Writ, declaration, cognovit, bail, habeas, præmunire.
"You've lost the cause!" the client cried—"the loss to you, not me."
"Hum, ha—but stop a bit," said Sly—"stop, stop, and we shall see."
The lawyer mended now his web, and thread by thread he lengthened;
Made closer every mesh and hole, and every corner strengthened.
"The cause is lost, and you must pay—I bargained if I gained it;
You cannot think on other terms that I could have sustained it."
So round the hapless wretch he threw a law cord strong and good;
And thus he held it, hard and fast, and sucked his client's blood.