s fellow, thy name is hateful to all
the realm of England for thy pride.

RALEIGH--It will go near to prove a measuring cast between you
and me, Mr. Attorney.

ATTORNEY--Well, I will now make it appear to the world that
there never lived a viler viper upon the face of the earth than
thou.--And there withal he drew a letter out of his pocket
saying further--My lords, you shall see this is an agent that
hath writ a treatise against the Spaniard, and hath ever so
detested him; this is he that hath spent so much money against
him in service; and yet you shall all see whether his heart be
not wholly Spanish. The lord Cobham, who of his own nature was a
good and honourable gentleman, till overtaken by this wretch now
finding his conscience heavily burdened with some courses which
the subtlety of this traitor had drawn him into, my lords, he
could be at no rest with himself, nor quiet in his thoughts,
until he was eased of that heavy weight: out of which passion of
his mind and discharge of his duty to his prince and his
conscience to God, taking it upon his salvation that he wrote
nothing but the truth, with his own hands he wrote this letter.
Now sir, you shall see whether you had intelligence with Cobham
within four days before he came to the Tower. If he be wholly
Spanish, that desired a pension of L1500 a year from Spain, that
Spain by him might have intelligence, then Raleigh is a traitor:
he hath taken an apple and pinned a letter into it and threw it
into my lord Cobham's window, the contents whereof were this,
'It is doubtful whether we shall be proceeded with or no,
perhaps you shall not be tried.' This was to get a retractation.
Oh! it was Adam's apple whereby the devil did deceive him.
Further he wrote thus, 'Do not as my lord of Essex did; take
heed of a preacher, for by his persuasion he confessed and made
himself guilty.'[19] I doubt not but this day God shall have as
great a conquest by this traitor, and the Son of God shall be as
much glorified as when it was said _Vicisti Galilaee_; you know
my meaning. What though Cobham retracted, yet he could not rest
or sleep until he had confirmed it again. If this be not enough
to prove him a traitor, the king my master shall not live three
years to an end.

(_Note._--Here Mr. Attorney produced the lord Cobham's lett