Tresh. You are not hurt?

Mer. You'll hear me now!

Tresh. But rise!

Mer. Ah, Tresham, say I not "you'll hear me now!"

And what procures a man the right to speak

In his defence before his fellow man,

But—I suppose—the thought that presently

He may have leave to speak before his God

His whole defence?

Tresh. Not hurt? It cannot be!