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BRIEFLESS BALLADS AND LEGAL LYRICS SECOND SERIES By JAMES WILLIAMS "You will think a lawyer has as little business with poetry as he has with justice. Perhaps so. I have been too partial to both." —Thomas Love Peacock, in Melincourt LONDON ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK 1895 \[All Rights Reserved\] Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Hyphenation has been standardised. CONTENTS (The First Series was published anonymously in 1881, and is now out of print. Some of the following pieces have already appeared in periodicals.) PAGE Justinian at Windermere9 A Vision of Legal Shadows15 The Squire's Daughter21 Her Letter in Chambers25 Law and Poetry27 Somewhere30 Roman Law34 Bologna36 A Garden Party in the Temple37 The Spinning-House of the Future41 How we found our Verdict44 A Greek Libel47 Le Temps Passé50 Lawn Tennis in the Temple Gardens52 A Ballade of Lost Law53 Comœdia Juris56 Cases— Mylward v. Weldon59 Hampden v. Walsh61 Willis v. The Bishop of Oxford62 Dashwood v. Jermyn66 Ex Parte Jones70 Finlay v. Chirney71 Pollard v. Photographic Company71 The Minneapolis Case73 Commonwealth v. Marzynski77 Translations— Greek Anthology81 Martial89 Cino da Pistoia92 Pedro Lopez de Ayala94 Piron94 Interioris amat Templi jam Pegasus aulas Pieria in Medio plenior unda ruit. Justinian at Windermere We took a hundredweight of books To Windermere between us, Our dons had blessed our studious looks, Had they by chance but seen us. Maine, Blackstone, Sandars, all were there, And Hallam's Middle Ages, And Austin with his style so rare, And Poste's enticing pages. We started well: the little inn Was deadly dull and quiet, As dull as Mrs. Wood's East Lynne, Or as… [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcheckout%2Fbriefless-ballads-and-legal-lyrics-second-series) The sample continues in the full work. 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