sed quia iudicii vestri medicinam expetunt civilitatemque, qui negotium criminale parturiunt, vestrarum, si bene metior, partium pariter et morum est, aliqua indemni compositione istorum dolori, illorum periculo subvenire et quodam salubris sententiae temperamento hanc partem minus afflictam, illam minus ream et utramque plus facere securam; ne iurgii status, ut sese fert temporis locique qualitas, talem descendat ad terminum, quale coepit habere principium.
But because the persons who are contemplating a criminal charge now desire the remedy of your civil judgment it will, if I am not mistaken, be in keeping both with your duty and your character to relieve the distress of the one party and the danger of the other by compounding some innocuous remedy and to administer a decision wholesomely tempered, as it were, so as to make the one side less distressed, the other less guilty, and both more easy in their minds, lest this quarrel, as is the natural tendency in this quarter and in these times, should in the end develop a character such as now at the beginning it threatens to assume.
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