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"He lies!" said Lord Cholmondeley, the legislator so well read up in the
law. "That which he calls torture is only the peine forte et dure, and
a very good thing, too. Torture is not practised in England."
Thomas Wentworth, Baron Raby, addressed the Chancellor.
"My Lord Chancellor, adjourn the House."
"No, no. Let him go on. He is amusing. Hurrah! hip! hip! hip!"
Thus shouted the young lords, their fun amounting to fury. Four of them
especially were in the full exasperation of hilarity and hate. These
were Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester; Thomas Tufton, Earl of Thanet;
Viscount Hatton; and the Duke of Montagu.
"
To your tricks, Gwynplaine!" cried Rochester.
Put him out, put him out!" shouted Thanet.
"
Viscount Hatton drew from his pocket a penny, which he flung to
Gwynplaine.
And John Campbell, Earl of Greenwich; Savage, Earl Rivers; Thompson,
Baron Haversham; Warrington, Escrick Rolleston, Rockingham, Carteret,
Langdale, Barcester, Maynard, Hunsdon, Cäernarvon, Cavendish,
Burlington, Robert Darcy, Earl of Holderness, Other Windsor, Earl of
Plymouth, applauded.
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