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But that question the king hath settled according 

 to the ancient precedents in all times continued. 

 And this I will say, that the opinion, not to relieve 

 any case after judgment, would be a guilty opinion ; 

 guilty of the ruin, and naufrage, and perishing of 

 infinite subjects : and as the king found it well out, 

 why should a man fly into the chancery before he be 

 hurt ? The whole need not the physician, but the 

 sick. But, my lords, the power would be preserved, 

 but the practice would be moderate. My rule shall 

 be therefore, that in case of complaints after judg 

 ment, except the judgments be upon &quot; nihil dicit,&quot; 

 and cases which are but disguises of judgment, as 

 that they be judgments obtained in contempt of a 

 preceding order in this court, yea, and after verdicts 

 also, I will have the party complainant enter into 

 good bond to prove his suggestion : so that if he 

 will be relieved against a judgment at common law 

 upon matter of equity, he shall do it &quot; tanquam in 

 vinculis,&quot; at his peril. 



The third point of excess may be the over-fre 

 quent and facile granting of injunctions for the stay 

 ing of the common laws, or the altering of posses 

 sions ; wherein these shall be my rules. 



I will grant no injunction merely upon priority 

 of suit ; that is to say, because this court was first 

 possessed: a thing that was well reformed in the late 

 lord chancellor s time, but usual in the chancellor 

 Bromley s time; insomuch, as I remember, that Mr. 

 Dalton the counsellor at law put a pasquil upon the 

 court in nature of a bill ; for seeing it was no more 

 but, My lord, the bill came in on Monday, and the 



