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Blind plaintiff lame defendant share

DMI number:
30617
First Line:
Blind plaintiff lame defendant share
Last Line:
The middle is the lawyer's fee
Poem Genre / Form:
Epigram, Satire, and Couplet
Themes:
The law and Social order[Beggars]
Related People
Author:
Matthew Prior
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Wright and Spears I: 543.
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Relationship:
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Content/Publication
Title:
The entertainer; containing great variety of instructive entertainment [Vol II] [T100454]
Page No(s):
p.184
Poem Title:
Two Beggars disputing their Right to an Oyster they had found; a Lawyer thus decides the cause.
Attribution:
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