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A case at chambers left for my opinion	A
Had taxed my brain until the noon of night	B
I read old law and loathed the long dominion	A
Of fiction over right	B
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I had consulted Coke and Cruise and Chitty	C
The works where ancient learning reigns supreme	D
Until exhausted nature moved with pity	C
Sent me a bookman's dream	D
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Six figures all gigantic as Gargantua	C
Floated before my eyes and all the six	E
Were shades like those that once the bard of Mantua	C
Saw by the shore of Styx	E
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The first was one with countenance imperious	F
His toga dim with centuries of dust	C
My name quoth he is Aulus and Agerius B	C
My voice is hoarse with rust	C
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Yet once I played my part in law proceedings	G
And writers wrote of one they never saw	H
I gave their point to formul and pleadings	G
I lived but in the law	H
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The second had a countenance perfidious	G
What wonder Pr tors launched their formul	H
In vain against Numerius Negidius	G
And not a whit cared he	C
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With voice of high contempt he greeted Aulus	G
In interdicts thou wast mine enemy	C
Once passed no day that students did not call us	G
As parties me and thee	C
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On paper I was plaintiff or defendant	C
On paper thou wast evermore the same	I
We lived apart a life that was transcendant	C
For it was but a name	I
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I hate thee Aulus hate thee low he muttered	C
It was by thee that I was always tricked	C
My unsubstantial bread I ate unbuttered	C
In dread of interdict	C
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And yet 'twas but the sentiment I hated	C
Like thee I ne'er was drunk e'en vi or clam C	C
With wine that was no wine my thirst was sated	C
Like thee I was a sham	J
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Two country hinds in 'broidered smocks next followed	C
Each trundled him a cart wheel by the spokes	G
Oblivion now their names hath well nigh swallowed	C
For they were Stiles and Nokes	G
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They spake no word for speech to them was grievous	G
With bovine eyes they supplicated me	C
We wot not what ye will but prithee leave us	G
Unlettered folk are we	C
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Go said I simple ones and break your fallows	G
Crush autumn apples in the cider press	G
Law gaffer Stiles thy humble name still hallows	G
Contracted to J S	G
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Another pair of later time succeeded	C
With buckles on their shoes and silken hose	G
A garb that told it was to them who heeded	C
John Doe's and Richard Roe's	G
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Ah me I was a casual ejector D	C
In the brave days of old I heard one say	G
I knew Elizabeth the Lord Protector	K
I spake with yesterday	G
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To whom in contradiction snarled the other	K
There was no living blood our veins to fill	H
Both you and I were nought but shadows brother	K
And we are shadows still	H
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Room for a lady room as at Megiddo	G
The hosts made way for passage of the king	L
For from the darkness crept there forth a widow	G
In weeds and wedding ring	L
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I am the widow I whereof the singers	G
Of Scotland sang their cruel words so smote	G
My tender heart that ofttimes itched my fingers	G
To take them by the throat	G
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He scoffed at me dour bachelor of Glasgow E	C
If I existed not for him the knave	M
'Twas all his fault who let some bonnie lass go	G
Unwedded to her grave	M

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