La greffiére est virginité féconde,
Et la concierge humilité profonde.
Pythié procure a vuider les discords,
Comme advocat, amour ayde aux accords.
De geolier vacque le seul office:
Aussy on voyt par officiers concors,
La noble court rendante à tous justice."
In the same style and strain is a ballad, which, thanks to the care of De Bourgueville, the author of the Antiquities of Caen, hath been preserved for the edification of posterity. It enumerates all the members of the court seriatim, and compares their lordships and worships, one after another, to the heroes and demi-gods of ancient story.
The parliament in its turn has given way to the Court of Assizes; and, where the states once deliberated, the electors of the department now come together for the purpose of naming the deputies who represent them in the great council of the nation;—such are the vicissitudes of all human institutions.