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''A narrow Lobby or Passage, leading to the Hall of Justice. Several People discovered, passing or loitering about.''

Stop, friend: thou art from the court?

Ay, with half the learning even of a monk, you may guess that.

Thou shalt enjoy thy joke unanswered, Officer. Thou art by office indifferent to the fate of an unhappy panel; but thou wert an obliging fellow once, before thou wert spoilt by preferment, and now thou canst do me a favour.

Mention it, good Father. I ought to have reverenced your cloth for your sake, if I do not reverence you for the sake of your cloth.