Would whip a rhymer on from court to court;

Stop him in each, and make him pay for all

The long proceedings in that dreaded Hall.—

Then let my numbers flow discreetly on,

50

Warn'd by the fate of luckless Coddrington[50];

Lest some attorney (pardon me the name)

Should wound a poor solicitor for fame.

One man of law in George the Second's reign

Was all our frugal fathers would maintain;