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.

Nou. Se. Speaks to the cause. [60] 

Speaks to the cause. [60]

Charm. I will, my Lord: to say, the late dead Marshall The father of this young Lord heer, my Clyent, Hath done his Country great and faithfull seruice, Might taske me of impertinence to repeate, What your graue Lordships cannot but remember, [65] He in his life, become indebted to These thriftie men, I will not wrong their credits, By giuing them the attributes they now merit, And fayling by the fortune of the warres, Of meanes to free himselfe, from his ingagements, [70] He was arrested, and for want of bayle Imprisond at their suite: and not long after With losse of liberty ended his life. And though it be a Maxime in our Lawes, All suites dye with the person, these mens malice [75] In death find matter for their hate to worke on, Denying him the decent Rytes of buriall, Which the sworne enemies of the Christian faith Grant freely to their slaues; may it therefore please Your Lordships, so to fashion your decree, [80] That what their crueltie doth forbid, your pittie May giue allowance to. 

I will, my Lord: to say, the late dead Marshall

The father of this young Lord heer, my Clyent,

Hath done his Country great and faithfull seruice,

Might taske me of impertinence to repeate,

What your graue Lordships cannot but remember, [65]

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