Nor disallow their bastard as my heir!

Your sole mistake—dare I submit so much

To the reverend Court?—has been in all this pains

To make a stone roll down hill,—rack and wrench

And rend a man to pieces, all for what?

Why—make him ope mouth in his own defence,

Show cause for what he has done, the irregular deed,

(Since that he did it, scarce dispute can be)

And clear his fame a little, beside the luck

Of stopping even yet, if possible,