PART SECOND.

Having lost it so nigh, we prepare for the summer,

And on the 12th of June presented a reclaimer;

But dreading a refuse, we gave Dundas[117] a fee,

And though it run nigh, it was carried ‘To See.’[118]

In order to bring aid from usage bygone,

The Answers were drawn by quondam Mess John.[119]

He united with such art our law with the civil,

That the counsel on both sides wished him to the devil.

The cause being called, my Lord Justice-clerk,[120]