Epigram 36 (In quiet sleepe a iudgement seat I sawe,)

In quiet sleepe a iudgement seat I sawe,
Two brought as guilty to their triall, when
The quest was chargde according to the lawe
To giue their verditt on these silly men.
But by the iury he which had donne ill,
Acquited was, the innocent betrayde.
Then stoode I vp (although I had no skill,
To pleade before a iudge,) and this I said,
This is no iurie things of right to trye,
But to say trueth, this is an iniurie.