Lawyerus Bootatus & Spurratus Or, The Long Vacation. A Poem. By a student of Lincolns-Inn [i.e. Richard Ames] |
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Thank Heaven, I am at last return'd,
Tho no one for my Absence Mourn'd;
Pleasure should give to Business place
(Men do not use to feed on Sauce)
Not dawn of Light to People, where
'Tis Midnight Darkness half the Year,
More welcom is, than dawn of Term
To Lawyers, who to London swarm.
Tho no one for my Absence Mourn'd;
Pleasure should give to Business place
(Men do not use to feed on Sauce)
Not dawn of Light to People, where
'Tis Midnight Darkness half the Year,
More welcom is, than dawn of Term
To Lawyers, who to London swarm.
The Nobles now and Gentry too,
To Country Pleasures bid adieu,
And with the Cities Conversation,
Supply the want of Recreation
They met withall in Gardens, Fields,
And all those Sports the Country yields:
From Tunbridg, Epsom, Arstrop-Wells,
The Bath and sundry places else,
In mighty droves to London come,
Where 'tis admir'd they all find room;
In this, it like the Ocean seems,
Nere fuller for ten thousand Streams.
To Country Pleasures bid adieu,
And with the Cities Conversation,
Supply the want of Recreation
They met withall in Gardens, Fields,
And all those Sports the Country yields:
From Tunbridg, Epsom, Arstrop-Wells,
The Bath and sundry places else,
In mighty droves to London come,
Where 'tis admir'd they all find room;
In this, it like the Ocean seems,
Nere fuller for ten thousand Streams.
Nay, I myself must take my leave
Of Cowly, Waller, Oldham, Cleave-
Land, and beloved Hudibrass,
To study Actions on the Case,
And leave my Thought ere made an end on't,
To think of Plaintiff and Defendant;
And so farewell all Recreation
In this Dull, Tedious, Long Vacation.
Of Cowly, Waller, Oldham, Cleave-
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To study Actions on the Case,
And leave my Thought ere made an end on't,
To think of Plaintiff and Defendant;
And so farewell all Recreation
In this Dull, Tedious, Long Vacation.
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