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 A justice with grave justices shall sit;
 He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit.  
 A justice with grave justices shall sit;
 He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit. 
 It doth appear you are a worthy judge;
 You know the law, your exposition
  Hath been most read more 
 It doth appear you are a worthy judge;
 You know the law, your exposition
  Hath been most sound. 
 A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.
 [Lat., Male verum examinat omnis
  Corruptus judex.]  
 A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.
 [Lat., Male verum examinat omnis
  Corruptus judex.] 
When you truly love someone you don't judge them by their past, you accept it and leave it there.
When you truly love someone you don't judge them by their past, you accept it and leave it there.
 Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge
 That no king can corrupt.  
 Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge
 That no king can corrupt. 
 My suit has nothing to do with the assault, or battery, or 
poisoning, but is about three goats, which, read more 
 My suit has nothing to do with the assault, or battery, or 
poisoning, but is about three goats, which, I complain, have been 
stolen by my neighbor. This the judge desires to have proved to 
him; but you, with swelling words and extravagant gestures, 
dilate on the Battle of Cannae, the Mithridatic war, and the 
perjuries of the insensate Carthaginians, the Syllae, the Marii, 
and the Mucii. It is time, Postumus, to say something about my 
three goats. 
 The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
 And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.  
 The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
 And wretches hang that jurymen may dine. 
 So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue,
 And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce
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 So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue,
 And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce
  Lie still without a fee. 
 Therefore I say again
 I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul
  Refuse you for my judge, whom read more 
 Therefore I say again
 I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul
  Refuse you for my judge, whom yet once more
   I hold my most malicious for and think not
    At all a friend to truth.