I' the scales of law, make one scale kick the beam!"

Law 's a machine from which, to please the mob,

Truth the divinity must needs descend

And clear things at the play's fifth act—aha!

Hammer into their noddles who was who

And what was what. I tell the simpletons,

"Could law be competent to such a feat

'T were done already: what begins next week

Is end o' the Trial, last link of a chain

Whereof the first was forged three years ago