The Wiccamical Chaplet a selection of original poetry; comprising smaller poems, serious and comic; classical trifles; sonnets; inscriptions and epitaphs; songs and ballads; mock-heroics, epigrams, fragments, &c. &c. Edited by George Huddesford |
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FRAGMENT,
Addressed to a Friend on the Circuit.
You should singThe robed Judge, majestically great,
Th'embroider'd Sheriff in his year of state;
In sable stoles array'd the Sons of Law;
The baited Witness, trembling in their paw:
The spruce Attorney's quick and busy glance;
The booted Client's dubious countenance;
The Moment big with hope, and doubt, and fear,
When the grave Jury, turning to the Chair,
Pronounce aloud th'irrevocable Say—
That takes a Shilling or a Life away. [OMITTED]
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