Sir Silas.
“Mere quibble mere equivocation! Jesuitical! Jesuitical!”
William Shakspeare.
“It would be Jesuitical, Sir Silas, if it dragged the law by its perversions to the side of oppression and cruelty. The order of Jesuits, I fear, is as numerous as its tenets are lax and comprehensive. I am sorry to see their frocks flounced with English serge.”
Sir Silas.
“I don’t understand thee, viper!”
Sir Thomas.
“Cease thou, Will Shakspeare! Know thy place. And do thou, Joseph Carnaby, take up again the thread of thy testimony.”
Joseph Carnaby.
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