SPEECH TO JUSTICE HUTTON. 271 



the realm are as the twelve lions under Solomon s 

 throne : they must shew their stoutness in elevating 

 and bearing up the throne. To represent unto you 

 the lines and portraitures of a good judge : 



1. The first is, that you should drawyour learning 

 out of your books, not out of your brain. 



2. That you should mix well the freedom of your 

 own opinion with the reverence of the opinion of your 

 fellows. 



3. That you should continue the studying of your 

 books, and not to spend on upon the old stock. 



4. That you should fear no man s face, and yet 

 not turn stoutness into bravery. 



5. That you should be truly impartial, and not 

 so as men may see affection through fine carriage. 



6. That you should be a light to jurors to open 

 their eyes, but not a guide to lead them by the noses. 



7. That you affect not the opinion of pregnancy 

 and expedition by an impatient and catching hearing 

 of the counsellors at the bar. 



8. That your speech be with gravity, as one of 

 the sages of the law ; and not talkative, nor with 

 impertinent flying out to shew learning. 



9. That your hands, and the hands of your hands f 

 I mean those about you, be clean, and uncorrupt from 

 gifts, from meddling in titles, and from serving of 

 turns, be they of great ones or small ones, 



10. That you contain the jurisdiction of the 

 court within the ancient merestones, without remov 

 ing the mark. 



11. Lastly, That you carry such a hand over your 



