228 A REPORT OF THE SPANISH GRIEVANCES. 



His lordship s last reason was, that it may cast 

 some aspersion upon his majesty ; implying, as if the 

 king slept out the sobs of his subjects, until he was 

 awaked with the thunderbolt of a parliament. 



But his lordship s conclusion was very noble, 

 which was with a protestation, that what civil threats, 

 contestation, art, and argument can do, hath been 

 used already to procure remedy in this cause ; and a 

 promise, that if reason of state did permit, as their 

 lordships were ready to spend their breath in the 

 pleading of that we desire, so they would be ready 

 to spend their bloods in the execution thereof. 



This was the substance of that which passed. 



