7. But ye shall die like men. Great as
the office made the men, they were still but men, and must die. Every judge
must leave the bench to stand at the bar, and on the way must put off the
ermine to put on the shroud. And fall like one of the princes. Even as
princes have often been cut off by sudden and violent deaths, so should the
judges be who forget to do justice. People usually respect the office of a
judge, and do not conspire to slay him, as they do to kill princes and kings;
but injustice withdraws this protection, and puts the unjust magistrate in
personal danger. No places are too high for death’s arrows; he brings down his
birds from the tallest trees.
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