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Then welcome be Cumberland's steed to the shock !/
Let him dash his proud foam like a wave on the rock !
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When her bonneted chieftains to victory crowd, I
Clanranald the dauntless, and Moray the proud;
All plaided and plum'd in their tartan array-

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Wizard.-Lochiel, Lochiel, beware of the day! For, dark and despairing, my sight I may seal, But man cannot cover what God would reveal: 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. I tell thee Culloden's dread echoes shall ring With the blood-hounds that bark for thy fugitive king.

Lo! anointed by heaven with the vials of wrath, .. Behold, where be flies on his desolate path!

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Now, in darkness and billows, he sweeps from my sight:

Rise! rise! ye wild tempests, and cover his flight! 'Tis finished. Their thunders are hush'd on the moors! Culloden is lost, and my country deplores;

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Where his heart shall be thrown, ere it ceases to beat,
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LAW is law-law is law; and as in such, and so forth, and hereby, and aforesaid, provided always, nevertheless, notwithstanding. Law is like a country dance, and people are led up and down in it till they are tired. Law is like a book of surgery, there are a great many desperate cases in it. It is also like physic, they that take least of it are best off. Law is like a homely gentlewoman, very well to follow. Law is also like a scolding wife, very bad when it follows us. Law is like a new fashion, people are bewitched to get into it; it is also like bad weather, most people are glad when they get out of it.

We shall now mention a cause, called "Bullum · versus Boatum;" it was a cause that came before me. The cause was as follows:

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There were two farmers; farmer A. and farmer B. Farmer A.was seized or possessed of a bull; farmer B. was seized or possessed of a ferry-boat. Now, the owner of the ferry-boat, having made his boat fast to a post on shore, with a piece of hay, twisted ropefashion, or, as we say, vulgo vocato, a hay-band. ãter he had made his boat fast to a post on shore, as it was very natural for a hungry man to do, he went up town to dinner farmer A's bull, as it was very natural for a hungry bull to do, came down town to look for a dinner; and, observing, discovering, seeing,

and spying out, some turnips in the bottom of the ferry-boat, the bull scrambled into the ferry-boat: he ate up the turnips, and, to make an end of his meal, fell to work upon the hay-band: the boat, being eaten from its moorings, floated down the river, with the bull in it it struck against a rock; beat a hole in the bottom of the boat, and tossed the bull overboard: whereupon the owner of the bull brought his action against the boat, for running away with the bull; the owner of the boat brought his action against the bull, for running away with the boat: And thus notice of trial was given, Bullum versus Boatum, Boatum versus Bullum.

Now the Counsel for the bull began with saying, "My Lord, and you gentlemen of the jury, we are counsel in this cause for the bull. We are indicted for running away with the boat. Now, my Lord, we have heard of running horses, but never of running bulls before. Now, my Lord, the bull could no more run away with the boat, than a man in a coach may be said to run away with the horses; therefore, my Lord, how can we punish what is not punishable ? How can we eat what is not eatable? Or how can we drink what is not drinkable? Or, as the law says, how can we think on what is not thinkable? Theres fore, my Lord, as we are counsel in this cause for the bull, if the jury should bring the bull in guilty, the jury would be guilty of a bull."

The counsel for the boat observed, that the bull should be nonsuited, because, in his declaration, be had not specified what colour he was of; for thus wisely, and thus learnedly, spoke the counsel ce My Lord, if the bull was of no colour, he must be of some colour; and, if he was not of any colour, what colour could the bull be of?" I overruled this motion my. self, by observing the bull was a white bull, and that white is no colour: besides, as I told my brethren, they should not trouble their heads to talk of colour in the law, for the law can colour any thing. This cause being afterwards left to a reference, upon the award, both bull and boat were acquitted, it being proved, that the tide of the river carried them both

away; upon which I gave it as my opinion, that, as the tide of the river carried both bull and boat away, both bull and boat had a good action against the water-bailiff.

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My opinion being taken, an action was issued, and, upon the traverse, this point of law arose, how, where fore, and whether, why, when, and what, whatsoever, whereas, and whereby, as the boat was not a compos mentis evidence, how could an oath be administered? That point was soon settled, by Boatum's attorney declaring, that, for his client, he would swear any thing old wayyi , *『

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The water-bailiff's charter was then read, taken out of the original record, in true law Latin ; which set forth, in their declaration, that they were carried away either by tide of flood, or the tide of ebb. The charter of the water-bailiff was as follows: Aquæ bailiffi est magistratus in choisi, super omnibus fishibus qui habuerunt finnos et scalos, claws, shells, et talos, qui swimmare in freshibus, vel saltibus riveris, lakis, pondis, canalibus, et well-boats; sive oysteri, prawni, whitini, shrimpi, turbutus solus;" that is, not turbots alone, but turbots and soals both together. But now comes the nicety of the law; the law is as nice as a newlaid egg, and not to be understood by addle-headed people. Bullum and Boatum mentioned both ebb and flood, to avoid quibbling; but it being proved, that they were carried away neither by the tide of flood, nor by the tide of ebb, but exactly upon the top of high water, they were nonsuited; but such was the lenity of the court, upon their paying all costs, they were allowed to begin again, de novo. Sas earlo od team ed 105 63 16 16 %

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anisThere is a part in every swine,

May taste, whate'er his inclination,
On pain of excommunication:-:
Such Mahomet's mysterious charge,
And thus he left the point at large.
Had he the sinful part expressed,
They might with safety eat the rest;
But for one piece they thought it hard
From the whole hog to be debarred;
And set their wits at work to find
What joint the prophet had in mind.
Much controversy straight arose,
These choose the back, the belly those ;
By some, 'tis confidently said,

He meant not to forbid the head;
While others at that doctrine rail,
And piously prefer the tail.

Thus, conscience freed from every clog,
Mahometans eat up the hog.

You laugh-'tis well-the tale applied.
May make you laugh on t'other side.
Renounce the world-the preacher cries:
We do a multitude replies;

While one as innocent regards,

A snug and friendly game at cards;
And one, whatever you may say,
Can see no evil in a play;

Some love a concert, or a race;

And others shooting and the chase.

Reviled and loved, renounced and followed,
Thus, bit by bit, the world is swallowed;
Each thinks his neighbour makes too free,
Yet likes a slice as well as he:

With sophistry their sauce they sweeten,
Till quite from tail to snout 'tis eaten.

Cowper.

Life compared to the Stage.

ALL the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players!

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