Mr. PHILLIPS.--Mr. HIGH BAILIFF, the audacity of that fellow opposite to me would almost justify my chastising him in this sacred place; but I will content myself with rolling his heavy head in the neighbouring kennel.
CURATE.--"_Give peace in our time, O Lord!_"
Sir CECIL WRAY.--I rise only to say thus much, that is, concerning myself--though as for the matter of myself, I don't care, Mr. HIGH BAILIFF, much about it--
CURATE.--"_If thou shalt see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burthen, thou shalt surely help him._"
Sir CECIL WRAY.--I trust--I dare say--at least I hope I may venture to think--that my Right Hon. friend--I should say enemy--fully comprehends what I have to offer in my own defence.
CURATE.--"_As for me I am a worm, and no man; a very scorn of men, and the outcast of the people!--fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and an horrible dread overwhelmed me!!!_"
HIGH BAILIFF.--As that _fellow there_ says he did not vote for Fox, who did he poll for?
CURATE.--"BARRABAS!--_now Barrabas was a robber._"
HIGH BAILIFF.--This here case is, as I may say, rather _more_ muddier than I could wish.
DEPUTY GROJAN.--_Ce n'est pas clair_--I _tink_, Sir, with you.
CURATE.--"_Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord!_"
Mr. FOX.--Having thus recapitulated all the points of so contradictory an evidence, I leave you, Mr. High Bailiff, to decide upon its merits.
CURATE.--"_He leadeth Counsellors away spoiled, and maketh Judges fools._"
HIGH BAILIFF.--I don't care three brass pins points about that there--though the poor _feller_ did live in a shed; yet as he says he once boiled a sheep's head under his own roof, which I calls his _casthillum_--_argyle_, I declares him a good _wote_!
CLERK.--"_Oh Lord! incline our hearts to keep this law._"
BAR-KEEPER.--Make way for the parish-officers, and the other _gemmen_ of the _Westry_.
CURATE.--"_I said my house should be called a house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves!_"
Mr. ELCOCK.--_Mr. High Bailey!_ Sir, them there _Foxites_ people are _sniggering_ and _tittering_ on the other side of the table; and from what I can guess I am sure it can be at nobody but you or me.
CURATE.--"_Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man!_"