Mel. Over all the world.
1 Cit. Now, that's a rapper.
2 Cit. I say no: For, look you, gentlemen, if he has been a traveller, he certainly says true, for he may lie by authority.
Mel. That the rabble may depose their prince, has in all times, and in all countries, been accounted lawful.
1 Cit. That's the first true syllable he has uttered: but as how, and whereby, and when, may they depose him?
Mel. Whenever they have more power to depose, than he has to oppose; and this they may do upon the least occasion.
1 Cit. Sirrah, you mince the matter; you should 084 say, we may do it upon no occasion, for the less the better.
Mel. [Aside.] Here's a rogue now, will out-shoot the devil in his own bow.
2 Cit. Some occasion, in my mind, were not amiss: for, look you, gentlemen, if we have no occasion, then whereby we have no occasion to depose him; and therefore, either religion or liberty, I stick to those occasions; for when they are gone, good night to godliness and freedom.
Mel. When the most are of one side, as that's our case, we are always in the right; for they, that are in power, will ever be the judges: so that if we say white is black, poor white must lose the cause, and put on mourning; for white is but a single syllable, and we are a whole sentence. Therefore, go on boldly, and lay on resolutely for your Solemn League and Covenant; and if here be any squeamish conscience who fears to fight against the king,—though I, that have known you, citizens, these thousand years, suspect not any,—let such understand that his majesty's politic capacity is to be distinguished from his natural; and though you murder him in one, you may preserve him in the other; and so much for this time, because the enemy is at hand.