Coke. If I may not be patiently heard, you will encourage Traitors, and discourage us. I am the king's sworn servant, and must speak; If he be guilty, he is a Traitor; if not, deliver him.
[Note.—Here Mr. Attorney sat down in a chafe, and would speak no more, until the Commissioners urged and intreated him. After much ado, he went on, and made a long repetition of all the Evidence, for the direction of the Jury; and at the repeating of some things, sir Walter Raleigh interrupted him, and said, he did him wrong.]
Coke. Thou art the most vile and execrable Traitor that ever lived.
Raleigh. You speak indiscreetly, barbarously and uncivilly.
Coke. I want words sufficient to express thy viperous Treasons.
Raleigh. I think you want words indeed, for you have spoken one thing half a dozen times.
Coke. Thou art an odious fellow, thy name is hateful to all the realm of England for thy pride.
Raleigh. It will go near to prove a measuring cast between you and me, Mr. Attorney.
Coke. Well, I will now make it appear to the world, that there never lived a viler viper upon the face of the earth than thou....