JURISPRUDENCE. Lord Chancellor, as representative of the government, as head of the corps of instructors, you must prosecute this woman's offence. She has told all of you to take shame, which is an insult; and she has—in a sneering, ironical sense—called you instructors of the young, which is a slanderous speech.
THE DAUGHTER. Poor youth!
JURISPRUDENCE. She pities the young, which is to accuse us. Lord Chancellor, you must prosecute the offence.
THE DAUGHTER. Yes, I accuse you—you in a body—of sowing doubt and discord in the minds of the young.
JURISPRUDENCE. Listen to her—she herself is making the young question our authority, and then she charges us with sowing doubt. Is it not a criminal act, I ask all the right-minded?
ALL RIGHT-MINDED. Yes, it is criminal.
JURISPRUDENCE. All the right-minded have condemned you. Leave in peace with your lucre, or else——
THE DAUGHTER. My lucre? Or else? What else?
JURISPRUDENCE. Else you will be stoned.
THE POET. Or crucified.