He plays with his case as a cat would with a mouse, and be so fulsomely pedantique that a school boy would nauseate it. But when he comes to matter of law, all aknowledge him to be admirable. When Mr. Cuff, secretary to the earl of Essex, was arraigned, he would dispute with him in syllogisms, till at last one of his bethern said, 'Prithee, brother, leave off : thou doesn't dispute scurvily'. Cuff was a smart man and a great scholar and baffled him. Said Cooke 'Dominum cognoscite vestrum' ; Cuff replied, 'my lord, you leave out the former part of the verse, which you should have repeated, Acteon ego sum' Reflecting on him being a cuckold.