Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics - Second Series

Project Gutenberg's Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics, by James Williams This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series Author: James Williams Release Date: May 2, 2008 [EBook #25281] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BRIEFLESS BALLADS AND LEGAL LYRICS *** Produced by Bryan Ness, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) BRIEFLESS BALLADS BY THE SAME AUTHOR SIMPLE STORIES OF LONDON VERSES SUITABLE FOR RECITATION Crown 8vo, cloth, price 1s. 6d. ETHANDUNE AND OTHER POEMS Crown 8vo, cloth, price 2s. 6d. BRIEFLESS BALLADS AND LEGAL LYRICS SECOND SERIES BY JAMES WILLIAMS "You will think a lawyer has as little business with poetry as he has with justice. Perhaps so. I have been too partial to both." —Thomas Love Peacock, in Melincourt LONDON ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK 1895 [All Rights Reserved] Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Hyphenation has been standardised. [5] CONTENTS (The First Series was published anonymously in 1881, and is now out of print.