Ch. Just. I then did use the person of your father; The image of his power lay then in me: And, in the administration of his law, Whiles I was busy for the commonwealth, Your highness pleased to forget my place, The majesty and power of law and justice, The image of the king whom I presented, And struck me in my very seat of judgement; Whereon, as an offender to your father, I gave bold way to my authority And did commit you. 2 Henry IV., Act v. Sc. 2. Injuria illata judici, seu locum tenenti regis, videtur ipsi regi illata, maxime fiat in exercentem officium.— COKE, 3 Inst. I. Shakespeare in this passage probably refers to this maxim, or to the law which it describes. The Chief Justice says, 'When I did use the person of your father, &c., you struck me in my very judgment seat, whereon as an offender to your father I did commit you;' and according to this maxim, an injury offered to a judge, or one holding the place of the king, is considered to be offered to the king himself, especially if done during the exercise of the office of a judge. Also Aristotle, speaking Пep μειζόνων καὶ ἐλαττόνων ἀδικημάτων, says: Ποῦ γὰρ οὐκ ἂν ἀδικήσειεν, εἴ γε καὶ ἐν τῷ δικαστηρίῳ ; -Rhet. Lib. i. 14. Boy. Nym and Bardolph are sworn brothers in filching; and in Calais they stole a fire-shovel: I knew, by that piece of service, the men would carry coals. Henry V., Act iii. Sc. 2. In this trouble the earle of Ormond was greatlie aided by Sir William Wise Knight, a worshipfull gentleman, borne in the city of Waterford, who deserving indeed the praise of that great vertue, whereof he bare the name, grew to be of great credit in the court, and stood highlie in King Henrie his grace, which he wholie used to the furtherance of his friends, and never abused to the annoiance of his foes. This gentleman was verie well spoken, mild of nature, with discretion stout, as one that in an upright quarell would bear no coles, seldome in an intricate matter gravelled, being found at all affaires to be of a pleasant wit. Slender. All his successors gone before him hath done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may: they may give the dozen white luces in their coat. Shallow. It is an old coat. Evans. The dozen white louses do become an old coat well; it agrees well, passant; it is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love. Shallow. The luce is the fresh fish; the salt fish is an old coat. Merry Wives of Windsor, Act i. Sc. 1. Having lent the king his signet to seale a letter, who having powdred erimits ingrailed in the seale, Why, how now, Wise (quoth the king), what, hast thou lice here? And if it like your majestie, quoth Sir William, a louse is a rich cote, for by giving the louse, I part armes with the French King, in that he giveth the floure de lice. Whereat the King laughed to heare how |