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Common Law. Reports and Treatises.

(They will not suffer it to be done by others for them,) nor will they that others should do it for them.
They punish him who would do it without
Him who would do it without license they will punish,
if they have and they will approve of license none.[c]

⊞ ⊞ A collection of sets
Reports, however, such
as they a history a Law history
of , in bits (stands)
and scraps we have.
From time to time this or that straggler ventures does venture
upon the forbidden task: but (he sees) True: but him behold the Tipstaff
grinning upon at him from under the Judges Robe.⊞ ⊞ Reports, such as they are, we have.
The thanks are due,
to what? to the activity
of men in office? No:
but to their inconsistency, their impotence,
or their remissness.
Our Author as we have seen: has whisper'd his complaints: but
the slumbers of the Bench are not to be broken
by his soothing accents. Some rough rougher voice
must sound itself in their ear; and sound perhaps
in vain – "Masters, while ye are sleep, we
"are tormented: Because we obey not, ye punish
"us; and if a man would we may shew us how do (to do we may)
"obey,) ye punish him. – Or put it in our
"power to obeys, be innocent, or confess yourselves the authors
"of our crimes".

Conculde with this – bring the other passage &c foremost.

NOTE

[c] See Preface to Sr J. Burrows's to his Reports of Decisions in the time of Ld Mansfield⊞ <note>⊞ The first book of reports in which the Lawyer is <add>has been taught to speak the language of the Scholar and the gentleman.</note></add> – This offence of bringing to light
their secrets they are pleased to stile Contempt of Court.
If this thus is to be the language of that great what we are to
say of that great illustrious Magistrate is mentioning, is, that (the way for him to) he will be
and more in honour the more he is thus continued
and that some not no more worthy to continue him
than this illustrious respectable delinquent.
If this then is to be the language, be it so. If respect to an To speak the truth then
cannot be expressed of the merit of this illustrious abovementioned Magistrate and
his colleagues, what are we to say? that they will be held more and
more in honour, the more they are thus continued. And of the Reporter?
that no one was ever more worthy to continue them.

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