(Knock at the door.)

What? Is the hour already for the Court?

Come in. Now, Lord Chief Justice, to thy work.

(Enter a Servant.)

Serv. My lord, a woman begging to be seen.

Di. A woman begging to be seen? What’s this?

’Tis not the duty of your post, my friend,

To give admittance on the busy days

Of a hard labourer in this great world

To all poor creatures begging to be seen.