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My trembling And amost refewses

To write the charge which Sir John swore, Of which the Countess he ecuses,

Her daughter and her son-in-lore.

My Mews quite blushes as she sings of
The fatle charge which now I quote:
He
says Miss took his two best rings off,
And pawned 'em for a tenpun note.

"Is this the child of honest parince,

To make away with folks' best things? Is this, pray, like the wives of Barrins, To go and prig a gentleman's rings ? "

Thus thought Sir John, by anger wrought on,
And to rewenge his injured cause,
He brought them hup to Mr. Broughton,
Last Vensday veek as ever waws.

If guiltless, how she have been slandered!
If guilty, wengeance will not fail;
Meanwhile, the lady is remanderd
And gev three hundred pouns in bail.

VOL. I.

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Their money, not their wits; And there's six attornies under them, As here their living gits.

These lawyers, six and four,
Was a livin at their ease,
A sendin of their writs abowt,
And droring in the fees,
When their erose a cirkimstance
As is like to make a breeze.

It now is some monce since,
A gent both good and trew
Possest an ansum oss vith vich

He didn know what to do:
Peraps he did not like the oss,
Peraps he was a scru.

This gentleman his oss

At Tattersall's did lodge;
There came a wulgar oss-dealer,
This gentleman's name did fodge,
And took the oss from Tattersall's:
Wasn that a artful dodge?

One day this gentleman's groom
This willain did spy out,

A mounted on this oss

A ridin him about;

"Get out of that there oss, you rogue," Speaks up the groom so stout.

The thief was cruel whex'd

To find hisself so pinn'd;

The oss began to whinny,

The honest groom he grinn'd; And the raskle thief got off the oss

And cut avay like vind.

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Thus Mr. Jacob cut

The conwasation short;

The livery-man went ome,

Detummingd to ave sport,

And summingsd Jacob Homnium, Exquire,

Into the Pallis Court.

Pore Jacob went to Court,

A Counsel for to fix,

And choose a barrister out of the four, An attorney of the six;

And there he sor these men of Lor,

And watch'd 'em at their tricks.

The dreadful day of trile

In the Pallis Court did come; The lawyers said their say,

The Judge look'd wery glum, And then the British Jury cast Pore Jacob Hom-ni-um.

O a weary day was that

For Jacob to go through;

The debt was two seventeen,

(Which he no mor owed than you), And then there was the plaintives costs, Eleven pound six and two.

And then there was his own,

Which the lawyers they did fix

At the wery moderit figgar

Of ten pound one and six.
Now Evins bless the Pallis Court,
And all its bold ver-dicks!

I cannot settingly tell

If Jacob swaw and cust,
At aving for to pay this sumb,

But I should think he must,
And av drawn a cheque for £24 48. 8d.
With most igstreme disgust.

O Pallis Court, you move
My pitty most profound.

A most emusing sport

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