I know you lawyers can with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favour every client; That 'tis the fee directs the sense, To make out either side's pretense.
Exercise thy lasting youth defends.
Breathe soft, ye winds! ye waves, in silence sleep!
Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.
[Gulliver was soon being read] "from the cabinet council to the nursery".
Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?