Or else I think I too had poetized.

"Law is the pork substratum of the fry,

Goose-foot and cock's-comb are Latinity,"—

And in this case, if circumstance assist,

We 'll garnish law with idiom, never fear!

Out-of-the-way events extend our scope:

For instance, when Bottini brings his charge,

"That letter which you say Pompilia wrote,

To criminate her parents and herself

And disengage her husband from the coil,—