Search. My lord, I know and have known this man from a child, and
can attest that his name is False-Peace. I know his father; his
name was Mr. Flatter: and his mother, before she was married, was
called by the name of Mrs. Sooth-Up: and these two, when they came
together, lived not long without this son; and when he was born,
they called his name False-Peace. I was his play-fellow, only I
was somewhat older than he; and when his mother did use to call him
home from his play, she used to say, 'False-Peace, False-Peace,
come home quick, or I'll fetch you.' Yea, I knew him when he
sucked; and though I was then but little, yet I can remember that
when his mother did use to sit at the door with him, or did play
with him in her arms, she would call him, twenty times together,
'My little False-Peace! my pretty False-Peace!' and, 'Oh! my sweet
rogue, False-Peace!' and again, 'Oh! my little bird, False-Peace!'
and 'How do I love my child!' The gossips also know it is thus,
though he has had the face to deny it in open court.

Then Mr. Vouch-Truth was called upon to speak what he knew of him.
So they sware him.

Then said Mr. Vouch-Truth, 'My lord, all that the former witness
hath said is true. His name is False-Peace, the son of Mr.
Flatter, and of Mrs. Sooth-Up, his mother: and I have in former
times seen him angry with those that have called him anything else
but False-Peace, for he would say that all such did mock and
nickname him; but this was in the time when Mr. False-Peace was a
great man, and when the Diabolonians were the brave men in Mansoul.

Court. Gentlemen, you have heard what these two men have sworn
against the prisoner at the bar. And now, Mr. False-Peace, to you: