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Is he found guilty?

FIRST GENTLEMAN
Yes, truly is he, and condemned upon’t.

SECOND GENTLEMAN
I am sorry for’t.

FIRST GENTLEMAN
So are a number more.

SECOND GENTLEMAN
But pray, how passed it? [10]

FIRST GENTLEMAN
I’ll tell you in a little. The great Duke
Came to the bar, where to his accusations

He pleaded still not guilty, and allegèd
Many sharp reasons to defeat the law.
The King’s attorney, on the contrary, [15]

Urged on the examinations, proofs, confessions,
Of divers witnesses, which the Duke desired
To have brought viva voce to his face;
At which appeared against him his surveyor,
Sir Gilbert Perk his chancellor, and John Car, [20]

Confessor to him, with that devil-monk,
Hopkins, that made this mischief.

SECOND GENTLEMAN
That was he
That fed him with his prophecies.

FIRST GENTLEMAN

The same.
All these accused him strongly, which he fain
Would have flung from him, but indeed he could not; [25]
And so his peers, upon this evidence,