are those in the meane while who being healthy in body are diseased in their minde Clerk Sergeant bring Damocles to the barre hold up your hand Damocles Thou art indited by the name of Damocles that in Hilary Terme 1638. thou diddest contrary to the peace of the Commonweale the liberty of the subiect and the testimony of thine owne conscience not having the feare of God before thy eyes traitorously maliciously and wickedly give sentence for Ship-money payable to the King without evident necessity whereof hee himselfe was the sole Iudge Speake Damocles art thou guilty of the crime for which thou art endited Dam. I confesse I am not altogether
propitious Cambr. This conduceth little to your defence for if you had been in it longer and governed that seat it is probable your offences had beene multiplyed it was your generall crime and you must expect a generall punishment Democ. Ho Chacon hire the servants thou wilt have worke sufficient here is a presse of fat Iudges comming hah hah hah Clerk Claudius stand aside Roder bring Cratippus to the barre hold up thy hand Cratippus Thou art indited by the name of Cratippus that in Hillary Terme 1637. thou didst contrary to the peace of the commonweale the liberty of the subiect and the testimony of thine owne conscience traiterously maliciously and wickedly give sentence for ship-money due and payable to the King without evident necessity whereof the King hath had power solely to iudge speake Cratippus art thou guilty of the crime for which thou art endited Democ. Hoe has an oxe in 's mouth as sayes the Proverbe or a cup in his throate he cannot speake a word Manil. O Cratippus breake not thy silence hold thy peace desist and blush Nor would any thing have become you better if you had done so alwayes but a pious blush is an unwonted punishment for such offenders we have heard that you were ever addicted to sordid lucre pinching your selfe to augment you gaine No uniust occasion of getting could passe you wherefore there is no reason you should passe unpunisht For whom have you in this company whom in this honoured round that will rise up in your defence and vindicate your uniustice on or none you had one but much unlike you your brother Hortensius vvho religiously sate vvith you on the same bench but differed from your affections for his opinion in this case of Ship-mony was consonant to Curvus Acililius These two respected not Writs of ease nor the thundring threats of that fugative Chrysomitris they preferred the odour of a good name before titles of honour which glory of fame he that neglecteth is most cruell wherefore although Hortensius be now dead he hath left such a memory to posterity that monuments of marble brasse and Ivory will sooner decay then his renowne amongst his Countrymen Cratip. I deny not but that I am guilty and desire the favour of this high Court otherwise as our sentence was alike let one boat carry us away together I would speake more but am hindered with the quinsie Democ. In reason they should possesse all Anticyra our Ancesters judged a litle house to be a common-weale but these have contracted the whole common-weale into their owne house yea a litle corner of their house Herac. O the deplorable misery of wretched man Democ. These things deserve not a teare I willingly permit them to be mad for see how deservedly Cratippus is punished he hath sold his tongue so long for mony that he hath not enough left to aske pardon for his life hah hah hah Clerk Call Corticeus to the barre hold up thy hand Corticeus thou art indited by the name of Corticeus for that in Hillarie Terme Anno Dom. 1637. thou didst contrary to the peace of the Commonweale the liberty of the subiect and the testimony of thine owne conscience not having God before thine eyes trayterously maliciously and wickedly given sentence for Shipmony to be payd unto the King without evident necessity whereof he had sole power to Iudge speake Corticeus art thou guilty of what thou standest indited Cortic. Not guilty Clerk Thou art found guilty helpe thee God Camb. Wee have much to say unto you Corticeus you have eloquence sufficient but wisedome too little There was no man more readier to speake law yea to wrest it and like a nose of waxe compose it to any forme But what availe these naturall parts this happinesse of wit and genius It is difficult to swim at first without helpe you began to fly abroad like an unfledg'd Lapwing with your shell upon your head In your Circuit especially in the Dutchey of Lancaster at which time that worthy Gentleman Master Farringdon was Sheriffe you exercised your tyrany shewing your loftinesse in all places to your no small hatred for other sins waite upon evill workes that they may be done but pride waiteth on good workes that they perish Hee that flowed with a thousand vertues lost his happinesse through arrogance other vices by the presence of God only Pride opposeth it selfe against him Yea with what audaciousnesse and insolence did you maintaine this exploded case of Ship-mony as if you onely had the Monopoly of wit and reason wherefore as every one shewes himselfe more obstinate in a crime the more severely is he to bee censured If Schisme deserve punishment Heresy merits hell Cortic. I call Heaven to witnesse I should have lived and dyed in that opinion were I not contradicted by the Authority of this grave consistorie for wee reade so many bookes collections statutes and Annals that if we were licensed to argue we could support this our opinion with good reasons and conclusions Camb. Give place we have already examined your reasons and arguments Democ. Of what use I marvell is eloquence when a man shall end his life in a string Clar. Ho Porter where is Vigetius Rod. We have no such man Prim. But such an one we had who easily assenting to his brother Corticeus opinion never did sticke unto him in any thing but in this sentence of Shipmony Hee alwaies faigned himselfe not well if hee were to make an argument And when he entred into it having lost his reasons very happily in the street no man ever offended with greater brevity and in this onely he hath shewen himselfe wise that he hath prevented our censure by death Wherefore it may be said Vigetius his Ghost with a weake gesture appeareth and vanisheth of him that hee was once Greene and Flourished he was descended from an ancient house and for this was to be commended that he sought rather to keepe his ancient Patrimony then to encrease it Democ. Many men shew themselves wiser by dying then by living hah hah hah Clerk In peace let him goe bring Trivius to the barre hold up your hand Trivius Thou art indited by the name of Trivius that in Michaelmas Terme 1638. thou diddest contrary to the peace of the Commonweale the liberty of the subiect and the testimony of thine owne conscience not having the feare of God before thy eyes traitorously maliciously and wickedly give sentence for Ship-money payable to the King without evident necessity whereof hee himselfe was the sole Iudge Speake Trivius art thou guilty of the crime for which thou standest endited Manil. Why are you silent will you be prest Democ. Hee hath prest many a rich widow what if he be now prest himselfe hah hah hah Trivi. I have litle for the present to say in my defence Manil. Nor ever will you have more be silent and heare This is a man whom no Lawyer exceeded in riches yet non is more ignorant in the lawes hee