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The Poems of Robert Fergusson

Edited by Matthew P. McDiarmid
Fergusson, Robert (1750-1774)

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Epigram on a Lawyer's desiring one of the Tribe to look with respect to a Gibbet.

The lawyers may revere that tree
Where thieves so oft have strung,
Since, by the Law's most wise decree,
Her thieves are never hung.
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