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Have *foresaid leave; from five to ten; 
Fo draw th’ aforesaid pleas again.”- 
The second and third lectures treat of 
the king and his prerogative, and of the 
great superiority of the common to the 
civil law. . Having past through this 
preliminary matter, the poet makes this 
humorous invocation. 
“et And first bright Cynthitus [Il supeen* 
From hallow’d fount of Hippocrene, 
And summons from th’ Aonian grove, 
The daughters of Olympian Jove ; 
But if those sweet harmonious maids 
Disdain to quit their vocal shades, 
Nor Cynthius will his fount forsake, 
To gloomy Dis my pray’r I'll make, b 
And seek the Acherontic Lake 
Down to the hall of Erebus I'll go, 
And mave some Dzmon in the courts Lelow.” 
We have now the history of a suit at 
¢ommon law, till it arrives at the party’s 
appearance. upon the Capias Utlagatum. 
Mr: Surrebutter then digresses to relate 
the memoirs of his own professional 
career: how, by the patronage of Buz- 
zard, Hawk and Crow, Tom Thornback, 
Shark and Co. attornies all, and by 
courting the friendship of attornies, such 
as Joe Ferret, he has risen to his present 
enviable practice. The first part is thea 
concluded by an address to the two great 
characters of the legal mythology of 
England. 
«« Then let us pray for writ of *Pone, 
John Doe and Richard Roe his crony, 
Good men, and true, who never fail, 
The needy and distress‘d to bail, 
Direct unseen the dire dispute, 
And pledge their names in ev'ry suit— 
Sure ’tis not all a vain delusion, 
Romance, and fable Rosicrusian, 
That spirits do exist wi/hout, 
Haunt us, and watch our whercalout ; 
Witness ye visionary pair, 
~ Ye floating forms that, lightas air, 
Dwell in some special pleader’s brain ; 
Am I deceiv'd? or are ye twain 
The restless and perturbed sprites, 
The manes of departed knights, 
Erst of the post? whose fraud and lies, 
False pleas, false oathswand A/ilis, 
ERS | ye in life above your peers, 
And launch’d ye tow’rds the starry spheres, 
Then to those mansions © unanneal'd,* 
POETRY. 
- 
Where unrepented sins are seal'd: © 
Say, wherefore, in yout days of flesh 
Cut off, while yet your sins were fresh, 
Ye visit thus he realms of day, 
Shaking with fear our frames of clay 5) 
Still doom’d in penal ink to linger, 
And hover round a pjeader's finger, 
Or on a writ impal'd, and wedg'd, 
For plaintiff's prosecution pledg’d, 
Aid and abet the purpos'd ill, 
And works of enmity fulfil, 
Still doom’d to hitch in declaration, 
And drive your ancient occupation ? 
While thus to you I raise my voice, 
Methinks I see the ghosts rejoice 
Of lawyers erst in fiction bold,. 
Levinz and Lutwyche, pleaders old ; 
With writs and entries round him spread, 
See plodding Saunders rears his head. 
Lo! Ventris wakes! before mine eyes 
Brown, Lilly, and Bohun arise !~ 
Each in his parchment shroud appears, 
Some with their quills behind their ears, 
Flourish their velvet caps on high 5 
Some wave their grizzel wigs, and ery 
Hail happy pair! the glory and the boast, 
The strength and bulwark of the legal host, | 
Like Saul and Jonathan, in friendship tried, 
Pleasant ye lived, and undivided died ! 
While pillories shall yawn, where erst ye 
stood, 2 
And brav'd the torrent of o’erwhelming mud, 
While gaming peers, and tdames of noble races 
Shall strive to merit that exalted place ; 
While righteous scriv’ners, who when Sun- 
day shines, 
Pore o’er their bills, and turn their noughts 
to nines, 
(Their unpaid bills, which long have learn’d 
to grow 
Faster than poplars on the banks of Po,) 
Freely shallend their charitable aid, 
To young professors of the gambling trade; 
While writs shall last, and usury shall thrive, 
Your name, your honour, and your praise; 
shall live : 
Jailers shall smile, and with bumbailiffs raise 
Their iron voices to record your praise, 
Whom law united, nor the grave can sever, 
‘All hail John Doe, and Richard Roe for 
ever !” 
The second part opens in an excellent 
strain of poetry. 
«© Then once more, O ye pleaders, and once 
more 
I come your pleas and pleadings to explore, 
Ye plodding clerks, with fingers never weary, 
And thro’ the confines of your cloistersdreary, 
* «< Pone.—The Pone is the writ of attachment before mentioned, it is so called from the 
words of the writ, Pone per vadium, salvos plegios, ** Put by gage and safe pledges. 
A. B.” John Doe and Richard Roe. 
+ « Dames.—The author in this passage seems to have contemplated the probability of 
certain characters of both sexes in the fashionable world, exhibiting their persons in the pil- 
Jory for keeping public gaming tables. It is written in the true spirit of propheey, and fron 
a late declaration of a learned and noble judge, (no jess distinguished for his impartial and - 
independent spirit, than for his great zeal aad carnestness forjustice) the editor very sincerely 
hopes Mr. S.’s prophecy will be shortly fulfilled.” 
