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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