Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 10, June 4, 1870 by Various
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Most handsomely and warmly to defend,)
You fancy that you now and then perceive A word or phrase one hardly can conceive Was uttered "by your leave;" If--going further in my supposition-- You fancy his condition In some respects was not above suspicion; If (Ah! there's virtue in an "if" sometimes-- As there may be in crimes,) You think it strange, what men will do for dimes; Why, it is plainly due To you, And noble SPENCER, too, That I should straightway boil with legal rage At such injustice, and at once engage To right the matter, on this virtuous page. I fear, my captious friend, (To speak the truth,) you do not comprehend The Majesty of Law! Of Reason it is clearly the Perfection! It is not merely Jaw! Great Heaven! (excuse the interjection,) If for this thing you have no greater awe, You need correction! Pray, do you fully realize, good Sir, The Legal is a Gentlemanly cur? True, we are sometimes forced to treat a Judge As though he were a plain American. But, fudge! |
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