And swears that all is over!
Short-sighted mortals, can't you see,
Your mourning will be chang'd to glee—
For then you'll live in clover.
Necessitas non habet legem.
ON SIR JOHN ANSTRUTHER.
By the Honourable Thomas Erskine.
Necessity and Law are alike each other:
Necessity has no Law—nor has Anstruther.