Hampton Court ... Illustrated with forty-three drawings by Herbert ...

THE CONFERENCE 151
which agreeth as well with monarchy as God and the
devil." Again the common-sense test is applied.
Is there reason in taking the judgment upon any
science of men who have not shared the subject ?
"Then Jack and Tom and Will and Dick shall meet,
and at their pleasure censure me and my council
and all our proceedings. Then Will shall stand
up, and say, ' It must be thus; ' then Dick shall
reply, and say, ' Nay, marry, but we will have it
thus.' And therefore, here I must reiterate my
former speech, Le roi s'avisera. Stay,Ipray you,
for one seven years before you demand that from
me, and if then you find me pursey and fat and my
wind-pipes stuffed,Iwill, perhaps, hearken to you;
for let that government be once up, Iam sure I
shall be kept in breath; then shall we all of us have
work enough, both our hands full. But, Doctor
Reynolds, until you find thatIgrow lazy, let that
alone." And again when Master Knewstubbs, having
failed in endeavours to bind his own burden on the
back of all others, asked for a toleration some
time for " weak brethren," James sharply retorted
with questions — " How long should they be weak ?
Whether forty-five years were not sufficient for them
to grow strong ? Who they were that pretended
that weakness, for we require not now subscriptions
from laics and idiots, but preachers and ministers,
who are not now,Itrow, to be fed with milk, but
are enabled to feed others."
Much might be written,and much has been — indeed,