All to seeke of shifting, by trauerse or denyall,[87]
Which haue seene the day, when,[88] for a golden ryall,[89]
By finesse and conning, could haue made blacke[90] seeme white,
And most extorted wrong to haue appeared right.[91]
5.
Whilst thus on bench aboue wee had the highest place,
Our reasons were to strong, for any to confute:
But when at barre beneath, wee came to pleade our case,
Our wits were in the wane, our pleading very brute:
Hard it is for prisoners with judges to dispute: