SPEECH AS LORD KEEPER. CCXV 



see iii this matter of the seal, and his majesty s royal com 

 mandment concerning the same, I mean to walk in the 

 light, so that men may know where to find me ; and this 

 publishing thereof plainly, I hope will save the King from 

 a great deal of abuse, and me from a great deal of envy ; 

 when men shall see that no particular turn or end leads 

 me, but a general rule. 



With respect to speedy justice, which was the third Delay, 

 admonition, and upon which, in his essays on &quot; Delay and 

 Dispatch,&quot; (a) it appears that he had maturely deliberated, 

 he explained the nature of true and affected dispatch ; and, 

 having divided delays, into the delays of the judge and of 

 the suitor, he said, &quot; For myself, I am resolved that my 

 decree shall come speedily, if not instantly after the hear 

 ing, and my signed decree speedily upon my decree pro 

 nounced. For fresh justice is the sweetest; and to the 

 end that there be no delay of justice, nor any other means- 

 making or labouring, but the labouring of the counsel at 

 the bar. 



&quot; Again, because justice is a sacred thing, and the end 

 for which I am called to this place, and therefore is my 

 way to heaven ; and if it be shorter, it is never a whit the 

 worse, I shall, by the grace of God, as far as God will give 

 me strength, add the afternoon to the forenoon, and some 

 fourth night of the vacation to the term, for the expediting 

 and clearing of the causes of the court ; only the depth of 

 the three long vacations I would reserve in some measure 

 free from business of estate and for studies, arts, and 

 sciences, to which in my own nature I am most inclined. 



&quot; There is another point of true expedition, which resteth 

 much in myself, and that is in my manner of giving 

 orders. For I have seen an affectation of dispatch turn 



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