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which is a pardon, and a pardon of murder, and 

 a pardon for yourself, and not for your lady. 



In this, my lord, I convert my speech to you, be 

 cause I would have you attend the points of your 

 charge, and so of your defence the better. And two 

 of these heads I have taken to myself, and left the 

 other two to the King s two Serjeants. 



For the first main part,which is. the mortal hatred, 

 coupled with fear, that was in my lord of Somerset 

 towards Overbury. although he did palliate it with 

 a great deal of hypocrisy and dissimulation even to the 

 end ; I shall prove it, my lord Steward, and you my 

 lords and peers, manifestly, by matter both of oath 

 and writing. The root of this hatred was that that 

 hath cost many a man s life, that is, fear of discover 

 ing secrets : secrets I say, of a high and dangerous 

 nature : Wherein the course that I will hold, shall 



be this : 



First, I will shew that such a breach and m&amp;lt; 

 was between my lord and Overbury, and that it 

 burst forth into violent menaces and threats on both 



side?. 



Secondly, That these secrets were not light, but 

 of a high nature; for I will give you the elevatic 

 of the pok. They were such as my lord of Somer 

 set for his part had made a vow, that Oerbury 

 should neither live in court nor country. That he 

 had likewise opened himself and his own fears so far. 

 that if Overbury ever came forth of the Tower, 

 either Overburv or himself must die for it. And 



