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On seeing the Picture of Justice over the Judge's Seat.

While P**e, with brow severe, and formal saw,
From the Learn'd Bench expounds the Mystic Law;
See Justice o'er his Head as Symbol stand,
The Sword and well-pois'd Scale in either hand;
But P**e, to prove the Goddess a meer Farce,
Unmanner'd Brute!—towards her turns his A*se.