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44 A GREEK LIBEL 47 LE TEMPS PASSE 50 LAWN TENNIS IN THE TEMPLE GARDENS 52 A BALLADE OF LOST LAW 53 COM[OE]DIA JURIS 56 CASES-- MYLWARD _v._ WELDON 59 HAMPDEN _v._ WALSH 61 WILLIS _v._ THE BISHOP OF OXFORD 62 DASHWOOD _v._ JERMYN 66 _EX PARTE_ JONES 70 FINLAY _v._ CHIRNEY 71 POLLARD _v._ PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY 71 THE MINNEAPOLIS CASE 73 COMMONWEALTH _v._ MARZYNSKI 77 TRANSLATIONS-- GREEK ANTHOLOGY 81 MARTIAL 89 CINO DA PISTOIA 92 PEDRO LOPEZ DE AYALA 94 PIRON 94 _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 the verse of Wyatt. Without distraction thus we read From nine until eleven, Then rowed and sailed until we fed On potted char at seven. Two hours of work! We could devote Next day to recreation, Much illness springs, so doctors note, From lack of relaxation. Let him read law on summer days, Who has a soul that grovels; Better one tale of Thackeray's Than all Justinian's novels. At noon we went upon the lake, We could not stand the slowness Of our lone inn, so dined on steak (They _called_ it steak) at Bowness. We wrestled with the steak, when lo! Rose Jack in such a hurry, He saw a girl he used to know In Suffolk or in Surrey. What matter which? to think that she Should lure him from his duty! For Jack, I knew, would always be A very slave to beauty. And so it proved, alas! for Jack Grew taciturn and thinner, Was
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