[The Court of Justice]
Enter Rochfort, Nouall Se. Charmi, Du Croye, Aduocates, Baumont, and Officers, and 3. Presidents.
Du Croye. Your Lordship’s seated. May this meeting proue prosperous to vs, and to the generall good
Of Burgundy.
Nou. Se. Speake to the poynt.
Du Croy. Which is,
With honour to dispose the place and power
Of primier President, which this reuerent man [5]
Graue Rochfort, (whom for honours sake I name)
Is purpos’d to resigne a place, my Lords,
In which he hath with such integrity,
Perform’d the first and best parts of a Iudge,
That as his life transcends all faire examples [10]
Of such as were before him in Dijon,
So it remaines to those that shall succeed him,
A President they may imitate, but not equall.
Roch. I may not sit to heare this.
Du Croy. Let the loue
And thankfulnes we are bound to pay to goodnesse, [15]
In this o’recome your modestie.
Roch. My thankes
For this great fauour shall preuent your trouble.
The honourable trust that was impos’d
Vpon my weaknesse since you witnesse for me,
It was not ill discharg’d, I will not mention, [20]
Nor now, if age had not depriu’d me of
The little strength I had to gouerne well,
The Prouince that I vndertooke, forsake it.
Nou. That we could lend you of our yeeres.
Du Croy. Or strength.