"That is what I beg leave to tell your lordship."

"I pray you do, and in God's name be brief, man. For if I am to be
troubled with the say of all you traitor dogs, I may sit here until
the Spring Assizes."

"I was there, my lord, in my quality as a physician, to dress Lord
Gildoy's wounds."

"What's this? Do you tell us that you are a physician?"

"A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin."

"Good God!" cried Lord Jeffreys, his voice suddenly swelling, his
eyes upon the jury. "What an impudent rogue is this! You heard the
witness say that he had known him in Tangiers some years ago, and
that he was then an officer in the French service. You heard the
prisoner admit that the witness had spoken the truth?"

"Why, so he had. Yet what I am telling you is also true, so it is.
For some years I was a soldier; but before that I was a physician,
and I have been one again since January last, established in
Bridgewater, as I can bring a hundred witnesses to prove."

"There's not the need to waste our time with that. I will convict
you out of your own rascally mouth. I will ask you only this: How
came you, who represent yourself as a physician peacefully following
your calling in the town of Bridgewater, to be with the army of the
Duke of Monmouth?"