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EPIGRAM by HENRY KING (1592-1669)

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First Line: TO WHAT SERVE LAWS, WHERE ONLY MONEY REOGNS?
Last Line: AND THE COURT SITS, BUT TO ALLOW THE PRICE.
Subject(s): COURTSHIP;
To what serve Laws, where only Money reigns?
Or where a poor man's cause no right obtains?
Even those that most austerity pretend,
Hire out their tongues, and words for profit lend.
What's Judgement then, but public merchandise?
And the Court sits, but to allow the price.



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