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for "book ycleped," read "_bock ylered_."
for "token" read "_teken_."
for "Hamelyn" read "_Howelin_."
Corrected from Blount's _Tenures_, p. 665, ed. 1815.
A print of Westminster Hall, by Mosely, from a drawing made by Gravelot,
who died in 1773, bears the following versified inscription:--
"When fools fall out, for ev'ry flaw,
They run horn mad to go to law,
A hedge awry, a wrong plac'd gate,
Will serve to spend a whole estate.
Your case the lawyer says is good,
And justice cannot he withstood;
By tedious process from above,
From office they to office move,
Thro' pleas, demurrers, the dev'l and all,
At length they bring it to the _Hall_;
The dreadful hall by Rufus rais'd,
For lofty Gothick arches prais'd.
"The _first of Term_, the fatal day,
Doth various images convey;
First, from the courts with clam'rous bawl,
The _criers_ their _attornies_ call;
One of the gown discreet and wise,
By _proper_ means his witness tries;
From _Wreathock's_ gang, not right or laws,
H' assures his trembling client's cause.
_This_ gnaws his haudkerchies, whilst _that_
Gives the kind ogling nymph his hat;
Here one in love with choristers,
Minds singing more than law affairs.
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