MAYNE’S “GLASGOW. 
Following the process"boye the Aonian stcep, 
have presum’d with inky thumbs to sweep 
The "golden lyre; nor yet the more have 
+ceas'd 
To greet {St. Michael the archangel’s feast, 
Nor still.sometimes upon §St. Martin's morn 
\(Lhro’ Inner and thro’ Middle Temple borne 
(While yet detained in that obscure resort) 
Cease Ito roam-thro’ {Elm or Garden Court, 
Fig-tree, or Fountain Side, or Jearned shade 
Of King’s-Bench Walks, by pleadings vocal 
made—~ 
Thrice hallow’d shades! where slip-shod 
é benchers. muse, { 
Attorneys haunt, and special pleaders cruise!” 
567 
The case of .John-a-Gull and John;a- 
Gudgeon is then narrated through all its 
proceedings till the trial, when the coun- 
sel agree 
«* To draw 
A special case, and-sane the point in law, 
That so the battle, nether lost nor won, 
Continued, ended, and again begun, - | _ ; 
Might still survive, and other suits succeed, ~ 
For future herees of the gown to lead, ~ 
And future bards in loftier verse to PLEAD." 
And thus ends this very original and 
yery humorous poem. - nner 
OD 
Art. XXVIII. Glasgow: a Poem, by Joun Mayne. 12mo. pp. 51. 
. AWN outline of these verses was: pub- 
lished in the Glasgow Magazine for 
December, 1783. Dr. Geddes praised 
it in his Epistle to the Society of Anti- 
quaries of Scotland in 1792, and now in 
1803, the author has revised, extended, 
and republished it. 
_The poem contains.sixty of what may 
be called Scotch stanzas: of their merit 
2 brief specimen may suffice. 
© Hail Industry! thou richest gem 
“That shines in virtue’s diadem! _ 
While Indolence, wi’ tatter'd hem, 
Around her knee, ; 
Sits, chitt'ring, like the wither’d stem 
- QO some boss tree! 
«« To thee we owe the flocks o” sheep, 
_That glad Benlomond’s cloud-capt steep ; 
The pregnant mines that yield yon heap 
Oo massy coals ; , 
And a’ the tenants o° the deep, 
Caught here in shoals! 
« And a’ the villas round, that gleam 
Like spangles i the sunny beam ; 
The bonny haughs that laughing seem, 
Wy plenty growing ; 
And a’ the bleach-fields on ilk stream 
Thro’ Clydesdale. flowing ! 
«« Hence, Commerce spreads her sails to a” , 
The Indies and America: 
Whatever makes a penny twa, 
By wind or tide, 
Ts wafted to the Broomielaw, 
On bonny Clyde! 
«« Yet, should the best exertions fail, 
And fickle fortune turn the scale ; 
Shou'd a’ be lost in some hard gale, 
Or wreckt on shore, mn 3 
The merchants’ house makes a’ things hale, 
As heretofore. ba af 
GE yt 
«© Wi broken banes should labour pine, 
Or indigence grow sick and dwine, | Ms 
Th’ Infirmary, wi’ care divine, 
Unfolds its treasure, 
And turns their wormwood cup to wine—. 
Their pain to pleasure!” rate 
* « Golden Lyre.—Sir John Fortescue observes, ‘ that the university of the laws, (for so 
he calls the Inns of Court and Chancery) did’ not only study the laws to serve the courts 
ef justice, but did:farther learn to dance and to sing, and to play on instruments on the 
Ferial days. Dugd. Orig. Juridic. ¢. 55. Fortescue de Laud. Leg. Ang.. c. 49. Mr. 5. 
seems to have acted up to the spirit of the ojiginal institution. See the Memoirs of his _ 
professional career, part I. lect. 7.” 
+ «© ——+— yet not the mort 
Cease I to wander where the muses haunt, 
Clear spring or shady grove, &c. Milton.” _ : 
t “ St. Michael the archangel.—The law terms respectively derive their names from the 
festivals of the church, immediately preceding their commencement. Michaelmas Term 
originally commenced in eight days after the feast of St. Michael inclusive, Octalus S¢. 
Michaelis ; but by the joint operation of two acts of parliament, and the alteration of style, 
it has in effect been procrastinated, so as not to commence before the 6th of November.” _ 
§ “ Saint Martin. —Crastino St. Martini, « the morrow of St. Martin,” the 12th day of 
November; formerly the fourth, now the second return day of Michaelmas term.” 
| Thro’ inner.and thro” middle darkness borne. Milton.” ‘ 
_ & © Elm, or Garden Court.—* ‘The Inns of Court were placed out of the city and noise 
‘thereof, in. the suburbs of London. Seorsim parumper in civitatis suburbio.” Fortesc, 
The several courts in the Temple, have been erected at different periods, upon the scite or 
she gardens’and pleasure-grounds, belonging to the Hostel or domus mansionalis of the 
‘Temple, granted originally upon lease to Sir Julins Czsar and others.” : ; 
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