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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 | |