think so; for such a sort of carriage were enough to convict
her, if there were nothing else.

DUNNE--Truly, my lord, I do think not to do her any kindness at
all.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Then prithee, let me persuade thee to have
some kindness for thyself; look to thy own soul that is in great
peril of everlasting ruin and destruction by these means; dost
thou call this religion? It is a prodigious piece of religion!
Come pray tell me what business it was that you talked of? You
should not have asked me a question so often, but I would have
given you a plain answer, though I were under the obligation of
an oath as you are.

DUNNE--My lord, pray ask the question again once more and I will
tell you.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--I will so, and I will ask it you with all
the calmness, and seriousness, and candour, that I can; if I
know my own heart, it is not in my nature to desire the hurt of
anybody, much less to delight in their eternal perdition; no, it
is out of tender compassion to you, that I use all these words:
I would have thee to have some regard to thy precious and
immortal soul, which is more valuable than the whole world;
reflect upon that scripture again which I mentioned before,
which must be true because it is the words of him that is truth
itself: what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world, and
lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his
soul? If that soul of thine be taken away, what is the body fit
for, but, like a putrid carcase, to be thrust into and covered
with the dust with which it was made: therefore I ask you, with
a great desire that thou mayest free thyself from so great a
load of falshood and perjury, tell me what the business was you
told the prisoner the other man Barter did not know.

DUNNE--My lord, I told her, he knew nothing of our coming there.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Nay, nay, that can never be it, for he came
along with thee.

DUNNE--He did not know anything of my coming there till I met
him on the way.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Prithee, mind my question; sure enough thou
hadst told him whither thou wert going, or else he could not
have been thy guide; so he must needs know of thy coming there:
but what was the business thou told'st her, he did not know?

DUNNE--She asked me whether I did not know that Hic