cording to their Commission. Sir, the return I have to you
from the Court, is this: That they have been too much delayed by
you already, and this that you now offer hath occasioned some
little further delay; and they are Judges appointed by the
highest Judges; and Judges are no more to delay, than they are
to deny Justice: they are good words in the great old Charter of
England; _Nulli negabimus, nulli vendemus, nulli differemus
Justitiam._ There must be no delay; but the truth is, Sir, and
so every man here observes it, that you have much delayed them
in your Contempt and Default, for which they might long since
have proceeded to Judgment against you; and notwithstanding what
you have offered, they are resolved to proceed to Punishment,
and to Judgment, and that is their unanimous Resolution.

KING--Sir, I know it is in vain for me to dispute, I am no
sceptic for to deny the Power that you have; I know that you
have Power enough: Sir, I confess, I think it would have been
for the kingdom's peace, if you would have taken the pains for
to have shewn the lawfulness of your Power; for this Delay that
I have desired, I confess it is a delay, but it is a delay very
important for the Peace of the Kingdom; for it is not my person
that I look on alone, it is the kingdom's welfare, and the
kingdom's peace; it is an old Sentence, That we should think
long, before we resolve of great matters. Therefore, Sir, I do
say again, that I do put at your doors all the inconveniency of
an hasty Sentence. I confess I have been here now, I think, this
week; this day eight days was the day I came here first, but a
little Delay of a day or two further may give Peace; whereas an
hasty Judgment may bring on that trouble and perpetual
inconveniency to the kingdom, that the child that is unborn may
repent it; and therefore again, out of the duty I owe to God,
and to my country, I do desire that I may be heard by the Lords
and Commons in the Painted Chamber, or any other chamber that
you will appoint me.

LORD PRESIDENT--Sir, you have been already answered to what you
even now moved, being the same you moved before, since the
Resolution and the Judgment of the Court in it; and the Court
now requires to know whether you have any more to say for
yourself than you have said, before they proceed to Sentenc