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utterly to delay at length : for the manner of it is to take 

 the tale out of the counsellor at the bar his mouth, and to 

 give a cursory order, nothing tending or conducing to the 

 end of the business. It makes me remember what I heard 

 one say of a judge that sat in Chancery; that he would 

 make forty orders in a morning out of the way, and it was 

 out of the way indeed ; for it was nothing to the end of 

 the business : and this is that which makes sixty, eighty, 

 an hundred orders in a cause, to and fro, begetting one 

 another; and, like Penelope s web, doing and undoing* 

 But I mean not to purchase the praise of expeditive in 

 that kind ; but as one that have a feeling of my duty, and 

 of the case of others. My endeavour shall be to hear 

 patiently, and to cast my order into such a mould as may 

 soonest bring the subject to the end of his journey.&quot; 



And as to the delays of the suitor, he thus concluded: 

 &quot; By the grace of God, I will make injunctions but a hard 

 pillow to sleepers ; for if I find that he prosecutes not with 

 effect, he may, perhaps, when he is awake, find not only 

 his injunction dissolved, but his cause dismissed.&quot; 

 Expense. With respect to the last admonition, that justice should 

 not be obstructed by unnecessary expense, he expressed 

 his determination to diminish all expense, saying in sub 

 stance what he had said in his essay on Judicature : (a) 

 &quot; The place of justice is an hallowed place, and therefore not 

 only the bench, but the foot-pace, and precincts and pur- 

 prise thereof ought to be preserved without scandal and 

 corruption ; for, certainly grapes (as the scripture saith) 

 will not be gathered of thorns or thistles; neither can 

 justice yield her fruit with sweetness amongst the briars 

 and brambles of catching and polling clerks and minis 

 ters; which justifies the common resemblance of the 



(a) Vol. i. p. 179. 



