"A compounder of poisons?"
"Say rather of medicines, lord; for the making of one is the rule--of the other, the exception."
"Thou dost not deny the accusation, which places thy life at the mercy of the court?"
"I will own all, and throw myself on its mercy, trusting that the relief I have oft afforded in bodily anguish, maybe allowed to atone, in its measure, for any aid my fears may have driven me to lend to crime."
"It is thine only chance, Jew, to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth."
"I am at your lordship's disposal."
"Didst thou ever deal with Hugo, sometime lord of Malville. and afterwards of Aescendune?"
"Once only."
"On what occasion?"
"He sought a medicine."