We'll right ourselves, and by strong hand defend
What we are now possess'd of.[125]
In a lower key of manly dignity is the speech of Charalois before the Judges in The Fatal Dowry. It begins thus:
Thus low my duty
Answers your lordships' counsel. I will use,
In the few words with which I am to trouble
Your lordships' ears the temper that you wish me;
Not that I fear to speak my thoughts as loud,
And with a liberty beyond Romont;
But that I know, for me that am made up