But am open to conviction as long’s I here do sit.

To oppose your precedents, I quote a few cases;’

And Tait[125] à priori, hurried up the causes.

He proved it as clear as the sun in the sky,

That their maxims of law could not here apply;

That the writing in question was neither bill nor band,

But something unknown in the law of the land.

The question—‘Adhere,’ or ‘Alter,’ being put,

It was carried—‘To Alter,’ by a casting vote;

Baillie then moved—‘In the bill there’s a raze;’