[♦] And all to make away my guiltless life.
I shall not want false witness to condemn me,
[♦] Nor store of treasons to augment my guilt;
[170] The ancient proverb will be well effected:
‘A staff is quickly found to beat a dog.’
[♦] Car. My liege, his railing is intolerable:
If those that care to keep your royal person
[♦] From treason’s secret knife and traitors’ rage
175 Be thus upbraided, chid and rated at,
And the offender granted scope of speech,