Judicate

Parasites and Flatterers, I wyll make so to abound, / That Trueth shalbe defaced, and stand aloofe behinde: / Auarice and Couetousnesse, shall compasse euerie ground, / That fewe shall haue credite, freendship to finde, / Wauerers and Neuters shall houer in the winde, / That Sycophants and brablers, preheminence shall haue, / To predicate and iudicate, before the wyse and graue.

And to enter him befoir the saids Provest and baillies of Innernis, to be judicatit be them for his wrange or fact crym he sal commit, to suffer thairfoir according as he sail merit at the discretioun of the Judges, vnder the pain foirsaid: Quhairvpon tuick act.

Quapropter cum Ariſtoteles neſciat naturam, proprietates, itemque generationum cauſas, ac quidditatem; quis non judicaverit, ex aridis cisternis Scholorum aquas Philoſophiæ haustas hactenus? Octo enim libri auſultationum Phyſicarum, ſomnia et privationes, pro naturæ cognitione exponunt.

The ſublime end of creation and moral government as taught us, by revelation-⁠-the rational and immortal nature wherewith we are endowed-⁠-the nature of things in a variety of views-⁠-the character and perfections of God and of his government, infinitely wiſe, holy, juſt, good and perfect-⁠-the property of his kingdom as everlaſting-⁠-the ill-demerit of ſin-⁠-the neceſſity and importance of ſuch a puniſhment to his enemies, to illuſtrate the character of God, of Chriſt, and of the divine government, and the doctrine of redemption in higheſt glory-⁠-and to eſtabliſh the authority and ſettle the everlaſting kingdom of God, in eternal ſecurity and peace, in higheſt dignity, perfection and glory, accompanied with the higheſt poſſible ſecurity and happineſs to all his holy, faithful ſubjects-⁠-⁠-and the cleareſt exhibition of the kingdom, power, and glory as the Lord’s. Theſe in connection do judicate the doctrine highly credible, worthy of all acceptation and our firmeſt belief.

“[…] And what think you got I for telling her the true even-doun fact?” / “Probably whatever she had in her hand.” / “O, ye’re a saterical man!—to judicate that leddies would be flinging housholdry at ane anither’s heads![…]”

But he rushed out together with the kettle-drum, and rushed into the New Court,⁶ and began to judicate.

The principal question arising in this case has never before been judicated in this court, and is therefore a case of the first importance to the great interests involved

But fur all the years he was justice o’ the peace, an’ right successful settlin’ other people’s disputes, he never somehow got round to ’judicatin’ that row ’ith Si over the old schoolhouse.

To judicate, therefore, between these disparate views is difficult not only because there may be some merit to both but rather because such is not the function of the critic, any critic.

Two months later, Cesarini warned those responsible to be attentive ‘that a multitude be not indiscriminately admitted, because it is no small burden and honour to be admitted in so sublime a gathering to judicate for the whole world’.