from discontentment, that
she laughed him to scorn. But you see how far the count of
Aremberg did consent.

_The lord Admiral (Nottingham) being by in a Standing, with the
lady Arabella, spake to the court_: The lady doth here protest
upon her salvation, that she never dealt in any of these things,
and so she willed me to tell the court.

LORD CECIL--The lord Cobham wrote to my lady Arabella, to know
if he might come to speak with her, and gave her to understand,
that there were some about the king that laboured to disgrace
her; she doubted it was but a trick. But Brook saith his brother
moved him to procure Arabella to write Letters to the king of
Spain; but he saith, he never did it.

RALEIGH--The lord Cobham hath accused me, you see in what manner
he hath forsworn it Were it not for his Accusation, all this
were nothing. Let him be asked, if I knew of the letter which
Lawrency brought to him from Aremberg. Let me speak for my life,
it can be no hurt for him to be brought; he dares not accuse me.
If you grant me not this favour, I am strangely used;
Campian[18] was not denied to have his accusers face to face.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Since he must needs have justice, the
acquitting of his old friend may move him to speak otherwise
than the truth.

RALEIGH--If I had been the infuser of all these Treasons into
him; you gentlemen of the jury, mark this, he said I have been
the cause of all his miseries, and the destruction of his house,
and that all evil hath happened unto him by my wicked counsel;
if this be true, whom hath he cause to accuse and to be revenged
on, but on me? and I know him to be as revengeful as any man on
earth.

ATTORNEY--He is a party, and may not come; the law is against
it.

RALEIGH--It is a toy to tell me of law; I defy such law, I stand
on the fact.

LORD CECIL--I am afraid my often speaking (who am inferior to my
lords here present) will make the world think that I delight to
hear myself talk. My affection to you, sir Walter, was not
extinguished, but slaked in regard to your deserts. You know the
law of the realm (to which your mind doth not contest) that my
lord Cobham cannot be brought.

RALEIGH--He may be, my lord.

LORD CECIL--But dare you challenge it?

RALEIGH--No.

LORD CECIL--You say that my lord Cobh