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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| from the general prologue to The Canterbury Tales | |
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| Tydingis fra the Sessioun | |
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| from Book 5, Canto 9, The Faerie Queene | |
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| The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage | |
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| Sonnet 35 | |
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| Sonnet 49 | |
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| Sonnet 134 William Shakespeare | |
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| Into the Middle Temple of My Heart | |
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| An Epigram to the Counsellor | |
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| Satire 2 | |
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| Satire 5 | |
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| Arraigned, Poor Captive | |
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| Upon Case | |
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| Meditation 38: An Advocate with the Father | |
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| from "A Hymn to the Pillory" | |
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| The Answer to "Paulus" | |
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| Verbatim from Boileau | |
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| The Lawyer's Farewell to His Muse | |
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| The Cause Won | |
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| The Rising of the Session | |
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| from "Professions-Law" | |
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| Extempore in the Court of Session | |
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| from Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death, IV | |
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| from Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death, VI | |
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| from Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death, VIII | |
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| from Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death, XI | |
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| from Canto 10, Don Juan | |
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| To the Lord Chancellor | |
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| Hamatreya | |
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| The Gallows | |
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| from Book 5, The Ring and the Book | |
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| Thought | |
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| You Felons on Trial in Courts | |
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| I Read My Sentence Steadily | |
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| I Had Some Things That I Called Mine | |
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| The Barrister's Dream | |
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| The Mock Wife | |
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| from The Ballad of Reading Gaol | |
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| Oh Who Is That Young Sinner | |
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| The Reeds of Runnymede | |
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| "Butch"Weldy | |
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| Judge Selah Lively | |
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| States Attorney Fallas | |
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| Carl Hamblin | |
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| The Inquest | |
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| In the Dock | |
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| The Lawyers Know Too Much | |
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| Impromptu: The Stickers | |
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| Auto-da-F� | |
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| Justice Denied in Massachusetts | |
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| from "Early History of a Writer" | |
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| from John Brown's Body | |
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| To Edwin V. McKenzie | |
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| The People v. The People | |
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| The Town of Scottsboro | |
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| Legal Fiction | |
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| Law Like Love | |
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| The Judge Is Fury | |
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| The Verdict | |
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| The Trial | |
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| The Hand That Signed the Paper | |
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| Dreamsong 86 | |
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| After the Trial | |
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| The Law Has Reasons | |
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| E Is for Earwig | |
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| In a Corridor at Court | |
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| Law | |
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| The Poet Reconciles Herself to Politicians | |
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| Defendant | |
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| Death the Judge | |
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| Strip: 55 | |
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| At the Executed Murderer's Grave | |
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| Tool | |
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| Ignorance of the Law Is No Excuse | |
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| Possession | |
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| Tailor-Made | |
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| Legal Reform | |
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| Police Court Saturday Morning | |
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| What I Am Trying to Say | |
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| At the Night Court | |
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| Criminal | |
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| Outlaw | |
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| History | |
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| The Witness | |
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| Punishment | |
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| The Stone Verdict | |
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| Wittgenstein at Chess | |
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| The Woods in New Jersey | |
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| Negligence | |
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| This Week the Court Is Sleeping in Loughrea | |
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| The Hanging Judge | |
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| Traveling Exhibit of Torture Instruments | |
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| Light on the Subject | |
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| Admissions against Interest | |
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| Twelve Chairs | |
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| Law Clerk, 1979 | |
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| Mi Vida: Wings of Fright | |
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| The Legal Aid Lawyer Has an Epiphany | |
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| The Sentence | |
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| If You Ask Your Attorney to Be Concise | |
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| Notes on Poems and Poets | |
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| Permissions | |
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| Index | |