SER. Here are a sort of poor petitioners
That are importunate, and it shall please you, sir,
That you should plead their cases to the king.
HIERO. That I should plead their several actions?
Why, let them enter, and let me see them.
Enter three CITIZENS and an OLD MAN
[DON BAZULTO].
I CIT. So I tell you this: for learning and for law
There is not any advocate in Spain
That can prevail or will take half the pain
That he will in pursuit of equity.
HIERO. Come near, you men, that thus importune me!
[Aside] Now must I bear a face of gravity,
For thus I us'd, before my marshallship,
To plead in causes as corrigedor.—
Come on, sirs, what's the matter?
II CIT. Sir, an action.
HIERO. Of battery?
I CIT. Mine of debt.
HIERO. Give place.
II CIT. No, sir, mine is an action of the case.