(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,