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Will any one be fooled by such bungling jugglers playing into one another's hands so palpably?

Most honourable Judges, I think you cannot admit of such evidence as this. There is collusion here.

Is there any farther evidence to produce? (A pause.) I presume there is none. Come this way, friar.

No speaking privately to a witness in court.

The evidence being closed, it may now be admitted.

Come hither, stealthy monk, for holy father I never more may call thee. (Beckoning as before.) [Confessor goes nearer.] So unwilling! What fiend of darkness hast thou tamper'd with?