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I know you lawyers can, with ease, Twist your words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favor every client; That 'tis the fee directs the sense, To make out either side's pretence.
I know you lawyers can, with ease, Twist your words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favor every client; That 'tis the fee directs the sense, To make out either side's pretence.
Approximate author period: c. 1710 AD · early modern
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- John Gay
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- Approximate author period: c. 1710 AD · early modern
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- Life and Literature (copyright 1910) (1910 AD)
Number 1092 · printed citation: Gay
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