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Th' impatient counsel pants in every vein, 



Looks round the court, then smirks, and looks again; 



Judge, jury, all, apjjear already crost, 



And ere he starts, th' opponent's cause is lost.* 



With regard to the diseases of the hc^rsc, 

 especially that which is denominated roaring^ 

 juries must be deaf indeed if they are not 

 satisfied with the iUustrative specimens which 

 many of you display in the progress of your 

 orations ; the disease, indeed, which is knowri 

 by the term short winded^ and the unpleasant 

 defect of slipiess, I must confess are not so 

 well exemplified, having never heard any 

 of you accused of either of those imperfec- 

 tions. In the article of restiveness, some 

 comparative observations may certainly be 

 made, it being no unusual circumstance for 



* la case the foregoing description of the preparation for 

 the contest should not be deemed sufliciently tuiergetic, the 

 following passage from Ovid, describing the fury of the boar, 

 antecedently to the combat, may be introduced with propriety 

 and effect : — 



" Fiilmen ab ore vcnit, froiides afflatibus aideiil." 



Which may be thus freelj/ translated : — 



Lightning issueth from his mouth, and the bnefs are set on fire 

 by his breath. 



In selecting the above quotation, I have no wish to compare 

 the learned tribe to boars, although the fashionable appellation 

 of bore has frequently been applied to some of these desul- 

 €orious orators, 



