And said what a good boy am I."
The plum being 100,000l. I have been told a long story on the matter by Somersetshire people.
P. M. M.
The Man of Law (Vol. iv., p. 153.).
—The lines so felicitously quoted by Mr. Serjeant Byles at a recent trial were thus given in The Times:
"The man of law who never saw
The way to buy and sell,
Wishing to rise by merchandise,
Shall never speed him well."
This version is rather nearer the original than that of your correspondent MR. KING, who avowedly writes from memory. The author of the lines was Sir Thomas More. They are thus given in "A Mery Jest how a Sergeant would learn to play the Freere. Written by Maister Thomas More in hys youth:"