And greasy leather backs, letting it slide

Gradually to the ground. And then the titles,

Mixed up like hodge-podge—here a book of ballads

Publish’d by Beale or Boosey. Then a quarto,

Full of strange types, and letter’d all in black,

Printed on vellum—ancient in type and paper,

Cramming the author’s reputation

Right down the student’s mouth. And then the law-book

In pale brown calfskin, with gross humbug lined,

With rules severe, and forms of rigid cut,