All
whatsoever you have or can say in answer hereof are but shadows.
And therefore methinks it were best for you to confess, not to
justify.'"
Essex was provoked by Bacon's incredulous sneer about enemies and
dangers--"I call forth Mr. Bacon against Mr. Bacon," and referred to the
letters which Bacon had written in his name, and in which these
dangerous enmities were taken for granted. Bacon, in answer, repeated
what he said so often--"That he had spent more time in vain in studying
how to make the Earl a good servant to the Queen and State than he had
done in anything else." Once more Coke got the proceedings into a
tangle, and once more Bacon came forward to repair the miscarriage of
his leader.
"'I have never yet seen in any case such favour shown to any
prisoner; so many digressions, such delivering of evidence by
fractions, and so silly a defence of such great and notorious
treasons. May it please your Grace, you have seen how weakly he
hath shadowed his purpose and how slenderly he hath answered the
objections against him.
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