pardon, 'Thou shalt not die, but the child shall die:
Thou hast given cause to the enemies of God to blaspheme.'

KING--I would desire only one word before you give Sentence; and
that is, that you would hear me concerning those great
Imputations that you have laid to my charge.

LORD PRESIDENT--Sir, You must give me now leave to go on; for I
am not far from your Sentence, and your time is now past.

KING--But I shall desire you will hear me a few words to you:
For truly, whatever Sentence you will put upon me in respect of
those heavy imputations, that I see by your Speech you have put
upon me; Sir, It is very true, that----

LORD PRESIDENT--Sir, I must put you in mind: Truly, Sir, I would
not willingly, at this time especially, interrupt you in
anything you have to say, that is proper for us to admit of;
but, Sir, you have not owned us as a Court, and you look upon us
as a sort of people met together; and we know what language we
receive from your party.

KING--I know nothing of that.

LORD PRESIDENT--You disavow us as a Court; and therefore for you
to address yourself to us, not acknowledging us as a Court to
judge of what you say, it is not to be permitted. And the truth
is, all along, from the first time you were pleased to disavow
and disown us, the Court needed not to have heard you one word;
For unless they be acknowledged a Court, and engaged, it is not
proper for you to speak. Sir, we have given you too much liberty
already, and admitted of too much delay, and we may not admit of
any farther. Were it proper for us to do it, we should hear you
freely; and we should not have declined to hear you at large,
what you could have said or proved on your behalf, whether for
totally excusing, or for in part excusing those great and
heinous Charges, that in whole or in part are laid upon you.
But, Sir, I shall trouble you no longer; your sins are of so
large a dimension, that if you do but seriously think of them,
they will drive you to a sad consideration of it, and they may
improve in you a sad and serious repentance; And that the Court
doth heartily wish that you may be so penitent for what you have
done amiss, that God may have mercy, at leastwise, upon your
better part: Truly, Sir, for the other, it is our parts and
duties to do that, which the law prescribes.