Three makes rejoinder, expansive, explosive;
Four overbears them all, strident and strepitant;
Five.... O Danaides, O Sieve.”
“Now they ply axes and crowbars;
Now they prick pins at a tissue;
Fine as a skein of the Casuist Escobar
Worked on the bone of a lie—To what issue?
Where is our gain at the Two-bars?”
Juvenal said of some Roman lawyers of his own day: “Iras et verba locant.” They still do it.
Here perhaps I may with advantage introduce some remarks made by me in Cork City on March 21st at a meeting of the County Technical Instruction Committee on the occasion of proposing a vote of congratulation to our Chairman the Bishop of Cloyne, on having gained a verdict in his favour in his Libel Action against the Dundee Courier: