The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 543, Saturday, April 21, 1832.Various
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 543, Saturday, April 21, 1832.
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Popular literature -- Great Britain -- Periodicals
In a recent _Mirror_, (No. 540) this may have been made manifest to the
reader in the Legal Rhymes, quoted by our correspondent, _W.A.R.;_[9]
but lo! here is a volume of evidence in "_The Cenveyancer's Guide;_" a
Poem, by John Crisp, Esq., of Furnival's Inn; in which the art of
Conveyancing is sung in Hudibrastic verse, and said in notes of pleasant
prose. Happy are we to see Mr. Crisp's volume in a third edition, since
we opine from this success the bright moments of relief which his Muse
may have shed upon the _viginti annorum lucubrutiones_ of thousands
of students. We have not space for quotations from the poem itself, in
which _Doe_ and _Roe_ figure as heroes, with their occasional
friend Thomas Stiles. We can only say their movements are sung with the
terseness and point which we so much admire in the great originals, so
as to make men acknowledge there is good in every thing. Our extracts
are from the Introduction and Notes. First is
A LEGAL GLEE.
"A woman having a settlement,
Married a man with none,
The question was, he being dead,
If that she had was gone.
Quoth _Sir John Pratt_, her settlement
Suspended did remain,
Living the husband--but him dead,
It doth revive again.
"CHORUS OF PUISNE JUDGES.
"Living the husband--but him dead,
It doth revive again."
[9] ERRATA in one of our correspondent's "Legal
for "six beaches," read "six braches."
for "book ycleped," read "_bock ylered_."
for "token" read "_teken_."
for "Hamelyn" read "_Howelin_."
Corrected from Blount's _Tenures_, p. 665, ed. 1815.
A print of Westminster Hall, by Mosely, from a drawing made by Gravelot,
who died in 1773, bears the following versified inscription:--
"When fools fall out, for ev'ry flaw,
They run horn mad to go to law,
A hedge awry, a wrong plac'd gate,
Will serve to spend a whole estate.
Your case the lawyer says is good,
And justice cannot he withstood;
By tedious process from above,
From office they to office move,
Thro' pleas, demurrers, the dev'l and all,
At length they bring it to the _Hall_;
The dreadful hall by Rufus rais'd,
For lofty Gothick arches prais'd.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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