human
If thou canst say aught in thy behalf, speak.
gpt
Nought that will avail, my King. I am innocent, yet cannot I make it appear. I have no friends, else might I show that I was not in Islington that day; so also might I show that at that hour they name I was above a league away, seeing I was at Wapping Old Stairs; yea more, my King, for I could show, that whilst they say I was TAKING life, I was SAVING it. A drowning boy--
human
Peace! Sheriff, name the day the deed was done!
gpt
At ten in the morning, or some minutes later, the first day of the New Year, most illustrious--
human
Let the prisoner go free--it is the King's will!
gpt
It enrageth me that a man should be hanged upon such idle, hare-brained evidence!