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BRIEFLESS BALLADS
AND
LEGAL LYRICS

SECOND SERIES

By JAMES WILLIAMS

"You will think a lawyer has as little business withpoetry as he has with justice. Perhaps so. I have beentoo partial to both."

Thomas Love Peacock, in Melincourt

LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
1895


[All Rights Reserved]

Transcriber's Note:Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.Hyphenation has been standardised.

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CONTENTS

(The First Series was published anonymously in 1881, and is now outof print. Some of the following pieces have already appearedin periodicals.)

PAGE
Justinian at Windermere9
A Vision of Legal Shadows15
The Squire's Daughter21
Her Letter in Chambers25
Law and Poetry27
Somewhere30
Roman Law34
Bologna36
A Garden Party in the Temple37
The Spinning-House of the Future41
How we found our Verdict44
A Greek Libel47
Le Temps Passé50
Lawn Tennis in the Temple Gardens52
A Ballade of Lost Law53
Comœdia Juris56[6]
Cases—
Mylward v. Weldon59
Hampden ...

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