Rom. Tis fit freedome:
Or do you conclude, an aduocate cannot hold
His credit with the Iudge, vnlesse he study
His face more then the cause for which he pleades?
Charmi. Forbeare.
Rom. Or cannot you, that haue the power [100]
To qualifie the rigour of the Lawes,
When you are pleased, take a little from
The strictnesse of your fowre decrees, enacted
In fauor of the greedy creditors
Against the orethrowne debter?
Nou. Se. Sirra, you that prate [105]
Thus sawcily, what are you?
Rom. Why Ile tell you,
Thou purple-colour’d man, I am one to whom
Thou owest the meanes thou hast of sitting there
A corrupt Elder.
Charmi. Forbeare.
Rom. The nose thou wearst,
is my gift, and those eyes [110]
That meete no obiect so base as their Master,
Had bin, long since, torne from that guiltie head,
And thou thy selfe slaue to some needy Swisse,
Had I not worne a sword, and vs’d it better
Then in thy prayers thou ere didst thy tongue. [115]
Nou. Se. Shall such an Insolence passe vnpunisht?
Charmi. Heere mee.