POPE.

Here, in full light, the russet plains extend; There, wrapt in clouds, the bluish hills ascend.

POPE.

And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown My bosky acres and my unshrubb'd down.

SHAKSPEARE.

There fall those sapphire-colour'd brooks, Which, conduit-like, with curious crooks, Sweet islands make in that sweet land.

SIR P. SIDNEY.

On each hand the gushing waters play,
And down the rough cascade white dashing fall,
Or gleam in lengthen'd vistas through the trees.
THOMSON.

POPE. To laugh were want of goodness and of grace; And to be grave, exceeds all power of face.

THOMSON.

Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge, The glow-worm lights his gem.

Remember, O my friends, the laws, the rights,
The gen'rous plan of power deliver'd down
From age to age to your renown'd forefathers.
ADDISON.

Could any but a knowing prudent cause
Begin such motions, and assign such laws?
If the great Mind had form'd a different frame,
Might not your wanton wit the system blame?
SIR R. BLACKMORE.

A conscious, wise, reflecting cause,
Which freely moves, and acts by reason's laws,
That can deliberate means elect, and find
Their due connection with the end design'd.
SIR R. BLACKMORE.

Oaths were not purposed more than law
To keep the good and just in awe,
But to confine the bad and sinful,
Like moral cattle in a pinfold.

BUTLER: Hudibras.

This forced the stubborn'st, for the cause,
To cross the cudgels to the laws,
That what by breaking them 't had gain'd
By their support might be maintain’d.

BUTLER: Hudibras.

And when th' are hamper'd by the laws,
Release the lab'rers for the cause.

BUTLER: Hudibras.

The law, that settles all you do,
And marries where you did but woo,
And if it judge upon your side,
Will soon extend her for your bride,
And put her person, goods, or lands,
Or which you like best, int' your hands.
BUTLER: Hudibras.

No choice was left his feelings or his pride,
Save death or Doctors' Commons-so he died.
BYRON.

Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six, Four spend in prayer, the rest on nature fix. Quoted in Latin by SIR E. COKE.

God gave him reverence of laws,

Yet stirring blood in freedom's cause,—

A spirit to the rocks akin,

The eye of the hawk, and the fire therein.

The fix'd, unalterable laws, Settling the same effect on the same cause.

CREECH.

The Norman conquering all by might,
Mixing our customs, and the form of right,
With foreign constitutions he had brought.
DANIEL.
One says, he never should endure the sight
Of that forsworn, that wrongs both lands and
laws.
DANIEL.

The laws are sinfully contrived. Justice
Should weigh the present crime, not future
Inference on deeds.

SIR W. DAVENANT: Just Italian.

If then a man, on light conditions, gain
A great estate to him and his, forever,
If wilfully he forfeit it again,

Who doth bemoan his heir, or blame the giver?
SIR J. DAVIES.

When she from sundry arts one skill doth draw;
Gath'ring from divers fights one act of war;
From many causes like, one rule of law:
These her collections, not the senses are.
SIR J. DAVIES.
As chymists gold from brass by fire would draw,
Pretexts are into treason forged by law.
SIR J. DENHAM.
He that dares to die
May laugh at the grim face of law, and scorn
The cruel wrinkle of a tyrant brow.

SIR J. DENHAM.

Then withdraw

From Cambridge, thy old nurse; and, as the

rest,

Here toughly chew and sturdily digest

Th' immense vast volumes of our common law. DONNE.

Not pedant's motley tongue, soldier's bombast, Mountebank's drug-tongue, nor the terms of law,

Are strong enough preparatives to draw
Me to hear this.

DONNE.

Wise legislators never yet could draw
A fox within the reach of common law:
For posture, dress, grimace, and affectation,
Though foes to sense, are harmless to the nation.
Our last redress is dint of verse to try,
And satire is our court of chancery.

DRYDEN.

At each assize and term we try

A thousand rascals of as deep a dye.

DRYDEN.

There then we met; both tried, and both were

cast,

And this irrevocable sentence past.

DRYDEN. A war ensues; the Cretans own their cause, Stiff to defend their hospitable laws.

DRYDEN.

O queen! indulged by favour of the gods To build a town, with statutes to restrain The wild inhabitants beneath thy reign.

DRYDEN.

You promised once a progeny divine
Of Romans, rising from the Trojan line,
In after-times should hold the world in awe,
And to the land and ocean give the law.
DRYDEN.
These, if the laws did that exchange afford,
Would save their lapdog sooner than their lord.
DRYDEN.

To peaceful Rome new laws ordain;
Call'd from his mean abode a sceptre to sustain.
DRYDEN.

Salius then, exclaiming aloud,

Urges his cause may in the court be heard,
And pleads the prize is wrongfully cónferr'd.
DRYDEN.

Shall freeborn men, in humble awe,
Submit to servile shame,
Who from consent and custom draw
The same right to be ruled by law,
Which kings pretend to reign?

DRYDEN.

The bees have common cities of their own, And common sort; beneath one law they live, And with one common stock their traffic drive. DRYDEN.

No courts created yet, nor cause was heard; But all was safe, for conscience was their guard.

DRYDEN.

Some at the bar with subtilty defend The cause of an unlearned noble friend.

DRYDEN.

Curse on th' unpard'ning prince, whom tears

can draw

To no remorse; who rules by lion's law.

DRYDEN.