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EPIGRAM: ON A LITIGIOUS MAN by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS

First Line: WHAT! TWENTY YEARS AT LAW, MY FRIEND
Last Line: BY GETTING BEAT IN FIVE?
Subject(s): LAW & LAWYERS;
WHAT! twenty years at law, my friend!
Why didn't you contrive
To save your skin and make an end,
By getting beat in five?



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