We know solicitors are fit to plead in court their cause—
Nay, as a rule, they’re better up than we are in the laws.
But still to keep the barrier up protects all weaker men,
For if there were free trade in briefs, why, where would they be then?
So “Vive abuses old!” say we, and long live anything
That extra guineas to our purse more easily will bring.
Chorus.—So Vive th’ abuses of the past! Long live the good old days!
Why should we try to alter what such thumping income pays?
We’ll foster all the mystery that hangs about the Bar—
We are a grasping family—we are! we are!! we are!!!