To see the great acts of your father, will not,

From any fashion sorrow can put on,

Bee taught to know their duties.

Char. If they will not, [60] They are too old to learne, and I too young To giue them counsell, since if they partake The vnderstanding, and the hearts of men, They will preuent my words and teares: if not, What can perswasion, though made eloquent [65] With griefe, worke vpon such as haue chang’d natures With the most sauage beast? Blest, blest be euer The memory of that happy age, when iustice Had no gards to keepe off wrongd innocence, From flying to her succours, and in that [70] Assurance of redresse: where now (Romont) The damnd, with more ease may ascend from Hell, Then we ariue at her. One Cerberus there Forbids the passage, in our Courts a thousand, As lowd, and fertyle headed, and the Client [75] That wants the sops, to fill their rauenous throats, Must hope for no accesse: why should I then Attempt impossibilities: you friend, being Too well acquainted with my dearth of meanes, To make my entrance that way? 

If they will not, [60]

They are too old to learne, and I too young

To giue them counsell, since if they partake

The vnderstanding, and the hearts of men,

They will preuent my words and teares: if not,

What can perswasion, though made eloquent [65]

With griefe, worke vpon such as haue chang’d natures

With the most sauage beast? Blest, blest be euer

The memory of that happy age, when iustice

Had no gards to keepe off wrongd innocence,

From flying to her succours, and in that [70]

Assurance of redresse: where now (Romont)

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