Your Lordship will be pleasd to name the man,

Which you would haue your successor, and in me,

All promise to confirme it.

Roch. I embrace it, [45] As an assurance of their fauour to me, And name my Lord Nouall. 

I embrace it, [45]

As an assurance of their fauour to me,

And name my Lord Nouall.

Du Croy. The Court allows it. 

The Court allows it.

Roch. But there are suters waite heere, and their causes May be of more necessity to be heard, And therefore wish that mine may be defer’d, [50] And theirs haue hearing. 

But there are suters waite heere, and their causes

May be of more necessity to be heard,

And therefore wish that mine may be defer’d, [50]

And theirs haue hearing.

Du Croy. If your Lordship please To take the place, we will proceed. 

If your Lordship please

To take the place, we will proceed.

Charm. The cause We come to offer to your Lordships censure, Is in it selfe so noble, that it needs not Or Rhetorique in me that plead, or fauour [55] From your graue Lordships, to determine of it. Since to the prayse of your impartiall iustice (Which guilty, nay condemn’d men, dare not scandall) It will erect a trophy of your mercy With married to that Iustice. 

The cause

We come to offer to your Lordships censure,

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