TALE I. THE DUMB ORATORS; OR, THE BENEFIT OF SOCIETY. With fair round belly with good capon lin❜d, With eyes severe—— Full of wise saws and modern instances. As you Like it, Act II, Scene 7. Deep shame hath struck me dumb. King John, Act IV. Scene 2. He gives the bastinado with his tongue, King John, Act II. Scene 2. Let's kill all the lawyers; Now show yourselves men: 'tis for liberty: 2 Henry VI. Act II. Scene 7. And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. Twelfth Night, Act V. Scene Last. TALE I. THE DUMB ORATORS. THAT all Men would be cowards if they dare, That like the tide, Man's courage ebbs and flows: In contest mighty and of conquest proud, Was Justice Bolt, impetuous, warm, and loud; His fame, his prowess all the country knew, And disputants, with one so fierce, were few: He was a younger son, for law design'd, Scarcely he bade his master's desk adieu, He would the rights of all so well maintain, All this and more he purpos'd-and what man Could do, he did to realise his plan : But time convinc'd him that we cannot keep A breed of reasoners like a flock of sheep; For they, so far from following as we lead, Make that a cause why they will not proceed. Man will not follow where a rule is shown, But loves to take a method of his own; Explain the way with all your care and skill, This will he quit, if but to prove he will.— Yet had our Justice honour-and the crowd, Aw'd by his presence, their respect avow'd. |