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Title: Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics
Second Series

Author: James Williams

Release Date: May 2, 2008 [EBook #25281]

Language: English

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BRIEFLESS BALLADS

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

SIMPLE STORIES OF LONDON
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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:

Hyphenation has been standardised. Minor typographical errors have
been corrected without note. The oe ligature is represented by [oe].

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 WINDERMERE 9
A VISION OF LEGAL SHADOWS 15
THE SQUIRE'S DAUGHTER 21
HER LETTER IN CHAMBERS 25
LAW AND POETRY 27
SOMEWHERE 30
ROMAN LAW 34
BOLOGNA 36
A GARDEN PARTY IN THE TEMPLE 37
THE SPINNING-HOUSE OF THE FUTURE 41
HOW WE FOUND OUR VERDICT