212 A REPORT OF THE SPANISH GRIEVANCES. 



delays and hard proceedings, and not inique sen 

 tences, or definitive condemnations : wherein I called 

 to mind what I heard a great bishop say, that courts 

 of justice, though they did not turn justice into 

 wormwood by corruption, yet they turned it into 

 vinegar by delays, which soured it. Such a difference 

 did his lordship make, which, no question, is a differ 

 ence &amp;lt;f secundum majus et minus.&quot; 



Secondly, His lordship ascribed these delays, not 

 so much to malice or alienation of mind towards us, 

 as to the nature of the people and nation, which is 

 proud and therefore dilatory : for all proud men are 

 full of delays, and must be waited on ; and especially 

 to the multitudes and diversities of tribunals and 

 places of justice, and the number of the king s 

 councils, full of referrings, which ever prove of 

 necessity to be deferrings ; besides the great distance 

 of territories : all which have made the delays of 

 Spain to come into a by-word through the world. 

 Wherein I think his lordship might allude to the 

 proverb of Italy, &quot; Mi venga la morte di Spagna,&quot; 

 Let my death come from Spain, for then it is sure to 

 be long a coming. 



Thirdly, His lordship did use an extenuation of 

 these wrongs, drawn from the nature of man, &quot; nemo 

 &quot; subito fingitur.&quot; For that we must make an ac 

 count, that though the fire of enmity be out between 

 Spain and us, yet it vapoureth : the utter extincting 

 whereof must be the work of time. 



But lastly, his lordship did fall upon that ex 

 tenuation, which of all the rest was most forcible ; 



