Learn all her various schemes, her arts,
To shew your merit, wit, and parts.
These rules observ'd, each foppish elf
May view an emblem of himself."
London Chronicle.
TERMS—VACATIONS.
The reader who has waded through my Londinium will find that several thousands of our vast community are of that profession which might furnish matter for a very considerable number of pages—Lawyers; but what can I say of their manners or customs, without incurring a charge of fixing upon a single class, and of thus appearing particular in praising or censuring? In this dilemma I have very fortunately met with the "Long Vacation, by Jemmy Copywell, of Lincoln's-Inn;" which the writer and the editor of the London Chronicle, foreseeing the use I should make of it, have kindly preserved for the present purpose.
"My Lord now quits his venerable seat,
The Six-clerk on his padlock turns the key,
From bus'ness hurries to his snug retreat,