JUSTICE.
"What is your fare, coachee," said a stout gentleman alighting from a hackney-coach.
Coachee.—"One shilling, sir."
Gent.—"One shilling! What an imposition for such a short distance."
Coachee.—"I'll take my oath that is my fare."
Gent.—"Will you? very well, I am a magistrate, proceed—(Coachee is sworn)—That will do, the shilling I shall keep for the affidavit."
Philip III. King of Spain, wept at an Auto da Fé, because he saw so many fellow creatures inhumanly tormented. This was thought by the Grand Inquisitor to be a great sin, and he terrified the king so much with his remonstrances, that Philip suffered himself to be bled, and the blood to be given to the common executioner, to be burnt at the next Auto da Fé, by way of penance.