"For I did never like to throw 'good money after bad.'"
"Leave all to me," the lawyer now with eloquence replied;
"A fig for costs, your case is clear, and you have me beside;
I'll take the case at any odds, and rather be dependent
Upon the issue of the whole—that is, on the defendant."
"Well, try it on," the client said, "you are a lad of wax;
So stick to him with tape and string—succeeding, we'll go snacks."
Then in the legal mesh and web of cunning Mr. Sly,
The client now was fairly caught as any little fly;
And round him twined all legal quirks, and briefs a dozen quire,