with Aremberg, nor of the surprising Treason.

The Lord Chief-Justice replied that he was persuaded that Cobham had
accused him truly, and reminded him that he had been offered a pension
to act as a spy for Spain. Raleigh answered that he submitted himself,
and his 'son of tender years, unbrought up,' to the king's mercy.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--I thought I should never have seen this day,
to have stood in this place to give Sentence of Death against
you; because I thought it impossible, that one of so great parts
should have fallen so grievously. God hath bestowed on you many
benefits. You had been a man fit and able to have served the
king in good place. You had brought yourself into a good state
of living; if you had entered into a good consideration of your
estate and not allowed your own wit to have intrapped yourself,
you might have lived in good comfort. It is best for man not to
seek to climb too high, lest he fall: nor yet to creep too low,
lest he be trodden on. It was the Poesy of the wisest and
greatest Counsellor of our time in England, _In media spatio
mediocria firma locantur_. You might have lived well with L3000
a year, for so have I heard your revenues to be. I know nothing
might move you to be discontented: but if you had been down, you
know fortune's wheel, when it is turned down, riseth again. I
never heard that the king took away anything from you but the
Captainship of the Guard, which he did with very good reason, to
have one of his own knowledge, whom he might trust, in that
place. You have been taken for a wise man, and so have shewed
wit enough this day. Again for Monopolies for Wine, etc., if the
king had said, It is a matter that offends my people, should I
burden them for your private good? I think you could not well
take it hardly, that his subjects were eased, though by your
private hindrance. Two vices have lodged chiefly in you; one is
an eager ambition, the other corrupt covetousness. Ambition, in
desiring to be advanced to equal grace and favour, as you have
been beforetime; that grace you had then, you got not in a day
or year. For your covetousness, I am sorry to hear that a
gentleman of your wealth should become a base Spy for the enemy,
which is the vilest of all other; wherein on my conscience,
Cobham hath said true: by it you would have increased your