Both over-thrown, and on their backs now laid,
Let the Sute fall, and their own charges paid.
And thus, though Westminster makes Clients stoop,
The Lawyer's Case was alter'd at the Hoop.
[4.] A Conceited Scholar that was lately come from Oxford, drinking with two or three Gentlemen, at the Mitre Tavern in the Poultrey, was very brisk and airy, and would needs be forming of Sylogismes &c. One wise one was this, He bid them fill two Glasses of Wine, which they did: now: says he, I will prove those two Glasses to be three, thus, Is not here one, says he? Yes, says the Gentleman. And here another, that's two, says he; Yes, says the Gentleman again. Why, then, says he, one and two is three, so 'tis done. Very well, says the Gentleman, I'll have one Glass, and that Gentleman shall have the other, and you shall have the third for your pains in finding it out.
Of inclosing a Common.
[6.]A Lord, that purpos'd for his more availe,
To compass in a Common with a rayle,
Was reckoning with his friend about the Cost,