Nou. Se. Speake to the poynt. 

Speake to the poynt.

Du Croy. Which is, With honour to dispose the place and power Of primier President, which this reuerent man [5] Graue Rochfort, (whom for honours sake I name) Is purpos’d to resigne a place, my Lords, In which he hath with such integrity, Perform’d the first and best parts of a Iudge, That as his life transcends all faire examples [10] Of such as were before him in Dijon, So it remaines to those that shall succeed him, A President they may imitate, but not equall. 

Which is,

With honour to dispose the place and power

Of primier President, which this reuerent man [5]

Graue Rochfort, (whom for honours sake I name)

Is purpos’d to resigne a place, my Lords,

In which he hath with such integrity,

Perform’d the first and best parts of a Iudge,

That as his life transcends all faire examples [10]

Of such as were before him in Dijon,

So it remaines to those that shall succeed him,

A President they may imitate, but not equall.

Roch. I may not sit to heare this. 

I may not sit to heare this.

Du Croy. Let the loue And thankfulnes we are bound to pay to goodnesse, [15] In this o’recome your modestie. 

Let the loue

And thankfulnes we are bound to pay to goodnesse, [15]

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