That teach how Barristers may wed and die.

But who, to dull law precedents a prey,

The pleasing cares of science e’er resign’d,

Left the warm novel or the well-wrought play,

Nor cast one longing, ling’ring look behind.

On summer’s pleasure the fagg’d clerk relies,

Some rural ease the pleader’s health requires;

E’en from the bench the Chief for leisure sighs,

E’en on Welch mountains seeks his wonted fires.

Henry, for thee, who now to science dead,