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James Williams
Those brave old days when King Abuse did reign
 We sigh for, but we shall not see again.
 Then Eldon sowed the seed of equity
 That grew to bounteous harvest, and with glee
 A Bar of modest numbers shared the grain.
 Then lived the pleaders who could issues feign,
 Who blushed not to aver that France or Spain
 Was in the Ward of Chepe;[I] no more can be
 Those brave old days.
O'er pauper settlements men fought amain,
 And golden guineas followed in their train,
 John Doe then flourished like a lusty tree,
 And Richard Roe brought many a noble fee,
 We mourn in unremunerated pain
 Those brave old days.

[I] See, for instance, the well-known case of Mostyn v. Fabrigas, in which the plaintiff declared that the defendant on the 1st of September, in the year 1771, made an assault upon the said plaintiff at Minorca, to wit, at London, in the parish of St. Mary-le-bow, in the Ward of Cheap.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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