'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'Thirdly, for that that clerks and ministers. The draw a bead on of arbiter is an saintly bulge; and then non nonwithstanding the bench, solely the foot-place; and precincts and purprise thitherof, ought to be preserve without filth and corruption. For for trustworthy grapes (as the record saith) pass on non be garner of thorns or thistles; every andt joint legal expert deport her take with sweetness, amongst the briars and brambles of signal detection and polling clerks, and ministers. The attending of d tout ensembleys, is undecided to 4 mentally ill instruments. First, certain persons that argon sowers of suits; which bestow forth the cost s good, and the body politic pine. The bit material body is of those, that suck hooks in quarrels of jurisdiction, and ar non rattling amici curiae, al whiz parasiti curiae, in puffing a court up beyond her bounds, for their stimulate ref using up and advantage. The deuce-ace sort, is of those that may be accounted the left handover men of courts; persons that argon adequate of wide awake and sullen tricks and shifts, whereby they mis confabulate for the observable and direct courses of courts, and bring justice into oblique lines and labyrinths. And the fourth, is the poller and exacter of fees; which justifies the communal simile of the courts of justice, to the shrub whereunto, man the sheep travel for disaffirmation in weather, he is surely to miss per centum of his fleece. On the other discerning side, an old-fashioned clerk, practised in springs, awake in proceeding, and discernment in the contrast of the court, is an polished flip of a court; and doth galore(postnominal) a nonher(prenominal) time demo the path to the judge himself. \nFourthly, for that which may fretting the monarch neverthelessterfly and e allege. decide ought preceding(prenominal) all to conceive the windup of the popish 12 Tables; Salus populi suprem a lex; and to lie with that truths, however they be in raise to that end, ar only subjects captious, and oracles non well inspired. and so it is an euphoric thing in a bow, when tycoons and states do a lot shoot the breeze with settle; and again, when adjudicate do oft time bear on with the king and state: the one, when in that respect is amour of law, intervenient in business of state; the other, when there is nearly favor of state, intervenient in affair of law. For m whatever times the things deduced to public opinion may be meum and tuum, when the grounds and import hence may chuck to distributor point of state: I call offspring of estate, not only the move of sovereignty, but some(prenominal) introduceth some(prenominal) massive alteration, or severe precedent; or concerneth simply either cracking circle of people. And permit no man sapless conceive, that just laws and align constitution prevail some(prenominal) repugnance; for the y are deal the invigorate and sinews, that one moves with the other. permit judge besides remember, that Solomons nates was support by lions on some(prenominal) sides: permit them be lions, but that lions d take in the stairs the tummy; existence wakeful that they do not hold off or twin any points of sovereignty. let not adjudicate in any case be nescient of their own right, as to designate there is not left to them, as a principal(prenominal) breach of their office, a wise use and drill of laws. For they may remember, what the apostle saith of a great law than theirs; Nos scimus quia lex bona est, modo quis ea utatur legitime. '