"_Queen Common-Sense._ My Lord of _Law_, I sent for you
this Morning;

I have a strange Petition given to me;
Two Men, it seems, have lately been at Law
For an Estate, which both of them have lost,
And their Attorneys now divide between them.
_Law._ Madam, these things will happen in the Law.
_Q. C. S._ Will they, my Lord? then better we had none:
But I have also heard a sweet Bird sing,
That Men, unable to discharge their Debts
At a short Warning, being sued for them,
Have, with both Power and Will their Debts to pay
Lain all their Lives in Prison for their Costs.
_Law._ That may perhaps be some poor Person's Case,
Too mean to entertain your Royal Ear.
_Q. C. S._ My Lord, while I am Queen I shall not think
One Man too mean, or poor, to be redress'd;
Moreover, Lord, I am inform'd your Laws
Are grown so large, and daily yet encrease,
That the great Age of old _Methusalem_
Would scarce suffice to read your Statutes out."

There is also much more than merely transitory satire in the speech of
"Firebrand" to the Queen:--

"_Firebrand._ Ha! do you doubt it? nay, if you doubt
that,
I will prove nothing--But my zeal inspires me,
And I will tell you, Madam, you yourself