Nou. Or as you are, perswade you to continue [25]
The noble exercise of your knowing iudgement.
Roch. That may not be, nor can your Lordships goodnes,
Since your imployments haue confer’d vpon me
Sufficient wealth, deny the vse of it,
And though old age, when one foot’s in the graue, [30]
In many, when all humors else are spent
Feeds no affection in them, but desire
To adde height to the mountaine of their riches:
In me it is not so, I rest content
With the honours, and estate I now possesse, [35]
And that I may haue liberty to vse,
What Heauen still blessing my poore industry,
Hath made me Master of: I pray the Court
To ease me of my burthen, that I may
Employ the small remainder of my life, [40]
In liuing well, and learning how to dye so.
Enter Romont, and Charalois.
Rom. See sir, our Aduocate.
Du Croy. The Court intreats,
Your Lordship will be pleasd to name the man,
Which you would haue your successor, and in me,
All promise to confirme it.
Roch. I embrace it, [45]
As an assurance of their fauour to me,
And name my Lord Nouall.
Du Croy. The Court allows it.
Roch. But there are suters waite heere, and their causes
May be of more necessity to be heard,
And therefore wish that mine may be defer’d, [50]
And theirs haue hearing.
Du Croy. If your Lordship please
To take the place, we will proceed.
Charm. The cause
We come to offer to your Lordships censure,
Is in it selfe so noble, that it needs not
Or Rhetorique in me that plead, or fauour [55]
From your graue Lordships, to determine of it.
Since to the prayse of your impartiall iustice
(Which guilty, nay condemn’d men, dare not scandall)
It will erect a trophy of your mercy
With married to that Iustice.