Tho’ ’tis but a seedy spot;

’Tis the first in the blazing scroll of shame,

And who dare say it is not?

Of the big-wigged ones who shine and live

On laws, on “Flats” and fees,

The choicest the Devil to earth can give

In this little spot one sees;

For a gem in its way, as we’ve always been taught,

Is that grand Institution—a Chancery Court.

There’s a thing that’s a terror to every tongue,