Extenuation: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations
Quit all offences with as clear excuse, As well as, I am doubtless, I can purge Myself of many I am charg'd withal: Yet such extenuation let me beg, As, in reproof of many tales devis'd,- Which oft the ear of greatness needs must hear,- By smiling pick-thanks and base newsmongers, I may, for some things true, wherein my youth Hath faulty wander'd and irregular,— H. IV. PT. I. iii. 2.
Find pardon on my true submission.