E. J. Sage.
Edward Law (Lord Ellenborough), Chief Justice.—J. M.'s quotation of the song in the Supplement to the Court of Sessions Garland (Vol. ix., p. 221.), reminds me of the lines on Mr. Law's being made Chief Justice:
"What signifies now, quirk, quibble, or flaw,
Since Law is made Justice, seek justice from Law."
W. Collyns.
Drewsteignton.
Chamisso.—Chamisso, in his poem of "The Three Sisters," who, crushed with misery, contended that each had the hardest lot, has this fine passage by the last speaker:
"In one brief sentence all my bitter cause
Of sorrow dwells—thou arbiter! oh, pause
Ere yet thy final judgment thou assign,
And learn my better right—too clearly proved.
Four words comprise it—I was never loved:
The palm of grief thou wilt allow is mine."
"He knew humanity—there can be no grief like that grief. Death had bereaved one sister of her lover—the second mourned over her fallen idol's shame—the third exultingly says,—
'Have they not lived and loved?'"
The above is written in a beautiful Italian female hand on the fly-leaf-of the Basia, 1775.
E. D.