Since her interpretations, and our deeds, As b'ing a science that by nature breeds Should be convey'd to th' Indian colonies; Or rather nets, which people do ask leave, Since multitude of laws are figns either of Than to have new ftatutes cumbrously invented. Marfton's Fawn. You oft call parliaments, and there enact And And fmaller flies i'the fpider's web are ta'en, The fhepherds kill'd a fheep, and eat him there; Of what you tear, you would pluck out my heart. Dekker's Match me in London. 1. Tell me, what has made thee fo melancholy? 2. Why, going to law. 1. Why will that make a man melancholy? 2. Yes, to look long upon ink and black Buckram -I went to law in anna Quadragefimo fecundo; and I Waded out of it, in anno fexagefimo tertio. i. What! three and twenty years in law? 2. I have known those that have been five and fifty, And all about pullen and pigs. 1. May it be poffible fuch men fhould breathe, To vex the terms fo much? 2. 'Tis food to fome, My lord. There are old men at the present, Of law-words, having had many fuits canvafs'd; To heaven with a certiorari. Tourneur's Revenger's Tragedy. This wretch, that lov'd, before his food, his ftrife, This punishment falls even with his life; His pleasure was vexation, all his bifs. ་ 'The torment of another: Their hurt his health, their starved hope his ftore; 1. Still in law? Middleton's Phanix. 2. I had not breath'd elfe now; 'tis very marrow, Very marrow to me, to be in law : I had been dead ere this elfe. I have found Such fweet pleasure in the vexations of others, A matter brought ev'n t'a judgment to day, There a procedendo; here a certiorari, There a capiendo; tricks, delays, money-laws! You fee I am old, yet have at this prefent, Nine and twenty fuits in law, and all not worth forty fhillings. The pleasure of man is all: A stake pull'd out of my hedge, there's one : I was well beaten, I remember, that's two :. I took one a-bed with my wife, against her will; that's , three ; Was call'd cuckold for my labour, that's four; Et Et fic de cæteris. I have fo vex'd and beggar'd the whole parish With the poor's money: And I fo fetch up all the men To be at civil cuckoldry within ourselves, Unless the whole country rife upon our wives. 2. O' my faith a pretty policy. 3. Nay, an excellent ftratagem: But of all I moft wonder at the continual 1. Why do you so much wonder at that? Why this is my course. My mare and I come up fome five days 'fore the term, Dive into the countrymens caufes, furnish them As you know I have words enough for the purpose. 2. Enough a conscience in faith. 1. Enough in law, no matter for confcience; To prefer moft of thofe men to one attorney Whom I affect beft; to answer which kindness of mine, He'll fweat the better in my cause, and do them The lefs good; take it of my word, I help'd My attorney to more clients the last term, H 5 Than Than he will dispatch all his life-time: I did it. The good needs fear no law; Middleton's Phoenix. It is his fafety, and the bad man's awe. Mainger, Middleton, and Rowley's Old Law. We are of the condition of fome great Of the laws, not fo much to correct offences If we offend the law, Shirley's St. Patrick for Ireland. The law may punish us; which only strives Or ufe of what's indiff'rent: And is made Nabbs's Covent-Garden. We fee Thieves daily hang'd for robberies; yet fome Is fet upon the head of foul adultery, And yet our neighbours wives can hardly 'scape us! Yet great mens hands have their forefathers itch! Richard Brome's English Moor. Dead falls the cause, if once the hand be mute; But let that fpeak, the client gets the fuit. Your clemency has taught us to believe Herrick. For |