Of this estate confers no legal rights.
Second Preceptor:
Whether in law we have a right to call
It ours or no, would constitute a case
For legal disputation long drawn out.
But certain ’tis that it belongs to us
If we refer it to a higher law.
Yon tract of ground was lying lost and waste
When it was purchased by our brotherhood:
Not e’en an inkling had ye of the fact