James Williams Head Poems
- 1. Cases - Mylward V. Weldon
[The plaintiff was committed to the Fleet Prison on Feb. 8, 1596, by order of the Lord Keeper, for drawing a replication of sixscore sheets containing much impertinent matter which might well have been contained in sixteen. On Feb. 10 the Lord Keeper ordered that on the following Saturday the Warden of the Fleet should cut a hole through the replication, and put the plaintiff's head through the hole and let it hang about his shoulders with the written side outwards, and lead the plaintiff bareheaded and barefaced round about Westminster Hall, and show him at the bar of all the courts, and so back to the Fleet.--Abridged from Spence's Equitable Jurisdiction, vol. i. p. 376.]
'Gainst Weldon Mylward files a bill,
But doth his replication fill
... - 2. The Squire's Daughter
We crawled about the nursery
In tenderest years in tether,
At six we waded in the sea
And caught our colds together.
... - 3. Cases - Dashwood V. Jermyn
(12 Chancery Division, 776)
Captain Dashwood, who had been
In the service of the Queen,
... - 4. A Greek Libel
ARCHILOCHUS.
Neobule, yesternight
Saw I thee in beauty dight,
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