CHARGE AGAINST THE LORD SANQUHAR. 169 



upon despite, gave the provocation, winch was the 

 seed of your malice. All passions are suaged with 

 time: love, hatred, grief; all fire itself burns out 

 with time, if no new fuel be put to it. Therefore 

 for you to have been in the gall of bitterness so long, 

 and to have been in a restless chase of this blood so 

 many years, is a strange example; and I must tell 

 you plainly, that I conceive you have sucked those 

 affections of dwelling in malice, rather out of Italy 

 and outlandish manners, where you have conversed, 

 than out of any part of this island, England pr 

 Scotland. 



But that which is fittest for me to spend time in^ 

 the matter being confessed, is to set forth and mag 

 nify to the hearers the justice of this day ; first of 

 God, and then of the king. 



My lord, you have friends and entertainments in 

 foreign parts ; it had been an easy thing for you to 

 set Carlile, or some other bloodhound on work, 

 when your person had been beyond the seas ; and 

 so this news might have come to you in a packet, 

 and you might have looked on how the storm would 

 pass : but God bereaved you of this foresight, and 

 closed you here under the hand of a king, that 

 though abundant in clemency, yet is no less zealous 

 of justice. 



Again, when you came in at Lambeth, you might 

 have persisted in the denial of the procurement of 

 the fact ; Carlile, a resolute man, might perhaps 

 have cleared you, for they that are resolute in mis 

 chief, are commonly obstinate in concealing the pro- 



