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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538704" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jacob Homnium’s Hoss</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">One sees in Viteall Yard,<br>Vere pleacemen do resort,<br>A wenerable hinstitute,<br>'Tis call'd the Pallis Court.<br>A gent as got his i on it,<br>I think 'twill make some sport.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The natur of this Court<br>My hindignation riles:<br>A few fat legal spiders<br>Here set spin their viles;<br>To rob the town theyr privlege is,<br>In a hayrea of twelve miles.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Judge of this year Court<br>Is a mellitary beak,<br>He knows no more of Lor<br>Than praps he does of Greek,<br>And prowides hisself a deputy<br>Because he cannot speak.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Four counsel in this Court—<br>Misnamed of Justice—sits;<br>These lawyers owes their places to<br>Their money, not their wits;<br>And there's six attornies under them,<br>As here their living gits.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These lawyers, six and four,<br>Was a livin at their ease,<br>A sendin of their writs abowt,<br>And droring in the fees,<br>When their erose a cirkimstance<br>As is like to make a breeze.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It now is some monce since,<br>A gent both good and trew<br>Possest an ansum oss vith vich<br>He didn know what to do:<br>Peraps he did not like the oss;<br>Peraps he was a scru.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This gentleman his oss<br>At Tattersall's did lodge;<br>There came a wulgar oss-dealer,<br>This gentleman's name did fodge,<br>And took the oss from Tattersall's<br>Wasn that a artful dodge?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One day this gentleman's groom<br>This willain did spy out,<br>A mounted on this oss<br>A ridin him about;<br>'Get out of that there oss, you rogue,'<br>Speaks up the groom so stout.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The thief was cruel whex'd<br>To find himself so pinn'd;<br>The oss began to whinny,<br>The honest gloom he grinn'd;<br>And the raskle thief got off the oss<br>And cut avay like vind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And phansy with what joy<br>The master did regard<br>His dearly bluvd lost oss again<br>Trot in the stable yard!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who was this master good<br>Of whomb I makes these rhymes?<br>His name is Jacob Homnium, Exquire;<br>And if I'd committed crimes,<br>Good Lord I wouldn't ave that mann<br>Attack me in the Times!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now shortly after the groomb<br>His master's oss did take up,<br>There came a livery-man<br>This gentleman to wake up;<br>And he handed in a little bill,<br>Which hangered Mr. Jacob.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For two pound seventeen<br>This livery-man eplied,<br>For the keep of Mr. Jacob's oss,<br>Which the thief had took to ride.<br>'Do you see anythink green in me?'<br>Mr. Jacob Homnium cried.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Because a raskle chews<br>My oss away to robb,<br>And goes tick at your Mews<br>For seven-and-fifty bobb,<br>Shall I be call'd to pay?—It is<br>A iniquitious Jobb.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus Mr. Jacob cut<br>The conwasation short;<br>The livery-man went ome,<br>Detummingd to ave sport,<br>And summingsd Jacob Homnium, Exquire,<br>Into the Pallis Court.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pore Jacob went to Court,<br>A Counsel for to fix,<br>And choose a barrister out of the four,<br>An attorney of the six:<br>And there he sor these men of Lor,<br>And watch'd 'em at their tricks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The dreadful day of trile<br>In the Pallis Court did come;<br>The lawyers said their say,<br>The Judge look'd wery glum,<br>And then the British Jury cast<br>Pore Jacob Hom-ni-um.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O a weary day was that<br>For Jacob to go through;<br>The debt was two seventeen<br>(Which he no mor owed than you),<br>And then there was the plaintives costs,<br>Eleven pound six and two.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then there was his own,<br>Which the lawyers they did fix<br>At the wery moderit figgar<br>Of ten pound one and six.<br>Now Evins bless the Pallis Court,<br>And all its bold ver-dicks!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I cannot settingly tell<br>If Jacob swaw and cust,<br>At aving for to pay this sumb;<br>But I should think he must,<br>And av drawn a cheque for L24 4s. 8d.<br>With most igstreme disgust.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Pallis Court, you move<br>My pitty most profound.<br>A most emusing sport<br>You thought it, I'll be bound,<br>To saddle hup a three-pound debt,<br>With two-and-twenty pound.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Good sport it is to you<br>To grind the honest pore,<br>To pay their just or unjust debts<br>With eight hundred per cent. for Lor;<br>Make haste and get your costes in,<br>They will not last much mor!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come down from that tribewn,<br>Thou shameless and Unjust;<br>Thou Swindle, picking pockets in<br>The name of Truth august:<br>Come down, thou hoary blasphemy,<br>For die thou shalt and must.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And go it, Jacob Homnium,<br>And ply your iron pen,<br>And rise up, Sir John Jervis,<br>And shut me up that den;<br>That sty for fattening lawyers in,<br>On the bones of honest men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Makepeace+Thackeray">William Makepeace Thackeray</a><div class=q>
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Vere pleacemen do resort,
A wenerable hinstitute,
'Tis call'd the Pallis Court.
A gent as got his i on it,
I think 'twill make some sport.

The natur of this Court
My hindignation riles:
A few fat legal spiders
Here set s..."></div>
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