One purpose more—to advertise thy brethren.
Mayhap a lawyer, in thy pristine years
And his, with thy possession much enhanced
His meagre sum of personal estate;
And, in phrase professional, call’d thee ‘chattel’—
A vile distinction for a beaver hat!
A lawyer’s hat!—alack! what teeming store-house oft
Of mischiefs dire; ill-boding parchment; ‘writs,’
With hieroglyphics mystical inscribed;
Invention curious of graceless men,