4.  That you should fear no man’s face, and yet not turn
     stoutness into bravery.

     5.  That you should be truly impartial, and not so as men may
     see affection through fine carriage.

     6.  That you be a light to jurors to open their eyes, but not
     a guide to lead them by the noses.

     7.  That you affect not the opinion of pregnancy and
     expedition by an impatient and catching hearing of the
     counselors at the bar.

     8.  That your speech be with gravity, as one of the sages of
     the law; and not talkative, nor with impertinent flying out
     to show learning.

9.  That your hands, and the hands of your hands (I mean those about you), be clean, and uncorrupt from gifts, from meddling in titles, and from serving of turns, be they of great ones or small ones.

     10.  That you contain the jurisdiction of the court within the
     ancient merestones, without removing the mark.

     11.  Lastly, That you carry such a hand over your ministers
     and clerks, as that they may rather be in awe of you, than
     presume upon you.

These and the like points of the duty of a Judge, I forbear to enlarge; for the longer I have lived with you, the shorter shall my speech be to you; knowing that you come so furnished and prepared with these good virtues, as whatsoever I shall say cannot be new unto you.  And therefore I will say no more unto you at this time, but deliver you your patent.

A PRAYER, OR PSALM

From ‘Letters and Life,’ by James Spedding

Most gracious Lord God, my merciful Father, from my youth up, my Creator, my Redeemer, my Comforter.  Thou (O Lord) soundest and searchest the depths and secrets of all hearts; thou knowledgest the upright of heart, thou judgest the hypocrite, thou ponderest men’s thoughts and doings as in a balance, thou measurest their intentions as with a line, vanity and crooked ways cannot be hid from thee.

Remember (O Lord) how thy servant hath walked before thee:  remember what I have first sought, and what hath been principal in mine intentions.  I have loved thy assemblies, I have mourned for the divisions of thy Church, I have delighted in the brightness of thy sanctuary.  This vine which thy right hand hath planted in this nation, I have ever prayed unto thee that it might have the first and the latter rain; and that it might stretch her branches to the seas and to the floods.  The state and bread of the poor and oppressed have been precious in mine eyes:  I have hated all cruelty and hardness of heart:  I have (though in a despised weed) procured the good of all men.  If any have been mine enemies, I thought not of them; neither hath the sun almost set upon my displeasure; but I have been as a dove, free from superfluity of maliciousness.  Thy creatures have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more.  I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples.