William Makepeace Thackeray.
DAMAGES, TWO HUNDRED POUNDS.
SPECIAL jurymen of England, who admire your country’s laws,
And proclaim a British jury worthy of the realm’s applause,
Gayly compliment each other at the issue of a cause
Which was tried at Guildford ’Sizes, this day week, as ever was.
Unto that august tribunal comes a gentleman in grief
(Special was the British jury, and the judge, the Baron Chief)—
Comes a British man and husband, asking of the law relief,