Dunne—My lord, pray ask the question again once more and I will tell you.
Lord Chief-Justice—I will so, and I will ask it you with all the calmness, and seriousness, and candour, that I can; if I know my own heart, it is not in my nature to desire the hurt of anybody, much less to delight in their eternal perdition; no, it is out of tender compassion to you, that I use all these words: I would have thee to have some regard to thy precious and immortal soul, which is more valuable than the whole world; reflect upon that scripture again which I mentioned before, which must be true because it is the words of him that is truth itself: what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? If that soul of thine be taken away, what is the body fit for, but, like a putrid carcase, to be thrust into and covered with the dust with which it was made: therefore I ask you, with a great desire that thou mayest free thyself from so great a load of falshood and perjury, tell me what the business was you told the prisoner the other man Barter did not know.
Dunne—My lord, I told her, he knew nothing of our coming there.
Lord Chief-Justice—Nay, nay, that can never be it, for he came along with thee.
Dunne—He did not know anything of my coming there till I met him on the way.
Lord Chief-Justice—Prithee, mind my question; sure enough thou hadst told him whither thou wert going, or else he could not have been thy guide; so he must needs know of thy coming there: but what was the business thou told'st her, he did not know?
Dunne—She asked me whether I did not know that Hicks was a Nonconformist?
Lord Chief-Justice—Did my lady Lisle ask you that question?
Dunne—Yes, my lord, I told her I did not.
Lord Chief-Justice—But that is not my question; what was that business that he did not know?