If these poor lines should one attorney touch -

(One of those Limbs of Law who’re always here;

The Heads come down to guide them twice a year.)

I might not swing, indeed, but he in sport

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,

Warn’d by the fate of luckless Coddrington,