On the untasting sand. Stay, now! a seat
Is bare: I, Angelo, will sit and eat.
Leading Cases done into English, by an Apprentice of Lincoln’s Inn. London, Macmillan & Co. 1876. This amusing little volume (said to be the work of Mr. Pollock) contains a case, entitled Scott v. Shepherd, which is reported in true Browningese diction:—
Any Pleader to any Student.
Now, you’re my pupil!
On the good ancient plan I shall do what I can
For your hundred guineas to give my law’s blue pill
(Let high jurisprudence which thinks me and you dense,
Set posse of cooks to stir new Roman soup ill):
First volume of Smith shall give you the pith