(Most equall Iudges) that I am accepted,
I but a woman, before men to plead,
Dumbe feare and bashfulnesse to speake before
Bold Orators of State, men graue and wise,
That can at euery breathing pause, correct
The slipp’ry passages of a womans speech:
But yet withall my hopes are doubly arm’d.
1. Iudg. How doubly arm’d?
2. Iudg. Presume not more then Reason.
Atlan. First, that my bashfull weaknesse claymes excuse,