Blind plaintiff lame defendant share
- DMI number:
- 16897
- First Line:
- Blind plaintiff lame defendant share
- Last Line:
- And Magna Carta is a paper-kite
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram, Satire, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Social order[Beggars] and The law[Avarice]
- Author:
- Matthew Prior
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Wright and Spears I: 543; II: 988.
- First Line:
- Blind plaintiff lame defendant share
- Last Line:
- The middle is the lawyer's fee
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Miscellaneous works of his late excellency Matthew Prior [ECCO] [T75653]
- Page No(s):
- p.82
- Poem Title:
- Two Beggars Dsputing [sic] their Right to an Oyster they had Found; a Lawyer thus decides the Cause.
- Attribution:
- Matthew Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
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