young sir John Payton: but I think it was
the error of his youth.

RALEIGH--The lords told it me, or else I had been sent to the
Tower.

ATTORNEY--Thus Cobham, by the instigation of Raleigh, entered
into these actions: so that the question will be, whether you
are not the principal traitor and he would nevertheless have
entered into it? Why did Cobham retract all the same? First,
because Raleigh was so odious, he thought he should fare the
worse for his sake; secondly, he thought thus with himself, If
he be free I shall clear myself the better. After this, Cobham
asked for a Preacher to confer with, pretending to have Dr.
Andrews;[13] but indeed he meant not to have him but Mr.
Galloway,[14] a worthy and reverent preacher, who can do more
with the King (as he said) than any other; that he seeing his
constant denial, might inform the king thereof. Here he plays
with the preacher. If Raleigh could persuade the lords that
Cobham had no intent to travel, then he thought all should be
well. Here is forgery! In the Tower, Cobham must write to sir
Thos. Vane, a worthy man, that he meant not to go to Spain:
which letter Raleigh devised in Cobham's name.

RALEIGH--I will wash my hands of the indictment, and die a true
man to the king.

ATTORNEY--You are the absolutist traitor that ever was.

RALEIGH--Your phrases will not prove it.

ATTORNEY--Cobham writeth a letter to my lord Cecil, and doth
with Mellis's man to lay it in a Spanish Bible and to make as
though he found it by chance. This was after he had intelligence
with this viper, that he was false.

LORD CECIL--You mean a letter intended to me; I never had it.

ATTORNEY--No, my lord, you had it not. You, my masters of the
jury, respect not the wickedness and hatred of the man, respect
his cause: if he be guilty, I know you will have care of it, for
the preservation of the king, the continuance of the Gospel
authorized, and the good of us all.

RALEIGH--I do not hear yet, that you have spoken one word
against me; here is no Treason of mine done: If my lord Cobham
be a Traitor, what is that to me?

ATTORNEY--All that he did was by thy instigation, thou viper;
for I 'thou' thee, thou Traitor.

RALEIGH--It becometh not a man of quality and virtue to call me
so: But I take comfort in it, it is all you ca