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;’