BRIEFLESS BALLADS


BY THE SAME AUTHOR

SIMPLE STORIES OF LONDON
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ETHANDUNE
AND OTHER POEMS

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BRIEFLESS BALLADS
AND
LEGAL LYRICS

SECOND SERIES

By JAMES WILLIAMS

"You will think a lawyer has as little business with poetry as he has with justice. Perhaps so. I have been too partial to both."

—Thomas Love Peacock, in Melincourt

LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
1895


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Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Hyphenation has been standardised.