Of petty tradesmen o'er their evening-ale.
There are who, living by the legal pen,
Are held in honour—'honourable men.'"
Doubtless—there are, who hold manorial courts,
Or whom the trust of powerful friends supports;
Or who, by labouring through a length of time,
Have pick'd their way, unsullied by a crime.
These are the few—in this, in every place,
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Fix the litigious rupture-stirring race: