Ye onlye honeste lawyere, hee
Who neverre pocketedde a fee.
Anno aetatis XXXIII.
Hee felle withe muche philosophie,
Forre Rome a sacrifice.
And with weeping and lamenting still is the story told,
How Curtius kicked the bucket in the brave old days of old.
Edgar Allen.
This parody originally appeared in a United States newspaper, the Salem Herald, about forty years ago.
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