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fess I have somewhat of the cunctative ; and I am of 

 opinion, that whosoever is not wiser upon advice than 

 upon the sudden, the same man was no wiser at fifty 

 than he was at thirty. And it was my father s ordi 

 nary word, &quot; You must give me time.&quot; But yet I 

 find when such breviates were taken, the cause was 

 sometimes forgotten a term or two, and then set down 

 for a new hearing, three or four terms after. And in 

 the mean time the subjects pulse beats swift, though 

 the chancery pace be slow. Of which kind of inter 

 mission I see no use, and therefore I will promise 

 regularly to pronounce my decree within few days 

 after my hearing ; and to sign my decree at the least 

 in the vacation after the pronouncing. For fresh 

 justice is the sweetest. And to the end that there 

 be no delay of justice, nor any other means-making 

 or labouring, but the labouring of the counsel at the 

 bar. 



Again, because justice is a sacred thing, and the 

 end for which I am called to this place, and therefore 

 is my way to heaven ; and if it be shorter, it is never 

 a whit the worse, I shall, by the grace of God, as far 

 as God will give me strength, add the afternoon to 

 the forenoon, and some fourth night of the vacation 

 to the term, for the expediting and clearing of the 

 causes of the court; only the depth of the three long 

 vacations I would reserve in some measure free from 

 business of estate, and for studies, arts and sciences, 

 to which in my own nature I am most inclined. 



There is another point of true expedition, which 



